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>> The real enemy of any artist is the long tail of works, sometimes spanning decades, that they have to compete against.

Had to check this wasn’t sama.

You seriously believe the real enemy of artists is other artists? Not the guys making billions and trying to convince us “the computers are just reading it like a human”?
Same problem for me. MacOS/Firefox.
What Causes Air Pollution to Spike in Springtime?
Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages
This is the key message in my opinion. I've worked with wonderful software developers who can accomplish far more than others (as well as a few who are a net drain on the team.) The key is to craft an organization that allows anyone with a minimum skillset to be successful. At least on the team that I'm currently in, this means a well-defined organization with clearly defined limits of what they should and should not do. This is with respect to customers and also internally.
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The answer there [0] doesn't support this. From the answer:

> There is no question that libstdc++'s implementation of <regex> is not well optimized. But there is more to it than that. It's not that the standard requirements inhibit optimizations so much as the standard requirements inhibit changes.

The answer's one comment expands on this, it sounds like they're not able to add a sophisticated optimising regex engine into the libstd++ shared library (i.e. non-inline) as this would be an ABI break.

Perhaps other implementations of the C++ standard library perform better.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/70587711/
Minimalist Light Phone III Launches March 27
Show HN: Disarray [video]
A song about that inarticulate waffle chunkness of it all
Well an LVT eliminates the neighbors' financial incentive to keep the value high, so thry might actually join you in driving the value down.
It's an improvement, playble enough that I finished a puzzle.

It still wasn't particularly engaging though, but a purely mechanical exercise in pencilmarking and ticking off the obvious conflicts. It's answering the question of "could you have an irregular layout" rather than "what kind of interesting puzzles can you design only with an irregular layout". There was not a single "oh, wait, this ruleset actually also implies X" deductive leap, no place where it felt like there was some cool emergent property of the ruleset.
They do need help, they've yet to turn a profit.
AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_electricity

> The Neo-Latin adjective electricus, originally meaning 'of amber'

Seems like electricity and amber have been tied together for a long time.

This rules out the idea it comes from safety signs. I also dont buy the safety sign origin as the graphics are always in black and the background is yellow.
MCP – A Standardized Bridge Between LLMs and External Tools
I know what all these words mean, it "makes sense" to me in the sense that I read it and I think "ok.." but I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to use this to get weighted random samples or "generate event times."

So I guess I "understand it" in the sense that it doesn't sound like a foreign language, but I can't apply it in any meaningful way.
You can also think of this as using the first two terms of a Taylor series approximation in log domain and throwing away the rest!
That's unhelpful.

To answer my own question—and to actually help other people with similar use cases—I read about uv's build process and dependency locking. It does not appear to be able to lock dependencies for build distributions (wheels).

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/build/

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/pip/compile/

However, it does mention that Python supports multiple build systems, which I didn't know, so this hasn't been a complete waste of my time.

Thanks!
Trump's EPA insists climate change isn't a danger
>Yeah. Humans are crafty though. I don't think it would take conspiratorial coordination in order for this to turn into somewhat of an arms race. I'm imagining homeowners associations shifting prices from land value to HOA dues or some such. People putting tires and broken toilets on their lawn in front of a privacy fence. Sometimes HOA's requiring this kind of thing. People getting pissed at the nice lady who keeps trying to plant flowers everywhere. Nonsensical home renovations like putting a toilet on the ceiling or installing doors that go nowhere. Just goofy humans responding to incentives.

Yeah probably you'd see things like this happen in some cases. It doesn't seem obviously worse to me than all the games people play to keep their incomes or profits or employee counts under various thresholds to avoid tax. Or the hundreds of other tax tricks involving charities or art or minority ownership. We're used to those things so we forget how weird and silly it all is.

The thing about land is that it's public -- you can't keep it a secret. So that makes it naturally more difficult to hide wrongdoing than when things are abstracted by accounting tricks and shell corporations. Someone can come by and just look at it.
Take photos of all your friends and family all the time. Any day might be their last!

But to reply to your questions, the answer is yes - take photos but do it in the proper context
I appreciate your curiosity and the way you phrased your point.

You hit the nail on the head with:

> Is it that it's the company's leadership asking, rather than your coworker?

I'm a fan of voluntarism too, but don't believe that a company leader can just "ask" something. Same as it is with sexual advances, when a boss asks something from their employees, it automatically implies that doing so will be beneficial to their position in the company, even if they didn't intend it.

As for your examples, I'd generally be ok with requests that can in some way be justified by the typical person as good for the company (e.g offsite team-building), but would draw the line at requests that go beyond that.
I was reminded of Mel as well! If you haven't seen it, Usagi Electric on YouTube has gotten a drum-memory system from the 1950s nearly fully-functional again.
"Measuring productivity is fraught and imperfect"
For the moment, but it's better than it's ever been, and it's getting better.
I'm disgusted by the mindset that companies should be able to do whatever they want when it comes to technology as impactful and revolutionary as AI.

AI sucks up the collective blood, sweat and tears of human work without permission or compensation and then re-monetizes it. It's a model that is even more asymmetrical than Google Search, whom at least gives back some traffic to creators (if lucky).

AI is going to decide on human lives if it drives your car or makes medical diagnoses or decisions. This needs regulation.

AI has the ability for convincing deepfakes, attacking the essence of information and communication in itself. This needs regulation, accountability, at least a discussion.

As AI grows in its capability, it will have an enormous impact on the work force, both white collar and blue collar. It may lead to a lot of social unrest and a political breakdown. "Let's see what happens" is wildly irresponsible.

You cannot point to foreign competition as a basis for a no-rule approach. You should start with rules for impactful/dangerous technology and then hold parties to account, both domestic and foreign.

And if it is true that we're in a race to AGI, realize that this means the invention of infinite labor. Bigger than the industrial revolution and information age combined.

Don't you think we should think that scenario through a little, rather than winging it?

The inauguration had the tech CEOs lined up directly behind Trump, clearly signaling who runs the country. Its tech and its media. How can you possible have trust in a technology even more powerful ending up in ever richer and more autocratic hands?

But I suppose the reality is that Altman should donate $100 million to Trump and tell him that he's the greatest man ever. Poof, regulation is gone.
Just use what works for you.

E.g. i'm very outspoken about my preferences for open llm practices like executed by Meta and Deepseek. I'm very aware of the regulatory caption and pulling up the ladder tactics by the "AI safety" lobby.

However. In my own operations I do still rely on OpenAI because it works better than what I tried so far for my use case.

That said, when I can find an open model based SaaS operator that serves my needs as well without major change investment, I will switch.
What ratio of time spent coding to time spent doing code review is conventional in industry, anyway?

If it is around 1 (which doesn’t seem too unreasonable given that multiple people might review a single commit), and a 10x engineer really is 10x as productive as a normal one, then I guess a team of less than 10 people will have trouble keeping up with these 10x engineers.

Unless the company only hires 10x engineers. But then we should at least consider the possibility that they are just hiring 1x engineers, and have a low opinion of engineers outside the company.
It's not like the government and the private sector will be able to restore manufacturing quickly. The process will take a while and will cost.

I doubt most people will tolerate a longer-term downturn in the hope that a bunch of manufacturing will materialize. And I doubt that companies will want to do that. They moved manufacturing overseas to cut costs and get around labour.

As for lower prices, I doubt that'll happen either.
> OpenAI also proposed that AI companies get access to government-held data, which could include health-care information, Lehane said.

Yea, straight up, go fuck yourselves. You want copyright laws changed to vouchsafe your straight up copyright whitewashing and now you just want medical data "because."

Pay for it or go away. I'm tired of these technoweenies with their hands out. Peter Thiel needs a permanent vacation.
I fail to see the relevance.
Not to mention Musk was an original co-founder, left, and then just recently tried to buy it back.

It's all shady-as-fuck.
And to achieve this the organization only requires exceptional leaders...
I believe, you have got the multipliers switched.

Most 1x engineers/developers care deeply about users and the end product, and also likes to keep the code well maintained and performant, so they can do their peaceful work and go home, while not making the life of the user any more miserable.

Most 10x engineers are too brilliant and remain busy rocking the boat and doing so many mind blowing things at any given time that the destruction trail is only materialising slowly once their presence has faded for a while and the remnants are being pieced together.

I think, we equate the frenzy with 10x(productivity & excellence) while the less creative and cautious ones tend to be the most valuable over long term with most boring stuff.

Of course to each their own, but the too many destructions of the 10x stars had made me very weary these days.
I never liked tv as a kid either. But youtube actually would destroy my life. Be careful with YouTube once they start seeking things. I also didn't really like to read but i just built things from the lego bin or my magnets. My family would watch a movie and I'd just go upstairs and dump out some bin of some things and start messing around. I did watch things from social pressure eventually and like i said, youtube will kill me someday, but it also has taught me so much. Anyways, fellow no-tv kid here
That is not without humour :)

I don't understand the comment about it just being a power, but, for me, knowing that it's filling in the third vertice on the triangle with exponents at the top, and n on the other is what makes it work for me - I now know in my head when I am looking for the log of n, I am looking for the exponent that would turn the log into n.

I don't go looking for the exact log, I only look for whole numbers when I am calculating the value in my mind.

But it makes sense when I am looking for the log2 of 8 to know that the answer is "what exponent will make 2 into 8"? and that's "3"
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>"A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand the systems they’ve built, and move the business forward a little bit more, day by day, week by week."

I don't think decent skills and ordinary expertise gets you that, especially "move fast" on top of the other things. But the convenient thing about "normal" is I can move the goal posts wherever and it sounds valid.

The article also did not say how often the normal engineers produce bugs of varying severity, so I guess it's possible to move fast and create a manageable amount of bugs?
Many people using HN see the interface as utterly practical. How much can you scan at once, is everything you need to hand and very clear. Maybe allow a local dictionary to highlight key words so people can easily home in or ignore certain stories (just thought of that). That kind of stuff.
And while there was some discord between Salieri and Mozart in real life, it was more like friendly rivals rather than enemies -- they even collaborated on at least one piece https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/A-German-Composer-...
"Did you win the Putnam?"

Sorry u/sanj & hat-tip to u/cperciva ;)
Well, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimony#England

Under traditional English common law, a woman gave up her personal property rights on marriage (see Coverture). Upon separation from marriage, the husband retained the right to the wife's property, but, in exchange, had an ongoing responsibility to support the wife after dissolution of the marriage.[6][7] English law was amended by legislation including the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and Married Women's Property Act 1882 which reformed women's property rights relating to marriage, by, for example, permitting divorced women to regain the property they owned before marriage.[7][26][27][28]

"Dissolution" is a strong word considering traditional Christian beliefs, and it would seem that a man couldn't simply divorce a woman and her children and wash his hands of responsibilities, even if spending a year dead for tax purposes.

Because a woman entering marriage with a dowry, with property, with capital assets: those would be entrusted to the entire family and so the man, offspring, and heirs would end up with management of whatever resulted, during the marriage, after the divorce, and after his own bodily death
I’m not trying to convince you dude, I’m trying to get you to back up your bullshit so the rest of us can see how full of it you are.

Nor am I looking for moral highground. What I am doing is demonstrating the derision that should be shown to your sort of broken behavior.
My colleague and I wrote a book on this: https://github.com/scynthiadunlop/WritingForDevelopersBook You can preview chapters on the Manning site.
having fun with this. I like the longer runs better but it feels kind of crowded, I wonder if you could optimize for fewer+longer? also just had the thought you could fit this into arbitrary bounding shapes, not just a square...
The devil is in the details here. A land value tax in the Georgeist sense relies on being able to determine the unimproved value of the land.

This is impossible.

So it always fails.

I love markets, everyone loves markets. But markets only approach efficiency on a unit basis when there is a liquid market for fungible goods. Otherwise you can get aggregate pricing signals, but really no information about a specific item.
Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen (2024)
> You want copyright laws changed to vouchsafe your straight up copyright whitewashing

I'll support this if it means that Mickey Mouse finally goes into the public domain and fucks Disney.
End-to-end (e2e) tests are slow and flaky. They don't have to be, but effort to fix breakage starts consuming most available time.

One idea is to separate scraping from verification. The latter would run very fast and be reliable: it only tests against stored state.

Then scraping is just procedural, clicking things, waiting for page loads, and reading page elements into a database.

Some consequences are needing integrity checks to ensure data has been read (first name field selector was updated but not populated), self-healing selectors (AI, et al), and certifying test results against known versions (fixing the scraper amid UI redesign).

A lot of effort is saved by using screenshot diffing of, say, React components, especially edge cases. It also (hopefully) shifts-left test responsibility to the devs.

Ideally, we only have some e2e tests, mostly happy paths, that also act as integration tests.

We could combine these ideas with "stacked databases" from the article and save on duplication.

Finally, the real trick is knowing, in the face of changes, which tests don't have to run, making the whole run take less time.
Also, we captured how other bloggers got started at https://writethatblog.substack.com/t/tech-blogger-insights
Every 10x engineer I've known has carried entire teams of normal engineers. ymmv but I've seen probably 5 instances of this and 0 instances of teams of normal engineers being super productive.
Did you read further to see what you have to do to cancel the plan? Send a letter via post.

A nothingburger would be an opt in screen where you can decline.
For the wealthiest, it's great. They'll lose some skiing but whenever things go a little worse for others, they'll accumulate more. More weather chaos: more ways to score points, they can fix their stuff easily. Worse crop yields: higher prices work to their benefit. Higher insurance prices: not something they care about.
Young Professionals Are Increasingly Turning to Boring Small-Business Niches
I don't want to be dependant on Starlink (or any one provider) for internet.

I think the world is better when there's an access point that governments can't shut off.
>in ATC, hiring (and firing) practices can have a long, very long, lasting effect.

Do you think that's unique to ATC?
The general version of this is called inverse transform sampling [0], which uses the fact that for the cdf F of any random variable X the random variable Y = F(X) has a standard uniform distribution [1]. Since every cdf increases monotonically on the unit interval, every cdf is invertible [2]. So apply the inverse cdf to both sides of the previous equation and you get F^-1(Y) = X is distributed like X.

Sampling from a standard uniform distribution and then using the inverse transform is the commonest way of generating random numbers from an arbitrary distribution.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_integral_transfo...

2. Not every cdf is one-to-one, however, so you may need a generalized inverse.
Thanks for saving me the extra tap!
Pulling on an Abstracted Cloudy Thread(s)
Also, it'll only meaningfully push down prices if labor prices plummet. Just building more factories won't do it.

Typically, when you see MIUSA items now, they're high-quality, because it doesn't make sense to use expensive labor while cutting lots of corners on process and cheaping out on materials when your finished good will still be expensive, only a little cheaper than making something high-quality, due to labor costs. This holds for most other developed-world manufacturing, too, and is the biggest reason that "made in [name of developed country]" is one of the more reliable high-level signals of quality—simply because it's rarely a good business idea to manufacture poor products at developed-world labor prices.

We can't compete at the lower end of prices & quality without cutting US labor pay rates a whole bunch.
I'm familiar with Aaron Swartz's case, and that is actually why I phrased it as "books". In any case, while tragic, Swartz wasn't prosecuted for copyright infringement, but rather for wire fraud and computer fraud due to the manner in which he bypassed protections in MIT's network and the JSTOR API. This wouldn't have been an issue if he downloaded the articles from a source that freely shared them, like sci-hub.
Talk about taking declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to a whole new absurd level.

(Or more like putting the manager back in the management plane.)
For those who don't want to feel the need to bathe after clicking the link:

> STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

> 13k ReTruths

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> Aug 05, 2024 at 8:12 AM

BTW, "lll" (3 lowercase L's) is a straight copy/paste. Beware World War L's!
I've rarely seen those 10x engineers to bring massive long term added value. Most are/were well aware of their skills and detested working on anything but newest and shiniest, desperately trying to make work a fun park for them regardless whether its actually a good idea for the company giving them paychecks.

Which works for some time, or when extensively coached, but eventually they move since their time is oh so precious and now you have the rest of the team to work with their work. Not that great.

Then people wonder or complain when business doesn't appreciate devs. How would you look at folks who are critical to your success yet often don't have your company's best interest at the center of their efforts.

To use your terms, those 1x devs always end up maintaining and evolving that code of 10x guys. Their velocity with changes is massively lower and error rate is significantly higher compared to code created by 1x devs. This is what business sees and there is not much love for that.
> Use AI to spot blind spots

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s a quick sanity check—not perfect, but better than guessing.

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than guessing. Some prompts to try:

Was this an intentional joke?
There's an opposite incentive to keep the value of the improvements high (i.e. the house itself and any rental income that might come from it). Degrading the value of the land is hard to do without degrading the value of the improvements at the same time. But the reverse is not true -- increasing the value of the improvements causes only a negligible increase the value of the land (and tax burden). So e.g. tearing down the house and building a quadplex to rent out would not appreciably increase the land value, so the land owner would profit from the additional rental income without having to pay very much more tax.

Of course, if everyone in the neighbourhood does the same thing, the land values will rise considerably. But that's a policy success -- the tax system has collectively incentivized land owners to increase the housing supply to meet demand.
Funnily, OpenAI also calls for the ban of their free and open-weight Chinese competitors DeepSeek and Qwen.
I don't disagree with that sentiment; however, one should pay attention to the things Trump and Musk says given the power they wield. What do I consider noise in US politics? Anything JD Vance says since he has no effective power. Ditto for Congressional Democrats. Obviously there's more, but that's a good start.
Prices stay down if you pay the worker like Chinese labor. Which would fit what manufacturers desire, Henry Ford is long dead.
Bio-oil production itself has a small amount of net positive emissions associated with it. We also purchase renewable electricity, renewable diesel, etc. to minimize those emissions. The net carbon negativity comes from the balance of the biomass/bio-oil carbon content ending up permanently sequestered deep underground.