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Yeah, Pandas would provide a pretty big improvement, but I wonder how much of an improvement one could get even by just replacing the c-style loop: > for qs in combinations(all_qs,…

> I prefer "endemic", because it is baked into the operators of the system... There was a pandemic of racism that we fought a war over, now we have to pretend it doesn't exist anym…

So much of my potential productivity would be lost if Dyson Sphere Program or Captain of Industry ran on macs.

Without wanting to underscore the seriousness of those problems, a day or two in the woods without access to email or a constant stream of news (Discord and SMS seems fine for me i…

Oh boy, I can't wait for insurance to start telling people that being able to smell or taste isn't medically necessary.

I would guess that it would be interesting if: 1. It's a sign that the tech layoffs are part of a more general wave of layoffs 2. Most of the layoffs were on their eCommerce platfo…

> people who are likely 25%+ and even sometimes 30%+ body fat that think they're in a healthy BMI range a Something I've observed is that people don't perceive weight on an absolut…

Not GP, but an ongoing concern I have with covid is that the "severity of current variants" is something that you can really only know after the fact and mild cases can still cause…

Yes, but with traffic (or reliance on public transit, and the Bay Area's n different transit orgs), a 10 mile commute could easily be more than an hour each way.

> who is building a product that is profitable? Just my experience from being on the job market, but a lot of places I've interviewed at have traditional ML models (network securit…

AI in games (well at least NPC style AI) is also kind of unique in that it's actually good to try to trick the end users into thinking it's more intelligent than it is.

Yes, like GP said: "marketing"

As always, "it depends" but it's very possible if you go with the understanding that you're going to live like a poor college student for the next half decade and don't want or nee…

Same, although I appreciate the work OP's putting into this, and would find value in the aggregated statistics (especially stats about the interview funnel.) For me, I just have a …

Doom and gloom article leading to doom and gloom HN discussion, just digging a bit more into it: The Meta layoffs [1] are hitting a 600 person department. The Amazon (Twitch) layof…

I went the exact opposite way as you claim, no reason to push yourself harder if you're still likely to get stuck with an arbitrarily decided layoff.

> I also found myself working longer hours, not having solid disconnected time To the frustration of my then boss, I noticed that I (and a lot of other coworkers) used RTO as a way…

Well flu vaccination rates are down from pre-covid levels, I'd guess more antivax sentiment's also impacting other common vaccines.

Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

Again?

> including accelerating the vesting schedule. Just curious, but how useful are stock options in a company that's 30+ years old and still private?

You joke, but I could see Epic one day being like "if your EGS account only has free purchases and you've never actually paid for anything, your account/games will be removed in 30…

Possibly a misleading title, the paper [1] is mostly of Microsoft affiliated authors, with one member of PG. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03926.pdf edit: I'm not sure what's part…

Number of years since birth of Christ tops 2023 for the first time.

The time series chart shows a pretty strong decrease in the number of layoffs the last month, which is something I've noticed on the opposite side, where I'm getting a lot more int…