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> or to encourage our manager to change the schedule

Is there a reason you haven't already tried this?

I'm senior enough at our company, and work with a team that respects each other enough, that if someone suggested an 8:30am standup, I could tell them to have fun, and let me know how it went later, when I'm online.

The only exception I can imagine is if we were working closely with a European team, I s'pose.
Or even Cornish! I was pleasantly surprised to find Cornish written across the side of the buses whilst visiting Plymouth. It's not much more than a linguistic and cultural curiosity, unfortunately, with even the excitement of the Cornish Revival being wholly insufficient to reach a critical mass of contemporary speakers. However, if there's just a faint possibility we'll be able to preserve the tradition I'm all for it.
I just assumed "Satoshi Nakamoto" was an alias for a small group of people all working on the same code base/idea.
Linux is a chore and I'm not buying a Mac.
The politically expedient answer is "getting anything at all" because of the implied lack of pass-ability of a bill that went further due to industry pushback.
Does HIPIFY not meet your standards?

https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY
I've seen it from various people from various backgrounds. The biggest commonality is age (typewriters) but I've seen it from youngsters, too.

I split the difference as my typing grew up with LaTeX so I want a slightly larger space after a period, but I don't care to type it ;)
I over-rode the HN title reset because it would have created "Typography a circus of Type"
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Doesn't the 42bn USD of the film industry include longtail and licensing?
Market Cap (and, therefore, growth in Market Cap) is not a component of GDP.

Also, to the extent that the chips are built in Taiwan, I'm not sure that they count in the US's GDP at all.
Curiously, Freek Wiedijk implemented a fixed point combinator in pure portable C99 in his 2014 IOCCC entry [1] that computes 10 factorial with no loops, as explained in [2].

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/prog.c

[2] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/hint.html
The market is so irrational that the most profitable businesses with the highest profit margins and scalability and highest barriers to entry have the highest market capitalizations.
Every time I hear John C. Dvorak I think about his emphatic prediction that the iPhone was going to be the dumpster fire of all dumpster fires and Apple will regret ever thinking they could make a phone.

I stopped reading his columns after that.
And all of that at Southern California real estate prices and construction labor costs.

Yeah, it's not gonna be cheap by a damned sight.
This. Maybe, Satoshi saw where it was going, knew it had wings, didn’t want to be the elephant’s plaything in some senate hearing, and bowed out. Sometimes people make things because it’s the right thing to do. Other times people make things because they are experimenting and seeing what sticks. This was a case of both. The right idea, at the right time, without hubris, and without someone to blame or throw in court if the experiment fails.
> as ISPs wouldn't just dish out private info like that without a warrant

ISPs regularly sell private data to the highest bidder. Similarly with payroll providers and whatnot (a non-trivial fraction of my paystubs -- not just salary, but withholding, exempt tax status, ... -- are available to anyone with a few dollars; historically, it _seems_ like the only buyers have been employers trying to see if their salary offers aligned with my expectations).
To follow up to myself - the author asked:

> What's the first thing that Sydney Goldberg says to Reuven after he gets hit in the eye by the baseball?

and ChatGPT responds:

> The first thing Sydney Goldberg says to Reuven after he gets hit in the eye by the baseball is, "That was a great catch, Reuven! That was sensational!".

Curious thing is, the name is spelled Sidney Goldberg. https://archive.org/details/chosen0000chai_y4e8/page/32/mode...
> What's the value in making an algorithm that's drastically slower?

Perhaps as an important stepping stone? Deferred optimization and all that.
Yeah, I'd consider good quality weed to be like orchids.

I'm not saying it's not doable; I'm saying it's not "just like tomatoes" or "just grows itself, that's why the call it 'weed'".
On the topic of good code, yes it should be understandable to the reader. I used to think about good code in terms of various principles and maxims, but with more experience I feel like the story of requirements is overlooked. When requirements were static from the beginning and easy to understand for all parties you can get good code. It kind of exists in a bubble of stability. And when you reach for it again the stableness is unchanged so you just forget about it and it becomes part of the background noise. Much of the time the tech debt and weirdness of codebases I encountered in the wild is a reflection of an untold story of how requirements changed and miscommunication between the parties involved
It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of rounds of interviews and checks you have, you will always run into Bayes Error.

You will never be able to filter out assholes who can hold it together for an interview. Or lazy people who get hired and rest and vest.

The solution is not to create a hellish interview pipeline that actually competent people will just say no to. The answer is to accept firing people if they’re a bad fit early, with appropriate severance.
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I think that’s too much of a minority to hold up a market.

The real key will be client side inference. And as more chips go the route of the Apple ones with onboard inference, I think it’ll be more appealing to the mass market.

Running LLMs locally on high end GPUs is going to always be niche.
We also don’t have bad releases but we had a new customer that added 100 users that used specific workflow that was working for years for other customers.

Those 100 users took performance to a crawl but we never seen it earlier because it was never used that way in that capacity.
Thank you. I appreciate the detailed response.
67.63 is trailing PE. If you look at the Forward PE, it is at much more reasonable 38.76. Considering its growth in Q4, it is not that crazy. Though now the question is how long they can sustain it.
That seems unlikely. The original code base was fairly small and very much reads like one person was responsible for writing it. Also, the more people who know a secret the less likely it is to be kept.
Yes, pair programming is fine, but even just two folks working on something literally too complex to individually grasp necessitates committee work, paperwork, and all the rest.
It only takes one VPN to hide it.
FWIW: I went to an unusual grade school which required us 3rd graders to use fountain pans. There were many stained fingers and homeworks, but yet, they insisted on using what seemed to us archaic devices. Fast forward to now, decades later, and I have recently rediscovered fountain pens and what a delight it is to use one compared to the cheap disposable ball point. I am using an inexpensive Pilot Metropolitan pen and, given a choice, will never go back to ball points.
APC was the only UPS company to have their device drivers natively included with Windows 95.

That was before USB was available so they used regular COM port communication, I'm not surprised with that early foothold there was no reason to change and sufficient force to continue ever since.

At the time it seemed like the un-necessarily non-standard RS-232 cable was just to create a "profit center" from the cables themselves, along with the non-standard replacement batteries. They sure would have been a lot quicker to market and had lower up-front engineering costs if they had used standard batteries from the beginning.

It's good to recognize early when excessively high TCO is the primary feature around which a product (or company) is designed. There can be significant PR effort from the beginning to divert any perception of anti-consumer attitude.

Lots of stealth can be involved to muddy the comparison with alternatives which offer normal TCO or well-engineered low-target TCO.
Thank you so much for your comment!
Apologies if my comment came off like an ad - I have mild dyslexia and struggle to keep up with ML papers; I hope others also find this useful!
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> He asked for my name, which I gave him, and then the last four digits of my social security number, which I also gave him. He then proceeded to ask for my full social security number, at which point alarms started going off in my head and I started sweating about even giving the last four digits to a stranger who had called me out of the blue.

I'm super paranoid about even the last four. The first five digits of an SSN were algorithmic for most of US history, and still mostly are but a tiny bit more random entropy, and can be narrowed down with mostly only the city in which you were born and what year. You can often use basic k-means clustering to find it even without that information. More often than not entire families share the first five (or close to it) and you only need to phish one family member to k-means cluster the five digits for the rest.

The last four are more often than not the most significant digits in terms of identification and entropy. Masking the rest is almost silly for most Americans. Our masking schemes have actually made phishing easier because people feel safer sharing just the last four, when for most those are the only four that matter.

SSN was never intended to be a secret so its design is horrifyingly bad for something that has come to be a huge secret in banking and healthcare and so many other industries. Recent SSN changes have made it a little better for anyone born after roughly 2010, increasing somewhat the entropy in the first five, but the rest of us have problems that we can't solve easily and banks should be ashamed they helped lead us to these problems.
Open offices are the GNOME of layouts: they cater to the wrong crowd.

Programming rewards introverts content to self-study in solitude and hack away at code the way Linux caters to power user neck beards. For extroverts and normies, those things are both torture. Those stereotypes exist for a reason, and it's fundamentally flawed not to tune towards them.
Indeed. Thanks for the heads up.
>>I think the point of the question is to filter out people who aren't curious.

I think you're actually filtering on people that are curious about the same things you are. Learning things because you're curious is pretty much a 'free-time' activity. Tech is huge, and with all the stuff to learn - I guarantee I'd learn algorithms and data structures over most other stuff...

That doesn't mean I don't like learn, just that I like to learn different stuff from you... As others have pointed out, its easy enough to check the docs for command line tools
I use dev containers for any mildly complicated project. For simple scripts I try to use as few dependencies/late version features as possible
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what you're describing is automation and companies have been doing it for years.
If you pay ransom, you may not get your data back and may be hit again
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I wouldn’t even want them to use my biometric data or even turn on the camera at all without asking for my consent.

And in that case my answer would be a decisive NO.
I assume the GP is referring to the extreme side of a gradient that exists between 'random murder on the streets due to indiscriminate gunfire' and 'man forgets emergency brake on hill causing pedestrian to get hit (and die) as it rolls away'

In the United States (no idea about any other country) there are multiple different crimes that equate to "your actions caused someone to die" such as homicide, manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, etc. that all have their own conditions that must be fulfilled, some of which are based on the circumstances of the crime itself.
US Domestic Box Office was about $7.5B in 2022 and $8.9B in 2023. So if there's a number of $42B, it is including a lot of other revenue.
TV commercials will probably be the first to fall. They're short, and don't really need to be realistic at all -- just eye-catching. Right up generative AI's alley.
> On the other hand IMO operating a CPU at 90-100C is just insane.

No it isn't, the manufacturer literally says it's normal! I think people who spend as much money on cooling setups as the chip are the insane ones.

My favorite story: I once put Linux on a big machine that had been running windows, and discovered dmesg was full of thermal throttling alerts. Turns out, the heatsink was not in contact with the CPU die because it had a nub that needed to occupy the same space as a little capacitor.

I'd been using that machine to play X-plane for over two years, and I never noticed. It was not meaningfully slower: the throttling events would only happen every ten or so seconds. I'm still using it today, although with the heatsink fixed :)

I have a garage machine with a ca. 2014 Haswell that's been running full tilt at 90C+ for a good bit of its life. It just won't die.
Just like Social Justice Warrior (SJW) before it, woke is a term that those it applies to gave themselves as a positive descriptor. It only took on a negative connotation with the general population when the people applying that descriptor to themselves kept acting in abhorrent ways. It wasn't "white supremacy", it was the behavior of the SJWs and now "woke" that created the negativity. And whatever term they come up with next will likewise quickly become tainted with negativity that reflects the activities of those who wear that label. Not sure what you think you gain by trying to gaslight people who have for years seen both of these labels self-applied by those who later have tried running away from them once their behaviors caught up with them.
Yes it is but there's more to overclocking than just the CPU. You also need adequate cooling and fine-tuning of parameters I'll never truly understand. There are so many moving parts that you're not guaranteed anything. It seems like the CPUs were actually running at their overclocked speeds, but the rest of the system couldn't keep up.
> Now interviewees are regularly given projects described as requiring just two to three hours that instead take days of work.

Not to disparage the subjects, but it sounds like these applicants failed the interview. If a qualified candidate is meant to complete the project in 2-3 hours and it's taking over a day, then that candidate isn't passing this test of productivity.

However, companies absolutely should be time-limiting their problems. Precisely because people could use more time than others and generate false positives.
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From my limited knowledge the motherboard manufacturers hide behind disclaimers. Iirc even using fast ram at their rated clock speed with a cpu that does not support that speed is a warranty violation.
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Or if their typing instructor grew up around that time.
The content is accessible. He just told you he tried multiple browsers, and they've shown the whole message without logging in. Is it not the same for you?
> there was a period in computer arts around 2008 [...] vvvv including it's naming and otherwise opaqueness is a product of that period

actually vvvv is about 10 years older.
Is he actually smart though? This statement is profoundly stupid, now is he intentionally saying something stupid because as an academic he feels threatened by AI or is he actually just kinda dumb outside his field
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> Not scary but hard when your niches are not exactly the 1%.

I'll be a little blunt. You're not (and almost none us are) as much as a special snowflake as you may believe. Nearly everyone has unique and niche interests.

But more importantly, your post seems to propose the idea that we should all be interested in the same things as our romantic partners. Where does this idea come from? Sure, I think it's important to share some things you like to do together, but I think it's much more important to share the same value system and ideals. Hobbies are just details. I don't care if my partner sword fences or not, but I do care that they can see it's important to me, and cares enough about my happiness to know that I should seek out and do the things I love.
> Now I’m wondering if they are both related to the famous Czech composer.

A quick search didn't turn up anything, but given the location and the Czech name, I suspect a relationship could be found at some distance.

Interestingly enough, I learned the composer was a train-spotter (in modern terms, a railfan).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file

> A Farley file is a set of records kept by politicians on people whom they have met.

> The term is named for James Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager. Farley, who went on to become Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, kept a file on everyone he or Roosevelt met.

> Whenever people were scheduled to meet again with Roosevelt, Farley would review their files. That allowed Roosevelt to meet them again while knowing their spouse, their children's names and ages, and anything else that had come out of earlier meetings or any other intelligence that Farley had added to the file. The effect was powerful and intimate.

> Farley files are now commonly kept by other politicians and businesspeople.
The mamba paper shows significant improvements in all model sizes, up to 1b, the largest one tested.

Are there any reason why it wouldn't scale to 7b or more? Have they tried it?
Idolization of Satoshi is strong. For that reason alone, if I were him/her, I would disappear. The work is self-evident and the idea a dime a dozen. The execution of it and the fact that it was accepted is what we should be idolizing. Which is exactly what happened. BTC became a thing and was no longer an idea. I reject anyone claiming to be Satoshi because Satoshi would never claim to be Satoshi. ;)
What I am saying is that P/E is based on current year earnings. It can be quite low but the company is terrible (Intel) or quit big but the company is great but chose not to cash out yet (Amazon from a few years ago). You should care about how much the company is likely to make in coming decades. How much they have made in a current year is a useless metric for that.

Profits are not the only thing either. Some assets give political power or power to shape the world. If NVidia made 0 it would still be very valuable because of that.
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In Gold Rush, you either believe it is a fool's errand and ignore it or if you believe in it and dig as fast as possible. It never makes sense to work on improving efficiency of shovel maker.

Google is trying for some time to use its TPU, so is Amazon. It makes so much more sense to pay few billions to Nvidia and don't risk the trillions in valuations.
One of the Nero Wolf novels involved conning illegal immigrants in the 1930s. Interesting read...
If someone has never used git, they probably used <somethingElse>. I would hope they're witty enough to ask the interviewer back: "I dunno, never used git, we use Rational ClearCase. Can you tell me what the difference is between a reserved and unreserved checkout and when would you use each?"

Probably not in an interview situation, especially if they need the job, but would be fun!

Just coz I don't code for fun any longer, what tells you I don't solve problems on my own (both at work or at home)? Getting into woodworking required a lot of figuring out new stuff, including the part of actually doing something with my hands. It was particularly fun because it was new and needed figuring out. Figuring out why the heck the last distro upgrade decided to not be able to find my LVM volumes on software RAID and I thought I had lost all my data was also a fun problem to solve. It required zero code. But it required a lot of debugging and interpreting things I don't know the actual implemtation details of. Something I see a lot of devs being bad at. Fixing bugs. I.e. investigating unknowns.
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We get a lot of power failures. I use laptops, but for other non-battery powered equipment, I have a BN1500M2-CA with a raspberry pi running debian plugged into one of the USB charging ports and the USB Data Port cable connected from the UPS to the raspberry pi. It keeps my ISP's 185 watt router going for longer than the ISP's switches will stay up when the power is out. I get more than 3 hours with the router and a 4K monitor plugged into the UPS. I remember seeing NUL characters in the text of an old log, but otherwise apcupsd works well:

2024-01-30 08:15:13 -0800 Power failure.
2024-01-30 08:15:19 -0800 Running on UPS batteries.
2024-01-30 08:20:06 -0800 Mains returned. No longer on UPS batteries.
2024-01-30 08:20:06 -0800 Power is back. UPS running on mains.
2024-02-04 12:52:58 -0800 Power failure.
2024-02-04 12:53:04 -0800 Running on UPS batteries.
2024-02-04 12:54:04 -0800 Mains returned. No longer on UPS batteries.
2024-02-04 12:54:04 -0800 Power is back. UPS running on mains.
2024-02-18 12:10:13 -0800 UPS Self Test switch to battery.
2024-02-18 12:10:21 -0800 UPS Self Test completed: Battery OK
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Why are people cancelling their netflix subscriptions if they are still making a salary?
Even before phone texting, the cool students were abusing the "call back" number on pagers.
That's simply a shameful indictment of ebook readers. They should be able to provide (almost) all the ergonomics of a paper book, and more.
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Pretty good incentive to say nothing isn't it?
And Amazon emailing me about my package due to arrive today. Clicking the link is right there and very convenient to find out which one. They won't tell me which package because then gmail will be able to know what I'm buying (which I'm fine with).

These emails are the _exact same form_ that a phishing email would take.
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Generally, I think of programming as about managing complexity. Simplifying and ranging the tangled objectives, tying loose ends and integrating with even more complex systems.

So, naturally, as one progresses in the field, the level of complexity often increases with experience. Sure, some tasks become easier, but those are getting assigned to 'juniors' or just are no longer interesting...

Here it is, more experience, yet still uphill with complexity. It does get tiring at some point.
I didnt say that it was everything that matters, just commenting on the difference between them.
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Neat! What are the chances this trail of stars ends up twisting into a spiral galaxy?
They should breed them... I'm sure we could select for language geniuses.
If you tried to bring in your own burger condiments, I don't think it's likely that McDonalds management would agree to put them on for you.
If there's no merge conflicts, then the end result is the same whether or not a rebase is done before merging. If there's unit tests involved, though, then CI should perform a rebase before running the test suite though.