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by hintymad 3y ago
A side topic: how can a company find people like the author, who can really articulate how to build a system? I've been interviewing senior engineers for years, and more than 95% of them, if not more, are really box drawers. They throw
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Any de-facto service framework in Go to recommend, something like Dropwizard but supports both gRPC and HTTP APIs? Such framework should also has ready-to-use integrations things like metrics, logging, tracing and etc. And God please don&#x
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by hintymad 3y ago
> you can't just fire a huge portion of the staff Define huge? Tech companies increased their headcount between 2020 and 2022 by at least double-digit percentage, Amazon included. I'm not sure how many of them are essential in
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It should 3000 pages. I don’t know why I said 8000.
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Well, given the level of details in TAOCP, and the fact that Knuth wrote a 8000-page draft of TAOCP in a matter of a few months, Knuth is certainly capable of remember the 20 questions, if not more. Still, it's striking, nonetheless.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Now do SBF
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Curious, do we know how successful this author is? Normally who the author is does not matter to the quality of a book, but in this case, I assume we'd want to read about a top engineer's perspective on becoming a great engineer.
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by hintymad 3y ago
My archetypal staff engineer is Wernher von Braun, father of Saturn V. The quality he demonstrated: - Breaking ground. He turned a seemingly impossible idea into reality. - Getting substantial breakthrough in each iteration. - In
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by hintymad 3y ago
> It's such a scam to pretend that H1B workers are, on average, high performers in key positions. I don't think this is what OP meant. OP said "what if you have a H1B worker that's a high performer". This has not
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by hintymad 3y ago
In the US. For good or for bad, many engineers benefit from the explosive growth of IT industry that was fueled by both technology/product advancement and by years of low-interest financial policy.
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Any good source on talking about generate steady passive cash flow? I feel that many engineers are asset rich, but cash flow constraints. If such engineer quits their job, they would not be able to sustain their life style, especially when
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by hintymad 3y ago
I asked both Bard and GPT-4 to write a code that simulate a M/M/G queue with some simple additional information about request distributions. Bard generated an incorrect implementation with an infinitely loop and without using any
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by hintymad 3y ago
> They are doing things with $100 and 13B params Not that I disagree with the general belief that OSS community is catching up, but this specific data point is not as impactful as it sounds. Llama cannot be used for commercial purposes,
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by hintymad 4y ago
Nice. Years ago practical maths to my programming needs was Concrete Mathematics for algorithm analysis, combinatorics for data structures, queuing theory for performance analysis, mathematical stats for data analysis, and optimization theo
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by hintymad 4y ago
> important role people like Gebru played in extending the political and status of minorities is ok to extinguish? No, she didn't. Attacking everyone for baseless motives and identities is the worst kind of activism. She alienated
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by hintymad 4y ago
Yeah, Dean's fault is hiring such people in the first place. If you hire an activist, you get activism. And if you hire someone whose livelihood depends on finding more problems, well, they will scream more problems, one way or another
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by hintymad 4y ago
Controvery of what? Did you read Gebru's paper? For instance, her calculation of carbon footprint of training BERT assumes that companies will train BERT 24x7. Gebru is a disgrace to the community because she always, I mean literally a
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by hintymad 4y ago
> The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world The US used to the largest. I was wondering if we should stay the largest, and most importantly the best. Case in point, the average age of workers in our shipyard was more than 55
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by hintymad 4y ago
> non military manufacturing industry die Without a booming civil manufacturing industry, how could our military industry stay competitive? There was a reason that a toilet for Airforce would cost north of $20K.
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Consumer products mean low prices, the opposite of what America does well. This is actually sad. Ford could drive down the cost of automobile down to $4000 while its workers could earn $5 an hour. America used to be the industrial behe
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by hintymad 4y ago
Spy drone or not, why can’t US companies design and manufacture better products to compete with DJI?
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Stopped by whom? I'm not sure how "stop paying attention to the contents if you don't like them" can't work for us.
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Sounds like a death spiral? It's hard to see how IBM will continue to stay relevant in the years to come.
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Yes the team which literally created transformer and almost all the important open research including Bert, T5, imagen, RLHF, ViT don't have the ability to execute on AI /s Yet Google does not have a slam-dunk product despite
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Sundar, Jeff Dean, James Manyika, and I have built a fantastic partnership as we’ve worked to coordinate our efforts over recent mo We’re also creating a new Scientific Board for Google DeepMind to oversee research progress and directi
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Even if you only get paged once every few months, you still need to worry about getting paged until your shift is over! I'm not sure what you mean. A page every few months will be considered world-class achievement in a FAANG-like
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> Isn't a lot of this silliness due to them feeling like they needed to "poach" talented developers, so that the competion wouldn't get them People say this from time to time, but have we ever got evidence from any co
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by hintymad 4y ago
"E.ON Hikes Energy Prices 45% As Germany Winds Down Its Last Nuclear Plants". Note that the news title may intentionally muddy the water and I don't have enough knowledge to tell if the price hike and the shutdown of Germany&
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by hintymad 4y ago
> They should have tried to make a better desktop OS Wouldn't office suite be a better target? Everyone uses it. Lots of low hanging fruits. Easy to win the heart of geeks. Ample opportunities to integrate with other enterprise serv
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> In Ontario (Canada), schools are funded by the province. California too, yet California has one of the most corrupted education systems. Case in point, the Bay Area schools couldn’t even afford school buses

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