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Ask HN: How to work when you’re supposed to?
I have to write these long memos for work but I just can’t seem to sit down to focus and write them. I end up procrastinating to the last minute and then push it out in some type of mad frenzy. It doesn’t feel good but I can’t figure a way through it.

How do you sit down and just turn the focus / execution on like a switch in the brain? For me I’m at the whims of my impulses, but it’s not something I can just switch on when I want. It makes my life really unsustainable.
May.

What you're asserting goes miles beyond 'may'. You're making extremely strong claims with no evidence.
Alito is literally calling out gay marriage and contraception as on the chopping block in that thing. I think this ends up someplace very very ugly very quickly.
https://twitter.com/stephenroller/status/1521302841276645376?

Have patience it’s coming. :)
> professedly Christian nation

There is nothing in federal or state legal documents that mention Christianity. God? Yes. Traceable to Judeo-Christian values? Yes. Christianity explicitly mentioned. No.
> It takes some mental gymnastics to say that elective abortions to 24 weeks is a “human right”

No one ever said that... and apparently you've entirely missed the ProChoice argument. Does a government have the right to prevent you from having an appendectomy? Where does the government end and you begin? ProChoice is about limiting absolute government authority, like, over your cells and junk.

btw the rights in question are already in the Constitution. We generally refer to it as the Fourth Amendment, though an explicit line limiting what the government can do also lives in the Third Amendment. With the 3rd and the 4th Amendments, any ban on abortion is necessarily unconstitutional, in that we have a right to be secure in our persons free from government intrusion, and the government can't force anyone to take on a tenant, even if for only 9 months.
really? their investment and financials seem to suggest that they are more interested than ever in AAA games.
I just do something like:

// TODO: Optimize this function

// TODO: Finish implementing this feature

I also label comments with BUG, NOTE and HACK, but not for unfinished items on a todo list.
"It wants to be free" is a ridiculous statement, considering that after full two years (GPT-3 was published in May 2020), there is no public release of anything comparable.

In May 2020, was your estimate of time to public release of anything comparable shorter or longer than two years? I bet it was shorter.
Can you provide substance to your claim that other Valve employees have talked about a sabotaging culture due to bonuses?
I’m experiencing that right now.
It’s crazy fast, too.

A few key people left, the team is somewhat overwhelmed. And now we have to ship no matter what.

Quality is dropping already.
I used Notational Velocity for a few years for taking notes in school. I was really impressed by the search/create function and have tried using the same paradigm in my own projects. I couldn't find an equivalent on Linux, so I ended up using Emacs which isn't elegant in the same way.
> A GAN can absolutely be trained to discriminate between text generated from this model or another model.

Nope. I dare you to do it. Or at least intelligently articulate the model architectures for doing so.

> What's hilarious about it?

It's a bullshit term, firstoff, and calling yourself that is the height of ego. Might as well throw in rockstar, ninja, etc too.
Well, through time and effort, I've upgraded my clump of cells to a bag of meat and minerals...
How do you figure this is bad for republicans? Most people are squishy on abortion. They support some level of abortion, but mostly in the first trimester or for life of mother or birth defects. All of which are consistent with the Mississippi law that the Supreme Court upheld.

Roe guarantees elective abortions to the end of the second trimester with few restrictions, and is well to the left of what the public supports: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730183531/poll-majority-want-....

Generally, when the current law is detached from public opinion, the party that seeks to change the law should stand to benefit from it. Of course liberals will use their vast media and cultural power to dupe people into thinking the Supreme Court just banned abortion. But most people will notice that the Supreme Court didn’t do that when blue states inevitably adopt liberal abortion laws as a reaction. And most of the people who will be really worked up about it will live in blue states that will quickly enact abortion until birth. I suspect most other states will pick some 13-15 week middle ground.

I can see Republicans fumbling the ball by trying to ban abortion nationwide. But I can also see a bunch of white liberals reacting to this by shouting “celebrate your abortion” and turning off the mostly Hispanic 3 out of 10 Democrats who identify as “Pro Life,” as well as a bunch of squishy moderates.
The references in that paper lead to some interesting rabbit holes. Here's one (Zajenkowski et al.):

> "Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism have distinct personality profiles. Specifically, grandiose narcissism correlates positively with Extraversion and negatively with Neuroticism, whereas vulnerable narcissism showed a reverse associations with these traits. Additionally, both types of narcissism have common antagonistic core as they are negatively related to Agreeableness."

Being agreeable if one has to engage in small talk conversation is the best option. Probably not the time to get into the optimal technological approaches in your particular field, even if that's what you've been thinking about all day.

Making small talk is such a chore... and 'uncomfortable silence' doesn't need to be uncomfortable... and please, Lord, preserve us from the amateur therapist out to demonstrate what a good listener they are.
Not really, bodily/medical control is a popular perspective on the abortion debate and it's a fairly classic human right, and as we've seen in the recent pandemic, it's a right that the US takes very seriously, more seriously than almost every other country. Wanting the unrestricted freedom to choose what medical/physical procedures can be performed on your own body shouldn't be hard to understand, I'm sure I can find a link to a better explanation if you're really struggling to wrap your head around it.

I'm not really sure what mentioning those European countries is supposed to demonstrate. Are Western European countries supposed to be the last word on human rights? I can believe France, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Spain currently violate a variety of rights I consider human rights, rights that the US upholds. Europe will have substantial political differences with other countries on how it sees rights, this is to be expected. This is a very odd appeal to authority.
"1KB" is not a quality. The article doesn't tell you not to use thumbnails, but rather compare images only at qualities you'd actually use.

So if you're interested finding a codec that is best for low-quality thumbnails in particular, then comparing low-quality thumbnail images is the way to do it.

But that section exists because there are many comparisons on the net where people extrapolated cheap-ass quality test to everything. It's not correct to find the best codec for cheap-ass thumbnails and conclude it will be good at other image types too.

Consider a simplified case of the classic JPEG vs "JPEG-with-blur-applied" codec. If you compare both at cheap-ass quality, then the JPEG-with-blur will look better: less blocky, without ringing artifacts. But the thing that makes it good at low quality obviously backfires at any higher quality, because it can't preserve details smaller than the blur radius. Modern codecs actually have features that behave like this (in-loop deblocking, intra prediction), so you need to be mindful if you're after quality ranges that are made better or worse by blurring.
Could anyone (successfully) apply for such a position with no referral but CV only?
If you have a Garmin, you actually have a lot of the features Strava offers through Garmin's free service. I don't think you even need a Garmin device to use it if you upload your data manually.

Maybe serious athletes and socialites rely on some specific Strava only functionality, but I find the Garmin service has pretty much completely replaced Strava in my own usage.
Is it true to say they are true coincidentally, because that kind of suggests randomly true. I understand the AI doesn't really comprehend if something is true or false. My understanding is the results are more than random, maybe something closer to like weighted opinion.
You're reading things at a very surface level, friend. Good luck to you and yours.
China already did that decades ago. They initially choose MIPS with their LoongSon processors in 2000s, and pivoted to arm processors with the mobile chips wave later with Allwinner and Unisoc. They had supercomputers running with their own MIPS cpus too.
I mean the Republicans can pass a law making it a crime to cross state lines to obtain an abortion.

For that matter they could try to outlaw abortion nationwide.

Not long ago Planned Parenthood was reluctantly defending the filibuster.

Do you think Congress is fairly constructed to reflect the will of the people?
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Can you elaborate on those last two bullets? Are they always in demand you mean?
There are small businesses worth tens of billions of dollars and small businesses with hundreds of millions of end users.

"Small Business" refers to the number of employees.

It varies by industry, anywhere from a cap of 50 to 1500 employees for Small Business Classification.

Specific details can be found in the Small Business Administration "Size standards methodology whitepaper" at https://www.sba.gov/document/support-size-standards-methodol...
Mid-career developer in the US government, yes.
I'm on a project that started with a deadline before we really even knew what we were building (months away from that deadline and we still don't). Despite seemly unlimited budget to throw at it, technical debt is out of control and we're already moving slow.

I get pulled into 8 hour meetings every other week where 30+ people try to "plan" our way into building faster.

There are countless challenges with this project, but the forced timeline is by far the worst of it.
Is it not more accurate to say that the court interpreted the Constitution as _already granting_ that freedom?

Unrelated to that:

> We have legislatures to make freedoms the law, if they'd do their jobs for us.

Yes, but it's important to recognize that this position presumes the status quo is basically okay (maybe not great, but okay). If the status quo is oppressive to you for whatever reason, you might not be so jazzed about a system with so many checks and balances that require overwhelming majorities to pass even popular changes. (I'm not saying it's a bad system. But I wish we were more candid about this really significant tradeoff.)
>"As Douglas Adams once said:"

Sure doc. You are free to follow and waste your time and money. I do not get a kick out of using half of the world resources for writing glorified "hello world". And let all those intermediaries control what you do in a process.

Adams Douglas was magnificent. Your attempt to use his words in this particular context however is anything but...
If we did that, then we’d have to fire a large percentage of Trump’s appointees, but they have lifetime appointments.

I guess that means they’re legally above blame?
> People focusing on the leak rather than what was actually leaked is testament to just how effective conservatives are at propaganda and messaging..

HN is focusing on the leak, but I do not think the larger point here can possibly be missed. I think the male/female ratio here has something to do with the framing of the issue. Women tonight are not thinking about how the leak affects workplace relations between supreme court justices. I mean... my God, what are they going to talk about around the watercooler?
So much this. To me, this reveals the deep hypocrisy of the standard anti-abortion position. I get that many folks consider birth control unethical and sex ed undesirable, too. But aren't they at least lesser evils? If one's position is "we absolutely have to stop all abortions, but also I don't want you to use birth control or sex ed to do it", then I have to think you don't _really_ care about the abortions as much as you say.
>The FF13 era was a massive disaster and they've never really recovered from that.

I think they've recovered from that for at least 6 years now, minimum

>I have no idea how it's relevant that he was the monster designer on FF5 to what
he's done to the company in a leadership role in the past 20 years.

well first of all, we're talking about Japan. Seniority trumps a lot of things over there, and Nomura being around for longer than 99% of the company would give him a lot of sway regardless of his named role.

But even leaving that aside, being the creative force behind a major franchise that bolstered the relationship with one of the most powerful companies on earth would get you some sway in any company. Even so, he's not necessarily the end all be all behind any grievances you may have with Square Enix. He's ultiamtely a director first and businessman 10th.
Any steam turbine plant needs a cooling system, nuclear or fossil fuel. You don't need potable water, seawater or wastewater can be used for cooling.
> OPT-175B has a high propensity to generate toxic language and reinforce harmful stereotypes

So they trained it on Facebook comments?
The Supreme Court was never intended to find human rights. They interpret federal law, including the Constitution. International norms are entirely irrelevant.

Women should be able to control their own bodies, so let's change state laws to make that clear in a way that doesn't depend on judicial interpretation. This shouldn't even be a federal issue to begin with.
It's never actually about the babies -- if it were, the same opponents to abortion would be advocating for pre-natal care, universal pre-school, etc.
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Not all laws have included such provisions (see for example BMJ 2003;327:1009 which was passed and signed by Bush), and those that do are so vague that it does things like leave doctors at great risk of getting their lives ruined for doing what they think is right for their patient or would make procedures that are medically necessary to save the life of the mother illegal any time it wasn't also an active and immediate emergency (such as in this bill: https://legiscan.com/MS/text/SB2116/id/1846191)

It turns out when lawmakers have even bothered at all to play lip service to protecting the lives of pregnant women they still haven't done a very good job actually making sure they are protected.
Absolutely, I know that if I press the start button without pressing the brake it will initiate Accessory On but not the ignition.
Yup, a rapist, and a “judge” who’s repeatedly stated the Bible takes precedence over the constitution. Pretty on brand for them to come in targeting specific legislation.
this is interesting and there are many times and corners of the world.. so right, agree.. but I meant to include all things horse-drawn.. carts and buggies and all.. but sure, lots of people did not have access to a horse-something often times
Add Mathematica to that list, too. Pretty cool to play with and I would have bought a license if I had a good excuse to; the tactic works.
Did you spend the same amount of money on solar/wind instead? How did that turn out?
Exactly! This is called "model parallelism" - each layer of the graph is spread across multiple compute devices. Large clusters like the V100s or the forthcoming trn1 instances (disclosure, I work on this team) need _stupid_ amounts of inter-device bandwidth, particularly for training.
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So in the entire field of machine learning, we can't train a model that can identify another model from its output? Just can't be done? And there's absolutely no value in having tools that can identify deep fakes, or content produced by specific open models?

>It's a bullshit term, firstoff, and calling yourself that is the height of ego

I am a 10x engineer though, so I'm sorry if that rubs you the wrong way. Also, you're reading my personal website, so of course I'm going to speak highly of myself :)
I have no idea what you think that proves.

What I know of your experience shows a low number of years of experience, a lack of papers, and a lack of true hands-on experience at the small number of companies in the world that have the resources to truly investigate large models. How can you know so much about LLMs without ever having the resource to train one?

I'm obviously not going to dox you, so you can easily just dismiss what I'm saying. But even just reading through your HN comments shows arrogance in your own knowledge (across multiple domains).

A specifically memorable quote is:

> I frequently create unique on the internet [words]

This is very true. Your erudition is apparently only matched by the uniqueness of the words you use when on the internet.
I agree with both of the existing comments. The flavor isn't quite right (personally, I think there's something funky with the sweetener, but i dunno), especially cherry coke isn't really cherry coke. And the UX is awful; dispense latency is bad, touch screen calibration is usually bad and not really fixable because the display screen is so far back from the touch element that people of different heights are going to press different parts of the screen because that's where they see the screen. You could maybe make the active touch areas a little bigger, but the UI is pretty busy, so that won't be possible for soda selection, but it might help for flavor additives. The accessible buttons might be better than the touchscreen?, but I dunno they're not convenient if you're not in a wheelchair (which is fine, that's what they're for). I also haven't tried the scan a QR code and hope method, because it's slow enough already.

Sadly, I've only seen the Pepsi equivalent once or twice and didn't get to try it.
That would be interesting if it was true, but I think it can’t be true because LLMs main advantage is they memorize text in their weights and so your discriminator model would need to be the same size as the LLM.

That said the smaller GPT3 models break down quite often so they’re probably detectable.
Not from the prospective of the baby.
> Wait, I don't think that's how work and meetings work.

I'm not including all of the things that come up that don't require a team meeting.

But if we're assuming that something is discovered that requires a full team meeting by each employee roughly once a week (number pulled straight out of my ass, feel free to sub in your own, the math doesn't depend on this), that's 8 meetings a week for the 8 person team (totaling roughly 64 hours), and only 4/4 for the team of 4.

This is, of course, assuming the rate of discovery of things discovered requiring a meeting remain constant as the team increases. In my experience, this is not the case, and it usually tends to increase as people lose track of what everyone else is doing, there's an increased need to "re-sync". I believe this increased need is what drives it from exponential (in my naive answer) to the combinatorial (in practice) increase people usually quote when throwing around Brooks' Law.
Not everyone can write embedded systems software. And I strongly disagree with medical devices. Peoples lives depend on them working.
Never heard of the Johnny Decimal system. Are there good any writeups or videos on it you recommend?
It's a fascinating era. The stories my grandmother told me of the parties she would attend in the '20s and '30s were unreal. Granny was a wild one. The amount of booze and drugs everyone would do, the debauchery, girls getting stuff slipped in their drinks and getting raped. I think pre-code films are just a reflection of the reality of the times.
And the same thing was true in individual US states before Obergefell. Iowa legalized same sex marriage when California banned it by referendum.
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My experience in quant finance is that strong engineering teams are viewed as cost centers and are not well compensated the way they are at “real” tech companies, especially when the firm isn’t doing well. Management foolishly tends to only value seeking alpha, rather than reliability of existing alpha.

Unsurprisingly poor management tends not to realize when their software is built on a house of cards.

Definitely saw bugs cause large losses (8 digit numbers).
The "smart contract" stuff from the cryptocoin crowd is more-or-less an attempt at actually doing the "impartial AI judge" thing. I suppose it'll be interesting to see if they get it sufficiently free of bugs and surprise edge cases that it's useful for more than enthusiasts or people doing sketchy things.

But it seems to be getting closer to the point where we can say AI judges are generally unwise based on real experiment rather than on thought experiment. (Assuming it turns out the way I expect.)
Lawsuit claims more Fitbits are burn hazards, includes gross pictures
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Sure that may be the case but there is still some argument applied to both decisions. What's the main difference between one vs. the other that makes decision to get a medical procedure not legal but decision to not wear a mask legal?
Probably not once it becomes illegal to do so (or doing so for employees becomes taxed at a punitive rate) in states they operate in.

The war on abortion has always targeted indirect participants, they aren't going to stop doing that once they’ve been given the go-ahead to criminally punish the direct ones.
> However you feel about this decision, it is undoubtedly reducing individual freedoms.

Not from the perspective of the baby.
Well, no, which is why I threw in Kagi and Yandex as well. I can imagine Google and Microsoft altering rankings for certain results for political reasons, but Kagi seems too small to care about that, and Yandex isn't operating from the same political playbook as western corporations.

Now, in defense of your theory, I did double check Kagi and found out that they use Bing and Google for some queries, so the only truly "untainted" one is Yandex, which doesn't have ADL on the first page, or the next five that I checked.

That said, as I mentioned they do surface SPLC, which is similar in tone and content.

Limited sample size, but I think it's still plausible that ADL is an organic result.

I also checked Yahoo, and it has ADL as the third result.

I checked Baidu and Naver, and didn't see ADL, but I assume they're prioritizing regional content.