skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure if I showed up to a performance engineering job interview and said "I wrote the book on performance," as though that was what mattered most, I'd be shown the door. In my opinion it would be horrendously arrogant. In fact, I interviewed at Google while I was writing Systems Performance for Prentice Hall, and I never mentioned it in the interviews for that reason. In such interviews I'm focused on what value I can bring to the company -- what problems I can help them solve in the future. I'm not there to coast on my prior reputation.

Also, regarding "overcome the hurdles": those hurdles are now practically non-existent with various publishers. This results in books on the topic that should never have been published.

I could explain in more detail, but there's a lot of negative connotations with technical book authorship, which I work to overcome in such interviews and in roles. Does the author care more about working on their reputation than working for the company? Did the author only write the book to make an exaggerated name for themselves for the benefit of job interviews? (As you suggested in your opening sentence :-) I personally only write books when I'm already the expert on the topic, and it's a way to share my expertise.

Another interview I had years ago, after telling them about my first book, the interviewer said "so you know the theory, but can you put it in practice?" The assumption being "those that can do, those that can't write books." I was in a worse position for letting them know about it.

And of course, there can be positives for writing books. You are showing a willingness to share your knowledge with others. (You can do that in blog posts as well.)

Edit: added missing word "interview"
You're probably better off building your own machine and dual booting Windows and Linux. Here's a good guide for ML requirements, only a little out of date (published before the release of the 3080):

http://timdettmers.com/2018/12/16/deep-learning-hardware-gui...
>Making an argument for the existence of a biological basis for sex [...] is a no-go

If this were true, biology departments themselves would be a no-go. Every university I can name has a biology department. Is there any source for the claim that making such an argument is a no-go, or even any serious scholar (in any field) arguing that there is no biological basis for sex?

>It’s an assault on objectivity and rational thought.

If it were an assault on objectivity, then the scholars wouldn't be using 'objective' metaphysical models to argue for their positions. If they used 'non-objective' models, then the work would lack the normative force claimed. If it were an assault on rational thought, they wouldn't be crafting arguments at all. Would you care to link to some scholarly work which not only argues for the positions you criticize, but also adopts a model which denies objective or rational thought? Philosophically, rationality and objectivity are very tricky concepts. We should have debates on those just as we have debates on most other things.
Disagree on the "playground" historical note students hundreds of years ago would probably not agree at all, basically since life back then was tougher for everyone including elite compared to tosay. Somewhat agree with 2d and 3d paragraphs though
Edit: OCP
Insinuating that there might something like personal responsibility affecting disease outcome is dangerous business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJpYIfDF3A
When I was a teen I was part of a group that did a Washington D.C. to Miami (and back) Amtrak trip. We knew it was going to take longer, but it was about $100 cheaper than flying -- and thought it might be fun to take a long haul train.

It's maybe a 16-20 hour car trip. Less than a 3 hour flight. Amtrak turns it into a 23-24 hour train ride without delays.

We were more than 8 hours delayed getting there, which caused all kinds of havoc with our local transport and accommodations.

This is not in a sparsely populated part of the U.S. It's not the North-East corridor, but it's still pretty heavily populated for most of the run. I swore off trains ever again until many years later my wife thought it would be better to start taking trains around Europe and I finally understood how good they can be. More recently we were in Japan and took the Shinkansen (and a bunch of local trains) all over the country and experienced truly the dream that trains can be. As much of an improvement as the average Eurorail is over Amtrak, Japanese trains are the much of an improvement over Europe. Absolutely incredible.
> It would be interesting to compare it to working on open source software, another activity that can have significant positive impact but is difficult to get paid for. I don’t have a strong opinion on this at the moment.

Does anyone have views from having tried to do both - book and open source project?
>A programmer with two years experience in industry is probably better than the same programmer coming out of a two-year masters.

There's a possibility the programmer who did the masters was simply unable to get a job after his BSc.

>Like, from what I can tell, most BSc graduates... suck. They're not able to program professionally, they damage your codebase. The credential just isn't a signal of adequate ability. Any hiring managers able to chip in here?

You can't expect college hires to be productive on day one. There's a learning curve between programming in college and programming professionally. If you want guys that have already completed this learning curve, you need to hire them with a few years of experience.

But keep in mind that right after college is the only time where almost everyone will be on the job market at the same time. After that, some of the best engineers simply disappear. FAANGs hire them and they basically never actively look for a job after that. [0]

[1] https://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html
Depends on who you ask. I track things like food staples the value of which to humanity stays about the same e.g. eggs, milk, bread... Shadowstats[1] is an alternative view of CPI etc.

1: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
> If you want respect

I'm sorry for not expressing clearly. People want freedom more than respect. In particular, freedom to express support of Trump.

> If you want respect don't admit to being prejudiced against the way people are born.

I'm sorry, I don't see a connection between your comment and parent comment.
Actually I am more impressed with the ESP32, given how much powerful it is than what we had at the high school computer club.
Yes sir, for people like you it doesn't matter, when article 370 is clearly articulated as temporary.

Afzal Guru is a terrorist. There ends the matter, but for people like you Afzal Guru is innocent even after proven guilty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzMoltemdg

For people like it doesn't matter, when > 4Lakh people were driven out of Kashmir by radical Islamists, with slogans:

"Convert, Die and leave your women behind".

It will also not matter, when a wife is forced to eat soaked rice of her husband's blood.

It doesn't matter when women were raped, people were killed.

It also doesn't matter when so many people were being radicalized in the name of religion.

http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/kashmiri-pandits-off...
The evolution of identity on the internet is an interesting one. In the 90s, using your real name was considered absurd. Now it's the standard. Maybe you'll also have a pseudonym in your handle, but the majority of people use their real name on most of their social media.

Certain communities retain pseudonymous, such as a good portion of Hacker News and Reddit. Although, I see many people posting more and more revealing information on Reddit these days, as it leans towards becoming like Twitter and Facebook.
Most of the things you pay for costs more the more other people earn. A doctors visit will cost more as he earns more, as do all other jobs demanding access to others people time. Land (and therefore housing) costs more as other people get more money to bid on it, as do all other things with strict limits to supply.

Goods that doesn't follow this tend to either be vastly more affordable or vastly superior today than 70 years ago. The exception would be goods requiring fossil fuel which has gotten more expensive for obvious reasons.
>It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of culture. Any wealthy country can afford this.

???
No harm done.

And full agreement; this is a language cobbled together by a chunk of land getting conquered and re-conquered so many times that the locals gave up trying to speak the language of the New King and made up their own from their favorite words in the aggressor cultures and the language they spoke amongst themselves.
Have I gone mad? (EDIT: it appears I have.)

```

GHCi, version 8.6.5: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help

Prelude> 1 / 2

0.5

```

This is because 1 and 2 are polymorphic and get instantiated to floats here. Witchcraft.
If I didn't use Chrome Remote desktop every day then this definitely would've been my initial assumption as well. Acronym for an obsolete technology but with an added "D"? We've gone digital now, baby!
A form on a webpage secured with HTTPS. If they have questions about security, answer them and add it to an FAQ. Anything with a middleman seems like just a bad idea.
I use Facebook exclusively to check for Corono related info in my community, because the local administration can't disperse them via normal channels. It's interesting, groups with 4000 people (roughly 10% of the local population!) will have anywhere from 3-30 likes on posts. The super hot threads have 50 comments, usually from the same 10-15 people.

I don't know whether the rest are silent lurkers like me, or whether they are bots, or FB is just inflating the numbers, but they surely aren't visibly active. I imagine it's not a special thing where I live, so you'll likely have the vast majority not posting publicly at all while a small minority is extremely loud. If the user count grows (hasn't the growth slowed?), most of it will not be seen by you while you look at posts and comments.
With the latest Raspbian, you can always turn on the 64 bit kernel by modifying config.txt inside boot image and add: arm_64bit=1

My homelab is Kubernetes running on Raspberry Pi 4 with aarm64 architecture. So far, it works great.
Get an NVidea shield. Better than the tv's apps.
put down the thesaurus and use real words
Critical Social Justice is death. Keep flagging my comments, you linguistic tyrants.
The most valuable things are not always the most popular. I wouldn't conflate the two.
Some in NYC get absentee ballots with wrong return address
I very much agree with DINKDINK's comments.
Computers Are Hard
Interviews with eight engineers from different backgrounds to explore and explain why software is more complicated than it looks even to a trained eye.
Actually many many thousands of good engineers are being forced to accept monitoring software on sites like UpWork.

And no, they don't have a good choice, because the pay and opportunities in many countries just doesn't compete well with those sites.
There are also now tools like Krisp which use ML to remove background noise. https://krisp.ai/ I'm not fully sold on it yet (added some fuzz for me), but it seems promising.

I'm most interested in tips on tools or devices that allow you get higher quality audio calls while taking walks.
>Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scolia were polar opposites on the issues. But they were also very good friends. Because they were adults. They weren't children who had to surround themselves with familiar things that reinforce their own views of the world.

They also were both high status individuals who lived almost exclusively in the world of academic disagreement. It's not that difficult to be open-minded when closed-mindedness has little physical consequences for you.

If you live in a town in Myanmar where some heated discussion on the internet can turn into an ethnic riot and end with you dead on the street, or you're a Chinese shop owner and some garbage on the internet ends with your store being destroyed you get a little bit more careful about the "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" attitude.

The shifting attitude towards offense isn't so much the result of technology as the article suggests, or changing culture in the upper strata of society, it's democratisation of discourse to people for whom discourse actually matters in the real world. I think this is why the change has been so pronounced in the US in particular. In the US, average people for the longest amount of time had no ability to speak at all, all discourse was 'free' because it was free from consequence for the people who spoke, in practical terms.
You can change your employer much easier than you can change your government.
Can COVID survive a washing machine? It should be fine, as long as you wash them in my opinion.
A missionary may also engage with people with different experiences than their own, but they're only doing so to cement their own world view. When they come across someone they disagree with, they'll just label them as evil without thinking about it.

To be clear, I don't think that it's a right vs left thing. I think that social media incentivizes people to behave poorly. Ben Shapiro had an enlightening discussion with a founder of Vox about the nature of polarization [1], but that's not why he's famous or how he makes money. His audience wants to see him bash unprepared liberals, so that's what he's going to do. Even if he doesn't, some other pundit will simply take his place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOUiWCjkn4
People in sv are absolutely free to express support for Trump.
Before panicking here about your social score, can we actually do something about actual scores that impact your life nowadays? Like the credit score in the US? I think like people are barking at the wrong tree.
I'd like to see what real-world examples you're thinking of when you write this, because the line of reasoning you're pursuing in this part of the thread looks to me more like a terminally cynical description of having a society and legal system.
Read the context: it was about respect. I even quoted it for you. But we can proceed anyway if the conversation has shifted.

> Consider someone saying "Guys, this dude is gay. Let's make fun of the moron". I guess you won't support freedom speech for that person.

Oh dude, I support that like nothing else, but I will use my freedom of speech to absolutely shun that individual. I absolutely encourage you to admit to any homophobia, etc. That way I know to shun you and to ask my friends to shun you. It is my freedom of speech and expression that permits me to do that. Free individuals must have the liberty to freely associate. And from the liberty to freely associate comes the liberty to choose to not associate.

And if you want to speak up and ask for me to be shunned, I encourage you to do that. Because I believe in a freedom of speech and expression that is almost absolute.

You will never find me making laws that say that expressing homophobia or racist opinions or whatever must be outlawed. Say it loud, say it proud, you have the right.
>What I think is interesting is that I suspect they’ll eagerly license this to competitor stores.

According to the source article, your prediction is on point. Here are the relevant quotes:

>"Do you have any third-party customers who plan to use Amazon One?"

>We’re excited to see Amazon One in more retail environments and are in active discussions with several potential customers, but beyond that, we’ll have to ask you to stay tuned.
Take a look at UpWork. Software engineers are subjected to this also. On a massive scale.
> It only costs two bytes

And having to have special code to handle getting it as a string instead of a number.
Nowhere did I talk about the US. I'm Southern European.
It's more that the word "extraordinary" seems to be used as an excuse to dismiss perfectly valid evidence of interesting and unusual events because the evidence isn't "extraordinary" enough.

There is no SI unit for extraordinariness [1], so these assessments are rhetorical and subjective, not scientific.

[1] Not to be confused with statistical significance, which happens at a later stage in investigations.
EY whistleblower warned of Wirecard fraud four years before collapse
I have no idea how you can do this, all my friends are on FB and that's my only way to keep in touch with them. I just use messenger so I don't really see the downsides that everybody is talking about here.
I don't see Cloudflare ever capturing even >50% of the market by bandwidth. Companies who have big enough demands (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube) are simply better off managing their own CDNs and I think that customer needs are varied enough that Cloudflare simply won't be able to satisfy all customers.

If you go along with the above premise, I don't see what the problem is. You will always have the option of switching CDNs if Cloudflare starts snooping in on user data.

Of course, if you disagree and think CF will take 100% of the market, then what you said makes sense. Personally, I don't see that happening.
> which means you may as well use TLS

Even if you don't authenticate at all, it makes it much more expensive to intercept all these connections.

And TLS lacks a way to automatically apply it to all connections.

Also I don't understand what scenario you're outlining with B.
It's incredible that these systems wouldn't have test ballots inserted every 1,000 ballots that get checked before mailing them out after being enveloped. That way they could discover if the machines are off by 1 and putting the wrong contents into an envelope. They should be spot checking every batch sent.
I remember that. The last cohort of grade 13/OAC was when I entered high school. It definitely would be helpful, rather than racing kids into post-secondary. I ended up taking a year to work, myself, and saved some money, and spent a lot of time in music. Instead of heading off to U of T after that I rather wish I'd stayed that course (didn't even finish with the degree anyway but assumed the debt because I thought I should go)...
Some off-the-shelf gaming PCs are not very Linux friendly though, so they should watch out for that, especially the laptop varieties. Getting a lot of the ML stuff working locally in Windows is a nightmare.
Daryl Davis, an African-American man, famously attended KKK rallies, befriended Klansmen, and over the course of his life helped persuade over 200 Klansmen to give up their robes. He did what you claim is impossible and I can't imagine a better role model.
Not really going to work... going to go boom!
Fixed this in a PR: https://github.com/vanila-io/wireflow/pull/51
Sounds to me like a good way to weed out bad employers. If they think of a book as a negative, they probably have a few chips on their shoulders. Also, you sound overly modest to me.
Can you show, some evidence that they share fake news like quint, wire, NDTV, and other left media, ...
Read tracking is a feature of many/most popular chat clients (certainly hangouts, messenger & whatsapp), and anecdotally it seems to be valuable. Of course, everyone would love to see the read status of other people yet be able to control their own read state (there are endless browser extensions promising this for chat apps, a tremendous self compromise vector). Will it ever be possible to offer this in a federated system or will it be limited to the walled gardens?
Not yet on a large enough project that I'd be able to tell. It's on my radar for the next time I find myself in that position though!
Enterprise companies aren't using SEO to source leads. SEO is for quick wins, like signing people up for a trial account, or getting them into the sales funnel, such as with an an 'insdustry research' ebook offer that requires an email signup.

Enterprise companies are established entities that already have good name recognition. They can pay big money to salespeople with deep industry networks, because the deals they make are low-volume, high-value. Once the product is past the point where you have to acquire users at $15/month, it makes sense to upscale to 'enterprise' plans that charge a lot more for things like uptime guarantees and issue escalation.
It's crazy that this kind of thing is tolerated in financial markets. It should be criminal to manipulate markets like this.

Time and again I'm convinced that it is extremely difficult to succeed as a retail trader. The odds of you succeeding given false signals like this are just depressingly low. And this is just one instance where the prosecution was able to prove wrongdoing.
You are really hung up on this and I don't understand why.
I'm not really asking for any info, I'm assuming that if that's really worked as described for k___, then their book is well known or regarded in React circles, and that's why.

I don't think that's a good reason to do it, because well-regarded authors didn't become so by writing any old book - they either already were, or they wrote a bloody good one.
Somewhat related, does embodied energy of a bidet save or waste water? I've dramatically cut down on toilet paper use since getting one. I imagine ecologically, the plastic and manufacturing of the bidet would not offset renewable paper products? Definitely a QoL upgrade though.
There's a number of reports available under the keywords "zoom china meeting", but it boils down to:

1) Zoom has been reported to send video call encryption keys to China.

2) Zoom has sent participant lists of particular video calls to China authorities.

3) Zoom now segregates Chinese from the rest of the world, so that the keys and participant lists can be disclosed to Chinese censors, without impacting the rest of the world.
Taleb has a response about this in Antifragile: "A friend who writes books remarked that painters like painting but authors like “having written.” I suggested he stop writing, for his sake and the sake of his readers."

The greater context of the above was dealing with procrastination: Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one’s impulses.

Not having written a book I don't know what the scars are about writing one that make the process very painful,I don't know if it's the writing itself, or the editing and getting feedback that makes it painful. But maybe procrastination does play a role, especially when one reflects on how much time they've wasted.

So to stop procrastinating, change your environment or profession to one where you don't fight your natural impulses. Easier said than done in this world though.
> an educated and informed citizenry.

The sad part is that with the exception of those graduates with degrees that require mathematical or statistical rigor, I don't find my college educated friends to be better informed than my friends without degrees.

If there is one thing I could change about education in the US, I would add classes in statistics starting in the same grade we start teaching algebra and I'd have students take both a pure math and a pure statistics classes every semester until they finish their schooling.

Classes in philosophy, especially the philosophy of science I think should also be required. As should classes in logic.

The problem is that education has become a factory that teaches people what to think and not how to think.
Buying those games from Amazon, Walmart, or any other store still results in a license fee paid to Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft: 30%, in fact.

Distribution is not determinant in license fees.