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> I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is

There are three models of recruiting, first-party, retained and commission. You do not want to speak to recruiters working on commission, because they take the shotgun approach and have the least information and least incentive to tell the truth. One of my first questions to third party recruiters is "are you retained or on commission" and if the second, end the conversation.
For UK - Economist
Yeah... I hate advertising for a few reasons, including aesthetics and warped incentives. But one of the big ones is that it works. It works on me. Even when I know I'm being manipulated, I can't entirely stop it.
Seems like a good reminder that invalidating a hypothesis is sometimes easier than validating it.
Also facts alone cannot determine a course of action. What actions we do are a combination of facts and social values. You cannot “follow the science” to a course of action, especially a myopic focus on a small subset of science to the exclusion of literally everything else.

Our myopic focus on Covid to the almost literal exclusion of everything else had a disastrous outcome. Government refused to balance Covid against other problems in society. And the result is the mess we will be cleaning up for quite some time.
Speaking for myself, the sole reason was cost of living and impracticality of owning a home anywhere within a reasonable drive of an urban center. While I was able to afford renting, I wasn’t getting anywhere with saving and wouldn’t have been able to change that without downsizing to a drafty shoebox of an apartment. That was fine in my 20s but now in my 30s, it felt a bit like I was spinning my wheels.

If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t mind continuing to live in California. There’s a lot to love about it, but it’s just not conducive to my current set of goals unless I manage to land a senior position at Google or something (which comes with its own set of problems).
Can anyone here remember an add they saw yesterday or one they clicked on this year? I can't...
What? Faststart just means the metadata is at the front of the file, which these 500KB padded m4a files do have. They just have excessive paddings between the metadata and the content stream.

The author used this flag in FFMPEG because.. well, despite the main goal is to shrink the padding, you still want to have metadata at the beginning.
"after all everyone will eventually die for one reason or another."

Well then we should let killers out of prison.
Before elevated beds? :)
There have been two circumstances where we’ve seriously thought about it, but as of yet haven’t changed:

1) Under some circumstances we might want to give very stringent uptime guarantees for some systems, and I do not trust providers to have zero global (cross AZ) outages. Having a hot standby or even load balancing across clouds could be tempting.

2) One cloud provider is very keen to get into our sector and has made extremely generous overtures which we’d be silly to completely ignore.

As I say, not something we’ve followed through as yet but both are serious considerations.
Yes. I got a new job at a new company.
Mob mentality outrage is one of the few things that produces effective change.

Would you encourage the same policy of not naming the the accused parties with the #meToo movement? Because it's not productive or worthwhile to focus on a few individuals? And where would that movement have gotten if none of the parties involved had ever been named?
> I'm on a team that rotates members pretty much every 6 months

What kind of software do you make?

Where I am, I was still very much learning after 6 months and it wasn't until a year or so before I became really effective.
> My experience is similar. I tried on and off for several years to get some traction on adwords to suppliment my organic. I learned everything I could, tweaked campaigns over time. Nothing.

When I was running my hyper-local startup, my best conversion rate was through reddit ads on the city subreddits.

Super targeted Facebook ads also worked.

I didn't even try adwords, wrong ad product for the job.

IIRC email sign ups were costing me like ~20-25 cents each. Reddit ads were obscenely effective.
Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode
People in Oregon and Washington have been complaining about the influx of Californians for 30+ years.
Maybe you are closer to it than you realise. I don't think there are age limits to any of this stuff. A decade of life for one man, is but a Tuesday of another.
The physicalization of metamathematics and the implications for its foundations
The only good donut Voodoo ever made, and even then they generally did a crappy job of it. I'd rather just get a maple bar from the grocery store bakery and add bacon myself.
I haven't understood the details of this language yet, but on first look isn't it a... circuit board designer?

There are already games that allows you to place electric components, each as a pixel on a screen, where these pixels are powerful enough to allow you to code arbitrary programs. I particularly like The Powder Toy, with enough components to make a fast calculator: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=1214884

The author arK created some of the most powerful electronic-based saves in The Powder Toy. He also made a SNAKE game which you should definitely check out. They are impressive.

Redstone in Minecraft should also fit into this category, but the world is too big, components are less powerful and game tick is slow, so writing programs in it is too clumsy.
Wild speculation with a sprinkle of logic (garbage assumptions lead to garbage conclusions)

HOWEVER, I have skimmed through it by now and the last paragraph is actually quite good. It takes a while to get there and the chosen examples aren't great, though.
> No. 4 New Hampshire’s low cost of living got it a No. 1 for wealth.

Yikes. Sure, we don't have income tax or sales tax but be prepared to pay out the ass on property taxes. Oh, and be ready to pay for heat ten months out of the year.

NH has been a brain-drain state ever since people discovered the land is full of rocks and there are better opportunities elsewhere. The wages are low, the cost of living is high relative to wages, and land/real estate has always been expensive. It's a old state with most of it already being divvied up. For instance, my 3 bed, 1 bath home out in bumfuck has more than doubled in price since I bought just five years ago.
The article explained the reason for the AAC file padding. I'm pointing out that other formats like FLAC (not mentioned in the article) also adopt this strategy.
These are interesting aspects of it. I cannot disagree with the burden of responsibility. I felt it, and I have a sweng diploma (at the same time I don't consider myself that smarter than average and I cringe hard at the fake complexity of programs we force people to use). We all want freedom .. if we get what we want easily. Otherwise we enjoy sharing the duty and going back to a consensus (market / companies search for what is 80% best and I'll accept that because I don't have to care).

Anthropology, ergonomics, pedagogics and economics all matter for an object. I've been seeking joy and productivity in software for a while, but for people computers are rarely that.

- a requirement (especially since the web re-rooted society and administration)

- a confusing toy (you pay 1000 to click and consume music/film)

- a strange tool at work

another thing is that the computing field has either a glowing magic aura, or a dark cloud around it. Some people will be amazed by things that are not especially amazing relatively speaking [0] and some will be scared by any software or keyboard.

[0] it's easy to forget the intricacies, subtleties, beauty of pre-computer things.
Wow you just listed every reason of why I dislike living in Texas.
> Epidemiologist are more trained in statistics and abstract mathematical models.

And they are pretty bad at that too… their models have been horrifically bad. Most of them seemed designed to show the absolute worst case (see all the hockey stick charts these people published)…
There are always two halves to this, the demand and the value of the money.

Demand steadily increases over time, a UBI would cause a spike in that demand so there would be inflation at a higher rate while the market stabilizes. Without an increase in the rate the money is devalued this inflation should stabilize. The problems come when we devalue our money at the same time we're increasing demand causing changes at a rate faster than the markets can compensate.

UBI is a shotgun approach and a political tactic rather than a real plan for helping those who need it. A negative income tax and other options that target this help where it's needed would be better options. either way though the trick is to get money where its needed without increasing debt or the money supply while doing so at a rate that doesn't shock the system.
You mean it has prevented a hot war between the US and Russia, instead we had lots of substitute wars were mostly only brown people died (sarcasm!). Essentially nuclear weapons meant that all nuclear powers could act with impunity toward non-nuclear powers who were not directly aligned with any of the blocks. I mean Ukraine is like a prime exhibition, Putin would have likely never invaded if he didn't have nuclear weapons, and the west would have likely reacted much earlier.

The arguments are definitely not as straight-forward.
We're at an impasse. You're pointing to some changed colors and saying "see! they still let you make changes!" while I'm arguing that obfuscating the pre-existing theming interfaces is a pointless endeavor since nobody got anything out of it. Users have their hands tied. Developers lose the flexibility they once had with the toolkit. The idea of a "native" app has gone out the window. The only people who win here are the Flatpak folks who are just dying for people to dumb down their apps to work around the shortcomings of their "next generation" package manager.

I'm not even going to argue this with you since there's nothing to argue about. The book is closed. GTK4 and Libadwaita are direct regressions from the functionality we had with GTK3 and libhandy. You can argue that these regressions exist for a purpose, and you can point to purported upcoming features and their purported upcoming functionality, but none of that changes what things look like right now. At the end of the day, as both a user and a developer, I need functionality. If you take that away from me, you can't also expect me to go along with whatever you're proposing for the future.
Keeping a nuclear industry around is still a good way to keep a lid on nuclear arsenal costs. There are supply chain efficiencies, a pipeline of necessary skills, etc.

It's just a ridiculously expensive way to generate green energy.

When Iran builds nuclear reactors for "100% peaceful non military purposes" suddenly the western media can see through the ruse and understands all this.
Musk recommends 80-100hr weeks, every week

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtaxU6DZvLs&t=1m20s
I have XAW3D preloaded with LD_PRELOAD for all Athena software I use.

Much better than plain XT.
That's why I like Twitter. It challenges you to communicate what you need to say in as few words as possible. That is if you don't cheat by chaining posts.
> Overcrowded nature. This one personally bothered me a lot. Many trails in Southern California are almost always crowded. Beach access is long, difficult, expensive (if you use a parking lot) and exhausting if you live inland.

This is a huge one for me.

> I moved to Upstate, NY. Yeah, the weather sucks, but not always. Fall is lovely. Early winter is lovely. Spring is lovely when it's not raining. Summer is humid and gross, but it's an absolute joy in my town with all the festivals. The housing market is crazy, but no so crazy that I couldn't afford a home. The town I live in has decent local government, several lakes, and abundant state forests and hiking trails all around.

I went to school in Rochester and I really enjoyed it. Even though it may be described as a dying industrial town, I still found it a better place to live than booming SF.
I think this is overlooking two of the most important benefits of multi chip modules, re-using engineering and simpler supply chains. Once AMD has designed their eight core die they've got a design they can re-use between the cheapest desktop CPU without integrated graphics and the highest end server part. And, modulo binning, you can reallocate your dies between market segments as demand dictates. You've still got different IO dies for different segments but those on are easier to design and on less in-demand processes nodes.
Advertising is definitely a lot more complex than simply: spend more money on it -> sales go up.

When tobacco ads were banned, tobacco companies started making more profit, because they had to spend less on advertising. Turned out their advertising was mostly to steal customers from each other, and didn't really lure in new users. So the ban actually helped them.
A phenomenon which reminds me of the canonical survivorship bias story. In WWII they conducted studies to determine where the bullet holes where on aircraft which returned from bombing sorties, in order to determine which parts of the aircraft required armour. It took a statistician to point out that they actual needed to armour those places where they rarely saw damage on returning aircraft, as those parts are most likely the parts where being hit caused the aircraft to not return at all.

Sometimes it requires a bit of a leap of imagination in order to resolve these things.
As a gamedev who writes unit tests, I agree with GP. Games benefit from unit tests. That, however, doesn't change the systemic incentives that prevent tests from being written. The ways that gamedev is budgeted/funded is a more important factor than more tests = a more stable/less buggy game.
For the same reason that the orange website constantly says that being an expert in one field doesn't necessarily make you one in another. Even if some people think that having a "programmer brain" enables you to have a higher understanding of all things.
I would like to know if a company is willing to waste thousands of dollars (interviewers' time, hiring manager's time, hiring committee's time, not to mention the candidate's time) knowing full well that they will not commit to terms (at least verbally) agreed upon upfront. That is a clear sign of a dysfunctional organization.
You're right, this is actually a lot harder to recently, with the iOS updates that occurred a year or so ago. It's a space that evolves very quickly.

But this is a good place to point out that, yes - there is nuance to all of this - and I didn't really mean to turn it into a thesis on online advertising (lol) so much as to say:

It's still easy to be more accurate than "Turn it off and see what happens".

Even a semi-sophisticated media buyer is going in with a plan, and some method of measurement.
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> One FAANG I wouldn't work at under any circumstances.

Uh Amazon? I hope it's Amazon, not Facebook.

> One FAANG has been very clear that they want employees on site.

Both Netflix and Apple.

> One FAANG has a recruiting proc where you are hired once you pass the interviews, you can figure out your team later.

Google?

> One FAANG doesn't really fit in the FAANG acronym.

Amazon? Apple? Facebook because they've changed their name to Meta?
I have had a pretty good life all along, but it was blips, and spits and starts. And stumbles all along. I just rode through them.

I had the advantage of having no vision, no plans, when I graduated high school. All my friends headed off to college, but I had no money, had no idea what I would even study, even though I scored just shy of 1500 on the SAT. Learning always came easy for me, it still does.

So having no plan, after high school, I left my job as a farm hand and became a motorcycle mechanic. Found my two major strengths there, thinking through abstract problems as logically as possible, and a certain base understanding of electrical and electronics. A result of that was I got stuck with all the quirky electrical faults, and most of the transmission work. I enjoyed both. Should I go to school for electical or mechanical engineering? EE won that decision process, and I headed off to school at 25. Not having much money, I settled on two years first, to nail down an Associates degree, then move on from there.

Got great grades, got a great job offer, went to work. Took additional courses, but never earned a higher degree. Blundered along through a few failed relationships (an early relationship with someone that was bad for me, left scars, and it took a while to figure out how relationships were supposed to work).

Finally met someone I could relate to at age 35. Okay? 35. I still was renting. I couldn't even afford my own apartment until I was 30. So at 35 I met the love of my life. A year later, we bought a house together. Two years later we married. Two years after that, we had our first kid. Age 40 for me.

So my 30s, my life had really only just begun.

So I have been coding in embedded systems now for 38 years. My kids are all grown and out of the house. I never worked at a FAANG. I am not rich, but the women I met, fell in love with, and married, had similar financial goals, so we have saved enough money to retire by time I turn 68. Very small house, we drive cars into the ground (never less than twelve years, my car is now 16 years old). So we have money to do the things we want. Travel and skiing being two of the top things. We raised three kids. Put them through college with no debt (not Ivy league, but no one needs Ivy League for the first four years, that is some heavy vanity BS right there)

Your career is not the end point of your Dreams, enjoyment is. Your hobbies should be something you enjoy that don't break the bank. You should constrain your costs on anything the doesn't deeply matter to you so that you can afford the things that do.

I will leave you with one huge final important note.

The things you 'do' in life are much more important than the things you have. Do not focus on 'having'. Focus on 'doing'.

I am a relatively old man now. I am still working because of two things, both related to me doing everything late in life. I started my career late, and I had kids late. I don't mind that I am going to work until I am 68 or maybe 70 years old. I am doing things, and I am enjoying the things I do.
I appreciate your sentiment but can't agree with it. What I mean is, if I had the resources to not have to work for 10 years, I give myself greater than a 50% chance of building an AGI. So I don't understand why the world is taking so long to do it.

The flip side is that these narrow use cases progressed so quickly that we have to worry about stuff like deep fakes now.

Something's not right here.

As a programmer, I feel that what went wrong is that we invested too much in profit-driven endeavors, basically stuff that's mainstream. To be blunt, the academic side of me doesn't care about use cases. I care about theory, formalism, abstraction, reproducibility, basically the scientific method. From that perspective, all AI is equivalent, it just takes input, searches a giant solution space using its learned context as clues, and returns the closest solution it can in the time given. It's an executable piping data around. The rest is hand waving.

And given that, the stuff that AI is doing now is orders of magnitude more complex than running a Roomba. But a robot vacuum actually helps people.

To answer your question, a KNN could solve this if the user reshapes the image data into a different coordinate system where the data can be partitioned (all inference comes down to partitioning):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_of_basis

Tensors are about reshaping data into a coordinate system where relationships become obvious, like going from rectangular to polar coordinates, or using a Fourier transform:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor

My frustration with all of this is the same one I have with physics or any other evolving discipline. The lingo obfuscates the fundamental abstractions, creating artificial barriers to entry.

Edit: I should add a disclaimer here that my friend and I worked on a video game for like 11 years. I'm no expert in AI, I'm just acutely sensitive to how the realities of the workaday world waste immeasurable potential at scale.
It might even be read by employees of that very company that are in a position to improve things.
> If they were supposed to be a way to configure applications, they failed because they're actually bad for configuring applications

They are at most as bad as any other key-value storage.

> It's basically putting a giant global .ini file into the X server that can't be read or updated without reprocessing the whole thing.

You can update X resources without reprocessing "the whole thing" - in fact there isn't even a single "whole thing" to process, you can have resources in separate files, import them at any point or even change individual resources. Example:

echo 'XTerm.vt100.background: gray10' | xrdb -merge

This updates a single resource, leaving everything else as-is, not even involving any files (but the exact same resource could have been inside a file too).

> the utility of that disappears when you have more than one toolkit with its own settings.

X resources are not locked to a single toolkit, they are locked to X11, but any application using any toolkit could use them.

> They're not the same as GetPrivateProfileString, those manipulate individual files.

This is irrelevant to the point i was making with referring to GetPrivateProfileString, which was about applications using their own (or their toolkit's) INI parser instead of using what is provided by Windows.
So that other people don't waste their time on that company, of course.

Why do you believe the company should be able to keep bad behavior secret?
I'm French, we let it degrade, it wasn't an inevitability, it's just that since a few decades we run the country more like a lean startup (what do I need in 6 months) rather than like a nation (what will I need in 50 years) and obviously this is the exact opposite of what you want when it comes to nuclear
Now do conditioning GLIDE with initial images. :P
i mean, people are good at finding clever ways to cheat.
As long as different points of view get a chance to have their say, and the tone stays civil, I'm fine with whatever gets upvoted. I know that's a tall order on a contentious issue like this and I know there are many Russians here and some of them may well be pro government, but if such a discussion can happen anywhere online, it's probably here.
There’s no evidence that they chose to do nothing. Again, they are probably working on it right now and we should not be surprised to see a backported fix in the coming weeks. There is already a long history of them doing just this; why do you think this time it’s different?
Yep. I don't care what the reasoning behind the scenes is. I care that a candidate got bamboozled.
Huh? There are no Americans like this that I know of. You become acquainted with it in elementary school because you get your selection of milks in the lunch line and you will rue the day you choose skim milk over whole if you aren't familiar with the terms.
> I'm on a team that rotates members pretty much every 6 months and have been put in charge of writing unit tests for a series of repositories that I have never seen in my life. I must also add that I had 0 experience with unit testing beyond knowing what the concept is when asked to start testing.

I don't think the concept of "unit testing" is the main problem here.