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What you're saying isn't contradictory to criticizing the CEO.

Yes, a job is a business transaction and employees should be aware of that. I don't think anyone here disputes it. I certainly do not. That has literally no bearing on the fact at all on whether or not the CEO claiming that he's taking "full responsibility" is an empty platitude.

No one is accusing Google of slave labor here, but that's the claim you're defending.

ETA:

Whether or not the employees should be viewing working for Google as transactional, it's still a frustrating pain in the ass to be fired from a job. They have to spend some amount of time with no income. They have to go through an annoying interview process of people masturbating to whiteboard problems. Their next job might not pay as well. If they weren't at Google very long (<1 year) then that's still going to look bad on a resume.

It's a frustrating experience. No one is claiming that the CEO of Google should go to jail or anything, but if he's firing 12,000 people because of his bad decisions, him claiming that taking "full responsibility" is just an empty statement and it's frustrating.
Brilliant Pebbles seems way more practical today than 1987. Lots of exotic 80s autonomous systems are now commercial and mundane, and launch costs are plummeting.

Sending up a space laser seems particilarly absurd when one could send up 100(?) drone interceptors for the same cost with less R&D, especially when a drone constellation is far more resilient against anti satellite weapons.
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Nearly 1 in 5 at Stanford majors in CS
> I'd love to know what Volcker thinks about our current situation.

Volcker is dead.[0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker
>the recent wave of startup layoffs seems largely driven by companies bracing for a potential economic downturn and using their own customer data to anticipate seriously bleak scenarios

It's not just startups though. It's big tech. It's financial services. It's big and small non-tech non-financial companies as well. Everyone has been predicting a recession for well over a year now. We're living in a very unusual economic situation where some parts of the economy are getting crushed and others are doing fine. No one knows the answer to your question, but yes, one possible answer is that this is just the early phase of the downturn and it's just taking longer than usual to move to the next phase.
Breaking SHA256: length extension attacks in practice
>Well I take myself to be an expert in this area, and I think it's fairly obvious how they work. Many of these so-called "Experts" are sitting on the boards of commercial companies with vested interests in presenting this technology as revolutionary. Indeed, much of what has been said recently in the media is little more than political and economic power plays disguised as philosophical musings.

Bro if you are an expert you'd already know that most of the exclamations that they don't fully understand LLMs is coming from researchers at universities. Hinton was my example on an "expert" as well and he literally quit google just so he can say his piece. You know who Hinton is right? The person who repopularized backprop.

>A statistical AI system is a function `answer = f(question; weights)`. The `answer` obtains apparent "emergent" properties such as "suitability for basic reasoning tasks" when used by human operators.

Every layman gets its a multidimensional curve fitting process. The analogy your using here to apply properties of lower dimensional and lower degree equations to things that are millions of dimensions in size on a complex curve simply doesn't apply because nobody fully understands the macro details of the curve and how that maps to the output it's producing.

The properties of a 2d circle don't map one to one to 3d let alone 500000000d.

>Much of its apparent properties are illusary, and much of the press around it puts in cases where it appears to work and claims "look it works!". This is pseudoscience -- if you want to test a hypothesis of ChatGPT, find all the cases where it doesnt work -- and you will find that in the cases where it does there was some "statistical shortcut" taken

You don't even know what science is. Most of software engineering from design patterns to language choice to architecture is not science at all. There's no hypothesis testing or any of that. An expert (aka scientist) would be clear that ML is mostly mathematical theory with a huge dose of art layered on top.

The hypothesis for the AI in this case is, and I'm parroting the real experts here,: "we don't understand what's going on." That's the hypothesis. How is that even testable? It's not so none of this is "science". ML never was a science, it's an art with some theoretical origins.

But your "hypothesis" is it's just "statistical parroting" which is also untestable. But your claim is way more ludicrous because you made a claim and you can't prove it while I made a claim that basically says "we can't make any claims because we don't understand". See the difference?
Right. And, in my opinion, we get exactly the bad UI described because it became common to conflate "modal" with "overlay." That's the way the UI kits implement it, and as the author states, it makes people reach for that because it's what's available.
C++ even provides a portable compiler fence in the form atomic_signal_fence.
Why Do People Believe the Earth Is Flat?
Almost true. Good thinking though.
There are exceptions to this rule, so it's more of a guidance than the actual rule. For example you could have two planets orbiting the Sun at the relatively similar distance from the Sun and a small distance from each other.
Corporate buildings are usually leased, even if it is just one occupant. These lease terms are also usually 10 years.
Very true! A few years ago my brother-in-law died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 53. This event was a real eye opener for me. It made me realize that my 'one of these days I'd like to...' plans have an expiration date and will never happen unless I make them happen. Since then, I've made progress on some of those plans.
Productivity gap at its finest ^^
No, these are both political statements, sorry.
> That's around 3 weeks total annual production of Patriot missiles fired in 2 minutes at a handful of targets with at best partial success.

How many Kinzhals can Russia make a month? I can only find motivated sources, but those say ~10/month, and that's after a push to increase production.
I was a staff software engineer (front end lol so take that for what it is) at a medium sized B2B SaaS company that turned into a unicorn during my time there.

I quit in 2019 to start a company. In 2020 my time was split 80/20 between building a company and working alongside brothers and sisters in my local church.

In the past couple of years I’ve degreased kitchens, demolished walls, hauled concrete, done some electrical, metal work, automotive, woodworking, janitorial, hauled bags of salt and piled em up two stories high in a metal warehouse during a thunderstorm. Dirt under your nails work.

Yes 80% of my time was still tech (working on hardware though, which is a nice change) but I wouldn’t give the 20% for the world.

There’s a deep satisfaction in putting forth real effort - mentally and physically with sweat and sometimes blood - doing something that’s taxing, alongside and for the people in your community you know and love.

The things that separate and seem so large - cultural background, socioeconomic status, upbringing - they melt away when you’re in the dirt laboring together.

And I understand that this is coming from a privileged viewpoint. And that I had the choice to take on these things while others don’t. But in a way that makes it more meaningful.

Jesus didn’t have to empty Himself of His power. God Himself chose to humble Himself taking the form of a man and instead of being a ruler over the humanity while He was here, He chose to live among the lowest of the low. To love and care for the folks that society tried to pretend didn’t exist without any gain, self aggrandization, or virtue signaling. To die for us in order that if we turn away from the world and towards Him in faith we would be saved from the sin inside of us that separates us from God and warrants His judgment.

Jesus’ love makes me want to be like Him. I’m nowhere close — often foolish and more often still selfish. But in His presence there’s fullness of joy and an abundance of life that’s only found in sacrificing one’s self to Him.
How much money does the UK National Gallery earn from image licensing fees?
My business model is support for my software.

Can you tell me how to make my business run without me using that model? Most startups don't do support for this reason; I'm pretty sure it's impossible to do support without an available person.

But it's not unprecedented. Think Daniel Stenberg of libcurl.
I have a Toyota RAV4, about 2016, with the built-in system. It's silly amounts of awful when it comes to bad UX. Enough so that I am considering buying a head unit.

Bafflingly, I can't find head units that recognize and obey MP3 playlists. I would have thought that functionality would be a given.
The point made by the article is valid. It is also entirely trivial, but indeed, who cares? Certainly not the CEOs or companies who ignored this point this time. I doubt that the CEO of Google is not smart enough to take this trivial point into account when contemplating his actions, so he must have ignored it for reasons other than ignorance.
SFPD obtained live access to business camera network in anticipation of protest
Towards the bottom of the article...

> Could platforms defend themselves? What if the warhead or missile was spinning, etc.? All those questions were answered. The only real barrier at the time was generating very high laser power levels in a way that was logistically practical in the field.
> it does seem like a language with a massive threshold for beginners.

Programming with manual memory management should be (comparatively) hard. It's not where beginners should start. C makes it far too easy to write code with objectively bad effects on the system, as evidenced by the countless vulnerabilities discovered in critical real-world systems over the last half-century.

> after a few rounds with that compiler.

I find this phrasing curious. Do you feel that you are fighting the compiler?
Thanks for the advice!

I agree the economics are important, and I definitely intend to learn them. I just also want to know how to barista and be able to operate the cafe!

I enjoy serving coffee, and I want to be interacting with my customers/staff/etc. :)

I'm friendly with a few local small cafes (one shop only), and the owners all involved with service.
I focus on the process.

Same as for problems I am certain have solutions.

For me, it's all about the work, not the fruit.

But the caveat, I focus on projects that are going to bear fruit because most problems that might bear fruit probably won't and I'd rather be productive than important.

YMMV and that's aOK.
US Congress: how investment funds became the new insider trading risk
And why is Mercury so hard to get there in terms of energy required? It's because its orbital velocity is so fast and you need to match that. (You can get there without matching the orbital velocity, but that won't be useful, you're either doing a non-capturable flyby or a very hard impact.)

Mercury's orbital velocity is 48 km/s. Earth's is 30. An object at infinity would be zero. Kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared. Square those numbers and you see the energy differential between Earth's orbit and Mercury's is greater than going from Earth to infinity.
> Ukraine is shooting them down just fine using decades old technology.

It is not publicly known whether this is true.

The Ukrainians claim they shot down 6 of 6 Kinzhal missiles over Kiev in one night with a Patriot battery. In the available videos of the event, all that can be seen is that a few dozen air defense missiles were fired, and that something got through and struck the general location where the air defense battery was.

A very healthy dose of skepticism is warranted about claims made in wartime by interested parties.
This is the first time I've understood what the compiler is meaning with FnOnce (that it is moving the captured item back out of the closure, whether by Drop or other means). Glad I read the article now.
It's mentioned in this paragraph:

"When we were developing this technology in earnest for missile defense 15 years ago, there were many theories about how it could be defeated. People thought that mirrored surfaces might just reflect the beam. It turned out that reflective surfaces are actually more vulnerable. Would the range be far enough? Maybe the atmosphere would scatter the beam too much? Could platforms defend themselves? What if the warhead or missile was spinning, etc.? All those questions were answered. The only real barrier at the time was generating very high laser power levels in a way that was logistically practical in the field."
The apparent jankiness of the rear camera was one of the first reasons I started hacking on the car tbh. It was weird to me that the yellow guidelines/overlay don't appear on the camera feed until a little while after the camera feed first shows up. I've confirmed that it's a two stage process controlled in part by the /sbin/earlyrvc binary and later accessed via an Android service. But I'm not sure why the Honda devs didn't include rear camera dash cam functionality. Especially because you can use the side camera while driving, but not the rear camera. My working theory is that there's some sort of limitation with frame buffers or processing power but . I definitely encourage other devs to look into this too
As a consolation, maybe "there was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln" https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2154725-a-samurai-could-have...
I answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058724

And I go into a bit more detail here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058560
I'm reading between the lines here, but my guess is that you're interested in the coffee role because you're passionate about coffee. It also sounds like you've looked at the pay cut, and decided you can live with it. (Take the long view ... if you make a career of this job, will you be able to afford to live where you want to? Will you be able to comfortably retire?

I suspect that if after a year or two you decide that this more manual work isn't the life improver you expect, you should still be able to get another job in your current field. It might be a little harder than if you were to look for a new job without the gap, but will be much easier than breaking into it in the first place.

You can also talk to your manager -- they might be able to offer you an unpaid leave of absence for a while which would give you the space to try the new job while keeping your options open.

I'm familiar with the finance industry in NY which has a heavy work-hard-play-hard culture; or put another way, they have demanding expectations, but pay you enough for you to tolerate it. I assume London is similar. Switching to a similar sales role in a different industry might be an alternative that could work for you as well. It might be less of a pay cut, but give you more capacity to pursue things you're passionate outside of work.
If you read my post I said 50 percent of the way there.

So that means a 10 line bash script at best would have 5 lines of bugs.

But the AI is actually better then that. You've just increased the bar.
While I don’t agree with your hot take, it would be amazing if all the C-suite hand wringing about RTO being the best thing ever resulted in strong unions as a result.
Great comment. One disappointment is many people will not outgrow the borrower phase even when they have the resources to do so and become a lender. Also it’s okay if you neither borrow nor lend, it’s neutral.
> initial commit pls dont sue

This feels like when people post content and include "no copyright infringement intended" in the description.
I agree. I've had five and ten year plans. Some of my five year plans even panned out. The vast majority of my one and five year plans fail as reality is too unpredictable.

* Be careful to not fall into a local maximum. As years progress in a long plan you might find better opportunities by adapting. Think of the opportunity cost of sticking to your plan

* As you execute the plan, you'll gain more knowledge and experience. This very frequently includes information that would have been useful in forming the plan. Try to anticipate what will give you this information and gain it as early in the plan as possible.

* Change happens. You change. The world changes. Reevaluate your plans frequently.

* Be careful of sunk cost fallacies. Even if you worked really hard to progress, sometimes the best corse of action is to walk away.
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Apparently, the biggest issue with true hypersonic weapons (including missles) is that they can’t ‘see’ - the plasma created by their speed stops radar, any high resolution optical, etc. systems from working effectively.

Everyone else however can see them just fine.

So they might be able to maneuver (normal ballistic missiles can usually do last minute maneuvering too!), but without data it’s blind.

Maybe useful if already programmed with a decent random walk, but it doesn’t help it actively avoid something coming for it, and it doesn’t let it aim for moving targets that can adjust course.

Slower stuff doesn’t have this issue, but is of course slower.

This is the same reason why supercavitating torpedos seem really cool on paper, but are not actually all that useful or scary (unless nuclear tipped). Unless the blast radius is huge or the target is fundamentally fixed (a large building), you can just… move out of the way.
Regulatory capture. Policymakers are informed by well paid & organized imaginary property lawyers and lobbyists, who keep whispering that draconian enforcement is needed because EU too is in a post industrial development phase and the future is living off information feudalism.
More accurately, 700 gazillion mosquitos of all sizes, and 2 gazillion bug predators trying to eat them, in a hazy cloud obscuring the alligator chilling in your backyard.
i feel like this is just the research process. My solution is to just try something that seems relevant. Soon you will realise it may not work because X. but maybe Y will work. Then you keep going, learning more about the area, the data, whatever. Stop when it works, or you have convinced yourself it wont. This is one of the reasons I think research code is always so trash, rarely did the researchers know where it was going to go at the start. And thats ok. Refactoring for production only happens well into the future.

my advice is to do something without worrying that it might not be the right thing.
Interesting. FYI, Wechat has inbuilt feature that transcribes voice messages but only in Chinese. I was expecting it to come to Whatsapp, but seems they are slow on this. Thanks for this suggestion.
I'm not defending any administrators, m'friend. This is why I wrote "meaningful and productive." I want scientists to have all the money.
Damages against a legal entity are usually not "existential" in value (sufficiently large enough to terminate the entity). I really hope that an example is set here with intentionally existential damages. A company that so avidly facilitates spam and scams need not exist.
Pretty much, I've done the Seattle-Vancouver hop in a 737 and that's only 130 or so miles.
That's a good indicator that they're people to avoid.
Once again, I imagine the vast fortunes spent on finding, interviewing, more interviewing, MORE interviewing, onboarding and then firing all of these employees.

Shouldn't dozens of high-ranking heads be rolling for such profound mismanagement and gargantuan waste of company resources?
Also see this interview[1] with Robert Miles.

I really hope these doomsayers are wrong, but my suspicion is the risk is real. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what can be done about it, as the profit and power these AI's promise is going to be near impossible for humanity to resist.

[1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLKbhY0ji0
According to a comment in the blog post, the sementic had changed in C++20:

> If your compiler predates C++20, however, the consume memory order is almost certainly treated as acquire (legal, just not faster). C++17 temporarily discouraged the use of the consume order because the semantics were impossible to use correctly, and thus all compilers were implementing it as acquire.
>
> The revisions in C++20 took some very smart people a lot of effort, and changed the definitions subtly so that you can use consume and get weaker memory ordering than acquire without immediately invoking our good friend UB.
In this case it is a bit obvious, but often what an archeological find of this type tells us, is that something was important enough in that society for an artist to take the time to make a relief depicting it. It is not so much "people were kissing", but that "people were celebrating kissing as an integral part of copulation" at that time, showing that society appreciated the intimacy, rather than just treating it as the more animal pump and dump, then get on with your day.
How often does your distro update the kernel?
Does your distro ship stable or an LTS kernel?
Will this patch even get backported into LTS kernels?
How often does your distro cut new disto releases?

tl;dr: I think pop is a Ubuntu flavor, so ~6 months and/or it's already available today if you're not afraid to compile your own kernel.
consume was implemented because real architectures provide data dependency on the load path (i.e. a load of a pointer value is never reordered past the a load of the pointed value). No architecture provides such a guarantee on the store path, unless , like TSO, provides it for all stores, so no point in specifying it in the standard.
I don't know what kind of work with your hands you mean, but for lighter working with hands, just be aware of risks like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury

If you mean hard labor, even if you're an active athlete, maybe talk with an expert on how that affects your body (doctor? physiotherapist?). I'd guess they might be able to advise on what to expect physically, how to condition yourself to help avoid serious injuries, the top 10 unfortunate moments that turn into permanent regret (e.g., lifting with back), what your time horizon should be before moving to supervisor or an easier field, etc.

If you already have enough money stashed away to live comfortably, that helps: not only don't you get trapped in physical labor jobs if you stop enjoying it, but you'll avoid money-related stress (which adversely affects your health multiple ways, including making you more susceptible to injury).
It depends on what you consider harassment since the article doesn't detail that. Even in your example, the filming isn't the problem, just the harassing. If your neighbor catches you on video committing a crime and turns you in based on that legally obtained video, there's no legal issue with that. The question here is should the government be held to stricter rules? The current test for whether something violates 4th amendment rights is if there wasa reasonable expectation of privacy. If your neighbor can legally video you, then that's pretty plainly demonstrated that you do not have the expectation of privacy. That's what this is really all about.
The article is very cool and informative, I actually enjoyed it.

But since I didn't know the author, it took me to the last paragraph and his signature to notice he's actually trying to sell us on the idea of putting actual Death Ray satellites in space.

That's kind of cool too, but I'm sure it's a very bad idea to combine worldwide surveillance and killer lasers in space.