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I've been on teams responsible for components written in more niche, powerful languages by previous employees who were deep in that particular language community.
The author was really smart, the code was good.
It was a big headache.
First off, different build setup, different runtime, couldn't use most of our standard libs, so it was an island.
It being in a language most people didn't know well meant it mostly only got updated as necessary; we certainly had people who could read the code and make tweaks with some comfort, but it was mostly just tweaks because nobody had the depth to really engage with the high level design idioms.
It being a niche lang/community, it moved fast, so after a year or so our tool was apparently using deprecated practices; in our supported languages, teams did large-scale fixup across repos for new versions, but this being a special lang/toolchain, it was on us.
Eventually, I believe it got rewritten, somewhat simpler, in one of our supported languages, and it was fine.

Maybe this is a success story: someone made a useful tool in a weird language and we used it successfully for at least a year. Maybe it wouldn't have been made or would've been worse or more expensive if they'd been forced to write it in a supported language. Maybe it would've needed to be rewritten anyway.

My view is a simple one; as one of the leads responsible for it, it was a special case bit of code, something people tried to avoid touching. Nothing about it required a niche language technically, so the added difficulty of working around that was friction and risk. It wasn't that people couldn't learn the language; they could, we had lang PhDs. It's just better if you can keep people where they have existing expertise, and spend your learning points on solving problems users care about.
Doesn’t work on everyone. Tried it a couple of times, felt like stoned for six hours laying in darkness rethinking life choices. Probably circadic issue, idk, body scan works much better.
In the Chomsky model of media propaganda, most of the participants are true believers, hired because they truly believe and are therefore the most qualified for their jobs. Even when they know they're lying, they're doing it because they think the ends justify the means and believe the ends are just.
> Finally, they decided it had to be the northern lights, visible from unusually far south.

This is from that same paragraph. Personally, I'm not convinced of that. Lightning behind a cloud could have done it, and would be more plausible from my perspective.

Otherwise, if it was just after sunset, perhaps it was a false sunset(say behind a massive dark cloud) and then when the sun fell below the cloud, you get the amazing red sunset(s) that are common in the desert.

But it's all conjecture at this point, who knows.
https://archive.is/XJeJc
People who live inside airplanes
That seems like a fairly good example.

For better, or worse, many tech companies, these days, seem to be obsessed with hiring large armies of inexperienced developers.

I have always assumed that they rely on embedded process, to get these developers to work towards release-ready products, but they may also be relying on mentorship and training from senior developers (I like that, better).

In my previous position, we did some fairly advanced and unique stuff (image processing pipeline stuff, in C++). It was almost impossible to hire engineers that already knew it. We had to look for people that "had potential," and hope to train them into a workflow.

It also meant that each employee was a big investment in time, and encouraged us to keep them on board for many years.

Training (I've done a lot) is a big fat pain, and not for everyone; but I feel that it is well worth it, to learn to do it.

It makes you a "go to" person for problem-solving (which not everyone likes, but problem-solvers are extremely valuable). It also engenders trust, deference, and respect.

TL;DR, it's good for your own personal career, to become a good mentor.
Social graphs will enable trust between people, just like governments are doing right now. Any person not included in the graph and shown up in your newsfeed is an illegal troll. The only difference with automated electronic governments and physical governments is that we can have as many electronic governments as we like, a million of them.

One other feature of LLMs is that they will enable people to create as many dialects of a language as they like, english, greek, french whatever. So it is very possible that 100.000 different dialects are going to pop up in English alone, 10.000 dialects in Greek and so on. That will supercharge progress by giving anyone as much free speech as they like. Actually it makes me very sad when i listen to young people speak the very same dialect of a language as their parents.

So we are heading for the internet of one million governments and one million languages. The best time ever to be alive.
I do actually care about my karma, I'm fine with taking downvotes for my opinions that might go against the grain, so long as the downvoter follows it up with their reasons and an actual discussion can take place.

I know myself though I have been guilty of reacting poorly to a mass downvote spam so as much as I hate to admit it, I do care about the karma.
At that time, the media was not united in support of one of the political parties.

The problem with the linked article is it insinuates political bias is the only acceptable public opinion, propaganda in support of that one party is good, anyone in opposition to its aggressive propaganda is bad, and then weirdly implies lack of trust in that propaganda is somehow bad for democracy.

The main problem with trust in media is a diversity of ownership implies a diversity of opinions, and we had that in the past. There is no diversity in ownership nor opinion now. There is the one party which must always be supported at all times by the good people, and the evil ones who do not obey.
Simplicity and low cpu requirements.
"No possible good" is strong phrasing.

Putting aside the distracting CSAM branding, I can think of at least five good ones.

None of which I'd personally value over freedom, but it's disingenuous and a failure of understanding your opponent to pretend benefits don't exist.
>>>> Maybe ML uses some weird shortcut, but how do we know the human brain doesn't use the same shortcut? If it's possible to use some simple hack to do something, why didn't we evolve to work that way?

>>> Brains are radically different from GPUs.

>> The same calculations can be performed by an abacus. What is doing the calculation is irrelevant. The question is what the calculation is

> Does it matter if the simulations of photons is on an abacus or using a GPU? I think that's the question. Neither of those are "reality", just a simulation.

I think so, yes, specifically with respect to the question of "how do we know the human brain doesn't use the same shortcut?". Simulations likely use very different shortcuts because they're optimizing for the structural design of a man-made machine that exists today and uses numerical and CS tricks to cheapen the computation cost while maintaining error rates on training data. The brain uses physical shortcuts to minimize energy expenditure, for survival of the host, and resiliency of the species (i.e. OK if flaws exist sometimes as long as the species survival is improved long-term). So not only is ML a fun-house mirror image of a brain (our model is extremely imperfect today), the optimization process is totally alien to how the brain figured out all its shortcuts.
This is such a weird argument, given the history of the previous century was largely defined by two huge decades-long organizing efforts. It makes sense if your definition of success is, exclusively, "proportional representation among CEOs and K&E partners". But if your definition includes "not having children work 7 day weeks" and "outlawing de jure segregation", not so much.

We're exposed to a lot more small-bore organizing today, largely because of the media environment, probably also a fair bit because we've shifted virtually every adult in the country onto a college track. There's lots of ineffective organizing to dunk on. But talking down the entire concept of organizing? That seems wildly false.
It depends on what is your main problem. Falling asleep? staying asleep? For the former using melatonin might help (I never use more than 0.5mg a night). I also find that podcasts help me fall asleep once I focus on listening. There are also specific meds that can help with stress which you can take when things are bad (e.g., lorazepam). Just having them by your side can help with your sleep since you know it's there in case you need it. Then of course, sport and meditation are great tools have better quality of life, not just better sleep.
This gave me a nice nostalgia kick, but I’m not gonna keep playing it for that reason. Not quite CS 1.6
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The old: Encryption is evil because it is used to hide information... let's ban encryption. Breaking encryption is evil because it can be used to steal information... let's incriminate breaking encryption.

Let's just get it over with... Technology is evil. Let's ban technology.
Amen. Every year.
He also has effectively redefined “fake news” to mean “unflattering (to him) news”.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475340
And because surround is mostly useless, if not messing up sound. With stereo all you need is to move your mouse horizontally to locate the exact direction of any sound.
i write out my updates as a way of planning my own day and taking stock of the previous, i consider it more of an exercise for myself than anyone else. I dont get nervous unless i got nothing done and have no good reason for why (which almost never happens).

chances are most of the rest of the standup are focused on themselves anyway
The stereotypes about Hannibal include that he used elephants effectively against the Romans. But in his last battle, the Romans had already figured out how to scare and kill the elephants.
> It's unfortunate because in the vast majority of cases, as you describe, this isn't the case at all.

I don't have a good barometer on what is typical. I do think it's probably the wrong approach in most cases to assume malintent and not even try to have a conversation, and just leave. That's my main point. That sounds like a cowardly approach, sounds like victim mentality that will just continue into future roles unless addressed, and it sounds like it assumes the employee holds no power at all in the relationship, which is very possibly invalid in many cases including this one. The employer has likely invested a lot in the employee, the employee probably has ownership and responsibilities, and it's a pain as a manager to have to deal with someone leaving and figuring out how to cover for the loss.

I haven't worked for a FAANG or similar silicon valley giant and so maybe things are different at those places and devs are treated as a faceless commodity, but I haven't had that impression (curious to hear someone's input on this).
That's very frequently exactly what a staff engineer is expected to do at large orgs, though.
No. Maybe if the karma was viewable while browsing a thread I would care. But since it's only viewable by going to my profile, most people aren't even going to know if my karma is high or low.
To really become valuable in your role you need to leverage your experience and skills to become a force multiplier (as mentioned several other places in this thread).

There is some good advice in here to help junior devs level up. But I would start by boiling it down to one that is easier to remember as you become a manager / coach:

Try to remember what worked well for you when you were learning, and then do that for your team.

I have gone back to that well over and over as I've moved between senior, principal, and management roles.
To pick just one incident: He's alleged to have selectively released information specifically to damage the Clinton campaign, and at a time where a Trump scandal was at the top of the news. That's not really even very arguable. To believe that Wikileaks release was non-political just strains reason. Clearly the Podesta emails were released for political purposes.

You have an easier time arguing that it's not a crime. Certainly the Podesta hack itself was a crime, but it's plausible that Assange merely got the emails after the fact and published them because they were newsworthy. That's... pretty arguable, but it's at least an argument.

Broadly... I just don't see the bias here. Assange is credibly accused of political crimes. Stating so isn't "bias", it's just describing a reasonably held opinion. That it isn't your opinion isn't the point.
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Its because this happened:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...

In the US Chamber Of Commerce memo of 1971, Lewis Powell said that the elite that own the corporations should start using them to push their own interests instead of allowing 'anti-American' (anticapitalist and antiwar) activities. It called for the consolidation of press sector and the use of press sector to push 'American' values and fighting against anti-war crowd. It advocated the private universities reject or expel students that were a risk to the system.

In the following years, especially starting with Reagan, the establishment literally implemented all of the advice in that document, and Powell went on to become a supreme court judge who helped that process of privatizing the entire US, including the press.
Civil court in America is just as powerful as criminal and only requires a preponderance of evidence standard be met.
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I don't really see the issue, this is how it has always worked. If someone or something can do your job good enough (not necessarily better) but for a fraction of the cost, you will eventually be forced to face that reality.
I think WhatsApp was Elixir
I agree that this does not follow from the wording in the standard and I am relatively sure that this was originally not implied. But this view point is repeated quite often nowadays. I think this is because prominent compiler developers promoted this point of view and used this for blaming the user ("Because you have UB in your program it is completely invalid. It is now ok that the compiler breaks it, and it is alone your fault".) The other response to your post is correct so, but this explanation would not allow UB to affect prior observable behavior.
Successor ideology is fast becoming a religion, if isn't already.
What makes you believe those photons and chemicals and the brain exist when you have no access to any of that and all of the information about it comes from your mind (the only thing guaranteed to exist)?
> If we don't know what will happen that is Undefined Behaviour.

Implementation-defined behaviour is a thing. Not knowing what will happen is not an accurate description of undefined behaviour. What the compiler does is assume that undefined behaviour doesn’t happen. When it does happen, it results in a contradiction, and logically every sentence is a consequence of a contradiction (see e.g. “Bertrand Russell is the pope”). That produces all those infamous bugs. Because just like every sentence is a consequence of a contradiction, every program state can be a result of UB. This is untenable.
Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles
Sounds like the current web. What's the difference?
Most of them purposely gimp themselves by running in 4:3. I've watched major tournament losses due to pro players not being able to spot someone they would if they were running widescreen.
The definition of "Senior developer" is a little bit different everywhere, but I think what's common is that YOUR JOB is now COACHING JUNIORS. Your role is just different, you have to accept that.
I don't think that changes anything about what I said. He's still explicitly saying that a large percentage of the media is an enemy of the people.
Stoics and Epicureans Have Returned. So Where Are the Cynics?
no, i hide the karma count with ublock and will discard the account if it unlocks the special reward threshold, 200 i think it is here.

in pirate times the fun of making someone walk the plank was to convince the victim to jump off himself with a little sword prodding as a disincentive to getting back on deck. I intent to just get a new plank each time instead of jumping into a watery grave "by choice".
Nope. But from experience, I do know that any kind of user-moderated sites or sites that use such karma systems, eventually enforce groupthink of the dominant group through those systems. Even if they dont want to do that.
How is that any different from "buying" a digital rental on Amazon that expires after some length of time?
It’s a nice feedback check. I don’t post that often so I usually see how the last post performed when I log in the next day. Usually my posts are met with indifference. But it’s interesting to see the posts that perform highly negative or highly positive.
A handful of trials have looked at this, and some have found pretty good results. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Tinnitus&term=tE...

There's more to do before it's a routine treatment, but there may be something there. Until recently, I think most people have been trying to enhance weak activity with stimulation, but some of our data suggest it's easier to break up pathological activity, which I think is the issue with tinnitus.
A collection of tips and best practices to help the dev community get metrics with their design system: things to think about, things to avoid, tools and resources to improve their knowledge and skills.
> Honestly I would have liked to see the police sued for what they did, but the whole doctrine of "qualified immunity" means that that would go nowhere.

QI doesn't stop you from suing “the police” (as in, the public agency responsible), it stops (absent clear precedent eatablishing the right on which you are suing) individual public officers.
Promoting a belief that people are born with gendered brains causes (and has caused throughout history) far more harm (in the utilitarian sense of: negative discrimination x females affected) than ‘transphobia’ (which I’m taking to mean simple principled disbelief in innate gender identity and rejection of socially constructed gender of as a primary basis for personal identity).
Yes, it's a big issue. It's fascinating how little it's talked about. I think this requires that we organize grassroots visibility into this. Also, wouldn't YC have some mechanisms to organize? I mean, I think this impacts every tech business other than unicorns.
This is actually awesome approach to get a house. I am curious about durability
It's a bit strange to point to 4 officers spending hours "investigating" a nothingburger as being evidence they're underfunded and overworked.

I guarantee that if that family had their house broken into and a bunch of stuff stolen...one cop would have shown up hours later, told them it wasn't worth filing a report as "nothing ever comes of it anyway", and then ignored phone calls from them when they discovered they did, in fact, need a report for insurance.

40% of the town general fund in Uvalde went to the police department. A tiny town with nearly zero crime had a large police department geared up to the gills and a separate school police department...and it got them...a police department that stood around (with county police and a federal border patrol tactical team) while their children and teachers were slaughtered.

Police aren't underfunded. They're lazy, entitled bullies.

They're also not undertrained - most police get huge training budgets for all sorts of stuff. It's just stuff that is fucking useless. There's lots of time and money for SWAT, anti-terror, and drug operations training, and it's way sexier than training on how to handle a domestic violence case or sexual assault or home invasion.
Content creators are already compensated for their work (thru ads, donations, etc) and ChatGPT wont affect that.
A Proud Ship Turned into a Giant Recycling Problem. Brazil Plans to Sink It
Dumping asbestos into the ocean? That cannot end well...

"The old aircraft carrier, once the navy’s flagship, is packed with asbestos. No country, including Brazil, will let it dock to be dismantled."

https://archive.ph/6nHp8