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by hintymad 3y ago
Did you notice that most of the words, if not all, are based on Cantonese. Hence I was careful to say "mainland Chinese". The early immigrants were mostly from Guangdong and Fujian. They didn't translate their words but to us
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by hintymad 3y ago
Can someone help me understand the prof's logic? WFH has dropped to 28% from the early 60% this year, and then flattened. Why did the prof conclude that RTO is dead? Shouldn't the conclusion be that most of the people have returne
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by hintymad 3y ago
Yes, but I thought it was Japanese culture that drives such adoption. Otherwise, it’s hard to explain why English vocabulary does not include many modern Chinese words in similar fashion, but does include a number of Cantonese words.
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by hintymad 3y ago
One thing that Japanese did really well is keeping their language identity. In particular, they don’t translate their words. They give us gyoza instead of dumplings. They give us ramen instead of some lame-ass noodle. They give us Sudoku in
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by hintymad 3y ago
Toyota is amazing for making reliable cars but writing truly shitty code. IIRC, a lawsuit a few years ago about Toyota's faulty brake system revealed that Toyota engineers cramped tens of thousands of lines in a single file and the lin
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by hintymad 3y ago
He did an interview with the Acquired Podcast a few weeks ago. Sharp as a whip. I wish I could be like him when I get old.
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by hintymad 3y ago
I'd recommend it, but I wouldn't recommend reading it cover to cover. It really depends on what you need. Here is what I read selected chapters for: - For expanding my conceptual understanding of algorithms. I still remember the t
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by hintymad 3y ago
Does being fast beyond certain threshold really matter for a workflow engine, though, especially given that many workflows have long-running tasks? What I find matters is multi-tenancy. That is, can a workflow system support as many jobs as
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google One thing I find bizarre in Google is lack of accoun
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by hintymad 3y ago
I think the difference is this: if a tech exec thinks something is good for the humanity and releases it as a product, I can choose not to use it. On the other hand, if Toner kills OpenAI because she thinks AI is dangerous, I won't be
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by hintymad 3y ago
>Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that mission would be fulfilled. Doesn’t this sound like
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The Dream Keeper Initiative: How SF Defunded the Police for Racial Equity(dolorespark.pw)
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I would guess non-profit or not is not the key. The key, at least to an engineer like me, is whether I can do meaningful work with a reasonable package. The employees in OpenAI are creating history and building amazing career after all, whi
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by hintymad 3y ago
I doubt it's human ego but purely game play. The board directors knew they lost anyway, why would they cave and resign? They booted the CEO for their doomer ideology, right? So, they are the ethics guys and would it be better for them
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by hintymad 3y ago
Isn't what Mira and Ilya did was a classical "sitting on the fence" movement, which would be hated by both sides of any power struggle? It's kinda similar to Prigozhin stopped his coup right at the outskirt of Moscow.
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by hintymad 3y ago
It’s true that authZ requires a lot of customization. In my experience, though, authN is the harder one to implement when there is no existing infra to support it. How do we store and distribute credentials? How do we allow user-defined ide
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by hintymad 3y ago
How is this compared to Daniel Lemire's simdjson? https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
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by hintymad 3y ago
Carolin pleads guilty on multiple counts of charges, and per her words on the witness stand, her corporation with the AUSA would get her a letter to the judge from the AUSA that acknowledges her corporation.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Yeah, I remember that. It was appalling.
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Yeah. And I find it quite contemptuous for SBF to often use "Yup" instead of yes.
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And the AUSA rightly made crypto a non-issue. This is not about crypto but simple fraud. As a result, people who are not familiar with crypto can still easily understand the trial.
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I was reading the trial report by Inner City Press. The AUSAs were incredibly thorough and strategic. The evidences were air-tight, the cross-examination was masterfully controlled with precision and incisiveness, and of course the closing
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by hintymad 3y ago
Did Cloudflare share any information on how R2 is built? Like what kind of open source systems they use as the foundation or they built it from scratch?
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Maybe the next question is why software engineers earn so much and when this trend will plateau and then reverse.
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I'm not sure if this is avoidable in a big enough company when the density of talent keeps diluting. It looks the only exception is when the CEO was so strong that he hires only sharp managers, like in the early days of those explosive
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by hintymad 3y ago
Someone inside Amazon created a slack channel for employees to publish their compensation. The results are consistent: the longer a person stays with Amazon, the lower their compensation is compared to their peers, so much so that a L6 coul
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by hintymad 3y ago
The initial version of NYT article parroted Hamas' statement that "Israel Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital", and also used a stock photo that had nothing to do with the hospital. If this is not narrative, I don't what i
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by hintymad 3y ago
I really hope that we learn that narratives will sooner or later turn against us if we sacrifice truth for narratives. NYT and WaPo and what not may enjoy their "progressive" narratives now, but the party will not go on forever. T
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How can we explain that WaPo used the term "detained" to describe Hamas kidnapping children? I thought a published article would go through reviews by editors and fellow reporters? I'm not sure how that can be explained as &q
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Any early signs that the company was in trouble?

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