skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cabinetmakers were focused on what their customers cared about.

More likely, they focused on what their customers would pay for. People with Steve Jobs money might be willing to pay a premium for finished cabinet backs.

Most people don’t have Steve Jobs money. But people without Steve Jobs money are no more or less likely to appreciate finished cabinet backs than people with Steve Jobs money…it’s not hard to imagine Charlie Munger having a mid-western view on finished cabinet backs.

Since end users usually don’t see any more or less of steaming turd code than well structured code, there must be something besides “cabinet making” at work. My gut is that strong opinions about code are a way to make the banality of code writing interesting. Strong opinions add melodrama to the mundane work that doesn’t matter much beyond the paycheck that comes with it we all must do.

Getting paid is the meaningful metric of professionalism.
Demo: https://particles.js.org/samples
They crafted a prompt that breaks out of the structure of word suggestions because this webapp is powered by an LLM.
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You live in a parallel world, the vast majority of the mainstream news out there are outright climate change deniers funded by billionaires and the few ones who don't cannot even relay the whole truth for being accused of "alarmism".

The reason nobody does anything about climate change is because it threatens their wealth, not because it's a catastrophe.
Try asking their "chat" variants about topics sensetive to CCP, like what has happened on Tiananmen square. Same for Baichan models.

What other values and biases have been RLHFed there and for what purpose?
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain
Commonly other drivers must stop for emergency vehicles. And how can you give certain vehicles priority without dedicating lanes or requiring other drivers to yield?

The rules expressly do not limit how providers address the needs of emergency communications. They allow speed limits and congestion management also.
> In Coders at work, Douglas Crockford said to spend the sixth cycle - whatever the cycle is - on refactoring. It's a sound advice if you care about technical debt as an engineer.

My point is that very often it's not up to engineers. If a company doesn't incentivize this refactoring and engineers have to - as some sibling comments suggest - inflate their estimates then the code base will deteriorate over time. Even if your team sets up a policy of doing refactoring ~15% of the time this will be overridden by business interests more often than not.

This is essentially a corollary of Conway's Law. You should not expect code bases to be better than the business incentivizes it to be. I'm speaking from personal experience here; this is burnout territory. Keep in mind these are very general observations and every company is different. In some companies what you and Crockford suggest is possible. I'd wager it's the exception rather than the rule though.
> For total water we can use +/ (“sum over”), resulting in +/{((|\x)&||\|x)-x}.

And they say Perl is bad.
The Beatles had nothing to do with the production of Yellow Submarine apart from money until the end.
They wanted Kubrick to direct, so it could have been a serious effort (Kubrick declined).
Without noticing you might have pointed out one of the reasons founder type people are founder type people.

Blindly follow orders isnt really on most startup folks’ list of things to do.
Yeah I put this in the same bucket as religion and freewill. These are things people cling onto because we so desperately want to feel special and magical.

It's similar to learning that the universe doesn't literally revolve around us.
“Quantum effects” usually refers to coherent states of superposition. In an environment like the brain that is suffused with photons (it’s warm), if nothing else, superpositions decohere virtually instantly. It’s therefore implausible that quantum effects could play any appreciable computational role in the brain.
The Orbitron: A gallery of atomic orbitals (2002)
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Have also done both. I find it easier and perform better when the corporate project is entrepreneurial —- urgency or novelty means we have to do things differently than just executing the well-honed and predictable processes to produce version 47 of something.

But corporate experience has made me a better entrepreneur (“hey, maybe we should have some process”). It requires a shift in thinking, but IMO that’s a good thing.
I gave up on reporting this yeaes ago when they repeatedly closed issues without fixing it. Go in the web client or linux client and notice the default is show all sorted by something. Change it to u watched o ly by something else. Now navigate away and back and notice your filters are gone. Now go look in settings for any spot to change the default settings and notice its not there.
That reminds me, I should write a Monad tutorial.
Every link I tried on that page returns an error
congrats on the release - it sounds like this will be very useful. can you explain what you mean by "having to lock up the control plane" here?
vflat is good for this
There is a difference between psychosis and
violent berserker, could maybe induced by extreme paranoia, but still unlikely.
On the subject of tenses Turkish has a "reported past tense" which I haven't heard in other languages so far. It's very commonly used and simply denotes that someone told you of something that happened. I.e. you didn't witness / weren't present.
Then I have to question why you wrote the message you did in the first place, because it’s hard not to take it as an insult from a random passerby.
I like the concept a lot. Was hoping there would be a crowdsourced element to it — a way to suggest our own synomys rather than just relying on the LLM.

Oh, and heads up, right now looking up anything with a forward slash (/) fails with an Internal Server Error and no output to the end user.
|I can't stand people who care about this stuff. The purpose of language is communication.

Your response makes me think of Kevin from the office... “Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick"

Yes, the point of language is communication, but why limit yourself? Elevate your vocabulary! Eloquence is enjoyable. Increased nuance adds depth to expression. Instead of relying on vanilla words like "very," embrace the richness of language.
Why do the experience effects work for renewables and storage and not for nuclear?
> If people wanted cameras to actually take what it sees, then we wouldn't have autofocus,

Bad example. Autofocus makes changes to the light that goes into the camera, not just the data that comes out.

> photoshop or instagram filters

Bad examples. Those both give the user a before-and-after comparison so the user can decide what kind of alterations are reasonable or desirable.
Are you saying that code defined in header files is "not well-formed"?
What's worse, a lay audience that thinks whales are talking amongst themselves or a lay audience that has no idea whales do anything other than mating songs and sonar clicks?
You seem to have missed the point entirely:

The scientists who considered it a myth were completely, utterly wrong. I think it is perfectly healthy to have skepticism about scientists who wage war against "myths".

See also the long fight against the "myth" of lead poisoning, amongst dozens if not hundreds of other examples.
most navel vessels dont need a nuclear reactor it would be overkill.
Exactly, there is a point when proximity between languages means that instead of acquiring a new language, one of your existing languages morphs into the language you are trying to acquire.

I have seen great counter examples of people that could partition their mental spaces and isolate the languages properly.

I had one Spanish teacher in Brazil that could do this. I’m sure she had proper training.

I also had a Spanish friend and her mother was complaining that she was forgetting her home language because she was living in Brazil for some time. This is the most common thing to happen.

Interestingly, as she was telling me this after visiting Spain for about a month, I was having more trouble understanding her than usual, it can go both ways.
Literally never heard the word morose before as a native speaker. Very works just fine and doesn't have nearly as much of a problem of being the 'wrong' word to use when you don't know, versus someone looking at this list and then trying to say something like 'abysmally tired'.
Most useful comment so far.
Are there any apps specifically targetted at polyglots? It's a niche so I doubt it. I guess you can tell the app that you're native french speaker learning German if you are more proficient in French and picking up German. This way you are training two languages simultaneously.
If it only it was Led Zeppelin instead
Unsuitable SSD/NVMe Hardware for ZFS – WD Black SN770 and Others
ZFS (and btrfs to an extent) have a lot of problems reported with WD Black SN770 drives.

It seems more like some kind of hardware defect than a software one at this point (as per the issue).
> I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect.

That sounds horrible. I want people working under/with me that will question the work, that will try to figure out if it's the right work. It is common for decisions "from higher management" to be made without a real in-depth knowledge of how the system(s) work. When that happens, there may be a (possibly radically) better approach that can be taken.

Software developers are generally paid a lot of money. Not taking advantage of their experience and problem solving ability sounds like a waste of money.
MIT's fundamentals of programming course requires all its students to write a Lisp interpreter in Python. It's a throwback to when the class actually was in Lisp.

https://py.mit.edu/spring24
Sounds like you are confirming my TL;DR; explanation.
I like this because it makes the sugaring distinct. Anyone unfamiliar with the sugar will know there's something different going on, while not really adding much noise.
Text selection/cursor placement has indeed gotten quite terrible, but at this point I don’t think they care because people are just dictating and sending audio messages now. The world is moving on from smartphone typing
The MLIR aspects of Mojo are really interesting but I can't help but feel that the language itself is basically just going to be a hodge-podge of semi-random crap bolted onto python (which is already a few decades of semi-random shit held together with a committee and a dream).

I've written a tiny bit now and I can feel some new dimensionality that I'm not used to (e.g. the ownership and borrowing story in a language that doesn't really let you syntactically express ref/value seems a bit like marketing-driven-design), which can't be a good thing given that I'm not just an "AI programmer" that the mojo people seem to be aiming for.

I'd gladly switch the python code I have now over to mojo - python is slow and ugly - but in the long term the joined-at-the-hip relationship with python could put the language in a weird position: It might get you some early customers (every python-but-faster variant has) but what happens after that? It's an odd place to be (that and culturally your main influence is now going to be python programmers who are often either inexperienced or plain mediocre - selection effects)
> CPU's with data caches can to smart things with architecturally-defined locking instructions such as "test-and-set' or 'compare-and-exchange' such that the instructions are always cache-coherent across CPU's. If you try to roll-your-own locking code, you had best understand how the cache invalidation mechanism works in your chosen CPU or you are going to have a bad day.

What do you mean? Are you implying that read-modify-writes are treated differently from plain writes by the cache coherency protocol?
I assumed OP is well aware that the question is why these people took the big tech job in the first place, because it is obvious that it would be like this. Is this rocket science? I say no.
This page is confusing to me. How is it useful to you?
I can see some utility but am curious if there's something I'm missing.
And get a public figure/politician to drone on and on about it (whether they believe it or not) is an excellent way to fire up a base and get the base to stop thinking things through as thoroughly. That’s the thing that scares me - country size mobs.
Less is usually more. Just leave them out entirely, thank you very much. /s

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katelee/2012/11/30/mark-twain-o...

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

- Mark Twain

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2913-substitute-damn-every-...

https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL...
> A professional developer does thorough work when it matters, and cuts irrelevant corners that aren’t worth wasting time on.

The problem, it seems to me, is that, while a furniture maker may have a reasonably stable idea of what their furniture will be used for, I think the makers of truly useful software can have no reasonable idea of the uses to which their software will eventually be put, and so must design so that the program can accommodate the demands put on it, no matter how unexpected or bizarre. How many modern security issues (I ask rhetorically) stem from design decisions rooted, explicitly or implicitly, in the assumption that the software would never be exposed to hostile actors?
Imagine cooking with no herbs or spices, save for salt. Your food would be nutritionally complete and inoffensive, but bland. You could translate novels into Simple English or Newspeak, but would you enjoy reading them?

And isn't it a bit patronizing to assume that English learners want to settle for being understood rather than being felt?
I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
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Similarly a course I took in university made us implement a (rudimentary) Lisp interpreter in Lisp.
Quantum mechanics is needed to explain any microscopic phenomena in chemistry and biology - that is not at all in dispute.

The odd set of claims is that somehow biology has 1) figured out how to preserve long-range entanglement and coherent states at 300K in a solvated environment when we struggle to do so in cold vacuum for quantum computing and 2) somehow still manages to selectively couple this to the -known- neuronal computational processes that are experimentally proven to be essential to thought and consciousness.

This more or less amounts to assertions that "biology is magic" without any substantive experimental evidence over the last thirty years that any of the above is actually happening. That's why most biophysicists and neuroscientists don't take it at all seriously.
That's some damn fine advice, thank you!
Kube-proxy and mysterious DNS timeout
If I understand the point of this, I believe Coral Common Lisp (now Clozure CL) has always been this way, if not more so. The lowest level is a Lisp program generating native machine code. [0] There’s no lower-level implementation language or even a bytecode translator.

[0] https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/tree/master/level-0/ARM
> It's not a geo restriction problem. It's a distribution rights problem.

This is the same thing.
Its been a while since germanys army has been used for evil.,.
> Blindly follow orders isnt really on most startup folks’ list of things to do.

The really funny thing I'm thinking about here is when I bring people onto a project I'm leading: I give them an intro to the project, all of the components at play, the needs of the project... and then introduce them to something they could work on and the general gist of what needs to be done.

For some people that's enough to take it and run (and check in with feedback, minimal viable product, look for "does this sound good?" kinda stuff).

For others it really feels like they need to be spoonfed an entire spec down to block diagrams, flowcharts, sequence diagrams, etc. And I've worked with teams that wanted that before we even assigned any software engineers to the project. Meanwhile I'm trying to get SOMETHING on a computer so we can start looking for the bugs that take a long time to manifest themselves. (and "that's not what we were expecting it to do!" from the systems team lol)

Anyway, I can say that's not necessarily a big enterprise vs startup thing. It's more of a team vs team thing.

IDK about startups.
My experience when trying to give such tools to data scientists is that they can't use them effectively and will attempt to circumvent the idea of vector programming whenever they can get away with it.

They will also often write code that doesn't do what they really want but has the appearance of doing so.
Chang'e-6 is just the tip of China's ambitions for the Solar System
Perhaps you could grace us with your clearest alternative in a language you approve of?
Yep. The internet means information can be shared almost anywhere on earth simultaneously, and so a great deal of human effort must be spent ensuring this does not happen.
Some related material here too:

https://twitter.com/bfspector/status/1789749117104894179?t=k...
To channel Bill Clinton define "works".

Austerity works in the sense of reducing deficits and no longer digging a fiscal hole. It is something which happens eventually after a country runs out of creditors who don't demand austerity as a precondition.

Austerity does seems to perform inferior to stimulus but not everyone can afford it. Stimulus being unavailable is itself a statement of lack of faith in existing plans. Austerity is hard to screw it up in the same sense it is hard to screw up losing weight in a Gulag. Hence why lenders of last resort insist upon it as a precondition.
Instead it’s a machine on a roulette table? There is no third state between determinism and randomness. Either something has a cause, or it doesn’t, and hence is random (or a combination of both).

> actual participants that determine the outcome.

Nobody disputes that we are (well, almost nobody). But we as participants are ourselves an outcome of processes that are somehow determined, and our decisions have causes. And assuming that they’re instead random doesn’t improve the situation.
It's his own creation. He had every right to stop it. I don't see how this is wrong at all.
Actually I have seen people using “Very Good” more often than its alternatives.
> Every year I hear one student repeat the same argument that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or some other figure could cure global warming, world hunger, or other concerns and still have millions left over. Some people truly believe this.

The annual cost to eliminate world hunger is estimated to be $6 billion - $23 billion. A US treasury level return on the combined fortunes of Bezos and Gates would be around the higher number. The rough math checks out on the two of them combined ending world hunger forever. Even if they keep millions.
> has there been a significant change in demographics between 1983 and now

Bingo. The baby boomer generation that is hitting retirement now is living longer on average than any prior generation. Basically the math for payouts expected a certain amount of eligible people would either not make retirement age or would only collect retirement on average of X years before dying. That looks to be a miscalculation at this point:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/02251...
This is an interesting question. Is there a “controversy-benchmark” perhaps, to measure this?
> free will

Assuming free will doesn't exist, how would a world where free will does exist be any different? As far as I can tell, our current world is indistinguishable from a world with free will, therefore our world is equivalent to one with free will.
Flang: Fortran language front-end designed for LLVM
This certainly resonates with me. In my professional environment I use my third language, and, while it takes more thought to express myself, I am more assertive and open simply because the words carry "less" weight to me. Another positive side is that I'm more difficult to offend or upset.

Sometimes I translate in my head what I just said back to my native language and realise that chances are I wouldn't have said it if I had to actually say it in my native language.

It's weird. It's also not something I think about on a daily basis. It's simply how it works.
Sounds awfully dreary.
All it does is make it so that piracy devices will only be made in lawless countries, such as the recently released MIG switch.
Living the same life. 10 years speaking English with a non English speaking partner and I can say I now fully think in English and in many aspects my English is better than my native language.

Could never put words on it but things don’t feel so real either.

The funniest part is now I speak my native language with my small kids and have fully relapsed to my original home town accent. I had abolished that accent years ago to avoid getting bullied at high school after relocating to a big city.

My kids are actively hearing and speaking 4 languages and one is with a thick accent!
You are being quite patronising. I have two children.
No. Why should it be?
I worked at Synopsys for 11 years until I retired. Very diverse types of software engineers. I was in the hardware IP group (versus say the EDA or security businesses). My team had embedded software engineers, Linux kernel hackers, compiler developers, machine learning/AI tool developers and Java GUI programmer, all with some knowledge of underlying processor hardware. T

The profile of those engineers was different from the EDA software developers. And the Coverity/security teams were rather different from all of the above.

I particularly enjoyed my senior architect helping our hardware IP developers improve their RTL develpment via teaching good sofware engineering techniques and by building a Javascript-based tool for helping to automate writing of Verilog before it was fed into the Synopsys Design Compiler.
Well, what is the source of 'authority' in your view? Is it 'this is the best way to do it in my view', or is it 'because I said so'?
Not specific to tech, there can be a kind of resentment that some corporate employees feel toward entrepreneurs and solos. They envy their freedom and willingness to take risks.

And of course, from a hiring perspective, if you are truly looking for someone who will march in lockstep and not ask questions, why would you want people who think for themselves?