skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like an iPad: read some web pages, mail, etc; a little light editing. But in a lightweight, long battery life with the benefits of a keyboard rather than the crappy virtual keyboard.

I used to have an Apple “MacBook” which at 2 lbs (900 g) was great for carrying around, flying all over the world, etc. As I develop in Emacs, development was great, though complication was slow; I’d often compile in the cloud. It was a great machine. I use an m1 air these days which is half a pound heavier and is a great development machine.

Despite what I said about crappy virtual keyboards I am typing this comment on about 450 g of ipad.
This also reflects how broken hiring is in tech. Leetcode and algorithm memorisation has very little to do with being a "good" developer. Can you communicate your ideas well? Can you understand and follow up when requirements are not clear? Are you able to work with others well? This last point in particular is where I find a lot of candidates fall down. They maybe able to invert a binary tree, but if they have to have an actual conversation with say an end user to help resolve/understand a problem, many of them can't.
I agree, but we are far from centralized. Very far.

-edit-

If you think we're centralized and you're "downvoting to disagree" at least have some decency to explain how we're centralized. There is nothing that Amazon sells that I can't buy an alternative product at a dozen other retailers for comparable prices, for example.
It's absurd. repeating what I said elsewhere - my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transaction.
Working for a company where the salary is based on location means when you eventually go to meet up (at a retreat, a conference, etc) you will know that you're paid much less than your colleagues for the same work. That will suck. Avoid those companies.
Ha. Good show indeed.
Amazon Japan used to be in a league of their own, but a mix of their home-rolled delivery service being objectively bad and them allowing their platform to be dominated by scalpers (転売ヤー) means that they've lost a lot of the trust I had in them.
We've had good experiences with them. They even have Educational pricing and PO acceptance. They are our number two behind cdwg.
> I struggle to even come up with hypothetical use cases where this is something you can't afford to have happen, ever.

a rocket is using this query to adjust their trusters ;)
Daughter of writer Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren killed in car crash
Send in the bugs, the Michelangelos need cleaning
Well you can delete your Facebook profile, which takes 30 days until all data is removed. But then you also delete your Friend List, the chats, the list of sites you subscribed to, the groups, the events and your Ad profile.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually find it useful sometimes to receive targeted ads. It worked for me often enough such that I noticed products, events or groups that really are interesting to me and which I otherwise probably wouldn’t have found. I recently started browsing YouTube logged in with my profile again and the recommended videos are much better than when I have an incognito browser.

Nevertheless, it must be possible to at least delete your public interactions with one click. I don’t see any business reason for Facebook and Twitter to keep year old posts public.
>Not unless human society itself is "unnatural".

Society is created by humans. Therefore it is man made, not made by nature.
You don't have to change nature to change society, you can change society by changing humans, which is a very specific subset of nature and not very representative of nature as a whole.

The problems that can easily be solved by money may be natural but we still get to decide how we implement money and the way we do it can create human made problems.
As I've moved more of my shopping away from Amazon I've noticed that lots and lots of online retailers are now competitive on the logistics side. Fast shipping is now table stakes.
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I know not the advice you're looking for but this thread makes me sad. For those wages, even at what your initial ask, it's impossible to get good developers in the US unless there are extenuating circumstances (someone's first job, etc).

This company thinks you are worth less just because of where you're from and not what skills you bring to the table. If they offter you something you will take, accept it, but keep in mind that this company is actively looking to exploit you and your situation and likely will not treat you well.
It’s more likely that the usual anti-Apple arguments that are used in these conversations just really aren’t very good.
I’ve been buying from B&H for many years, and had a wrong item shipped to me once. They made an exchange without any big hassle. The only issue I have now is they’ve switched away from UPS as default shipping—-UPS ground NY to Boston is basically next day, FedEx Ground service is two days. I liked going to the store in NY when I lived there.
It is working. Americans generally feel American, Chinese feel Chinese, Romanians feel Romanian.

That's the great end product of school education up to about 14-18 years.
>>fall asleep at 10 simply by being tired enough

You are truly a blessed person and are enjoying one of life's greatest treasures.
> Do you actually mean native Android?

I get your point and I am sympathetic to it but most people would consider solutions in Java or Kotlin to be native. It is simply a different use of the word "native". Honestly these days even solutions like React Native(!) and Flutter are called native.

So I would say if a manager type is asking you and you are doing more than pure web stack PWAs it is fair game to call it native.
The real issue isn’t the size of China or its financial power housing, it’s that it’s market isn’t open.

If it was you’d see all the western oligarchs abandoning us in favour for better markets in a heartbeat.
Or worse, it’s not. You’ll just be sitting there taking calls and listening to Teams (because Slack is not allowed) pings all day long.
I’m terrified of losing my wife one day.
I’m very sorry for your loss, this has to be so difficult.
> I believe, computer science is a branch of mathematics that deals with large but finite structures (so they need an algorithmic description).

This is a strange claim since the entire field was founded upon the investigation of potentially (and often actually) infinite computations.

> Compare with most of "legacy" mathematics, which studies countable structures (so the description can use arbitrary series).

Define "most". Do it in a way that makes real and complex analysis and topology (and probably many other branches) the smaller part of mathematics.

Most importantly though, my problem with this kind of discussion is that the question itself is meaningless. Not everything can be classified into neat " X is a Y" relationships. Not everything needs to be classified into such relationships. Even if the discussion reached a consensus, that consensus would be meaningless. Computer science is a part of math? OK, but so what? Computer science is not a part of math? OK, but so what? Neither conclusion would tell us anything useful.
There would be no open source Elastic had Amazon not taken it on. It was a smart move and benefits their balance sheet to do so. The point though is that move was greater than replicating existing open source work.
As for me the more interesting questions would be why and what. Without this the answers to the questions which I don't find that important (and difficult) sound kinda kafkaesque.
Google still a monster in the room
That wasn't a problem until China started moving up the economic food chain.
I just bought a new gaming chair last night, $172. So it's not that expensive. But I've never had a problem with Amazon. I did buy a 4TB external drive from Wish.com, and when I got it, it was only 2TB. They refunded me the money and I got to keep the drive. But it's never worked right.
tldr: There is no other science which is based on the study of a tool. A computer is a tool and so cannot be the main subject of a sciencific field. Hence Computer Science is a bad name.
It's interesting that programming used to be rigorous. Whole programs were written out and verified before anyone would invest the computer time. IBM had a range of flowchart templates for it! Then the growing availability of computing resources flipped the cost-benefit calculation in favor of getting it done at any cost, and quality control processes haven't been able to keep up.
My dentist said that chefs have a lot of problems with tooth decay since they do so much taste testing, so she recommends they keep a glass of water with some baking soda mixed in handy to rinse with after tasting.
Growing up in Minnesota in the late 1990s, we had Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO), where public high school students could go part or fill-time to college or university in-state for their jr. and/or sr. year of high school. As long as the college or university accepted the high school student, the student would get both college and high school credit for the courses. The course balance needed to meet high school requirements (English, History, Math, etc.), and the state wouldn't pay for more than a full-time course load. As I remember, at that time running a high school actually cost more per student than either public or private full-time tuition, so the school district actually saved money.

As I remember, some of my friends went to private institutions (Carlton and University of St. Thomas, IIRC).

I went to the University of Minnesota my sr. year of high school. I wish I also would have gone my jr. year. One of my buddies was also going to a local community college full-time while HS-aged through PSEA, and I remember one day that there was a snow storm and both of us only had 9 a.m. classes. I swung by his school right after my class ended, and we went skiing for the rest of the day while many of our friends were stuck in high school. Schedule flexibility was really nice.
Yes Kevin, challenging China alone when your entire country has as many people as the Shanghai metropolitan area is probably going to end badly.
We decided to permanently close our office and all continue WFH permanently. We will save a fortune in office costs. Might do a monthly lunch together if we all continue to live in the region to keep up some face-to-face contact. Around here COVID is probably reduced to just a slow burn into the future, with very high local vaccination rates -- but no regrets in closing the office at all.
The problem was that during the Clinton administration, it was assumed that China would become more "democratic" and open politically, as their economic advancement progressed. It was assumed that their people would slowly change the CCP as they became wealthier - turning them more and more western.

Unfortunately, that did not come to pass - their capitalism under authoritarianism is working (not to mention that CCP is trying hard to prove that their style of gov't is "better", and the trump administration, and the west's handling of covid aren't helping).

There's no real way to contain china. The only way is to let the future play out - the biggest problem china has is the demographics. Provided there is no war between the west and china, their inevitable rise cannot be denied.

This, of course, is known to CCP, and hence, why they are able to take hong kong, and increase their activities in the south china sea.
I think we need to rethink the core concept of Universities having publish or perish as a part of being a Professor. The reason why fraud exists is because of the incentive structure and due to the nature of research you have intelligent people that will game the system. So, we have to figure out how to change the incentive structure so that professors don't attempt to perform Academic Fraud or we h ave to figure out if fraud does exist after the fact.

I have tried to reproduce ML / Deep learning research. I have a few heuristics that don't really tell me if fraud exists but either they just can't release the data due to special circumstances that I can understand or it isn't kosher. The biggest one is that you have to register or ask them for their test data. Another one is that the paper has been published for more than two years and there are no citations from other work.
In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_2.0
Many years ago I read about rules of Steve jobs to make good keynotes.
Something like dont use bullets or dont write wall of texts, just big small sentences....

I cant find it. It was probably on arstechnica
No longer sold. Old CPU. Not enough ram.

Instead, get a Yogabook C930 with a dual display eInk + color, and touch + pen support on both screens. Great for notetaking in portrait mode: looks like a book, you write with the pen on the eink side while reading PDF or websites on the other side. Smaller than a macbook air or an ipad. Feels lighter too when held like a book in portrait mode.

Better: Fold over to use eink as the main display in mirror mode after updating the drivers. This suspend the color display to save battery. Ideal with a bluetooth or mechanical USBC keyboard: 2 USB-C ports for charging and connecting a peripheral at the same time.

Get the APAC model for 8GB Ram + multiband LTE.

Review and picture on https://little-beans.net/review/yogabook-c930/

Linux driver is WIP on https://github.com/aleksb/yogabook-c930-linux-eink-driver
Tenure

I had a professor in a chemistry lab that was proud of the amount of complaints he received against him.

He literally threw the two ring binder it at me while I was in his office. It must have been a hundred pages. He kept it on the wall like a trophy.

I talked to a Counselor at the school, and before I could complete my sentance, he said Dr. Berzergian? (I don't remember the exact spelling of his name.). The Conselor said he, and the Dr., almost got into fisticuffs over his attitude. He told me to take the course at another college.

I realized later all his "problem" students were young males.

Yes--I truly believe this was his twisted way of hitting on people.

A few years later, I was in a bar in San Francisco talking about this professor whom really gave me a bad time. By chance, he knew of the guy, and told me about him.

This was in the nineties, but oh boy if he acted this way today, and I stole that stack of complaints---well who knows?

This professor caused students to change majors, and even drop out.
How did you get there though? Your previous job laid you off and then suddenly nobody wanted to hire you for the same salary any more?

Asking for a friend, so he can be prepared.
That is exactly what I am seeing. I think of things like ability to communicate, lead, etc. as force multipliers.

It does not matter much how good your technical skills are if other force multipliers are very low.

More than that, people who are bad at communicating and relations tend to stay away from these problems -- trying to bring every problem to technical level -- basically ensuring they are continuing to be at a disadvantage.
But do you find the article to be very high quality?
You don't have the right to expect company to do business with you. Shop elsewhere or start your own.
I dislike buying from Amazon and I don't doubt you had a frustrating experience here.

That said, how would you have expected this to go? I assume everybody is in agreement that this wasn't going to be sorted out the next day. I think you might be overestimating how smoothly this would go when dealing with another company, although obviously there would be exceptions to that.
Absolutely the worst advice. Whoever names the price first psychologically anchors the discussion around that price. Name a high price first and they'll have to justify their lower price so they're more likely to go to the top of their range (you know employers have a pay range right?). Let them name a much lower price first and you'll have to work hard to justify a much higher rate.
I think you're down voted due to ridiculousness / perceived intellectual dishonesty.

You're putting the argument that overclocking a CPU, due to increased impact, is analogous to putting a straight pipe on a Harley.

I would imagine that difference is sufficient number of orders of magnitude different to be a fundamentally ignorable comparison, and obviously so.

A loud pipe has an immediate and continuous demonstrable negative impact on hundreds and thousands of people per trip.

You would need to show me some reaaally good studies to show that increased (not just baseline) EMI of overclocking is even readily detectable through the faradey cage of computer case and then three houses down the road, and distinguishable in the noise of street transformers, Fridges, laser printers, etc.
I would totally buy a ticket to see that movie in the theater.
I had a Samsung NC10, 10-inch, and touch-typed on it just fine. Perhaps 10" is larger than what some people mean by ‘netbook’, but it fit in a shoulder bag and weighed about 1.3 kg, so was pretty light. Guess Macbook Air and copycats snatched this form-factor, so they stopped being called ‘netbooks’.
The UK is a more or less a cashless society, give or take a few regional variations and laggards.

I've lived in London for 3 years and don't think I've ever used cash for anything in that time. Trains, buses, taxis, bills (don't even need snail mail for those), restaurants, shops.

Outside of London it's a little different, but it's only a matter of a a few more years.
I can’t answer the first question, other than to say “often enough to have a process to handle it”.

As for the second one, with bin/lot tracking you can identify if the item had previously been returned. Employee theft doesn’t usually involve putting bricks in it within a DC - it’s usually easier and less risk to take the whole box (and maybe get rid of the packaging in the toilet, at a warehouse I used to work at someone was found to be stealing iPods because a lot of packaging was found behind a toilet ceiling tile). If the item hadn’t previously been returned, this would usually infer that the customer was lying about receiving it with a brick in it (although obviously there is the possibility that it came in that state from the supplier).

The usual assumption is that the supplier didn’t send it in with a brick, because otherwise customer fraud is too easy - but occasionally that assumption is wrong, which is probably what happened in this case.

They probably checked there was no return in the history, made the assumption it wouldn’t have come empty from Canon, and figured it was the customer that lied.
I don't know if all shipping companies do this but my experience with Amazon in the UK is that they track and keep records of the whereabouts of their delivery vans.

Once I had an order "delivered" without trace and Amazon asked my to check with neighbours first as, according to their records, the van has stopped at my house. On another occasion I knew that the van never came despite order again listed as "delivered" and they refunded instantly.

(not expensive items, though)
For what happens if the sign is NOT flipped, see https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html#CC
I disagree that this is for the lizardmen, the leftists, the woke or whoever. No, it's us all. We need publications because otherwise research is hard to evaluate for outsiders. If it's evaluated by peers, it's politics again.

There's a generic problem in academia and there is a specific one in the explosively growing and lucrative ones like AI. We can't think clearly if we blur all sorts of complaints against academia into a generic complaint against elites or something. Publish or perish also comes from the desire to measure, quantify things objectively etc. It's a generic trend in the management community. It's easier to hide behind mechanistic procedures, we live the age of the bureaucrat and not of the strong leader, for various historic reasons. Of the doctrine of equality, not of Great Men theories. But it all leads too far.

I recommend the SSC articles on Moloch for thinking deeper about this.

Why do parents chase extracurriculars and test drilling for their kid? Because it's competitive. With lower stakes, backwater academia can have lower pressure amd perhaps more attention and care.

We cannot abstract away the human. This is not a mere technical problem of a problem of morals in a few individuals. Read some novels, drama etc. We in the technical fields would benefit a lot from learning more from the humanities, literature, even classics from Antiquity. Man has not changed, our nature is still rich and complex and the same lesson that power corrupts.

Re training: outside the US, PhD programs have no explicit training. Training stops at the master level. From day one you just work on methods in the hope to publish the results. Advisors usually don't have a lot of time for each individual PhD student. Maybe let's call it experience, not training.
That video lecture is from 1986.
You'd be amazed. The screen is high-res, the touchpad is precise, and the keyboard is complete. You occasionally find key combos that are hard to type - switching VTs springs to mind - but otherwise, it's almost as usable as a full size laptop. I haven't tried it yet, but I think (light) coding on it would be quite practical.

Actually, let's try it:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
while(1) {
printf("All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!\n");
}
}

Seems okay.
As I recall, to 'grok' something 'in fullness' means something along these lines: if you really want to understand something well, you have to make it a part of yourself, 'unite with it', long enough to take it in fully. (At which point, like modern 'culture' say, you might reject it.)

> to those who get to say which novels are serious and which are not, professional critics and teachers of literature in the company of authors of novels about the rise or fall of ordinary people in provincial societies, [Valentine Michael Smith] is absolutely intolerable.

Which is a fine reason to grok this book fully. Smith's consternation is an amusing introduction to the topic of how aliens might react to human behavior (much of which is certainly alienating). It may explain why UFOs so seldom land (except to convey a warning message) ... and why today they are packed with shocked rich sightseers.
Before there was a CS major at many universities you would major in mathematics if you wanted to work with computers.

John Kemeny majored in mathematics and taught “Finite Mathematics” while a professor. He saw the application of BASIC not as a new field but as a way to simplify computers so that it wasn’t only mathematicians and scientists who could program them.
Some time ago I signed up for a hosting account with Siteground. The pricing page clearly listed the prices in monthly format - and I was charged the monthly price when I signed up.

To my surprise, the next charge was to be for the whole year. After contacting support, they explained to me that the first month was oferred as a trial, to test things out, but that they do not offer monthly prices otherwise.

Let me put that again, they displayed monthly prices on the signup page, charged the monthly fee for the signup, but it turns out that they actually signed me up for a yearly plan and they do not offer monthly plans at all.

I don't know if they still do it and they offerred me a monthly plan after I complained about it.
Same here. The rendering is a bit slower at times, but I actually prefer it over Safari now. Apple should really consider this option.
>I did buy a 4TB external drive from Wish.com

I, too, like living dangerously, but only to a certain extent.