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> Clarifying something in an article in a more clear way than the article did is fine, and especially when even the actual title itself is misleading as well.

That is very true. However, to myself (and presumably the other commenters) it didn’t look like that’s what you were doing. Though I’ll certainly give you the benefit of the doubt and trust that was your intention.

In the future, it might help if you also quote the specific part of the article that does the clarification, so it’s clear you’re aware of it and are providing additional context or better wording.
Their monetization strategy appears to be largely modeled after flightsimulators. DCS specifically comes to mind. As in DCS you don't buy the game you buy the plane.

On the one hand I am fine with this. on the other I vaguely expect DCS levels of systems simulation from the ships and I don't see that ever happening.
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No direct experience, but have helped a family member start up a business and invested in a few restaurants.

Figure out how much money you're comfortable losing first. That is, assume it's a complete failure after a year or two, how much of your retirement savings or income are you willing to set on fire?

Use that number to figure out a realistic budget for starting up a retail space.

If you don't want the monthly burn rate of a leased storefront, maybe start with a stall at some shared selling space.

The family member started by building up a reputation for their work out of a shared studio and after many years finally broke out and rented their own space. They were initially swamped by licensing regulations and restrictions placed on the business by the landlord after they'd signed the lease (like, the landlord wanted to restrict the number of people in the space because he'd "heard things" about tattoo parlors). Lesson: get a sense of all of the regulations and laws and jurisdictions that are going to intersect with the business ahead of time. In this case they family member was surprised that the city, county, and state had conflicting regulations that they were expected to abide by.

With the restaurants the two biggest lessons were: everyone always underestimates how much it will cost to build out the space. Everyone. Four restaurants (two still active) and every single one blew out their budgets for the initial renovations, requiring either new capital contributions or debt or both. To a lesser extent my relative encountered the same thing. And it's easy to observe from the side and say "well, duh, that's how all projects are" but if you've never done it there's no reason to doubt the contractor saying it'll take $100k and ninety days to do the work you've laid out.

Second: there's no safety net except what you set aside. Generally true for all businesses but larger businesses can usually get lines of credit or other debt instruments. Covid was a remarkable black swan that the restaurants only survived (in some form) with government intervention. At best each had 30-60 days' cash (one of the first things their banks did was freeze any outstanding debt/financing lines once the impact of Covid started to take shape).

I'm semi-retired and keep toying with an electronics store front ala Heath Kit or Radio Shack classic. Thing is, every time I run the numbers it barely breaks even, and this is in NYC where it's easier in many ways to run highly targeted retail store fronts. And I just can't run the risk of burning a couple of years of retirement funds on a lark that at best breaks even.
The most-promising thread I’ve pulled at for this after a few searches is that this all (hedge wizard, hedge witch) derives from “hedge school”, with either “hedge witch” or “hedge wizard” being the first of this form, and later uses of those and related terms (like Martin’s “hedge knight”) deriving from these derivatives, incorporating meaning and context not necessarily intended by the original formulation, for reason of not realizing the specific original reason for labeling them “hedge” (the association with unofficial, unorthodox, and maybe illegal schooling)

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We have trillions of dollars riding on one-person open-source projects. This is not the barrier for "serious businesses" that it used to be.
Yeah I thought the same and was immediately disappointed that you could only step a tiny bit forwards.

BUT, you can turn around and see something that I presume was entirely generated. So I don't think it is just doing some clever tricks to make the photo look 3D, but also "infilling" what is behind the camera too. That is kinda cool.

I'd love to see this improved so I can walk around some more though, to see what is down those alleys etc.
In some angles you can appreciate artifacts that resemble those of gaussian splats. I’d bet is a 3D representation but not your traditional mesh. Very cool
How long would you give him to run it into the ground?
A IEEE754-like arithmetic (transrational arithmetic, or transreal arithmetic) creates new problems due to adding new values. 0*x=0 now requires x≠∞, x≠-∞, and x≠NaN. (x/x)=1 now requires x≠0, x≠∞, x≠-∞, and x≠NaN, so this system doesn't satisfy the field axioms. NaN lacks ordering, so we lose a total order relation.

However, you get cool new results, like x/x=1+(0/x). Definitely some upsides.
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I'm curious to hear why you don't like strong types, because I can't imagine not using types.

My day job involves working on a PHP app that's been around since the 5.x days. So it's a mixture of "new code" which has typehints everywhere (PHP nomenclature for runtime type-checking, but static analyzers can also read the signatures and alert you before runtime, which is the real benefit IMO) and "old code" where everything is an array, but to figure out what's in the array you've been passed, you have to look at the 3 functions that call the function you're looking at, and even then sometimes you have to back up 2 or 3 steps up the stack to find where the array is created, and even then you're not 100% sure if that `userEmail` member is present all the time or only in certain circumstances.

With strong types, we pass a UserModel object, and everyone immediately knows what they can and cannot do with it.

I remember in college trying to write some Selenium scripts in Python to do some scraping, and my biggest frustration was not being able to identify the return type of anything. The language wouldn't tell me, the built-in python IDE (IDLE?) wouldn't tell me, so the best I could come up with was something like `print(typeof(x))` (or maybe it was a function to print the properties/methods? it's been a while, I forget) every time I called a new function and running the tool, which was a painful experience to say the least. A few months later I ended up doing something similar but in C# and the difference in productivity was night-and-day.
i was referring to the oil industry where he works, not silicon valley
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> Lets say you have 11:00. That's easy. But what about 11:15? We would say "quarter 12", so I guess the English version is "quarter of 12".

The English terms would be:

11:15 -> quarter after 11, quarter past 11 (both pretty rare, tbh)

11:30 -> half past 11 (this is the only form that is moderately common)

11:45 -> quarter of 12, quarter before 12 (also pretty rare)
First reaction after trying it was a bit of a surprise when I got an “Out of bounds” message – not what I expected for 3D worlds.
Scrolling down to the "Looking Ahead" section, they are working on improving both size and fidelity.
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It probably doesn't matter to the company but it matters a lot to OP's career growth. If they ever want to switch to a different company then it's important to have strong tech fundamentals unless they're just going to stay in the oil industry.
It is still strategically important to be able to supply domestic civilian, industrial, and military computation needs with good enough chips. If you are not ahead, but still good enough, than you have sovereignty, and have a good chance to get back to the top eventually (in the sort/mid term).

China is not ahead. Still they are capable of mass-producing somewhat capable chips, with good enough yields for strategic projects.

Also they can mass produce now outdated designs, which are still good enough for "office use" to provide continuity of the government bureaucracy's operation.

China has less advanced nodes where it can produce for industrial applications.

They have the potential to eventually get ahead, but now a total embargo you only slow them down, but not cripple them. This situation is acceptable for any state as a temporary measure until reorganizing efforts.

Also Intel is still producing better stuff then the chineese can. It is still ahead. And as I detailed above, I think it would need to fall behind way more to loose its strategic nature.

Also capacities in Taiwan and in South-Korea are very fragile from a strategic perspective, even if they are/were more advanced than what Intel has.
The overly ambitious claims are what led them to raise $230M+ without a product.

Fei-Fei Li is a luminary in the field, and she's assembled a stellar team of some of the best researchers in the space.

Their gamble is that they'll be able to move faster than the open research and other companies looking to productionize that research.

Time will tell if this can become an ElevenLabs or if it'll fizzle out like Character.ai.

My worry is that without a product, they'll malinvestment their research into cool problems that don't satisfy market demand. There's nothing like the north star of customers. They'll also have a tough time with hiring going forward with that valuation.

The market of open research and models is producing a lot of neat stuff in 3D. But there's no open pool of data yet, despite HuggingFace and others trying.

We'll see what happens.
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The Farming Game rulebook[1] authors must have taken this list as a "how to" guide because it is by far the worst I have ever encountered. They intermix rules with some narrative meaning one has to parse a lot of words to extract which ones are relevant to getting started with the game and what actions are legal during play. It'd be like if those infamous recipe blogs intermingled the SEO content in between baking instruction steps

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Even weirder conceptually than that: you have the same dna in all your cells. So why is your brain your brain, your eyes your eyes, and so on? Then you learn that not all genes are expressed all the time. Then you learn even among those expressed genes that they could have been spliced differently and resulted in completely different protein structures. No magnets needed for this example of phenotypes extending beyond mere dna sequence, just a mirror to look at yourself.
> I was skeptical about whole thing, but then getting Jewish pogroms in the middle of freaking Amsterdam in 2024 wasn’t on my bingo card.

Thanks for irresponsibly spreading falsehoods without any factual basis. Very cool.
If no one says it, did the post above mine just make things up and I am trying to explain their invented things?
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>That's far too many man-hours to invest in scamming one "retired therapist".

For people who live on a tenth of what we do a day, the return on investment is probably massive, especially if you can work with multiple victims throughout the day. This kind of persistence is not even uncommon. In fact, I thought this article was going to be a rehash of this article from a while back by one of The Cut's Finance writers: https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...
An lot of brute force memorizing details that everyone else would look up. Biology feeds to medical fields where you have to have details you rarely used memories because you might be doing surgery on someone who is slightly different from typical and have to figure out what that thing in the way is - can you safely move/remove it or not. (I'm not a doctor, real doctors can come up with plenty of much more likely real world examples of situations where you don't have time to look up some detail)
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Lots of companies do that, and I wouldn't call it an x86/ARM choice but rather the same old Windows/Mac choice. For Windows, only x86 makes sense for companies with lots of legacy software, and the only choice for Mac is ARM.
>In the mean time, AMD/ARM already won phones, table and game consoles.

Don't forget laptops. Intel has been terrible on laptops due to their lack of efficiency. AMD has been wiping the floor with them for years now.

2024 is the first year that Intel has released a laptop chip that can compete in efficiency. I hope Intel continues to invest in this category and remain neck and neck with AMD if we have any hope of having Windows laptops with decent battery lide.
My friends at Intel are essentially saying the same thing. This includes the ones that got laid off- and those that got 'transitioned' to Solidigm.
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The xargs command can invoke arbitrary commands, possibly including scripts that themselves invoke xargs, so a system using xargs -P recursively could very well benefit from a governor limiting the total number of jobs run in parallel. It might be unlikely or uncommon (I've certainly never seen it in practice) but nothing prevents it from happening.

And if you're using xargs somewhere in the middle of a parallel build, having xargs -P respect the jobserver's limits would be a nice touch.
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You can just scroll back on https://hckrnews.com/ to catch up.
Seniors help you grow faster and help you avoid unnecessary dead end approaches etc.

But aren't needed to grow (but make growing so much easier and as such allow you to grow more over the same time frame).

The most important part are:

- self reflect on you work, importantly do take a emotional step back before doing so to (hopefully) have a objectifish self reflection

- if you do mistakes try to understand _why exactly_ things went wrong, instead of just finding a solution or a target of to put blame on. E.g. if some system lead to some issues don't just put if of because "that system is bad designed" but try to understand which aspects of the design are the problem and dig deeper to find out e.g. if there is a reason it's designed that way.

- in general try to learn the underlying principle independent of the fancy branding and terminology it's backed in. E.g. people all the time reinvent and rediscover long term known concepts and them give them new names and say it's something completely different even if it's not. (But also new impl. of old concepts can sometimes make the difference between unusual and a grate solution). E.g. rail track programming (e.g. in swift) is just a reinvention using Monades for error handling.

- there a many seniors sharing their knowledge freely on the internet, the tricky part her is that not everyone pretending to be a expert is one and not everyone who is a expert in one area is one in another. So never blindly follow their advice.

- when you get advice, especially from less trustable sources like the web, understand _why_/_how_ this advice is going to help instead of just following it. Also question the advice, try to find out when the advice might be a bad idea even if it seems to always be a good idea.

- reading documentation instead of just googling (or LLM generating) solutions can help with understanding (through not always, a lot of doc is terrible bad). Now speed wise you might not have time for that but double checking found solutions by checking them against the documentation is something you often should do anyways.

- be aware that even if you feel you are a senior there is a lot of thing you don't know, more importantly a lot of thing you don't know you don't know.

- don't just reflect on work you recently finished go back to older work

- if it's your thing, keep notes in a well organized way and go back to them to reflect how you understanding might have changed

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You need to get creativity in your fingers. You can get good at solving problems. As those who did much better than me in school proved.
It doesn't just mean "alien". It's a portmanteau or blend word. Only the xeno part means alien. The morph part describes its growth process.
I am not familiar with either, so this was hardly the “gotcha” you may have expected. If you have disagreements with what I posted I urge you to actually focus on said post rather than whataboutism.
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I’m sure It’ll improve. I imagine, the further from the input image the more the model has to make up stuff. Gen-AI video models are limited to a few seconds. In 3D you’re constrained to a volume
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Consider adjusting your perspective. As you’ve said, you ARE the tech lead right now — you just don’t have any peers. Yet.

Prepare for the day when workload increases to the point where you are hiring in your first resource. You are now the senior in the equation.

This can be an exciting time. What’s the first thing you’ll hand over? Does it make sense the way it works now? What would you do differently?

Ask yourself these questions and make the changes now, while you have time. Prepare for the team you don’t have. Yet.
I'll also argue that the ideas in this post absolutely matter in practice.

For example, Github Actions uses YAML as its Reader / S-expression / CST layer.

And then it has a separate "parser", for say "if" nodes, and then another parser for the string value of those "if" nodes.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/workflo...

if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') }}

if: github.repository == 'octo-org/octo-repo-prod'

This fact is poorly exposed to users:

You must always use the ${{ }} expression syntax or escape with '', "", or () when the expression starts with !, since ! is reserved notation in YAML format.

So I feel that they could have done a better job with language design by taking some lessons from the past.

Gitlab has the same kind of hacky language on top of YAML as far as I remember