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Having been hooked on Diablo 2 in high school, I made the terrible decision of playing Path of Exile (POE) last year during thanks giving break (cuz we had 5 days off, I thought hey maybe I can play POE for a few days).

Since then, I have been playing POE non stop. I'd wake up at 3am and play until 8pm. I'd drink alot of water before going to bed so I can wake up early to play.

I stopped caring about work, I just played the game. To complete my work tasks, I hacked together my tasks in 30 mins before the end of the sprint with some of the shittiest code I've ever written.

Somewhere along this journey I decided that the only way I can stop my addiction is to completely finish it. I spent around 12k buying stuff for the game. The way it works is... you play to find and collect "currency" in the game. But instead of spending the time, I buy in game "currency" from other players. Its frowned upon and getting caught will get you banned, but part of me secretly wished my account would get banned so I could quit. I never got banned, so I got bolder and eventually I was spending $800 / day.

This week, I finally feel like I have finished the game. It finally got boring after building my character to the point where I could breeze through everything in the game. I was finally able to work this week and correct the bugs I introduced and get back to focusing on work.

I have yet to digest what happened in the last 3-4 months.

Its crazy how addictive these games can be.
"I know, since I'm worried I'm going to get fired for vague non-specific reasons, I'm going to directly violate company policy and get terminated for cause" is an odd game plan.
I paid a flat fee to join. I think it was like $7 or something. I think the price used to go up incrementally with each new signup.

I gotta say though, the whole value proposition he made back then was a one-time fee. I had no problem with the switch to subscriptions for new users. But asking those original folks to switch over means that they can never not pay from that day forward without losing access to their once-permanent service, right?
I doubt it. Since this article predates the Microsoft-IBM split, I figured it was safe to consult my trusty Inside OS/2, by Microsoft’s Gordon Letwin:

The scheduler's dispatch algorithm is very straightforward: It
executes the highest-priority runnable thread for as long as the thread wants the CPU. When that thread gives up the CPU--perhaps by waiting for an I/O operation--that thread is no longer runnable, and the scheduler executes the thread with the highest priority that is runnable. If a blocked thread becomes runnable and it has a higher priority than the thread currently running, the CPU is immediately preempted and assigned to the higher-priority thread. In summary, the CPU is always running the highest-priority runnable thread.

The scheduler's dispatcher is simplicity itself: It's blindly priority based.

That doesn’t sound like something that required bodily lifting from a mainframe OS.
ICE man?
I wonder why people obsess so much with colorful keycaps and RGB lights. I suspect it's for aesthetic pleasure, not for enhanced ergonomics.

I got me a split keyboard so that I would never have to look at it. For me this is achieved by not moving the wrist, only moving the fingers. Then my hands do not slip and do not need vision-guided repositioning.

(My current keyboard is an Ergodox EZ, all black, no lights. It's fine enough, and thr ortholinear layout is very helpful, but the thumb cluster is clumsy, and the pinky columns are not staggered enough, so typing P or Q needs a wrist shift. I have 60g switches in the home row, so that fingers can rest on them without clicking, and 30g switches everywhere else. My plan is to build a Kyria which has a better geometry / ergonomics, so I made a Kyria-compatible layout to get used to it.)
I use it just to get around website blocks in my country and institute.
Yes, you can see the source just by doing "view source" in the browser. It's nicely commented and everything.
Hmm... what determines whether an iceberg would flip over? I tried drawing bowl-shaped icebergs, one upright and one upside-down. Both stayed in their general orientation without flipping over.
No, its just how some people mangle English. I didn't go to Oxbridge, but a lot of my workmates in the eighties did and they sometimes wrote very strange sentence structure. An American instance: Prof Dave Mills (certainly in no sense a peer, since he's out of my league, but we did write on the same arpanet and pre great renaming Usenet lists. Also he didn't go to Oxbridge) says this of his own style of writing:

It is an open secret among my correspondents that I on occasion do twitch the English language in mail messages and published works. Paper referees have come to agreement on what they call millsspeak to refer to the subtilities with which I personalize my work. If you read my papers or my mail, you know my resonances. If not, you can calibrate my naughtimeter from children's books

Jon Crowcroft, who is a CS professor in Cambridge, but was a phd student in ucl-cs when I worked there in the eighties: http://paravirtualization.blogspot.com/ also, probably presumptuous to call him a peer: if he keeps going, he may be one both literally, and by appointment. Of the realm that is, not I.

Overall I think I miswrote above. Absent a time machine, it stands.

Obviously, this stuff irritates a lot of people. I apologise, but really at this stage I doubt I'm changing.

Btw, and please forgive me if this is a breach of privacy but HN comment history shows you've accumulated a 25 year deep curated unix command history file. If I had the forethought to have done the same (which btw, is a brilliant idea) it would be older than yours. It most definitely would not be better, and very possibly more narrow in focus. I suspect, the pretensions of written English aside, we're not that different.
Same here for Windows. Feels like using a video game UI. Probably is the basic styling, but I'm really liking the file size (2.6MB) and mem usage (app.exe using 2.7MB with the "Desktop App Web Viewer" instance using 22MB) otherwise.
My lifetime account is almost ten years old and I didn’t receive an email either.
> Alcohol is embedded in our society because it is the traditional way for people to let off steam.

You have those backwards. It’s only the “traditional way” because we pretend it’s not just “getting high” like every other drug and we push it everywhere (on flights, in restaurants, on trains, during dress/suit fittings, at sporting events, etc etc etc).

It could just as easily have been any other drug.
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I don't know if she's released them to the press.

What's your best guess for why she was running a script to exfiltrate a bunch of e-mails related to Gebru?

Mine is it involves releasing them to the press.
> I paid the subscription fee when I received the email a couple days ago.

I’m also an old timer but didn’t get an email. I wonder if it’s due to having a low number of bookmarks which I regularly clean.
I suspect, based on nothing in particular, that one of those orientations is more stable than the other, but the demo doesn't provide enough turbulence to get from one to the other.
Oh man, this brings me back to writing Redvex plugins long ago... looks like it's gone far, far away.
Instead of getting rude, you could have just searched "one finger points out, three point in" on DDG:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=one+finger+points+out%2C+th...

First result:

> 'When you point a finger at someone, remember there are three pointing back' ...
> A lawsuit where they lied about firing someone is much worse PR and then the truth about why they fired her would get out and it would be much worse.

We already know they lied about firing Gebru.

> Also she hasn't denied the accusation.

The fact that she's not blasting the press yet isn't a point against her.
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It's trying to position the center of mass of the submerged ice directly below the center of mass of the entire iceberg.
It's not a few billion dollars, it's hundreds, and probably decades before it pays off. Private investors have dabbled with alternative approaches to fusion that promise lower costs, but none of them have really panned out and it's pretty much all fallen to government sponsored research.

I expect private investment will pick up eventually, when the technology is a little closer to market. I'm not at all disagreeing that we should be investing more in it and that it's looking increasingly urgent, it's still a relatively small effort compared to other things.
> That means that, likely, a lot of these Electron apps would already work in, for example, a Safari or Edge webview, since the web version has to anyway.

Coincidentally, Slack doesn't fully work in Safari or traditional Edge. Video calls only work in Chromium-based browsers, and in the Electron app which is of course also Chromium.

This is actually the thing that finally got me to switch back to Chromium last week, after using Safari and Firefox for the better part of a decade. The Electron app sucks, I don't like switching between browsers for usability reasons, and I need to make Slack calls for work.
> Why hire an Ethics team if you won't let them interrogate unethical behavior?

There is a huge difference between balatantly violating company policy, name calling your manager and creating drama online to garner attention and doing your job in professional manner. She knew what she was doing and she staged martyrdom for her Twitter mob audience and activist news media.

It saddens me more is that so many people in this thread can't (or unwilling to) differentiate between doing your job in professional manner and creating drama online. Sigh, it will only get worse.
> Does anyone else get the same feel from Wayland as from WebExtensions?

Yes, in that it’s another much-needed security and architectural improvement. (Bootstrapped Firefox extensions were a huge pain to build.)
I assume there was something extremely incriminating in the emails if she backed them up.
I've loved the Diablo and Warcraft series but I will never buy anything from Blizzard again:

> In the Blitzchung controversy, the company withdrew the prize from the winner of an online game tournament after he wore a mask and spoke in support of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests in a post-game interview, stating "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times". The company is partly owned by Tencent. In August 2020, Activision Blizzard removed imagery of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests from its trailer of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
The title is terrible. It completely misrepresents the essence of the story.

She ran away to the brothel to escape being married off and raped yet again. She didn't know what it was. (I mean she didn't understand that this village of women was a brothel or what that meant.)

Then she became a human rights activist for the many women trapped therein who were themselves either victims of trafficking or there to escape poverty or abuse.

And as bad as the brothel is, the article indicates it's less bad than being a streetwalker. The sex workers in the brothel are at less risk of violence.

Edit: Thank you, dang, for updating the title to something better.
Meanwhile, Timrit is spinning up more choas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1362886704361791488

At this point, I am moving past all this drama. This corporate soap opera televised on Twitter needs to cease.

If the person fired thinks that it was illegal, they should settle this in the court with Google. A company can fire anyone for any reason that's legal just the way you can leave the company for any reason.
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What parts of jquery in particular?
1. If you watch the market - it dumps each time when it's 9AM in China. The moment the miners wake up, they sell the BTC. It creates an inflow of foreign currency into China.

2. Traceable currency.

3. Soft power / control of narrative? Bitcoin seems to symbolize people's loss of faith in fiat system, and their governments.
It was Starsight (Skyward series, book 2). The diones are apparently genderless or have unknown genders, and reproduce by merging into a single being for a while so they can "try out" the adult version of the kid they're going to have. If they don't like the kid they can reject that version and try again (eugenics), otherwise the actual kid is born from an egg or something.

The whole genderless thing was completely irrelevant to the plot—the diones could have been male or female and little else would have changed. It's not that it made me uncomfortable, but it was an unnecessary distraction.

Anyway, the book was a 2/5 because it threw almost everything from book 1 away, had way too many characters and places, ended on a serious cliffhanger, and the fictional science was extremely far-fetched. Meanwhile, book 1 was fantastic (a full 1/1 in my opinion) was focused on a small cast of characters on a small set, had great character development, and resolved nicely.
Also the making of post is fascinating as well: https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=86
A few off the top of my head:

- Take a screenshot, or share a single window

- Screenshot, screenshare, or remote desktop/VNC server without having to use different protocols for different compositors

- Use a third party app to control monitor outputs(resolution, orientation, framerate, layout, etc.) generally, for example arandr or xrandr (wlroots does support this)

- Be able to do something like KeepassXC's "Autotyping", where it fills in a text field with the password from your password manager.

- Have a third party app give a selection of open windows. I think all compositors have some API for this, but they are all different. (for example rofi's window switcher mode).

Generally, I think the problem isn't so much things that can't be done in wayland at all, as the way to do them is different across different compositors, so whereas with X it was pretty straightforward to mix and match apps between different DEs and apps that worked on all of them. In wayland there are more apps that only work on gnome, only work on kde, or only work on wlroots based compositors. And some apps that duplicate parts of the code for all three.
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oh I just looked at the. UI and saw logs. I did not realize.
How much effort do you think we should put into testing homeopathy?
I'm not assuming Google has the moral high ground. I'm assuming that Google is not lying about an easily verifiable fact to the media especially when Meg is not disputing Google's events.

> She could of downloaded documents for an attorney or to search for the allegations Timnit was accused of

This would support Google's description of events as "exfiltrating a bunch of documents related to Gebru".

They also have a second source close to Meg that confirms she was running a script to exfiltrate a bunch of documents related to Gebru.
I draw an ice cream cone. First draw the ice cream like you would a cloud. Once connected then continue to draw the cone , such that you draw a V to connect to the ice cream.

It flys!
Inflation is high, but it's nowhere near enough to explain the recent market mania. Likewise, stimulus isn't enough to explain the market mania, especially after you subtract out COVID economic losses.

Personal savings rate is up, discretionary spending is down, people are stuck at home, and everyone is glued to their phones. I think a lot of people's extra money is going into crypto and the market. FOMO reigns supreme, at least until the numbers turn red.
We can also imagine that Indian company you contract to also has a contract with your ISP. So one person is arguing with their coworker over canceling a plan, but they don’t know it. Like when cops go undercover on stings and end up attempting to arrest another cop on a different sting. Yes, that happens sometimes.
Google doesn't need to disclose the details. It could contain their private information or someone else's.
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It wasn't very misleading. Giving an ultimatum on threat of resignation is more or less entails giving your resignation if the company doesn't accept. My understanding is that the conversation more or less went:

Gebru: "Don't make me retract the paper and give me the names of the reviewers or I'll resign."

Google: "We're not doing that. We accept and respect your decision to resign from Google."
Google doesn't need to, and no one needs to assume that Google’s description is accurate, either.
See also: https://conf.researchr.org/details/CC-2021/cc-research-paper...
Open hearth steel mills. Regenerators in some gas turbines. Dialysis machines. Liquid-liquid extraction. Isotope separation cascades. Fractional distillation columns. Most heat exchangers are countercurrent, as it minimizes entropy generation.
Milk pasteurization is one of the best examples.

You start with milk at 4C, heat it to ~70C via heat exchanger (+66C), then 75c via heating (+5C), wait 15 seconds for pasteurization, cool down to ~9C via heat exchanger (-66C), then just chill to 4C via refrigeration (-5C).

This requires ~1/14th the energy to heat the milk and also rapidly cools it down below ambient temperature afterwards saving even more energy.

You see similar approaches for a lot of large scale chemical processes.
Because programming on e paper would be horrible. You can’t scroll text properly. You would be limited to page up/down. And then it takes a second or few to do that.

And then the e paper panel costs a bunch so what would be a $1000 laptop becomes $4000 and is strictly worse for the vast majority of users.
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You'd be surprised how many of the old, painstakingly tested fp algorithms, have been reimplemented in DL frameworks. I ported many algorithms from cephes to Eigen for use in TensorFlow. Some I was able to make simd. Then the XLA folks reimplemented some in HLO using other approximations that are easier to parallelize.

Then consider that some linear algebra and simple functions like softmax and softplus have to be implemented for fast execution in float16 and bfloat16 supporting hardware.

You can iterate over the entire fp16 space quite quickly but the initial version isn't usually so thoroughly tested.. performance is king anyway in NNs. Then a couple months later someone ports an old model to V100 and it turns out your softplus underflows.

Guess how many weeks it takes to figure out why your model quality went to s**?
> I only said that the problems in France are mostly due to politics

The problems in France are because they screwed the pooch on building the latest reactor design. This wasn't politics, it was failure to execute.
To add, with subscriptions there can be an increase in price (or decrease in features) without customers having a say in the matter, so it isn’t even a predictable cost.
Wait, was this..

The Soundblaster "Edutainment Pack"? I have a feeling I got the same exact package.
Just one, several times a day:

https://breaking.ai
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That's fine, that's why we have courts that can compell Google to disclose their justification.

Arm chair public justice and the mob-mentality needs to stop.
YOLOing is different than making cautious educated trades and investing in an index fund
The "Coinbase model" (are they the first?) to be explicit about "no politics in the workplace" as an official policy is great.

But that model isn't winning right now, if anything it seems that political agendas are encompassing more and more spaces.
Without going too deep into specs, most phones nowadays are more powerful than 90s workstations and can run software. If that’s not a pocket computer I don’t know what is.
Someone is from the Americas I'm going to call them American. What say do people from the continent get anyways?

They're all the same sh*thole countries anyways with corrupt leaders full of murders and rapists right?

One let a TV clown run them into the ground, another is run by drug cartels, awful continent.

If I, a Ghanaian, have to constantly go by "African", then the US being lumped in with Hati shouldn't be inaccurate at all.

Weird you thought otherwise.
No, you'd like to define racism narrowly. Not that I can get in your head, but doing so sure makes it easier to imagine ourselves as not complicit. But evil is all too often banal, and passive.
I'm guessing the BOM cost of the display would be far too high.

Dasung's 13" external e-ink display costs $1200.

Boox's 10" e-reader costs $500.

I can't imagine there are enough people willing to trade color and syntax highlighting for that crisp e-paper goodness on their $3000 13" development machine.
No affiliation. But been using this for years and it's really great. Open source, encrypted, decentralized P2P overlay network that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD. iOS, Android and even embedded NAS like QNAP or Synology. Programmable rules so you can string together a DIY SDN. Good stuff. Happy to see they got some fresh gas in the tank.
The evaluation of programmers isn't nearly as objective as the evaluation of athletes, and I'm not convinced modafinil and amphetamines have a statistically significant advantage (how much does programming ability even matter for getting ahead anywhere?), let alone a ludicrous one. On the other hand, the advantage from steroids is ludicrous on multiple factors including stamina, recovery, strength etc. The advantage from cheating and lying in the science game is also very high in my experience, although difficult to measure.
jquery is still a superb library, such a clever design.
> I omitted the word "negative" from the quote as that part I don't think is universal.

For a definition of "depression", it is. If somebody always believes that everything is great, regardless of the evidence, that might be a problem, but that problem would not be called "depression".

> Isn't this what brains do typically, outside of depression?

No; the theory is that typical brains do a certain amount of consideration of new evidence, and depressed brains do less than that.

The same article goes on to point out that there must be more to it, since as described this model would still result in depression naturally clearing up.