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Stack: Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React+Remix, React Native

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Right now, we’re hiring for:

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s/of course they are/of course they are good for them/

Excuse the confusing mistype :-(
TPC-See?
> Economies of scale become important when there are a lot of non-farmers to feed and farm labor becomes scarce

Economies of scale are fundamental. If 100% of your labour pool is farming, you're going to get invaded.
"Aphorism" does not imply falsehood or that it is not supported by evidence. Actually, it implies a generally-known truth.

Indeed those citations exclude war.
New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement
I thought of the economies of scale issue, but didn't add it. I definitely agree it's an issue unless Hobbits are just really keen on not accepting cheap imports from abroad. I'd say it's also a problem globally if your country adopted such a system, but an enemy didn't and overcame your country's ability to defend itself. It's not that soldiers don't exist in such an economy, but that I don't think you'd be able to be competitive from a logistics standpoint and thus an easy target. For example, they're producing tanks and planes in a factory, while your country has a lot of rural blacksmiths.
China Is 'Prepositioning' for Future Cyberattacks
Blind people are no more able to understand* (as qualia) "green" than a sighted human is able to understand* gamma rays. The confusion is between working with abstract concepts vs an actual experience. A picture of bread provides no physical nourishment beyond the fiber in the paper it is printed on.

In an abstract space (e.g. word vectors, poetry) green could have (many potential) meanings. But none of them are even in the same universe as the actual experience (qualia) of seeing something green. This would be a category mistake between qualia-space and concept-space

understand in the experiential, qualia sense.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
They will need to be insured for that amount then. Can’t afford to insure against that liability? Can’t legally operate.
Early Evidence Supports Ketogenic Diet for Mental Illness
How I Understand Flow Matching [video]
The length of the output is not the issue. The problem is that the output includes drums, voice, and several instruments already premixed into an accompaniment. What music producers really need are isolated samples of just a single instrument that can be mixed, layered and rearranged using other tools.
I had a client that enforced writing every customer facing software in C++14.
In 2024 they suddenly need to support various web technologies and modern web infrastructure.
They still rely on their language limitations and don’t get stuff done any longer.

I advised to use Go and most developers were interested and even enthusiastic about it.
We proved Go introduction by using it for simulators and testing.
But finally the tech lead said "we will never ship anything different than C++ written applications".

My current client also works in embedded tech, but I proposed a polyglot approach and architecture.
We ship apps in Go, Rust, C, C++ and even Fortran.
Any developer can pick up any language as long as it compiles to Armhf.
No one has a problem reading and at least maintaining any code.

There should only be technical limitations and constraints to force down your fellow developers.

Frameworks are a different topic.
Web frameworks come and go, and most Angular shops I know became desperate legacy plumbing shops.
Only use frameworks that you can replace easily or are willing and capable to maintain yourself.
I love the constant flex of their tiny acceptance rate. "We only accept 1% of applicants. Btw everyone should apply!"

The collective man hours wasted on appe every year for what is essentially a lottery is insane.
Supaplex vibes also
I guess I did. I didn’t know what CSD was until just now. Is this something that using Xubuntu has shielded me from? I’ve been using it since around 2016, maybe a bit earlier, (using the default theme) and it’s never seemed to be a problem.
Please explain how it’s “untrue”, using actual examples from the article. Also, that’s the ORIGINAL title of the article. Or are you just an aggrieved Airbnb booster?
Pretty sure the numbers are not comparable, not by many zeroes. Like, trillions of times more energy in the Earth's heat than humans could extract in a billion years.

Add to that, Earth is heated by deep radioactive elements. A fission furnace. Not gonna burn out for a billion years, maybe not ever.
Was it the case that nobody solve the problem, or was it solved many times but since there was no value in the solution at the time we don't remember those solutions? Or maybe it was the industrial revolution getting underway finally made it worth studying at all.
- new heat is generated constantly in the earth by radioactive decay

- how much is debated, but this alone probably dwarfs humans energy needs (the core of the earth is really, really BIG)

The real danger is in creating local earth quakes, because that already happened.
More than we could ever hope to extract at even heightened future consumption levels, which you could take to mean pretty much impossible, see a past comment of mine along these lines: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850786
13-year-old girl worked 60 hours a week making car parts for Hyundai in Alabama
That's not a particularly high number for a country at war. During WW2 the US averaged around 500,000 artillery shells produced per day. Even in Russia, they are in the early stages of ramping up wartime production, and the west is deliberately hesitant to produce substantially beyond peacetime levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy#Resources
Oh that's amazing that this is the original font from the game, it looks so good.

And great work on translating the game and writing about it!
A [most] banks that did got bailed out
The CFPB survived the lawsuit against it?
Yup. And no matter how many techniques, coping mechanisms, organizational systems, medications and meditations there are - there will still be something that will slip through the cracks, that something will be important, and will make people scratch their heads and wonder how it was possible to drop the ball in such a spectacular fashion.

Luckily, the long list of coping mechanisms significantly reduces the incidence of these catastrophes. But "when will my brain malfunction again" is a constant source of anxiety.
or a mortgage, credit card, or bank account, yep.

There is easily a 10x difference in insurance prices between "known good customer" and "probably fraudulent customer" - and that difference is the difference between being able to own your own house (with mortgage to begin with) and renting for life.

Most people would value owning their own home over having some computer system using their data to select one ad over another.
Not really, but if Russia is successful they will control the largest portion of World Grain Markets (30-40%). But that is not as important as semiconductors. I also imagine the threat their victory in Ukraine would pose to the Europe is not important either considering they would use Ukraine and any of it's resources by adding it to their own.

Were you alive during the USSR? Do you not recall the threat of the Russian Empire around the world? It is their plan to recreate that Empire again.....
Cat and mouse game
Your "fine print" is an honest breath of fresh air.

Excellent communication throughout the page!
This is just the oddest take. What weird Canada-hating echo chamber did you just step out of?

I've spent many years in the USA. It's got its merits, but generally, I prefer it up here.

Things I like about it here:

- We have a functioning federal government that can still pass bills; cf https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/us/politics/house-retiree...

- Our infrastructure is significantly less crumbly; I trust our bridges

- I enjoy not being shot randomly

- CBC Music (formerly CBC 2) is kind of amazing right now; I always used to regret that we didn't have NPR, but the deep-dives into jazz, blues, opera, classical, and R&B are national treasures; _After Dark_ is nearly always on in my home as I read myself to sleep.
I don't personally mind LC, but I always asked questions related to our company and based on specific problems we had in the past, or some imagined scenarios that would help our customers.
Why non-compete agreements are bad for companies and workers- Fast Company
The question is, on call options or put options?
Of course it's not a perfectly straight line, because the earth is a curved object. Perfectly straight puts you in outer space.
That's why using immutable distros is awesome. Worst case scenario, you can boot the previous version.

I've been using Fedora Silverblue for a while and never got a borked upgrade. It's not without its own flaws, but if you can live with mostly flatpak apps, it's a pretty compelling package.
ooh, porkg looks pretty interesting, will definitely keep an eye on the project!

Definitely agreed about the lockfile ideas! I went with a fairly similar design, although I haven't really escaped the "rebuild the world" situation yet and I've rebuilt a _lot_ of copies of gcc from source by now! (that's also partially because I set up the packages repo as a workspace[1], which I felt was easier to iterate on in the early days... I might eventually split each package into their own projects or separate repos so they can keep lockfiles independent of each other)

and yeah, I definitely felt the temptation to write my own DSL but I stayed strong! I just knew that it'd be a huge uphill battle, especially because I wanted to provide good editor support (IMO implementing a language is (relatively) easy, but implementing a language with good error messages and LSP support is crazy hard)

[^1]: https://brioche.dev/docs/core-concepts/workspaces/
On the phone so won't try to even get to a ballpark but just thinking on the scale we are talking: a massive volume of a molten ball of rock with a thin crust I believe it'd take a fucking lot of energy to have any cooling. Even more where it'd be radiating out to space and "lost".
Also for any larger company: Security, compliance, and legal.
There are some integrations for stuff like https://docs.rapids.ai/visualization :

HoloViews
hvPlot
Datashader
Plotly
Bokeh
Seaborn
Panel
PyDeck
cuxfilter
node RAPIDS
Absolutely love Swing look.
The LLM is quite literally a derivative work of GPL code. At the very least, there is an argument in such a case that the derivative function (the model weights) should conform to the same license.
This notably did not work in Uvalde, where parents were threatened and even restrained to prevent them from doing the Cop's jobs.
Thanks Conch -- Fixed the typo.

The 4dww has worked really well for us, we haven't found the same or increased productivity by moving to the 4dww. While also being able to attract and retain talent better.

I also hope it catches on more widely!
Do you need an assistant where you work? I think you do, please send me HR's email!! :-P
Microsplastics mostly come from paint and clothing.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/how-to-reduce-micropl...

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/fashions-tiny-hi...
Six nines? Really? Sounds like you need to show evidence of that claim.
not even just that! "Combined with other changes" like ???
Didn't the world start as flat and then Eru made it round to keep Aman away from mortal eyes, being reachable only by those who could see the "straight path" like the elves?
Here here. The only thing SOC2 has done in my opinion is to create a multibillion dollar business that mainly just drains resources from companies that may not have them, with no guarantees you're actually secure. This usually devolves into security theatre where the CISO and underlings are putting in tools that drown teams with so much noise it's hard to detect the signal.

The people running these programs rarely understand the security space well enough to even tell you what a lot of the hits even mean, which ramps up disdain and division between the groups. This is arguably more detrimental to security as the scanners give execs/management a false sense of security while the noise makes it incredibly difficult to run a holistic security strategy.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I had a surprisingly positive reaction to this piece. It will be hard to avoid, but I think that preventing GenAI from turning into yet another tech oligopoly is hugely important.

For one, it absolutely will stifle innovation if one or a few companies can control the market. Just look at what Google has done with their money printing monopoly money over the past decade.

Competition will be doubly important if modern AI can fullfill much of the current hype. That kind of power in the hands of a sophisticated used car salesman like Sam Altman will be bad in so many ways.
Neurosym labs | Zurich (maybe NY/Boston, maybe SF/Bay area) | ONSITE, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time

I am considering starting an AI/ML research company in the field of neurosymbolic programming (which sits at the intersection of deep learning, program synthesis and probabilistic programming). The goal is to be 100% focused on producing research that is made publicly available, guided by intellectual curiosity and a desire to move the field forward.

I am looking for co-founders or early employees. Although there is an existing company & office that will be ready by the end of summer, not all details are figured out yet. The location is 80% likely to be Zurich (keeping the current office), but could be in the US. The funding is privately secured by other ML-related ventures I was involved with in the past. The name is also a placeholder name and will change. I can give more details privately.

Roles and compensation:

- Full-time employees: base of around 100-250k USD/annum + equity with standard vesting (negotiable).
- Interns or residency program: base of around 80-180k USD/annum

(Other research interests: self-play, world models, common sense reasoning, program induction, causality, bayesian inference)

To apply, send me an email to b.crouzier at gmail and including "Neurosym labs application" in the title. Please reach out also if you just have pointers or other things you want to discuss, as I'm still exploring all options available.
Most of 14-15 years old girls are not romantically active as it seems, and when they are, they would overwhelmingly prefer older boys (with the 2 years rule et al). As a 14 years old boy you're not really going to date 12 years old girls obviously. 16 years old girls may date anyone from 14 to 35. Some of them are not romantically active and ones who are, will overwhelmingly prefer older boys and young men. That would explain the extreme opportunity squeeze that I was describing. It's the same issue with 35 years old women with their peer 35 years old men who now have jobs and a car and now may easily date those 20-24 years old girls they were previously not getting. Except more severe because 35 years old women have resources and choices that young boys don't. They also have the experience of being in demand in the past.

Apologies, but I was reading that you are claiming that dating at 14 years old damages your future prospects. Perhaps I couldn't parse.

I'm just at loss why you don't list the negatives of NOT watching pornography, such as feeling lonely, worthless and desperate, not having any meaning to your life, and not having any way to divert these thoughts. I would attribute erectile dysfunction and pre-mature ejaculation to not being in any romantic demand for multiple formative years leading to major distortion of your self-esteem and therefore to fear of rejection and extreme anxiety of not performing. Which then becomes self-fulfilling prophercy and learned helplessness. Not to mention the "false expectation" of always being turned down by any potential mate in your life.
And not to porn.

People who watched little porn probably didn't really need to be romantically active so they just skipped the whole rack torture experience and that's why they perform better later on, when opportunity presents and they do not have that burden.

Fortunately I don't need extra money so kidneys stay.
I recently learned, that the pythagorans were more of a cult (who liked secrecy?). I totally can believe that some ancient math nerds solved lots of things already, but with the people around them not understanding. One war could have been enough, to eradicate lots of (semi) isolated thinkers.
Unless the main set of languages you have are totally unable to solve the new usecase, its almost certainly going to land on the tech debt side of things. This is a new build chain, set of dependencies, development tools, developer skillset, etc. we are talking about here - not small stuff.

Also to get common libs (e.g. middleware, API definitions) going will be much harder.

The real reason new languages come up in discussion is because of bored developers - that has been my experience at least. And I don't exclude myself from that, it is a major factor in me looking for new work. Now assuming that cynical theory is true, there is an argument to introduce cool stuff to retain good developers - with the understanding that you are shooting yourself in the foot a little bit.

I've wondered about the possibility of allowing a prototype in a "cool" language or framework, with an understanding that it must be replaced soon after by a stable refactor in the existing language set. I think that would appeal to people who want to try something new as well as people who enjoy refactoring, and there would be a kind of extreme programming motivation to the business. I've never tried to get this kind of thing going though.
So you’re admitting they don’t listen, they just try whatever’s most common.
"Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine" - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery...

They did not go to Korea and China because they can't produce ammunition. They went because they consume so much of it...

"The U.S. Army will boost production of 155mm artillery shells more than sixfold to 85,000 a month" - https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/2023/03/28/...

Just for comparison...in the Donbas region, Russia is estimated to have fired 40,000–60,000 152mm shells per day...

That is the US Army current monthly production in two days...
Great intro for the many many many people distressed that wasi preview2 wasn't just a little more of the same preview1.

These folks see, hey, I could compile to wasm before, why would I want WASI to have an IDL now? Well, if you want to use multiple languages together, if you want code you write in one language to be useful in other languages, you're probably going to want wasm modules to actually be modular. Which is what preview2 is enabling!

Hoping the gap until preview3 arrives isn't as long. It would be excellent to bridge the function coloring gap, would be a superb enhancement in runtime capabilities versus what is on offer today in the world. It seems like preview2 has hewn out a very solid base to work from, so fingers crossed.

Direly needed write-up, thanks!
CP (Competitive Programming, Olympiad/leetcode puzzles) uses Computer Science (Algos & DS) the same way as e.g. Physics and Biology use Mathematics, i.e. it is a completely different discipline with its own trivia knowledge and tricks that has nothing to do with a software engineering.
Great analogy

Based on your references, I assume you were around for that cycle -- in hindsight, what did/should you have done during that stage of the boom cycle to prepare yourself to thrive during the inevitable bust?

There are obvious answers like "live within your means, save money, and invest conservatively." But curious about deeper ones. Particularly when it comes to career trajectory.
What's "seriously"? If you just want to get a basic game running on pc, you can easily do so on a vm. Sure, if at some point you need some high-performance benchmarking or specialized tests, you need that hardware. But that's for specific types of games and even then at the end if the dev pipeline.

Whereas, if you target macs or iOS, you can't even start development before you have bought a mac.
I used Semaglutide for several months and my tastes changed.

For instance, I used to hate the bitter taste of black coffee, I was very sensitive to it, but now I can enjoy a cup of black coffee and only barely notice the bitter.

There were a few other foods that I similarly hated, but now have a somewhat favorable reaction too.
> I think despite the fact that "UX" entered the picture a long time ago now, most people who are "UI/UX Designers" still focus heavily on how things look and have a much lower understanding of how things work and feel to use

Yeah, use of the term "UX" has been a red flag for me for a long time now.
I didn’t realize that. I will give that a look.
But computational complexity is a separate concern from level of abstraction.
You think I’m in a small bubble of people who don’t disable js in their browsers? Come on it’s 2024
Travel exactly due East. Now, ignore what East means. Then, ignore the giant white arrow pointing East into Montana in the image we've created to illustrate this question. Also, don't worry about anything called a Great Circle, it's completely unimportant. What country would you first encounter?

Did you get it, idiot? No? Let me explain to you why you're wrong.

First, you completely missed that the Great Circle I told you not to worry about doesn't actually follow along the white arrow I used to illustrate the problem. Clearly, if you completely ignore all the information that was given to you, and what East is, the answer is obviously Australia. Because if you were at the North Pole, a line going East would be a tight circle.

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6 ÷ 2(1+2) = ?
Grokking is certainly an interesting phenomenon, but have practical applications of it been discovered yet?

I remember seeing grokking demonstrated for MNIST (are there any other non synthetic datasets for which it has been shown?), but the authors of that paper had to make the training data smaller and got a test error far below state of the art.

I'm very interested in this research, just curious about how practically relevant it is (yet).
Bear in mind that this article is old. Since then, ruby support a [handle_interrupt mechanism not far from the method described as working in java](https://rubyapi.org/3.3/o/thread#method-c-handle_interrupt)
> I'm thankful I had maturity to simply say "yes, they're in the deer family, native to Canada and Northern Europe".

Good for you!

Though I think we geeks are more inclined to understand when others have their "Sherlock Holmes didn't know the Earth revolves around the Sun" moments. :-)