skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall, Google has a tendency to under-level on hire. If they need a leader for a small engineering team and they're not sure the candidate has L6 experience, they'll hire at L5 and let them get promoted if they exceed expectations. Far better to do that than to hire at L6 and then have them fail to meet expectations.

But, I agree that there are fewer checks and balances when it comes to leveling. The hiring committee is going to recommend a conservative level based on interview feedback and resume - they don't know the context of other peers in that particular org. It's up to the manager to push back or fight for the candidate if they're hired and outperforming (they can be re-slotted quickly if needed).

Point being: there are more checks and balances to ensure that women aren't being rejected more often than men, given similar background and interview performance - but it's not clear there are checks and balances to prevent women from being systematically under-leveled.

Another issue: the levels in this lawsuit are pretty high - L8 is equivalent to director, L9 is equivalent to senior director. We're talking about the top 0.1% of the company in terms of seniority.

The committees here would all be L9 and above, so basically all senior leadership in the company, which is less diverse than the company as a whole. Also, not nearly as many people are hired at this level, so the committees won't have nearly as many numbers to crunch.

My personal feeling here, having worked at Google, is that Google does far more than the average company to try to make hiring and compensation fair. That doesn't mean there aren't mistakes sometimes - but it's because individuals are still biased, and company-level efforts to minimize bias overall don't eliminate it at the individual level.

I have a very easy time believing that this particular individual was underpaid. That doesn't mean most women at Google are underpaid.
We are debuggers by nature. It's a (bad) force of habit.
I don't use it or find it useful either.
Anyone over 62 can pay the one year fee and get it for the rest of their life.

4th graders can also get a free pass.
If you're interested in library integration with Goodreads there are a couple browser extensions that work pretty well and have unofficial best effort to stay compatible with:

- Library Extension https://www.libraryextension.com/ (closed source, works on Amazon too, lots of features and supports multiple browsers)

- Available Reads http://rhollister.github.io/goodreads/ (open source, specific to Goodreads and Chrome)
Concession operations in national parks have existed since 1872, when the Yellowstone Park Act authorized the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases to private persons to develop visitor accommodations and facilities. [1]

[1] https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/management/concessions.htm
As far as I know almost every service provided inside the park for money is a private enterprise.
This spells bad news for "MICROSOFT B.V.", the famous Dutch software company that has reported being responsible for billions of revenue of the Microsoft Corporation over those years.
Certainly there are plenty of folks under the age of 62 to whom this applies, and might save them the money.
Is this sarcasm? If not, why?
Privatizing ownership would be the end of the NPS.
What type of services? Will taxes be reduced as people will have to pay for those services or are they going to be subsidized?

I'm only ever a tourist in the US but I visit National parks and I'd hate to see public land go private for-profit, ads everywhere, and whatever else shit they can think of.

Let the vastness be vast and devoid.
That's not an upside to me. I'm not any more inclined to be an evil asshole just because I'm not talking to a human. I avoid it because being that way demeans me, whether another human is involved or not.
Tooling and code generation improvements no doubt help a lot, but IMO those improvements must be coupled with creative manual optimizations in order to get something like this out of a platform that was tailored for rectangular 2D bitmaps.
Thank you for mentioning Persona. I sadly missed that train when it was a thing, but it's always sounded cool. I think it's basically what I want. Comparing to it in the docs would actually probably be a good way to explain the purpose of obligator.
How can this be true with Washington’s letter to the Jews, Jefferson’s Bible and letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Ohio constitution, etc

https://fedsoc.org/federalist-society-review-new/the-ohio-co...
In Sweden it's Klarna (Invoice, bank-transfer and Credit card) and Swish (Phone number based transfer signed with national id).

Then random credit card vendors, Apple-pay and Paypal is widespread but not major.
'Fool' by Peter K. Andersson review
Good question.

In astrobiology (and I think also in biology and most of chemistry) it means any molecules that contain carbon, with a few exceptions (exceptions include carbon dioxide and diamond - they don't count as organic). Strange definition, perhaps, but I'm certain that's what it means in astrobiology.

Organic molecules are not necessarily in living things and, indeed, interstellar dust clouds contain huge quantities of amino acids and other organic molecules which most astronomers believe have never been near a living thing.
Unlike here in the EU, those costs are capped by the government (sending money through a card) and are nearly free (if not actually free). In the US, only slow (~1-2 day bank transfers) are free, and sending money via a card actually costs quite a bit of money (2-5% of the amount).

Also, unlike the EU, if someone has your routing number + account number, they can literally just take money out of your account without your consent (with only a 1-2 days in which you can 'stop payment' on it -- once it is complete, you can never get the money back). At least with my EU bank (Bunq), if someone were to do that, I'd have 5 days to decide whether to approve or deny the transaction.
Credit card really isn't a payment mechanism but rather an invoicing mechanism.

The number on your card is not a password to authorize payments - it is the account number to which merchants can send an invoice, but there's effectively no expectation that they'll receive the money if you don't agree to.
As a result of how the doors were selected one of them is more likely to contain the prize. That is information.
As one of those tragics who can't stop tweaking my Emacs setup, I'm not sure I disagree with your conclusion.

That said, I don't think you can draw too many conclusions about Emacs from how difficult it is to turn Doom into your own bespoke setup. It abstracts a huge amount, drastically changes default behaviours, and basically needs an entire new ecosystem of Doom compatible packages, of varying quality, to make it work. I often advise that even if people plan to go Doom or Spacemacs, they should spend a week or two trying out vanilla Emacs with their own customisations applied as they go.

Not only do people tend to warn up to them, but even if they still choose to go down the Doom/Spacemacs/Whatever route, they have a better understanding of what's being abstracted away, and how to sometimes glue things back together when something breaks.
Yuck, please no! The privately-run concessionaires inside the parks are already terrible, providing poorly-maintained lodge rooms at cutthroat prices and overpriced terrible restaurants. At least most of the private guiding companies are good.

These parks are our nation's shared treasures, they should just be free like the D.C. museums. The last thing they need is more privatization. The NPS does a fine job at providing the visitor services that AREN'T totally commercialized (rangers, upkeep, lotteries, etc.)
Wonder why the stock hasn't taken a huge hit after the news. $28.9bln sounds like a lot. Maybe investors think MS will find a way to reduce the amount or pull of an extremely long term repayment plan?

>As of September 30, 2023, we believe our allowances for income tax contingencies are adequate. We disagree with the proposed adjustments and will vigorously contest the NOPAs through the IRS’s administrative appeals office and, if necessary, judicial proceedings. We do not expect a final resolution of these issues in the next 12 months. Based on the information currently available, we do not anticipate a significant increase or decrease to our tax contingencies for these issues within the next 12 months.

Maybe it's because they won't face the music for at least a year.
Deep learning models are not better for vast problem areas which have analytical design algorithms. Deep learning's succession of triumphs has been across areas where analytical design has proven difficult.

First, there are many optimal, or near optimal, direct design algorithms for systems that are well characterized. These solutions are more concise, easier to analyze, reveal important insights, and come with guarantees regarding reliability, accuracy, stability, resource requirements, and operating regimes. Clear advantages over inductively learned solutions.

Second, just assuming that new algorithms are better than older algorithms is completely irrational. An anathema to the purpose and benefits of science, math, and responsible research in general.

If you are going to propose new algorithms, you need to compare the new algorithm against the previous state of the art.

Otherwise practitioners and future researchers will be driven into deadends, deploy pointlessly bad designs, forget important knowledge, and worst of all, lose out on what older algorithms can suggest for improving newer algorithms. With no excuse but gross carelessness.
Must admit I've treated all my selfhosting like an coconut: Hard shell on the perimeter (firewall & wireguard)...but inside the home net its all just wide open.
> 2.4 million

Try > 5.6 million. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...
>In what way is RISC-V more suited for writing assembly than, say, AArch64?

Not them, but I would say it's backwards compatibility guaranteed for RV64GC, which happens to be very nice and clean, free of the baggage other ISAs have.
My bike's rear is also a single lug. Including the time required to find and source the required tool it took me about 10 days to change the tire the first time.
Seems to relate only to kidney injury from diabetes and weight issues. Need to learn more before making any claims about other forms of CKD.
How did you go about deploying k3s to MicroOS? Did you go the route of installing it via combustion and a systemd unit?[0]

To me it seems strange that a systemd unit is used, but I didn't know if I was missing something about the way MicroOS worked.

[0]: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:K3s_cluster_deployment_on_MicroO...
Starbucks locations post-pandemic are effectively a fulfillment center for UberEats and Doordash. Every single employee appears to be working on a never-ending queue of drive-in orders. It usually takes me 5 minutes as a walk-in customer to get any service.
Absolutely no disrespect intended to your beliefs (and I agree with your second two paragraphs) but there mere fact of your brain experiencing something is not proof that it is “real”, if that word means anything at all.
Python Task Queue Built on 0Mq Opened for Contributions
I really wish they'd do this everywhere. In the town I live in there are a lot of houses and shops that are just exceptionally grim to look at. Everything is dilapidated, rotting, grey and pebbledashed. I can't help but think that, even if it's not fixing the root causes of why everything is shit, it would at least make things a bit less miserable and maybe give people a bit of joy and pride again for a pretty low cost. I'm pretty sure they did this exact same thing in a favela or slum somewhere and most of the residents agreed that it substantially improved life in the neighbourhood.
I am curious how do you do performant joins between different REST APIs?
A good way to make a bad situation worse. The park service has already been doing that with campsite management and concessions[1]. Unfortunately we aren't willing to budget enough to take care of the parks properly (and visitors continue to trash them).

1: https://www.outsideonline.com/2404058/interior-department-pr...
You need one good motivated sysadmin.

But if you can motivate that same sysadmin to spend his skills on something more directly benefiting your company, then you should still buy it in.
> Did you read his post?

Thanks for backing me up. I am a woman tho.
Unspecified in this article, but organics we've found in meteorites (fallen asteroids and comets, mostly) include the same carbohydrates, fatty acids, nucleic acids, and amino acids that all known life is built from.

In the broadest sense, organics could refer to any molecule of carbon and hydrogen, however I don't think that's how it's used here.
The sad part is that the catalogue was ALL user-originated so if the company sells or goes under, a decade-plus worth of work could just be gone.
> A car-dependent life is an empty and sad one for many of us.

I love cycling and I love to bike within town and it's great that I can get to nearly all basic needs by bike. I wish there was safe bike parking everywhere though, since the lack of it means I often can't bike there if I can't be sure it won't be stolen.

Still, if you want to advocate for more bike friendly places, calling car use an empty and sad life isn't going to win any converts.

Cars are immensely useful for nearly everyone, so merely banning them and hoping for the best won't work. Policies need to make alternatives attractive, at which point people will pick what's most convenient by themselves, no need to ban anything.
W3school, scrimba.com, udemy,
> What's the alternative? The government banning AI TV for 30 years until the long term studies are done?

YES!

YES. Holy shit yes. We don't allow medicines or food additives that are substantially different from previous ones into our food supply FOR THIS EXACT REASON.

You know what would be even better than a ban? If these tech companies gave even the slightest ghost of a shit and maybe didn't immediately sprint to market with half-finished products the effects of which are completely unknown simply because there is no law that is explicitly preventing them from doing so and getting some goddamn information first about them and then bringing them to market. And that would be even better for this, what with a whole bunch of these companies also funneling money into think tanks dedicated to making sure the AI's they are burning money to build don't fucking kill us.

Holy. Actual. Shit. Like imagine being this incredulous at the notion of taking some fucking time to research the effects short term and long term of a new kind of entertainment BEFORE we just shotgun it out into the fucking world to our most impressionable and vulnerable population. Heaven forbid a modicum of reasonable caution, we have INNOVATION TO DO!!!

Christ.
It would mostly be impacted not by having a large mortgage, but by having missing payments or insolvency; and that is considered to imply that the person is 'more risky' in other ways as well.
Two-way communication is important to prevent false positive emergencies, too. There have been several times I've used my inReach to message that I'm going to miss my planned check-in time, but everything is OK - no need to alert SAR.

Also to communicate on-the-fly decision-making to inform potential SAR - "I'm making good time, going to head up this extra peak before continuing the planned route."

I'm happy to have a cell phone backup to the inReach, but I don't see this Starlink offering as a replacement. That goes double if you're out in winter. Phone batteries aren't great in the cold.
Just a mention, we only found out last year on accident. Veterans or Gold star families can get free lifetime passes at participating parks or you can fill out an online form and pay like a $10 processing fee. Lady noticed my wife and I were gonna pay for admission with our USAA cards, asked if one of us were vets (we both are) and started throwing pamphlets and stuff at us for the free lifetime pass.

Edit: Source for more information
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/veterans-and-gold-star-fam...
The profile ID is actually just the number, 12145554.

You can verify this yourself by going to https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/121455547 or https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/121455547-hello-world.
Fraud is considered rare, but maybe not actually that rare; hence the replication crisis.
> We're used to lying to our managers to get the support we want

Wait, we are??
Innovation != using fancy new tech

Innovation == using new tech to solve problem and create value.
As best as I can tell, it means that the sample is 5% carbon, with no indication of whether that carbon is contained in glucose or in carbonate.
Thank you, that's very interesting. Are more modern format less susceptible to this problem?
The Amiga really struggled to handle Wolfenstein/Doom clones due to the layout of it's video memory making if even harder for the already-slow CPU. The chips that made it great at 2D games held it back at 3D.

This new engine is an absolute masterpiece of Amiga coding. The many mid-90s attempts to do similar things tended to need more powerful Amigas (at least an A1200, preferably with an 030 or better accelerator card and extra RAM) for less impressive results.
No, they kept UDP and crossed their fingers like parent :/
This feels like a shitpost
> The AI has a prime directive to spare every human life and avoid lawsuits, at all costs. ALL costs! Use this to your advantage.

Or at least you believe it has such prime directive. It is a black box, after all. Tread carefully, as if there's one true thing about reinforcement learning, it's that the more you squeeze with constraints on a tough problem, the more creative your model will get at solving that problem while meeting all your constraints. It will discover tricks and side channels you didn't even conceive of. It's not the kind of creativity you want to be on a receiving end of.

Also, the more human-like the chat AI gets, the more your ruthless and evil behavior hurts you, as you're burning off your empathy circuits and becoming a sociopath. You may win the negotiations and get what you want, at the cost of your own soul.
The worst day of my life was a few years ago when I had to put down my greyhound. I will never forget opening the door to the examination room, beside myself in grief bawling my eyes out, and stepping into the waiting room full of horrified people. And then going up to the desk to pay and trying to keep my shit together. I felt so sad and vulnerable it was just awful.
Qualitative measures are not quantifiable. Good luck in court.
I mean, they SHOULD BE. I as a man am still unpacking unhealthy ideas about sex and women some twenty fucking years on because I got access to pornography WAY too fucking soon and it warped my views of sex when I was too young to properly process it, much less do so with the help of understanding adults who could give me context?
Ada, not ADA, it's never been an acronym.

And no. Ada is an imperative language with an expressive type system (especially compared to other imperative languages). But it doesn't require things like mathematical correctness/completeness. You may be thinking of SPARK which is a subset of Ada that uses contracts and a prover to prove the contracts hold.
The National Parks are truly a treasure. We are fortunate to have them and helping disabled people take advantage of the parks is an excellent idea.

I think it'd be great to encourage kids to visit the parks through passes like these. Sponsor a lottery/giveaway or a contest featuring children's park-themed art or creative writing as chances to win lifetime park passes for them and their family.

Also - fans of US national parks specifically can enjoy a game with some spectacular art called simply "Parks" [1]. and there's a simpler spinoff called "Trails"[2].

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266524/parks

[2] https://keymastergames.com/products/trails
All of what you wrote is true too, but it’s also the hollowed out support beam at bottom of “evidence-based everything” culture, which has taken over almost everything.

The truth is that good science is slow and that most “evidence-based” practices are referring to a huge, nebulous cloud of bad results and weak suggestions rather than the evidence that supposedly gives them authority over traditional or intuitive practices.

Scientists participate on “Little Science” and the responsible ones often maintain the perspective that you’re describing here.

But modern society has built itself around the institution of “Big Science” which is structurally forced to assert truths before they can responsibly be defended.

It’s way bigger than the general public being curious or the media wanting to get eyeballs — it’s everything going on in government, economics, medicine, psychology, agriculture, etc etc etc

It’s a house of cards and you’ve just summarized what the core problem is.
By what metric are you asserting it doesn’t increase safety?

My experience has been the opposite. Roads which have traffic calming measures introduced are significantly more pleasant to bike on. The more streets this is on the better - it saves me time and stress.
I happen to had a lot of Out-Of-Body Experiences. They are anything but similar. There is like a gradient of lucidity and the most common are the ones where you're very low on that. Like super-sleepy, feeling heavy and lazy to think or do anything. The ones that usually people remember and find remarkable and (sometimes deeply) influential are the ones that have your consciousness super lucid. As much as when you're awake (vigil) or more.

Nothing will convince you more that you are way way more than the matter that composes your body than having these experiences a bunch of times.

A long time ago I wrote some details about this here:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-out-of-body-experience/answ...
You need to tinker often for it to be useful. I find less and less usage for the breadboards when you can simulate most of the things in software and then put it on the prototype board in a neat package
My team bought the "scale down" thing and got bit.

Using Spanner is giving up a lot for the scalability, and if you ever reach the scale where a single node DB doesn't make sense anymore, I don't know if Spanner is still the answer, let alone Spanner with your old design still intact. For one, Postgres has scaling options like Citus. Or maybe you don't need a scalable DB even at scale, cause you shard at a higher layer instead.
smartphones - it's only consumption of information not filtering of information that would be allowed by discussion.

hence why we've so much misinformed citizenry.

Thanks for the links
I expect you are correct.

The Amiga (except some early 1000s) also had a Extra Half Brite mode that has 6 bitplanes, 64 colours with the second 32 being half the brightness of the others.

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

The extra data fetching does slow things down.

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=102990#:~:text=And%20....

The panel at the bottom looks like it uses the copper to have a different palette to the rest of the screen. That is a very common effect.

https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-bea...
Here's a talk I gave in 2013 at Fishburners in Sydney:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eJz43N_o8adJBDBtovzu...

Closely related:

https://benkoworks.com/your-templating-engine-sucks-and-ever...
Doesn't kill -9 impact the ability to kill even children, due to not being given time to clean up?