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I'm all for education, but I don't think it's quite that simple. Why should we value a degree in philosophy the same as a degree in the sciences?

And there is an undercurrent in your post which seems to say that Philosophers are dumber than engineers ("recipe for a lot of incompetent engineers"). I don't think you'd ever hear someone say the opposite: that if an engineer studied the humanities for 4 years instead that that would be the recipe for "incompetent philosophers". I think it subtly undermines your suggestion that both degrees are equally worthwhile.
I thought Lawrence Livermore laboratory does some cutting edge experiments on fusion and I read articles about how they are hoping to get some breakthrough. Is this new thing supposed to actually help take the tech forward or achieve something we havent achieved so far?
That’s why I suggested the DPA which does allow for rightsholders to request copies of data pertinent to themselves - I’d argue that usenet postings would fall under that scope.
Think of how many sites require TLS 1.2 to do anything at all.

...and then think of how there's no theoretical reason why TLS 1.2, 1.3 or any crypto, really, won't work on such a processor; the practical reason is that no one has really spent the effort to create/port such an implementation.
If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
I'm confused, is the regular Firefox on the playstore now the same chromium/geckoview/word version that Firefox Preview was for awhile?
Realistic Roman Empire Portraits from Statues Using a GAN Neural Net
What does it matter that Amazon in particular is the one buying out these politicians? Someone would do it. They're a big enough company that the left hand probably doesn't know what the right hand is doing anyway.

And the most evil company in the world telling you to regulate it ought to give you some pause that maybe you really should think about doing that, don't you think?
I think a more accurate comparison would be the assembly line of the factory that allows push-button-combination-of-parts-to-build-a-motorcar. Infrastructuree tooling allows push-button-combination-of-application-component-stack-to-deploy-the-functioning-software-application.
I just started working at a company that didn't do any whiteboarding or technical challenges. As far as interviewing me goes, they broke all the "rules" that I used to follow when interviewing candidates at my old job.

So far, so good. They seem to have an attitude of seeing the best in everyone, and everyone seems talented. Maybe I can learn a thing or two from them!
Maybe, though making themselves a target of book publishers may have risked their other responsibilities.
There's a lot of evidence that exercising is healthy and helps people improve their mental state so that analogy doesn't work.

The point is if someone says they're getting a benefit from something that doesn't have a ton of evidence around it - my first instinct would be to be skeptical but curious.

When someone takes that skepticism and implies that the "far bigger and more pressing problem" is that I can't determine the obvious benefits it makes me more skeptical, not less.

How skeptical I am comes from how far it is from my priors. Breathing exercises being helpful seems likely, choosing energetic or restful based on which nostril you're breathing out of sounds like bullshit so I'm more skeptical by default.

If someone tells me they're breathing out of their right nostril to become more energized - I'd probably tell them that sounds made up.
I have the idea that if the money = free speech route is closed off to being solved by SCOTUS, the next best thing we could advocate for happening is to have limits on the number and size of corporations. There's nothing in the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of that. And Congress should do it before corporations are so powerful they can no longer escape their grasp.
Google "Swar Vigyan". Instead of looking for "studies", try these things on yourself for 30 days or so and journal what you experience.

Or try this -

Take breath with right nostril only - you'll feel warm or more energetic.
Later take breath with left nostril only - you'll feel cold or more relaxed.

You can gamify this system when you certain type of tasks.

Or ask any old-school Yoga/Meditation teacher, preferably someone with roots in India.
My understanding is that expate communication with the judge or a judges staff in a court case is not legal (unless allowed under very specific situations).
In my case, the ethics course we had to take was the same one engineers take.
Not necessarily. There are at least two reasons more money might not be sufficient for many students.

First, just because a career is high demand, high pay now doesn't mean it still will be in a few years. Enough people might go into it chasing the money to turn the shortage into a surplus.

Second, it can be hard to change careers later, especially careers that require a degree. Many will prefer to pick a career they are confident they will be happy with for the rest of the working life, even if that won't make as much money.
You’re not wrong that the project has had issues and unforced errors. I’ve felt similar disappointment at the slow progress, misleading statements, and product limitations.

But they’re one of precious few companies with a fighting chance of bringing open software to mobile. For that reason alone, they’re still on the side of the angels in my opinion.

So root for the Pinephone and PostmarketOS, and continue to hold Purism accountable. But if Purism and the Librem have an outside shot at positively contributing to the mobile landscape if given the chance, then entirely-valid criticisms of the company and product should be tempered with that chance in mind.
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There’s an advanced variant in which you don’t use the fingers and attempt to manipulate the breath using the lungs only—its called anulom vilom
I haven't experienced cueing, but I've seen its fallout, having switched coasts halfway through middle school. The change in literacy among my classmates was vivid. They would read straight past words, saying words similar but unmistakably wrong, due to only looking at the first couple of letters, and then never catching the mistake due to comprehension speed no faster than saying it out loud. In advanced English, it was about half the class that was like this; when I switched to the boring class later, it was absolutely every student except for me, at least in my class. Even in grade flippin' twelve, on books that were easy. Mind-boggling.
From the about page[1]:

> […] prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy […]

[1] https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
This can add a lot of overhead, and some candidates may have jobs that forbid them from accepting outside work.

A good middle ground would be to have the company make a donation to the candidate's choice of nonprofit.
Dealers will swap out pipes so what you heard wasn't necessarily stock.
A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’
The issue is that the first amendment isn't absolute, there are in fact limits, those limits however have been effectively rescinded when it comes to corporations but are still in place for individuals. The disparity of power this affords in our democracy is destined to erode what is left of it.
I had sleep paralysis as a child once in a while (which isn't uncommon), but as an adult I only get it after a period where when I've consumed cannabis with some regularity, then stopped.

It may or may not apply to you, but my friends that have sleep paralysis say this anecdote holds true for them as well.
>because leetcode/algorithmic interview questions are so fundamentally different to what we actually do day-to-day as developers.

I mean, maybe hard or esoteric easy questions but I don't think that's true for basic things like 'find the first duplicate' or '-traverse- this graph'. When people rail on whiteboard coding, I think they mean obscure algorithmic questions and not fundamental data structure questions.

I don't expect someone to be able to do Dijkstra's algorithm (or even spell Dijkstra, did I do it right?) but everyone should be comfortable enough with a bit of help doing BFS or working with linked lists, hashmaps, no? Am I crazy here?
Reminds me of how I read Chinese, because there's no alphabet or way to sound out the characters, you just have to memorize.
As someone who has gone through the Melbourne Model, I don't know if I'd call the semester's worth of breadths in the BSc "liberal arts rounding" in the same sense as people are using it here, mainly because it's a free choice of subjects outside your degree (and most subjects are available). E.g. it's not uncommon to take management subjects as an "employable" breadth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917367
Friend of a friend, not in the business.
Yeah, and when you're not home they're walking all over the tables and bench tops.

Cats can carry toxoplasmosis.

But, generally speaking, humans and other animals can cohabitate to quite a degree and nothing much comes of it in the general case.
Actually this is classical general relativity, the math is not particularly advanced. When I was doing Theoretical Physics I would have considered this paper "easy", at least relative to most papers on hep-th.I never believed in MOND and even this paper is not convincing, since the lagrangian is built ad-hoc rather than derived from a clean principle.
5. Here is the book and one instance of Scott's full name in the book.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wtQkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9&lpg=PR...

Voluntarily publishing something like that makes me believe that Scott did not make a clear effort. It's not about holes or opsec. It's about Scott putting his full name out there and then regretting it. He doxxed himself, and he can't be undoxxed.

2. Scott never claimed that the reporter was going to reveal his home address, but he said the reporter threatened to doxx him for clicks. I have a very hard time believing that, and I define doxxing very differently than "publishing a name that the subject of the article has already voluntarily revealed."

3. Scott is an old hand at Internet flame wars. I consider it highly likely that he knew that, by claiming that the reporter threatened to doxx him, that the reporter would be doxxed. The rest is protesting too much.

1. What it means is simply we do not know the whole story. We definitely do not know that the reporter, in fact, threatened to doxx Scott. In any case, I think Scott has a very different definition of that word than most people do.

4. If we believe that Scott encouraged his fans to turn up the heat on the reporter, then he is participating in a trend, which I highlighted, that bodes ill for American and the free flow of information. Every time an independent press tries to write a story, do its reporters get doxxed? I guarantee you will read fewer interesting stories when that is widespread.
It feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
Yea, that sort of dataflow analysis (at static compile or just-in-time compile time) is what I'm getting at for avoiding Spectre/Meltdown, but with the added ability of being able to use profiling information to re-generate the code paths where you're getting pipeline stalls due to flaws in the assumptions used in static instruction scheduling.
The timeline matches up with their settlement in the Getty lawsuit, which many decried at the time as ruining the service.[0] It wouldn't be surprising if they chose to pivot away from the useful behaviour that got them sued, towards this inoffensive, ML-driven search that nobody asked for.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
In the past we had some candidates complain about take-home problems. The primary complaint was that candidates weren't interested in dedicating 4-5 hours of their own time unless they felt that someone from the company was putting in an equal amount of their own time. Some candidates also had suspicions that we were trying to use them for free labor (Not true, we used the same toy problem for every candidate). One candidate even thought they should be able to bill us for their time spent applying (We passed).

Eventually I changed the strategy and offered candidates the choice of the take-home problem or an on-site whiteboard style interview where they solved a subset of the problem in pair-programming fashion with us. Zero people chose the on-site interview. Everyone chose the take-home problem.

No one complained any more after we reframed the take-home problem as the candidate's choice rather than the company's.
Is it simply a coincidence that people don't like whiteboard interviews and believe they don't work? Seems pretty convenient to me.
Or de-nazi it for that matter?
Object Files and Schemata: Factorizing Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
It's an interesting work. It introduces a neural framework for talking about the distinction between classes and objects (like in object oriented programming) or more specifically "types" and "tokens".

It builds upon their seminal work of Recurrent Independent Mechanism. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10893
>What makes one better or worse than another?

Most public mastodon instances usually have an about page that describes what their intended audience is. You can also look through the public timeline to see what users are saying first before signing up. If you aren't sure, pick a larger general instance.

Despite all that, in my opinion you'll probably get more mileage out of joining an instance run by someone you know and trust.

>What if I choose wrong? What if I need to move?

On newer versions of mastodon there is already a migration option to import/export your data between servers. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on...

Regarding your second paragraph: If you'd like to fix bugs in your chosen mastodon client, I'm sure that would be welcomed.
Doesn't that just create an incentive to destroy the archive before GDPR authorities can shake them down over it?
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Agreed.

It's always surprising to read people complaining about spending even 8 hours on a take-home problem in the comfort of their home, with no one looking over their shoulder, finished at their leisure. Meanwhile, anyone serious about applying to the same company wouldn't hesitate to take PTO and leave work to go on-site for a similar amount of time for an interview.
Are these people drinking it? Everyone in my grad school chem lab washed hands with methanol to no ill effect
Eh. I don’t care about downvotes. But yeah if people want to throw the same ten dozen puzzles at each other and then wonder why the people don’t work out, it’s definitely not time to try anything different :)
> Placebo can provide actual benefit to an individual.

It depends what you refer to when you talk about a placebo. What people call the "placebo effect" is in practice "regression to the mean" in most cases, which is the fact that you would get better over time even if you did absolutely nothing. You will notice that placebo 'effect' works best in contexts where the illness has a psychological component (mental illnesses and the like), but absolutely fail to show any effect at all in other contexts like viral infections.

> Individuals should experiment. But they should not claim their findings as universal truths.

I agree, but how can you prevent people from claiming that something worked for them if they are absolutely convinced of it. It's an unsolvable problem.
They don’t need your data to show you ads. DDG has a really nice post about that. They do it because they can and because they can sell the data itself. That sucks.
Nonfiction publishers have fact-checkers? That's new. (That is pretty new, and still quite rare: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books...)

I'm still not sure why I should be regarding Burrough's account as more likely to be true to historical fact than all of the other accounts I've been able to find. If nothing else, he, and you, have got an uphill battle in convincing anyone that his account is right, and everyone else's is wrong. You don't seem to recognize that. Perhaps he does. You seem to be quite familiar with the book; maybe he's more willing to support the claim than you so far have been, and has something better to offer than simple assertion. If you don't want to go to the trouble of trying to find references of your own, why not at least copy out whatever on the subject can be found in his bibliography?
Exactly. To become good at something, you must first suffer through being bad at it long enough to get better.
AI Dungeon: You find a dragon.

"Throw a rock to distract it".

AI Dungeon: your rock you threw at the dragon missed.

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Apple did this in one of the sessions last time I interviewed there. They handed me a project in Xcode that had a number of bugs with varying degrees of difficulty — some caused crashes, others were UI glitches, etc. The assignment was to identify the problems and fix them. If you have more than a couple years’ experience the issues were pretty straightforward.

I really enjoyed this session, but I can see how it could be stressful to others.
Yep, Blake3 can do around 6-7GB/s https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
Buy lottery tickets, you can get rich. It’s the same thing, one just has slightly better odds. Not good odds.
It varies by Uni. When I studied there was no enforced "rounding", but you only needed a certain number of units of a type to hit a target degree but a higher total number of units was required to graduate.

It was then up to the student what they studied in the spare units (science, language, accounting, Chinese calligraphy, etc) with an option to cram more in or add an extra year for a double-degree.

Sometimes units in different departments were very highly encouraged, such as formal logic in philosophy when doing CS or EE.
> Play Music

Play Music has not been shut down (yet), and you can transfer everything to Youtube Music, which is available at the same price (and in my opinon a superior product).
Haha, I posted this here and I agree, it the author to get to the point.
> You must be responding to how you feel, because you sure as hell aren’t responding to what I wrote.

I'm just responding to that quote from your last post.

> When you wear particular clothing, it communicates which group you identify with or want to associate with.

Agree to a point, but I don't think "Boring" is generally a group someone would try to identify/associate with (I'm assuming you're using boring as a derogatory term here). I also disagree that outgoingness is synonymous with how interesting a person is (in fact I'm sure you'd agree there are many instances of the contrary).

And outside of being "good" or "bad" at non-verbal communication you're forgetting another important direction: people who do not care.

Take you for example - I find you very interesting because you have strong opinions that differ to mine - It would have been a shame had I immediately categorised you as boring given the sunglasses you were able to afford or if you didn't care about sunglasses beyond their function.
We want the ability to automatically update our npm packages too. So that use-case is not limited to OS packages. It applies to anything that gets distributed by packages and you want to easily update or install it. Who would want otherwise?
At Caltech, most exams were take home with a time limit of 2 hours. Some were "infinite time". The students hated the latter, because it means there was no end to the time you needed to spend on the exam, meanwhile there were other exams, etc., to take.

With a 2 hour exam, there's an end to it, and you know how much time it should take to do the problems. Much better.

It's even worse if you're being graded on a curve, as you would be in a job interview. You're competing against others who will spend infinite time on it.
It's encouraged by being paid by the word (implicitly via time-on-page due to ads) in some cases.
Excuse me? Is the former chairman of Sears on hacker news?
I see that as a good thing. Macy's can't force me to do anything. The federal government can. I'd prefer Macy's to have more influence in my day to day life than the business end of a gun.
Yeah, steady-state heat fluxes comparable to re-entry are expected.
It was in the late 1960s. I grew up near Detroit. We had visited the Henry Ford Museum where they had reprints of the classic McGuffy's Reader, mentioned in the article. We just went through that book. As others have mentioned, at some point it "clicked" and I needed no further instruction.

Like programming. ;-)

My mom also made a big deal of going to the library every week, like it was some kind of amazing sanctuary, which of course it was.

Now an odd thing I remember is that my office mate in grad school listened to the Rush Limbaugh Program, and the two advertisers I remember were Snapple and Hooked on Phonics. Funny what things we remember.
It will be a terrible shame when I no longer get real-time traffic on the small streets, yes.

I use OSM multiple times per week, but I still start GMaps anytime I need to drive somewhere.
> The additional information contained in the diacritics is essentially useless to English speakers

This is a plausible sounding line of thought but English-language sources are rarely consistent about it. In particular, Western European languages, especially French, often get to keep their accents even though they are meaningless to English speakers.

Compare, for instance, how many places will write "Côte de bœuf" but "nuoc mam". German, Spanish, Portugese, and Swedish are other languages where I often see "weird letters" and diacritics left in, even in English-language publications that don't do the same favors for other languages.

That said, it is possible that SCMP is consistent about this so I don't want to call them out as hypocritical without checking.
I went snorkelling for the first time, in Mauritius. Flat water, no fear to speak of. But I was breathing incorrectly through the snorkel. Which one does the first time they snorkel. Overly deep, heavy breaths. Suddenly my heart was racing, and I went into a panic. It felt like I couldn’t breath at all. I started hyperventilating, breathed in some water, and started to get tetany which of course made everything worse.

This was all brought on by my breathing wrong. Not out of stress. Simply because the snorkel messed with my normal rhythm, and caused accidental hyperventilation.
Note that AI Dungeon uses GPT-3 under the covers (though by default it's apparently a weaker "Griffin" variant; you can pay to get the stronger "Dragon" model.)

If you don't have access to the OpenAI private beta, you can use AI Dungeon to play around with GPT-3 by starting a custom scenario and pasting in whatever prompts you want; for some ideas see Gwern's excellent post: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#the-database-prompt.

I'm particularly impressed with the "database prompt" experiment, which seems to suggest that GPT-3 has some level of self-referential reasoning, as you can tell it what it does and does not know in the context of a session, and it will "act out" an exchange based on that epistemology.
I doubt it. This is his job, and it seems like something he'd want full oversight and control of. This isn't a press release about another warehouse opening
Hilbert Space
I had the privilege to attend a presentation by him at the Royal Society in London about his book Last chance to see, before it was published. I think a lot of people miss the seriousness behind his writing because it all just seems like comedy.
https://model.energy/

Generally, low latitude places want more solar + batteries, high latitude ones want more wind + hydrogen. When optimizing with these four, plus nuclear, with the costs at that site, nuclear typically optimizes to 0%.