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I tried that. I washed out after one year, because I couldn't sustain the laser-focused interest on the single area I was supposed to be studying in grad school. At an entire large state university of tens of thousands of students and classes on every subject, I was only supposed to take ones the advisors deemed "in my field".

There might be universities out there with "a la carte" grad programs, but I'm not aware of any.
Count me in. I was in college when this happened. I remember being a Freshman and Sgi had come to campus for recruiting with all these amazing demos on 6-figure hardware. Then my junior year I had scrounged enough money to get a 3Dfx card and my friends and I were all blown away by it. I didn’t end up going into graphics but remember we did a project for computer graphics and I was able to run my code on the 3Dfx.

It was an incredibly exciting time.
Why would home environment be more influential for GPA, which is a bunch of tests, versus the SAT, which is also just a test?

Extracurriculars I agree with, rich people are more likely to have connections to get the nice internships.
ok wtf am I reading here.

> most revered past civilizations full of healthy, athletic, and intelligent people

because apperantly they didn't eat breakfast? Is that what it's saying? Sorry but I think there's a lot of assumption here...
>Will an attorney give you free legal advice until you decide they are fit to represent you, or will you get free surgery until someone proves they won't completely butcher you?

These are bad analogies because both have extremely extensive tests that are not only unpaid but the tested pays a small fortune for.

If development had the same no one would be asking you.

>I will reply, "if you really want to hire me."

It’s not about hiring you it’s about trying to prevent hiring the wrong person which is extremely expensive in time and money and takes weeks to figure out.
I found this interesting -

How many people today use a meal as a reward for a hard day’s work? How many use it as a “festival” to enjoy with friends and/or family? How many take the time after the meal to relax and let the body digest what they have eaten?
The "white brand" stuff. Sure to be popular among certain groups but perhaps not for the best.
Interesting point, I haven't really thought about that yet.
I don't think this particular instance might be anti-competitive, but I don't know their reasons for blocking Firefox Nightly in this case. I'm just jumping into the conversation to tell you that "You saw the part about it not even recommending Edge" was/is incorrect, as it does recommend Edge.
> The whole contention is that these measures are not objective, and that they're biased in favor of certain groups.

And it's a silly contention. The SATs were invented by American WASPs. Yet the group that does extraordinarily well, Asians, are the most recent immigrants to the country, from places that have the least similarities (in terms of language, culture, political knowledge, etc.) to American WASP culture.
Isn't the whole point of Amazon generally, and these stores specifically in not having staff, that it's supposed to be cheaper? I think you've pinpointed the reason it failed, but I can't imagine why they thought it was going to succeed at those prices.
Those are all uniform packages that meet strict requirements. Grocery stores, including Amazon cashierless stores, sell things like produce.

Picking an apple, banana, or bunch of grapes off a shelf is more difficult for a machine. The items are not uniform in size or shape. For a lot of produce, no mechanized handling system exists for quantities smaller than a bushel.
This misses 90% of what I, a startup CTO, find valuable in technical hires. What I want to know is: what type of projects have you worked on, how did you develop expertise in those systems, what level of ownership over your work did you display, how well were you able to plan and design the solution to a problem, and how did you handle the execution over the X months of work to make it go live. Demonstrate expertise, curiosity, and ownership. “System design” is like 5% of the work we do, and it’s important, but putting the designs in motion and driving value from them is 95% of our time and that’s something we do not screen well for. The way that I do this now is a process with a soft skills interview, a coding interview, then a “case study/system design” interview where I have candidates write a system design doc at home for a project they have worked on IRL and use that as a starting point for a 45 minute panel convo where we review the doc and ask questions about their choices and how execution went.
can we infer from this that you believe there's some kind of central government conspiracy that never changes and is always pushing ahead with the exact same very specific plan?
Hey, that's pretty cool! The lang that targets this runtime is https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Kind
> Might just be drink being less affordable, or other drugs being more affordable rather than a fashion decision

Or they're just joyless teetotalers who've replaced their friends with SSRIs and amphetamines.

Inebriation is vulnerability. It's too risky to drink around other people these days, which is the entire point of it. I don't even see/smell anybody smoking weed despite it being legal and accessible...my local dispensary is a ghost town.

Loosened social inhibitions is a footgun, and drinking alone is miserable, so why bother?
Yeah.. I would put the Islamic fundamentalists under social conservative they want to resume a system from ~820 AD. AFAIK these kinds of uses of radical are poor metaphors and certainly weren't relevant in the 18th or 19th century.

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

I generally view most of that explanation of the US as propaganda. The founders of the republic were 2nd generation+ congregationalists who were more going through the motions than puritans like their socially conservative forefathers. Shay's rebellion really highlights more about the nature of the actual inhabitants of the young nation, the way they influenced the republic and the fact that they were entirely foreign to Washington. I also don't think many of them could vote until Jackson.
I agree with the article. The SAT is a chance for any student, regardless of background, to demonstrate academic skills and the ability to succeed. I was one of those students -- my SAT score got me a full merit scholarship. I wasn't as polished or accomplished as other students around me, but I was able to show that yes, I am smart, and that I can succeed academically at the college level. I did go to a korean after-school program to help study for it though.

I feel like instead of dropping the test they could provide free resources to students to prepare for it. At least get them familiar with the structure of the test and encourage them to do the best they can. A lot of kids like those in the article would stand to benefit.

The only winner from getting rid of the test is rich, stupid kids that don't do well regardless of how much prep they get. They then go on to cheat and BS their way through college and use their network to land jobs. Poor and disenfranchised students will continue to be marginalized.
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It seems like there is an inherent contradiction in logic at play.

If you believe that racial disparities result in real harm to certain groups, you would expect the impacts of those harms to show up on objective metrics of capability.

The only way to have a measure blinded to the impacts of inequality is to ignore everything about the individual being measured. Perhaps everyone has equal potential and capability at birth, but everything after that is tainted by their unequal environment.
People in general yes, but some particular people become reasonably skilled at it if they put effort into it over a long time
Have the “1 veto but hire anyway” cases gone poorly?
It seems to be about as good as gpt3-davinci. I've had it generate React components and write crappy poetry about arbitrary topics. Though as expected, it's not very good at instructional prompts since it's not tuned for instruction.

People are also working on adding extra samplers to FB's inference code, I think a repetition penalty sampler will significantly improve quality.

The 7B model is also fun to play with, I've had it generate Youtube transcriptions for fictional videos and it's generally on-topic.
Yes, during warmer months I just food scraps into my tumbler and I put yard waste in a separate setup. However, during the winter the tumbler ices up and opening it becomes a process.
Looking at the stats, something like 35% of the population is under 16 or over 64 years old. Then Germany has a labor force participation rate of over 75%. Presumably the remainder are disabled, full-time parents, independently wealthy or otherwise not willing to work.

I'm trying to identify which person is unable to buy a rail ticket who otherwise should have one. On whose behalf is the OP pleading?
I find the move semantics and borrow checker actually reduces expressiveness and modularity.

You didn't mention this in your list of good features. I think these are the main hurdles preventing full on popularity.

It's arguably not a "hurdle" per say but it is preventing popularity imo.
Microsoft is a huge corporation with multiple different identities inside of it, like every international super-conglomerate. The people who work on the OS are very different people who work on the web stuff.
Singular: Criterion

Plural: Criteria

SCNR
Well it's definitely a failure of the Amazon cashier less store concept if they railroad you into doing your returns there but then it doesn't even work.
> it would be FUD

I thought FUD stood for Fear Uncertainty Doubt—it's usually used to indicate that something is designed to sow fear for clicks or for some ulterior motive, not for insubstantial non-announcements.

Did something in this post evoke fear?
It's not a bad post per se but we've been reading similar, anecdotal blogs like this about making the interview process kinder for decades. Yet the only companies in a position to do a rigorous statistical test - large tech cos - stick with the traditional, somewhat adversarial whiteboarding process. I would even suggest that a strictly technical whiteboarding process can be less biased than what the author describes, because you can so regularly grade everyone on the same exact rubric. That's tougher when "pair programming" or doing a take home.

Also, stop giving take home projects. Bad candidates will cheat them and good candidates will not even do them. If one of the random startup names listed on the author's site sent me a 12 hour take home project I would delete the email. Do you think they pay twice as much as the bigger company that only makes you waste 6 hours doing a whiteboard? I doubt it.
I directly replied to your post saying:

> I wonder if the original author will be able to understand their own code in a few weeks

As the original author of plenty of this code, I'm reporting no problems 1300 weeks in.
Does the article contradicts itself?
"during the zenith period of Grecian and Roman civilization monogamy was not as firmly established as the rule that a health-loving man should content himself with one meal a day, and never eat till he had leisure to digest, i.e., not till the day’s work was wholly done."

"Breakfast as we know it didn’t exist for large parts of history. The Romans didn’t really eat it, usually consuming only one meal a day around noon, says food historian Caroline Yeldham. In fact, breakfast was actively frowned upon."

Part of the article suggests one meal at evening, the other part says noon. This seems a serious discrepancy.
Amazon lists lockers in buildings with controlled access as drop off points as well. It’s up to you to confirm you have access to the locker.

If you need an app to enter that store and you need to enter the store to return an item, then it’s pretty clear you need an app to return an item at that store.
Heh, I meant it in a tongue in cheek way. My dad thought it was too risky.
Conceiving the 2000s
I much prefer handcrafted stories and quests. Characters that respond dynamically to the story and the player's actions, however, is quite tantalizing.
The most simple answer is don't. Divorce it from the device, fully encrypt it and transfer it separately from your friend.

Then, when traveling, have your friend carry a separate completely clean phone. If he's suspected and the phone is compromised, it won't be found.

When you say state actor, it implies that they're efforts are funded with and armed with the vast resources of a nation which means they could manipulate regular citizens, police forces, or potentially bring a considerable military force to bear against this problem, so the most effective approach would be to separate the person from the information entirely.
It's weird that Celsius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit were so far apart.
You should mention, what kind of teams you've worked with and what kind of stuff you've built.
Every team has different requirements and hiring bar. In my previous company the low bar caused not so good (able to understand stuff, knowledge and connect dots) people be a burden to rest of team. Heck in 2 years, 4 important people have left the team due to hiring a bad manager (has neither tech nor soft skill(s)).

There wasn't growth in that team due to mediocre hiring and eventually all the good ones - left to other companies.

My current team is an infra platform and has lot of growth as IC. Everyone is learning something in-depth and are explorers - rather than blind sheep. The bar here is higher than the one for my previous team.

Our team requires you to know about whatever you talk on, not just usage but it's internals - why ? That's what we do daily. It can be about scheduler, checkpointing, auto scaling, concurrency, different data structures & algos, integrating with ecosystem, etc.

Even soft skills - like helping others, taking feedback, communicating clearly, etc.

Yeah so, mediocre will always be a burden to team.
Yeah, I liked most of this but "willpower" is a dangerous concept to me. I mostly believe it's a useless and terrible way to frame this sort of thing; it engenders guilt without helping.

Lack of willpower is really just "right now, your body can't seem to see the value in what you're theoretically supposed to do." There are two ways of dealing with it, one might be "no, seriously, this sucks and is pointless, so just DONT DO IT."

The other is usually, find a way to trick yourself. Play little games, timers, whatever. Just understand that "is there something wrong with me" is a trap. There isn't, you just have to figure out the trick.
Wasn't Quad9 started by IBM? The title of the launch post was "IBM Quad9" [0]. This doesn't seem like a small company.

If anything maybe the reason Sony started with Quad9 is because Quad9 is already a censoring DNS resolver, since by design it censors malware domains, and Sony is saying "well then you should censor copyright infringement too."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15712744
> Microsoft has a long and storied history of claiming superior business acumen when it suits their narrative, and then incompetence when that does.

Not to say that they don't play dirty, but this isn't actually a contradiction. When you hire 100k workers, you're going to have the smartest developers in the world AND the Urkels.

And odds are the smart developers aren't being put to work on the login page.
I think we can address the situation at hand easily enough without resorting to ad hominems.
> The people on "git blame" for this will end up being reprimanded in some way, in serious cases.

Ok, sucks to work at Microsoft then, it is not the fault at people outside Microsoft that they have terrible management, if that's how things go there.

> Someone has to answer for these individual fuck-ups, it's intentionally shitty behavior to be insinuating that someone did this maliciously under the guise of end users assuming innocence, thereby obscuring the responsibility for it.

Yes, management who are the decision makers should obviously answer for this, and if the culture is to blame some random engineer who happened to program it, the engineer is probably better off getting fired from such a toxic environment where they have to be some scapegoat for managements fuckups.
What gets my goat is all the self-aggrandizement. Drinking bad, coding good? As a non-drinking coder, that sounds hella gay.

I like the impulse of "do things, improve" and the positive attitude, but it overpromises and is light on personal experience. Overall stinks of wishful thinking.
I see they're still doing the usual back-button hijack that every microsoft website seems to do as well.
Why are people so weird about food? What about quinoa made it associated with rich yuppies? If you didn’t already know you would probably assume the main consumers would be dudes who want their chicken and carb to have even more protein.
> I think when you buy a device, you own it and should be able to do whatever you want with it (unless it's harming others)

Would that include cars and other devices which need insurance, to reduce the risk of harm?

Likewise whilst you could drive into a group of people and harm them, I guess you are unable to quantify the harm of your words or other people's words when communicating using devices.

You see many vulnerable people getting exploited into a variety of activities like religious terrorism, inceldom or working for the state. All of these claim to be for higher purposes, but the harm it causes is not always recognised.

Maybe if Apple and others explained what can and cant be done with their products it wouldn't be so much a case of Buyer Beware.
However you look at it, this "special basis" we live in remains a mystery. One unorthodox way to address it is to speculate that our position/velocity in the Universe is special. It might be that by moving at a speed close to the speed of light, the astronaut could observe the glorphs, but he will turn into a glorph himself and cease to exist as a human before he can observe anything. I know, it sounds crazy and contradicts the principle of equivalence. But, as Matthew Cook pointed out, the principle of equivalence of all bases is broken is QM anyway. Please think about it. :-)
You might want to remove the word for spoiler's sake. It is the same for everyone, like Wordle
The focus on individual-level solutions to resist the effects of social media makes everyone feel like a failure for not resisting. We need social solutions for social problems. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4046264
I remember that PornHub had for a brief moment in 2022 a PHP issue in the production site -- every comment was rendered with a closing PHP tag somewhere in it's content to the client (?>).
I'd be interested to see what a doctor would say if I complained that most water tastes the same to me despite a huge price variance. They probably don't cover that one in medical school.
Ha hi man! I actually played the MUD for a while recently, fun fun. Hope you're doing well. Think we're still connected on LinkedIn :D
The DMCA is the US’s implementation of the 1996 WIPO copyright treaty, which almost the entire developed world has ratified.
A scenario in which I can imagine this backfiring is if the new hire and the vetoer end up working together. With an open mind that could be overcome, as in getting positively surprised, but let's be honest, how many people do you know who really have such an open mind?
>Can you drive a car for free (for 5 - 8 hours) until you decide that's the car you want to buy?

This is a perfect analogy.

I went to a Chevy dealer once, asked if I could test drive a car and they wouldn't even let me take it off the lot. I was allowed to trundle around the rows of cars at walking speed with a salesman in the passenger seat.

I went to a Honda dealer, and they let me take a test drive with a chaperone, but only around a short designated loop of streets "for insurance reasons".

I went to a Mazda dealer, and the salesman said he was busy and tossed me the keys and said have fun.

An acquaintance went to a Subaru dealer, and took the car they were considering home overnight.

You a Chevy.
> all good officers left or retired in droves due to defund the police movement.

No. Your premise here is nonsense. Show me some evidence that protests caused "good officers" to leave law enforcement.
OVO launches EV charging tariff three times cheaper than UK average
On the other hand, I'm imagining roasting that chicken-sized egg in the oven...
Since it mentions the infamous interview challenge, I'll ask: has anyone ever "inverted" (i.e. swapped left and right recursively) a binary tree in production code?

I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever do this. Just navigate the tree in the reverse of your normal direction instead.

Why not ask the much more interesting and potentially useful question of balancing a binary tree? Or do something else recursive, if that's what you're after.
As a counter point there is Hanlon's razor

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
young pensioners in their 60s maybe, but the older they get the less likely they are to drive.

more than 20% of single (or widowed) pensioners in germany have less than 700€ per month.
only 40% of couples get more than 2500€ per month (that's more than 1250€ per person). the rest is somewhere in between.

so yes, pensioners do have less income. and twenty-somethings get student discounts.

especially very old people are often isolated and depend on public transport to get around.
Kraft Singles are only about 50% cheese, so it's fair to call them "not cheese".

You can get process cheese that is actually cheese from brands such as Boars Head. The "process" part just means there's an emulsifier added so the cheese doesn't break when it melts. Despite the sciencey name, there's nothing bad about emulsifiers.

https://www.seriouseats.com/whats-really-in-american-cheese
if

(age of the piece of wisdom / human lifespan) > 2

AND the wisdom or some semblance of it is still expressed or practiced to this day

then it's probably not bullshit.

The probability of a piece of wisdom not being bullshit increases for every additional generation it survives through.
Yes and developers often give free advice in interviews. However attorneys are not writing contracts for free to get jobs.
Modern web development has made it so that browsers are essentially just a VM for running javascript applications. Each megacorp (and mozilla, the odd institution out) browser is now it's own OS. It's no surprise that each OS is diverging from the others. Especially now that the W3C has been sidelined and the megacorp controlled WHATWG is making the calls (in the best case, in the worst, or more common case, each browser OS just does it's own proprietary thing).

You wouldn't be surprised that Windows or Mac OS can't run a linux elf, or vice versas. Same here. This phenomenon is web devs getting what they deserve and dragging everyone down with them.
> Will an attorney give you free legal advice until you decide they are fit to represent you

All but one new legal engagement I’ve entered into started with a free consultation. (The only one that didn’t was a straightforward real estate transaction where I knew the lawyer for years beforehand.)
Probably the most common pro-SAT take I see is: "I wouldn't be where I was today without the SAT, so therefore it must be a good thing."

Which is fine.

What _is_ narrow sighted is extending that to "Everyone will benefit from the SAT" and "the system must remain the same because it worked for me".

This article unfortunately drops into the latter category.