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by hliyan 1y ago
This is probably also evolutionary. Most species, once safe and sated, tend to calm down and relax, or even nap. But we humans suffer from boredom, which tend to agitate us into action even when there is no hunger or threat. Probably the ev
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by hliyan 1y ago
I have a personal theory (I'm sure it's not a novel one and it probably has a name) that human brains are naturally predisposed to negative thought than positive thought because our brains are essentially evolved prediction engine
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by hliyan 1y ago
This says "Think deeply upfront: Carefully design your core 'interview questions' to reflect what truly matters to you." Interestingly, recently I started journaling using a method that, in contrast to this, one might ca
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by hliyan 1y ago
At least a few of these anecdoates are worrying: > “At first they told [me]: ‘Don’t worry about time – it’s quality versus quantity,’” she said. > But before long, she was pulled up for taking too much time to complete her tasks. “I w
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by hliyan 1y ago
First attempt was not too bad: https://anycrap.shop/product/smartphone-with-rollup-physical... Later attempts did not bear fruit. https://anycrap.shop/product/transparent-handheld-screen-tha...
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by hliyan 1y ago
Changing the product line to fit the marketing narrative sounds like putting the cart before the horse.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Agreed. Conway's Law. Every time I ever fought that law, the law won.
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by hliyan 1y ago
I write a lot of code myself and am usually against indiscriminate use of JS (so much so that I now recommend old fashioned server side templates over SPAs unless there is a good reason). But for this comment, I was donning my other hat: th
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by hliyan 1y ago
Yes. That reminds me of another thing: no landing pages for each level of menu. If I go to Docs > Surveys, I can skip the overview and go directly to Features > Conditional questions. I dont' need to load an entire page with a gi
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by hliyan 1y ago
Why this feels so incredibly appealing compared to prevailing designs is probably something for a psychologist / cognitive scientist / neurologist (?) to answer -- there is certainly something here that warrants better study than
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by hliyan 1y ago
True, most people don't realize that a prompt is not an instruction. It is basically a sophisticated autocompletion seed.
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by hliyan 1y ago
This discussion is bringing back some memories. Particularly my first time using Wordstar 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
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by hliyan 1y ago
Somewhat ironic because this is the rant that Steve is famous for: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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Steve Yegge on writing a quarter million lines of code in six days using LLMs(twitter.com)
8 points by hliyan 1y ago|6 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
Shifting goalposts of AI aside, intelligence as a general faculty does not require sentience, consciousness, awareness, qualia, valence or any of the things traditionally associated with a high level of biological intelligence. But what it
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by hliyan 1y ago
Here's another example of what I mentioend in the grandparent post. Geopolitical misconceptions about West vs. China aside, the debt proportion held by China vs. ISB holders could have been easily looked up online.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Token, statement and block level annotations would actually be nice. Perhaps even nicer if those annotations could be structured data instead of just text. You could create a truly self-describing code base without having to worry too much
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by hliyan 1y ago
I don't know what the solution to this problem is, but I do remember a time (around 20 years ago) when this wasn't a big problem. Was working on a fairly large (each module between 50k - 100k LOC) C++ system. The process for using
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by hliyan 1y ago
Reminscient of Sri Lanka in 2022 (I was there). The lack of petrol and powercuts were the straw that broke the back of a camel that had been overburdend for several decades. Foreign "experts" and "analysts" trying to mak
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by hliyan 1y ago
Externalities can (and should) be priced in by taxes that offest negative externalities (e.g. carbon emissions, pollution). Unfortunately, legislative bodies that have to decide on taxes have a much cozier relationship with industry than th
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by hliyan 1y ago
Not seeing decorators in the JS version: export class SimpleGreeting extends LitElement { ... } customElements.define('simple-greeting', SimpleGreeting);
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by hliyan 1y ago
In early 2023, I remember someone breathlessly explaining that there are signs that LLMs that are seemingly good at chess/checkers moves may have a rudimentary model of the board within them, somehow magically encoded into the model we
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by hliyan 1y ago
I too, use -- as an em dash and it comes naturally.
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by hliyan 1y ago
I have a theory that it is a lack of artifacts/detail. Take most living or working environments from the present or past, and you'll see a lot of "things" adorning walls or placed on furniture, some accumulated over year
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Pad.ma: online archive of densely text-annotated video material(pad.ma)
3 points by hliyan 1y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 1y ago
If someone had told me 10 years ago that the typical HN front page in 2025 will look like this (and that #8 may be the UK), I'd never have believed it. And I worry we still have further to go before hitting bottom. 1. Anthropic reverse
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by hliyan 1y ago
Apparently atmospheric carbon capture + Fischer-Tropsch process currently produces gasoline that costs 100x the market price. So probably a long way to go before it's commercially viable.
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by hliyan 1y ago
On a somewhat related note, re-watching one of my favourite childhood TV shows (Mission: Impossible, the original series) now gives me several jaw-drop moments per episode -- each one involves a team illegally entering another country and c
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by hliyan 1y ago
Not sure why you'd take the leap from the idea of technical people managing technical people to "hiring peons who know less than me", that wasn't my intention. Also "as an engineer" was rhetorical -- I'm a
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by hliyan 1y ago
Funnily enough, I was using the word superlative more as an adjective, than the noun that refers to the part of grammer (adjective), if that makes sense.

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