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> based on my experience

I will throw out counter-experience that I did not succeed at technical interviews until I treated it like a fulltime job. In the past I just brushed up and failed Google's interview a handful of times before I decided enough was enough.

My takeaway ultimately is that how much time and effort one chooses to put in is entirely personal based on how much they want one of these jobs + what their gaps are in algorithms and data structures. Some people are going to need more effort than others.

Eating out is strangely expensive in most places in the US, compared to many parts of Asia at least. I'm not sure why. I considered density as a factor but if anything cities cost more in the US.

I think the parent poster’s idea is that a state is a necessary condition for a nonviolent company. In the absence of a state enforcing trade laws you’d just have companies running their own navies and armies to keep the peace, as was the case at times in the past.

Afaik there is a motion of tossing food in a wok where you throw the food past the rim and catch it again. The moment the food passes the rim, a small flame ignites from the high heat and food oils, creating complex flavors. If you go to Asian restaurants with a wok station or to Southeast Asia/south China you can see this in action.

The article doesn't mention this but "employees from Dr Bronner's" (so the story goes, since the event is supposed to be non-corpo) run a pretty huge camp at Burning Man each year, where they provide a large public shower/dance party featuring Dr Bronner's soap. This is such a nice thing to have in the desert where most people don't have running water that people can line up for hours to enter (plus it's pretty cool inside).

This was supposed to be a layup for Russia (90% success) and it's looking like a coin flip (50%).

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9939/kyiv-to-fall-to-rus...

I had read an account of someone from a tribe conquered by Rome which outlined exactly this. He complained about how his kids were educated in the Roman way, refused to speak the old language, identified with the new place, etc.

I saw a lot of common bits to how immigrant integration as I experienced in the US (granted, immigration usually implies consent where being conquered doesn't): the cultural divide between children and parents, new national identities, etc.

I'm not a lawyer, only someone who has a few utility patents. My opinion so far is that my patents are not particularly innovative, but I assume there's a numbers game to it for corp attorneys which encourages them to file these.

Also, afaik the more specific the patent (must have battery, screen, and connect A and B with wires), the less useful it is. So if the independent claims at the end of the patent come with a lot of caveats, they are less and less easy to find targets for enforcement.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this process reminds me of anti-virus software: finding code signatures and flagging sketchy code.

Hmm, I agree about the complaining publicly part. Doctors and layers who are partners in private clinics/firms tend to make even more (I've personally seen friends make $600k-$1MM+ a year cash), and the fact that we aren't talking about them at all makes me think that they just do a better job keeping compensation less public. Software engineering is a bit nouveau riche in the world of high compensation careers.

Nit: Basic in the expanse is not actually basic income, it's more like basic services: https://twitter.com/jamessacorey/status/902940152007462912

(Tweet from the author)

15 Commitments - Found this book from a Tim Ferris podcast. It's a mix of different frameworks mashed together. I found each to be very interesting on its own.

I've read a lot of these types of self-reflection books now, and I like this one because of its spectacular density: many of the commitments could be their own book. For example, a few of them directly relate to NVC - nonviolent communication, others on processing and dealing with emotions in a healthy way, others with recognizing and separating stories and narratives from base reality, etc.

Also I like that this book is very actionable, very hands-on.

https://conscious.is/15-commitments

Afaik spending is referred to as “fiscal policy”. It’s hard to saw what “should” or “shouldn’t be” without being aligned on some objective measurement of outcome. After all, for a given policy change there will typically be winners and losers.

It helps, my latest keyboard uses 25g linear choc switches (so low travel too).

I've tried the trendy heavy 60+g springs and I tend to get fatigued.

I haven't, just went straight to dvorak. Afaik Colemak has less intense right pinky usage but more same-hand rolls.

Losing the function keys is a pain, on MacOS you can use Dvorak-Qwerty which retains them, on my new keyboard I just have a new "command" layer which retains the old positions.

That's interesting, I do type on split ortholinear keyboards (e.g. corne variant) so maybe I'll run into that soon. My right hand pinky is pretty bad with flare-ups so it would be a welcome break for me

My observation with statements like this both for and against some event occurring is that you'd have to be very specific with the definition of "AGI" and "human intelligence", otherwise everyone ends up claiming they predicted the outcome correctly (e.g. ray kurzweil's prediction evaluations seem to me like an exercise in motivated reasoning)

I think this has to go both ways, many in this thread use phrases like "lack of morals" implying One True Morality scale, presumably one where surveillance capitalism is.. most evil?

I'd personally love to know what everyone actually works on. In real life I know people who work on guided missiles and ICBM-adjacent tech who manage to sleep well at night.

> One week or so ago I switched from Colemak to typing on QWYRFM due to the reduced load it places on the pinkies.

I typed Dvorak for 10 years before I started getting RSI again in my right ulna. It turns out that the 'S' key being hit by the pinky in Dvorak caused me a lot of pain.

I ended up switching to BEAKL, a pretty obscure layout which is specifically made to alleviate stress on the pinky. It moves the relatively common S key to the right hand pointer finger, for instance.

It turns out that the theory underpinning the dvorak layout assumes that homerow hits are strictly better than upper and lower row, but the pinky and ring finger are such weak fingers that it's often better to move the index or middle fingers up or down a row than hit a key on the home row with the pinky.

> - Learning to Speak the Microscopic Truth

I first encountered this idea from the Conscious Leadership Group (Gay Hendricks works with them), and now I can't help but notice that it seems to apply to HN comments (and the result of a given thread), as choices in the words and grammar of each statement.

To be fair the parent commenter's post doesn't claim that this process is even remotely efficient, only that it's reality and they find it easy to game.

Also more meta-level commentary, I find the word "should" interesting, as in general I have found that comments on HN which contain this word reflect a level of frustration that X is X instead of Y, because "X should be Y". Someone else may come along and say "X should be Z", and all the meanwhile, X is X.

This article makes a lot of pretty bold claims (not only pointing out a flaw but suggesting that there is a better alternative) without posting their own AI's image recognition results based on spike timing.

> One thing is certain; a new AI model based on spike timing will pop out of nowhere and displace the existing paradigm.

Ok this is one thing which admittedly annoys me: is this certain, as in 99.999% probability? And with what time frame? Would the author be willing to enter a bet where I wager $1 and win a billion dollars (since it has positive expected value for a "certain" event)?

I found this section very interesting:

> TAI is a statistical timescale which is produced at the BIPM by combining the reports from many atomic clocks around the world. Anyone who wants to find out what TAI it is now must mark the time with some local clock that contributes to TAI. Then some weeks after now when all clocks have been combined the difference between the local clock and TAI will be known. At that point it can be said what TAI it was at the moment of interest.

> There are several interesting features here. First of all, before 1977 the clocks contributing to TAI were not corrected for the gravitational redshift. Because most clocks are above sea level they tick faster than TAI should tick. Through the mid-1980s there is an annual wobble due to seasonal environmental changes at some of the clock sites. In 1995 a CCTF working group deemed that the clock frequencies should be corrected for thermal radiation, and the CIPM affirmed this in 1997. The steering of TAI to the corrected frequency occurred over three years from 1995 to 1998, and the final levelling of the curve over those years indicates that the frequency of TAI is now consistent with cesium atoms at 0 Kelvin.

Basically even with TAI there are all sorts of time deviations as an artifact of history.

It can be over 100% per year depending on level (more senior = more equity). Check out https://www.levels.fyi/

If you're senior L5, it can be around 100% per year even before appreciation. Above that and it starts going above 100% per year.

This is at least a real measurable prediction, which one can actually act upon by shorting various NFT projects or cryptocurrencies to the USD.

I would add the analogy a bit more:

1. The paper has an authenticated watermark which cannot he forged by any known technology

2. The paper can teleport a shadow copy of itself anywhere in the world: it can be inspected by practically anyone in the world, without the shadow copy being traded as the real thing

To be analytical about this, the question about luck vs skill is a narrative which can't be proven or disproven (short of having a time machine), but both parties in this story happen to hold the version which makes would make the other feel bad, and this story comes with a status shift, so I'm not surprised at the fallout.

Anyways after seeing how things shake up in my own life, I like to joke that I would rather be lucky than anything else.

Even Lee Kwan Yee the Singaporean PM said that he was grateful that if Sg was colonized, it was the British instead of the French or Belgians for instance. The British established institutions and provided a smooth transition… compared to the French or Belgian colonies.

The poll should be phrased as: Which FAANG would you short-sell relative to long positions on the others to maximize return in 5 years? Then at least we can measure performance, otherwise there isn't really a right or wrong answer we can evaluate.

The important metric is what percentile of the market band each company targets. The word on the street (blind) is that MS pays median to 60th, while G/FB pay at 90th percentile. Granted with how MS stock has performed from 2016 and onward, actual compensation has been pretty good, depending on when someone joins.

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...