skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the article and had the same thought.

You're confident Google couldn't figure out who Devon really is? It is Google after all.
I do a lot of work with US state governments, it's the same story mostly. It's possible to get the approvals required for data to be shipped off to some "cloud" but it has to be FedRAMP certified and no data can move outside the contiguous 48 states.
I gave my daughter this advice about contracts in general that may apply to you: if you aren't comfortable with it, don't sign it. Do explain to the other party why you're uncomfortable with it, though. The point of discomfort may be negotiable. If it's not, then don't sign it anyway.

Is the startup requiring the noncompete just because that's what everyone else does? Often, when a company is requiring a noncompete, what they're actually trying to do is to prevent the use of proprietary information by competitors. If that's the case with this one, then maybe they'd be willing to use a nondisclosure rather than a noncompete.

These are just the thoughts I go through when I'm faced with one of these things. You are a different person with different needs, of course.

The solid advice I have for you is to talk to an attorney with experience in employment matters if at all possible to get his take on what that particular agreement means for you, and to think about the whole thing very carefully. For instance, if you'll be locked out of sorts of businesses that aren't of much interest to you anyway, a noncompete with this startup might not be big a deal.

Going to work for a startup is already taking a gamble in the first place. Being locked out of similar businesses should you leave can be a big ask of someone who's already taking a risk.
The website is waitlisting users.
Ah, that's interesting. I always thought it was a selective quote lifted from Deming. Can you tell where it originated? Taylor, or even before?
Especially if that person doesn't do anything during the day. Should be pretty easy to track using network logs for any decent tech company.
https://pianos.pub/piano/e8052482
Nope, not necessarily. My expertise is centered around the business side of things. Mechanics don't build houses for a reason.
It's worse for renters. Any arbitrary thing could cause them to be denied for a rental. Good luck fishing out what that is at each rental company/landlord.
step 8: move to the next startup for a +$15k salary bump before your code ever sees heavy prod usage. Mark your resume as "expert in web scale".
There is some "art" to it, but if you can draw boxes, arrows, and labels, you can make architecture diagrams. Basically, organize the boxes in layers and connect with arrows to represent request/response flows. You need to put in enough detail to make the diagram useful (or at least seem that way...), but leave a bunch out, otherwise it's too noisy. If you have too many arrows intersecting, you should rearrange things.
> That's just "works on my machine". OP did have problems, they posted screenshots.

Well, it worked on their machine as well without their fixes. Chrome's font rendering is the one that's the most off from my system behavior, but the article makes it sound like Fx has broken fonts. While it's just a preference from the author.

> FF's download manager is missing a feature that OP actively used, which is drag and drop of downloaded files. So from that point of view, it's clearly a downgrade.

No, it supports that. I use it all the time.

> If users have issues with a software, I think it makes a better impression to pick them up from where they are than to do some "there are no problems, move along, citizen" approach.

My point was that this isn't issues so much as things just being slightly different. When framed as "problems" it however paints them negatively, as if Fx way of doing things are somehow "wrong". That's my issue with the article, not that it points these things out.
I see what you mean. In my experience, I've seen those usually be called account representatives as you mentioned, while customer success was still just customer support under another name.
They did $1.447B in pretax income last year. This fine is ~4.5 basis points.
At least now the path to unseating Google seems not only possible but inevitable! Anti-trust investigations and lawsuits, the product graveyard, search seemingly degrading, and now getting trounced on AI.

I remember back when I felt Google was invincible but it doesn’t feel like that anymore. Can’t wait to see what succeeds them in search.
Decades later, Google would adopt this as an interview question (not sure if they still do it, but for a while they liked asking questions like this, I gather, though to see how people would approach it rather than to threaten them, presumably).
Nearly as bad as key-tones / clicks. I don't want to hear every time you tap.
I’m equally confused, but my guess is it’s a metaphor for ensuring talent is in your company rather than outside of it working for a competitor.
So so so so true. I am haunted by the ghosts of so many of those bastards. The place is like "oh no they left - quick hire another charlatan".
Ukraine will pay people who report corruption and bribery
Venn Diagram people are definitely weirder than List people (the 7 Different Types of....). They have to come up with wise-sounding descriptions of all possible binary combinations of the circles they made up. "Monkey with a gun"??!
I don't disagree. This is hacker news. We all know how skewed social media is. We all understand the biases of recommendation algorithms.

However, my point is not one of presenting a representative sample, but rather easily accessible and video instances of highly visible subjects to illustrate.

There is plenty of scientific literature on meditation induced mental disorders for what you prefer. I have looked at that too.
omg, you answered a question that's been bothering me for decades. I was never told the name of this prototyping system in the 90's when I had the luck to get to play with on in highschool. thank you!!
I'd hardly call it normalizing. The acceleration of layoffs has decreased, nearing a zero-crossing, but we've still got 100,000s of unemployed engineers floating around in the market.
Twitch is testing a TikTok-style feed
Extremely weird to call it "the old liberal orthodoxy" when its a system which is hardly even 60 years old.
What about a poster of good outcomes in front of a dystopia?
Every developer for Google who has on payroll is a developer that competitors can’t hire.

Google is large enough to impact local labor markets for specific roles.

If you tell the world that you can make $200k at Google to dick around all day, you’ve now caused your competitors to need to pay developers more money to attract talent and make them perform at a high level.
> In contrast, Tesla redacts all narrative and does not confirm injury severity. In over 700 cases, around 95% of their reports, they choose not to investigate whether an injury or fatality occurred.

The primary reason why all those Tesla cases lack those details, is that they're reported basically immediately when they happen, because all Teslas are connected to the mothership and report back when it happens.

The NHTSA page even explicitly points it out under the data limitations section, under "Incident Report Data May Be Incomplete or Unverified".

> This means that a reporting entity with access to vehicle telemetry may quickly become aware of an air bag deployment incident subject to the General Order, but it may not become aware of all circumstances related to the crash, such as surface conditions, whether all passengers were belted, or whether an injury occurred.

This is also the reason why Tesla are so overrepresented in the data. Almost no other automaker has connected cars, or are like the GM On-Star a subscription service that not everyone has.

All other reports have to come in manually though actual crash investigations, which can take time. Or not happen at all if nobody thinks those systems might have had been activated/relevant. For example, a car using driver assist technology getting t-boned by a manually driven car at an intersection will likely not raise any alarms about automated systems during crash investigations. But for Tesla they're reported, because they immediately know those cars were in a crash.

So in conclusion, as NHTSA has said, none of the data has been normalized, and lacks important contextual information to properly analyze it, and should thus not be used by itself to draw any conclusions.
Right, I quite often charge my Asus laptop with my MagSafe charger.
Sounds like it was out of warranty and the replacement fuel cell cost on an experimental limited production vehicle wasn’t something the buyer considered?

Sounds like it’s working exactly as planned.
Yeah naming your work laptop “girlfriend” wont get you out of this one
Does the TV series Silicon Valley no longer make sense in today's culture?
I expect nothing from interns either, but in this case he got a full-time offer after his internship which is the part that I find baffling.

He's either very gifted or got a manager/hiring manager that just went "eh he's ok let's give him an offer", which is the part that is a failing in processes in my opinion.
> The original document initially mentioned the 'software industry' and I indicated that by signing it, I would be legally agreeing not to work in the software industry at all.

If that's the clause, then 100% don't sign it. I've never heard of a noncompete that locks you out of an entire industry before. More typically, a noncompete restricts you from working at companies that directly compete with the company hiring you.

Personally, that they'd even ask for something that extreme, even if it can be negotiated to be less onerous, would put me off of working for them. I'd take it as a sign that they're a bad company to work for.
I wonder what "widescreen mode" means, I couldn't find any description of that on the page?

I have a couple of Atari consoles and a bunch of games that I bought on a whim a few years back, but connecting them to my current TV is no longer possible. This would solve that issue with the HDMI connection.
From an outside pov gcloud seems like the next big thing for google. Maybe largest since gmail. Does that match your experience?
Sorry for not answering your original question, but how could they dilute your ownership in the first company? Did you not have pre-emptive rights to also acquire more shares with the $1 price? Not sure how things work in the US.
I’m having trouble reconciling this with several threads over the last few days lamenting how hard it is to get interviews right now. Different position levels? Different sectors within tech? Not sure what’s going on.
I know a bunch of ex-Googlers who spent 8+ years with the company, and what cracks me up is that they all have some version of this "how the mighty have fallen" story, but it's always relative to their tenure dates.

Some remember Google as being fantastic when they joined in 2005 and then going downhill after. Some think the peak was in 2009. Some in 2012. And I'm sure there are engineers joining now who, in ten years' time, will be reminiscing about the golden days of 2023.

In reality, I think we tend to rationalize our decisions to join a company by imagining it's better than it really is, and then rationalize our decision to leave by imagining it's worse. More often than not, the only real change is that we've grown tired of the workplace and need a change of scenery.
Oh hey, thank you for SD Maid, my whole family has the Pro version and I really enjoy using it from time to time to clean up space. Thanks for this neat application, hope this will get sorted out!
It will take until 2024 for the job market to recover. The ARM IPO will be the first bell weather this year to gauge confidence in the tech sector.
The IA should stick to it's goal of actually being an archive first

https://archive.org/post/1126216/kiwi-farms-removed-from-way...
I wish there was a better approach for the problem of avoiding function calls when the log level at runtime is higher than the call site.

So,

slog.Info("failed to frob", "thing", GetThing(1))

Still calls GetThing(1) when the log level is greater than Info. The only solution right now for this is to test the log level before making the logging call. It would be amazing if language designers could make the arguments late bound instead or used aspect-oriented programming approaches to protect each logging call site.
Does this automatically find cool clips?
I had a positive impression of this article all the way until I came to the quote "Studies have shown that a mere 10% shift from car drivers to bike riders has resulted in a 40% reduction in traffic congestion" which links to another article on the same website(!) - which has a quote "In one such study, a shift of just 10% of commuters from cars to motorcycles resulted in a 40% reduction in traffic congestion", which has a link to some other blog post that has the quote "if 10% of all private cars were replaced by motorcycles, it would reduce traffic congestion by 40%" but no link at all to any study.

Doing some searching I found a link to the study, but couldn't read it because about half a second after loading it uses some Javascript or something to completely blank the page.

But I did find a page that does link to the study (that you can't read) and has this quote "The results came from a case study for a stretch of highway between Leuven and Brussels in Belgium and may not translate directly to other road scenarios, as the report states quite clearly that the effects of a modal shift are dependent on the local traffic situation."

So basically this study has no applicability to bikes, was done on the only kind of road you wouldn't ride a bike on, and the authors cautioned that you shouldn't extrapolate to other kinds of roads.

Man, what a disappointment.
Get a personal laptop, remote desktop to your work laptop at home… easy
We are essentially using it as a UI for the traders.
Unfortunately, it's easy to be mean to someone you never met or ever seen. You can let the know. It may help or not. Sometimes we don't realize we are being mean.

The fix will have to be within you. There will always be a nasty reply or post online. I know people that embrace conflict and push back just as hard. They find it satisfying. That's not me. I just let it go. If someone gets nasty. I just leave the conversation. There are other places I can spend my time. It's not worth dealing with it. If a certain place triggers you then don't go back. The internet is huge. You can find a place you like.
I recreated the NYTimes Digits math game, which they discontinued
The New York Times created Digits, a fun math puzzle game, but then recently decided to discontinue it. A friend asked me to recreate it so he could continue to play it with his daughter.

The goal is to create the target number using the provided 6 numbers in various math operations.
One of the design aspects is to make a distinction between functions with and without side effects (pure). In a way to tell these apart by looking at the function signature without having to read the function body.
The library uses a function signature without an input but with an output for this purpose. Aside from the trivial case of a constant function, such a signature can only mean that the function has side effects.

type IO[A any] func() A

If you consider this a valid approach, then the set of monadic helper functions make it easier to compose these effectful functions with pure functions.

This article https://betterprogramming.pub/investigating-the-i-o-monad-in... contains some more detailed reasoning.
A lot of the early FAANG hiring was to prevent staff from going to (or founding) a competitor. So build a pipeline to identify the people who are likely to build a competitive threat to e.g. Search and hire them before they get a chance to do that. Pay them enough over the years that they get lazy and start thinking about retirement by 35.

It's a bonus if they ship anything useful, and you have in theory increased the odds of that happening by hiring so many of the talented young programmers that graduate every year.
Yes, nowhere does it say anything about MULTIMODAL fine tuning being supported/unsupported when GPT-4 fine tuning becomes available.

This was my entire point. I did read the article.
From the conclusion of the article:

> If you need to get a few URLS fast, a ThreadPoolExecutor is likely the Pareto solution, 99% of the time.

I agree with this. ThreadPoolExecutor is easy to use. In general, using threads in Python to handle concurrent I/O is pretty simple and plenty performant.
There are 45km/h ones (speed pedelec), but then they’re classed as mopeds and you need a license.
Post Covid I think that horse has bolted.
I mean, maybe? I’d imagine they’ve messed with the numbers a bit as well for obfuscation. However, the important point is that the subject did this voluntarily.
Meh, it has to be proven in court.

Those agreement are often scarecrows. They aren’t valid in california afaik, and surely they aren’t valid in most of european nations.
Here is another view, which also explains where the logarithm comes from.

The KL between two distributions of a random variable, say Kl[p|q], says that if you made a perfect compression algorithm for samples from distribution q, how many extra bits/nats you expect to need to code samples that actually come from p instead if you use that compression algorithm.

And compression is all about keeping only the true information that is encoded in a sample.
The more marketing flash you put on top of that, the more I experience a sneaking suspicion that you're all style and no substance.

The second site featured is promoting "Become a 10x designer!"

That tells you everything you need to know about how substantive this list is.
At least one debit card kicks back 1%. Look around.
> If space was flat, which is your presumption, those would both be 1/r^2.

You forgot about red shift, which also diminishes the source, so, very very roughly, it's 1/r^3.

> Requires simultaneous behaviour from all directions at great distances while also not having that behaviour here, and also having us being really close to the physical center of this phenomenon rather than off to one side — even a fraction of a percent would be easily noticeable given the CMB is so close to the same in all directions; we see a red/blue-shift dipole from us moving at 370-ish km/s relative to it's comoving rest frame, so that's the scale of fractional away-from-perfect-centre you'd have to explain.

When we are in a fog, we always in the center of the visible area. With such larger distances, the probability of hitting something for a photon is very near to 1, even when interstellar space is extremely clear (hard to calculate exact numbers for me).

> You should be able to tell that's wrong by it being an unbounded function, when probability stops at 1.

When we see direct light, then probability is below 1. When don't, then it's 1. :-/

> You should look up Olber's paradox.

You should look at the picture of the darkest spot on the sky: it's full of stars. :-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field
Their stock price is up so they must be doing something right.
I have no idea who they are these days but I know more restructuring is unlikely to solve it.
You used to be able to substantially increase your comp at G with good performance.. The problem is that as the company tries to fit everyone in the same performance bucket and cracks down on spend it becomes pretty opaque about when and whether you'll get anything for the additional effort vs slotted into the same performance bucket as everyone else. This simplifies performance management, basically making it very difficult to get anything extra but it is also pretty demotivating.
All stimulants do.
Criminal identity theft is one class of examples. An example scenario from this class is someone passes your identifiers off as theirs while committing a crime. Nobody was defrauded, no money exchanged, but you'll still want to report identity theft.

Claiming identity theft is precisely the process to notify the bank (or others) they cannot legally abuse you to get repayment for that fraud or you are not responsible for those crimes or whatever occured on your behalf. Under identity theft laws they are responsible for the loss due to fraud, not you. The same as credit card companies. The legal system is used but as much by you saying "I didn't buy that house, clear my records and eat the losses" as by the bank initially saying "this person didn't pay their loan". To not involve the legal system by both parties just opens up an even worse can of worms of fraud.

One thing I do agree on is that anything that can reasonably be done to make the process easier on the victim of identity theft should be as the process is too hard on them right now. Probably more fines to most middlemen to increase the cost further beyond their losses. I just don't think changing the name of the crime has anything to do with that kind of improvement.
While inlineCallbacks exists, and indeed works, I would recommend not using it. I recall it not interacting with mypy particularly well, and in general being such a hack it had some annoying sharp edges. Explicit callbacks might be annoying but at least they are extremely clear on what's happening.
Yeah it wasn’t my experience either to be fair, I don’t talk to a single person from that time any longer. I found some of those experiences elsewhere in life though and I hope you did too!
I'm almost certain this article isn't real and was planted by Google PR to use as an excuse to force return to office.

It's important to note that Fortune is a blogging platform now and anyone can write an article there.
I agree. While Chrome's rendering may make the fonts more "elegant" and almost seem to be higher resolution/softer somehow, they are also harder to read and have less contrast.
What makes you think he couldn't and wouldn't do the same in the office? I had a government job in the early 90's and there was a guy who had a desk and a job there, but also had a real estate business. He took realtor-related calls in the office (loud enough for everybody to hear him doing it) pretty much all day long.
Yes, just via Bing.com for now. The only people who have OpenAI's API access (officially) are the BeMyEyes app for vision impaired users.

InstructBlip is the SOTA model for open source otherwise.
I had this experiment forced upon me recently by being mugged a few weeks ago and having my iPhone stolen. I had to wait four days for my replacement Pixel to arrive and so I was stuck using my laptop for anything involving the internet.

I absolutely hated it; it didn't help that I was looking for a job, but every time I went outside, I was worried that there was an email I was missing, or that a disaster was happening, and I was unable to react to it. I also really hate basically everyone else's choice in music so when I had to hear that in stores it annoyed me. When there was an issue that involved my rebooting my server, I had to walk to my laptop and restart it instead of ssh'ing with my phone.

I am very thoroughly convinced that the unplugged lifestyle is just not for me.
We published the Levels.fyi 2023 mid-year compensation report earlier: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/2023-mid-year-report.html

While volume of hiring may have been lower overall so far this year, median compensation has generally remained steady or increased in the first half of 2023 relative to the last half of 2022 for most roles. In particular, the median for software engineer compensation stayed the same, while roles such as software engineering management saw a 5% increase in overall pay.

Augmented reality was quite in-demand so far in 2023. AI engineers have also seen elevated compensation compared to their engineer counterparts, which we analyze on our post here: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/ai-engineer-compensation.html