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> At my last role, and I’m sure others at large companies, up to a week of time was wasted doing training modules on the intranet, no real work.

I mean that sounds like what the article's approach would amount to in practice? What's the distinction you see between "structured (rather than ad box) intro to internal tools" and "a week of time was wasted doing training modules on the intranet, no real work"?

"just giving a junior task and some guard rails to “figure it out”" worked great for me - a lot better than every structured training programme I've seen since. Shrug.
> My point was that it was peaceful/non-violent.

Which is why I look forward to legislation that puts some thought into the consequences [1], since it's very easily to peacefully kill someone.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/05/texas-protesters-hig...
What model variant?
Not exactly a vote of confidence for their own product.
It's 700 million monthly active users on the LLaMA 2 release date; so if you reach and exceed a significant number of users in the future, you don't lose your license.

As a purist do I wish it was fully open source? Yes. Is it restrictive to "the rest of us"? No.

Finally, if you have more than 700M MAUs, you probably have an internal LLM you should be using.
This is just random fluctuation, combined with whatever the bias is called that makes random subsequences feel significant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
yadda yadda, human brain can only make "X" decisions everyday before fatiguing.... everytime copilot 'suggests' something, its a mini slice of your 'decision' energy, to ignore it and keep typing
That saves about $0 spread out over the career. Why would they learn better while getting paid less?
Just one of them.
Did my best to warn people that Lidar isn’t optimal for cars
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I use very very little, some keywords are bolded and strings are in blue but that is it. I absolutely hate more than that and I suspect I could do without it altogether.
Let’s be real. Actions against climate change are even more inconvenient than a road blockade; if certain kind of people are inconvenienced enough because of this, what makes anyone think they are sympathetic to the cause?

Combating climate change is not drawing cute turles.
All of the inconvenience with little of the benefit.
I wonder how many programmers get their primary satisfaction from writing code versus creating the end result. I can't imagine ever gaining satisfaction from reducing productivity since the process of programming isn't that interesting to me. It's what I can do with it that motivates me. The faster and easier I get to the state of having built the thing the better. Though there are other areas where I couldn't care less about the end result and just find the process fun. I mean don't get me wrong - I can get motivated by pretty much any end result, from a big fix to a new app, but I'm always indexing on what I'm trying to do.
I hear you, but if that was your intent, then you weren't communicating it clearly, because calling someone ignorant in an internet comment is guaranteed to come across as a personal attack.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Moreover, "spewed BS" was name-calling and also guaranteed to come across as a personal attack, and in this context, one can say the same about "I feel sorry for you". That makes 3 swipes in just a single comment! Please edit out such things from now on.
Many companies' onboarding ends when you have a laptop and a project.
This is just not reasonable though. The primary cost of hiring is the long onboarding process regardless of level. Especially the time cost of existing engineers.

Underpaying a new engineer doesn't solve anything. It's honestly just shortsighted laziness or already having a staff of engineers who aren't good enough at their craft or communication to be good teachers.

If you're paying someone $1000/week you're paying them $50k per year and by your staircase approach you save.... one weeks worth of salary or 2% of the first year which ends up just being an insult to the new engineer and unnecessarily making their lives harder taking money out of their pocket when they need it most (getting a new job having not had a job or having to switch with the gap in income)
Plain is arcane?

Mime type: text/arcane
My favorite onboarding experience was changing every old value of one string to the new value. It doesn’t take deep skills or wisdom about the codebase, but it introduced me to the entire project, I learned how to build, test, and deploy, and I ended up producing something valuable to the whole team.
Sorry but it's not about what you do. Even if it fails prong 2 and 3 for you, the SEC can still successfully argue that the vast majority of sales are securities.

This was the dangerous precedent set in their victory over LBRY in December 2022. They argued that if at least some people bought the utility tokens with expectation of profit, then the utility token sales were securities -- and the judge bought it!

https://www.ropesgray.com/en/newsroom/alerts/2022/december/s...

LBRY's arguments sound like yours: LBRY argued in support of its motion for summary judgment that LBC coins are not securities because (1) they are consumptive in nature, with purchasers using LBC for on-chain activities rather than investment purposes; (2) the “primary focus” of LBRY’s promotional statements and materials was the utility of LBC, not its potential price appreciation; and (3) LBRY stated explicitly in marketing materials that LBC was intended for consumption on the LBRY network, not as an investment.

The court also rejected LBRY’s argument that the purchase of LBC for consumptive, and not speculative, use by some of its buyers suggests that LBC is not a security for any of its buyers. The court suggested that the intended use of the token by a subset of LBC purchasers was of limited relevance to the overall analysis, which ultimately indicated that LBC was a security under the Securities Act.10

https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2022/2022-12-01-another-...
I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim that all office work is categorically "wrong", or "going away". Can you point to some example of this?
How do coops structure comp? That's what I'm most curious about. When you leave do you retain a profits interest?
System failure halts operations at 12 Toyota factories
>But does a C student web dev who kinda doesn't give a shit really deserve 150$k/year? I assure you, he does not. Not while there are far more qualified people all over the globe who will do that job for half.

Buckle up, friend: there are individuals more qualified than you who will do your job for half what you get. They could probably make the exact same argument you've just made, about you. "Deserving wealth" is an idea we have right before the veil comes off and we realise this whole thing is a big joke. Forget "should", accept "is".
The SSL library is nobody's core business, yet every business depends on it. Most libraries are just infrastructure, way down, that we build stuff on. Core business has a specific meaning:

> the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success

Maintaining libraries is not the core business of those that use those libraries, most of the time. That's why people use libraries.
Can you try again please? It works well for me
I find it equally refreshing to sometimes not use vscode and use instead helix (similar to vim). Or for projects that I’m not often contributing to, even just the IDE of gitlab/github directly.
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It's bad news that there are no tools to detect cheating, such situation can encourage dishonest players to cheat and nobody will take seriously accusations about cheating from other players.
I think you made a slightly poor choice of words; I am waiting. I've done nothing but wait in a waiting place. Waiting in a chair, waiting for a sign. Waiting and wondering when it will be my time.

Pitiable attempt at bad poetry aside, it is not as if my mother is bedridden with illness. Barring the unforeseen, another decade at minimum I think is reasonable. Who knows after that.

Until then I am waiting. And doing nothing else but waiting.
Here is link to original article

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/28/most-amer...
Thank you for the link!

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Same as Chinese SF, although they also have global collaboration saved by the Chinese people’s honour as a big plot line too.

In fact it’s the same as Chinese martial arts movies too. Anyone seen the Ip Man series?
Well, it's a pre cursor to much more efficient autonomous drones blow up pipelines and liqgas shops to raise prices for carbs death spiral protest.

Its a miracle and speaks for the carb cartel and the movement sthat in a world of cardboard drones and pipeline we are not already at nordstrean all the things.
I have yet to benchmark it again; my setup was sloppy as I had to run the same part of the game over and over, because record/replay didn't work. (Nor do I have the time and energy now; have to survive the last semester of university now.) But I suspect it should help, by reducing the sweeping and scavenging times which were pretty bad.

I'm not sure I agree with the comment about "up to the task for real-time games", but maybe my standards are low for video games, and I have an abnormally fast machine and am likely biased there too.
We've found that across most platforms, Otel is more of a starting point to building good instrumentation libraries. We've been building on top of Otel/Splunk's browser SDK implementation for our package [1] which does roll in session replay, and also adding on better exception tracking, etc. None of which remotely comes out of the box unfortunately.

Being able to connect frontend sessions -> backend trace/logs has been a huge DX change though imo.

[1] https://www.hyperdx.io/blog/browser-based-distributed-tracin...
> It would be [rent seeking] if it was true. I admit it's a theoretical possibility, but I am yet to see a convincing argument of it.

As i see it, you already provided all aspects to label HFT as such. Except one: the physical foundation of running such a business.

They provide faster and more cost efficient liquidity, thus "bringing down the spread" which will push out maybe not all but certainly the lesser privileged conventional traders. This is foremost negative for the effected traders and not per se for the public but as the pessimist that i am, i cannot help it but see it as just another way of market consolidation, of monopolization in the worst case.

The only way to seriously compete with such HFTs, is to do it as they do, which requires the same physical accesses to the markets. Previously, the access to valuable (insider) information was a privilege for slow traders and a way to get an edge. Speed and algorithms are imo just a new privilege, enabled by technology.

The simple reason why insider trading is illegal, because it puts other marketeers at a disadvantage, they have no means to compensate. The same is true for HFT. You cannot rent the rack next to the markets machines when its already occupied.

What would you reply to such a statement: HFT is just front running but from the client side.

But to be fair, i have to see convincing evidence for my pessimistic worst cases too.
Pay isn't increasing but travel costs are. Remote is the only way to compete and have people live at prices they can afford.
The Case for Rust on the Web
It is a nice proof-of-concept, but a pity that runno uses firebase. Any software with built-in SaaS services from advertisement agencies are a no-go area for me.
When studies control for total calories consumed, IDEs are all the same.
You know what else is great for companies and but terrible for workers? Child labor. Yet we don't allow it because it's cruel. Companies just have to suffer the lost productivity of not having child labor.

Same with two day weekends. They have to pay extra to get people to work weekends or more than five days a week.

Whether it is more effective or not isn't the point. It's better for workers. The smart companies are doing it voluntarily.
Assuming the path is NYC-London or Chicago-London... it's just too far north to work in winter. Even at night in the summer, I'd bet against it.

To some extent we can debate what "consistently" means... if like these guys, you have ~10KW of power with beam antennas the size of trucks on both ends, you can probably approach the reliability of a submarine cable (albeit at incomprehensibly narrower bandwidth). Low VHF propagation will have significant periods of unavailability in comparison, no matter how much power you use.
Interesting and thanks to the 2 parent posts.

I haven’t used tailscale much from iOS and will keep an eye out.

If needed I suppose I mould just WireGuard into a box that can access the tailnet.
I tried to read it. I don't think I got past chapter 1.

Here is a free audio book of Moby Dick. https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville

Maybe I'll try to listen to it some day.
OP resonates. I was also using Copilot in March and it got me through some important parts of my project, the bash scripts I needed to write for setup. But it didn't do a great job on the application itself, apart from writing pretty decent comments after I wrote the code. (Which is funny, because it seems most people go the opposite direction...). Yeah it's hard to be creative in this space because of the noise, even without AI. Everyone has so many ideas and there is so much code in so many libraries and tools and it's like trying to play music that's similar to, but not the same, as something someone is playing on trumpet right beside you.

Discovering your control over this cacaphony is an extremely satisfying experience. And, after some time, you realize that silence is the default, and that cacaphony is life and it's good that it's there, but it's also nice to leave it in the distance, a tinny-sounding speck you leave behind while you hike in the wilderness.
When you say large, what do you guess in actual numbers? Just a rough impression; I'm not going to hold you to anything.
> something like the tabs vs spaces ... where there's no obviously/universally best answer.

No there is, some people are just wrong.
Part of the undocumented "how to build the F1" lore here with EPP flying wings is monokote/ultracote over the wings too. these shrink-on/glue-on surfaces significantly reduce the torsion moment of the tip. Does it make you invulnerable? no. is it a lot more torsion-resistant than packing tape? yes, absolutely noticeably so and it repaired model #2 when it started to get real flappy and increased the handling speed quite a bit. not equipping model #1 or 2 with ultrakote was a mistake from the start and it probably significantly contributed to the flap/torsion getting going.

https://www.horizonhobby.com/airplanes/supplies-and-bench-ac...
Why would the workers be unusually wealthy? They can always get a business loan, a bank is going to be relatively confident if you're buying the same business you have worked in for years and know all the ins and outs.
There have been criticisms of decision fatigue which you are referring to. You might have already been aware, but it might be worth mentioning since those who disbelieve in it have been reported as better at decision-making than those who believe in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue
Yeah, I didn't realize there were only 20 until I hit 20 and it didn't give me any more shapes :( I thoroughly enjoyed the ~20 minutes it gave me lol. I need more.
And that's why I have kept using Sublime Text. It just does the right level of everything.
Remotely Control Docker
It should be pretty portable, porting is just a matter of time and interest. The main thing is that the compiler needs to use a (more precise, lower overhead) software write barrier rather than using the (coarser, slower) hardware write barrier which was around the longest. I also have to wonder how well the bit-scanning algorithms fare on big-endian, or is that taking "all CPU architectures" too far?
I think you've just reinvented "hiring interns." The approach you describe here looks pretty much exactly like other intern-onboarding programs I've seen at other engineering companies, big and small.

(Which is to say, it's a great idea, which is why it's already an industry standard.)
Will be doing a show HN for https://proc.gg, a generative AI platform I've built during my sabbatical.

I personally believe that in addition to OpenAI's offering, the ability to swap to an open source model e.g. Llama-2 is the way to go for enterprise offerings in order to get full control.
Word Cloud Using Every UIUC Class
They just get voted off the island, yes.
This was a fundamental question for me before taking the plunge into starting a coop. Long story short, I did a lot of research and there wasn’t anything that really compensated risk in early stage startups hence the dearth of platform coops.

We ended up structuring our coop to have equity split from voting rights to allow employees to have ESOPs and investors to invest as they do in traditional corporation minus their control of the board. In theory we would be able to IPO down the line, and perhaps become the first coop to do so without demutualizing or a separate investment vehicle on the side.
Ask HN: Does your Airbnb need a website?
My parents, fiancé and friends ran Airbnb’s. Some of them have been asking if I can help them with a website that links to Booking.com/Airbnb. They want to use it as a way for people to contact them directly, but also just as a place to share a bit more information/pictures.

Is this something more Airbnb hosts might want?
How do they load 70B weights with the ~4GB heap limit of JS/WASM?
Our company abandoned the developer rotational program as we found many candidates did not want uncertainty around where they would end up within the company.
ChatGPT breaks its own rules on political messages
I know, but I feel like the community sentiment is fairly consistent on these topics. I could be wrong though.

Also, restaurant owners are not much different from middle managers in terms of scale of responsibility.
or junior could start doing more ops and less dev. In Finland, there appears to be a culture that values seniors way more and companies don't even hire juniors. This often results situations where seniors being saddled with time-consuming tasks that involve running long scripts that keep every day business working.
Paying poorly would bias you to candidates who will accept poor wages. Good candidates, even if they are young and inexperienced, can have a high market rate.
One could only speculate on the cause here without more info. I am reminded of reading The Toyota Way a while back, which does talk about how they would shut down lines for any defect. A coworker of mine was pretty adamant that this was A Good Idea(TM), but I thought about how much of IT best practices are about uptime and doing (often principled!) workarounds when you have operational issues, and moving forward in a degraded state.

I wonder if there are IT operations that do try to aim for the ~no defect approach like this.
Carbon Tax and Dividend is the one I’ve heard most about
If you're worried about GDPR or your users' privacy when using Google Fonts, someone wrote privacy-friendly drop-in replacement at https://github.com/coollabsio/fonts
I was searching for similar article. Im working on AutoML python package where I use different packages to train ML models on tabular data. Very often the memory is not properly released by external packages so the only way to manage memeory is to execute training in separate processes.
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As long as you also don't make losses, it's fine. Profit is a goal for investors, not of employees.
> he thinks it is juvenile

Bet. No true adult likes colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Leaking File Contents with a Blind File Oracle in Flarum
My onboarding experience (from 20 years ago) involved all the new hires (engineers) being placed in a classroom environment for two weeks. A senior engineer gave us a primer on the libraries the company uses (C++) and then had each one of us individually develop a mini version of the system (a trading system). Each day he would visit the classroom for a couple of hours to unblock us and answer questions. At the end of the period, our code was reviewed and we were placed into teams based on how well we did. It was certainly better than the "throw them into the deep end and let them sink or swim" approach.
That particular word was used back when V was not yet really open-sourced and only the playground and prebuilt binary was available [1]. The author falsely stated (among others) that it was already open-sourced, and while I believe it was a simple misunderstanding the reaction was not really far-fetched back then. That specific claim was retracted once the compiler was properly open-sourced [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251706
Certainly it depends on the program. I've seen some truly horrible training programs. Cheesy videos from the 80s, pointless multiple choice tests, no mentorship or assistance after the initial round of intensive training. These aren't what we are talking about.

An example of the structure is that we have a curriculum figured out. We know what tools, techniques, and domain knowledge our new employees need within each team. An ad hoc approach like we used to follow would have individual managers or mentors giving an overview off the top of their head, then answering questions as they come up. This is a good start, but lots of important things get missed and new employees don't know to ask for information that they don't know exists.

Another example would be with mentorship. In many situations, new employees aren't given a single point of contact with someone whose duties including supporting them. In other circumstances, they will be told to ask anyone about anything, or to ask their manager or team lead, but often new employees are too timid to ask, or don't know who to ask, or the assigned person may be too busy or otherwise unapproachable. Having a plan and making sure everyone is onboard with it is important, but it's not always considered.
> But last week, a friend at RC noted that she doesn't use syntax highlighting and doesn't use other noisy editor plugins. I've been curious about stopping using syntax highlighting, and her reasoning really spoke to me, so I tried it.

> I went and found a grayscale color scheme (since I do like a small amount of visual distinction for comments) and installed it. Immediately, I felt some relief. I disabled my LSP plugin in vim, disabled rust-analyzer. More relief.

Ah, two other people who've "switched off the targeting computer". After reading so many comments on Hackernews (and hearing similar from colleagues) to the effect of "I can't live without syntax highlight/autocomplete/refactoring tools/other", I was beginning to think I was some sort of weirdo/grognard for not bothering with many of those features and becoming frustratingly distracted when working in an IDE where autocomplete is enabled.
Paper Straws Have Higher 'Forever Chemical' Concentration Than Plastic Straws
> Social networking is dead. What we have now is social media.

It hasn't been called social networking in a long time. It's always been "social media".