skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PIP is an HR tool. How it goes is, in practice, pretty much totally up to them in collaboration with your manager.

Maybe you have a genuine, acute but deemed manageable problem, and a manager who genuinely wants to help you overcome and move past it. Maybe.

If not, as others have said, it's a prelude to firing you. If you don't seem to be failing out, they will find a way to adjust it until you do. In the meantime, they are collecting data and paperwork to "justify" your eventual termination.

So, it's time to look elsewhere.

Oh, and, any severance will likely be tied to a non-disclosure/non-disparagement agreement. If you don't want to be caught by one of those, leave before they terminate you. Or have enough available assets to be able to not depend upon the severance.

Keep in mind, if they manage to terminate you "for cause", you may not be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits (in the U.S.). This can cut both ways: Because each claim contributes to raising the rates the company pays for the unemployment insurance participation, they may want to deny you said claim as a cost-saving measure. On the other hand, such denials can incur substantial legal and staff-hour costs, when they are fought. So, if the company is reasonably well off or "well-managed / best practices", they may decide it's simpler and more straight-forward -- "cleaner", and also maybe lowering risk of retaliation -- to just terminate you "at will" and let you collect unemployment.

If your health insurance is from the employer (again, U.S.), you should be able to participate in COBRA extension of benefits (at your cost), regardless.

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P.S. I'm no expert. If you're in this situation, verify these things for yourself.
Swedish here, I'm convinced things are not that bad across the sound. I've seen people with masters degrees deliver really good ML systems. In my team the person with the highest education is also doing a PHD but the majority of us have masters degrees. But, sure, I've also met other companies in the same business who have multiple PHDs doing ML and they'd made a lot more progress than we had in some areas, but we'd made more progress than them in others (one company in Norway I was especially impressed with). ML development is very different from regular, software development and requires an affinity for math and creativity, sure, and a research background helps out a lot but I would not go so far and say that they're the only ones who are any good.

Have you tried hiring people who have documented experience doing ML commercially? Because I could understand how you get bummed out a lot if you hire recent grads to do ML.
I use Notion for everything. I even made part of my notes public: https://www.notion.so/Public-Space-for-Krzysztof-Kowalczyk-5...

I love it.

Coda is still in closed beta. I requested an invite months ago and still didn't get it. It also seems like their focus is on companies/teams. Notion also supports teams but works just as well for an individual (that's how I use it).

Notion is only superficially similar to AirTable in that Notion is a mostly a note-taker with additional capabilities, including some that can do some of the things that AirTable does (i.e. building mini-spreadsheets/databases).

AirTable is mostly for creating database/spreadsheet applications. It's great for that but not at all suitable for things that Notion is great at i.e. note taking.

I wouldn't even consider them competing. Maybe at some point Notion's tables will have as many features as AirTable but that's not today. You can use them both.
Arauto Do Desenhador de Moda Das Mulheres Bolsa
Another quote:
"An interesting remark on the subject was made by Israel Gelfand in late 1980-ies, during his pre-seminar schmoozing. He said that, while the discrimination was initially directed against the Jews, it eventually was expanded to include all bright applicants. The reason was that to effect the policy, the admission committees had to be staffed with people willing to be unfair (give super-hard problems to specific individuals) to people they dislike (there was no lack of volunteer anti-Semites). Such people would tend to let their personal feelings affect their fairness across the board, not just towards the "official undesirables". Thus they would let their natural envy towards bright kids negatively affect their fairness. This is why even non-Jewish graduates of the best schools (e.g., 57) found it harder to gain admission."
Snowden's Message on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Holders
Grad student, I backup my work on external hard drive, google drive and a storage the university offers(same idea like festive). Also I have some of those common files on my SSD.

Maybe overkill but I’ve started doing this before using Gdrive and other online service
Probably not, remove it before passing to compiler
EFS is very slow. It doesn't work with AWS Fargate or Lambda.

I'm sure there is some good use for it; I just haven't found one yet.
That much for ML fairness.
Yes, I live very close to Auckland city centre.
I agree with the research here, but I still categorize this in the same category as entrepreneur porn, if it was that easy to just classify winners or even gain success in entrepreneurship, venture capital wouldn't be such a hit-or-miss game. Age and experience is only one factor that can drive success because entrepreneurship is truly unpredictable.
I didn't make an earlier comment. You're replying to my one and only comment.

> when you say AI you don't mean AI as is practiced by most of academia and the industry but the vision of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

What I actually mean is people practicing what they call "AI" in academia and the industry have co-opted the name to make what they do sound more interesting. First it was called "statistics". Then it was called "pattern matching". Then it was called "machine learning". Now it's called "AI". But it hasn't changed meaningfully through any iteration of these labels.
I got the same email. I flagged this article.
It does seem that custom policies are needed when deadlockable resource pools, throttling, or per-processor type of things need to be handled.
A lot. https://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-th...

According to the story, the NSA targets anyone who searches for online articles about Tails
Don’t Hold My Data Hostage – A Case for Client Protocol Redesign [pdf]
Blimey. That is some early 90s web chic going on there, and it's odd that I still find it somewhat appealing.
A LEARNED VS. SHARED FUTURE: HOW TEAMS CAN SHAPE THEIR EVOLUTION
Newton's Apple Tree Around the World
Then you probably shouldn't feed it to the str* functions at all. Use the mem* functions instead.
Yes, we had a SQL support case replied to by email, and then followed-up via phone/screenshare to have it resolved that day.

The only constant with tech support is that it's highly variable and depends on many factors. Enterprise MSDN/SQL support is not bad though and you should've gotten a quick reply if you're using the proper channels with an appropriate support plan.
Similar idea to rolling your own, my company uses Cloudability for AWS purchase planning. It saved a bunch of money as far as I remember.

https://www.cloudability.com/
Sorry, I meant original podcasts.

It looks like they do have some (I see Amy Schumer's is tagged as such), but curious to see if they get into it more heavily.
Sure. But are they really going to drag me into court?

I’m not trying to defend myself, or say that I wasn’t doing that. But I was hoping to know whether it would be helpful to sacrifice myself for the greater good here.

If this is a situation where it merits taking a stand, I’m willing to do so. But if everyone agrees it’s ok for magic leap to assert that those who are making them money need to toe the line and obey, then I guess I should back down.

Mainly I was hoping to judge community sentiment.
Nvidia Looks to Gag Journalists with Multi-Year Blanket NDAs
They do have podcasts.

Listened to this[0] recently.

0 : https://open.spotify.com/show/1QLjI1ptUhPEIYaaiJgZlh

NYT Article : https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/podcasts/caliphate-...
It addresses the issue by telling you: Don't worry about consciousness in the first place. How your higher-level cognitive faculties see and categorize consciousness is proven to be an illusion. Eliminate this singular consciousness, this artificial construct, and any hard or soft problem disappears with it, and we can start defining conscious experience proper, instead of trying the impossible and give a solution to everyone's subjective (and possibly eternally conflicting) theatric view of consciousness.

It is not always the goal (or possible) to create a complete model of conscious experience that is indistinguishable from reality, yet one may model the path of a hurricane without getting blown away by the wind.
Throwing yourself under this legal bus isn't going to benefit you or anybody else. I mean you can poke them as much as you want, but is this the hill you want to die on?
GEOS was released in 1986 and featured a graphical user interface for small 8-bit computer. Talk about lost opportunities...
You took only the middle part of that sentence and ignored the whole sentence which is quite a different meaning than the one you tried to attach to me.

Here it is in it's whole:

"Many of us understand very well that the climate is changing and that humans might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent."

So yes I agree we have an impact just not sure how much and what it will mean and if you want to debate that with me personally you either prove me wrong or agree with that.

Furthermore, I wrote plenty of other things that should make it obvious I am not in any specific camp but interested in a larger context than just debating climate change true/false silliness.

Human flourishing, how to also get people out of poverty, the ability to control nature more than it has historically controlled us etc they are all important issues and climate change doesn't mean we should just ignore those. Yet that's exactly what people do when discussing climate. They ignore all the other things that are also important and also affecting real people right now as we speak.

So I frankly don't see you doing anything but not reading me in good faith. But bygones.
Not giving you my email address without seeing some listings to prove this works first. I imagine others feel the same.
Interest in Short-Term Profits Could Destroy the Crypto Market
There was a bunch of crap to sign. I suspect there was some agreement, otherwise people would just not show up to the presentation at all. But TBH I didn't read it all or seriously consider doing a chargeback.
Apex: PyTorch Extension with Tools to Realize the Power of Tensor Cores
For those concerned about speed and the browser, I noticed the last two lines of output when I did 1MM rows:

john doe 35 15134 BOB 7 6956.05kg
john ... truncated to 500,000 characters to keep browser from becoming sluggish.

The "truncated to 500,000 characters..." probably helps a bunch for the browser.
Google Cloud's pricing approach seems much more sane than each company having to spend all this effort juggling reserved instances.
Or an old man with motivated reasoning to believe he and his cohort have not made the lives of his grandchildren and their children poorer and more perilous.
Nope, they didn't.
Incredibly surprised it has taken this long.

Given the amount of listening data they have I was sure they'd have taken the Netflix route with regards to producing or orchestrating original content (i.e. this producer with these artists + brand partnerships tailored to audience = $$). I'm sure I am simplifying and this is much more complex than that, especially considering the legal maze that is music, but still. Their only innovation seems to have been in bespoke playlist generation.
DesqView was big in the 80's for multitasking DOS programs. It wasn't a graphical window system, but ran in text mode.
A lot of us _aren't_ being _actively_ targeted by Three Letter Agencies, but are concerned about being passively targetted
In Formula 1, You have to be Amazing to be Average
If it benefits others. That’s all I care about.

It seems like tolerating this may not be in the best interest of the community going forward. And I would find it interesting to be able to claim that magic leap has sued me for distributing 3 month old api docs to myself.
When shall we see ”Netflix for audio”, meaning original content, either fact or fiction?

I think this would make sense, people are busy and have less time to spend watching stuff. Listening is easier to do on the move.

Original programming could be for example radio theatre or programs like Serial. This can be quite entertaining when it is done well. Production costs are much smaller than for video.
No, it's not standard behavior.

You're most likely to see paper plates and plastic forks at picnics/cookouts and occasionally large gatherings where you may not have enough non-disposable dishes to serve everyone.
Sup, Chris?

I hated having to use the InterNIC template when I was handling domain regs back at that place we were both involved with.
The shop I came from has been a Microsoft and VMware shop for years and we spend millions a year on MSDN licensing. The support has been kinda shitty. But I’m not there anymore. I do remember in DBA meetings laughing about how crappy it is. And why do we pay so much for offshore support techs when they should be local on premises engineers.
I actually asked: ""the particular universe we observe around us appears to be staggeringly improbable"<--Says who?" Don't omit your words I quoted to pretend that I ask something else.

I questioned the use of "improbable" by anybody who knows what "improbable" in mathematical sense means and uses it in that way about the "universe we observe" giving any exact evidence. I still haven't seen such an example. I don't care about these who don't want to even understand what they talk about, or those who make claims with no actual support. My question was with the goal to point to exactly that: those who claim actually don't have any physical evidence for their claims. The wikipedia article mentions "theists," "philosophers," "theologians" etc. Some scientists also write something on the subject but not with the actual scientific support, just in their role of some of the above.

The number of random people claiming something doesn't make the claim more true. The validity of physical claims can be evaluated only based on the physical evidence, and only processed according to the mathematical rules that are valid in our Universe. Anything else is not physics.

Once in a time, there was one constant that physicists talked about as "special" (in that non-physical sense) being at that moment "exactly" 137, according to the best measurements of the moment. It was measured much more precisely since. 137.0359. Then 137.03599. Then 137.035999. Wow, isn't it something special? Maybe it's exactly 137.036? Does it have some special "meaning"? But now we know using much more precise measurements that it's 137.035999139... So it turned out to be quite unspectacular.

What is spectacular is that we have so precise measurements today: for that constant we are uncertain only for "0.23 parts per billion." And by the way, whichever computer or mobile phone you use now, the CPU in it has the basis of 99.9999999% pure silicon. That's also spectacular, it's one grain (i.e. 1 gram) of dirt in 1000 tons of silicon (at least 12 railroad cars needed)! And because it is also a result of a lot of hard work, and available to everybody including "theists" and "philosophers."
>the c02 benefits of improved sales cycles or local agriculture vs global conglomerate food producers.

Do you have any data to support the notion that there is a net CO2 benefit to localizing agriculture? Considering how impacted agriculture is by locality, That seems vastly less efficient than large scale industrialized agriculture, and would be honestly quite surprising.

>Not to mention plastic waste itself being damaging pollution, with a lifespan far longer than nitrates.

As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the real issue isn't the consumers of Cucumbers, its developing countries and China[1] using their rivers and oceans for mass waste disposal.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/02/ocean-plasti...
Sadly, it’s worse for both parties in the long run when creative labour is devalued beyond recoupable investment.
What benefit do you think it would give others? It looks like they're pretty clearly and understandably asserting their rights. Are you making their API docs publicly accessible?
When learning quantum mechanics, you have to let go of the commonly-held belief (often unknown to the holder) that everything in our world can be explained in terms of concepts that are familiar to us and our human-sized environment. You cannot reason your way through QM with classical analogies. You find the wave-particle duality confusing; why? Only because you cannot imagine a human-sized object that is both a particle and wave. Let go of both of those concepts - forget about particles and waves as you know them - and accept that QM objects fall into new ontological categories which do not map well onto any classical concept. This is fine! As a child, you learned new ontological categories all the time. Everything was alien to you. You've learned new categories before, and you can learn them again.

If we cannot use the language of everyday experience to understand quantum mechanics, what can we use? The answer is math. We have found math to be an incredibly effective language for describing quantum mechanical phenomena. Superposition isn't really like a particle being "in two different places at the same time", it's a complex linear combination of state 0 and state 1. There are differences between those things, and the differences are fundamental to understanding quantum mechanics.

A corollary to the inability to meaningfully explain QM with classical analogies is that all pop science dealing with QM is absolute, irredeemable garbage and always will be. Stop reading it.
> "Leningrad University’s maths department had a quota of two Jews per year among 350 students. Its Moscow equivalent was more zealous and actively investigated all candidates for traces of a Jewish background. Students with Jewish sounding names were refused entry, just in case."

They also had their own tricky, deniable way to accomplish the their discrimination:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

> This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find. Using problems with a simple solution protected the administration from extra complaints and appeals. This collection therefore has mathematical as well as historical value.
CO2 shortage cause beer rationing in the U.K
Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon.

Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option".

AWS's approach is more, "help us do capacity planning and we'll let you get a price break for it.".

Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.
Halliburton had 34.* and 134.132.* as of 2015 when I last worked there, but I looked a few months ago and they've sold off some of that /8 to Amazon and others.... A lot of places with /8s are fixing their wasteful allocations and making good money off of it.
Cost more? Not really. The Amiga and Atari ST cost much less and were more capable than contemporary late 80's PCs. Less software is definitely true.
I think the difference is when your action impacts the existence of another conscious being, it's no longer just about you. Your examples seem like personal choices, but in the hunting example, there are two conscious parties (the hunter and the animal) and both are required to be present for the action to occur (the kill), but only one party is consenting (the hunter).

If animals spoke in the hunter's native language we'd probably stop hunting or killing them because they could adequately express their fear and anger at being killed against their will. As it is, their running away and animal noises fall on deaf ears.

And yes, I don't eat dog meat (or any meat) for this reason.
The best answer is of course not to at all. Burst into the cloud, static workloads in your own DC.
I installed PABX based on asterisk (XiVO) for 5 years.

This is a good solution for single server installations from 5 to 1500 desktop phones.

However, I used chan_sip, bri or pri card, AGI and AMI. I do not have too much experience with ARI and chan_pjsip.
If there was no hard drive controller installed, the Apple II booted into ROM BASIC almost instantly. From that prompt, you could write programs, or even read them from the integrated cassette port (basically a microphone jack).
Your last sentence is intriguing to me. I understand all the words, and I think I get the gist, but I'm not familiar with any of it.

What is CSE? Google seems to think it's Certificate of Secondary Education. So, middle school -> early high school equivalent?

Grade 1? A level? Leave where, the school?

(I'm in the US, so that's probably the disconnect)
They do fly and anecdotally they prefer doing it by night. I made an all night bycicle ride days ago and I collected more spider threads than in a whole year of daily rides. I've been wiping the handlebar for all the night. It stopped at the first lights of the day.
> What is it about WiFi security that makes it such a backwater?

The fact that the specs are developed behind closed doors in pay-to-play venues? At least, IME, there's a pretty strong correlation between specs developed behind closed doors and bad specs.
Given the lack of restraint common in policing (at least in the US), I don't think we want to start giving police probabilistic estimates that will direct them to categorize people as criminals. Even to look at them more closely, given that fatal SWAT raids are caused by prank phone calls. Imagine the impact of "well, the system told me he was 94% likely to be a criminal" turning into another excuse for these awful raids.

The false positive rate on fingerprints and the lack of understanding in DNA statistics further indicate that the enforcement/legal system has a very poor understanding of even basic statistics.
I thought that payment processors are using their own hardware. How is AWS protecting their own customers' privacy? - can uncle Bob insert his fancy flash drive, copy my data, and sell it? Before you say it is encrypted - where does the encryption happen and doesn't AWS employees have access to the keys too?
static site generators
Nifty License: Stretching the boundaries of ownership with blockchain
Not all of us do. I personally find Windows usage entirely unacceptable in security-sensitive environments.
It's amazing to me that the article doesn't provide a map, illustrating where Carcross is.

I knew its general location because I operate a website containing over 2000 points of interest in Canada, https://rinkatlas.com. But why not give more of a hint to people who don't know where the Yukon Territory is?