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It's because us millennials came of age at a time when there was massive optimism that computers and the Internet would make the world a much better place. From equalizing education through online resources to bringing people around th
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I tell everyone cursor is awesome because for my use cases cursor is awesome. I've never thrown 1.5M LoC at it, but for smaller code bases (10k LoC) it is amazing at giving summaries and finding where in the code something is being don
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> I think the issue with these low end devices are that the duopoly on operating systems Evidence going back over 30 years now points to the consumer computing market as only being able to support 2 platforms. The dev costs otherwise are
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by com2kid 2y ago
Do you have links to any studies that removing names and other obvious markers from resumes (college name, employment dates, etc) somehow increases discrimination in HR screening? I honestly fail to how that could happen. For example, if HR
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by com2kid 2y ago
devlin . bentley @ gmail.com or if you have xmpp devlinb@thawd.net I'm also on discord as com2kid
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I ran a company for 3 years working on this, let me know if you want to chat! I've moved on but I'm always happy to talk about solving this problem.
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Years ago the software engineering field looked at this problem, came up with good solutions, and then promptly proceeded to implement none of them. Resumes need to be filtered to remove age, race, gender, name, even what school someone wen
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by com2kid 2y ago
Take a circle with a radius of 1cm. Unroll its perimeter and declare that length is 1 of new unit called a squelk. You can measure things and build things in squelks just fine, but if you try to take something that is 100 squelks long and m
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Rumor has it they run queries at a profit, and most of the cost is in training and staff. If they is true their path to profitability isn't super rocky. Their path to achieving their current valuation may end up being trickier though!
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> Slot machines have been around for generations and have not become any less effective. Slot machines are not a growth market. The majority of people wised to them literal generations ago, although enough people remain susceptible to ma
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OpenAI built a 3 billion dollar business in less than 3 years of a commercial offering.
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Farmville style games underwent similar explosive estimates of growth, up until they collapsed. Much of the growth in gaming of late has come from exploitive dark patterns, and those dark patterns eventually stop working because users becom
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Tons of people do, my next machine will likely be a Mac for 60% this reason and 40% Windows being so user hostile now.
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Async in JS is not in parallel, which is a very -very- important distinction for program correctness.
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I've worked on heavy PP based companies, and in companies that requires 5 minute 2 pagers. Both are here to write (info dense) but having a proper narrative structure with the 2 pager communicates far more than the PowerPoint does. A n
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There are some really good books about wars between cultures that have AGI and it always comes down to math - whoever can get their hands on more compute faster wins.
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If we can simulate a full human intelligence at a reasonable speed, we can simulate 100 of them and ask the AGI to figure out how to make itself 10x faster. Rinse and repeat. That is exponential take off. At the point where you have an army
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Apple uses HBM, basically RAM on the same die as the CPU. It has a lot more memory bandwidth than typically PC dram, but still less than many GPUs. (Although the highest end macs have bandwidth that is in the same ballpark as GPUs)
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If someone has a 0 day backdoor to Windows, they can steal the credentials from the employees who are logging into those Linux servers. Many high value servers don't have public IPs, and the really juicy ones are behind jump boxes. At
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It was considered verbose years ago but now days it is IMHO better than messy C++ templates or Rust syntax.
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> and the mega corp, like Facebook will only just barely experience anything like this because it’s just not that important. I worked at Microsoft, and speaking to their security team my impression was that MSFT is under persistent attac
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It was largely a joke, but even so famously many of the AKs used in various other conflicts were buried in backyards in-between wars.
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Honestly I just flipped the right bits in the aws load balancer (maintain persistent connections, just the first thing you are told to do when googling aws load balancers and web sockets) and setup the instance scaler to trigger based upon
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It matters a lot even in a duck typed language. If there are multiple types of user IDs, I don't want to pass the wrong one into a DB call. This is often the case when dealing with systems that have internal IDs vs publicly exposed IDs
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There is a function. It takes in 4 parameters. One of them is called ID Is ID a string, a number, a GUID? Better check the usage within the function. Oh, the declaration is `id: number` Mystery solved. Even better if the language supports s
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I've scaled websockets before, it isn't that hard. You need to scale up before your servers become overloaded, and basically new connections go north to the newly brought up server. It is a different mentality than scaling statele
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I promised him I'd push him out the top floor window. Very different approaches... :D
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> You need ammo, spare parts, lubricant and cleaning tools. The ak-47 famously only needs the first item in that list. That being the key to its popularity.
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Windows automatically save a restore point before updates are installed and rolling back - assuming the machine isn't bricked - is really simple.
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pre-COVID there were regular HN meetups in different cities, I am not sure why the practice died off.

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