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by hliyan 3y ago
I call this "quality momentum". A leader can come in, look at whatever "engine" that drives quality, decide it's not essential, remove it entirely, and coast on the momentum of previous quality practices for years b
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by hliyan 3y ago
Why is this so easy to read compared to React? https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/blob/master/src/UI/PuterDi...
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by hliyan 3y ago
Addendum: never forget Amdahl's Law. And never forget Knuth's full quote: “Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at eff
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by hliyan 3y ago
Former HFT dev here. Know fundamentals: sources of performance issues = things that eat/waste CPU cycles, things that reach too far down the memory hierarchy. Usually the latter. E.g. L2 cache to RAM - order of magnitude slower; RAM to
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by hliyan 3y ago
On a related note, I wish more ecommerce apps would do english text dumps, rather than fancy 2 dimensional multi-coloured UIs where I need to remember where the date, order number, etc. are. E.g. You ordered a Pepperoni Pizza from Piz
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by hliyan 3y ago
I just say, "You make an interesting point. Let me think about it and get back to you / This requires thought." And then I do.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Remarkable -- doesn't just work for tech topics: https://explorer.globe.engineer/?q=dna+transcription The speed at which the text parts load is also impressive
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Reddit is going public and inviting power users to invest(theverge.com)
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Why did Company build 7 of the same product that all failed?(twitter.com)
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The Oversight Board Expands to Threads(oversightboard.com)
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by hliyan 3y ago
There's an old IEEE article about the billions of dollars lost due to software project failures: https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-software-fails We don't hear of such failures any more because software projects (or p
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've written this comment before: in 2007, there was a period where I used to run an entire day's worth of trade reconciliations of one of the US's primary stock exchanges on my laptop (I was on-site engineer). It was a Perl
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by hliyan 3y ago
I've been struggling with this idea myself, but along these lines: 1. All events we know of are either caused by other preceding events, or are random. 2. One could reasonably claim that all events can ultimately be traced through th
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by hliyan 3y ago
Or rather, run a cosine similarity search on a large data set that won't fit in the prompt, find only the bits that are relevant to the query, and put that in the prompt.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I think the silver lining here is that AI will force people back into the real world because a face-to-face meeting will ultimately be the only way you can be certain that you're speaking to a human being. That's not the worst thi
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by hliyan 3y ago
That actually sounds like a remarkably elegant way to do it. We'll never know what the second order consequences could be until we try it. But I doubt they'll be as bad as what we're experiencing now.
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by hliyan 3y ago
Either the fines need to be high enough until there is a material impact to shareholders, or natural persons who make decisions within the corporation needs to be held accountable (not just the legal person), OR, we need to fundamentally re
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by hliyan 3y ago
I don't know much about the subject matter, but the minimalist website is so refreshing. The content is front and center, unvarnished and not occluded by various UI bells and whistles. I miss this version of the web. Navigating between
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Fake video generated using HeyGen and 30 seconds of sample footage(twitter.com)
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by hliyan 3y ago
Causal shielding feels like a better term in this case
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by hliyan 3y ago
I'm fairly certain that neither XXX movie franchise nor the XXXX beer are as popular as these views would suggest.
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by hliyan 3y ago
I used to drive a Nissan Juke that I felt had the best of both worlds: a regular screen with a physical dial and buttons that change function based on the context displayed on screen (e.g. AC, drive mode). The buttons even had little screen
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by hliyan 3y ago
Every business should be able to service their customers in human-to-human interactions. "We're too big to have humans speak to our human customers" is becoming normalised and that's a trend we need to reverse. Growing r
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by hliyan 3y ago
I think more people talking about it publicly on social media will do. Today, social media seems to drive at least some part of traditional media coverage, and traditional media coverage at least in part drives political debate and at least
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by hliyan 3y ago
> The entire purpose of starting a company is to get acquired The entire purpose of starting a company is to make a profit by delivering a product or service that the market will willingly buy. The operative word there is "profit&qu
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by hliyan 3y ago
Public approval like this is a good signal to send to the regulators (and disapproval when they fail to do their job) -- it helps counterbalance the pressure from lobbyists and politicians aligned with industries.
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by hliyan 3y ago
It might be far more effective to capture subvocalisations using surface electrodes and then running those signals through machine learning: https://annals-csis.org/Volume_11/drp/pdf/153.pdf
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The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germany (2019)(newyorker.com)
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by hliyan 3y ago
Nice touch in the HN bio! > RSS is alive https://paul.kinlan.me/index.xml
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by hliyan 3y ago
The web seems to be becoming paradoxically less and less machine/automation friendly. I recently had to modify 150+ accounts in a Google Workspace. Twenty years ago, I would be doing this in a Unix environment with a very simple shell

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