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by chambers 2y ago
Converts do tend to romanticize their new side over the old one. But I think Larry's view has specific alignment with history: at the time, the most outspoken on the websites he visited were strongly Atheistic or Anti-Religious. That s
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by chambers 2y ago
“They’re cheering for you,” she said with a smile. “But I could never have done it,” [Milo] objected, “without everyone else’s help.” “That may be true,” said Reason gravely, “but you had the courage to try; and what you can
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by chambers 2y ago
This decisions looks well-reasoned. It acknowledges the strengths of their current implementation, and explains why another language may serve their goals even better. I can follow along as someone interested in general software decision-ma
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by chambers 2y ago
This reporting feels a bit slanted. The author implies the big blockers are human beings; specific people & interactions he's called out for seemingly stalling the project. Personally, I'm curious if there's hard technic
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The Making of Community Notes (2024)(asteriskmag.com)
72 points by chambers 2y ago|15 comments
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by chambers 2y ago
It's not that the skin is thin, but that the muscle is tired. Our muscle (or sense) of guilt has been overused and abused. Now it's prone to inflammation when we hear people who intentionally or unintentionally trigger it. I think
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by chambers 2y ago
> When we launched our independent fact checking program in 2016, we were very clear that we didn’t want to be the arbiters of truth. We made what we thought was the best and most reasonable choice at the time, which was to hand that res
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by chambers 2y ago
Not an expert at all: I wonder if getting the perf requires trading-off some (advertised) safety. IO uring has been noted to be confusing with async in Rust, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992975 I'm reminded o
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by chambers 2y ago
One small comment: it may be worth disclaiming that one of the two cited researchers is the author's boss. It's a small detail, but I mistakenly thought the author and the researchers were unrelated until I read a bit more
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by chambers 2y ago
It would be nice to see how a long-time editor of Wikipedia avoids the abuses of power the GP speaks of. Would you be comfortable sharing your account? Or some other account that demonstrates non-collusive, even virtuous behavior.
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by chambers 2y ago
How much has Turso raised so far? Rewriting SQLite sounds like it may cost a sum.
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by chambers 2y ago
I think there's merit to the argument that Gelsinger was unwilling to kill the culture to save the business. Intel and he seemed trapped by pride, nostalgia, complacency, and fear. But some of the points feel a tad personal. I've
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by chambers 2y ago
Another fascinating comment by motohagiography. I wager the movement is less a rebellion of the few, and more the unbelief of the many. That is, people just don't believe there's a personal benefit to being virtuous. It's a c
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by chambers 2y ago
On a meta note, you're right to note that unclear terms undermine our collective reasoning, despite a proper chain of propositions. I've found Term Logic[1] to be useful for figuring out why certain discussions confuse me. I'
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by chambers 2y ago
I kinda feel that their focus is more on building a great technology (& culture?) than a great business. Not necessarily a bad choice; after all, for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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by chambers 2y ago
I've witnessed how abandoning first principles undermines the evolution of a system. If our mental model of a system is not formalized into first principles (i.e. a high-level specification), then successive generations of engineers wi
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by chambers 2y ago
When a company does not want to pay (or empower) a principal engineer, they hire legions of junior engineers to cover up the gap. People who focus on the joy of shipping than on the pesky questions of "shipping what?" and "wh
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by chambers 2y ago
I wish the contradiction you spotted was clear on their Wikipedia page. It demonstrates how far back IA's management troubles go, and how their clean image was maybe just an image. For me, I became concerned when they fibbed about why
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by chambers 2y ago
I believe the monastic model would fit best. Tireless, thankless work for the greater good. Maintaining old records for decades and centuries for the sake of beyond ourselves. I imagine people who join up would eschew both profit maximizin
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by chambers 2y ago
Knowing how people use your system to make decisions is important. I think that knowledge is vital for maintaining, extending, or building a system. But the article suggests a higher responsibility: you should document your user's deci
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by chambers 2y ago
> The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK experiment has come to a close a number of years ago. > Much was learned in the process, and many thanks are given to the dozens of people who donated time, space and coding efforts to make the system work as
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by chambers 2y ago
Hand-holding colleagues needing help is a nice sentiment. Even better: when leadership rewards that support and when coworkers quietly pay-it-forward. It's heartwarming to see it in action. That said, I don't think the author&#x27
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by chambers 2y ago
> Don't you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourself? Whenever we
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by chambers 2y ago
Kobito of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1yYDzvFtQ ) is one of my favorite Touhou songs.
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by chambers 2y ago
> It helped me develop the skill of finishing things, which is a separate skill that's hard to learn, because it only happens at the end of a process so long and hard you almost never make it there. Great insight. The skill of finis
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by chambers 2y ago
Here's a link to the previous posting of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313671 (235 comments) Coincidentally, there's another article offering a different take on the matter https:/&#x2
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by chambers 2y ago
I wonder if the author's observation has something to do with the tension between Research and Development, ala R&D. YCombinator seemed effective in funding the latter, but the first half seem to be higher risk, more expensive, an
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by chambers 2y ago
Great to see. Warpstream's architecture was quite promising and the acquisition helps to validate it. One curious question: why couldn't Confluent build their own Warpstream, or pioneer one themselves, these last few years? The sp
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by chambers 2y ago
Migrating an acquired company's infra to a parent company's infra is common. But marketing it to the world, before starting it, and without a clear product strategy to justify it, is pretty uncommon. For me, it smells of messiness
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by chambers 2y ago
"You won’t even notice a difference from the outside." I can't recall the last time a company told the world about an internal migration, with no user impact, before the migration even started. It reminds me when a company I

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