skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually explicitly pick switching from an already-satisfactory i3 setup to a Regolith setup as maybe not worth it (unless you're literally just doing it for kicks, I guess?).

In my case: I've done i3 setups before and then haven't main'd Linux in a bit, then when back on it tried to see how well I could fare with minimum system setup, and Regolith gave me a good-ish i3 config out of the box (along with dark matching GTK3 theme and terminal themes etc.). I did end up tweaking the files though to change up some keybinds and indicate fan speed + thermals in the bar. So it ended up being mostly 1) just a config starter (incl. most bar widgets you'd want) that I can also maybe rebase on if they update upstream in a way that matters 2) a way to get very consistent system theming across i3 setup and GTK.
The Adder has a 4K display, and the Bonobo has the option.
> Every time a new app asks for your location, you can select whether you want to give it that information all the time, or only while using the app.

This is exactly how it works on Android as well (since version 10, IIRC).
Uh, this is probably a cultural thing, but I don't get it? Can you please explain it to me? As in, what's "cheap but clever" about it?
I hope you're seeing the irony when discussing the difficulty of managing a very large country, by referencing 10 much smaller countries with their own systems of government.
Back in the day you wanted in to get shares before they went public. Then the dream was to cashout and using your google money you can create something. Then people stopped getting stocks but used it to get funding. Then there are the people who get in any position for less than 2 years and use that expereince to get a CTO job at a smaller org.

Why do you consider it your endgame? Top salary? Interesting problems? Making a difference?
The whole package can't, but all you really need is analysis/analysis.py. The analysis operates on .pcap files, so if you opkg install tcpdump on your router, you can run tcpdump over ssh and analyze the resulting pcap file on your workstation.

https://github.com/KasperskyLab/TinyCheck/blob/main/analysis...
That sounds damn frustrating. Would you be willing to share your area of expertise?

At 17 YoE, I avoid the cloud and ML because it's hard to bring my skills and experience to bear, and also I have no passion for them. But I have also found there's a ton of C++ code out there; IME there's a lot of appetite for someone who can wrangle it.
Turns out that catching COVID by touching surfaces is pretty low in the first place:

> The estimated risk of infection from touching a contaminated surface was low (less than 5 in 10,000)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.20220905v...
That time, Google's motto was "do no evil" .
Amen. Working there would be exactly the same. Hamstrung by process.
Even with multiple displays it's not that difficult - just pass the scale you want for a given display when calling `xrandr` and things generally just work as long as you're downscaling from the "native" dpi you have X using.
> Anyways, time to go bomb out of another candidacy at the last stage.

This made me chuckle. For what its worth, I've bombed out multiple times in the past month. You're not alone.
Unfortunately if you use Cognito for authentication you're currently SoL, as many of us learned the hard way last week.

Region rollover is not possible with Cognito. I believe you could backup the user pool to a different region, but users would still need to reset their passwords which would open another can of worms when you switch back to the original pool.
I think author (and other folks who have this vim+tmux+other tools type of workflow) would really like Emacs, especially Org mode. I have a very similar set of tools for a pure-Emacs workflow to this:

- org-roam
- org-noter
- persp mode with persistent sessions
- vterm + eshell
- various plugins for org bibtex / latex

All of this in Doom Emacs gives me the same functionality.

I do admit that it took a large amount of time for me to cultivate this over several years, as it does for most workflows. It's very hard to jump ship, even when the grass may be objectively greener, because one has to actually be productive today instead of postponing until one's fonts are just right and keybindings are perfect!
I don't think it's miscommunication in anyway. Timnit had submitted dozens of papers before and unless the process requirements are completely new, she would be well aware of them. This seems more of a case of selective enforcement, where she had been allowed to go around the process in the past (or felt that she has enough leverage to be able to do so now) and then not being allowed to do so this time.

This feels like a classic privileged tantrum which has blown up in the face because Google refused to bend this time.
What makes you think it's a lie?
Regolith is just a software suite like gnome-desktop that attempts to make a coherent i3 system without having to find solutions for the parts of the desktop environment that i3 doesn't manage.

Advantage of using it is you get a set of sensible defaults rather than having to put together your own.
You may not use dollars locally but most international transactions are priced in US dollars, giving the US a tremendous amount of influence in the global financial markets.
Me thinks it's a common misconception for strongly opinionated people to believe that companies want to hire them in order for them to "fix things and make the company a better place".

In reality, what every company/team/management wants is someone who will give them some constructive criticism on small mistakes here and there that are easy to fix, but ultimately act as a supportive shield for the company against /other/ criticisms. The more credible that someone is, the better, and the more sophisticated that act of supportive shielding is, the better.

In exchange, the company provides support, financial or otherwise, for that someone's personal career ambitions in becoming rich and famous themselves.

Anyone else see it this way? Or am I just too jaded these days?
This is why I’ll never make any significant money. Can’t motivate myself to learn stuff that seems to abstract too far away from allowing me to work in the things that interest me.

Same issue with math, it would do me so much good to go back and released math, but I just can’t bring myself to do it because I’ll have to start too far away from any useful application and, even though it’s important.
Would expect it to only be for accredited investors.
I think the quotes given are persuasive evidence, though. “I’m disengaging for my sanity”?
Is Walmart really that great by comparison ? I wonder what skeletons are up their closet.
There is nothing wrong with a traditional career
Well, the technologies I've used are all over the place, but the niche is defense contracting. Until now, I don't think I realized that processing lots of data really fast locally (i.e., not in the cloud) wasn't more generally in-demand.
That's nice. #TIL , and I visited the website.

Qn. Does it allow a paid user to delete their uploaded files ?
You're trying to discredit her for... writing a well-sourced paper on race & gender discrimination in AI.
> A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines

Nooo.. For gods sake at least use a trie. This kind of thing makes me want to like “annoying” algorithm interview questions.
Microsoft waters down 'productivity score' surveillance tool after backlash
This thread is about Apple, not Facebook. Right-to-repair and having freedom to install the software you want on the hardware you buy is an important pursuit. Tell me again what choice you're losing with this?

Extremes are never good or useful. We need moderation. Capitalism with guardrails. We already have regulation to ensure certain corporate behaviors don't harm consumers, and even protect them from themselves, which has massively improved quality, safety and reliability of the things we buy.

Sure some regulations are overreaching or outdated, but the rise of giant software/internet companies has upended all of the old considerations of antitrust. There are a few trillion-dollar companies that impact a vast amount of our lives and there's no effective way to disengage from them while living in modern civilization. That's a major problem because pretty soon they will be the "government" that controls your life - but without any of the accountability or transparency.
Oh sure, Yann LeCun is a douche too. But you pick him to defend and her to call names.
Maybe 15 to 1.
> Or the drone wash was the straw that broke the observatory's back.

Technically not impossible, the drone was close enough to the cable that it was likely exerting some force, no matter how small, on them. There is certainly some chance that in that moment that force was all that was needed to push it past the breaking point.

That said obviously from a practical standpoint if it were that close the the edge then the next gust of wind would have done it in anyways.
There is absolutely 0% chance I'll be letting that anywhere near my family. And I was a biomedical scientist formerly.

Over my dead body (one way or another).
Fwiw, I have a 13" ThinkPad with a 4k display and get ~4 hours of real battery life or more while working with docker running a handful of containers, browser, vim, spotify, and a few dev tools running.

Nothing amazing by any means, but it's plenty for real world usage and if I stop the docker daemon, I probably gain another hour or two. How often are you working somewhere for more than a few hours without a plug?
I think they mean that AWS acts as a proxy and only terminates the outer layer.

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to fingerprint a TLS session that always starts with another TLS handshake?
Why are we claiming this was achieved by "China" rather than the responsible scientists? Science is a global cooperative effort, rather than a national competition. Also, link to the actual article:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/02/scie...
Meanwhile try and find a series x...
I’ve wanted this approach for the Harry Potter Series. Trying to do it in theatrical film was a mistake I think.
Below average for someone joining as a new E5 employee, especially if stock refreshers and equity appreciation is taken into account.
Shower thought: Is anyone looking at using neural networks to fill in the pillarbox area of 4:3 content? It seems like you'd be able to turn old 4:3 video into 16:9 by learning what was outside the active region from adjacent frames and filling it in.
Congrats on the new position.
Some people can spot talent.
How can one check what one's usb-c port supports? I have a Lenovo yoga 920 (I think that's what it is... Got it as a warranty replacement for a different device). I have a usb-c to HDMI adaptor from the first device and it doesn't work on this newer device, which is quite annoying.
I believe the author is suggesting that it’s more common than one would think.
The company's website: https://cartax.com
Overview of Rust and Pony (2017)
> USD will always be valuable as long as the US government exists and taxes its citizens in USD. This means that there will always be demand for USD (again, as long as the US government exists).

For the USD to have value, you need technological innovation and productivity. You need to export more value than you import.

Simply existing and taxing your population does not give your currency value.
While they were a jerk, it actually was far more specific than that. According to Jeff's response, first they bypassed a 2-week review process:

> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

Then, when called out on it, they made "an ultimatum" and said they would leave if certain demands weren't met. I'm not sure what every demand was, but one of them was indeed disclosing the name of the reviewers.

> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date.

Jeff declined to meet the conditions, and let them go. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
Does Clevo have any competitor?
I’m sorry you feel that way. But Timnit is an internet bully with an army of Twitter minions, with the stones to write a ridiculous “How To Apologize” document she tweets at researchers she doesn’t like. I maintain this is an excellent firing if there was such a thing.
or https://teller.io
Might Biden be different on tech issues
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The stereotypical conspiracy theorist hides away at home with tin foil head-coverings to keep the mysterious airborne pathogens away.

Now, that's "normal people", while "conspiracy theorists" are those carrying on unfazed.
> If the currency increases in value 7% in a month, should I not decrease your pay proportionally?

The problem you're describing is really nothing new. It sounds like you're just very used to thinking in USD. People all over the world do hedges to control for exactly this risk.

If you want to tether wages to USD, you can use USDC instead of BTC. Also you can pay those wages with such low transaction costs that you could pay by the day instead of by the week or month, using current technology.

Pretty soon the transaction costs will be low enough that you can pay those wages continuously. Eliminating the idea of a "pay day" is a great social good IMO.

On the other side, the receiving party can spend their funds in "USD" with a crypto-backed credit card that draws against their USDC balance.
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Google suggests available addresses when signing up to Gmail. Perhaps they could try to address the problem of mispellings and typos by at least warning the user about the Levenshtein distance from similar, already registered addresses, and the potential for misdirected email as a result.
There's no way an AVX2 version of this would run as fast even taking throttling in to account.

The throttling is aggressive in mixed code paths, but not really all that bad if you're almost exclusively running vector code.

AVX2 throttled a fair bit in the first implementation, and the penalty has generally reduced. I'd expect something similar here, it's just that Intel chips are barely changed in three years.

And as the author says, 512 is a game changer, not just a wider AVX2. It's much more flexible.
> why is it easier to change the application logic if it lives in a separate codebase?

Because stored procedures don’t include the ability to do things like use inheritance to easily add extra layers of abstraction and let the compiler detect when you’re messing up. Adding a column is easy enough, but enforcing that it means something and every one of your prior calculations are now meaningless without taking it into account is difficult. Making such changes elegant and enforcing them to avoid future bugs is even harder.

Remember this example is at it’s core a minor difference. If you’re changing something like amounts being measured by volume instead of weight, then basic assumptions no longer hold making things much worse.
> where she had been allowed to go around the process in the past

I'm curious, is there anything in the posted information above that points to the fact they were able to go around the 2-week limit in the past? Or is that just a guess?
Thanks for that - you guessed it - C++. It's like you think you speak English but then you walk into a pub in Pembrokeshire and you absolutely cannot understand a word anyone is saying, even though ostensibly they are speaking English. C++ will forever be a 'distant second language' that is different in every project. It's very frustrating.
Lol. I took the teaching job because I was bored with "software assembly" (nice name). It was fun to get drop shipped into a random location in the world and go toe-to-toe with their best and brightest.

I've since moved on to embedded development, and it is as you say. I've recently got to work on tensorflow light, pytorch, rust, object detection, compute shaders... it's amazing.

The big company stuff can be a bit boring, but I can also say there's some pride even in the "glue". The team I was most proud of implemented Heroku-flow in their proprietary cloud using some kick-ass devops skills, figured out some innovative ways to solidly test their creation, and also got to write a genuinely comp-sci database diff tool to migrate data nightly from the original thing into their re-write.

If you can build the trust, there's most often a good route to turn a terrible, untrusting, corporate monstrosity into something decent. But that being said, it takes a ton of passion and also sometimes it will just be dull and a hobby project is probably a necessary relief valve.
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What do you mean by 2k in a laptop context? (i.e. non-ultrawide)
Facebook already has this:
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/powered-by-ai-turning-any-2d-ph...
Dell?
This is a good strategy for senior engineers to avoid the leetcode interviews. And to any recruiters and hiring managers reading this, there’s the other side of this. If you want responses from high quality senior engineers, then start your LinkedIn email with “NO Leetcode”. Response rates will likely increase by a lot.
> the academic who expects to get access to the raw review responses so that the paper can be fixed.

Asking for the review notes is one thing, it seems like the main demand Jeff refused was giving the names of every reviewer. Why would the names of the reviewers be relevant to the academic, unless they specifically wanted to use the reviewers identity in order to undermine the notes?
I'd very much like to support companies making systems like this, but the low-res display is a hard no.
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FB generates around $2 million in annual revenue and $600k in net income per employee (not just engineers). If the only thing you consider is value generated by each employee, then FB should be paying far more. Maybe 400k for a new grad and 1M for a senior engineer?
Yes, consumers and society come first before the corporations that serve them. The corporations only exist to provide, only survive because they do.

Free markets and capitalism are great, the best system we have, but there are still guardrails to ensure proper behavior and mitigate harm. This is the problem being discussed. The balance in recent times is completely off with these massive software/internet companies that control so much of our lives with little oversight or accountability. This is what people are arguing against, and I believe you would agree with that.
sounds like The Second Coming poem ("the centre cannot hold") by WB Yeats, 1919:

https://poets.org/poem/second-coming

The best lack all coviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
> the odds of someone with $1M in revenue failing to get to $1.25M by next year is very unlikely.

Apps tend to be faddish, especially games. There's an upswing and a downswing. Little stays popular forever.
That's only 1k in double-pixel remdering. Much less smooth.
Check out hunter instead of ranger, and sk instead of fzf
I'm not sure sure the author is coming from. I have a similar amount of experience, but wouldn't say I had to "relearn coding" when I did my last round of interviews.

I've landed enough jobs without crazy amounts of studying, but knowing what was coming, I did ~100 Leetcode questions over a month. I also read an algorithm book knowing it's one of my weak points. I got a FAANG offer from my first interview, and even got feedback that I'm good at algorithms.

There's a comment here about someone who's in their 40's and can't get anyone to look at their resume. Maybe that'll change for me, but I get lots of recruiter emails. It definitely helps that I have four well-regarded tech companies on my resume.

Hate the system all you want, but you know what's expected. Either suck it up and do your leetcode and be an expert and the language you're using or stop complaining about being stuck somewhere.
US Senate passes Bill to remove country caps on employment-based green cards
Borland Turbo Lightning, TSR (terminate and stay resident) spell checker for the lowly 8088-based IBM PC.

https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-lightning/1x
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Over 20 years of really solid experience here doing some awesome stuff for recognizable employers. I’ve had the exact experiences as the author.

One recent interview run by ex-FUAANG folks started with a non-trivial take home that represented their actual business. I come in, am told it’s one of the best they’ve seen. Which was great, because I was genuinely proud of it. Now let’s find all of the combinations on a boggle board. Which wasn’t even the worst of it.

So far, that’s been pretty par for the course for me. It’s been discouraging.
An important note: this only affects those in the USA - unless HBO Max expands internationally in 2021 - because:

“HBO Max is currently only supported in the U.S. and supported territories” [1]

HBO Max has not announced any plans to expand outside of the USA at this stage.

[1] https://www.hbomax.com/geo-availability
But this kind of direct corruption is so uncivilized. Look how shocked the civilized world is at this atrocious practice. Don't they know they can't maintain the facade of law abiding democratic society if they can't even hide their corruption properly.
The M1 is an Arm+ in the sense that it supports a stronger memory model option that plain Arm doesn’t, and it’s this feature that is used by Apple’s OS and the Rosetta translation engine that gives the performance boost for x86 translated programs.

Of course the Rosetta isn’t needed by Linux and assuming that all software is recompiled for Arm natively then you probably wouldn’t need it, but I suspect that is what the GP was referring to.