skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I see with this kind of studies is that they don't measure long-term effects, and oh boy - do they exist. Its the topic I can be used as a bad example. When I was around 16, I found that my ideal sleep schedule was doing 20h awake and 6h sleeping. In those 20h, I'd spend around 13h in front of a monitor (monochrome, so less eye strain), and the rest doing the usual stuff (reading, eating, etc). I kept it for as long as I could (around 3 months), until it stared interfering with "life schedules" such as school. So instead of returning to the usual 8h sleep, I started sleeping when I could. It lasted a couple of years, until the brain couldn't take it anymore. After that, I spent the biggest part of 6 months sleeping (would be awake around 4-6h a day) and medicated (as far as I recall, no explicit sedatives). Fast forward a couple of years, and I'd do "marathons" like 20-40h awake, but then with 10-12h sleep time. Periodically, I'd need to sleep "a day" (usually around 14-16h) to feel recovered.
In the past 6 or so years, my sleep schedules have been pretty normal, but I sill need to sometimes sleep "a day" (at weekends), and its very difficult for me to sleep only 8h a night. When I'm on vacations, I usually sleep around 12h as often as I can.
Messing with sleep schedules (granted, in an extreme way) has had a profound negative impact in my life, and past 20 years, I still suffer consequences from my youth mistakes. The benefits I reaped from having "extra time" are dim compared to the long-term consequences not only on my health, but also on my personal life.
Nitpick, but I'd just like to point out that lots of art is commissioned by wealthy patrons. Especially including, historically, churches.
As a suggestion, point people to a personal web page or portfolio. Especially for a front-end engineer, I would never recruit someone based on a LinkedIn profile. That's doubly-true in this market.

To make it through the filter, it doesn't need to be fancy or take a lot of time, but it does need to be tasteful. Of course, fancy and playful go a very, very long ways for separating yourself from all the other people who made it through the filter.
There's a gazillion videos all over youtube criticizing, mocking, and calling out the Chinese government for all sorts of repressive activities.

I'm confused as to why people would think youtube is bothering to sensor those two characters in oparticular as opposed to something much more likely like spam/bot filtering or channel word filtering. I'd think the Chinese Gov would be much more animated about videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9AvUuEPgvA

or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=S3RzKKfNkTk

or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4TReo_G74A

or any of millions of other videos.

i can find plenty of negative comments directed at the chinese communist party in comments all over youtube.
The use case here is basically simulations, where cryptographic RNG quality is not needed but a lot of pseudo-random numbers are. Even the fastest CSPRNGs (e.g., bulk Chacha20 keystream) are much much slower than good non-cryptographic PRNGs such as PCG or a 128-bit LCG. (Note that Mersenne Twister is an awful PRNG despite its enduring popularity.)

If you play around with Chacha rounds, the minimal number of rounds necessary to provide "good", but non-cryptographic, results is 4[1], and Chacha4 (with dolbeau AVX acceleration) is still substantially slower than PCG or 128-bit LCG with 4 rounds (something like 30-50% slower than pcg64_fast, as I measure it). (Full-round AES w/ AES-NI is about 30% slower than Chacha4 w/ AVX on my hardware, but I did not test a reduced-round AES with AES-NI acceleration; that might be interesting and competitive.)

[1]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/57672/51869
Yeah we have a freezer for garden produce - tomatoes, peppers, beans etc. All portioned out in sizes useful for cooking.
The bit about not picking up a $20 note because "somebody would have picked it up already" is a relatively common (half-joke) refutation of the efficient market hypothesis.
Happy to see that people still remember our talk :)
Gotta love this site. Snowden is revered around here yet a whistleblower goes through the proper channels to report wrongdoing by the US government and they still get outed, named, and trampled. Do you want government oversight or not? Do you want whistleblowers or not?

And dang is nowhere to be found
Your two examples are just showing parental leave being used, not abused.

The amount of days allotted are still the same.
Same goes for people quitting right after: the allotted days are the same, independently of quitting or not. What's your expectation, that a new mom leaves work and stay unemployed the day her newborn comes, setting a lot of uncertainty for the future, instead of an employer paying for it? Even socially wise, i would always say the mom should be taking that parental leave.

And that overlooks the other side of things too:
In the first case, the person might have had some issues with the newborn. My daughter had problems breastfeeding for basically 3 months, is this possibility accounted in the "maximizing time off"? Yeah the parent's priority now is the newborn, I'd argue that a company should promote that at all time, to have better human beings.

The last case: what if the person had a change of mind when the newborn and decided it wanted to be a stay-home mom or dad to be fully dedicated? Or maybe they want a part time remote job, so they could afford having kids with them at all time, without resorting to child care.

Granted that you could make points for parental leave being too long (sure!), that can be balanced by law, but the simple fact that it's used it's not abuse.
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Well that's annoying... I'm not a heavy termux user, but it's been extremely useful in some situations - ssh proxy over abd in very restricted networks mainly.
I absolutely benefit from a 4k screen even in a small form factor. 768p is "enough" in the sense that we all got stuff done on such screens for many years, but the increase in text rendering quality with higher PPI screens is tremendously worth it to me for the reduced eyestrain. 4k is still noticeably better than 1440p. I wouldn't be surprised if 8k is noticeably better still (although with swiftly diminishing returns of course).
Yeah, I was taking artistic license with the term, but "large tech" is probably a better term, though I'd filter it down to those on the lower profitability side. (even those with large IPOs are often just a startup at scale)
If VCs were investing from a balance sheet or their own accounts, I think this would be true. And my experience in the 2000/2001 and 2008 recessions was the funds that had ready access to capital invested significantly (and got good returns) in those down cycles.
The issue, however, is the LPs. The capital that VCs invest comes from LPs that are large investors like pension funds and college endowments. These investors have very meaningful exposure to the public markets and broader economic trends, and when those take a big hit, the LPs put pressure on VCs not to make capital calls (reducing access to capital). In addition, LPs are often very reluctant to increase their exposure to VC/PE in down turns and commit more to illiquid assets. As a result, VCs don't want to try to raise a new fund when LPs are pulling back. So they try to stretch out the current fund as long as possible. Last, in a down turn, existing portfolio companies may not have access to outside capital, so funds may end up deploying or reserving more capital into the existing portfolio rather than to new investments.

Those external drivers combine to result in a slower pace of investment for VCs during a recession.
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Where do you live? Maybe I can put them in front of your house.
Okay, can I just get a big popup on the Play Store saying "this app requires the following functionality that could harm your device:

- Run and use other applications without your consent

Unless you know precisely that this behavior is necessary for this application's main functionality, we recommend you do not proceed". And use some design pattern to make "Cancel" the "go-to" action for the user.

Or even more palatable for whoever's behind Play Protect: Forbid these apps from the Play Store, and force it be done through a 3rd party store or manually, and this can be combined with the big popup.

We know it's important to protect grandma from malware, but it's also important to give the advanced user the option to ignore this, specially for a platform like Android that has gained the favor of many technical users through providing some reasonable degree of control over their phones.
CDC: In the US, the flu has killed 12,000-61,000 per year over the last decade. According to the worldometer page, COVID19 has killed 91,000. Since January.

WHO: (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...) Worldwide, flu causes 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory deaths. Worldometer reports 316,000 COVID19 deaths. Since January. And I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that is off on the low side. But it's still early.
I've wondered about creating a local, software based, "town watch" of sorts. Imagine many houses in the neighborhood running open source software and collating data about movements within the neighborhood. This could bring surveillance powers to the people, and it seems inevitable that this will eventually happen, but I wonder if it will be made illegal somehow.

Unfortunately, it seems more likely that people would use such data for stalking their crush rather than monitoring police or other worthy uses.
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> But I'm sure it serves a purpose in giving his employees an aggressive target to aim at. Even if they miss it, at least they probably got there sooner.

That would require an executive board entirely detached from both reality and what their own experts have to say regarding the feasibility of those plans.
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That's fair. I guess for me OP's description of imposter syndrome seems more like Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
I find this argument odd for a couple reasons.

First, if you "can't get back lost sleep", wouldn't that mean that you were tired forever? I'm definitely more tired after 24 hours awake than 18. But I can sleep and get back to normal.

Second, I once stayed up for almost 3 days straight. At the end of that, I slept for 24 hours straight. I woke up the next evening as if it were a normal morning, fully refreshed. (I went to bed about 5pm, and woke up about 5pm the next day.)

If I didn't "bank" my tiredness and pay it back with sleep, how is that even possible?
Has anyone tried creating synthetic data to balance their ML training?
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That statistic is nearly completely useless for comparison.

For starters, it's measuring non-fatal illnesses. If your regulatory regime is converting otherwise fatal accidents to non-fatal ones, then you're going to have higher rates despite being safer. (Historically, this has happened: the introduction of helmets in WW1 caused head injury rates to go up... because people who otherwise died now lived with a head injury instead).

Another point is that states have quite different workplace characteristics, so the baseline risks are going to be quite different. Working in a coal mine is going to be an inherently more dangerous job than being a paper-pusher in an office tower. Unsurprisingly, West Virginia (which has a lot more of the former than the latter) is in the above-average list and New York (which has the reverse) is in the below-average list.

Finally... there's no mention of the degree of difference at all.
Define "decent". Is it 80/60/50 hours per week? Because it's clearly not regular 40 hour weeks.

Because I can work in a very chill environment and earn 200k-250k + stock. I can also work 60 hour weeks for 300k + bonus.

I used to work in London on roughly $180k putting in about 20 hours per week.
Indeed! I knew that AMD was thoroughly on top, but that list really shows by how much. The first Intel in that list which I'd consider for a mid-range workstation (the i5-9600FK) is way down at #22.
Not only that but 2 miles is a long walk to do often if you’re not very careful about it, especially if you’re carrying much.

I’m 100% for walking places but it’s important to have options once you start getting out that far.
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As others have said, this page provided more understanding than more than one university course I've taken.

Oh, and anecdotally I'll state that while Ziegler-Nicholls was great for my lab exercises, it was, ahem, quickly dropped when I started tuning heavy lifting equipment. Increasing proportional gain until stable oscillation was achieved with 160 metric tons in the test tower outside was, ahem, not boring. Not in the least.
> It leaks like a sieve. I've seen it first hand (in semiconductor industry).

There is this thing called knowledge transfer, and you do this when you change jobs. Are you suggesting that the employee work in the same company indefinitely?

> well...then the US should block all Chinese services from exploiting users[1] and their data

Which is exactly what China is doing to you.
I came here to say this. I can still get stuff done and answer questions, but I have the attention span of a goldfish.
Does anyone know an efficient way to "embed" models like this? I'm currently working in a Tamagotchi-style RPI toy and I use GPT-2 to generate answers to the chat. I wrote a simple API that returns from the server. If I could embed my model, it would save me having to have a server.
But you pay 750$ for a 3GB quad core phone; I've got these specs on a 300€ OnePlus One five (six?) years ago.

Sure, replaceable battery and open hardware are a _very_ good thing, but the value/$ of these phones are horrendous. That's not to defend OnePlus or any other manufacturer, but when I can get a high end Samsung or Xiaomi device with 4 times the specs at every corner for the same price or less and simply install Lineage on it.

I definitely support the effort and I love that they finally got the design modern, but those prices are hard to swallow, even for someone pretty privacy-focused.
> Aside from VC investment being a tiny fraction of overall new business funding there is greatly decreased interest in innovative new ideas/risk taking as this report suggests.

And when our economy only works for a small fraction of the population, that means fewer startups, less diversity of ideas, and fewer successful VC-backed startups.
I think you've missed my point here, this goes _way_ further than this specific individual issue.

The entire ecosystem is built on a model that turns it into a disposable toy and there's no sign that this is going away any time soon.

Why do we need hobbyist movements to produce devices that we can actually run real software on and that won't be completely useless as soon as Google decide to update the API?
The other way than charging old/new customers different prices for the same product(s) is to change the product 'bands' if that's possible. Rearrange the limits and features between bands to come up with a new set of offerings. This way the old pricing and new pricing can't be compared 1:1. Hopefully you can do this by offering better packages/bundles rather than shuffling only to change the prices.

This is a strategy used by auto makers for ages, the same model goes slightly upmarket so that even if you stick with the same model you pay more. Sometimes it a model will fall in price to make room for a new entry in-between. The other way thing that's done is renumbering models so that you're coerced into choosing the one slightly upmarket.
> Tablet companies really need to realize that a decent tablet with a decent dev experience is going to lead to an explosion of developers on their platform

What do you base this statement on?
I’d also like to point out. The Nazis didn’t come to power with free speech.

They came to power by silencing their opponents through force, political posturing, manipulation, and opportunistic behavior.

In fact the Nazis squashed free speech in many ways, and used violence, threats, and coercion to make others silence their friends.

Frankly had free speech been protected and valued by any means. We may not have had a third reich.

Let the fascists speak, let them out theirselves. So that common people can distance themselves.
I'm open minded, but are there any sources from within the security industry that have debunked this? Like one of Crowdstrike's peers or a similar organization?
> the right to refuse service to anyone

If I remember correctly, then that is true in Nevada, but not in Atlantic City. There they have to let you play even if they suspect you of counting cards.

Of course that just means they will employ other means to prevent you from counting cards (larger shoes, continuous shuffling, etc).
Does it provide automated grading, and if so, how strict is it? For example, whereas Warmup instructs the user to create a script with .sh file extension, Find The Logs does not. If the user creates a working script but includes the file extension, will it break? Does it require them to set the executable bit?

If this is all just recorded and the hiring manager can review it and decide for themselves, moot point.

1. Not a hiring manager in my current role; previously when I was, it wasn't in software, but I'll give some thoughts that may be transferable: the hardest part, especially for younger candidates, is trying to ascertain their ability to learn. You may not hire someone who already knows your entire stack, but if they are self-motivated and have a good baseline, they'll do well.

2. I like it quite a bit, especially that it's not a simulated terminal with limited commands.

3. N/A
Agreed, but this is slowly changing. Of the doctors/nurses I've worked with (hundreds at this point), I'd say only half of them know how to type. The younger docs though, they can be real power users. Europe is notable in how low tech they can be, which is why they've been the biggest new market in recent years for a lot of health IT companies. The idea of a hospital system doing all of their charting on paper is unheard of in the US, but there's still plenty of places doing that in Europe.
The only truly urgent thing I've seen is a product being down / a critical bug in production.
> show urgency

I call this "artificial panic". That term came to mind when I joined a FMCG around Y2K, and on my first weeks I noticed people were running around stressed, like headless chicken. When I asked "what's on fire" and the answer was "nothing".

https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-07-15

The "Minimalists" say on their podcast that "most emergencies, aren't". When I see panic setting camp in a company's mentality, I make myself scarce for a while until things calm down. If I see that the artificial state of panic is a perpetual feeding machine, I try to dance around it. I've read my share of Dilbert to know to avoid these toxic environments.

Sometimes you need to be a Wally to survive.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-11-12
Google's primary business is mining user's data and selling it to advertisers.

Having corporate control over the device is paramount.

Therefore, the user must not install software from other sources.
I tried all kinds of schedules, currently from 4-5 to around 14h.

Regarding apnea - no perceptible stoppage of breathing during the night according to my partner, but I do snore sometimes. I was getting ready to do a sleep study just before the pandemic hit, I hope I will be able to do it soon.
>I get a pretty strong pseudoscience vibe from it.

I don't quite know how to categorize complaining about pseudoscience based on a "vibe".

It's not quite irony... maybe it's just humorous. As a member of the post Alanis Morissette generation I guess I can no longer recognize irony.
>Any method of emulating the black hole within a volume less-than or equal to the Schwarzchild radius of the black hole would collapse, but you could do the calculation over a larger volume and avoid that.

...This was my intuition as well, but I'm far from certain about it. It's not uncommon for the universe to find sneaky ways to prevent us from "cheating" so to speak. These often result from deep symmetries/conservation laws and fundamental limits on information.

I'm actually a big opponent of the simulation argument for that reason. I don't think you can accurately simulate the universe without having a universe to simulate it in. Otherwise, you could just 'turtles-all-the-way-down' the simulation. The information density would have to be unbounded, and this seems to be in disagreement with fundamental laws of the universe.

We don't have a theory of quantum gravity... it's definitely possible that to simulate the blackhole in a more spread out manner would be impossible. I could envision a fundamental tradeoff where to replicate the information exchanges between the microscopic constituents requires that either you satisfy the hoop conjecture, or you keep increasing the size of your model without bound, whereby for any finite size you still satisfy the hoop conjecture. (Particularly since the required mass/energy density goes down significantly as the radius increases.) I know that's wild speculation, but I feel like it's not quite crazy enough to take for granted.