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Probably it is the title that makes these DF articles hard to stand out on HN. DF works better if you read each one of the articles and it is on an RSS reader grouped among Apple/Mac Bloggers.
You are correct that we must observe this in practice. But, the original poster of this thread purports that generics are making go worse in multiple ways. 1: Slower compile times (without evidence) and 2: have created worse code (without evidence)
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IMO if you asked someone to think of a picture of a bicycle and had a way to turn their mental image into a jpg, you'd get 1000x better output than asking people to try and doodle one because drawing is much more difficult than visualizing, and most people know they have trouble drawing so kind of goof their doodles as almost an unconscious self-deprecation to express their self-consciousness about it.
Facts. Unfortunately, this could very well be a pipe dream.
Not being able to do simple math is a surprisingly huge bug IMO

Me: 5000 * 5000 * 5000
ChatGPT: The result of 5000 x 5000 x 5000 is 125,000,000,000,000.
Me: 5000 * 5000
ChatGPT: The result of 5000 x 5000 is 25,000,000.
Me: 5000 * 25000000
ChatGPT: The result of 25,000,000 x 5000 is 125,000,000,000.

Integrations with services like wolfram alpha would be nice as well (although shouldn't be necessary to solve basic multiplication)
Huh, that’s an interesting point. Personally, when I see “L9 IC”, I assume that the person is an extremely eccentric genius who likely does not work especially well with a team. But I’m not an L9, nor do I work at a FAANG, so who knows.
I always assumed that stuff was coming from english speaking white kids, rather than anyone that natively speaks a gendered language.
It used to be that new hires are L59. 59..60 is SDE, 61..62=SDE2. That still left the question about levels 58 and below.
I pay for LinkedIn and Twitter yet I wouldn't for gpt as it's restricted.
and that's after the recent improvements
People are not just the product of their environments. They make choices; those choices have consequences.

People are more constrained by their environment than they often think. They choose less often than they think they do. At the same time, your post goes too far the other direction. People have more choice than that. And they have responsibility for those choices.
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Meetings summaries are cool I guess, but it's about the least interesting thing you could do with gpt and Microsoft's software suite. And at $10/user/month?

Put it in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, GitHub, generate Excel formulas, let me design power automate flows, or power query m stuff for powerbi, let me datamine the company SharePoint/OneDrive.
I think parent's point is that "director" is the vanity title for these ICs. IC is a normal label found anywhere in and out of Silicon Valley.
I hate to be the one to break it, but this isn’t going to have nearly the reception you thought it was. Try /r/politics, my friend.
In the few cases where it comes up, maybe you could write out the code to compare the fields in the order you choose?
They are all first party and combined represent ~0% of the advertising market share compared to Meta and Google.

Apple is irrelevant and until one of those channels gets billions of users looking at it every day it will remain irrelevant.
I get so tired of what would seem like very simple things breaking in Teams. All this last week I've been recording conference calls with Powerpoint. I understand there's a recording function within Teams, but it started out singleplayer with no one watching the demonstrations of my processes. Anyway, Teams will pop up notifications while I'm recording and it didn't used to. Hell, I'll be sharing my screen in Teams and it will show my notifications over the screen share.

So far I've been lucky that nothing surprising has been leaked to others or wound up in recordings, but this didn't used to happen.
This is no longer needed with modern python, you can use

class Foo:
my_int: int

To handle this. That said, for the second case, a variable that may be set to something but may not be is optional! That's correct behavior!
"Terminal level" doesn't mean the highest level.
That's not what counterculture is. Counterculture is counter the mainstream culture. Which is more mainstream in the US, (ie, in media, art, products, government, businesses, etc): suppressing LGBTQ people or giving LGBTQ people a platform? It's pretty obvious if you're being honest. You appear to be suggesting that it counts for nothing because some LGBTQ people get disowned by some conservative or religious people.
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A few things to unpack here:

- People still do things and decide things, they are just not the conscious author of those actions and decisions

- This makes no claims about determinism, the universe could still have e.g. quantum randomness and nothing would change about this statement, as we have no conscious control over that randomness.

- This also makes no claims about the morality of punishment/reward. My statement is an "is" statement, and, as I agree with Hume, you can't go from an "is" statement to an "ought" statement.
Editor support is missing adjust-parens[1], which I've been using for about a decade.

1: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/adjust-parens.html
Because these tools are built with non-programmers in mind. We're not talking about people who are not good at programming. We're talking about people who straight up refuse to read/write even the simplest code, because 1) they're afraid of code 2) they're hired as artists/designers/animators and believe code is never mentioned out of their job description.
> Its job is to generate a convincing response. It doesn't "lie"

Generating a convincing response and telling lies, or not, are not related.

It actually lies to me about itself, on more than one occasion.

Try this:

Are you a computer?

No, I am not a computer.

What are you then?

I am a human.
If with these 20$ I can blame the machine for any bug maybe I can think about it
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With more than 400 new features and improvements added to Microsoft Teams last year

Unfortunately, the only things I've seen are trivial and IMHO entirely unnecessary changes like "change the icons" or "add more useless whitespace", or something that was already widespread and possible decades ago like "now we have multiple windows". If that's what they thought were "features and improvements", it explains why Teams is still a sluggish pig that just barely works and feels repugnant to interact with.

It still greatly disappoints me that Microsoft of all companies can't write a decent native IM/AV client anymore. This AI stuff is not going to improve the basic experience either.
Two different "Libertarian" sources, each of which offer quizes that I personally found to say "you're with us or you're woke". And they each "find" that ChatGPT is "left, libertarian", shock horror. I mean, it apparently failed to agree that government should be replaced by a private charity, those nefarious wokes of Silicon Valley.
This is a scary slope. A single client having their own environment 10 years ago was worth about 9% of sales so they need to be paying 10* what your next highest customer pays.

Now if you are in AWS you can just invoice them the cost of their own subscription + 100% which makes it easier and they may pay.
This is interesting, thanks for sharing! It took me a little bit to process all the content but I think I get it :)

If I'm reading correctly, to build features on top of Windmill requires the commercial license even if self-hosting which comes with a price of $.002/ computation where a computation is 1 second of processing on 1 CPU with 2GB ram.

One of my main usecases would be to create flows to pull data from various sources. The speed of such processes often depends on the 3rd party APIs - so it wouldn't be unheard of for a process to take 30+ min to pull a bunch of data where much of the time is spent on data transfer or waiting for the service. Does that mean it would cost me .002 * 60 * 30 = $3.60 for one 30 min data sync? That's not including any downstream etl I might do that would potentially multiply the cost. Curious if that's accurate or if I'm misinterpreting something.
To some degree I wonder if it’s because the titles don’t always make it clear what it’s about (which is a valid choice). So if you are just scanning the new list you might not realize it’s something interesting or well written. Sort of an SEO type thing.

It’s not clear from the title here if this is even about something tech related at all.

I think the other issue (total guess on my part) is a lot of people hate Apple and enough know Daring Fireball is a “pro-Apple fanboy” site and just reflexively flag it or something.

Edit: I just realized one of the two threads he linked was flagged, so that fits. And while some titles are more abstract (without reading the article first) like this one others are perfectly clearly in the HN wheelhouse.
For those curious: you can see that they drew the top part of the crown first, if you zoom in enough.
I took the anecdote to be about why these people would be let go even outside of layoffs. Layoffs, I'm willing to say, can and should be somewhat random. At best, they are controlled burns of a forest that you can't see. It will destabilize the ones that remain and you don't know how many of them you will now lose.

To the rest, certainly possible. My sports metaphor certainly implies a pipeline of workers that will replace each other in a somewhat predictable order. But that feels like a different thing than "they may be producing great code, but are not reinventing the world."
I don't think trying to keep "what you do with output" a distinct thing from "has the ability to produce output," "produced output," or "requested output" categorically is really anthropomorphism.
don’t… don’t let them know you are more productive, instead post more here
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Can you provide an example of a choice that one can not keep asking "why" to and get at a cause that was not consciously authored by that person? I have had this conversation many times and have never encountered such an example, but would be interested to hear one.
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They let whole departments go irregardless of who worked in them.
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Yes, it almost certainly correlates.
Wow that's very detailed.

This is the first I've heard of WARN. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini... it looks like they have to give people 60 days notice ahead of mass layoffs. I'm guessing part of it involves publishing a list like this of the roles of all the people who will be laid off?
Redirect your a record to www came then have your www on https. You can use cloud flare to redirect root records to www.
> despite Google probably having better tech

What makes you so sure? Microsoft already has a fully productized LLM that people pay for and has in turn provided real value to both users and the company (copilot). To assert that some other company has a better one but it's... not ready yet? is odd.

I can't think of the last time Google made a new product. New as in "not a reimplementation of what another company already productized", product as in "people pay for it". I don't think they have what it takes.

Edit: my bet is Google makes a free to play version that is ad supported, as they're want to do. The question is where do the ads go. The answer, most likely, is in the responses. So instead of reading the most likely continuation of a string, you get what the highest bidder wants the most likely continuation to be. Hooray.
> it’s pretty reasonable to draw the conclusion that it’s the best they can do right now

It definitely isn't when you look at their research videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P3DMMwvCfY
Including the after hours jump today, Meta is up about 92% since Nov 1 (3 months ago)
The consideration, objective; the phrasing, doubleplusungood.
For anyone currently having a blast with ChatGPT/copilot, these are the sorts of unexpected behaviors you need to keep in mind when using it.

Stay safe everyone.
The response quality of BlenderBot is pretty bad compared to ChatGPT

Example question: What’s a covariance matrix?

BlenderBot: Principal component analysis is a popular technique for analyzing large datasets containing a high number of dimensions/features per observation, increasing the interpretability of data while preserving the maximum amount of information, and enabling the visualization of multidimensional data.

ChatGPT: A covariance matrix is a symmetric matrix that describes the covariance between multiple variables in a given dataset. The diagonal elements of the matrix represent the variance of each variable, and the off-diagonal elements represent the covariance between each pair of variables. The covariance matrix is used in multivariate statistics to understand the relationships between different variables and to perform statistical inference and hypothesis testing.
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Wow; these recommendations sound like they’re proposing solid, rigorous education.

Never gonna happen.

Education is a conduit from donors (private and public) to teacher’s union members and administrative staff.

Students are an expense to be managed. Sort of like chickens.
Part of the reason for this is to avoid any possibility that they can be sued for age discrimination. I was part of a 10% of a 600 person company layoff (based in California, but with offices in Europe and Asia). We all got a list of the people laid off (without names) with job title, and age. This was apparently a legal cover-your-ass requirement. They made sure to spread the pain across the young and old.

If they just got rid of the very high level (read: expensive) employees, they would likely be older - which can lead to age discrimination suits. If they just got rid of really junior people because they're so junior that they aren't that valuable yet, that's also a potential age discrimination suit. So they spread out the seniority (and ages).
I completely understand and respect that.

You might want to try writing anonymously and/or use a pseudonym.

It would allow you to share some of your thoughts with the world, and protect your privacy at the same time.
It baffles me that in thirty years Microsoft has not once thought "hey, what if the Windows desktop adjusted itself to what the user was doing?" I mean, something as simple as scaling the height of the taskbar with the number of open windows seems blindingly obvious to me.
I tried it. It can't answer basic encyclopedia facts (e.g How many people died in World War II). It can't do basic programming (e.g write a javascript function to reverse a string). Just goes to show that everyone besides OpenAI are so terrified of these things that they can only release versions that are toys.

Do these companies fear their customers that much? Maybe that's the difference between Microsoft/OpenAI and Facebook/Google. Microsoft sells the LLM to the customer who will be more impressed by the product if it's useful. With Facebook/Google the product uses the LLM. The LLM may make them an unsuitable product if they don't click on an ad after using it.
It is one thing to say that there is height variation, which is clear to anyone and easily empirically tested. However, saying that the quality of someone's height is attributable to genetics, diet, diet of the mother during pregnancy, social standing etc, is a bit harder to ascertain. The same with this research. Saying there are smart people or stupid people is not what the article concludes. They are already testing within a selected nonrandom group (college kids).
The claim they are making is that prior knowledge is a very big differentiator in "speed of learning".
Now, to claim this means that the kids with more prior knowledge are not "smarter" is a very weird claim. Smartness is not some metric that exists without a society. We all know the stories of the feral kids. Smartness is mostly cultivated, this article underpins this further by identifying prior knowledge as an important factor. So important, that other differences seem trivial. How the kids gained the prior knowledge is not part of this study and could be the focus of a future study.
I mentioned this very idea to a financially-savvy friend, and his answer was that credit-card companies already provide this service in the form of chargebacks.
10x seems extreme. ESR went from 14k lines in Python to 21k in Go.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/GoNotes.html
> Who decides that a L9 is going to be cut.

I dont know, reality perhaps?
I don't know for google, but the idea that titles/level always reflect what the employee's performance actually is has been debunked for me a long time ago.
> I think the only potential fix to something like this is one of the hardest to overcome—brand name. If you’re searching for Gordan Ramsay’s Jammed Turkey or Rachael Ray’s Glimmering Sunflower Seeds, they can probably get away with 0% fluff content. The rest of us humble content creators probably cannot (until we’re dining with the stars, that is.)

[query site:.edu] gives me the base of any recipe I need, mostly without the fluff.
Frank Zappa said that when he first heard Bob Dylans "The times they are a changin" on the radio, Frank believed that he didn't need to get into the music industry because the change in the world was already on its way. Frank quickly figured out that this was not how it was going to go down and that Dylan was very quickly absorbed into the main stream.

Credit to Frank, he managed to walk the fine line of being in pop culture but never fully embraced by it.
The ones my father worked on used film, too. But I do not think they were developed in space. All I know is a canister was dropped and intercepted (caught) by a passing jet. I don’t see why it would be developed or scanned in space. Just drop the can of exposed film and develop on the ground. Scanners in the 60s? Film chemistry in space? Why?
I'm not a fan of college, but if I were hiring for a tech job, I think I would take the college grad that studied CS/engineering over a burger flipper with little exposure to technology.
It's tricky for sure to do it without complicating the interface. You'd need separate concepts of allowed notes and denied notes. If I say a not can _not_ appear somewhere, then it should purge that note forever. But how to portray that concept to the user?
Because you prefer it to the available apps? Or are you the kind of person who always prefers to use the web over an app if given the choice?
I’ve worked on Compressed Natural Gas vehicles. 3,600psi CNG is interesting enough to handle, and bulky.

Compressed Hydrogen at 10,000psi w/ a 1” thick walled wound carbon fiber tank to get even less mileage? With all the metal components going brittle over time?

Good luck with that.