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> Work on your network.

That's not easy. I work remote, and live in a place where there just isn't a network available. That would leave online and I usually just hang out on HN.
Quite clear that this has not happened at IBM.

Imagine Jim Whitehurst being CEO of IBM in 2 years.
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Better yet, the interviewer should have experience in said job, as to better evaluate a potential candidate.

I'm pretty sure, most of us have come across folks who pretend to know something, you ask them easy, little, but esoteric questions, that prove whether or not they even have knowledge in something.

At least for big firms, this isn't out of the realm of possibility. Small companies... I get it. They have to then base it off experience, references and gut feelings.
There are already Congressional districts that use runoff elections (MS-special, for one that's being voted on today). States can choose the way they elect their representatives so long as it isn't contra the Constitution, which only requires direct election at the moment.
I wonder how are the downside-protecting elements and that unusual debt based financing structure affecting Uber and other large companies that SoftBank invests in. Is it possible that Uber collapses because of the 7% yearly coupon that SoftBank fund must produce ?
I often ask interviewees about a project they worked on that was very successful, and why it was successful - what did they like about it? That's a good way to find those passion points. It's also a good way to find weak candidates without independence or leadership skills, because they can't really talk about their role in a big success - they didn't have much of a role, usually.

A flip-side question is to ask about projects they worked on that failed. Failures rarely appear on resumes, and it can be an uncomfortable topic. But if you can get them going, you can learn a ton about how they handle adversity. Do they make excuses, or find scapegoats? Do they take responsibility? Do they give credit where credit is due for colleagues? Do they recognize the big-picture conditions that affected the situation?
The prototype would almost certainly be break even at very low powers and densities. There are very few places where my design would lose energy, and basically gives ions unlimited chances to fuse once accelerated.

I had many discussions with the head of the physics department at the local university who is a specialist in plasma physics. He was of the opinion that it would work at very low pressures/densities, but that the total output would not be high enough to be commercially viable. What is the actual benefit of a room sized $100k fusion reactor that can only put out 100 watts of energy?

I believe I've solved many of those problems, but building a prototype costs $$ that I don't have to spare...

I could bankrupt myself to build the prototype but I can't gamble like that with assets that currently feed my family.

Though I strongly believe it will work, I'm not going to go down the same hole that Tesla went down. I have no intention of dying penniless surrounded by pigeons. I am on track to build the prototype myself without going into debt in several years once a few of my mortgages are paid off.

Right now I own 100% of the IP, and have a submitted patent. I'm not actively looking for funding that would dilute me unless it's a very good deal. I'm kind of stuck bootstrapping unless I can get a grant. I have applied for several in the past, but to no effect.
Now,

Step 0: Amazon adds AMD server which are cheaper then equivalent intel ones.

Step 1: People prefer these cheaper instance.

Step 2: Amazon AI notices the demand for AMD, goes back to Step 0.

Repeat.
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Income tax is more like a tax on revenue, not a tax on profit. And your boss would have to pay taxes on gifts, so while you might not have to pay for it, the government is still getting its due.
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Private use of corporate assets is considered income-equivalent for tax purposes.
I used to support instant runoff voting, (and I still do.) Based on my state's politics, we keep getting candidates who "play the game" with the small group of people who enjoy politics as a hobby, but then fail in a general election because they have no general appeal to the wider group of people who vote.

But, there is a much more nuanced flaw. It's very hard to be an informed voter. A few nights ago, my wife and I spent a lot of time researching most of the candidates on our ballot.

If every race had many candidates, than instant runoff would make being an informed voter much harder. (Granted, my ballot had many unopposed candidates, and in some cases where information wasn't easy to find, I just voted by party.)

IMO, a much simpler thing to start with is just making it easier to be an informed voter. When I lived in CA, I got a pamphlet with statements from all candidates. It was very easy to choose who to vote for in local elections. Where I live now, I just don't get this kind of information.
He can't, if he buys it as company expense then it's not your property.

But yeah same is true for income tax, my country has a really high wage income tax at top bracket (close to 50% with health&benefits) that kicks in really fast, but profit income tax caps at 20% because people would just take profits out of the country if it was higher. so a lot of people work around it by invoicing their salary as self owned company pay min wage and take the rest as profit.
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That was it!

I think that's what I heard back in the day.

It just sucks that kids these days are judging themselves off these bullshit advertisements. Now they're getting mental issues where they don't have a good self-image in their skill sets.

Jesus...it's like the fashion industry for young girls...
>A right to someone else's labor is a right to enslave.

And yet there is a Constitutional right to a lawyer in most criminal cases if you can’t afford one. I can assure you, while public defenders might not get paid well and maybe many can’t afford their student loans, they are not slaves.
Absolutely. I work as a sound engineer and have used lots of things of this type, and it's particularly easy to understand how a USB connection to the computer would wreck the sound of a cheap (sub-$1000, not professional) DAC.

Optical digital means perfect isolation from the ground plane of the computer. It's that simple. The DAC can do whatever it needs to manage its own noise levels, but you're pretty much guaranteed a huge difference from entirely decoupling the DAC from the computer's ground plane. That electrical interference can do a surprisingly enormous amount of damage to the analog circuitry of the cheap DAC, which itself is probably not very resilient at rejecting any sort of electrical interference.
Watching on iOS I had no sync problems. Maybe it’s a transcoding problem caused by YouTube? At 1:25 you can clearly hear how when he turns away from the camera the audio changes as well. I’d say the audio is recorded live, not dubbed.
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It's true that ratings can feel a little harder to grasp, but just any concrete experience with the system, it's easy to get. Check out http://star.vote/ and try for yourself.

In STAR, 5 points is simply "most points" i.e. most support. It doesn't mean something semantically. You can give up to 5 points, like if there's a race, you can push each candidate forward as much as 5 steps. The only thing it means is that you pushed them forward more than another candidate.

That's not that hard to get intuitively.

IRV is not what people already do but in a single round, it's much more complex than that. And whoever's 1st choice in IRV loses in the final round, they (and that could be as much as 49% of the voters!) never get any of their other preferences counted at all, unlike either STAR or our current two-round system.
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Applying Wrapper Methods in Python for Feature Selection
Everything Red Hat does is open source.

You can't just change the code - then you also change the whole product development model. If IBM wants a change - then it must be preferred by the upstream community in order for it to happen. If they bypass this, then they kill the existing model and will find most engineers leave
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Read this and follow links: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
The Soviet defector "Viktor Suvorov" (real name Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov) suggested in his published-in-the-'80s book Inside the Soviet Army that contemporary Soviet doctrine called for a massive nuclear first strike immediately upon the opening of hostilities.

From the chapter titled "The Axe Theory" (http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/05.html):

[A]s I studied American theories of war, I came to an appalling realisation. It became clear to me that a modern American cowboy who is working up to a decisive fight will always expect to begin by spitting at and insulting his opponent and to continue by throwing whisky in his face and chucking custard pies at him before resorting to more serious weapons. He expects to hurl chairs and bottles at his enemy and to try to stick a fork or a tableknife into his behind and then to fight with his fists and only after all this to fight it out with his gun.

This is a very dangerous philosophy. You are going to end up by using pistols. Why not start with them? Why should the bandit you are fighting wait for you to remember your gun? He may shoot you before you do, just as you are going to slap his face. By using his most deadly weapon at the beginning of the fight, your enemy saves his strength. Why should he waste it throwing chairs at you? Moreover, this will enable him to save his own despicable life. After all, he does not know, either, when you, the noble hero, will decide to use your gun. Why should he wait for this moment? You might make a sudden decision to shoot him immediately after throwing custard pies at him, without waiting for the exchange of chairs. Of course he won't wait for you when it comes to staying alive. He will shoot first. At the very start of the fight.
Subsidies just increase the market price of the properties. The subsidy will be sucked up by the landlord, which of course leads to rent control. Which provides disincentives on capital improvements.

This is similar to the way that student loans have resulted in higher tuition/housing that once again just gets sucked up by the institutions. The recent appeal for "free college" funded by the taxpayer will almost certainly result in increased tuition.

If only we had a simple mechanism that balanced supply and demand. I think there are areas where government regulation is necessary and appropriate (safety, fraud avoidance, pollution, health, etc.) but regulating prices is almost always a failure that leads to an ever expanding Rube Goldberg collection of incentives, subsidies, rules, tax loopholes, and so on that are much worse than just letting prices float naturally.
In Canada, home of the often proposed single payer solution to the problems in the US, ambulance services are generally not covered and must be paid directly. You even pay id one gets called for you and you refuse assistance.

I gp is rarely going to be in a situation where they need to call an ambulance for a patient; generally it's going to be the organization (like a nursing home) or management/administrator to avoid potential liability
That is absolutely true. The reason why it's not discussed on the same level is the scale.

The profit out of salary (for most people) is just not big enough to justify an accountant to optimize.

There is a lot to be said about replacing income tax with a pure consumption tax (it is one possible financial model for the universal basic income).
The pricing seems to be around 10% cheaper than the equivalent Intel based servers (m5a.4xlarge $0.688 per Hour vs m5.4xlarge $0.768 per Hour, similar for other instance sizes). I was expecting AMD servers to be somewhat cheaper, but given that the server CPU is only one of many components I guess the savings can't be that much more.
Would be interesting to see how the actual performance per $ is different.

Exciting to have AMD on AWS though. Still far more expensive than rolling your own hardware or getting bare metal servers.
Sounds like they are doing 7nm chips with TSMC, if true they’ll surely overtake Intel in terms of performance? Wish I’d have bought AMD now...
12 people! What were they interviewing you for, a role as the code messiah?
It's basically very different in approach to many modern computers. The cores are slow and low-powered, but the interconnect is very fast for routing small packets to multiple destinations, which means that computational tasks that would otherwise be utterly dominated by communication costs (e.g., neural simulations) become a lot more tractable.

But since it's all done in soft realtime with very low level code (and no hardware floats in the current hardware generation) and not much of an OS, it's a very unusual platform for people to work with. Much more like programming used to be like in the 1980s, if my memory serves me right. (One of the key distinguishing things about SpiNNaker in the field of neuromorphic systems is that actually has an OS at all. Most competitor systems are purely bare metal, as they're put together by deep hardware hackers without consulting software engineers.)
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There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.
I worked at one. I didn't apply - I was recruited by the owner (he knew me from a past job), so I didn't go through the interview process, he just asked me if I'd come work for him, quoted a number, and I said, "yeah, sure". It was a struggling startup, but it was making (some) money, and had (some) potential. But man, when I started interviewing people - he'd tell me, "we only take the best of the best", it was a struggle for me not to point out that the best of the best - or even the worst of the best - or even the best of the worst - had much, much better options than a struggling, no-name startup with no outside capital that was renting office space from an office hotel (and cramming people five to a room). I would go through rounds and rounds of interviewing people, determining that they were perfectly acceptable and would fit in well in the environment we had and could get the job done and help us move forward, and he'd reject them because they were "average". I was like, "so are you, you self-important idiot!"
Can you have a progressive consumption tax though? Because otherwise the average corporation would have to pay a lot more in consumption taxes vs corporate taxes to keep things revenue neutral.
> You would have a much easier time getting the system to change from within the Democrat and Republican parties for the primary system, since those rules are set by the parties themselves and not by the states.

In any state with citizen initiatives, it involves less wrangling with esconced elites to change statewide rules than party internal rules. That's where the real big changes are likely to happen.
I can confidently say that none of my technical interview practice has ever transferred to a useful skill in the job role, but I can confidently say it has helped me land jobs. Not using it definitely makes me forget it.
>Compare that to to some of the other systems which often have complex mathematical descriptions which are hard for people to wrap their heads around.

Similar issue for end-to-end auditable homomorphically encrypted voting systems. Yes, anyone can check the math in theory ... but not the typical voter.
The fear of an empty source file
Sounds like tariffs. If you want that - fine it makes sense. Just don't bully others to apply tax rate of your choosing on terms you want on business outside your country.
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The hardware is identical.

Does AWS have better support? Only if you pay.

At 100% markup you can replicate everything 10x at Hetzner and still be ahead...
No unfortunately it does not support ODBC.

It works on top of Redis so it inheritance its interface. I guess it would be possible to add an ODBC layer but honestly I have to look into it...
If any given org is a monopoly, I'd fully expect that org to pass any new costs on directly to their captive consumers. Monopolies ought to be actively broken, not worked around.
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Those are not FP languages. They are, at best, "functional-first" multi-paradigm languages. (Common Lisp and Scheme are in this category.) Unfortunately, FP is more about what is excluded (side effects) than what is included (closures, continuations, sum types, etc.), so mixing FP with any amount of imperative/procedural code tends to result in an awkward and less efficient form of imperative programming without the primary benefit of FP (referential transparency).

The "function" in "functional programming" refers to mathematical functions, which are fixed mappings from inputs to results with no side effects. If your "functions" can have side-effects then they're not functions, they're procedures. Programs composed of effectful procedures are imperative, not functional.
It's a spectrum, and unfortunately a lot of security researcher just assume that developers at companies are always the bad guys.
Do you have to look down to use those icons on the Touchbar? This is something I don’t have to do as a touch-typist. Repeatedly craning your neck to look down will result in RSI. I spend a little effort to learn new hotkeys every so often and the benefit far outweighs the cost: I’m much faster and keep my good ergonomics.
You could still specify the maximum possible transistor density for the process. It doesn't mean a concrete design actually has to use it. Or make it an SRAM bit, because caches take up the bulk of the area anyway.
Even without actual Ryzen chips in laptops, we get the benifits. The Thinkpads and XPS series having Intel, low-power, quad cores is a direct result of the desktop chips going to six and eight core.
HFT firms have plenty of cash to buy the unlimited version.
How does TabNine work for all languages? Curious about implementation details and use with dynamic languages. I would HAPPILY pay $29 if it works well for Ruby.
Would it be feasible to put a source and detector in orbit so we could get high resolution CT images of the interior of the earth? IIRC the detector used here is very large, but there are smaller ones and a directed source would go a long way towards making the detection simpler.
Ripple and Stellar are NOT based on PoS. They use a different consensus called PoC. Have you looked at their design at all?
I don't suffer from Dunning–Kruger because i assume if I am new to something I probably suck. Then I assume I'm new at everything. This is only possible after many years experience. Of life.
It really depends on the tax jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions, those perk are taxable benefits.
... while still being everyone's second choice out of several?

Edit: As much as everyone's trashing IRV as "horrible" I don't see a simple, worrisome case where it violates monotonicity; those seem limited to really pathological electorates where nothing will make them happy anyway.
Logically, it seems like if you had a USB-optical dongle you would have no further trouble. I don't know if there is such a thing, but I do know that in that situation all the 'it's digital, so it should be perfect' talk becomes somewhat true.

You'd be converting from USB to optical, at which point you'd break the ground connection which would be where your hiss is coming from (assuming it's still noiseless when still being used with optical). Then, your concern would be jitter and whether the added conversion is adding lots of jitter to the equation. Your DAC might (or might not) be good at rejecting jitter noise. I've got a Lavry DA10 that's exceptionally good at rejecting jitter (in crystal mode), but that's mastering grade and maybe overkill for you.

It wouldn't add literal noise, but it's also possible for the USB connection to be more jittery than a different computer making the optical connection. That's partly hardware and partly software design (controlling how the data stream is buffered, and associated things that might slightly modulate the audio data clocking). So a change in computer feeding the DAC could also substantially affect the 'sound' of the DAC, as well as the noise issue you observed.
One of the most eye-opening moments of my CS studies was, when we discussed the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem [1] in a class about Algorithmic Game Theory. I always like to bring it up in discussions about voting. In brief it states that every voting system is either
1. dictatorial (only 1 vote really counts)
2. limiting the number of outcomes to 2
3. is not strategy-proof (you have to vote tactically, for example ranking your favourite lower to achieve a better result)basically people have to 'game' the system to get what they want)

It would be interesting to know how different proposed system tackle this. [Iirc one of the more reasonable approaches seemed to be relaxing No. 3 to make strategic voting computationally hard].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%E2%80%93Satterthwaite_...
You may like KM3NeT then (http://www.km3net.org/). The goal is to build a cubic kilometer spanning instrument at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Tesla is what happens when you run a car company like a tech company
Obviously I can't speak for every company but those types of questions are typically used as a filter.

- Anyone who skips those questions are rejected outright. If you're not willing to put in a little time you're not interested enough to be considered. You'd be surprised how many people skip these questions.

- If you've done something crazy cool or interesting it's a plus but if not it isn't a negative.

- Can you communicate something that's a bit abstract?

- Relevant jokes are usually seen as a plus.
Well pointed out, consumer prices are irrelevant here.

Having said that, EU law is supposed to prevent governments from propping up local industry.

Can anyone expand on which knobs an EU country is allowed to fiddle in order to attract these types of projects? I believe tax breaks and direct subsidies are not allowed.
You seem to be ignoring the self-regulating aspect of a free market. As landlords rake in more money there are more and more incentives to develop new properties to take advantage of the profit opportunity. The market mechanism works to mitigate run-away profits. It seems to me that government restrictions on supply or new competitors is the most common reason for the absence of competition and higher prices paired with high profits.