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> When I got accepted into school, I realized that all had to change. I couldn't spend hours configuring things anymore. I had to focus on getting work done quickly.

I both started and sucesfully completed my CS degree on Arch. I didn't have to spend hours to configure anything. I now work as a full-time software dev on Arch every day, 8 hours a day. This is an often repeated myth but I haven't experienced it. Am not sure Linux, (any distro at this point), is the problem.
>As far as I can see, Mobian is maintained by Matrix.org whom I never heard of before.

I am not sure who is maintaining Mobian, but it is surely not Matrix. Matrix.org is the website of a chat protocol, where they have a support channel.
Here you can see some members https://liberapay.com/mobian
> it throws us in with the rest of the "whiteness" and creates major group division, reducing our ability to change things collectively

Not true, it makes it much easier and simpler for whites to behave collectively. The rise of BLM and its related trappings obviates that the collectivization of whites on the basis of race is inevitable. In essence, BLM is accomplishing what the Nazis and KKK could only dream of -- unifying white America under a single banner on the basis of collective race-based identity and race-based destiny.
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Sorry to hear! I have a similar (sort of) story.

While waiting at UBER reception area I got a call from a "tax office" telling me about suspected tax fraud transactions (it was a fraudster call but imagine me at that moment) a minute before I was called in for an interview.

Yeah, I was really kicking ass at that interview (NOT!)
Tesla can't say autopilot in Germany anymore and now people are rabbling about incognito despite the clear explanation you get when you open it.
Here in New Zealand we like to blame tourists for our poor driving and for crashes. Now there aren’t any foreign tourists and the stats are just as bad.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
Noctua is an automatic default for me now. I've got the NH-U14S on my 2950X and a NH-D15 on my 1800X. Never have any problems with these. Easy to install and maintain. Will probably reuse both when I upgrade my CPUs.
This also sounds like the Nix language (https://nixos.org/).
I've seen people say it's like a form of IQ test and I agree with that.

Generally speaking, I think more intelligent people will have an easier time learning the patterns in algorithms.

It's not the best filter, but it's easy to see why it's an attractive option for companies.
Major crypto Twitter accounts have been hijacked to promote scams
> What has been especially frustrating to me is identity politics, where being member of Groups A, B, and C means you must hold Ideas X, Y, and Z because those must be the views you hold as a member of those groups. It completely removes all agency and individuality and instead classifies you entirely as a set of labels.

This is how marketing works.

Getting really esoteric (and admittedly not thinking to hard about it), I wonder if the prevalence of individually targeted advertising is responsible for amplifying this trend in modern social discourse. How would we study that?
I'm not sure if you're in the US, but I've heard good things about Chatanooga.
Tell me about it. Traffic volume may be down, but speeds and recklessness seem to be up, in my experience (Bay Area).
Do you use any transit other than legs? Bike, E-bike, public transit, train, skateboard, scooter...?
It's my understanding that these numbers are not undisputed. Even https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1530-9290... lets enough opportunity to have that calculation be changed, though there does not seem to be any doubt that the emissions are minimal compared to fossil fuels. But that's not a point I made.

But you are right, I shouldn't have made it sound as if no one produced such numbers.
I could not agree more.

After a grueling interview process at Goldman Sachs, with 7+ technical interviews that required me to solve very specific questions on college-level Maths, Stats and Computer Science (admittedly, I was applying for a quant job position), I was eventually asked to interview candidates myself. While I did not feel entitled to change the current interviewing culture at the company by asking questions of a completely different nature from what I got asked in the first place, I conducted my interviews in a very similar way to what you described. By no means did I expect applicants to reach a definitive answer, but I instead worked on the problems with them to see how far their intelligence, creativity, curiosity and, most importantly, their ability to well communicate their thought process would take them.

Such interviews used to take a while hour of my time (which is a lot to afford when you work in a bank), but by the end of each I believed to confidently ascertain the candidate’s ability to thrive on our team. In retrospect, it has served me really well.

All in all, the problems posed (and the solutions given to them) might not carry as much weight in the final decision as the discussion held with the applicants. As long as the questions asked give them some material to work on, and DS and algorithms usually serve this purpose very well for us engineers and developers in general, one should be able to effectively select candidates given some time investment.
I felt absolutely nothing.
It's not just nerves either. All interviews, but especially FAANG ones, are random. The interview might be racist, sexist, etc. They might have gotten divorced that day. The question they ask you is something you haven't heard of but they spent their PhD on. You can even do everything correctly, but the interviewer doesn't like the way you did it.

The leetcode stuff is just masochism. You will spend X months beating DS&A into your brain until someone can pullout a random question and you immediately know what questions to ask, what steps to take, and how to write it out on a whiteboard.
> Changing from Gmail isn't easy because of all the other services and logins associated with it.

You can keep the Gmail account and start using a new one somewhere else. You start registering to new services with your new account and gradually migrate old services to it if they let you. You end up with gmail for social logins (which hopefully you can migrate too) and little else.

I do have a Gmail account. I use it to login in Google when I work for a customer which use the Google Cloud, when I have to upload videos to YouTube (I logout after that) and for Google Play.
Only a small amount of the judgement would have eventually gone to Ireland. The big EU countries would have gotten most of it.
>Look, if you want to live in a bubble, you should be free to strap on an airtight suit and walk around in it.

In my country we did that for three months and now we have 100 infections per day and everyone's life has returned to 90% normal.

Which was literally my point. If you on occassion listen to experts and officials and do what they say then you don't need to tell yourself stories about your brave ancestors and their battles in the normandy, you simply solve problems, and then life goes back to normal, without deaths and with the freedoms you had before.
Ah, now I understand why LA freeways are increasingly more frustrating for me. It was awesome a month ago; 90 in the #1 lane, 80 in the #2 and people who wanted to go slower kept in #3+. Now these befuddled types don’t know which lane to be in.
They are waaay less extreme then Trump.

Neither of them is president, not even nominated and neither managed to control the party. Neither sets agenda in any way.
> My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone time in the last hour or so of the day, now I'm going to bed first on many nights.

Same struggle here. My desk is also in the master bedroom, so any early morning calls I have tend to wake up whomever is in the room (which usually includes at least one kid that woke up during the night and migrated in). My other half handles it well enough (as I worked from home frequently prior to the pandemic), but when it wakes up a kid that ended up in our bedroom after staying up way later than they should have, it leads to a really cranky household for the whole day.
I'm sure people are stupid, I've seen it myself too many times to count, but how does he know that these weren't executed in a VM? A couple hundred shells isn't so much that I'd rule out that some non-trivial fraction of them were under analysis.
> it would be worth it to talk to a tech recruiter

IMO this is very good advice. Having been on both sides of the equation, I think a good tech recruiter (emphasis on good) brings a huge value to the process. As a hiring manager, I had one guy I knew I could rely on to bring me really qualified candidates every time. His own filter was excellent, and he only brought me people that were a good fit. I almost didn't need to interview them. Other recruiters were terrible, one even sent me a candidate who had faked their first phone screen so they weren't even remotely qualified for the job.

That is the guy you want to know. He has earned his reputation. And it cuts both ways, too -- his success isn't just when the company is happy with him, but when candidates are too -- all the best ones are his clients, after all.
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Actually, in the "contributor" pages, you can see there is several physisit or doctor working with nuclear, and people from https://www.sfen.org/

But you can also see that this is not just that, there is also scientifics who work on responsible sourcing of rare earth, sustainable agricultural tech. This is probably once agian a science-based newspaper that will never work. I've learn that if you want people to care about climate change, just don't talk about nuclear energy
Refund? What's a refund? The customer is going to add more funds to their account, right? --some CEO somewhere
Agreed! Cut throat interviews in which you are expected to perform under heavy scrutiny can heavily affect performance. I prefer the case study approach instead!
> Nuclear family is also about lesser importance put of relationships with grandparents, adult siblings, aunts and so on.

It could be, but I don't see the infographic saying that. The infographic could just as easily be saying that no family relationships at all is the (implied to be more desirable) alternative.

In fact, that's a big issue with the infographic as a whole: what alternatives are we supposed to compare all these things to? None are given.
>But what's the content they should be interviewed on? You say no to quicksort. How about date parsing? That shows you have to handle messy cases.

But why? The vast majority of programmers don't ever need to write code to parse a date. It's just another test completely irrelevant to the job.

>Compare a "How does javascript handle equality?" question which falls under "trivia", vs "Implement a hash table", which isn't too hard to do for a naive solution, and demonstrates that you know how the basic data structures you work with day to day work.

Both are pretty bad interview questions. Is this a Javascript position? If they don't know how it handles equality do you really think that is the end of the the world for the interviewee, does that make them a bad programmer? It's something you could explain to them during the interview in under 5 minutes (and you should, it eases the pressure on the interviewee). So really what's the worth of asking it?

Likewise, "implement a hash table". Pointless. Ask them "Do you know how a hash table works under the hood?", chances are they might not know exactly how to implement one but they do understand roughly how it works. If they don't know then describe a simple implementation and quiz them on why it's built this way, do they understand the "why" even if they don't understand the "how". Most competent programmers can implement a hash table given an explanation of how it works which is why I don't think it's a good question to ask someone during an interview. It's just a memory test, not a test of how good they are as a programmer, how good they'd fit into a team, how good they would be at designing a large system, how good they'd be at weighing up the pros and cons of different solutions.

This is why interviews should be discussions, not tests.
If somebody incurs damage to government property without, as even you admit, any injury or immediate threat, and a government agent responds by using violence against that person, then yes, that is fascism. What perspective are you coming from that would define it any other way? You're practically admitting to using emotion to justify violence.

Edit: Not to mention this is perhaps moot to the broader argument, as this behavior from the police only requires very few repeating instances to be extremely destructive to society, and cherry-picking cases where the victim arguably "deserved" it has no effect on the impact of the other cases.
Currently it's stored in nuclear waste bin, in pools in a few hangar.
There is plan to store the in a geological stable hole, that we known that it won't move for a long time.

> The Nuclear Safety Authority has confirmed that the rock has not moved for several million years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse/Haute_Marne_Underground_...

Also, I'm not in the field, i just like to inform myself before having an opinon.
Too many times there is lies spread about nuclear facilities.
And my point is, one of those parties is not controlled by more extreme elements. One is controlled by more towards the center elements.

The other voted the more extreme element for president.
The future is now. Tesla has been making that claim since, what, 2016?
I haven't kept track of the profits of the Apple App Store, but I was remembering when it made them $3bn in one year and with the overhead after keeping 1/3 of that on their %30, they called the App Store a loss center that helped them sell iPhones and iPads. I think this reluctance to run the App Store carries over to macOS, which is why I assume they are merging it. The macOS App Store doesn't sell macs so they are likely going to remove it like they did with Ping and iTunes.

If the app store generated $54.2bn in revenue in 2019, then Apple only keeps about $16.25bn assuming a 30% cut. I can see why they would want to expand that in to the macOS now, but I don't think they are willing to part with that to a third party like Google or Amazon, as they could dominate them on their own platform.
Yes it is. The average user will change very few default settings, so people who opt in will have fundamentally different usage patterns because they fiddle with stuff.
Using "blind" as a negative figure of speech is about as intelligent and empathic as is "crippled". Talk about priviledge and not being able to see the POV of outsiders.

-- a blind admin/coder
I've heard HR optimizes processes that limit Type I errors (false positive) at the expense of Type II errors (false negative).

I've often wondered if this is because, from the HR perspective, false positives are much more costly. I.e., Those who would be helped by limiting the false negatives are project managers who are too downstream in the process for HR to care.
New experiment places limits on the smallest possible increment of time
>They have a wizzo in every situation, which offloads a lot of work from the pilot and lets them focus on flying the plane.

Isn't that only true of the F-15E? The F-15C/D that these are going to replace are single seaters aren't they? I'm having trouble finding detailed information on the F-15EX that specifies whether it's retaining the dual seat configuration.
This was quickly fixed in an update. If you shift into drive now, the entertainment/toybox sections of the display automatically exit.
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'X' marks the spot: Jeweler starts quest for treasure hidden across Michigan
HBO's Silicon Valley is dramatized, but I can't be the only one who's coded from the the convention hall floor/hotel, or had to setup servers "live". Every time a site gets unexpectedly popular (/. effect; HN hug of death) and dies, and comes back, there's someone at the other end who's probably close to tears trying to get their site back up ASAP.

That doesn't indict the fact that's the exception and that software programming almost never looks like that.

The real problem is that take home problems are trivially gameable - it's obvious to someone unscrupulous who's not a well-seasoned coder, that it would be well worth paying someone else to do their take-home-interview-homework. (Sure, that would come out eventually, but that's only one of the problems I have with take-home assignments.)

Some places have "open book" interviews, where it's like "here's a laptop, do this thing, and google/stack overflow/devdocs" your way to victory, which is at least better than the older "how much trivia do you remember about this API"-style questions. But I have no idea how to go further and make that unbound by time when an employee is on the other end of the table listening to the interviewee's thought process, if only because it makes it very hard on the interviewer to plan their own time. (Especially considering maker vs manager time.)
"When you delete data in your Google account, we immediately start the process of removing it from the product and our systems."

https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention

See also:

https://policies.google.com/privacy#infocollect
anecdotally speed is something you get accustomed to. When I first emerged after SIP I found that 40MPH felt really fast...
I have also noticed after a day at the track on my motorcycle I cant believe that bikes have to go <100MPH . Speed truly is acclimated and a skill.
That's the unfortunate truth. Money matters more than people's lives.
You would think that if the interview process was filtering on anxiety levels it would lead these companies to be full of people with high confidence which would mean imposter syndrome would not be a widespread issue.
Turkey isn’t small in any way. It’s a regional powerhouse.
I wonder if the same crowd that refuses to wear a mask has a high overlap with that increase. They tend to stick to old habits (going out unrestricted) and being more self-focused.

A higher percentage of that personality on the road would increase perceived aggressiveness.
Remember Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby? It's not all about skimming.
How many of people contracted Covid-19 and will have health issues for the rest of their lives? How does that compare to the flu?
This is interesting, I did write BLAS in Rust https://github.com/schultzer/libblas it's only single threaded at the moment.

I feel people forget to ask a more important question before they start a full rewrite and that is: Where is the hardware trends going and, is dedicated GPU, CUDA etc. even the future.

I feel it would be wasteful to spend a lot of time writing GPU specific code, Its not really maintainable on these scientific project (where only a select few people contribute, usually people that do the research).
Regarding the "long-term damage"... here's a post that goes into that aspect. There are sources. Saying it's unfounded shows who is pushing a "narrative".

https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-disease-with-1-mortality-shu...

These numbers and the permanence of the effects may be off, but hardly unfounded.

The issue I have with pushing the idea that it's a mild virus, despite loads of evidence it's far more dangerous than the seasonal flu, is that it results in less societal countermeasures.. prolonging this for all of us, and endangering those at-risk or with at-risk family members.

Keep in mind that going to the hospital can be financially ruinous.

Please wear a mask, don't throw parties, and consider your fellow members of society.

PS. quoting sources is a good way to share real information, outside of "the matrix".
> share all of their IP with their Chinese partner,

This is BS.
I'm not a defender of Saudi Arabia but besides him being born there how is it relevant? He does business in Africa and was educated in and lives in the US. Is there any indication he was a anti-Saudi activist? I don't see any so why should that be brought up at all?
> Couldn't tell an average from a median

Without meaning to attack you personally (especially in the context of the rest of your comment), a comment like this annoys me a bit.

I presume by "average" you mean arithmetic mean, but the median is also an average, and depending on the context the median might be a far more useful statistic than the mean. Confusing the mean and the median is one thing, and perhaps you actually used this terminology in the interview; "confusing" "the average" and the median isn't really worthy of comment, and sounds more like a breakdown in communication between interviewer and candidate rather than a lack of technical knowledge. It just seems vaguely hypocritical to me to be expecting a certain level of ability from the candidate and then using imprecise/informal terminology.
As others have pointed out, change opt-out to opt-in. Don't send a single byte until opt-in is complete.

Change your frame of mind from "my software" to "your computer". If your users don't explicitly opt in, you have no right to take what they do not freely offer.
As someone who loathes any kind of drama and deliberately stuffs down my own emotional reactions as a result, this would screw me every time. My natural response is to avoid getting outwardly excited.
I think it really depends on how much you care about ML and how performant you actually need it to be. If you are a hobbyist or prototyping something speculatively for work, perhaps a cloud instance is prudent. If ML is your life's work, I'd probably consider throwing down for a proper rig so you don't get killed on cloud hosting fees.
> no one knows what to replace it with that isn't enormously expensive

That's the crazy thing about this. FAANG has near-infinite resources, relatively speaking. Google could be A/B testing their interviewing process, experimenting new approaches, experimenting (as the OP study did) with eye-trackers and other tech to try to gain insights on candidate behavior. They have the "engineering for the sake of engineering" and "innovation for the sake of innovation" culture that allows for moonshots and boondoggles. I don't think they're exactly known for following "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", given how many times they kill off products only to recreate them later on, especially their chat apps.

Yet they stick to the traditional whiteboarding method because-- why?
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I came here hoping that someone would explain what is really going on. Now I feel a bit better since I am not the only one.
"Foobar project [tech lead]"

Resume items do not need to be complete sentences or even fragments, if they communicate information clearly.
Remind me not to interview for that (those) team(s). I am really the type of person that dislike drinking corporate koolaid, or any type of slogans or political line that government or media otherwise pushes. That basically sounds like half way to a cult.
If everyone complies for a relatively short amount of time? No, not really. Most of the sacrificies enacted in countries like Taiwan were mundane, and included doing exactly the opposite of what the author is advocating for. Listening to experts, following guidelines, complying with public health authorities, and collective discipline.
Pretty sure people remember that. There was bipartisan frustration about the tests. Are there other times that the frustration was bipartisan and not because the CDC is another source of truth that the administration wants to silence so that their narrative of the Coronavirus isn’t contradicted?
What an ugly piece of copywriting ;-(