I learned of the lid angle sensor due to my MBP draining its battery. Whenever I flew across the country I'd always end up with a dead battery. Originally thought it was some process preventing sleep but was spinning circles hunting it down until one night, I closed the laptop... the screen turned off as it was closing and just as it shut.. you could see the faint glow of the screen turning back on again. If I cracked the lid open 1/8th of an inch it would turn off again.
I had thought that the MBP (an Intel one) had used magnets to detect lid closure but alas that's when I learned of the lid angle sensor and all the symptoms I was experiencing made sense. Basically the laptop would wake up when shut and the screen would stay on the entire time thus draining the battery.
Ended up getting the LAS replaced which was not DIY'able unfortunately... but was a relatively cheap fix (~$90).
That which might be of additional interest... look at how the top 10 of the S&P 500 has changed over the decades[1].
At any point in time the world thinks that those top 10 are unstoppable. In the 90's and early 00's... GE was unstoppable and the executive world was filled with acolytes of Jack Welch. Yet here we are.
Five years ago I think a lot of us saw Apple and Google and Microsoft as unstoppable. But 5-10 years from now I bet you we'll see new logos in the top 10. NVDA is already there. Is Apple going to continue dominance or go the way of Sony? Is the business model of the internet changing such that Google can't react quick enough. Will OpenAI go public (or any foundational model player).
I don't know what the future will be but I'm pretty sure it will be different.
> Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study;
> So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,”
What is the nature of those miles driven by each brand? I've got to imagine that pure-EV companies like Tesla are predominantly driven in urban/city driving (shorter daily distances, more traffic, etc). In contrast to ICE cars which can rack up lots of miles on long trips.
1 billion Tesla miles I suspect looks different than 1 billion Ford miles.
> In 2022, the rate of crash deaths per 100 million miles traveled was much higher in rural areas than in urban areas (1.68 in rural areas compared with 1.15 in urban areas). From 1977 to 2022, the rates decreased by 61% in rural areas (from 4.35 to 1.68) and 51% in urban areas (from 2.35 to 1.15).
The ranking is still strange to me though. The model S is lower than the model Y even though it is smaller and faster, both of which should make it less safe, and the model 3 didn't even make the list.
Would be neat if instead an open-ended challenge ("here's some data, do something cool") the MTA instead shared a list of hypothetical or real problems to solve and provided data that could be potentially useful in the exploration/solution to the problem.
Also, considering they just got a 68 billion dollar budget approved [1] over the next 5 years, even a small monetary reward would be nice for this. It doesn't need to be a ton of money, but something other than "here's a piece of empty and memorabilia and we'll write a blog post" would be a good incentive
I think you are misinterpreting that article. The MTA board approved the plan to spend $68B but they depend on the state to give them funds. That’s the amount of money they are asking for based on the projects they want to complete. The state government has to pass a budget to fund that plan (or do something else). Additionally several current, already started projects are on hold due to the “pause” of congestion pricing which was going to be a funding source.
I ask this question - always - but it goes like this.
Q1: Rate yourself 1-10 on X language? Their answer is Y (and almost always 7).
Q2: What's the difference between a Y and a Y+1?
Q2 is real question with Q1 being there just for framing. Some people simply state that the difference between a 7 and an 8 is "just more experience". TBC, that's not a wrong answer.
However what gets me really excited is when this line of questioning shines a light on what the candidate is curious about, or interesting in learning next. It goes a step beyond just self-awareness that there is always more to learn. To me it's a signal that this person has a plan and a drive to grow oneself.
While I do not make binary hiring decisions on this question or any question; I can vividly remember the answers I was given to this line of questions by some of the best engineers I've worked with.
Couldn’t you just ask „what are you curious to learn?“ directly, instead of beating around the bush with awkward questions like „what would you rate yourself?“ that people have to „game“? It’s just another way of asking „what’s your biggest weakness?“ with the obligatory „my perfectionism“ response. I just skip the fluff and communicate openly.
Happen to be in France and can confirm (along with many others on Reddit) that cell service is indeed out. Interestingly it’s not one carrier but seems to be all the major ones (VZ, ATT, TM) and has been this way for 24 hours.
I used LangChain early on in it's life. People crap on their documentation but at least at that point in time I had no problem with it. I like reading source code so I'd find myself reading the code for further comprehension anyway. In my case - I'm a seasoned engineer who was discovering LLMs and thought LangChain suited that way of learning pretty well.
When it came to building anything real beyond toy examples, I quickly outgrew it and haven't looked back. We don't use any LC in production. So while LC does get a lot of hate from time to time (as you see in a lot of peers posts here) I do owe them some credit for helping bridge my learning of this domain.
It’s got a term - “garden leave” and yeah it was prevalent in finance. I say “was” because I think some states are changing laws wrt/ non-competes and this calling this practice into question.
First of all, taking any code with you is theft, and you go to jail, like this poor Goldman Sachs programmer [1]. This will happen even if the code has no alpha.
However, noone can prevent you from taking knowledge (i.e. your memories), so reimplementing alpha elsewhere is fine. Of course, the best alpha is that which cannot simply be replicated, e.g. it depends on proprietary datasets, proprietary hardware (e.g. fast links between exchanges), access to cheap capital, etc.
What hedge funds used to do, is give you lengthy non-competes. 6months for junior staff, 1-2y for traders, 3y+ in case of Renaissance Technologies.
In the US, that's now illegal and un-enforceable. So what hedge funds do now, is lengthy garden(ing) leaves. This means you still work for the company, you still earn a salary, and in some (many? all?) cases also the bonus. But you don't go to the office, you can't access any code, you don't see any trades. The company "moves on" (developes/refines its alpha, including your alpha - alpha you created) and you don't.
These lengthy garden leaves replaced non-competes, so they're now 1y+. AFAIK they are enforceable, just as non-competes while being employed always have been.
I think this still leaves garden leave on the table. The thing that can no longer happen is an employer ending it's relationship with an employee and preventing them from continuing their career after the fact. Garden leave was in fact one of the least bad outcomes of a non-compete as I understand it.
This doesn't mean you can scurry off a just build a competing product/service to your existing employer. You probably also have NDA and/or IP agreements too.
> The Commission found that employers have several alternatives to noncompetes that still enable firms to protect their investments without having to enforce a noncompete.
> Trade secret laws and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) both provide employers with well-established means to protect proprietary and other sensitive information. Researchers estimate that over 95% of workers with a noncompete already have an NDA.
Trade secrets would generally include anything from code, approaches to problems, product roadmaps, customer lists, etc (so spans not only engineering... but also product, sales, etc).
You already cannot use trade secrets from your last job at a new role. That's in pretty much every single employment agreement, spelled out clearly. That does not mean you cannot go work for a competitor and do something new there.
I've often wondered how often noncompetes get enforced/litigated.
I had to sign a noncompete once, in order to get a severance package when the company was going out of business. I asked a lawyer about it, who said don't worry about it, there isn't going to be anyone who will ever enforce it.
A buddy of mine worked in a niche industry and their noncompete didn’t allow them to go to competitors, even to do something different and in an arm of the competitor that was not directly competitive with the company. The company spent a lot of time and resources suing people and threatening litigation. Enough so that employees desire to leave and still work in the industry was chilled and the competitors in the industry started becoming very reluctant to hire from my buddy’s company.
It was pretty messed up and this rule fixes that awful situation.
Noncompete clauses have often been used by employers to scare their employees into thinking they'll be sued just for simply finding a new job at a different company.
I had thought that the MBP (an Intel one) had used magnets to detect lid closure but alas that's when I learned of the lid angle sensor and all the symptoms I was experiencing made sense. Basically the laptop would wake up when shut and the screen would stay on the entire time thus draining the battery.
Ended up getting the LAS replaced which was not DIY'able unfortunately... but was a relatively cheap fix (~$90).