skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who worked in the space - there are standards and commercial solutions which all do lots of good work (some are now unfortunately having to break into the AI space, literally because manufacturers are too cheap to use standards).

But they all come at some cost - my employer decided to cheap out slash invest in a highly custom in-house solution instead that relied on lots and lots and lots of data entry.
Most GPUs are non-deterministic - learned this the hard way in deep learning on pathology data.
This is for optimization purposes. In fact, you can set a flag in Pytorch / Cuda to disable this which comes at the cost of performance.
I wonder if we ever going to see anything other than Android or iOS. A third ecosystem wouldn’t be so bad.
The aluminum foil food container making machine is an equipment for producing aluminum foil lunch boxes.
And if you do all your dirty work in an IRA or other privileged account, nobody cares.
The people of China would find such behaviour reprehensible since they are honourable people.
I think there is like a skull and bones conspiracy that every founder who gets venture capital and every other mega company agrees to make interviews awful.

That way employees don’t want to go through the trouble and would rather just stay where they are, and will accept less pay than they could get.

It’s like a cartel and it works as long as everyone involved keeps up the gig.

It’s either that or interviews just suck and no matter what you do they will suck.

Or maybe interviews are just fine and people just need to accept they are stressful. If you can’t handle the stress, then build a good network with friends and relatives, and let a little nepotism make it easier. If you can’t do that then just accept you won’t get paid as much and your job might not be perfect.
The Dreamachine experience is currently touring the UK. It really is worth checking out. Incredible visualisations all inside ones mind. The music is by Jon Hopkins. An experience I'll never forget.

https://dreamachine.world/
But that was at least a year after the memo. They already had an incredibly polished system, Meego. Now Meego like WP7 had the problem of limited apps for the platform, but there were quite a bit more than WP still, largely due to significant OSS apps having been ported. There was also a good development story using the qt framework.

Also at the time of this memo, WP was essentially nonexistent. It was with Nokias switch that they gained some momentum and polish.
Source? With biometric identity system Aadhaar and 2FA auth for everything I find this hard to believe.
If it's anything like Europe, presenting at meetups and contributing to industry-relevant open source software opens doors both for hiring and being hired.

It's a lot of work though.
Wow, that is...really sane
USB9 V1.742.ac/3 ... it is important to be precise here, because otherwise, the cable will be incompatible and the systems involved will fall back into a safe mode that's essentially, but not quite USB 1.0 standards. /s

So, why exactly wasn't USB4 2.0 not called USB 4.2?
Let's flag it together, until it's gone.
> If my first interview is with an HR person, no thanks

I always think of these as a sniff-test. They just want to see if you are a real person, who can speak and recite whatever is on your CV/resume. If in-person, that you shower and dress. That's it. If you can pass that stage, you're on to the more expensive interviews.
Already answered that: corporations are surfing the public perception/impact of supply chain constraints and gas/fuel shortage - and taking advantage of that to raise prices and their respective profit margin.
Nope: structural inflation implies clear degradation of profits due to increased operating costs - yet, profits recently increased to record highs.
Couldn’t they have gone for both? Say an Android line and a Win line?
I have a pile of USB C cables and power bricks. One pair can charge my laptop, but only when used together.

Now I can’t charge the laptop without turning it off overnight.

At least all my displays work via HDMI/display port. Labelling for those cables is slighly less of a tire fire.
Rather than tearing down SWEs for being economically rational actors, how about starting a semiconductor company where people are paid more?
I see. No worries :) My comment was intended as being somewhat relevant to, but not directly, to yours. The same way you related your windows vs mac experience, I related my gnome to windows.
Cultural events should not be the exclusive domain of the wealthy. The free market is not God. Rubbing more capitalism into a problem makes that problem worse, not better.

https://pitchfork.com/news/ticketmaster-hit-with-class-actio...
Almost had an outburst when I read this. I don’t want to live in a bubble of happiness, I want to work hard, learn a lot and make the team/company wildly successful. To me that’s fun.
> The semiconductor industry sources heavily from the defense sector

What does this part mean, exactly? Are photolithography lasers just repurposed Naval anti-aircraft lasers or something?
I don't think your memory is all that great, because I remember plenty of caveats about how you could still catch COVID but symptoms would probably be mild - just like every other vaccine on the market has a percentage of effectivity. Perhaps drink less plandemic koolaid and read or watch more discourse from actual epidemiologists and doctors.
Give typos a pass, and if it can be explained as a typo, then it is a typo. That includes errant apostrophe's.
> In practice, most conferences don't want to allow transferable tickets because it ends up with a scalper situation.

In practice, whether or not scalpers exist is of very little relevance to most conferences, because...

> The scalper will annoy everyone and take any money that would otherwise go to conference.

...that money wasn't going to go to the conference anyway, because the conference is charging less than the market price (i.e. what the scalper is able to get away with charging). That money would go to the conference if the conference did charge the market price... and then the scalpers wouldn't have any margins left and therefore would have no reason to be scalpers anyway.

As for "annoy everyone", in practice that's also of very little relevance once the conference actually has your money. The only people it'd annoy are the ones trying to buy tickets, and it'd only be particularly annoying if scalpers were the only option - i.e. if the conference was already sold out, and therefore had already taken as much money as it possibly could.

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The more reasonable answer for why conferences don't want transferable tickets is because they often tie tickets to attendees' identities (e.g. photo ID) and that connection becomes impractical unless the conference is actively involved in the transfer process. The reasons for that are partially addressed through NFTs (namely: wanting to ensure that it's an authentic ticket that actually belongs to you), but also partially not addressed (namely: security, especially if you have particularly-high-profile speakers and/or attendees).
But at the same time, invoking the appeal to authority fallacy doesn't allow you to disqualify anything that you label with it.
On the one hand, yes! Yes yes.

But lesson #3 is still imo what most causes your #4. Having thr humility & where-withall to understand & appreciate your own limits of cognition, to be able to appreciate & respect the things you dont fully know: that is what makes the better person, that is what it takes to start to grow & mature.

Not wanting advice is not functionally different from failing to let oneself atune to & receieve the messages about. Accept, even if not fully understand: just register, just let it in a bit, if not necessarily yet take up.
Keep in mind that in large parts of the US, branches used to be banned. Every bank was only allowed a single office in one single city.

If you moved town, you had to find a new bank. Not just a new branch.

Obviously, that was a recipe for fragile banks, and thus frequent banking crises.
To dogpile into this, in ~2005 I had one of the worst preseed round experiences raising from Nokia.

They clearly had a mandate to make some moves in mobile, so we were in their target sphere. But the investor was just so slow about moving, lackadaisical in personality, and seemed like he was more paid to come into the office versus actually achieve results (regardless of whether they funded us).

I later read Clayton Christianson and immediately knew what he was talking about with old dinosaurs resting on their laurels.

Good riddance. Market forces don't always act in the interest of society, but when it does like this (v Apple, Android) it's refreshing to see.
The banking system is a pull based system. You go to a bank, the bank gives you a loan and creates the money as they deposit it on your account, they literally don't care what the fed does rather the fed has no choice but to create more reserves if the commercial bank requests them. The commercial bank does something like "You wouldn't risk the banking system to collapse if you refuse me reserves would you?" The central bank then goes "Eh, I guess I have no choice, we have to do whatever it takes after all".

Meanwhile internet propaganda constantly tells people that it is a push based system, that somehow the Fed is telling the commercial banks to issue more loans and then for every dollar in created reserves the commercial bank calls and naggs you that you should borrow more and somehow the citizens just keep falling for it every single time.
A date which will live in infamy...
Weezer's Lead Singer is still strong coding
Interesting. Thanks for the info
Yes and no. I'd say OS theory is also helpful when writing programs that run on an OS.

In the same way network theory is helpful when writing programs that communicate on a network.

I find I've retained a lot of my CS theory, but in a "quiet" way. [1] It only really surfaces when I'm talking about things with colleagues, and I take some information for granted, but ultimately work out they don't have the same understanding.

I do a fair bit of database work, and all that normalisation, foreign keys, relationships knowledge is "just there". On the other hand I only very occasionally have cause to do graphics work, so I remember the very basics, but not much else.

I also remember we did things, which I haven't used for 30 years, but which "holds no fear". I recently had cause to consider writing some code in assembly, and it may or may not happen, but either way I have no "fear" of what it entails, its "just assembly code."

So to the OP I say, your CS degree isn't about facts. It's about an understanding of how things fit together, and in your career you'll use that knowledge in ways you won't even notice. So relax, it's not like you have to write a refresher exam to keep up :)

[1] today I'd get basically nothing in an exam, I don't remember all the memory-rote stuff, like naming the 7 OSI networking levels, or some specific algorithm, or the theory of P vs NP complete etc. But I actually tangentially use that knowledge every day.
One of the best cases I've seen in a while for using the flagging functionality.
That's certainly an impressive list, and the overall knowledge base is fairly well stocked. There's a lot of curation going on there.
There are TV/VCR all-in-ones with no external inputs other than antenna-in. A VHS “coupler” would be the only way to route past the lossy tuner-to-baseband phase of one of these (unless you’re willing to open the TV’s chassis to bodge something in.)
In all fairness, Ballmer seemed to be right back then - the iPhone 1 had tons of problems with very little utility, and outside of fanboy circles was considered more of a joke. Not only was it ridiculously expensive, an unproven concept at the time and married to specific cell phone companies, battery life also was abysmal (they said it was up to a day, but from memory, people had to load their phones every four to six hours if they were doing anything with it. Compare that to the average phone back in 2007, which boasted battery times measured in days (weeks in case of Nokia)).

It only really got actually general-public traction after they dropped the lock-in to specific mobile providers and proved that screen typing was feasible.
Why shouldn't it require a thick skin?
He's a US politician .. hardly a climate expert.

He was relaying his understanding of the general predictions he'd been told and took things a little too literally on an accelerated time scale.

Increasingly underwater increasingly frequently as storm surges increase and mean water levels increase leading to greater extremes is a complicated sound bite.

"New York will be underwater" is simpler and turned out to be true in a literal sense.

I literally have zero knowledge of what he has said, I'm not in the US, I didn't watch his film, and I wouldn't watch a US political figure for an explaination of anything technical when there are better and more primary sources.
> I’ll admit my Google Foo is currently failing me [...]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Countries_...

> [...] reserve requirements were a very real requirement up until the last couple of years.

Mostly only in the US.

The whole Wikipedia entry is worth a look.

If you want to read more than you ever wanted to know, check out the works of George Selgin.
No you still don't. It's not about which Nokia employee. It's about whether they were external vs internal facing.

E.g. I can perfectly believe the employees of the DMV are super sweet to each other, while being the bane of customers.
Short distance electrical aircraft can and will will soon enough, by aerospace standards so in the next decade.

Long distance, what is currently served by exisiting commercial airliners, batteries are by far too heavy for now. Green fuel alternatives will happen sooner I guess.

Aerospace is changing fast currebtly, I haven't seen anything like it in the last 20-30 years. Interesting times in deed.
I would expect any halfway decent hire with real React and SQLite experience to be able to pick up survival level Vue and PG within those 90 days though?
At the end of the day JS is JS and SQL is SQL, particularly if you're a dev and not a DBA. You'd have a problem if they (say) have never touched a database before.
>This is only true among mastodon servers that connect to each other.

Most do, the default is open federation.

> As I recall, most servers would not talk to gab's servers.

It's hardly a surprise that most people don't want to associate with neo-Nazis and others with similar worthless ideologies.

The fact that admins can firewall off instances if they're are run by arseholes is a good thing.
I found a bug on a tutorial found in raywenderlich.com and sent a fix proposal. But I wasn’t even acknowledged. I wonder how I should proceed about it. Or this is just normal to open source projects.
Probation periods are also good for employees. If you arrive at a company and the new boss screams at you to work harder you can leave without having to stay for the full notice period.
Installing things that were spread across 30 floppies wasn't fun though:(
Click different points, then click on the first point (the one with a play marker) and keep clicking it until you complete the track
Thousands sounds about right to me. For example the only one I've played with is $15k (Advanced Cable Tester by Total Phase).
Did you try the Jolla phones? They tried to carry the Meego torch in their Sailfish OS (which currently works well with "last year's" Sony phones). Even though it has different UI decisions than the N9 I found it reasonably good over time, and today some of it's decisions (like using swipes for navigation) made their way into other mainstream mobile OSes.
I am a layman, but supposedly we have a pineal gland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland). It's main purpose is to manage our state of wakefulness based on light reaching our eyes. It manages melatonin levels.

I wonder if this device is modulating that system rather than some kind of "altering [of] the brain's electrical oscillations."
In his defense, the main objections he has are the price, the lack of a physical keyboard, and the fact that Apple had never sold a phone before. In hindsight those seem funny, but in 2007 you would have heard those same talking points everywhere.

If only we all had decided collectively that 500$ really was too much for a phone. No it’s like no one even checks the price tag because their carrier is slowly milking it out of them instead.
I like especially the jump from May 5, 2022 "...we will follow up in two hours to two months" to the next letter dated September 10, 2022, over 4 months later.
I'm a complete newbie in the ecommerce space, would anyone be able to explain this as I was a 5 years old ?
> Their fleet of trucks and aircraft is not.

A little while ago I drove past a giant blue pyramid dedicated to the grand and wise Jeff Bezos where I can only imagine The Great God of Online Commerce conducts his human sacrifice rituals on unwitting union organizers. Pretty sure they are currently keeping the management indoctrination ceremonies low key being Labor Day weekend and all that.

And people thought the Long Beach shipping container height restrictions were lifted over practical concerns…
I would have responded that the security of the original Bitcoin protocol will likely have been rendered void by quantum computers long before the full supply has been minted.
All consumers need to know is that more 'gbits' is better, so it's fine. I think that's true enough as a generalisation to be acceptable.
This may also apply to non-CS things you've learned in the past, such us biology, chemistry, physics, math, etc, to a varying degree.
Interesting (and sad), thanks for the correction.

I was using "Kiwi Browser" on mobile to ensure I had the right address, which is a Chrome fork that allows extensions (I think they're forking Chrome instead of "just" Chromium since it looks and feels like regular Chrome otherwise). In here, I still have it available. Might be high time to check for something similar on the desktop.
> So a company hires 50 people and 20 quit because the were not vetted proper[]ly: that is $3,685,000 in wasted money. Now, realize that this $3,685,000 is in after tax dollars, so if the company's profit margin is 15%, it takes $24,566,667 in product and/or service sales to cover those wasted hiring expenses.

Why would a company's operating expenses be in after tax dollars? The whole point of a "before tax" / "after tax" distinction is that operating expenses are before tax.

And the profit margin is not a constant. If you have a certain amount of revenue, and then your expenses go up... that means your profit margin has shrunk.

None of the costs you list would come out of profit, because... they are operating expenses. By definition, profit is what's left after they're covered.

It's next to impossible to figure out what you're trying to say, but my suggestion to you is to model some cash flows. Don't even think about a "profit margin".

> Employee decides the job is not a good fit for him or her and quits 9 months later: $90,000 wasted.

Interesting philosophy. By extension, if the employee decides the job is not a good fit and quits after 240 months, you just wasted $2,400,000.
Large industrial projects brought most of the civilization advances we enjoy today:
What were then Concorde, the US Interstate Highway System, LHC, Hoover Dam and the Apollo Program?

But yes, Europe needs a genuine Hamiltonian Moment (share the debt burden) and also a genuine New Deal, instead of the current beggar-thy-neighbor EU order where Germany & friends benefit all.
I mean it sounds comfortable, and minimally stressful, but if it’s not that you can’t have kids, you should start a family. You’re now in such a good position to do it!

Then your life can be chaotic, messy, stressful, and you lose much freedom for many years! But on the plus side you learn to sacrifice everything you’ve done and earned for the good of children who don’t even know how to appreciate it!
Confirming this URL works.

I sometimes feel guilty about watching the UK stumble with mortal wounds like this, as if it’s some grotesque medieval entertainment. Starmer should unwind the pear of anguish and say he’ll investigate reversing Brexit.
My best interview experiences were with companies that either documented their full interview process on their website or told me beforehand how many rounds there are going to be and what to expect during each round.
This includes sending me a onepager about each interview partner, so I could get to know something about them before meeting them.

In the end there was one extra interview (after the three they told me about beforehand), but that was because my requested salary was higher than the company expected, so they wanted to make sure I was a good fit.

EDIT: Those companies also scheduled all interviews for the same day. This way I could receive the offer/rejection within less than one week.
Actually a light novel was the original source.
(https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2...)
Agreed. I loved my Nokia N9. The software was great! The Nokia N9 alarm clock was the best alarm clock app I've ever used.

Android have copied some elements of this but it's nowhere near as simple!

The hardware was fantastic as well. I dropped mine several times without a case and it never broke.

The TI dac sounded great with my Sony XBA-3 iems I had at the time.

I did hate the USB port cover though. And hated that they didn't have a dedicated camera button like the N8 and n97.
Agree. It wasn’t really until around the iPhone 4 that the iPhone seemed to find its stride, which was released at least three years after this interview. Before that it’d be hard to argue it had greater utility than other high-end smartphones of the day.

But what Jobs and Apple had was a longterm vision… And exceptional marketing.
This is not necessarily true. A power plant is only like 40% efficient at turning gas into electricity, but fuel cells are 40-50% efficient. This isn’t like comparing a car to a power plant which has a relatively inefficient internal combustion engine.

In practical terms, a therm of gas has about 30kWH of heat energy and costs $2.27 in California, for example. That’s $0.075 per kWh. Fuel cells are something like 40-50% efficient at converting gas into electricity and can even recover the rest as heat..so say it costs you $0.15 per kWh. That’s almost 50% cheaper than PG&Es Tier2 for residential electricity, and gas does not have the same issues with brownouts and power cuts, and you get 50% of the power back as heat. Fuel cells are silent, portable, and unobtrusive, and can scale to demand with extreme efficiency (Unlike power plants). Personally, if they were available I would seriously consider one.
I bought the Xperia X and paid for Jolla with android support.

It's a horrible buggy mess. Nothing like the smooth experience of the meego/Maemo n9
I worked an application that was distributed as part of the OS for pretty much every nokia symbian phone. We hired quite a few folks who had worked directly for Symbian. The stories were crazy.

There were major components people refused to even touch (like messaging) because the code was basically unmaintainable. An aggressive refactor of the entire OS was needed but they never really got comfortable with that. Symbian was originally essentially an operating system targeted at a calculator that outgrew itself several times over.

The first modern slab phone I ever saw wasn’t an iPhone… it was a Nokia prototype in like 2005. If they had a real operating system in place maybe Nokia is the world’s most valuable company today.
Omg, so off the point.

CDK has completely changed my understanding of infrastructure. So cool to be able to abstract and reuse components