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by hansvm 7mo ago
There's a sort of mixing of units happening here, and I think it's causing some confusion. Here's an example (greatly simplified) scenario highlighting a flaw in your rationale: 1. Energy at your normal usage costs $1000&#x2F
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by hansvm 7mo ago
To be fair, CA is one of the only places that's true, largely due to PG&E fuckups paired with a legislature keen to grant them unlimited money to kick back to shareholders.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Incentives drive outcomes, do they not? It's too easy to become a billionaire as a charlatan and too hard as somebody able to make a difference. Rather than granting Zuck nearly unlimited power and politely asking him to use it wisely
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Man, I wish I had access to heavily compacted, organic-poor, heavy-clay soil. It's the 80% rock that makes even basic tasks a day-long chore.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
That's not a great comparison. People absolutely do learn by watching, especially when they do so actively. Your counter-examples have the property that most of the things you need to learn are absent from the media being watched, lead
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I didn't have a lot of choice. I was pretty broke and also couldn't afford to skip 2 months of work or school. Nowadays I'm a bit more careful with my time.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
To their credit, the 24hr hold would actually serve an important, legitimate purpose if the same malware weren't going to be on the PlayStore anyway. I was expecting to disagree with their public statements more than I actually did on
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Does it take 10 minutes to choose? Back when I was commuting, I had different kit depending on the temperature, and it wasn't exactly hard. >50F: Summer gear, and not much of it. I run hot, and there's no need to make it worse.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
It........depends. I make things faster all the time by leveraging various CPU caches, sometimes even disk or networked disks. As a general principle though, memory lookups are substantially slower than CPU (and that has indeed changed over
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I sent out screens to ~15-25% of resumes (a higher rate for new grads, lower for seniors, not wanting to unnecessarily rule them out just because they didn't have positive evidence of potential success and didn't know how to write
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Cheating is possible in the abstract, but I found a tight correlation between interview and take-home performance. For whatever reason, candidates didn't seem to cheat much. The AI point is worth diving into a little. This was a year a
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by hansvm 7mo ago
> examples One such question (obviously tailored to the role I'm hiring for) is asking whether SoA or AoS inputs will yield a faster dot-product implementation and whether the answer changes for small vs large inputs, also asking wh
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by hansvm 7mo ago
It's been a year since I've actively given out take-homes for hiring, but I'm not sure I agree that everyone will use AI. I designed half the questions to be impossible for current-gen AI to answer without the candidate actua
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by hansvm 7mo ago
The last time I was hiring I gave out a take-home test, and I thought it was the opposite of an imposition on candidates' time. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts: - It was designed to be fast to complete (20min max -- not a hug
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by hansvm 7mo ago
It's been a non-issue for us at tvScientific. Once or twice a year you settle in for a mass refactor, and when that's done you move on with your day. Packages do fall behind. We only use a couple, so it's pretty easy to point
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by hansvm 7mo ago
It was almost certainly at least heavily edited with one. Ignoring the content, every single thing about the structure and style screams LLM.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
The beef is in the fries actually -- well, beef substitute -- they have a wheat-derived beef flavoring used to make the fries taste richer. The jury is still out on whatever is between the burger buns.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
That sounds like the same problem (a deluge of slop) with a different interface (eating straight from the trough rather than waiting for someone to put a bow on it and stamp their name to it)?
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by hansvm 8mo ago
CORS protects the browser's knowledge of a user on your website from other websites. It's a big failing of the protocol and/or communications about it that people think it offers any more security guarantees than that.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I really appreciate how out of all the security models they could've chosen, we ended up with the one which prevents you from writing better client-side frontends for incumbents or otherwise participating in a free and open ecosystem,
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by hansvm 8mo ago
Kind of. The thing making it illegal is that it's blocking traffic in the process (and potentially missing some visibility requirement or something; it's hard to tell from just the video).
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by hansvm 8mo ago
The training process differs, but the resulting model only differs in data rather than code -- you evaluate a bunch of trees and add them up. For better or for worse (usually for better), boosted decision trees work harder to optimize the t
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by hansvm 8mo ago
rm - between -i and -r this is just a less efficient way to search for porn reboot - you never know what the sysadmin might have loading on boot, unsafe as it could load porn echo - ASCII art would like to have a word kill - I know the US w
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I normally see that from engineers using "O(x)" as "approximately x" whenever it's clear from context that you're not actually talking about asymptomatic complexity.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I've observed the same behavior on AMD and Intel at $WORK. Our solution (ideal for us, reads happening roughly 1B times more often than writes) was to pessimize writes in favour of reads and add some per-thread state to prevent cache
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by hansvm 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150476
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I used git and appropriate sandboxing. It was fine. I just reset the sandbox and went on with my day. It still made that decision though, and we don't have git for people.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
It's been all of 3 days since Claude decided to delete a large chunk of my codebase as part of implementing a feature (couldn't get it to work, so it deleted everything triggering errors). I think Anthropic is right to hold the li
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by hansvm 8mo ago
This time last year they could definitely write compilable source code for a compiler for a toy language if you bootstrapped the implementation. If you, e.g., had it write an interpreter and use the source code as a comptime argument (I use
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by hansvm 8mo ago
Part of the problem is setting up a login system relying on a complicated network of unreliable mail providers (or SMS or any other poison du jour) in the critical path. That's asking for trouble even when everything on your end is don

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