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Vanishingly few people can get away with acting like that at work without getting fired. She thought she was an exception and she wasn’t.

I suspect it’s to avoid labeling the speakers as “male” and “female.” What a joke.

Similarly, nothing we’ve said is any more than speculation. That’s fine, but that’s all this is.

“This person didn’t behave how I think I would behave in this situation, so she’s probably guilty.”

But many people get extremely defensive and indignant when caught cheating or lying. Do returning half the money when cornered by Adelstein is evidence of nothing, either way.

If they were that unbelievably reckless, this wouldn’t be the only hand they cheated in. Yet there weren’t other examples of notable calls or folds that indicated cheating.

The simplest explanation in my mind is that this rather inexperienced player made a very loose call and got lucky. I can’t rule out the possibility of cheating, but there’s not enough evidence to make it more than a conspiracy theory.

Even if he was under a delusion that the rules wouldn’t apply to him, we can assume his parents would do everything in their power to reign him in if this was not some sort of strategy.

From what I understand of the interviews, he carefully avoided going into details, and instead used the opportunity to present himself as an “aw, shucks” borderline simpleton with a heart of gold who just got in over his head. He was going to be arrested either way, so how do you see this as not a carefully-planned attempt to improve his public image?

MS and PhD students start out behind and they’ll spend most of their time during the next 2-5 years on irrelevant things (e.g. 95%+ of their graduate coursework will be behind the state of the art; most PhDs will focus on a niche project that fails to have major impact or relevance by the time they graduate).

It sounds like OP just wants to learn out of general interest, which is fine. But others shouldn’t be discouraged. A sufficiently-dedicated person with talent and a strong classic ML foundation can catch up reasonably fast, to the point of getting their foot in the door professionally.

The problem always bugged me though. The word “inverting” makes me think of flipping something upside down rather than horizontally. Although that’s not strictly necessary, I’ve never heard the word “invert” used elsewhere in the same way.

The jury will need to decide if was incompetent or evil, and in that case, you definitely want them thinking you’re incompetent.

Instead, he’s launching an aggressive PR tour to rebrand himself from a genius wunderkind to a hapless fool who made some innocent mistakes. It’s a risky strategy, but he has two lawyer parents who are almost definitely helping him thread this needle, legally speaking, plus who knows who else through their connections.

I don’t know what the equivalent is for todays kids. Maybe Roblox or Minecraft.

Maybe so many people simply don’t view these as “atrocities”? Your wording suggests a privileged life, and ignorance of the practices of the vast majority of companies in the US, abroad, and throughout history. This is particularly true if Google is your idea of a company that treats its employees poorly, to the point that this almost must be taken as parody.

EDIT: Ah, it seems that spreading pro-Amazon, anti-Google sentiment is your main purpose here on HN. A short sample of recent posts:

> Apple and Amazon are adding real values to the economy and making positive contribution to society. Google and Meta are parasites

> I wonder if this bugs exists on FireOS. It's obvious that bugs like this will happen in a spyware company product like Google.

> I wish everyone would start using Twitch, so that we can have a proper alternative of Google/Youtube.

> Everyone should move to Twitch and make it a proper alternative to Youtube. I trust Amazon way more than an ad company like Google.

> Thank you for posting this. Moreover Google is a spyware company that holds users hostages for money. I wish Twitch can replace Youtube someday.

> I really wish Amazon would take charge of the internet infrastructure. I prefer customer obsessed infrastructure Amazon than spyware and adware companies like Google and Meta.

> This is outrageous. We need to find a way to stop Google. Google invades our privacy. Google holds us hostages for more money.

> I wish people would use Twitch more to make it a more viable Youtube alternative. Amazon doesn't have user hostile attitude like Google.

> I wouldn't trust any Google hardware - decomissioned or not. You don't know what kind of spyware they are running on their hardware.

> Exactly. IDK how people can use Google software. You never know when they will quietly inserts some spyware or adware into their so called open source software.

> Amazon is an amazing customer focus company. Google is a spyware company that only wants to make more by invading our privacy. Of course Amazon products will be better than Google.

And so on and so on. Very strange.

EDIT 2: Even more egregious, your submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=johndfsgdgdfg

The Democratic committees raised $853M in the 2022 election cycle, compared to $805M for the Republicans. If they had to deduct $50M next cycle to account for the illegitimate funds, it wouldn’t ruin them.

It really is bad, right, and not my imagination? I feel like I’ve wasted a decade of my life here on an endless string of bad first dates with no mutual attraction.

It wasn’t like that in other places I’ve lived. I mentioned this to a family member recently, and they said it’s harder because I’m getting older. That’s probably true, but I swear it’s rough in this city.

It’s a bit like buying a house here: you spend a huge amount of time, effort, and money, and end up with less than you’d get back home.

Hope NYC worked out better for you.

So my personal preference is (1) WFO for a Bay Area company in a non-Bay Area office to combine good comp and good quality of life, (2) WFH remotely, (3) WFO in the Bay Area, and lastly (4) WFH in the Bay Area.

Elite college representation is a poor metric because of legacy admissions, influence of donors, and the reported efforts to limit Asian admissions.

Look at schools with more merit-based admissions (MIT, Caltech, etc.). Asians are overrepresented to a much higher degree.

I’ve told this to myself many times over my career. And been wrong so many times.