CretinDesAlpes

KOReader is amazing, I had an old Kobo Clara HD that I almost had given up on, and after installing KOReader I use it almost daily as I read a lot of documents on it. You can ssh it, so you can easily scp kobo to send/receive documents, like epubs, pdf or retrieving highlights you've made on the kobo.

Plus, it is installed on top of the normal kobo operating system via NickelMenu, so it's not really messing up with anything.

How can you be discriminated on a technical level? Is there even a case of a candidate who sued a company at a technical stage we are aware of? This seems like a weak argument considering the hassle of time and potential legal fees, especially for someone who is looking for a job? Although I could understand why a candidate would try to bring a case like this in the US.

Anyhow, it's not even the feedback the problem, it is that I have enough work experience to understand some of those startups seem to operate on a thin line between what is a technical assignment related directly to their core tech and getting free consultancy. The least they could provide to candidates who have involved time is what was expected.

My bet is the collection and reselling of personal information, legally or illegally. Many (most?) people do put their real name, real address, real phone number and real email on their resume. You automate this on linkedin and can get a lot of CVs, I don't think this is a crazy idea.

I've been on a career break / job search for about a year. I used to work in "AI" before it became fashionable, here are some observations of the tech job market:

1) There are so much BS jobs in BS companies it's hard to understand if those are even companies doing real thing (cf. David Graeber)

2) 80% of jobs in my field are about LLMs and technology no one understand or in companies that don't even know if they need it but are just following the trend

3) I've seen big and small companies posting over and over the same job ad. For example a big consulting group has been posting the exact same job for more than a year (really) on linkedin and elsewhere - each time there are more than 100+ applicants on linkedin.

4) Recruiters from 'serious' agencies told me it was the worst job market they know of

5) There is also a rise of fake recruitement agencies, it's very easy and quick to set up a page on Linkedin now with fake workers, fake images, fake jobs, etc.

6) The supply demand imbalance allows some small companies (startups) to ask for insane technical assignement that takes hours, which at the end looked like free consultancy. I had one that did not even provide feedback after a rejection, and when asked said "because we don't"

7) The increase of centralised platform such as Linkedin has increased competition. Everyone is applying to the same jobs, and many candidates uses AI to beat the HR platform. [This has been reported by FT - https://www.ft.com/content/1429fcb2-e0ef-4e47-b2b8-8bd225ac2... ]. Same problem as in the online dating market.

8) There is so much ghosting, that can happen at any stage of the process. Again, same problem as in the online dating market.

What they say isn't necessarily what they end up doing, like many corporations.

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

Especially since ownCloud was started originally by Frank Karlitschek who left to fork and create Nextcloud!

> In addition to Russia and France, Durov is also a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

So four citizenships? It's getting hard not look at this as dodgy.

Anybody has done breathwork naturally without even knowing about its existence? I didn't know any of this (had 0 interest in the body/yoga/meditation before) and I used to do this pattern of deeply inhaling slowly and holding until I can't really anymore, then slowly exhaling. Then repeating for a few times. Very relaxing. Although I know about breathwork a bit more now and the different patterns, I am not sure if this practice has a name (but I wouldn't be surprised to find out if so).

> The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a diсe.

Ahah, that sounds crazy/extreme, thanks for mentioning

Elder people have a lot to say and some (not all) have a lot of wisdom. However I agree that whatever advice you take and follow, you will end up making mistake in other areas, so at the end of the day you have to live your own life, realise your own mistake and correct them.

I have this game that I call "Coin of destiny", not sure where I heard this from or if it is widespread, but the idea is to flip a coin for dilemma when you can't decide. It also works in group. The hard part of the game is to take it seriously, in the sense that as soon as you decide to play, then the final decision is irrevocable and you must follow the destiny.

It's nice to see a link to some experiment/research about this process that seems positive - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22487/w224...

I experienced one of those strict Vipassana retreat for 10 days where most of the distraction you take for granted in today's life are forbidden: no reading, no talking, no phone, no internet, no physical contact in the premises and no contact from people outside. It's the closest it can be to a life's monk. Your day is clearly structured, essentially waking up at 4am, meditating, doing some simple tasks, meditating, eating, meditating, eating, meditating, sleeping. If you play the game (which I did), you literally spend 10h/day meditating. In a sense "boredom" just becomes an experience by itself which paradoxically isn't boring anymore.

As it's been noticed here, surely monks were not distracted by the same technology and at the same scale we are distracted to in today's world. When I came back to the "real world" from this experience, I could realise how much one life's was just constantly distracted.

Yes, he is known for this graph (The Lancet, 2010): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#/media/File:HarmCau...

I am more or less in the same situation (s/FAANGs/startups) with a shift in interests (though still interested in CS somehow...), would be great to chat if you are up to.

I don't want to hijack this post but I wanted to let people know I am running a Fairphone 4 (5 year warranty, 5G ready, one of the most ethical and repairable phone that exists in the market) with CalyxOS (which is based on Android 13). The experience is pretty amazing, and with a combination of FOSS apps through F-droid and microG + Aurora Store, I have managed to have a fully functional phone without connecting my phone to a gmail address/account. All my bank apps are working 100% surprisingly (I am in the UK and also have a French bank).

I am really grateful to open source developers spending time doing this, be it LineageOS, CalyxOS, microG, Aurora, F-droid or all the open source apps on F-Droid. It's also interesting to see how Google is now departing from the native open source Android, making its own version optimized for the Pixel phones (and only releasing their flagship app like Camera for the Pixel) and locking you in with a Google account like Apple is doing!

It's a good point, but I would say it's not awkward, just expected unless exceptional circumstances (for example two single persons sharing a flat and having similar interests at that time). Like any relationships, friendships evolve with time, you might get close at some point but things change and you are not in touch much for the next few years, and then the situation changes again and you are back closer. Don't you think?

I see this happening especially when people get in and out of intimate relationships. I think it's just life...

This is why we need alternatives to Google and Apple phones/OS, here is a list I have written over the years althought it may not be entirely up to date or completely accurate:

* Phone hardware alternatives to mainstream brands

  * Fairphone 4 [NL]
  * Librem 5 from Purism [US]
  * Pinephone from Pine64 [China]
  * FXTec [UK]
  * Volla [DE]

* Linux-based OS

  * PostmarketOS - "postmarketOS extends Alpine Linux to run on smartphones and other mobile devices. [See compatible devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices]
  * Mobian
  * Manjaro ARM
  * Maemo Leste
  * Pure OS [US] (purism)
  * Sailfish OS [FI]

* Others - mostly android-based alternatives

  * Ubuntu Touch "Ubuntu Touch is not based on the "mainline" Linux kernel, but rather on the "downstream" (that is, highly patched) Android kernel that came with it originally, with an abstraction layer, halium, to adapt Android drivers and userspace to Linux systems. "
  * /e/ foundation [FR]
  * Lineage OS
  * GrapheneOS
  * LuneOS
  * Nemo Mobile

  * CalyxOS

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This 2018 talk from Dr Yapko, "Keys to unlock depression: Why skills work better than pills" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgQ_tgWMyU - suggests a multidimensional viewpoint rather than purely biological. He says the causes are:

1. Biological. He says "Yes, biology matters, but surprisingly not as much as you would think, that when we look at what’s termed genetic variance, how much do genes play a role in depression? Is there a depression gene? No. Are there genes that make people vulnerable to depression? Definitely. So if we look at biochemistry, yes it’s a factor. If we look at disease processes, there are many diseases where depression is a predictable consequence. If we look at drugs, there are many drugs that have depression as a predictable side effect. Biology matters, but when we look at genetic variance, that figure is between .3 and .4. That represents a mild, moderate at best, genetic influence."

2. Psychological. In particular what is known as "Attributional/Explanatory style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_style), i.e. the person's habitual or reflexive way of attaching meaning to life events. He says "It isn't what happens to people that increases their risk for depression so much as how they interpret and respond to what happens to them."

3. Social

At the end, he says "the goal is not to cure depression, the goal is to learn how to manage your mood. You don't exercise once and now you're done with the exercise thing."

This is an interesting discussion as I wasn't aware that meditation could go wrong if done improperly (never really thought about it). I have only started mindfulness recently, here in the UK via an NHS approved course (though not free...) called BeMindful. I haven't finished the course but so far I like it, and I am wondering what would you suggest for the best next steps?

So far the list I have to explore is:

* Thich Nhat Hanh and https://plumvillage.org

* Joseph Goldstein

* Sharon Salzberg

* Apps (though I am a bit reluctant): Ten Percent Happier, Headspace

For those interested in the pulse rate extraction, there is actually a branch of biomedical engineering/computer science called "remote photoplethysmography" (rPPG).

I worked on it a bit at some point, it does work pretty well assuming you don't move that much and the light isn't too bad. As you can imagine, it's more difficult to estimate on non-white faces, particularly very dark skin tones. All the algorithms (at least until 2016) differ in the way of combining the RGB signals into a pulse signal by making different assumptions.

If you are interested more, Philips in the Netherlands are particularly active in this research domain, one of the main application being non-contact pulse estimation in hospitals for example.

If you have to work during your holidays then they shouldn't be called holidays.

Completely agree. If you can't read documentation's software, you shouldn't do data science/ML in any cases.

Really? Myself and most of my friends have never taken a black cab and will never do. We always go for Uber, much cleaner, less expensive and friendly drivers.

Unfortunately the black cab lobby is too powerful for the mayor to do much in my opinion. The slightest change make them go blocking entire streets with their cabs. That's a shame because I still don't understand why they have the privilege to use bus lanes over normal cars.

Is there any book you would recommend on this topic?

I am European with not so much knowledge about the US justice system, but between this, Julian Assange's recent events [1] and this guy's book [2], it's hard to believe it is an independent and a fair system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Extradition_hea... [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47765974

I hate it when journalists/reporters do not link to the actual study. It looks like the related publication is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.02.020

Yes, it's showing the oldest son of a early matlab's employee.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2006/10/17/the-story-behin...

At least 1) debugging in a numpy-like env and 2) multi GPU training on a single machine with multiple GPU (last time I was using TF it was such a nightmare that people had to use horovod, a wrapper library developed by... Uber).

I've used tensorflow in 2016-2018 and switched to Pytorch a few months ago. My theory is that TF is used mainly because it is supported by Google, even if it is really badly designed for practitioners. In fact, TF was not meant to be public but was at first some internal tool at Google. This would explain why people at Google itself started to develop Keras or Sonnet (deepmind) at some point.

For anyone interested in research in deep learning with a python-numpy like environment, I can only recommend to switch.