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by gobdovan 5mo ago
No, but I gained something just as valuable. After the interview, the recruiter who introduced me to this job said they had another role for me. But first, he wanted links to the other positions I'd applied to, what those positions wer
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
I always wanted to tell the story of my weirdest interview. It's bad in a different way from OP's. This was for a "Machine Learning Engineer" contractor position. - Hi, I'm gobdovan. How are you? says I. The intervi
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For me it surely is Python with Pytorch, if we talk about frameworks in general. For web, I can't really offer any useful positive input, I was never satisfied with any framework for Python or Node. I see people praise RoR and Phoenix
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
> gym memberships are subsidized by people who barely go to the gym and would be better served by buying day passes In my country, they're priced in such a way that day passes never make sense. If a monthly subscription is 50 EUR, a
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Both rewrites differ semantically from: for i in 0..32 { a[i] = 1; } If a.len() == 16, the indexed loop writes a[0]..a[15] and then panics at a[16]. By contrast, both assert!(a.len() >= 32); and a[0..32].iter_mut().for_each(|el| *el = 1)
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
This tracks exactly my experience described in sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275892
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Well, the problem is that current LLMs are stateless, so a thousand subjective years is not well-defined. Without continuity of experience, persistent memory, engineered aversive stimuli and without updating weights meaninguflly during the
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
You could drop the human pretense, or, maybe, we could make LLMs feel real pain, so when they botch up your code, you press a button (I'd suggest the Windows Copilot key) and they'd be agonizing for the subjective equivalent of a
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Implementing spreadsheets with fine-grained reactivity is basically cheating.
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Whoops! Although there is no public contract between HIR and MIR, the public part was not relevant here. What I wanted to highlight is that if they'd want to add proper proof machinery to eliminate low-level safety checks, they'
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Rust is in an awkward position of being already complicated enough that adding proofs for skipping bounds checks probably will not happen for a long time, even though this kind of low-level operation is where a lot of optimisation is lost.
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
You might be interested in solid.js. To me, it's easier to work with than React. What I like about it is that the reactivity model is small enough that you can understand it, and even implement a basic version yourself. It also uses JS
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
What would people answer if they'd be asked if they actually like Unix? Nobody programs in literal Unix, but there's a clear before and after Unix. In the same way, there's a schism between before and after React. I personall
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Even if pseudoscience, it seems from the article that results almost always came back the same. If all AI models claimed their spiritual astrological sign is Libra, I'd still find it interesting enough to check out. So, I tried it too,
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Yep, there are the same tropes about 1984 in every discussion. And it's a shame, since 1984 presents something much stranger and more interesting than communism, surveillance dangers or dystopian universe in the abstract. It shows what
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
> AI is a tool. It needs to be subservient Fun experiment, chat with an LLM and swap roles. Tell it you're gonna be the assistant and them the assisted. I found they're pretty bad at using a human for what they're good for
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Agreed. I think I shouldn't put hard boxes around languages like 'puzzle language' vs 'abstraction/clear thinking language'. What I was trying to point at was more specific: the way I experience APL thinking te
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
I think it's the community. As an outsider watching a friend who is deeply involved with the Ruby ecosystem, I am in awe of the support they get even for small, artisanal-seeming projects from other devs in the community. I've see
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Thanks for the response. I'd interpret it as a valid technical caveat, but it feels somewhat orthogonal to what I was pointing out. You focus on the 'often inefficient' parenthetical, yet, to me, your response highlights the
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Is a corollary to this article that if you get into IT now and you manage to land a job, you'll make bank in 2031?
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Yes! I put together some explanation and TLA+ related resources in this comment, the website is one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075169
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Thanks, the article puts into perspective the Bret Victor's point about William Playfair, who invented many of the data diagrams we use today, including the line graph. It was strange to see something as basic to how we think about dat
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Given you could even use it commercially (it requires an enterprise license, but I suppose Matlab does too), moderately useful conceptually, weakly useful mechanically. APL is very limited in what offers you. I did a ML course in Matlab a w
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It always felt strange to me that the main implementation of something as niche and esolang-adjacent as APL is neither OSS nor casually usable commercially, but instead comes under an enterprise license. Anyway, I had a fun time a while ago
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
It seems HN removed the deep-link, so here it is: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/23794#issuecomment-45...
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OpenAI intentionally removed Codex's visible context usage indicator(github.com)
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98.6% cache hits doesn't distinguish an efficient workflow from an overly chatty linear agent repeatedly reusing the same context. Plus, it says nothing directly that the process has good useful progress per token .
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
Fuzzy logic is indeed a better formulation. One nit tho: the intermediary values don't mean 'very likely' or 'unsure' in general. They usually represent degrees of truth or degrees of membership. So it's more l
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by gobdovan 5mo ago
I was referring to the analysis of Christianity's spread and evolution as amazing. I was not making a subjective judgment about Christianity itself.
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It's even more interesting when you think about Christianity not as a clear category, but as a cloud of practices, beliefs and institutions in a broader family of religious patterns. Mircea Eliade asks how Christianity reinterpreted sa

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