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> His modus operandi is to take few clever counter-intutive bits and expand into 100s of pages of book.

A lot of books that I routinely recommend are like this. Other popular books are like this. Books on communication, persuasion, sales, negotiation etc. come to mind. The Black Swan is like this. The Innovator’s Dilemma is like this. Non-violent Communication couldn’t fill more than one slide in a slide deck if you distilled it down… it’s basically a notecard’s worth of information stretched across a book with repetition, discussion, and examples.

The non-fiction books which aren’t like this are things like history books (it can be deeply unsatisfying that there is no unifying narrative for a particular topic in history), textbooks, and guides.
I guess I was thinking of the US and Europe. Developing countries are indeed a different case.
How about when a .pdf is generated in Firefox and there is no way to download it because there is no app for it?
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Memory bandwidth in w6900x is roughly 500gb/s. In 3090 it's more than 900gb/s. Yet, 3090 performs like 5500M(which is laughable). In M1 Max bandwidth is 400gb/s(but there is 200gb/s version). I'm comparing only raster performance which should be heavily GPU dependent.
I don't think it is anyone in particular, it is hard for everyone to follow threads where there is an extended subthread. This makes it easy to follow the discussion you care about when a subthread goes on a tangent you don't care about (or flamewar, etc.). I am super excited to see it and would have missed it for a while if not for this discussion.

Edit: Oh yeah, there has been that tiny collapse button for a while, I somehow never got into the habit of using that one and forget it is there. I wish there was a setting to use the words "up vote" "down vote" and "collapse" rather than needing to pixel hunt :/.
The whole twitter thread is about utilizing the GPU and the GPU scores are what's important.
> Beckerman also testified that TikTok's U.S. user data is stored in the United States, with backups in Singapore.

Why are backups in Singapore?

Never heard of US companies doing that.
That page just gives me such a black mirror vibe.
Yes, but, as you say, the AI should be looking outside, rather than at the driver.
When I was a kid more than a half-century ago, I always used to see magazine ads for get-rich-quick books. I picked one that sounded promising, saved up a few dollars, and stuffed the cash in an envelope with the order form.

I only remember one concrete piece of advice from the book. In those days, the shipping and handling fee was where your profit was, but if a customer forgot to add it, send them the book anyway. You're not losing any money, so it's free advertising.

It did make me realize what I really needed to do. Unfortunately, I only got as far as the title, but I was proud of this title:

How to Get Rich Quick by Selling Get Rich Quick Books
I feel like AR headsets are a stopgap until we can achieve the same thing with neural implants. Just like how MR is a stopgap for AR.
He did qualify that: he said "FizzBuzz level of coding", which might not have been the actual FizzBuzz test. But his point was that the guy couldn't write code at the level they were hiring for.
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Affinity photo is a photoshop alternative. It is supposed to be quite good, and is exactly the type of workload I would expect to see running on a MacBook Pro. It’s only indicative of the performance of that one workload, but that is still quite useful IMO.
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He wasn't prosecuted by the Southern District of New York because the case was flimsy AF. So the Chevron paid-for judge "took the rare step of appointing a private law firm, Seward & Kissel, to prosecute Mr. Donziger in the name of the U.S. government". This shit is corrupt as it gets.
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It was one of the first business books I read, and for the time it was published in it contained a lot of actionable advice.

I learned about the concept of hiring people on freelancing websites.

I learned about the power of delegation.

I'm sure in hindsight Tim didn't discover any of this stuff, but I don't think that's the point.

It was a great "101" book for someone without a clue about how business works.
I am so excited for the near future where facebook / meta will be irrelevant.
I don't use it. I consider thinking to be the bottleneck (or maneuvering in your IDE / terminal, if you're doing lots of refactoring, maybe)
When it comes to engineering talent, I wouldn't be so sure. Steam is also among the biggest marketing platforms, especially for early adopter gamers.
Amazon escapes patent claims in Delaware over Alexa technology
Legal trouble having nothing to do with the law itself but legal budgets.
I tried visiting https://codeamigo.dev/lessons/preview/90, but no matter what I type in the text editor, if I press the Test button, Ctrl+E, the right arrow, or Ctrl+Enter, it doesn't get executed.
He lost me when he turned the thread into a plea to not raise his future taxes: https://mobile.twitter.com/typesfast/status/1453753943092125...

We need billionaires like him! Not the other kind! /s
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7 habits isn't like that. So, there are some that have detail, and you need to read them to figure it out. The good thing is you get faster at identifying this over time. I used to have to read every page (perhaps a bad habit from school-years quizzes on books?). Now I can skip through to what I'm interested in and go back for more detail when I want.
Thank you for pointing it out, that's an huge Mandela effect
It can be both, no? A deep, long-term cultural commitment to anti-violence and tolerance, but succumb to violence and intolerance oneself when threatened. Unfortunately the threats have been coming hard and fast lately, making it a bit of a social norm, as you say. But the principles of tolerance are still there, the whole thing just hasn’t been reconciled yet.
Anecdotal tidbit: father in law was a casual meth user for decades until life stress pushed him to start shooting it up around 1996. That's when the real breakdown started (paranoid hallucinations and fantastical delusions). There's something to be said for dosages and delivery mechanisms, which to some degree are driven by culture, pricing and availability.
No one could have predicted getting rid of nukes and building pipelines to Russia would be problematic.
> You actually feel safe taking glances at the landscape.

Until you discover that the driver aid doesn't work correctly at that time.
Typically these things are not about improving safety but about reducing liability for the company and shifting blame to the employee.
I think you soon won’t need much attached to your head. What about when the tech is a light as a pair of glasses - then contact lenses. Far fetched? In 1995, when mobile phones were for the rich, and internet for the geeks, tell people you will be required to own a mobile phone and an online account in order to be allowed in a shop. That’s what it is in Australia right now.
When I first read his first two books was when I had just left university and moved to a big city and gotten a 'proper' job, and I didn't get how you were supposed to organise your time in an office and what you were supposed to pay attention to and what you should ignore, what you should worry about and what you should not care about at all, and I recall that my second job where I applied his advice about not reading or responding to emails, and searching to automate and avoid meetings as much as possible resulted in better performance and reviews and relationships with my manager, such that I ended up able to save enough money to quit and backpack around the world for ~two years.

Looking back now, I have a similar feeling that I can't recall anything specific (apart from only checking email at 10:00 and 16:00), but I do seem to have absorbed by osmosis some of his approach of almost obsessive application of 80/20 analysis on everything, and I think that's had a significant positive effect on my life of habituating the regular identification and shedding of negative things (I still use Twitter and Instagram, but on on the PC - the apps are removed from my phone). I've actually just realised while writing this that I also still do a weekly 80/20 review, which is where I identify that kind of thing.

I think I also found his super positive vibe about taking matters into your own hands to be great, and it was the first time I'd encountered the idea that you could have that much control over your own life. The thought-space of being able to change whatever aspect of life you want didn't exist before then.
That's just... inhuman.
How does this compare to DCOM? (disclaimer, I've never used it)
All Electron apps users were demanding something that eats up their RAM, crashes and run slowly?

The market demand seems more like:

Jack: "Our bellowed CEO wants us to deliver our wonderful app to unwashed masses still using a desktop. Our enlighted marketing team made a study which realized that for whatever weird reason, corporations and businesses still make heavy use of those boxes which come with a mouse and keyboard attached."

Joe: "Sure thing boss, we will have to hire some programmers and testers and will take about a year or so."

Jack: "I forgot to tell you that the marketing study already took a year and a very large budget because we hired the best of the best to do it. One year we don't have, money we don't have. But what about those people who wrote our web app? We still pay them. Can't they deliver?"

Joe: "We will have our glorious desktop app in two weeks, boss, I just had an idea."

Jack: "Do that and I will personally remind about you to our bellowed CEO when he will want to do some promotions."
It's arguably the entire purpose of nukes at this point.

That is absolutely not true. There are people in the governments of every nuclear power would use their weapons aggressively given the chance. That's why policies of disarmament are so necessary. As long as humans have nuclear weapons the probability of practically annihilating our species and leaving any survivors living in the stone age again remains higher than zero.

Nuclear war is the single biggest existential threat humanity faces. We can deal with pretty much anything else.
The main thing Valve has going for it is good will among the gaming population, which Facebo- Meta certainly doesn’t (to a stupid extent, IMO).

However, Zuckerberg said during the keynote that they were going to continue to sell hardware at or below cost in order to grow the space. I’m sure that’s somewhat of a business decision, but I honestly think Zuckerberg has a genuine interest in the technology and just wants to move it forward. While Valve could technically also sell at or below cost and hope to make it up with their Steam cut, they haven’t been willing to do that with any other hardware release.
If the other people in the room are also knowledgeable, you will come to an even better conclusion much faster face-to-face.

In my experience, having "group reasoning" is faster and with better results.
My wife has worked for several logistics companies, and one of the striking things was that she said a lot of them have signs everywhere banning truckdrivers from using their toilets. Quite dehumanizing if you have to defecate in the bushes cause there is no place you are allowed to use a toilet in a rich and highly developed country. And come to think of it, I regularly see delivery drives relieve themselves by the road because we as society fail to provide them with any other option.

Not being able to use toilets is, on the grand scale of things, maybe not the most important thing, but it probably adds to the feeling of being disrespected.
It takes a lot to to correctly explain exactly why the set of design choices is fastest, but writing just takes quite a simple model of the CPU internals, knowledge of the insturction set, focus on constantly measuring performance, and an agility to iterate quickly with different approaches.
I found https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/colorspace baffling when trying to understand it.
I even use it with blocklist and allowlist. No need for Pi-Hole, if you don't mind editing the lists directly.
Are you really worried about a co-worker drinking beer and dicking around instead of helping with a busted merge? Did you make a bad hire? That's the kind of hyperbole managers use to rein everyone in.
I worked on flight software for cargo dragon, and one time I got an email asking for my help inside one of the capsules. I had to ask where the capsule was, and everybody lol'ed.

It was a fun day; I got to wear a bunny suit and a headset and climb around inside a space ship.
Why not? That will be interesting too. For sure nothing is free and it's good to know all trade offs.
Correction: Donziger giving the Ecuadorean judge a $500,000 bribe is as corrupt as it gets.

The court was really, really pissed off with Donziger for ignoring it for 7 years. DA doesn’t care about contempt of court for a measly 6mo sentence. Don’t piss off the court!
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It may have been a judge that appointed the firm, but it's kind of suspicious that he would appoint a firm that had previously represented Chevron to represent the US Government. That seems like a pretty big conflict of interest.
What did you hire your first freelancer for?
There is plenty of nonfiction out there which isn't mostly unnecessary padding. However, you don't find it very often on bestseller lists.
Why build message based systems in node
Yes, but not all non-software engineers need to _touch_ hardware.

Eg if you are a civil engineer, lots of your work is spent doing calculations and designing things. When you do touch hardware, it's usually 'on site' and not at the office.
The Court of Arbitration's findings of fraudulent activities included that the evidence placed before the Court is "the most thorough documentary, video, and testimonial proof of fraud ever put before an arbitral tribunal"

This was not a “flimsy” case.
> the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

That's not a real court. That's one of those joke courts with judges appointed by the opposing parties and one who's appointed through a completely obscure process without outside supervision. Their livelihood depends on being chosen frequently. Judge Judy, but with larger stakes.
You can decline a meeting, try it :)
> I’ve got japanese one and drying function just doesn’t cut it. In the end i use more toilet paper but experience is better. Could use cloth ones but toddler would destroy those.

Might depend how dry you want your bottom to be. I live in Thailand, so we got bum guns everywhere of similar style as the linked Amazon product (no drying function). I usually just use 2-4 sheets to "dry" my behind. If it's still a little bit wet, I don't mind, as my behind will get dry after a few minutes with pants on anyways (perhaps because I live in a hot country). At least I am 100% sure my behind is clean.
If it has paid back every time, perhaps you are not investing enough effort?

(Only slightly tongue in cheek. At the margin, some of your efforts should fail.)
He probably got a whole bunch of ads spanning the entire page, talking about Affinity Photo.
you have to paths available.

1. Learn algo/DS and apply to FAANG

2. Learn web development

Both have very different approaches. For path 1, you'd get really good at leetcode. Read cracking the coding interview. And do 20 or so mock interviews. Time: 7 months.

For 2, you'd start from codecademy, then freecodecamp and try to land frontend react developer jr/internship role.

If you can I'd suggest go path 1, if not path 2 will be slow but it will work too. Path 2 salary would start at 80k, 90k, 120k, 140k, 160k, 175k, 180k... then it pretty much hit the ceiling. For path 1, it'd go like this: 120k, 160k, 190k, 210k, 240k, 320k.

But path 1 requires tortures honing of algo skills but reward is high.
In my view of the world that's closer to tier 4 than 3, but I acknowledge there's a lot of grey area between. Maybe 3 and a half. At the start of the tier 3 side (maybe I should call it 3.0) there are solid 9-5 workers who log timesheets with 8 hours per day, are expected to answer the phone between 9 and 5 but not outside, etc.
How does this make it to the front page, from a likely biased source (offshore-technology.com, I'm sure they don't have a bias!) when all the articles I've posted about the lead up to this don't?

> He was also disbarred from working in New York in 2019, and has been in home detention since August that same year.

This was hitherto unheard of for a lawyer. He was not a flight risk, this was about punishing anyone who would sue large corporate interests.

The linked article is much better with salient details:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/chevron-lawy...

> In one of the stranger episodes in this saga, Chevron relocated Alberto Guerra, an Ecuadorian judge, and his family to the US, paid for his health insurance and a car while meeting with him more than 50 times before he provided testimony that Donziger discussed the bribe with him at a Quito restaurant. Guerra has since admitted that his testimony was exaggerated in parts, untrue in others.

> Donziger was made liable for millions of dollars in Chevron’s legal costs and the company was granted seizure of his laptop and cellphone. When he appealed this, claiming the devices contained sensitive client information, the judge, Lewis Kaplan, hit him with criminal contempt charges, upheld on appeal, that led to his house arrest.

Does that sound above board? Not like persecution of someone who was successful in securing a judgement against Chevron? Conflicts of interest somehow abound in such a critical case.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, being a powerful multinational company is a pretty good legal tactic.

[EDIT] I posted about this twice before as well, guess it was much more interesting this time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735982

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27162564
Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
The difference is that with the w6900x, the memory bandwidth is not used to transfer data between the dGPU and main memory. That happens over PCIe instead.
Until recently the dutch government ran opium factories: https://decorrespondent.nl/7514/nederland-runde-eeuwenlang-e...
I think an Indian makes 1/10th an American engineer. A Romanian 1/5. Still a lot of normalizing before we can say things are equal. However since their cost of living is so low maybe the gap isn't that big.
> That's cultural appropriation.

No. What culture is allegedly appropriated here? Random insinuations don't make a good argument.
Yes, commuting is the number one reason to work from home for me. I don't like to spend 1-2 hours a day driving back and forth just to have my ass in a chair at the office.
On the other hand, for complex topics I’ve found that a face-to-face conversation is often much more effective because it allows both parties to have a rapid back and forth to resolve misunderstandings or gaps in the conversation. Asynchronous communication is poor at this.
Well, as long as it is just about luxury goods like the PS5 waiting is certainly an an option. But what about healthcare equipment? Would you still argue that waiting is the solution if it would mean that people die in hospitals because the hospitals cant get the required equipment?

In addition, the supply chain problems are not just about chips. To my knowledge, they affect nearly every product that is being produced in the far east (China, Bangladesh, etc.). A few weeks ago I wanted to buy a blue suit and I got lucky: I could choose from a wide range of exactly one suit.

So yes, who cares about suits? But I wonder which essential things are unavailable currently.
Nah. As a teen I needed vision correction, and contacts were worse than glasses in the end. Dry eyes, solutions, cases, falling out. Glasses were nice enough, but I touched them so much it was constant cleaning. PRK solved all that.

If this VR utopia ever will take hold, it will be with neural implants or something like it. Not with glasses, and not with contacts.
> Hiring remote workers directly would greatly speed up the process of salary equalisation (adjusted for COL).

What makes you think that this adjustments for cost of living would persist? Competitive pressures are towards paying for productivity, not for cost of living.

> In the end after some 1-2 decades we'd wake up in much flatter world with perhaps reasons to not impose limits on labour mobility across borders.

I am not so sure about that. I share your hope for a flatter world, but I think that wage differentials are _not_ why people want to restrict migration. It's just a somewhat socially acceptable excuse that's sometimes given, but people will come up with other excuses as necessary.

My main evidence for this view is that migration from comparatively rich countries is not all that freer in most places. (And economically, migration from poorer countries doesn't make the receiving country poorer either, but people don't believe that.)
Why not rename The Facebook to The Matrix?
I got sick last March, before testing was a thing, I've had long Covid type symptoms ever since, had all the tests, in theory I'm normal... but get winded super easy.

My skillset is ancient, my favorite language is Pascal, never liked C/C++, which seems to have eaten the world. I'm not sure how I'm going to get back into the world of the working (from home).

0 of 5 stars, would not buy again.
> Apple had 0 chip designers working for them not so long ago.

Apple's acquisition of PA Semi was over a dozen years ago.

I agree that the second best time to plant a tree is today, but I also think that nothing today is indicative of Apple's likelihood of success at operating a fab 5-10 years down the line from today.

They tried cars and (so far) seem to have failed. I have nothing to suggest that their odds at succeeding in chip manufacture would be anything other than 50/50.
Mate, that's how most best-seller non-fictional books work
I think the big value from presenting valuable ideas in the form of a book instead of a slide deck is that the reader is more likely to remember and implement the ideas they read from a book versus a slide deck, simply due to span and depth of exposure.
I couldn't care less. Oh – will have to change my blocklists for some new domains?

Any hints to a list somewhere?
But Google is now Alphabet, so should be MAANA
So, pretty similar to life now for many people? :|
I've never heard of this kind of thing happening before. I wonder how close Kaplan is to Chevron.
Unlimited, on-demand renewable energy anywhere in the world
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I have definitely seen a combination of the various things in this article as a hiring manager.
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Does Hollywood really make truck driving out to be glamorous? I mean since the late '70s?
Never heard of the Xeon D! Thanks!
> German teenagers who can legally enjoy a pint at the local pub.

Was that an intentional cultural mixup? My brain just stopped working after reading it, because of how little sense it made.
> if they showed the actual experience almost nobody would buy it.

You can't do this without putting them in VR in the first place.
The internet is the metaverse. We’re just trying to add a VR veneer to it.
oh, not the TV detective :-(