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by uh_uh 6y ago
This is quite an interesting data point. I'd expect one with this level of dysfunction not to be able to communicate well with clients either. People are complicated.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Sounds like quite the nightmare. Was the person at least technically competent in their role?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
What are the more modern technologies you are referring to?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
If your frontend is on CDN, how are you handling auth? Do you use Firebase for that?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
How is this possible? What was the signal that told the cat it was going in the right or wrong direction?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Probably naive idea: Would it be possible to set up an insurance fund for this? As in, the money would be used to sue FAANG for damages in cases when businesses are lost due to them being flagged/blacklisted by FAANG incorrectly. If en
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by uh_uh 6y ago
I am a TypeScript fan but I do acknowledge the existence of the tax. TS is another cog in the machine that does useful work but can sometimes confusingly interact with other cogs (e.g. miles long unreadable TS errors coming out of React). U
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Maybe we should do both. I take an issue with the argument that bad actors can make their own tools. Bad actors can also build their own nuclear weapons, genetically engineer their own deadly diseases but there's certainly value in not
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Yeah, I realised I was talking BS. Unfortunately HN doesn't allow me to edit/delete the comment anymore.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
I'm curious, what will Mitchell's and Gebru's career prospects be from now on? After badmouthing their employer publicly, sharing internal communication, I just don't see who in their right minds would hire them.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
I thought that the ads are from Daniel's email client. Not that it detracts from your point.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
It seems like the locking is page-level in "wal" and "wal2" modes: > Usually, SQLite allows at most one writer to proceed concurrently. The BEGIN CONCURRENT enhancement allows multiple writers to process write transac
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by uh_uh 6y ago
This surprises me as I thought SQLite locks are db-level, not table-level. Is this not the case?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
> When you do contracting, you outline a maximum number of hours you can charge. It's usually <=20/week for any given client if you have high rates. Is this really the norm? I was under the impression that charging 30+ hours
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by uh_uh 6y ago
This is great news, but I have to point it out. Some of the social media handles on the Board of Directors page are hilariously unreadable: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/board/ (Click the pictures to reveal them)
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by uh_uh 6y ago
I don't understand this part: > Basically, when you submit a trade on a broker, the exchange of money for stock doesn't actually happen until 2 days later, and the firm that handles that exchange is called a clearing firm. Befo
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by uh_uh 6y ago
One could argue that the whole situation came about because outsiders (Reddit users) caught the "experts" (hedge funds) with their pants down.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
> And, you drop the least significant terms of f(x) because g(x) dominates them, i.e. lim_{x -> \infty} g(x)/f(x) = 0. If g(x) dominates all the terms in f(x), then wouldn't lim_{x -> \infty} g(x)/f(x) go to infinity
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by uh_uh 6y ago
What you are saying is an ethical/moral consideration and it is a valid one. When I said it doesn't matter, I meant that FAANG is commercially not incentivised to account for the anxiety factor. Even if they miss out on good candi
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Doing well on whiteboard interviews can be a sign of high intelligence (a true positive result). But what signal does doing poorly on them give? Did you measure the candidate's intelligence (true negative), or preparedness maybe anxiet
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Yeah, I guess calling your managers "a bunch of privileged White men" is probably not going to win many friends: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1331757629996109824?s... I find her totally out of
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Multiple statements can be true at the same time: 1. Google has a lack of ethics. 2. Google's ethics team is not doing a good job. I'm not saying either of these are true. But if they are, there's no contraction here. In fact
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by uh_uh 6y ago
It honestly baffles me. I also expect had I - or any of the people I know - made similar threats, we would be fired on very short notice. The fact that Google just let this past threat slide seems highly unusual to me.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Debunked by whom?
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Excerpt from Jeff Dean's email: > Timnit co-authored a paper with four fellow Googlers as well as some external collaborators that needed to go through our review process (as is the case with all externally submitted papers). We’ve
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Not only that, but she threatened Google with a lawsuit _before_ any of the current drama happened (excerpt from her email with regards to the recent firing/resignation): > I’m always amazed at how people can continue to do thing af
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Didn't they push back on the publication because the paper was lacking in certain regards? IIRC it failed to take into account relevant recent papers, for example. Which probably could have been fixed if they didn't submit as late
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Getting rid of a person like this after you realized the magnitude of the hiring mistake you made is not going to be a smooth sailing in any scenarios.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
1800 people signed the petition. Google employs more than 100,000 people.
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by uh_uh 6y ago
Even if she didn't resign (which is questionable, because she did send an ultimatum), is it wrong for Google to fire a person who writes stuff like this? > I’m always amazed at how people can continue to do thing after thing like th

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