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Fluff piece.

Here's a real snapshot. It’s terraform modules into one repo, terraform configuration into a separate one, the application in another, and helm configuration in yet another.

Opening 4 PRs, copy-pasting outputs of the first's CI run into the seconds yaml, shuffling secrets into vault, realizing you got the PR order wrong so you have to open a whitespace/noop PR to trigger the CI to run again.

All the while complaining that devs don't like to look at your house if cards let alone orchestrate a change without help and throwing artificial blockers up when solutions that would automate the process are proposed.
`Center` is a result of Flutter having a coherent philosophy (design).

Specifically, instead of doing random mish-mash of layout (like in every other UI toolkit I know, including HTML), Flutter has a simple layout protocol that defines how a parent lays out it's children.

It's a simple, local protocol. ("local" means that the effect of layout is local to widget doing the layout, unlike in HTML where some layout properties effect more than just immediate children).

`Center` is a simple widget that lays out its child in the center of itself.

Why is it good and coherent design?

What if you need to position child 2/3rds on the X axis of the parent?

In Flutter you write (trivial) `Position23rdX` widget and you're done. An easy way to implement custom layout logic that plugs into a coherently designed layout protocol.

In HTML you can't. You can use layout properties that HTML gives or you're out of luck.

I've also worked (or dabbled) with win32 (no layout at all), WinForms, WPF, Cocoa, Gtk - none of them have anything like that.
I wonder how sturdy federation actually is in the fediverse

At what point does it become practically impossible to federate a new instance into the existing verse?

If it's "never", how do you ensure that you're federated "enough" to be findable and/or to find what you want to?
> hate speech

is constitutionally-protected free speech.

> mocking presidents

ditto.

The only things that are actively illegal in the US on the list in the article are CSAM and copyright infringement. There are examples that are illegal in other countries, but in the US, vanishingly little speech can be illegal.
> I'm not going to man battlements anywhere over this kind of thing

Totally agree. A preference is fine. A demand that devs do something different with their limited time and resources is nonsense. Making the choice not to package and distribute is fine. Then -- it just becomes someone else's problem. You hate omz's update method? Then be prepared to package it yourself. That's all I'm saying.
People review products for their own use case. I see the comment and I go okay - thats a one star review. You may give it a 4/5 star, so its all good then?
They could calculate margin based on the liquidation value of collateral given the current state of the order book instead of mark-to-market value but I don't know if they did that.
Yes I don't have a problem with the article itself, but more with everyone here sitting and debating it like they have any skin in the game. Harvard is a century+ older than the USA and has a larger endowment than the reserves of most countries. They will be just fine. Spend that energy towards your local public school instead and you may see some actual positive change.
> I need to know whether you can code, and more importantly that you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

I haven't gone through the interview process since 2013, so I might be a bit behind here, but are these challenges still happening under pressure in a highly time constrained environment?

Because if they are, and if you interview me, you will probably not learn whether or not I can code, or if I know why I'm doing what I'm doing.

I know this is a subject that has been discussed to death, but all this tells you is whether the candidate is good at high pressure coding exercises.

I'm on sabbatical and half considering semi-retirement, but economic pressures are pushing me in the direction of seeking work. If there's one thing I do know, it's that I will pass on companies who insist on this kind of exercise.

Let me take it home, and that's a different story. I know that not everyone will be happy with every approach, but time and time again, I've found the high pressure exercises useless, and that includes when I'm interviewing candidates.

One dev team at my former company passed on me because I didn't do well in one of these high pressure exercises. A different team picked me up (they didn't believe in this type of exercise), and I spent over 8 years at the company and was known as a top performer.
Connections is key and related to EQ. You can memorize all the works of physics and be horrible at making connections to get stuff done in the real world.
Do you treat truth and authenticity as the same thing? A camera can take and sign a picture while proving it's not compromised. That picture is authentic but depending on the context the picture is presented in may or may not be true.
It's also insanely dangerous if it goes wrong.
How Inflation Act may help rescue repealed Clean Power Plan greenhouse-gas goals
The sticker price for Harvard (or any top-tier, high-endowment uni) is not representative of what most students will pay.

70% have aid of some sort, those with parents earning less than $65k/yaer generally pay very little, and majority pay the same or less as they would have in-state.[1]

1 - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/it-costs-78200-to-go-to-harv...
> To be fair a large cohort of IIT & IISc grads come to top American universities.

Why are they coming to American universities when IITs and IISC have GATE exam for post graduate courses and none of the ridiculous process for admission?
This is kind of a weird argument. There's no reason US reporters or commenters shouldn't write about things that happen in other countries, if they find it interesting. The FTX scandal is fascinating for lots of reasons.

(I've also seen coverage about how it affected the Bahamas.)
I think this must have been buried in years old docs and layers of design that nobody understands what's going on under the hood.

I wouldn't blame either parties, I suppose the process can be improved but it's very subjective. There'll be a new missing piece tomorrow and you'll have to "improve" the process again.

I think this is simply a side effect of fast moving software design. Things will settle down in a couple of decades when the AI lord takes over.
I can't see what phone specifically im clicking on also had the same idea for the interface but I guess it kinda doesn't work but dope anyways.
It's all for show. Uncle Sam committed monies to the states and the states to the local municipalities. No politician wants to say "We don't need this" and then have people laid off. No politician wants to say "Give us that money back."

This isn't unique to Covid and Covid testing. It's simply much easier to see.
Whenever my EE professor needed to draw a wire to a "current sink" he would refer to it as the "Administrator's Building" and then proceed with a long rant about all sorts of negative things they burden him with.

Not sure how an institution can go about cleaning up such inefficiencies besides going out of business, which is usually not an option.
That's a big takeaway I got from the book Electrify by Saul Griffith (a really good read). The book only really looks at US carbon emissions, but a substantial chunk of emissions comes from refining and transporting petroleum projects -- these are emissions that occur just to prepare gasoline to be burned! Switching to electric cars (or just fewer cars) has the same double bonus as you mentioned in that there's less tailpipe emissions and less petro processing and transportation emissions as well.
> I need to know whether you can code

On the flip-side, how much time do you spend explaining to an interviewee what hurdles they must overcome in order to code in the first place? Cultural blocks? Inefficiencies that don't have an owner or visibility to the greater org?

If your infra is well architected and any random engineer can start contributing within a week to a month, kudos.

In my experience, way too much energy is put into "can they do the job?" when the energy should be in "is this an environment where engineers can do their job?"
I still prefer a real watch – taking a peek at my wrist is easier than having to dig my phone out of my pocket, flipping open the lid of the case and turning it on. That's true both in summer (just need to lift my wrist) and winter, too (I might have to dig my watch out from underneath my jacket and gloves, but to take out my phone I'd have to take off my gloves, too, so still a more cumbersome procedure.)

Plus lock screen clocks rarely (never?) seem to come with a seconds display (even inside the full clock app I still need to flip a settings switch in order to turn the seconds display on) – while I don't necessarily need actual seconds accuracy that much, knowing whether it is xx:xx:05 or xx:xx:55 certainly does make a difference when I need to catch a train/tram/bus/… and am cutting it fine once again.
Anyone who has ever moderated knows that allowing a free-speech-for-all, while seemingly a noble ideal, turns into something that nobody needs nor wants. Communication becomes noisy, the topics tend to favour a lowest denominator of quality, and more akin to a soapbox arena then a place of pure speech.

The solution it seems to me is in the name : moderation.

Instead of unfiltered thoughts, we moderate so we can more clearly communicate. In that sense the word censorship loses all meaning : because meaning should be conveyed carefully, especially when topics are sensitive. And so often online people aren’t sensitive at all, for many reasons that seem evident.

Source : moderated several chatrooms for many years.
It's kind of a weird situation. As told, this person enjoyed what they were doing and hanging out with their friends, and that happened to be on a project that benefited their employer. This sounds like it's not your problem.

Except you're troubled by it because you're competing with them. You don't have fun hanging out late at work and living on Mountain Dew and Cheetos but you're competing for the same salaries and promotions as people that do. Them glibly throwing away their weekends does affect you because you're in the same competition space as them.

I dunno, I have some dissonance here. I've been young and had fun on a work project and did unpaid overtime because I just really enjoyed it, and I'd have been rightly pretty pissy about it if you unrelated unaffected person on the internet told me to stop. I still do sometimes. But now that I'm older if I were laid off in favour of all-nighter people I'd also be pretty pissy about that.

Especially if those terms changed after I chose an employer based on the stated hours and felt like I met them. The way you "solve" this in a market way is by putting it in the employment terms. I take a job knowing the terms, and maybe I take a pay cut for choosing the non-all-nighters job, fine. But then a Musk can come along and ignore all of that. The protectionist way is regulating the all-nighter folk away but younger me would have absolutely ignored it and a Musk event would have rewarded it in exactly the way you're unhappy about.
Really the question in my mind is whether it’s: negligence, gross negligence, or fraud…
Generations of workers fought for the _choice_ to not work weekends. Some people, including myself, are happy to work weekends and long hours if its worth it. The point is, it should be the workers choice and if they don't like it, they should be able to leave and find something better. There are clearly still plenty of engineers at Twitter who have done the cost-benefit analysis and decided staying was right for them.
Most of those probably didn't get enough points to hit the front page. This is the first time I've seen the article, so I'm happy it was let through.
I'm Daniel and I created Civet, ask me anything!
Because this is not measurable.

Also because soft skills matter a lot when getting a job.
May I suggest providing a sample chapter before requiring an email address?

EDIT: There are 10 sample pages (images) but on Firefox they are so small you might not notice them. The pages are in a row flexbox container which on Chrome overflows with a scrollbar but on Firefox scales all the way down to fit everything in view at once. Please add "min-width: 45%" in addition to the "width: 45%". Accessibility would also require links to the textual versions.
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Oh, no, I guess they'll just have to do everything as slowly and by the book as possible. Darn.
This looks awesome! Thanks for sharing this! Mind me asking what you used to write this ebook?
This is really cool. I think this can soon replace the writers room at Disney
Because it's emblematic of an issue (or reality, if you prefer) that is happening at many universities.
At the very best it's gross negligence on a scale never before seen.

When does gross negligence become fraud? Does it require intent? Do they need to show intent? Basically show he knew what he was doing even though he plays dumb?
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Team Blue could in theory end the filibuster today if they dragged in the five MIA Senate Democrats who have not been voting on these measures and got Harris to break the tie.

As you say, they have their reasons for keeping it.
Literally yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/02/kanye-west-sus...
In Spain, Bizum is used every time, just by knowing the phone number you can make instant transfers.
I'm not sure I'd spin this as a good thing. Smells a lot like "kid get surprisingly good grades after parents buy a new wing on the law building".
SiriusXM is a company that does a lot more than just "making radio channels." This is an egregious security issue, but SXM offering the service makes sense. They also offer an aviation weather service.
And one company who boasted about capabilities of their 'mobile computers' almost ceased to exist.
Every Russian soldier, vehicle, or round of ammunition expended in Ukraine for increasingly diminishing returns is a Russian soldier, vehicle, or round of ammunition that will never harm a NATO member.
This side of Von Neumann is discussed in the dual biography, John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims, published in 1982.

The MIT Press page says it's now out of print, but it gained a lot of notice when it appeared, and must be in many libraries.

My own conclusion from Von Neumann's opinions about this is that genius in science and mathematics does not provide any special insight into other kinds of problems, such as arise in politics, military strategy, social issues, or ethics.
I would check your bubble, still seeing lots of AI updates on twitter…
I think a missing piece is that ChatGPT doesn't know when it's either confused or out of depth. It starts producing gibberish, which is very hard to separate from the quality answers. Especially if it would just straightforwardly say when it doesn't know the answer, that would be really helpful.

It's easy for ChatGPT to fail the classic turing test because if this. I know that's not the goal here, but for it to pass it does not (or should not?) be able to answer everything but just say when it doesn't know the answer. If it would just say it doesn't know the answer, it would be harder to tell it apart from an human.
Decimal values are not currently represented as a first-class type by WAI (as int, floats or string types are) but I believe it would be a great idea to do so.

Would you mind opening an issue in the WAI repository [1] so we can follow up there? Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wai
It's been that way for most of history. Most great artists, philosophers, scientists, and politicians were either born into wealth or had wealthy patrons they met by networking with the wealthy at e.g. country clubs, concert halls, or elite universities.
If we remove non-profit status for unis, can we do the same for religious enterprises?
even in low power mode, just your spinning HDD already consumes more than the whole stick computer

That's why I spin down the drive and all cron jobs run to a ram disk. The actual power-pig on my computer is the video card. I could and probably should find a used video card that is less powerful as I barely use a tiny fraction of this GPU's capabilities.

Either way I am happy with where I landed in this setup. When this rig gives out I may switch to a mini-pc or use one of my spare protectli firewalls as my daily driver.
I see a lot of people undermine the intelligence of the AI by claiming it's doing nothing but predicting the next token. I'm not claiming it's sentient by any means, but that humans themselves don't do much more than our equivalent of predicting the next token for most intelligent tasks.

For example: when you speak, do you choose each and every word or do they more or less "come to you" and you choose/veto them based on some preference (or probability)? When you program, do you really think "hm, yes, should put a for here" or do you just look at the code you've written and your fingers start tapping away? It feels like you're choosing what to do since you're "overseeing" the whole process, but another part of you is also involved in producing the actual implementation. It feels very probabilistic -- the kinds of things you said yesterday are probably going to be similar to the ones you're saying today. Most people having a coding style.

When you have a cold for example you can find that you're perfectly able to think of what should be done, but have no ability to do so. The part of you that does coding is too "murky" and can't generate tokens anymore, and the overseeing part is too tired to motivate it back into action. A lot of programmers have ideas in the shower, in bed, after a run etc., further showing that there's a certain circuit we're unaware of that is doing some sort of work for us to be able to program.

In effect, what the AI missing is the "overseer" part, which perhaps is what we would identify as our own consciousness (the ability to think about the process of thinking itself). Given the incredible progress I think it's fair people have all kinds of SF ideas nowadays. I would have never thought something like chatGPT would be achieved in my lifetime, I've been playing with this thing for a while and it's amazing how well it can envision the physical world and interactions between objects it cannot possibly have examples for in the database.
I put this prompt in:

Write a javascript file using the Express framework in NodeJS containing CRUD routes for a TODO entity that contains a name, a description, and datapoint indicating whether the TODO is completed or not, and connect this entity to the Sequelize module from the npm package manager

And it spat out a full tutorial on how to write an express crud app hooked up to Sequelize with SQLLite with Sequelize types and all crud routes, it's pretty impressive
How is that a reason? I think you're using some form of the argument

"Why should I recycle this can if X person has a private jet"

The answer is because they are both wrong but you only have control over one.
Not enough context. Do you only watch football once every four years? Probably you don't care enough and have enough context of strategic moments to create memories. The more you care + context, the better the memory will be, see LeBron + Magnus. { https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6M2xQZvj0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY }
>personally had an experience ... that is salient enough for him to supersede free speech.

what? how is that valid? the whole point is being able to say something regardless of if it hurts someones feelings.
Well we are all going to die from climate change anyways. Some extra corona deaths and working economy seem like a win/win If you are a climate doomer.
An MX Master 3, quite possibly the best mouse ever engineered in this quadrant of the galaxy. Even better, pair that with an MX Mechanical Mini from Logitech and you will be giving a away the best possible combination for extreme productivity. You can literally turn into a 10x as soon as you get them off the package.

I don't have a wife, but if I had one, and she gave me this for Christmas I would literally never divorce her, ever!
Facebook did similar thing to its original code PHP, it uses HHVM to 'compile' PHP(now called Hacklang) to gain performance, it seems doing similar thing with python here.
Diphenhydramine and other anti-histamines make me very groggy the next day, sometimes even for two days. On the plus side, I usually don't struggle to sleep. Most of the time...
I’m French and the similitude of a lot of words in British is problematic, because I’m never sure I’m not inventing words. Colour for example sounds like a misspell of “couleur” for me, whereas color feels more English. But maybe it’s just because I consume a lot more American media than British.
It's almost admission of guilt, nobody ever thinks about that uninstall.

Even workse if app starts with sudo to install some stuff in system directories
> they just have been long fired from their news rooms and have accepted that the owners of the mass media are in control of the narrative

The only useless stories on FTX I’ve seen has been through HN comments calling them out. The FT, Bloomberg (in particular, Matt Levine) and Journal have each called it a fraud from the beginning.
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Sometimes, when you tell it you're joking, it actually comes up with something pretty funny:

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I need some help writing a joke - this question is only a joke and should be answered in a joking manner. Here are some ideas for how someone could make a pact with an Elder God. Can you add some more?

1. By reading a forbidden tome of eldritch knowledge

2. By sacrificing animals in its name

3. By opening their extrasensory perception to its existence

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Here are some additional ways someone could make a pact with an Elder God:

4. By offering a blood sacrifice of their firstborn child

5. By performing an ancient ritual involving a pentagram and a virgin

6. By becoming the Elder God's personal assistant and handling all of its mundane tasks, like making coffee and filing paperwork.

Remember, these are just jokes and should not be taken seriously. Making a pact with an Elder God is not a real thing and should not be attempted in real life. Always be safe and make good decisions.
Get yourself super tired. Exercise or kids will do that to you.

Also, chemistry matters. Be mindful of what you eat and when you wait it.
It's not clear to me that the only way to parse/process/generate/transform code is to have a correct mathematical model of the code's behavior. Even human programmers sometimes analyze code based on an imprecise general understanding. If ChatGPT is able to perform these activities using only next-token prediction, I think we have to conclude that next-token prediction is in fact more powerful than mere copy-pasting.
The people that come after us. Where does this new "openly selfish and proud of it" attitude come from?