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> `setInterval` routinely results in seconds that appear too short or too long

I just ran into this/ noticed it on something I rebuilt, both using setInterval. It was fine before… but the new setInterval is … “off” visually.

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The same things we did the last few times we were told we were being replaced by AI.
Yeah, asking questions with multiple stages/progression, where the early stages are obvious but still provide signal through coding competency are good.

Similarly, many small questions is going to give you a more accurate view than a single hard algorithm problem. There tends to be a trick or specific process to solve leetcode style problems, thus sessions are more black/white on whether the person makes that observation. Very unnatural to usual dev work.

Interviews should never feel “hard” even if your threshold for success is high. There’s nothing that requires you to ask hard questions to get good candidates.

By definition if your problems are perceived as “hard” then they aren’t assessing people on relevant skills, because a problem that is correlated with real world work shouldn’t be hard for anybody who is coding all day/every day.

(Though somebody who is unskilled may find pretty much any problem hard, speaking more broadly here)
Only for dates. It is horribly broken once you start involving timezones.
I grew up in a big endian culture and I cannot agree more with your last sentence.
There is a future in which Sam Altman is following more erratic trajectory, like that of Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes or Sam Bankman-Fried. And then there is one, in which it is more like Paul Allen and Bill Gates ones.
Honsetly, trying to understand clothing fit via online pictures has already been a crapshoot.

Also that's only half the point. The other half is manufacturing desire, showing beautiful people in the product
Grow feathers
But I don't care how the rest of the world feels when they see our date format.
I dont think that is a product. Google have created dar more important products including kubernetes, go, flutter as well many ML architecture including transformer
Why not? There are CPUs being designed that do floating point math “wrong” but faster…

I’m sure many people would use RAM that’s cheaper and faster but row hammer vulnerable. Just as many people drive cars with engines that will break if driven at redline for long periods of time.

It’s not like row hammer is a realistic use case. No algorithm depends on row hammer access patterns. Just like people don’t buy cars to bounce off the rev limiter.
I see your point! Cool! How far are you with the developments?
Some people complain there are too many wild pigs, while other people complain they have nothing to eat.

Can't those problems be solved at the same time?
An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPhone Moment
I'm more interested for LLMs to get the point when it can look at the several hundred codebases in your company and tell you who sets what value in your local data model, and why they set it. There's always slack instead of poorly generated documentation.
Dates should be annotated as such and rendered according to your browser's time zone and formating preferences.

Don't blame the other culture, blame your inept communication medium.
While I agree with you about the status of ChatGPT right now, it seems pretty obvious to me that all of the problems you state will be easily surmountable in time, and I've just been shocked at the pace of advancements in AI in the past couple years. I think it's totally plausible that the AI community hits a "brick wall" eventually in some number of years with regards to their pursuit of AGI with LLMs, but the problems you point out seem to me exactly the type of things LLMs can solve with more training data/parameters/dimensions, and added functionality to test code.

Also, I see lots of comments downplaying the potential impacts of LLMs because they can hallucinate or they have errors, and though I agree with all these points, I also want to shout "Gang, we're having a fully natural, back-and-forth conversation, with a computer. It speaks English and French and TypeScript!" This is stuff that seemed fully planted in the realm of science fiction only a decade or so ago. For example, I'm not sure I've ever seen ChatGPT make a grammatical mistake, or even generate code that can't compile (though I have seen ChatGPT "crap out" if the program it's writing gets too long).

I think I'm naturally a pretty skeptical person when it comes to tech hype, to the point of usually being over-conservative about potential impacts (I drastically underestimated the impact mobile would have on society, for example). But with ChatGPT, I feel like I need to take breaks just from the constant mind-blowing nature of it.
100% this. I've had success using it as a "micro-therapist" to get me unstuck in cycles of perfectionism and procrastination.

You currently cannot get a therapist to parachute into your life at a moment's notice to talk with for 5-10 minutes. (Presumably only the ultra-wealthy might have concierge therapists, but this is out of reach for 99% of people.) For the vast majority of people, therapy is a 1 hour session every few weeks. Those sessions also tend to cost a lot of money (or require jumping through insurance reimbursement hoops).

To keep the experience within healthy psychosocial bounds, I just keep in mind that I'm not talking with any kind of "real person", but rather the collective intelligence of my species.

I also keep in mind that it's a form of therapy that requires mostly my own pushing of it along, rather than the "therapist" knowing what questions to ask me in return. Sure, some of the feedback I get is more generic, and deep down I know it's just an LLM producing it, but the experience still feels like I'm checking in with some kind of real-ish entity who I'm able to converse with. Contrast this to the "flat" experience of using Google to arrive at an ad-ridden and ineffective "Top 10 Ways to Beat Procrastination" post. It's just not the same.

At the end of some of these "micro-sessions", I even ask GPT to put the insights/advice into a little poem or haiku, which it does in a matter of seconds. It's a superhuman ability that no therapist can compete with.

Imagine how much more we can remember therapeutic insights/advice if they are put into rhyme or song form. This is also helpful for children struggling with various issues.

ChatGPT therapy is a total game-changer for those reasons and more. The mental health field will need to re-examine treatment approaches, given this new modality of micro-therapy. Maybe 5-10 minute micro-sessions a few times per day is far superior than medication for many people. Maybe there's a power law where 80% of psych issues could be solved by much more frequent micro-therapeutic interactions. The world is about to find out.

*Edit: I am aware of the privacy concerns here, and look forward to using a locally-hosted LLM one day without those concern (to say nothing of the fact that a local LLM can blend in my own journal entries, conversations, etc for full personalization). In the meantime, I keep my micro-sessions relatively broad, only sharing the information needed for the "therapy genie" to gather enough context. I adjust my expectations about its output accordingly.
Man please, go to a real therapist with experience.
Thank you, i will update this with a video. Given the feedback, it makes sense to let the issues be public as well
One thing about your comment that a lot of people are missing is that you mention that it's an infrastructure transformation project.

I think that's important because agile as I've seen it doesn't work well for infrastructure (networking especially). The core ideas of agile just don't fit.

For one there really isn't a customer who can test an infrastructure project in small increments. Imagine trying to deploy a network in small chunks. Who is the customer who would be 'testing' the chunks? How would that even work?

For two infrastructure really does have to be designed end to end because the cost of rework is so high. Especially once actual applications are running on it. Sure you can make tweaks here and there as the project evolves but you can't release it to business applications until you're pretty sure it's going to be stable.

I'm sure there's some methodology that would work better than waterfall for infrastructure projects but I haven't seen an agile methodology that would fit it.
Might be a good idea to have it sum up each discussion and then paste in those summaries next time you speak to it.
Takes longer though.
Ask HN: How do you think about life/career goals?
If I am being honest I have always gone with the flow in terms of my life and had much less directed effort at any one specific goal. I've been reasonably successful but more and more I'm feeling I want "purpose". I put it in quotes mostly because I haven't defined what that means yet. Looking for inspiration / thoughts but if you were asked what you would like to accomplish from a life standpoint in the next decade what would you say? If you had to say this is what I want to put on my resume in the next decade what would it include?

In case it's helpful money has never been a driver for me except as it helps accomplish a goal. I've always liked the idea of starting a "calm company" and while there have been attempts I can't honestly say I've given 100%. I find my desire waning some for starting a business mostly because I realize how complicated it can be and how little you end up doing the thing you truly enjoy.

I'm intentionally keeping it general as I am looking less for directed advice and more anecdata to open my lens to possibilities. Thank you.
Every Chinese engineer I work with knows how to measure in li, fen, & jin; the Japanese measure floor area in tatami, etc. I think you're conflating customary units with scientific units. Most of the world uses local, customary, units. The US — like most of the world — uses metric for science stuff.
Then there are others where you go pay 10k and get a WordPress spaghetti that no one else is willing to take on because it just is done completely out of standards of WP.

So how do you as a small business owner even know whether the agency you pay 10k is giving you good and maintainable code?

in 2 years when you want changes you'll realise that no one wants to work on this or if they do, they will ask much more, and the previous agency might be willing to take it on, but they will have the leverage to ask even more.
Does leetcode count as skill check?
Can you show examples of the documentation you've created with this workflow? Or better yet, can you make a screencast of the process?
water freezes at 0, boils at 100. this is an excellent and intuitive scale for a human that is 70% water. The SI units, like kg or m are characteristic of the human scale. and more importantly, sanely decimal.

and you say 3rd street, not Street 3. and 4th of july

i do prefer the american decimal point 1,000.00 , it makes more sense. But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards.
It only is human-firendly if you grew up with it, so it's rather "American-friendly".

> You don't say "25th Apartment", you say "Apartment 25",

We say 25th March in German.

Saying the whole date follows the importance: day, month, year: fünfundzwanzigster märz zweitausenddreiundzwanzig.
03-25-2023=-2045
> If a company lays off a bunch of people and simultaneously attempts to cut employee compensation, they'll have a massive revolt on their hands.

Will have to watch Intel closely to see, but I hear the layoffs quelled revolt about the paycuts
I think you are just used to the format. I don't see how it's any more human friendly than metric/celsius/normal time. All perspective
Many of those local or state offices also pay little to nothing. A state rep in NH gets paid $200 for a two-year term based on an 1899 law.

That's something of an outlier but $25-50K is common.
You’re an idiot, we should tax the wealthy, take half the money of people with £1bn+ (including the King) and pay off the national debt or force them to invest it in small businesses.

We should not equate rent seeking and genuine innovation as the same things.
>It should concern everyone that these types of top down authoritarian mentalities are more prevalent as people without a tradition or culture based in western philosophy that has led to what used to be a clear separation of powers, become more prominent even all over the western/European based world.

Do tell, what people specifically are you referring to?
I’ve heard that a few times, but personally as someone that is a human as far as I know, I've never been able to grok Fahrenheit like I can Celsius! Celsius slots into nice groups of 10 where 0ish is very cold, 10ish is cold, 20ish room temp, 30ish is summer heat.

It’s less of an inherent part of the system, and more of a fact I just grew up with it and it’s what I’m used to.
Coding competency:

- Can they code quickly?

- Do they know common APIs offhand? (Not have to look up)

- Do they write code in a readable fashion?

- Do they consider tests?

- Do they think more deeply about code structure? Immutability, single source of truth, DRY, not overengineering

You can understand all of this by asking a very easy problem that is written in 50-100 LOC. I tend to ask them to implement a certain data structure, where the naive solution is obvious, but still requires ~50 LOC. Then there’s a better runtime solution so I can assess theory as well, but I dont judge primarily on that, or care too much if they figure it out.

You may be surprised how much signal you can get out of asking somebody to implement a class with a few APIs and basic loops/data structures.

The simple fact that people who don’t train specifically for leetcode, don’t do well at it is effectively proof that it’s weakly correlated with real world work results. Otherwise people who are effective in the real world would automatically do well with leetcode. Speaking more to the harder problems though, the easier problems are much more correlated
But BCE comes before CE
What about error detection and correction? Can it be used with the more fragile kinds of Ram?
But usually I know what the month is. Pre-qualifying a unit number with the "type" makes sense because I don't necessarily know what the number refers to advance. And sure, just for grammatical consistency and flow it's fine to say the month before the day. But it's another story in writing, especially on forms, or even worse, in data sets.
>All of these problems are easier with higher density, not harder. Would you rather run and maintain a few giant sewer lines for a million people, or thousands of small sewer lines over hundreds of miles?

But that's not really the problem faced with construction, except when building on previously undeveloped land. Significant increase in density imposes commentate additional demand on existing infrastructure, which is much harder to expand than to operate and quite probably vastly harder to expand than it would've been to build initially to that expanded state before there was a dense city on top of it.
Tjis comment illustrates the Stockholm syndrome in a nutshell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
It does not for such an uncertain result.
This is the whole premise of the daemon series by daniel suarez. One of my all time favorite scifi series.
Right, because Google doesn’t use ML or your data for marketing and advertising.

Is your concern simply that it might spit out the same thing you typed in? That’s highly unlikely unless you and thousands of other people type in exactly the same thing. I don’t see how that’s anymore worrisome than Google having all of your documents and email on its servers.
Every law in USA was made with overwhelming input from lobbyists and other monied interest. What law will be passed depends on will of oligarchs not public.

Every law that accidentally helps people not oligarchs can be stopped by activists judges either in state or federal courts(including Supreme Court).

Because judges in the end serve corporations/oligarchs first and ideology second. The Federalist Society?

This stems from the fact that politicians that choose them(and if they are elected by public they can be bought directly) were also bought.
Container-base alternative: https://homelabos.com/
I don’t understand why Facebook hasn’t taken down the original magnet links in its own repository.
I'm talking about one of these things, which are often vibrate-only: https://www.google.com/search?q=restaurant+pager&tbm=isch

Also, not a daycare center, but a babysitter. For many of the babysitters we get, we're meeting them for the first time when they show up at our door; that's just reality these days. And it's not uncommon for them to text us while we're out, though thankfully no emergencies so far.
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50 being the middle is region specific it doesn't work the same way in all countries.

Also isn't it better to just say 25th March rather than March 25? Because most people will be aware of the month we're talking abt and date is the most important thing there which should come first.
Well March 25 is not ambiguous. 25/03 is also not really ambiguous. 04/03 is ambiguous.

I don’t think there’s a strong preference for 25 March over March 25 in Europe or elsewhere. I think I might write either one of those.
For many years I've used e.g. 2023 Mar 25, in the spirit of ISO 8601, to avoid all these problems.

I say "in the spirit of" because, as I recall (it's been years since I read it), the standard is quite focused, whereas I just want to do Year/month/day regardless of other little details like punctuation / numeric vs named month / zero padded digits or whether there should be a timezone etc etc. Usually I'm just adding a date to private notes, so it really doesn't matter.

When I have to fill out official forms on paper, I have to make an effort to change my habit.
Hello guy who does not have the same needs as me. I do. I use docker a lot. It saves me tons of headache.
https://github.com/wsxiaoys/awesome-ai-coding

Great time to start an awesome AI coding list!
Yep. Comments are for why not how. Docs though can be very dumb and still quite useful. "This is the class to access the Animals database. Use getAnimals to query for animals."
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Yeah, I don't think so. If it's 0°C outside, I know it's probably time to put winter tires on because the water in the puddles will freeze. If water in the pot on my stove is close to 100°C, I know it will boil soon. Same with dates — it has nothing to do with being machine readable or not, dates should go from largest to smallest (yyyy-mm-dd, etc) or vise versa, not turn 180 degrees at midpoint for some reason. Your units make no sense, you're drawing the bullseye afterwards if remember my idioms correctly.
I think their point is that the American date format is natural in the context of English grammar. Which it is, but written dates serve more purposes than acting as a record of things people said.
> There is no justification for it other than the general US contrarian attitude of "you're not the boss of me".

I'm a proponent of the metric system, but that's either a wild straw man or very lazy thinking. An obvious justification (which has lots of merit) is "I've been using imperial all my life and it's what I know, what I think in, etc." Changing systems would be very disruptive for a lot of people. IMHO that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, but it is something that should at least be acknowledged before a massive forced upheaval of a system.

Just thinking about driving for a minute, even little things like the speedometers in cars being primarily mph, millions of miles of mileposts all around the country that would need removing and changing. Every road sign with miles on it, etc. Those things are a little more than just "you're not the boss of me"
Many things have had individual bad incidents. Docker has had many, and they've been of incredibly naive kind. To compare Docker to the kind of careful engineering done in e.g. airplanes is just silly. The commits to Docker ("Moby") have historically been underwhelming. Docker is to containers as what MongoDB was to NoSQL.
It looks a lot like a billion dollar a year protection racket. Who else has a financial incentive for all these ddos bots other than cloudflare?
> in Fahrenheit, you just think of it in terms of 50 being the middle, "not cold and not hot". Then you understand 80 is high warm, closing in on hot, etc.

Depending on where you live, 50F could be considered cold. It's certainly not warm enough to be comfortable when lightly dressed.

There's nothing special about Fahrenheit in this respect. 20C is really what I'd call "not cold, not hot". 0 is freezing, 5 is cold, 10 is chilly, 15 is cool, 20 is comfortable, 25 is warm, 30 is high warm, 35 is hot, 37 is body temperature, and 40 is really hot.
It is bizarre indeed that a British newspaper is so concerned about Chinese "mass collection of personal and biometric data from American citizens", perhaps they could investigate the collection of the same on the British by American companies.
Also the standard in French. Day (optional ordinal) Month.
Individuals and publications associated with the term reject what they view as authoritarianism and ostracism within mainstream progressive movements in Western countries, especially within universities and the news media.

This includes opposition to deplatforming, boycotts, and online shaming, which are seen as threats to freedom of speech. Those who have been labelled as being part of the IDW come from both the right and left of the political spectrum. The validity of the term is contested by some it has been applied to due to the range of beliefs it encompasses.

Me neither, this is some unspeakable evil. Meditation apps should be about authoritarianism and ostracism. These people just don't know how to be mindful and chill.

If you haven't found traces of their bad philosophy in the app you're simply not looking hard enough pal. They might be subtly influencing you to think incorrectly.

Please make sure to watch out for these things next time you meditate.
Thanks for the Ze Frank pointer. I was continually inspired by his work.

Merlin Mann’s “Make Believe Help” is similar, both in vintage and in message.

https://vimeo.com/7192517
That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.