skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrible advice (from a broadly terrible book, I hasten to add). The reason that this is terrible advice: if you "fire quickly", it is because something is either grievously wrong (a mishire) or you are firing based on limited evidence. If the former, you have a hiring problem, not a firing problem; if the latter, you will generate a fear-based culture. Now, if you're running a prison, a fear-based culture may be exactly what you're after -- but fear is anathema to innovation, and if your endeavor requires any creativity whatsoever, you should be seeking to build mutual trust, not foster institutional fear.
> It’s better than non native for performance and experience but many companies will of course care more about the money saved from a sub native experience with fewer developers.

I currently work at an agency doing Android apps (not a typical pump and dump agency mind you, I've been the lead on this single project for 5 years and we've had them as a client for 8+), and I'm so happy to see our client buck that.

They've had us on a native app that we've been supporting for the entire 8 years, and had deep technical issues from before us ("lets reinvent the web browser for UI"). They had a secondary internal team (known to us, no hidden surprise, you're gone stuff) working to replace us with a greenfield cross platform app (I think react native). That project went on for a year before they cut their losses and said "cross platform can't be good enough."

We're now in the planning phase of a complete greenfield rewrite of the existing app to take advantage of Compose + Kotlin, and ditch 12 years of tech debt and I'm practically ecstatic.
Technically all of them come with restrictions, because if Nasa released them that software is still subject to the US's "we wrote this so we can sue you, not to actually prevent it" export bans on software to countries it doesn't like.

For example, none of these programs may be made available to Iranians, even if they were to aid somehow in fighting the Iranian government.
There were actually two libraries. Alexandria was the better known of the two, so it always drowns out the search results, but the Library of Alexander has a long and storied history. https://www.alexander.lib.ia.us/

Still a shadow of its former self though.
Here's an idea I've seen work: stop assuming people over 35 aren't a good fit for a start up. People who've been in leadership for a while but have the chops and in their day did on the ground work, and who can - given enough time and guidance - understand the minutest detail of a new tech stack or financial maneuver, command the respect of the super stars doing the day to day for their contribution of far seeing leadership.
Two things:

1. Set the example and model positive behavior.
- Stop using social media. If they see you doom scrolling they are going to doom scroll.
- Stop playing mmo or games that require subscriptions or have egregious monetization.
-I'm sure you have other skill you can teach them that don't require an internet connection, and if you don't, you can show them how to use the internet for educational purposes instead of watching idiots on social media.

2. Monitor and correct. Your kids are going want the same apps their friends have. Monitor their usage so you can help them get the street smarts. A lot of the apps have privacy settings so you will need to get familiar with them. iOS and android both have tools to limit the amount of time they can use the app for as well.

Unfortunately this takes a lot of time and effort on your part. Try your best and good luck.
This careless comment hit me a bit hard.

I grew up with two abusive parents. You have no idea of what that is like. There is no communication adaptation that saves you from the abuse. They will fly off the handle because they want to, and they will find a reason, even if there is none. The coping strategy is to avoid and keep away.

OP sounds like they had a short tempered but caring parent. The situation was alleviated by their adaptation. We all have our weaknesses and strengths, and I am quite sure OP's parent is not the only human to be quick to judge. After all, look at your own comment :)

Don't make being a fallible human something bad. We need to tolerate each other's flaws, and compromise towards each other.
That's the beauty of writing a timeless article.
Copyright should be an annual fee that increases by year.

Year zero through five: free

Year six: $500

Year seven: $1000

Year eight: $2500

Year nine: $5000

Year ten: $10,000

Year eleven: $25,000

Year twelve: $50,000

Year thirteen: $100,000

Year fourteen: $250,000

Year fifteen: $500,000

Year sixteen: $1,000,000

Year seventeen: $2,500,000

Year eighteen: $5,000,000

Year nineteen: $10,000,000

Year twenty: $25,000,000

...
Great, you learned swift and can do a bunch of leetcode with it. It has nothing to do with actually managing a complicated iOS software project with the zany decisions that have gone into the framework design and tooling. Also good luck with the lazy documentation from Apple and the extremely contrived examples from educators. Can you learn all this in somewhat reasonable time and not code something horrific as a result? Absolutely, lots of people do. In a couple days? Good luck.
> Math phds can be extremely remunerative if you focus on studying useful topics, avoid abstract nonsense, pick up domain knowledge, and stay the heck away from low paying teaching jobs like “professor” and “instructor”.

Yes. Now convince Math PhDs of that ;)
Magit revolutionized my git workflow. Rebase went from being a chore that I put off to easy peasy. My coworkers think I'm some kind of git wizard.
Connections: Group Words by Topic
Can you perhaps give a better example when you need to say that origin is what matters for you? I seldom have these problems myself, but there is a nagging feeling that this is something I have thought about my self.
not afiliated with the url: https://www.unite.ai/best-gpu-hosting-providers/

also this: https://vast.ai/

maybe also vultr
It was satire? Makes sense now..

The Roman legal system was extremely arbitrary and highly dysfunctional by modern standard. Why transporting some random feature of it (which contributed to it being such) to the modern world would ever be a good idea?

> revert that kind of power to its citizens.

It think it’s the inverse and would significantly decrease the “power” a random person has due to obvious reasons.

> fragile and angry

I’m neither angry or fragile. Why would you even use these words? I just shared my observation, that’s it.

> indoctrinated

That generally comments which include this word tend to be at least mildly deranged is another thing I noticed here as well.
I think it really depends on what your definition of "productive" is.

Let me try and quantify it. I looked through my apps that I installed from F-Droid, then looked at their GitHub issues and picked one [0]. I bet I could implement that in less than a week with 0 Android development experience.

> Every Android version is basically a reboot in many parts of the framework, the device fragmentation is hardly any better than J2ME days, several features are only documented via samples or Google IO talks, Gradle plugins require rewrites between upgrades, and each Android Studio release is a box of surprises what quirks it has.

Does any of that really matter if you're hiring someone into an existing org? Doesn't Android have amazing backwards compatibility? I'm sure I have some dice app from 2012 that still runs. The company is probably targeting some version of Android and isn't changing to the latest one every time a new version is released.

[0] https://github.com/tasks/tasks/issues/2435
AI Research Highlights in 3 Sentences or Less (July-August 2023)
>>*vast majority of people need the news, which is indeed a summarization of very complex documents.*

THe problem is that the summations are typically done with the journalists assuming that people are far dumber than they actually are - and thus, youre not summarizing "complex issues in a meaningfully understandable way" as much as creating a watered down, lacking of key details, click-bait form of communicating the topic at hand, and insidiously NOT doing journalism - as you fail to ask actual critical hard questions, and NEVER hold any person in authority accountable for their lies, or worse promises to do something they fail to do.

You're a plastic facade of journalism for the majority of topics - and youre beholden to billionaire media bosses, such as murdoch and big corporate interests (when NEWS is "brought to you by pfizer" (CNN) you're instantly untrustable...

Then, there are crazy examples of how you all just simply read a fn script "its extremely dangerous for our democracy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hGKT5FI78w

Yeah - I dont trust a single word from MSM
The contracts of adhesion that perpetuate society disproportionately valuing one form of labor over another do not validate the exploitation of one group of laborer over another.
Exception: you’ve exited and have nothing to lose by sharing
Another failure mode: Not being allowed to choose who you work with.

Early on, you joined the company knowing exactly who you get to work with. You were probably involved in hiring for a while too.

But at some point 100+, you’re put on a team with people you’d never met, never hired, and might not vibe with.

A direct, “let’s hit the ground running” attitude runs up against a ex-FAANG person with softer personality, prefers a “compliment sandwich”, and wants to write a 50 page technical specification before getting started.
Big publishers would love that sort of scheme. It puts copyright out of reach of basically everyone else.
When there are more bits in a pointer than NaN 52 bits allows, the trick is to replace pointers with indexes from the start of JS heap. This is not efficient even with arrangement like having heap aligned, say, on 4GB or even more granular address so to get the full pointer one just use bit operation, not an add. But if one wants efficiency, then make sure that types in the code is stable and JIT will generate type-specific code.
Humans aren't ec2 instances that you can spin up/down at will. "the basic living needs of those doing the labor" exists whether or not they're working. It's a sunk cost, unless we as a society are willing to let them die of hunger.
I could see the point of using a social media 'service' by myself as an internal journaling method for aggregating links and media and so on, but I wouldn't because much better methods exist for such things.
A million spent on consulting is a million worth of written proof of how seriously they are taking the problem. And it's even quantifiable! ("million"), yay! As a convenient side effect, it makes the problem you have just proven to be in your focus appear more important, what's not to like. In the end the consultants are basically paid to send a bill.
You can find multiple articles online about this recent event, one example:

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-drops-ivermectin-bomb...
I don't dispute the split hemispheres story but I don't think its particularly informative about normal cognitive function. I mean missing the connection between your brains is a pretty extreme situation.
Just like the executives of tabocco companies didn't smoke either. Why are 'people' downvoting you? Is there a small but dedicated Sackler family fan club on this forum?
Anyone can program without an internet connection. You just need the local documentation.
Maker of Chrome extension with 300k users tells constant pressure sell out
Rediscovering VB-DOS: A Journey into the Past
If they was true, they could stipulate that enabling full range would void the warranty. This is obviously a cash grab.
I don't think that return-to-office is driven by executives, I think it's driven by owners. They simply have a religious belief that a slave you can't see is an indolent slave.

They think that WFH is an "obvious" inefficiency that they can pull back from and be rewarded with "free" productivity. The scare quotes around "free" are because they know that returning to work is done at the worker's expense rather than the company's, so they're running literally no risk even if it doesn't improve a thing.

Return-to-work is essentially giving everyone a pay cut based on an ideologically-based wager that it might help the bottom line. It's gambling for yourself, staked with employees' personal time and money, because you can.
Regarding the following code,

```
printk("Kernel panic: %s\n\r",s);
for(;;);
```,

could the for-loop be damaging to the CPU by over-utilizing a small portion over and over again, in terms of it heating up a tiny space on it?
Or the boost to my ego of being admired for being so smart is larger than the boost to my ego of being even richer.
Adding people/roles can be beneficial when it frees other people from onerous or distracting work. When it increases onerous or distracting work for everyone else, that's a problem. To a large extent, the art of managing growth is finding ways to liberate everyone instead of handcuffing them.
Most interest question, how much will cost per KWh. I hear, sodium-ion are better than Lithium on this, but exactly numbers still undisclosed.
Open office look great! Just like TV. I don't think I've ever seen an office environment that has not been open on TV. A TV show with everyone in a private office would not work, no drama!

But to work in them is a noisy hell. I had a lawyer friend talk about how great these open offices must be to work in. So productive and dynamic he would say. But of course this is coming from a profession where having a private office is an absolute requirement.
> you came into this conversation speaking pretty boldly about Pornhub's motivations and about the strength/weakness of the case

I came in saying that their stance that they should not have to ID their customers because there are better methods to keep porn away from kids and TX lawmakers don't care about children is weak.

I was specifically focusing on that rationale, not the details of an ID system. I have no doubt that that will be fraught with issues. But the porn companies don't want to play ball at all, which I think puts them in a very weak position.

Hopefully that clarifies my original comment.
Sure. But even in your example the site selection won't help you much to build the airport, you still need to do that, and it's still going to be massively expensive.

I'm also in general skeptical about conversions of coal power plants into nuclear even for fission. Typical nuclear plants produce much milder steam temperatures and pressures than coal power plants, so their steam turbines are optimized for different conditions.
How about people just having personal opinions?
Im seen as a problem engineer even if its never my intention.

Im a bit anxious and introverted and thus like to get my part done and focus on other things.

This always results in rest of the team losing will to go far and beyond.

I dont know what to do about it, beside aknowledging it exists.

Do you say that ppl like me should simply quit and go working at sewege?

I dont think I like that idea. So what can I do if thats just how I am ? I cant seem to change how others see ppl like me.
In general this is true of influencer type garbage and "get rich" stuff. It's junk food for the fearful/hopeful/greedy mind.

However, there are entire industries that don't exist without a growing capable workforce. It's not like software programming would have been much higher paid, if we could have just kept it a secret longer. You need a certain number of skilled people to fill out all the positions and get large projects done. It's not like it's easy, or doesn't require training, but since it produces value everyone can win, because of the productivity of others.

Another example of this right now is building/contracting work. It's a skill that takes time to develop and you can't just do it from watching a video or reading a book, but it pays well. Right now a lot of older folks got out of the game so there's real demand and wages are high. If that demand doesn't get filled... it will be replaced with more automation. It's a case where, if there aren't enough workers economics will adjust to require fewer workers, perhaps dramatically so.
What about software?

I was thinking about this last night. Should I use a license agreement that gives my proprietary software to the public domain when I die? What about my open source software that I can no longer maintain? In my case, the software is probably not popular enough to continue without me. Should it keep a GPL license or be converted to MIT or to public domain?

What if I do have a hit someday and it provides income to me? My family might rely on that income, at least for a time, if I die early. I’d love to give a business to my kids and them to their kids.

Anyway, just rambling. I agree that copyright is probably too long.
That's the Xbox 360. From 18 years ago.
Paragons? You don’t need to be a paragon if you’re creating something you think is bad for kids and then hesitate to give it to your kids
I can't understand your last sentence, which is undermining your point about the low value of language education...
>What neuron(s) is responsible for capitalization in GPT?

It doesn't matter. Individual things like capitalization are vague and useless for interpretability. We know that incorrect capitalization will increase loss, so the model will need to figure how to do it correctly.

>Our understanding of what the neurons do is very limited.

The mathematical definition is right in the code. You can see the calculations they are doing.

>this bunch of weights are a redundancy because this set already achieves this function that this other set does and so can be pruned. Let's also tune this set so it never tries to call this other set while we're at it.

They are equivalent. If removing something does not increase loss then it was redundant behavior at least for the dataset that it is being tested against.
Blog author. I've done some separate testing on storing ~500GB of embeddings (~1B embeddings) in a partitioned table. The partition key was built using IVFFLAT as a "coarse quantizer" (in this case, sampling the entire dataset and finding K means), storing the mean vectors in a separate table, and then loading each vector into the partition with closest center. After that, I built an IVFFLAT index on each partition. With the indexes, this added up to ~1TB storage. This was primarily a "is it possible test" vs. thorough benchmarking.
Some 25 years ago I got my own domain, and put up my first personal web page. It said something like "My web site is not even under construction yet. I put a page up when I have something to tell the world, not before!" - That text is still up there, basically unchanged. There are other things on that web server, but they are password protected and for my personal use only.

As you can see, I disagree with the idea of publishing "everything" and hoping that some of it might go viral or get a lot of likes.
It seems like people are finally realizing how miserable the idea of self hosting anything is.

I almost wish I'd never made a personal site and just done GitHub pages, even DokuWiki in the cloud isn't perfect.
One might rationally ask if all colleges should offer all things for all people. I know they don't strictly do this, but I think there is more overlap in functions than there should be.

When looking at colleges for my kids, I was impressed by the consortium of schools in western Massachusetts (UMass Amherst, Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, Mount Holyoke) that allowed the smaller schools to concentrate on specific areas, while at the same time giving students the ability to take courses in other fields from the other schools in the consortium (mostly at UMass). Maybe more schools should do more of this.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.

This does not make me want to support record labels
I don’t really like Zod at all, it has very finicky and verbose types/generic params and it’s object generic won’t allow you to pass a data type, but instead you must pass zods own schema types as properties which are very messy and unintuitive.

Another annoyance is that the type of validation errors varies depending on what kind of schema you’re checking against. This makes it unpredictable to handle errors and there’s always too many edge cases.

Lots of room for improvement.
> Landlords don't create value,

Please explain your logic because it doesn't seem to match reality.

From what I see, there can be 3 types of landlords: those who built a house from scratch (obvious value creation), those purchased the house from someone else (value transfer; but that needs the buyer to hold alternate value in the first place) or inheritance (yeah, one just got lucky with right parents).

Only the 3rd category seem to match your statement and I agree that inheritance should be heavily taxed. But the first 2 categories? Landlords have literally created value or exchanged their created value for a house.
Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support for Linux
One thing I'll add - or maybe it expands on too technical of a leader - is when a brilliant outside hire is brought in to fill the arch/principal/whatever role.

Then they start looking at the app and questioning every decision calling everything they don't have context on "technical debt"

I've seen it a few times. I told a new VP of Eng he was being asinine because he wasn't there for the original problem, decision, or timeline and saying we made a bad call is just showing ignorance.

Thankfully, He pulled me aside later to thank me and asked for more background on it. After hearing the whole story he agreed. We did the right thing.

Now, that could have gone the other way. And I've seen it happen. When it does, it sucks.
Late stage capitalism got started started in the thirties...
What about your tech leads who are looking for top of market salary? By top of market, I mean within your hiring pool not senior staff principal engineer level at a hedge fund
That CO2 project is for enhanced oil recovery from aging oilfields, it's really not a viable mechanism for continuing to burn fossil fuels in electricity plants while capturing and burying the CO2 emitted from those plants. Fossil fuel carbon capture and sequestration does actually have all the hallmarks of a fraudulent science program; it would take roughly all the energy produced by a power plant to capture and sequester the fossil CO2 molecules emitted by that plant. Exxon and Chevron are promoting it only because it's the kind of false claim that they can use to prevent moves towards replacing fossil fuels with renewables.
NYC vacancy rates are single digit, while Shanghai is around 15% and Nanning is around 25%. It’s incomparable. Imagine if 25% of the apartments in NYC were completely vacant.

https://landgeist.com/2021/11/04/housing-vacancy-rate-in-chi...
What was a "normal" editor in '08?

After trying out finger-twister with Emacs, vim was a breath of fresh air, and had better features than plain "vi", like it was improved or something.

Now, how do I save and exit?
I've been watching with curiosity to see if Donald goes over the line there and ends up with similar issues to Sam.
Bellingcat: ‘Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup’
So now tell me, between 7-9 years have gone by since Aurora is a multi database product, what sense does it make to assume its mysql? That's like saying at your company people call AWS "S3" or "SQS" because that's how it started. I don't even know what point you're trying to make because unless the majority of the time was mysql only and then recently other databases would've been added, the anecdote would still not make sense.