skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it might not be about the desire to belittle or to derive status. I can understand the frustration of those who are educated in a demanding field that also happens to attract people proposing uneducated and usually unsound theories. The wildest of theories -- especially the wildest of them -- would often take a lot of work to untangle and make sense of to the point where it's even possible to discuss and think about them critically. The vast, vast majority of those kinds of theories are wrong yet they take a lot of work to disprove. That probably has little to offer to the expert other than perhaps exercise in the Socratic method with an uncooperative partner.

I'm not in the academia myself but I can totally see how the nth time someone offers their "insights" into something they almost certainly don't understand could make you think of them as crackpots.
You could just get an USB-C cable with a female connector on one end. Just make sure it's up to the spec you require, PowerDelivery + Video.
And I’d add - trust them to handle the consequences of your communication as well.

If it turns out they’re cool about it, what wonderful feedback for you about their reliability and understanding of you.

If it turns out they react badly, at least it’s feedback to ask yourself whether they’re worth that kind of trouble in the future.

If they’re passive aggressive about it - well, shame on them, and be very careful.
The situation in Iraq is tough but no, I don’t think it’s obvious to me it would be better off still under Saddam Hussein, or maybe by now one of his sons. If you wonder what a dynastic succession like that can look like, check out Syria, and the young Assad is a pusseycat compared to Uday or Qusay.
Somebody up top thinks this will actually provide valuable information for the future. In my experience, it'll provide information, but the company won't actually value it. Either the information is actually useless (person is leaving because they want more experience that can't be had there) or the company won't actually learn anything from it (person is leaving due to bad situation or not enough money). They may claim to learn from it, and may even think they are, but they don't.
> Had the Third Reich persisted with a truce, do you really think they would have been charged, convicted, and sentenced?

Pre Nuremberg expectations on soldiers were blind obedience nazi or not. Nuremberg set the expectation on soldiers from then on. WWII changed that.

It could not happen due to their own ideology. It did not allowed for lasting compromise which everyone else knew. Third Reich would not prosecuted those people, because by their ethical standards they were doing right thing.

Then again, Pablo Escobar believed he is cool guy by own standards too.
Revolut hires new Brazil CEO for LatAm push
Haven't looked further, but I'm wondering about that. Is that the result of training to be able to explain that specific joke, or is it generalized?

In the past these things have been misleading. Some impressive capability ends up being far more narrow than implied, so it's kind of like just storing information and retrieving it with extra steps.
Not sure about others by my exit interviews have typically been towards the end of my notice period. I've long since communicated (or at least vented) to my manager what I've been unhappy with as well as having a detailed talk upon giving my notice. And likely as a result, my experiences have been HR just nodding along. I certainly can't imagine treasuring up all the negatives and blurting them all out to HR one one meeting as this post games out.
try to change the Wikipedia page - go ahead, we are watching ! I mean, most everyone agrees it could be improved right? "wiki" - pedia?
Hands-on interviews are common practice.
I see that this is from November 2021 when there was 40 peer reviewed studies. Any update to this for the additional 22 peer reviewed studies?
This is addressed in the article. The company is unlikely to change as a result of your feedback.
How to Use a Proxy in Next.js
The supposed "downside risks" in this article just don't seem realistic to me.

> There are all sorts of ways that your former employers might retaliate. They might decide not to give a reference they would have before the exit interview. They might say bad things about you at industry events. It might be more subtle: they might just carry a negative impression of you in the back of their minds, and when you both end up working together again in the future they’ll hesitate to trust you. Or it might be blatantly unethical or even illegal. They could tell you they’re fine to be a reference, but when someone calls they could say bad things. They could refuse to confirm your employment to a background investigator. They could call your new company and tell them you were fired for fraud.

I just don't see it. Exit interviews are valuable. I find the never-ending cynicism around here exhausting. Sometimes people just want to hear why you're leaving because they want to learn from it.
> They might decide not to give a reference they would have before the exit interview.

At least in the UK, there aren't good or bad reference. It basically boils down to "Yep they worked here, for this long, this was their role." All of the other possible outcomes mentioned are illegal.
No you cannot "turn off UEFI". You can make your UEFI-enabled board boot in a BIOS compatibility mode for some things. But that isn't turning it off.
Wonderful tool, reminds me of a similar visualization done for an image processing NN:

https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/

It's really incredible to move from a black-box hard-math understanding of NN to something that makes sense to our senses.
Yes, they could, that is the definition of at-will employment. As long as the termination reason is not illegal there is nothing stopping them. Some employers will escort you out of the building immediately once you let them know you plan to leave, I know multiple examples of this happening at Microsoft at least.
Isn't it great then that we have so many options in vehicles to choose from?

> 8 or more hours of driving to do the deliveries. If he was to try to use a EV it would result in unemployment.

The fact that the new truck the USPS commissioned comes in an electric version says you're wrong.

Some delivery trucks are moving 8 hours a day, but many are stopped or turned off a lot of that time. Some have much heavier loads (delivery trucks for distribution from bottling companies will likely go hybrid, rather than electric). It really depends how rural the route is, and that's a double whammy because not only is it more miles but there are fewer opportunities to charge. But we aren't that far from a point where urban deliveries can be done with vehicles that are more specialized to that purpose. We don't need one vehicle that is useful for all scenarios. If anything we've moved away from that over time.

I think the unspoken fear with shitting on someone else's parade is that if this catches on then eventually the supply and labor pool for your preferred way of doing things will shrink and you will lose your economy of scale. But honestly you should worry about that for your kids and grandkids, because that's going to be a good long time.

And speaking of kids, the American Dream doesn't include cruising in a car anymore. Many kids today even in smaller towns are now delaying learning to drive. When you are against something you use the worst aspects of that thing as part of your rationale. If anything, refusing to reduce the consequences of cars will just galvanize this generation and their children against cars in general. Modest ICE vehicles benefit from both the introduction of EVs and outright banning of the worst ICE vehicles, in ways that were perhaps not true even a generation ago.
No, it's just a report that the feedback didn't make any difference.
This law isn't much different than how China demands a party member to be on board of every sizeable business to oversee it. It's just the US is more creative about such laws: instead of a party member it's a 'DEI bureocrat' and the law uses a language that obfuscates the intent.
> I don't think you could confidently design a non functioning system and be sure the other side doesn't know it doesn't work

Well. The UK's "Letters of Last Resort" are kind of that. It intentionally keeps it ambiguous what will be the reaction of the British ballistic missile submarines in case of an unexpected decapitation attack.

The idea is that an incoming Prime Minister writes four identical, hand written letters to the commanders of the subs. They place these letters in safes on the submarines. Only the Prime Minister knows what the letters say.

In case the UK command structure is destroyed in a sudden decapitation strike, the submarine will detect this. For example by the fact that all naval broadcast cease to transmit. But nobody wants a single point of failure accidentally triggering a war, so they also check if the BBC 4 is still broadcasting, and they probably check other things too but the specifics are kept secret.

After the commander of the submarine, in agreement with a few other officers come to the conclusion that the UK is no more they open and read the letter. The letter gives them an instruction. It can tell them to retaliate with all they got. It can tell them to not retaliate, find a safe port and live the rest of their lives to the fullest. It can tell them to use their best judgement based on what they know. It can tell them to join the navy of a friendly country.

> Isn't both sides always full of informants?

The system assumes so yes. It is very hard to keep something secret once multiple people knows it. The idea here is that the secret is only known to one person, it is only distributed to a very limited set of very secure locations and everything is kept very low-tech to make it easier to manage the risk. Probably there are other undisclosed security arrangements too. (For example I wouldn't be surprised if the letter is carried by multiple trusted people, checking each other to prevent an enemy snooping or doing a switcheroo.)
>If cars were licensed like enterprise software, they would detect how many seats were in use for the trip, and we'd have to pay per seat.

There already is a sensor to detect a passenger in most (all?) airbag enabled cars sold in the US, so we're already on our way!
Are you suggesting that it is not possible to test students on things like reading, riting, and rithmetic?

7 + 3 = ?

is a bullshit question?
Probably but that just means they're on the hook for unemployment.
Many engineers who are leaving a startup may have a whole bunch of options or equity. This equity has value and one way to preserve that value is to give honest feedback in an exit interview.
I fully agree with this. I am a desktop holdout as well moving to my first laptop in decades in 2022
Wouldn't the price be primarily based on capital investment and not so much on the unit itself? After all, it's essentially a print out on a crystal using reeeeeally expensive printers. AFAIK Apple's relationship with TSMC is more than a customer relationship.
IMO you should always go to the exit interview, even if only not to burn bridges. But the information you provide should be as bland as possible.
Australia to “actively explore” a national digital ID system
Yep. Biden, Fauci, and many other CNN/MSNBC contributors lied about this or at least reported mistruths in this regard. Honestly, calling this mRNA injection a "vaccine" (and changing the actual definition of a "vaccine" according to WHO, CDC, and Merriam-Webster) is a complete untruth. It's a prophylactic shot that may reduce the severity of infection.

I've been vaccinated against chicken pox, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, polio, and various other diseases, which means that I will _not_ contract these illnesses. Unlike COVID the Nineteenth, you are _not_ immune, because this product is simply not a vaccine in the 20th century sense.

And 2 years later, people at my (former) meditation retreat are now requiring proof of _three_ mRNA shots, AND require heavy-duty KN95 masks to be on-site. It's utter insanity. I can't believe how radicalized my green-tea-and-kale-salad colleagues have become since this all started. I just can't believe it.
Huh, interesting - this is news to me, as I use Eigen all the time/see it used all over for robotics. Is there a good replacement for robotics-specific operations/small matrices generally (I see some people mentioning DirectXMath?)? Or is the tradeoff just between spending the time and effort to write SIMD intrinsics yourself vs. lower performance but greater convenience with Eigen?

One advantage of Eigen's approach that I haven't seen mentioned here is that its templated design makes it easy to substitute custom scalar types for operations, which helps enable straightforward automatic differentiation and other such tools (e.g. I'm currently using Eigen to make a tracing JIT for computations like FK, etc. over scenegraphs).
I've been working with Redwood for 8-9 months now and it has been phenomenal. I can't imagine going back to wiring all the pieces together by hand.
Yes, he has hinted at this over the years, when he called the eventual project Monkey Island 3a
I don't share the conviction of many in these comments that "is", and "is modeled by" are clearly different concepts, or that distinction is the source of hubris or ignorance about science.

Moreover, I don't see any of the science communicator bad guys being mentioned in the comments saying "remember everyone, you DON'T have to understand math to practice high level theoretical physics." I don't think its on those communicators to explain this to people.

People are allowed to have interests in stuff that they don't have a practitioners knowledge of, which is good because I'm sure that you have interests and opinions in fields that you don't practice or never studied as well.
>All feedback is anonymous

How do you know that?
I can see the value of this but I worry that the implementation of support for it has rushed ahead of what "it" is. To be successful I think a formal definition of how say 90% of regex expressions would be represented should be created and reviewed.
How can they make someone from 18th century whole by practicing racism against a candidate from the 21st?
>No one ever tries to disprove the foundations of condensed matter physics.

My contribution to this severely under-served department:

"It can't possibly be correct to use relativistic field theory to write effective fields for excitations of a wave medium when the whole idea of SR was that there wasn't a medium."
My perspective was that I purchased unraid because it satisfied my requirements at that point in time. I don’t really expect _any_ major feature additions. The fact that it’s getting better is amazing IMO.

I think a lot of peoples perceptions are skewed from SaaS models maybe?
Unfortunately, I cannot.
I enjoyed this post. Choosing what actions to take when there isn't a clear right or wrong is really what makes being an adult interesting.

I've found that it helps to ask if the thing that I'm avoiding is something that is reasonable for me to accomplish and something that will help me grow, such that perhaps if I encounter it again I can handle it better. If so, I should take action instead of avoiding it.

In the case of the mosh pit example, staying in the pit even if you didn't want to didn't really give you any growth opportunities, unless you were really eager to "learn" how to mosh.

Going to the party when you didn't want to, although possibly awkward, was such a growth opportunity. It afforded a chance to flex social skills, and the downside was likely overstated. In the future, should such a scenario arise, the author can now deal with it much more easily.

I think we have deep feeling of "I didn't do what I should've" (and a sense of personal failure) when we choose to avoid action and we recognize that we've denied ourselves a growth opportunity. Our analytical brain may not pick up on it to form the thought, but I think we still know it.
I must admit, I have misinterpreted it.
> I'm not arguing that the military is inherently wrong, or that military service is.

Just that everyone who signs up for the military of a developed nation is morally compromised at the extreme very best. Can you square that statement with believing in the moral existence of a military for a developed nation?

> By far the most likely use of a wealthy nation's military is going to be a bad one

And yet, as I said, developed nations require a military for defence. The world is not a nice place, as Russia is current proving, and modern conflicts cannot be fought successfully with poor quality untrained troops recruited on the fly for a particular conflict, where those signing up know what they are going to be doing in advance. Developed nations therefore need a well trained standing army. In signing up for this army, people put their lives on the line, and in doing so protect you, me and others from harm. I do not consider doing this for that ideal morally compromised.

You are right that nations have engaged in wars of aggression that should not have been fought. Living in such a nation I bear some of the responsibility for those wars, as do the soldiers who fought in those wars, but much less than the politicians and dictators who declared them for their own or their nations strategic gain in the first place.

Unfortunately nice binary moral choices are few and far between.

> That aside, just because I benefit from something doesn't make it ok. What kind of first grader ethics is that?

My point was not to suggest that because you benefit from something that makes it ok, as you well know.
Think about it in reverse. Suppose your boss is thinking of increasing your responsibilities along with a significant pay bump, but they think about it and make the assumption that you like your current role and wouldn't like any new responsibilities. Wouldn't you rather make that decision yourself?

Or suppose you're single and there's an attractive acquaintance who is thinking of asking you on a date, but they overhear you talking to a friend about a date you had, and so they assume you wouldn't be interested. You don't want to make that decision yourself?
I think a key aspect to make it stay on would be to basically make it like a set of helmet straps. One around the head like the zeo, a chin strap and a top vertical strap across the head. A headstrap works when your awake, but when your asleep you do actions like mash your forehead into a pillow and move your head up or down, which was a perfect action to remove the zeo.
I generally agree with your sentiment but do also think there is value in some degree of flexibility and recognizing some plans have more significance than other.

E.g. if the friend bailed on a coffee break instead of a weeks-in-advance-vacation-plan it would be much less of a big deal (maybe not even worth nuking the friendship over?). Either way, situations like that do call for evaluating how important that person is in your life and (down)ranking them accordingly. Everyone has some fair-weather friends.
Anonymous feedback very, very rarely is. Even when everyone involved is doing their best to keep it anonymous, it very rarely is.
They should do it like Thimbleweed Park (basically Maniac Mansion 3) and just call it Ape Archipelago or something.
Also I'm not convinced on the idea that it is unlikely to elicit change. My current employer takes exit interviews very seriously when they lose good people, and tries to fix the situation before losing more.

Like you said, if it is handled professionally - that is, you have valid concerns/criticisms that you are able to quantify and address in a constructive manner - it can be very useful for everyone involved.

I get that for every company that seems to care there are probably 10 that seem to not, but I always find this sort of stereotypical "work sucks and is a zero-sum game" attitude that is common on Reddit and HN a little saddening. Sure, your primary concern should be to take care of yourself, but this idea that everything with 'Inc.' after its name is full of layers of uncaring, heartless drones is frankly untrue. People think the same about IT/tech/dev, and it's not true there either. It does not have to be you vs them, even when you decide to leave.
I don't get this part:

> General-purpose computers allow us to own our music and videos--not just watch them until Netflix's contract for our favorite Star Wars movie expires or Apple decides to somehow prevent us from accessing our favorite song in its inventory.

You can still buy music and videos to own. Music from iTunes and other download services has been DRM-free for decades. Plus there's always CDs. I bought one from Amazon recently, believe it or not! You can buy DVDs/BluRays for movies and TV shows. This has nothing to do with internet appliances or walled gardens, or whatever else this article is about.
While you and I prefer desktops, the market has undoubtedly proven the laptop's popularity.

I put up with the laptop, because I am highly-mobile and I can take it anywhere and work. I don't have to worry about copying files, or installing programs and libraries, because it's my main device. It's "up-to-date" and ready to go by default.

I code more, because I have my "main" computer with me virtually all the time.

That said, we all have different priorities and ways of working productively. While I find the keyboard and display a little cramped, it's good enough and well worth the overall benefits for me. And again, the laptop market seems to indicate this is true for the vast majority.
Alzheimer’s study finds 42 more genes linked to higher risk of disease
The "Q" in LGBTQ keeps expanding. This cisgender man [1] is attracted exclusively to women. He has announced he is queer. What does that mean? I don't care if he wants to call himself that. But it seems like "queer" doesn't mean what it used to. If it includes everyone, does it mean anything at all?

1: https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/150693736999545651...
Yeah I don't think in the US other outcomes are illegal per se, but in practice only what you describe is what is happening among Big N tech companies.
In my case Eigen is handling some 3000x3000 and bigger matrices. For these scenarios, it’s performance is about 98% of BLAS libraries, which is more than enough when combined with the ease and practicality of Eigen. It also handles RAM placement, so it doesn’t get affected by memory fragmentation.

Their current performance page is here [0].

[0]: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Performance_moni...
Wikipedia link on microlithography if you want a rabbit hole about wafer making:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlithography

Being able to print something in nanometers is an overlooked technical achievement for human manufacturing.
Russian culture seems to treat everything as an excuse for skimming and corruption, so it's very unlikely that the entire arsenal would work as planned.

Apparently it's also mostly tactical warheads which don't have a long-range delivery system.

My best guess is that many of the bigger US and European cities would be wiped out, but neither continent would be turned into a sterilised desert - which is what would happen after a no-compromise exchange.

It used to be assumed an initial exchange would target first strike and retaliatory systems, and cities would only be targeted if there was anything left when that phase was over.

The Russian attacks on civilian targets suggests the opposite. Initial attacks would be on Western cities and populated areas, and the Russians wouldn't care about having their own cities wiped out in response.

No one cares about having second strike silos being wiped out in Nebraska or the Urals when big population centres are already on fire.

None of this is encouraging. Some cities and infrastructure might survive, but the aftermath would still be extremely unpleasant.