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by munchbunny | 2025-10-01 17:05:16+00:00
> often just translating between things, people and software, or people and people, or software and software. But it's almost always communicating.

How true this is. How much of our code, how much compute power, and how much human energy is spent entirely on transforming data from one encoding or schema to another, for the purposes of being able to apply some algorithm or human process to it? Sometimes I feel like it's at least half of our silicon, electricity, and human time spent just doing that transforming.
by g413n | 2025-10-01 17:05:31+00:00
fwiw our first test rack has been up for about a year now and the full cluster has been operational for training for the past ~6 months. having it right down the block from our office has been incredibly helpful, I am a bit worried abt what e.g. freemont would look like if we expand there.

I think another big crux here is that there isn't really any notion of cluster-wide downtime, aside from e.g. a full datacenter power outage (which we've had ig, and now have UPSes in each rack kindly provided and installed by our datacenter). On the software/network level the storage isn't really coordinated in any manner, so failures of one machine only reflect as a degradation to the total theoretical bandwidth for training. This means that there's generally no scrambling and we can just schedule maintenance at our leisure. Last time I drew straws for maintenance I clocked a 30min round-trip to walk over and plug a crash cart into each of the 3 problematic machines to reboot and re-intialize and that was it.

Again having it right by the office is super nice, we'll need to really trust our kvm setup before considering anything offsite.
by jonah-archive | 2025-10-01 17:05:46+00:00
Free-space optical transmission is a thing, though it's environmentally quite challenging. We tested some gear from https://www.koruza.net at the Internet Archive ~10 years ago or so (I've also built some 10G point-to-point links in my garage, though I'd hardly call them reliable). It is pretty cool to see a scratch build rather than using commercial transceivers
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-01 17:05:46+00:00
wanna say you are right. maybe the impact is different on neurodivergent, thats hard to have hard data on. HRs job is litterally to use a certain budget to fit all the ppl in, thats why they never give a raise if you dont ask, unless they need to give it to cover other risks (retention).

best lesson for me was an HR manager explaining it to me, after finally after 3 years i asked pretty please to give a lil raise, i was still trainee after all that time.

he smiled and said he thought id never ask. made me senior on the department matching my input. and told me this exact fact. He said, why should i give you a raise if you seem happy where ur at? never complain, never ask, never get.

its harsh but its good to understand certain hashness. Then you can work around it, step over that bridge, and be more active in tracking your input, their expectations, and showing them the mismatch deservant of a raise or promotion.

its often peoples shyness or false expectations that get them in such a situation where they feel very under valued. they are because they under value themselves or dont know how to translate/express their value to another persons perspective. another harsh truth. Especially if you are neurodivergent, the way you see things and another is further apart, so your words need to do more to reconcile that difference to generate mutual understanding.

in an ideal world this would not happen or be needed, ofcourse. but we dont live in an ideal world, and there is no switch to flip to make it an ideal world.
by chamomeal | 2025-10-01 17:06:17+00:00
I still remember my psychology class in high school pretty well. It was memorable cause we’d spend a week learning about some theories Freud came up with, and then there would be a very short footnote of “turns out it was all totally made up and never scientifically verified in any way”. I was like what? So psychology isn’t science??

Recently a friend explained to me that Freud really wasn’t a scientist, but he was so influential in getting western cultures to think about the mind in new ways that we still learn about him. Like nobody cared about psychology until he get famous
by cassianoleal | 2025-10-01 17:06:19+00:00
Yes.

With a Makefile I can generally just run `make` or `make <tab>` to have a feel for what's available. It's right there on my terminal, which is usually the first thing I interact with when I open a repository. If enough of the engineers use it, it stays up-to-date as it gets fixed and updated along with any other changes.

Documentation OTOH has a tendency to be forgotten and left for dead. IME this is especially true for internal documentation, and the closest to the code the docs are, the less attention they receive - since higher level documentation is more likely to be consumed by people outside of the team.

With a README, I need to:

* remember to read it * trust that it will have the information * trust that the information is up-to-date * finally, figure out paths to scripts, arguments and/or copy-paste commands
by SkiFire13 | 2025-10-01 17:06:27+00:00
> A non-key column gets a zone map / skip index laid out on top, which is cheap to maintain… because it’s already a column-wise slice of the data.

I don't see how that's different from storing a traditional index. You can't just lay it on top of the column, because the column is stored in a different order than what the index wants.
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by oscaracso | 2025-10-01 17:07:56+00:00
Social media platforms do not operate like the mail or telecommunication infrastructure. Suppose that a clique of high-follower verified users on X formed a private discord channel in which they coördinate false but plausible moral panic news events in order to foment spontaneous violent acts against minorities (for added effect, perhaps by pooling their resources into generative AI tools), and that both platforms refused to address this by shutting down the channel, banning the users, or even reducing their reach on the timeline. While there remain reasonable arguments against governing this bad behavior through legislation, it is plain that the social media platforms would be implicated in the negative outcomes of the behavior to a greater degree than a mail carrier.
by em-bee | 2025-10-01 17:08:22+00:00
the conundrum is that both sides have a bad track record in moderating content. governments in the past have used their power to silence political opponents, and businesses are silencing critical voices and undesirable content because it hurts their bottom line.

neither is acceptable.

the US made a good start by disallowing government censorship completely. europe could do the same, perhaps with a carve out for outright hate speech, and obvious falsehoods like holocaust denial. but these exceptions need to be very clearly defined, which currently is not the case.

what is missing is a restriction on private businesses, to only allow them to moderate content that is obviously illegal or age restricted, or, for topical forums, off topic, for the latter they must make clear which content is on topic.
by perrygeo | 2025-10-01 17:09:03+00:00
Google scholar has 5000+ hits on the term, I'd suggest starting there. Once you've completely your meta-analysis proving that it's all "bullshit", let us know. That's how science works. You think your 10 minutes scrolling wikipedia substitutes for decades of research? Surely, since you and your gut feel so strongly about it, the evidence should speak for itself.
by boogieknite | 2025-10-01 17:09:26+00:00
not autistic but i also mask like crazy at work. my experience is its the default mode in consulting

the first 2 years i had a sense that i needed to read between the lines in many conversations and asking for clarity on topics of budget, clients, and contracts was not done. to be clear: asking for details on requirements is completely normal and encouraged

ive become competent at compartmentalizing after 5 years. ive offered unsolicited advice to my less socially aware coworkers which only lead to more confusion as they had not noticed things said "between the lines" and have almost no interest in clients

i cant imagine having to mask through day-to-day life and a job which demands masking by people without disability. no wonder i didnt make it to dinner in the sim
by jszymborski | 2025-10-01 17:09:32+00:00
Thank you, I wasn't aware of that.

Regardless, incitement remains an exception to free speech the world over to some degree. Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights holds that incitement to discrimination is prohibited, for example [0].

My point stands, people of most societies globally believe certain speech should not be protected.

[0] https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...
by michallech | 2025-10-01 17:09:32+00:00
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by buran77 | 2025-10-01 17:09:35+00:00
This is why a lot of content is hosted on large platforms that handle this risk for you. But if you don't collect any personal data on those users your exposure is minimal but technically some jurisdiction could claim you allowed access to "illegal content" under their law.

Most of these jurisdictions can't actually do anything about it, but they can claim they will. The UK might actually be in this situation.
by sotix | 2025-10-01 17:09:40+00:00
I have been following Barilla's passive cooking recommendations[0] for years to great effect. You boil the pasta for a short amount of time and then turn off the stove and put the lid on. Takes a tiny amount longer than leaving the stove on the entire time but reduces energy use.

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by righthand | 2025-10-01 17:09:55+00:00
I think you’re conflating lemons with “mid-range product”. Apple controls a lot of hardware, leaving competitors with a huge disadvantage. So the mid-range market aren’t ALL lemons as you’re implying.

> To be clear. I’m not making the case that Apple haven’t made mistakes or lemons, but

I think the rest of what you’re saying is just more if the propaganda.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-01 17:10:17+00:00
Most people don't run any Python programs on their machines except for OS package managers. Google and others moved to Go, and the Python job market does not reflect these statistics at all.

Python is well marketed, with dissenting voices silenced, de-platformed and defamed with PSF involvement. That way many users think the Python ruling class are nice people. It is therefore popular among scientists (who buy expensive training courses) and students (who are force fed Python at university).

It has a good C-API, which is the main reason for its popularity in machine learning. Fortunately for Python, other languages do not take note and insist on FFIs etc.

EDIT: The downvotes are ironic given that Python needs to be marketed every three day here with a a statistic to retain its popularity. If it is so popular, why the booster articles?
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by pronoiac | 2025-10-01 17:10:25+00:00
I wonder if they'll go with "toploaders" - like Backblaze Storage Pods - later. They have better density and faster setup, as they don't have to screw in every drive.

They got used drives. I wonder if they did any testing? I've gotten used drives that were DOA, which showed up in tests - SMART tests, short and long, then writing pseudorandom data to verify capacity.
by ecshafer | 2025-10-01 17:10:29+00:00
I am not autistic in any way afaik, but "tiny hotdesking" sounds like a torture come up in the seventh circle of hell.

> This was at a company that professed to be supportive of neurodivergence.

No company is supportive of neurodivergence, if it actually causes a difference. They are supportive if your issue is you need to wear noise cancelling headphones, and they can put your photo on the careers page about how they support neurodivergence.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-01 17:10:45+00:00
If you stretch the "Renaissance" back to the Middle Ages (1300s CE), Japan had them in the Renaissance itself.

1500s samurais popularized a pasttime of reenacting 1300s samurais. Except, being Japan, they had actual relics of the period in pristine condition.

I know someone in the SCA who portrays a 1500s samurai who portrays a 1300s samurai - giving him two periods of costume to play with, without "changing persona" at all. Kinda.
by vpShane | 2025-10-01 17:10:51+00:00
Yes and no, worth reading in to. Yes in the sense of, technically laser but gets reconverted along the path in many ways, ethernet turning it in to frames after a receiver (modem, whatever equipment) then translates it.

Laser = over air, susceptible to interference like atmospheric things, dust, flies, also; since it's laser and over a distance, the photons will spread out. Beam divergence.

Fiber lines are carefully engineered to contain the light transmission to get it to where it has to go.

Microwave would be better than laser to my knowledge but then your packets are flying around through the air willy nilly. Things like SSL handshakes and unencrypted hello packets are readable.

But, anything lasers is amazing.
by goobatrooba | 2025-10-01 17:10:56+00:00
I vacillate between Logseq, Obsidian and paper. Nothing really pleases me fully, though I'm just a boring office worker keeping track of thoughts, meeting notes and todos. Basically I want it to be easy to carry around and searchable (which excluded paper) but also not bound to a single platform (kind of excludes obsidian), and snappy/fast (which is my grief with Logseq).

Basically nothing works 100% but right now Logseq is the go to tool as the daily journal and tagging takes away the barrier to I just starting to write. I have an automation that opens the app whenever I unlock my phone, to as much as possible avoid distractions. The next best alternative is probably paper.
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by Ray20 | 2025-10-01 17:11:28+00:00
> You’d prefer that the owner of a UK pro-LGBT site could be extradited to Uganda over some anti-gay law? Should BBC reporters be sent to the gulag for writing an unfavorable article about Russia?

Indeed, a good argument against globalization and international law. So yeah, fortunately, international laws and international cooperation are not yet sufficiently developed, and extradition requests for such reasons are not a common occurrence yet.
by internetter | 2025-10-01 17:11:29+00:00
I continue to believe that python is only still popular for the ecosystem effect. Students are taught it, a bunch of libraries were written for it, now everyone keeps using it.

But its syntactically weak? Python itself is slow? pip is awful (although uv is pretty good). Sometimes I am forced to write python because the packages I need are written for it but I always hate it.
by tclancy | 2025-10-01 17:11:37+00:00
>The filesystem is a great tool to get around the lack of memory and state in LLMs and should be used more often.

This feels a bit like rediscovering stateless programming. Obviously the filesystem contents can actually change, but the idea of an idempotent result when running the same AI with the same command(s) and getting the same result would be lovely. Even better if the answer is right.
by tptacek | 2025-10-01 17:12:00+00:00
I understand that. The core of the pedagogical approach here is Math Academy, not LLMs. (Math Academy isn't an LLM; it's a spaced-repetition accelerated curriculum centered on graded problem set submissions). But the LLM functions exactly the way a tutor would in a math course, and for that application, LLMs have become extremely effective; arguably more effective than human tutors.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-01 17:12:15+00:00
Reading the other threads as well, I got the feeling it's more a culture or process problem than tooling per se.

The excessively fancy UI issue can be avoided if the devs enter the process at the prototyping phase. And Figma can be used for that: start with a wirefame and get everyone's input, comments, or even let the devs make counterpropositions (basically MRs?) by tweaking a copy of whatever screens are worked on. And as the design gets closer to reality the back and forth can continue in Figma.

That requires team collaboration and the willingness to build decent HTML/CSS in the first place, none of which are a given, but for teams working at that level it's a boon.
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by stakent | 2025-10-01 17:12:32+00:00
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by deaux | 2025-10-01 17:12:51+00:00
Cursor will soon be irrelevant. The one thing that it excels at is autocomplete, and that's ironically the one feature they bought out and integrated (Supermaven) instead of developing themselves, which sums it up quite well. It's still making good money based on having been first to market , but it's market share has been in freefall for ages, only accelerating.

The agentic side is nothing special and it's expensive for what you get. Even if you're the exact target audience - don't want CLI, want multiple frontier models to choose from for a fixed monthly price - Augment is both more competent and ends up cheaper.

Then for everyone else who is fine with a single model, Claude Code and now Codex are obviously better choices. Or those who want cheaper and faster through open weights models, there's Opencode and Kilo.

The mystery is that the other VC backed ones seemingly don't care or just don't put enough resources into cracking the autocomplete code, as many are still staying with Cursor purely for that - or were until CC became mainstream. Windsurf was making strides but now that's dead.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-01 17:12:57+00:00
I'm not sure that these types of questions necessarily capture the different levels of what people might "see," though. I couldn't tell you the age or even face of the person I imagined, but I can say with confidence that they were male; I also didn't imagine the table in much fidelity, but I very clearly pictured the person approaching the table from my right side (his left side) and that when the ball fell, it rolled towards me.
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