skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do they do after that?

I know a few. They either started their own companies or have regular jobs.

Performance in competitive programming doesn't necessarily translate to performance in software engineering, which is really a different discipline altogether. Chiefly it has much more to do with dealing with the human factor.

To quote my distributed systems professor: Technical problems are mostly solvable. Most unsolvable problems are not technical.
Is there a need for an additional mechanism?

Sending a magic link to @user@domain results in a 3 actions login:

1: User types "@user@domain" into the login form and hits enter.

2: User switches to their fediverse inbox

3: User clicks on the link in the DM

I have the vague feeling that this is the shortes possible path. Or does your solution make it shorter?
Is Web2 Bullshit?
I'd say that we shouldn't disregard easier targets. In the UK we have this "five a day" campaign, to eat 5 unique pieces of fruit or veg a day. If someone said they were going to eat an apple every day and we said no, don't do that, it's better to eat 5 different things, you may end up with that person not eating any.

Some of us are time poor, or to flip it round, very busy. Our 24 hours can be hectic, filled with parenting and work. 10-20 minutes a day at home is easier to fit into a busy schedule than an hour to go to the gym.

Is an hour at the gym better? Yes, but 10-20 minutes a day consistent will outweigh sporadic visits to the gym.
W3C WebDX: Improving the experience for web developers
Assuming that you don't want to get into any fun exercises / sports ( I do kayaking, cycling, hiking, climbing for instance), then you need to prioritise some kind of movement. Go out for a walk before work or at lunchtime, then it won't be dark and you get a proper break from sitting. If you're in a call where you are more listening than talking consider doing press ups/sit ups/kettlebell during the call once a day.
You seem to be aggressively pushing the idea that "doing art" means a very specific thing - i.e. influencing millions. Someone painting for their own pleasure is also art. And even if they never exhibited it, they are still creating things. Your definitions seem far too narrow.
To be fair, there aren't a lot of Donald Knuth's out there, he definitely is the exception.
React to Solid, Angular and Vue to Svelte.
I’m 60, and more productive than I’ve ever been.

The Quality, quantity, velocity, integrity, maintainability, and robustness of my work, these days, knocks almost everything I’ve done, in the past, into a cocked hat.

Make of that, what you will.
Lots of people don't realise just how much time kids take up, especially as single parents, and in the UK, how much space is at a premium. Cupboards are a luxury, let alone space for home gyms.
Assets backed with lies and cryptobullshit. At least someone has had a learning opportunity.
Obsidian is free though. Even for syncing it's totally possible to do that wit just git (which is what I do)
A lot of online retailers have trial systems, you can try 3 or 4 different pairs for a week before buying them.
I think (but I am not sure) the sprites in Fallout I (1997) and Fallout II (1998) were created as re-touched 3D renderings.

(I am instead sure they revealed that the characters in video animation were re-touched recordings of created puppets.)

Many techniques may be part of the creative process and of the production.
These won’t be Taiwanese people working in Arizona, this will be Arizonans/US workers working there.

I’m more concerned about the MASSIVE amount of water they’ll need and where that will come from in the middle of the desert (probably some aquifer that supports that humans in the area… that’s a recipe for disaster).
I go on walks for 1:1s and 1-directional meetings. I average 9.5k steps per day.

I acknowledge some people would prefer the cameras stay on and exceptions can be made, but my health is more important than 99% of my meetings.
If you are using `time` and calculate the time from application startup to exit 0 then it is not representative of performance of the code itself - more aggressive optimization in JIT tend to have increasing cost with each release even if the people working on it try to always ensure the compilation throughput stays constant and we get more optimized JIT code per same amount of CPU work.

If you would like to have representative benchmark data, I suggest relying on BenchmarkDotNet instead.
As discussed extensively elsewhere an “exchange” shouldn’t be in the business of having illiquid positions in the first place.

But here we are, and I’m not sure if FTX was offering to buy with some favorable terms regarding the time of settlement in addition to a discount. They could have bought on the open market at the discounted price but they apparently didn’t…
Respecting the three months notice and termination period for every procedure, of course.
Well no, because it exists and people use it for everything. Web3 on the other hand is the exclusive domain of a few die-hard anarchocapitalist libertarians and a few promoters pumping their bags.

[edit] It creates a perverse model where every app is expected to create its own little Ponzi scheme to entice people with. Then, your job is to market the token not the service. Any service that actually invests in building a product people want can deliver that product faster, simpler and more efficient without the token.
> I've heard this being said about mathematics and we know that both programming and math are logic based and pretty much require the same thinking techniques and programming is derived from math. So, wouldn't it be true that it's a young man's game for programming too?

Suppose someone said this: "We all know that your agility and strength peaks in your 20's; and being a builder requires the same movement techniques as being a body-builder. So, doesn't that mean being a builder is a young man's game?"

I'd hope the error here would be obvious. Sure, you're using your muscles when you're a builder. But the most important thing about being a builder isn't how many bricks you can move from point A to point B in an hour; the most important thing is that the house you built will be stable and reliable. And yeah, in a small building crew they often have the 20-year-old doing a lot of the "grunt" work, in part because his body can take it better than the 50-year-old who's overseeing the whole operation. But it would be incredibly foolish to fire that 50-year-old because he was "too old to be a builder": unless that 20-year-old is a "prodigy" in the sense of, "has the wisdom of a 50-year-old", the house he builds by himself will be nowhere near as good as the one he builds under supervision. And the 35-year-old on that team is still going to be faster and more effective than the 25-year-old, even though the 25-year-old is stronger and has better reflexes. Why? Because the 35-year-old has 15 years of experience in doing things efficiently.

So: Can a 25-year-old can fit more complex algorithms in his head than a 50-year-old? Probably so. Does that mean he'll write better programs? Absolutely not. The very first thing you need to learn is that you are too stupid to program. "Debugging is twice as hard as programming in the first place; so if you program as cleverly as you can, you are by definition not smart enough to debug it." The second thing you need to learn is that code is read much more often than it's written. Which means even if you can understand your code, if nobody else can understand your code (meaning, "the rest of the developers at your company", not "the top 100 developers in the world"), you've still failed in your job.

Contrast that to math research, where all you need to do, once you've come up with your super-complex theorem, is explain it to a few of the top minds in the field to get it published.
As someone who draws, there are some obvious aspects where AI generation just works perfectly:

- generate details and texture, which photobashing was already used for; but that mostly solve the licensing problem for it

- generate random inspiration boards, for which image search was used (again, mostly solve the licensing problem)

- generate derivative stuff, e.g. typical game portraits or props

In practice, only the third point is generally discussed, because it lowers tremendously the entry barrier to generate images for people without any skills. It's like if you could pick up screenshots from other content, clean them up, and you're free to use it.

Whereas it essentially does not work for:

- cartoony generation. It relies too much on line consistency, visual clarity and abstraction

- concept design --not the flashy 10 minutes speedpaint type, but where you have to combine ideas in meaningful ways. In particular hard-surface design which required good 3D thinking and consistency of the whole.

These fundamental flaws are omnipresent, but can be hidden by certain styles where things are implied by color blobs, hidden by stylized brushstrokes, or simply an overflow of details (something Midjourney is very good at).

All in all, it feels like AI is a danger for people at the bottom of the profession hierarchy, but will elevate people at the top, whose work cannot be replaced. In other words, people who are more akin to be considered "artisans" rather than artists, who will take a prompt and simply clean it.

In particular, drawing has something like the 20/80 rule, where all the creative input is in the first 20% and the rest is 'rendering', a very mechanical task which you can mostly do with your brain turned off. As Yumenoley put it, "it was a mistake to let the AI do the interesting part".
I have been dealing with the framework hype train since my mid-20s to be honest. It's difficult because any opinion like "why can't we just run a couple of daemons on a VM" or "this site could be server-side and mostly static" gets laughed at or emoji'd to death. Then I watch as the web world is slowly moving back to server-side and realising you don't need to use Kubernetes or NoSQL for -everything-. Sigh.
What Getting Sued, Scammed, and Arrested Taught Me About Resilience
Do you want to be a "kid prodigy" or do you want to learn and build cool things?

If you want to become better at math, read math. If you want to become a better programmer, study concepts and write code. No one can tell you how far you can go. Certainly not people on the internet who just read 5 lines of a post you made.
Political messaging should indeed be kept out of tech. It's thinly veiled progressive agenda veiled in the form of corporate messaging.
Previous generations spouted the same strawman about TV, and in general, all previous forms of media
This is why I build containers using Nix (plus the reproducibility, caching, etc.): since everything has a path containing an unguessable hash, all dependencies must be referred to by their absolute path (either directly, or indirectly via an env var, etc.).

That makes it trivial to find all the dependencies of a file (whether they're dynamic libraries, interpreter packages, image files, etc.), transitively, and tar them all up into a self-contained container :)
This is probably the most comprehensive thing online[0]. Not an article but you can read the transcript of the podcast episode[1].

0: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s7e2-jose/

1: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/transcripts/s7e...
There are entire trading stations built in Excel, used by multiple traders of one firm, synchronized via network drives, doing requests to the broker using VBA. I saw that around 2003.
Recommendations algorithms are definitely out of control, and need regulation urgently.

I don't use TikTok, so my personal anecdote will concern Youtube, which with its shorts definitely try to become TikTok.

I don't use it logged-in, but I had kept the same cookie for a few years, and I was getting great recommendations, mostly science and youtubers that I watch regularly would be suggested. It was working too well to the point I was sinking at least two hours a day and becoming problematic. The content was interesting and relevant, but not very in depth.

About three months ago, everything took a dive for the worst. YT kept pushing shorts, although I never clicked them, one line out of 4 was shorts. So I added a filter in my ublock origin list so they don't appear anymore.
It kept working great, until one day for unrelated reasons my Firefox crashed and needed to be factory reset, and my beloved cookie was lost.

The YT experience instantly changed and hasn't recovered after three months. It is total garbage now.

I am located in France but used to watch almost exclusively English content. The content now look like a generic mix-up of popular french youtuber, news, and religious content (for some reason YT has decided to show me Surat in Arab everyday even though I don't speak Arab and I am not Muslim).

I am quite privacy conscious so I only accept necessary cookies anywhere I browse.
But YT is still trying to learn as some of the content it recommends stuff related to some things I watched, or browsed about.

I tried to explicitly search for the previous english speaking youtuber I used to watch, and watch their content. Like for example every night I watch Anton Petrov before going to sleep. It used to recommend it automatically, but now I have to search for it every night, and it still hasn't learn after 3 months.

My YT consumption was drastically reduced to one or two video a day as a consequence of this.

Even though I work in machine learning, I don't understand what sources it is using to update its recommendations, I don't understand how YT can provide such different experiences to different people. Or maybe I'm just in some bad beta test bucket like a lab rat. No way to know from my side.

In the best case, it feels like being under the whim of an algorithm no one has control over, and in the worst case feels like being the subject in some sort of sick psychological experiment.

And it's not even TikTok.
"AI" is only copy-pasting elements from a database of existing images.
It's effectively just a fancy image search engine.

You can use it to make procedurally-generated art, but it's still obvious what the source material was.
If it's "good enough", is it really crap?
For my indie SaaSes :

- Postmark for sending transaction emails

- AppSignal for APM / Error tracking

- PaperTrail (yes the SolarWinds one) for logging
I managed with “cardio workouts” from some youtube channel Indo not recall, but there are hundreds nowadays, for free or paid. The important thing is to keep to a schedule (not necessarily the same “time” but the same “moment” -after a meeting, after two hours’ work…).

Good luck.
39. I've noticed that as I age I seem to write less code and it goes further. I would guess that over the years I've honed in on the patterns that work and need far fewer intermediate steps. The only problem is that I am aware it's become a little harder to learn new techniques. Part of that is motivation though, there's more going on in my life now and I enjoy my spare time more, so it's not actually a bad thing.

Also I noticed that you mention missing out on being a prodigy. Nobody should aspire to that, that's a set up for disappointment, either by not achieving it or by flaming out early. A lot of kid prodigies don't actually go on to become successful in their field. Breadth of experience appears to be more important.
That exists. It's called a dumbphone
4 months of pay at the highest paying software company in the world is FAR more generous than you're going to see from any company anywhere in the world.
Isn't this one of the reasons why phone permissions (at least on Android) have the option to share location data with an app only when it's in use?
Is that the one with the good manual? Most of these spring clip electronics sets come with pretty crappy manuals, very light on theory and with uninspired circuits (i.e. in "130 in 1" there are maybe 10 good circuits and endless variations of those).

Whereas an Elenco brand kit I found at the thrift store came with a fantastic manual, that taught electronics right from the basics, using the kit's components to illustrate as it went.
Are you on payroll or are you invoicing them?

I say this because I could imagine maybe the legal issues are the government determining it is not a real contractor but a "fake employee".

IMHO, if you are invoicing, OP reasoning regarding pricing stands, regardless of the dynamic day-to-day, since you are paying social security, pension etc. out of your own pocket.

If not, please disregard.
I have kids. I don’t eat lunch and use the lunch hour for exercise during the week. Even 20 minutes a day pays dividends if you run or lift weights.
Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?
> Have you tried pushing through and getting used to it? I run for half an hour in Shanghai summer weather. Over 35 degrees and humid.

It's hard but it works. Been working from home for 20 years and I do go for walks almost no matter the weather. If it snows I just put on my mountain hiking gear. I skip heavy rains though :)

But you're in Shanghai which is mostly a huge city as far as I know, and I live in an European city. I definitely don't walk in the dark, I walk 2.5 km to a park and stop at a coffee kiosk there, then walk back.

The experience in the suburbs may vary.

The worst thing with stuff like this is when you think of exercise as lost time though. Netflix is lost time. Exercise isn't.
On Analog Metaverse Curation
I'm suggesting to use more horizontal scaling. So if you have 1.2.3.0/24 and you advertise 2 servers at a time you can start with 1.2.3.1 and 1.2.3.2 and then you would cycle out servers as they increase in load. If one server is getting less traffic then it just takes longer for it to cycle out.

People without cached records will always get the returned servers with the lowest load.

I was referring to load balancing and not splitting traffic for an experiment.
> AGI projects

> AI alignment lab

> EA projects

So what you're saying is that nothing of value was lost?
The assumption is that Meta and its ilk are picky about who they employ and that should be a proxy for an employee's ability or value. Of course, the layoffs will presumably involve those who perform worst so it's not clear if these people will be in a better position or not than someone who hadn't been at Meta.

> Do you really learn that much at Facebook, do you really become that much more proficient?

I think for many there is a good chance of learning valuable skills at these companies. In my time at Meta I became a more proficient engineer by being around those who were a lot better than me, and I also got a lot better at non-technical stuff like giving people feedback, leadership, communication and so on. It's obviously not impossible that I could have learned these skills elsewhere but they are weighted heavily at Meta etc and it's more likely one will have absorbed them.

None of this is universal, of course. Any particular person might be great or terrible independent of their tenure at Meta.
Stem cells may help replace lost sensory neurons
GitHub mirror, since there doesn't seem to be a proper tarball: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsecded

This also adds a cross-platform build script.
Cross your fingers!
This may not be a popular opinion but...

.. going to the office everyday had some really tangible benefits a) we had a natural physical activity related to daily commute and more occasions to stay in town, do stuff there, meet people, enjoy city live, b) we had a clear time boundaries between work stuff and other stuff with the return commute working great to unroll any work-related thoughts and get back to home with any tensions left behind.
It will be irrelevant in the next 12 months.
A naive google search is ... not a helpful reference.
It's still a stretch since a cupboard can work offline while performing basically any action in App Store requires an API call anyway.
No, women can program too.
How Aphex Twin Made Selected Ambient Works 85-92
It's just another custom Android build. Like LineageOS, Mokee, GrapheneOS etc. Isn't it?
> Device and user IDs

Apps don't have access to device IDs other than IDFA, which can be reset at any time by the user.

> wake/sleep/network events, etc

Apps can't tell if the device has been woken up or put to sleep, apps only have access to their own application state events like didEnterForeground and didEnterBackground.

Apps can tell if the device's internet has been connected or disconnected, I didn't know that was not possible on websites.
In fairness this is probably an answer to "how to pass promotion" in such an environment. I don't have the patience so will stay with git log immediately before the deadline but have some envy for people who enjoy this sort of logging.
Find the secret word. You have unlimited guesses.
Tell that to Microsoft, ehm… Windows.
It’s an interesting idea. Based on documentaries about Cuba I’m not sure how happy the people seemed though. They are definitely more fit though from less exposure to processed food and the Western diet.
Youtube is different imho. Lots of quality content, long form, carefully crafted. Many popular creators post infrequently. Not free of trash obviously, but qualitatively different to tiktok’s mind hacking. YT also pays creators better AFAIK.
> You choose them because you have a google-free android phone, with all the apps working, without having to do it on your own.

Now it starts getting interesting. Will it also run my banking app? Or is there some crypto mechanism keeping that from happening?
Your comment is comical, given the state of labor laws in most of Europe.

True, those labor laws are under attack, but they still stand, and such layoff would be so costly there that they could hardly happen.

4 months is not generous, it is under the legal minimum in many countries, provided you've been with the employer long enough.
Few sets of heavy compound lifts would really help, doesn't have to take more than 30 minutes. Especially if you superset (multiple exercises simultaneously). E.g. squats and curls in between, bench and pistol squats...
You can do the soleus pushup all day while sitting. Supposedly, it can fix your metabolism. Also, Supernatural or boxing like in Thrill of the Fight on a cheaper standalone VR headset may work for you. It's a surprisingly intense workout.
>> “Would you make an active decision to spend the rest of your life on 1,200 calories a day?” he asked. “If you're going to go on a diet, if you're serious about losing weight, this is the end game, and it's a different conversation.”

This is what "dieting" looks like, a lifelong commitment to restrictions.
Indeed: https://dreambooth.github.io

Note that training is extremely expensive, and is beyond the capabilities of most end users. Here are the details of their training method:

> Given ~3-5 images of a subject we fine tune a text-to-image diffusion in two steps: (a) fine tuning the low-resolution text-to-image model with the input images paired with a text prompt containing a unique identifier and the name of the class the subject belongs to (e.g., "A photo of a [T] dog”), in parallel, we apply a class-specific prior preservation loss, which leverages the semantic prior that the model has on the class and encourages it to generate diverse instances belong to the subject's class by injecting the class name in the text prompt (e.g., "A photo of a dog”). (b) fine-tuning the super resolution components with pairs of low-resolution and high-resolution images taken from our input images set, which enables us to maintain high-fidelity to small details of the subject.

Each fine-tuned model is a copy of the original model. So if the model is 10GB, the fine tuned version will be a separate 10GB file. That might not sound like a lot, but it quickly adds up.

In this case, end users are artists. One could imagine a cloud-based art program which will fine tune on demand. That certainly seems like a good startup idea.