skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s a qualitative difference here between viable (which is where we’re currently at) and utterly dominant (which is where I suspect we’ll be in five or so years).
Some guesswork:

Per Dean, Timnit appears to have precipitated this by violating internal process for a 2 week internal review period and approval before external submission of a paper. (I have no idea how regularly this process is enforced, but I think it's standard in the industry). And then -- reading between the lines -- reacted poorly to the lack of approval. Whence Dean and Megan made the decision to force a retraction.

Then Timnit demanded the names and feedback of the reviewers. Again, as an outsider, I have no idea if the provision of this is customary. But not just the reviewers; also everyone that Dean and Megan had spoken with.

I do wonder how much of this was the irregular process around the paper, her reaction to criticism of the paper, or her public criticism of DEI efforts, particularly as a manager. Or all of the above.

Calling out your leadership chain, both for DEI metrics and for behavior about the paper -- while also disclosing that you seriously considering suing Google -- seems unwise if you don't wish to be terminated.
nonsense. its your one chance to defeat ageism by just winning the fucking game.
Ha, 0.1ms of latency is a heavy cost for what I do these days. I've spent most of the last two weeks clawing back 0.05ms from here and there.

Algorithms absolutely matter, and that will be evident from work experience and education.
Tech hiring is severely broken. 22 years in and it's only gotten worse. We still tolerate PhD Comp Sci algorithm questions for frontend developer gigs, endless series of array shuffling and sorting, canned problems intended to "measure your problem solving ability," ridiculous hypotheticals (e.g. whiteboard how you would build Slack), and a litany of other tactics that recruiters or old school management thinks are reasonable hoops to jump through.

Yes, I'm a bit salty.

The best advice I received recently came from someone 10 years my junior in the industry: politely refuse hackerrank, algorithmic code challenges, array shuffling, or anything unrelated to the work you've done or the work the interviewers are doing on a daily basis. Instead, offer to pair/group program or troubleshoot on a problem they're currently trying to solve, offer to walk through an open source project you've worked on or authored and speak to the problems you encountered. Let the gatekeeper/recruiter know you decline the kinds of interviews I mentioned above, and let them know you're looking for an org that thinks outside of that box, that values a person beyond their ability to regurgitate for-sale interview prep.

That approach has an effect of weeding out companies mired in corporate lockstep. I had told a recruiter at a national, Austin based real estate firm that I decline those types of questions and interviews. Was assured that they would not happen, and in the first round of the process was asked to sort an array of phone numbers. The interviewers had no idea I would decline the challenge, and I politely ended the call.

I recently adopted this approach with great success, speaking with a number of high quality orgs and all around great people who were truly interested in what I could bring to their effort. Granted, not everyone is in a position to take a bold stance, but I found that it made me more interesting to companies who were doing more than going through the motions.
Martin Luther King was assassinated.

His demeanor was polite, but his impact was rude and abrasive to many (racist) people.
I mean why not both? I worked hard and do my best in my job, but I also do leetcode and others a few times a month just to make sure I can still get another job if I need to.

I am not professional leetcoder, but good enough if I need to in addition to my experience that has been good enough so far.
Over half a million Californians left the state last year
Any big enough business have no trouble moving out from theses lock in though.
Looks like a vim plugin: https://gist.github.com/TheCedarPrince/7b9b51af4c146880f17c3...
The recent changes to Google Workspace effectively increased my per seat cost by 70%. Im doing 2021 budgeting now and I can save about $200/head by killing Google entirely (and Slack and Asana) and just using Microsoft 365.
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> Our craft is becoming arcane

I would say is that a lot of hard problems (of last 20-30 yrs) are getting commoditised (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, Redis) and barrier to entry reduced. This would mean increasing the work is "glue & pipes".
I think I used your article on knowledge management when I set up my Browser/Kindle > Zotero > Vim (Markdown) > Pandoc > PDF workflow. Thank you!

After a year of not doing research I'm just getting it all back together and I've swapped Zotero for Jurism a fork that has support for multiple languages that I greatly appreciate.
Eventually someone will build a laptop using chips like this and an acceptable OS.
Once they vest, you can sell them in the market.

Vesting period varies. The whole point of stock grants is that you have some what of a skin in the game.
We don't have any technical quiz as part of our interview process. We look at experience, education and creative outlets; then folks sink or swim upon being hired.

So far we're batting fairly well. Folks don't generally lie about their experience.
Not that I agree with GPs concern, but this comment doesn't address it whatsoever.
His point is why bother do the former when the latter is how you get the next job?
have you checked out IndieHacker.com ? its a community with lots of (if not mostly) solo founder/one-man startup. definitely worth joining
Yes, it's extremely tired. FAANG companies are not dumb, they hire at scale and know how to find talented engineers using a rigorous/repeatable interview process. I think most of the complaints come from people who fail these interviews (I used to be one), and don't want to admit that maybe they're not good enough.
> What makes you think Windows won't take off on ARM?

I have no idea if it will or not. Microsoft's current strategy on ARM seems pretty unlikely to succeed though.

> In any case, if it can be done -- i.e. if there aren't locked down specs -- you can bet Linux will be ported to M1 Macs.

I'm confident (and hopeful) we will see an M series Linux port. How good it will be without support from Apple is questionable. The current state of Linux on Mac doesn't exactly inspire hope.
I have a bunch of iab in my vimrc for typos like that because I make them so often.
yep, I think that's the key point I need to drill into my head. The unix/linux idiom where 0 is true/success and non-zero is a failure can be counter-intuitive when combined with "if" (at least for me, hence my mistake reading the code). In most/other computing contexts "if 0" is never taken. I think this might explain why I've seen a lot more bash code that is explicitly written in the form more familiar to "if" usage in other languages (pseudo-code): "if res == 0". But "if COMMAND" is taking care of the interpretation of the return code, so doing the explicit compare is redundant.
This sounds like everything I would want in a laptop!
It's back?

I have a 2013 Pangolin. Not a bad machine - it's still going after several Ubuntu updates, and currently powers the kid's screen time. There were some annoyances that kept it from being my main coding machine - it was bulky, battery life is nowhere near as good as a MBP, the keyboard felt like it was off-center (probably because it, unlike many other laptops, has a numpad), and the trackpad gives next to no feedback. But it's a well-made machine that's kept going.

It disappeared from System76's lineup for several years. I wonder how the new ones compare with the old.
If you are asking if it has the ability to be charged through USB C, then I believe the answer is no.
Spot on. You nailed it poetically
> The technology itself doesn't force me to participate in a limited supply market in order to get the benefits

I'm not sure what you mean here. The technology does indeed force you, that's part of it. If you want to trade in its currency, you can't cheat it and make more coins for it, the network consensus will catch you and prevent you to cheat.

If the tech fails to deliver this property, nobody would trust its currency, and nobody would use it for transacting.
I hope this is taken seriously. There is the potential threat of treating malcontents and other social deviants with these new approaches -even if they have not committed a crime. I hope awareness will result in there being severe restrictions on the use of these new approaches.
Herd immunity through infection without a vaccine has never been a serious concept. The scientific community only produced any literature on it in response to requests by governments about what would happen if they did absolutely nothing.
Is this a cruel joke about COVID?
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This is notable as one of the very very few 15" laptops that doesn't have Nvidia.
> The Internet now treats everyone using it like we're all brainless idiots to be injected with dopamine. Like we're not smart enough to choose how to consume it.

Have we generally proven otherwise?
I just got an intel System76... what bad timing.
Nobody is asking scientists to say anything without data. What scientists COULD do, for example, is explain what happens with other vaccines, with other viruses.
Haven’t worked at fb but same experience at other big co. Also I question authors experience interviewing people - I’ve done literally hundreds coding sessions and there’re surprisingly large number of folks who claim 5-10 years of experience and several companies under their belt but aren’t able to code a simple for-loop in their language of choice
And that's pre-covid. I'll be one of them shortly.
> they still carry all the x86 baggage in microcode, since tons of bad decisions leading to things like Spectra. ARM doesn't

> AMD is not affected by Spectre

This is not true. AMD, ARM, Intel, and IBM are all affected by Spectre (Bounds Check Bypass) and that particular variant has not been fixed in hardware, and short of disabling speculative execution or radical changes to ISA or microarchitecture, is likely to never be fixed purely in hardware.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05178.pdf
Depends on how much work you want to do, but please research the difference between hot and cold compost, you may use either process for leaves, ideally you will want at least 1 meter cubed.

For hot compost you will need a feedstock of nitrogen for the bacteria. Grass clippings, coffee grounds, liquid nitrogen (urine). This is bacteria dominant composting (hot composting is fast).

On the other hand if you want to do less work just make them in a pile and allow for fungi to process the leaves over a longer period of time. This is fungi dominant composting (cold composting is slower).

The soil life is already present on the leaves. Just keep the pile consistently moist but not soaking wet.

I have hot composting videos documented on YouTune, although they are from before I upgraded my camera so the quality isn't as good as my newer videos, hopefully still informational.
This feels hard to believe, what with gmail now taking almost a minute to load in a usable way. :(
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Millions.

There will be millions of needless deaths. Without containment measures, you no longer have hospitals (either they're full, or the staff are burned out and quit, probably both) for any life-threatening conditions.

The staff thing is the one people seem to completely not get: hospital staff are under absolutely no obligations to keep working overtime shifts. They can in fact simply decide "I'm done" walk off the job and go live in a cabin. Then you get to wait 24 years till we can grow and train some more, minimum.
> Only problem is that the DEA is a job creator though.

On the other hand those jobs include tearing families apart and jailing people for victimless crimes. I think I'd be ok losing those jobs.
what's the ratio of software engineers to senior software engineers at Facebook? Gestimate.
While the Hans cards are funny, I really like the Krark cards. When these two newer cards were first revealed they both made me laugh. It's a welcome recurring joke. Like Fblthp[1].

I especially like how Krark's other thumb suggests Krark would lose a thumb and say "double or nothing" and then this is exactly the flavour text of Krark, the Thumbless.

[1] https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Fblthp
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I need both 4K and 120/144Hz on 32inch but it's not available now. Maybe soon.
A simple for-loop? that's ridiculous. If that's really the case I wonder the screening abilities of recruiters more than candidates.
Companies are trying to hire more outside of California in order to lower wages across the board

This could turn out to be a very good thing for the country. It's a social & economic problem if all the money & opportunity are squeezed into just one metro.
Yes - the bias can be worse for marginalized groups and that's a legit issue for sure.

But hiring activists, and particularly those with a focus on a very specific technology ... I think is a double-wrong.

'Ethics' is all encompassing, every company has to deal with it ... it needs probably specialization and some cold calculating.

If there were some gigantic loophole whereupon marginalized people were truly thrown under the bus here, then maybe there's a case, but I seriously doubt that.
"Why doesn't the seller pay for one up front and share the results with interested buyers?"

In the Bay Area they do. No one makes offers with an inspection contingency because it's so competitive but often the seller will already have done an inspection that they share with potential buyers
oddly (if you see my sibling comment) I just got a job where they didn't ask me any technical questions. They just asked me about my coding philosophy. I guess they just looked at my github? Dunno.
Apple will be forced to sell iPhones with included power adapter in Brazil
On the flip side, I see a lot more Github style buyout deals - but with companies splitting the pie by pooling their public stock. Like IBM and Walmart going in to buy GitLab.
The drones were being used by the engineers on site who to monitor things and help plan for the intended demolition. It was more or less pure luck that one happened to be there at the time it happened.

Unfortunately for the viewing public it was facing the wrong way for the spectacle, but it'll probably be a fixture in engineering classrooms for years to come as a real world example of cable failure caught on video from up close.
You can also get a YouTube video transcript directly from the API with one call, just register for a free developer key and use:

https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/captions?part=snip...

official docs:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions
I used to work on a certain Google product and I remember thinking a petabyte was big when our raw content store crossed that milestone. Now Linus Tech Tips can put that much storage in a single box.
> Just tell that to your PMO and have them give you an estimate about how long it will take to migrate.

Ask the same in your own infrastructure. They'll give even worse estimate.

The thing with the cloud, is that it's public, they all follow the same stuff and their goal is for you to migrate to them. They got an hundred similar situation as yours.

> At the same time, your competitors are actually trying to create products that meet their customers needs while your resources are tied up in migrations.

How is that different from your own infrastructure? If you have to migrate, you have to migrate... whatever is the source and whatever is the destination, migration is migration.
Up until two days ago, I was using a 6 year old laptop with a Celeron processor as my main home computer.

I think the whole Apple Silicon thing seems really interesting, but honestly, the only thing I do that is remotely taxing on decade-old hardware is load Facebook.
Lemkin is really on point for enterprise sales - never mind SaaS specifically.
The astronomer community couldn't save it the same reason they can't build a new one - these are national projects, funded from national funds. The scale of academic science funding is simply on the wrong scale for major projects like Arecibo, or CERN, or the NIF. No grant of a few thousand dollars is going to crowdsource a radiotelescope. In any event, the NSF would be the one giving the astronomers the funds in the first place, so if it was important, they would simply have repaired or replaced the telescope, if this was the intent.
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In my youth I wound up in charge of hiring at a low-end shop due to a funny set of circumstances and absolutely got burned by people straight up lying to me.

If I were more experienced, I'd have been able to ask the right questions about their alleged experience and smell the BS.
And the levels present a positive dynamic here.

If getting low to moderate level drugs made more sense, why bother with the real hard stuff?

Someone wanting a couple vicodin might be happy to have that option, perhaps with the occasional oxy, and never approach Fentnyl, heroin.

Think of it like a sort of diversion. We know people will do it, and they have human reasons for it too. Copping a buzz isn't any real crime, and people know that.

The way it is now is misaligned with those basic realities. People are at odds with the whole thing, incentives are wrong, risks too high, costs too high, it's just a mess.

So, we enable them to do it and build in friction where there should be some to keep the masses in a reasonable zone where they can just be humans doing things humans do.
Did you consider writing in Sublime text?
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And so productivity falls until we live in squalor amidst the old ruins but every person is busy.
Literally a scan of string with some basic logic and three cases inside. People would take 30 mins+ and create a giant mess. This was easily 50%+ cases during phone screen and resumes all looked good so not recruiters fault (most of the time).
I'm having trouble finding a size chart, has anyone else found one?
Arecibo was also a massively powerful radar transmitter, used to map other bodies in our solar system and arguably more importantly to get precise position and trajectory information for the various objects floating around out there. Losing it is a massive hit to our ability to accurately track potential asteroid threats.

Now we're down to just Goldstone, which is both much less powerful and has a much smaller dish.
Gaming is a pretty latency sensitive application, and yet Amazon is working hard on moving that to the cloud: https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page

While there are some things that are even more latency sensitive, I think that could become a very small niche in the near future.
That's nonsense. I've got 20 YoE, an elite college degree, tons of experience in Python and C++, have single-handedly put together mission critical software systems, and I can't get my foot in the door outside my small area of expertise. The teams I've worked on are tiny, so I have no career network to draw from. I'm missing machine learning and cloud experience, and my resume gets no hits because of it. Age 44, and I'm starting to think I've been aged out. As far as I can tell, no one is interested in experience that consists of project successes. It's just years of buzzwords and coding challenges. (So I just signed up for Hackerrank. Maybe someone will notice me there.)
I think we need a leetarch
Maybe? It certainly wasn't why I switched. The gmail interface was so much cooler and faster than any of the other providers, and gmail's spam detection actually worked. The amount of storage available was nice, but I certainly gave no thought to the notion that Google would preserve my stuff indefinitely if I didn't use it.
Ah got it. I guess I disagree, I think there are probably over a thousand companies actively working on the issue with the potential to massively reduce GHG emissions. Lots of examples in this thread. General categories are:

- EV manufacturers (eg Tesla)
- Solar OEMs (eg SunPower)
- Battery makers (eg Avalon)
- Battery operators (eg Geli, AMS)
- Wind providers (eg Vestas)
- Large utilities which are focused on renewables (eg Enel)
- Distributed generation companies (eg Sunrun)

The list goes on! GTM is a good news site with the pulse on each industry (https://www.greentechmedia.com)

I also agree that fundamental research (either towards an energy storage breakthrough or a next-gen nuclear breakthrough) are necessary. I think this is a "yes and" situation.
As someone who lives in California, I can't imagine there being that much snow on the ground.
A naïve question: Couldn't other ARM licensees just integrate RAM into the SoC like Apple did and come easily close to M1' performance? With easily I mean in a doable manner within 1-2 years. I know there are more tricks/magic involved but just to start somewhere.
I really enjoy Mark’s clearly endless love for MtG. He writes and speaks with such joy for the storylines, history, inside jokes, and fesses up to errors (occasionally). He is constantly trying to improve the game and make it grow in interesting ways. I try to bring that sort of enthusiasm to my job. I think it’s contagious.
Well, IIRC production is illegal, so there you go, it has to be done by criminals by definition. Legalization has been done stupidly: they created a legal market that needs to be fed by a criminal one. Not sure what they thought they were doing.
This is actually the first place my thoughts went to when I read the headline. But reading some of the other comments it sounds like this is a model name that's been around since pre-covid (i.e. 2013 at least).
The Freedom Riders did something fundamentally abhorrent to southerners. They went into white establishments as black people (or accompanying black people). It's only because of changing norms that we don't see their actions as horrifically rude or even violent in nature.
Anandtech is comparing M1 vs A14. It's high performance for a cellphone part.

That’s where they started, but their conclusion was beyond that.

Did you miss the part where they said the fact that a single Firestorm core can almost saturate the memory controllers is astounding and something we’ve never seen in a design before?

This isn’t only about A14 vs M1.

It’s not that LPDDR4X-4266-class memory is special; it’s been around for a while. What is special is that the RAM is part of SoC and due to the unified memory model, the CPU, GPU, Neural Engine and the other units have very fast access to the memory.

This is common for tablets and smartphones; it’s not common for general purpose laptops and desktops. And while Intel and AMD have added more functionality to their processors, they don’t have everything that’s part of the M1 system on a chip:

* Image Processing Unit (ISP)
* Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
* 16 core Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
* Video encoder/decoder
* Secure Enclave

There’s no other desktop such as the M1 Mac mini that combines all of these features with this level of performance at the price point of $699.

That is special.
I didn't inoculate so I have no clue what species I'm working with. I hope to grow edibles like oyster mushrooms next year.