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by proc0 3y ago
> Dropbox measures the success of its engineers largely on business impact. Why call them engineers? I understand this is standard in the industry but I'm a bit fed up with the confusing corporate vocabulary that has multiple loaded
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by proc0 3y ago
I doubt ChatGPT "believes" to begin with, not to mention the definition of consciousness has to be provided first (although there is an underlying implication of panpsychist theory). From what I understand GPTs are basically the &
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by proc0 3y ago
> In fact, we can be 100% certain that the 'human software' running on all the other cars on the road is not bug-free! The roads, traffic system, laws and institutions etc., have all been designed for humans, and have been cons
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by proc0 3y ago
I'd just like to point out one substantial difference. The autonomous part of the car is software so when if fails in a strange way that is also dangerous the natural question is how much is this going to happen across all the cars tha
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by proc0 3y ago
From what I recall, AGI was at first meant to be an intelligence on par with human intelligence in every way. It's supposed to do *at least* everything a human can. It seems as the recent wave of AI hit the public, the human component
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by proc0 3y ago
> and is it only a matter of interpretation whether every falling rock could be said to be computing consciousness? Here we are thinking how AI could be conscious and this person comes along and says "hold my beer".
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by proc0 3y ago
That specific line seems to conflating Silicon Valley with SF. They're close, but it's not the same, especially on this issue.
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by proc0 3y ago
> But San Francisco’s problems go far beyond drugs. The Bay Area is home to four of the 10 most valuable companies in the world — Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Meta — titanic producers of wealth, but a staggering one per cent of the city’s
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by proc0 3y ago
Of course, but that means (at least it should mean IMHO) that an engineer made a career switch into management, and those skills carry over and are valuable. I think when a company pushes their engineers to do more and more non-technical ta
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by proc0 3y ago
It seems that capitalism coincided with empires globalizing the world via colonization, and as such inherited imperialist "features" that are not necessarily tied to the idea of free markets and capital. Those companies that did h
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by proc0 3y ago
In my opinion this is a big reason software is so brittle, needs to be constantly patched and updated, and overall innovation in software moves very slowly. Having engineers do management work is undermining how hard engineering is -OR- und
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by proc0 3y ago
> So are we saying that software engineering can be at odds with your ability to write code? This is absolutely the case and my main struggle as a SE. In my opinion this is all arbitrary and companies could easily structure themselves to
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by proc0 3y ago
I see capitalism as the best solution so far to the greedy nature of humans. It doesn't solve for business owners constantly trying to squeeze the most out of workers like farmers and their livestock. There are definitely better soluti
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by proc0 3y ago
I'm not sure whether prioritizing profit above all else is necessarily part of capitalism. I can imagine a world where businesses have a different top priority. A business can still survive without cancer-like growth that reaches globa
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by proc0 3y ago
> I’m a big believer that people need to be more productive when they’re in person Yet compensation will not be proportional. Part of the reason WFH is good is because workers are getting some options. The evidence is simple, business ow
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by proc0 3y ago
Well, if we're to believe some of the recent reports posted on HN, the adult and elderly market for games is underserved. Many more people would play once companies start paying attention and realize the potential. I think of it like m
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by proc0 3y ago
No. The market still thinks games are for kids and young adults. Society still frowns upon games as a hobby past your teenage years. Regardless, video games are a medium of communication. First there were pictures, i.e. paintings, photograp
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by proc0 3y ago
> only to have someone defecate in front of the restaurant as he was walking in. ... He wasn’t aware of the incident of a business owner hosing down a homeless person and had to have the crowd explain it Did the crowd just side with defe
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by proc0 3y ago
Personally, I think they're both sub-optimal because it's not abstracting the arg. check all the way. I think code is easier to reason about if your functions return one data type... and although the examples are returning boolean
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by proc0 3y ago
It's the opposite for me, more focus, less food. I was already dressing casual so that wasn't an issue. No commute is definitely a plus. I think there is an element of creativity that isn't being catered to in most offices. W
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by proc0 3y ago
> And how do you manage to build those high level engineers if all we (as an industry) do is keep hiring from a small group? Right, scaling teams would be a problem. The alternative would be a company entirely led by engineers since mos
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by proc0 3y ago
If the title is software engineer, it is though. Solving business problems is not engineering. I get that at the end of the day it's about making money, but these expectations are not clear and the title ultimately reflects your expert
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by proc0 3y ago
Good points. It makes sense overall. I'm wondering if the perception is that high level engineering doesn't have as much business value as lower level engineering that allows teams to work in parallel. > Everything is just anot
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by proc0 3y ago
Excellent, thanks for the input.
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by proc0 3y ago
First, I love Always Sunny, so this is amazing. Second, could I get some perspectives on this: > While senior engineers are individual contributors; the best engineers’ best work is rarely code. Aside from technical non-code tasks, like
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by proc0 3y ago
I see people indoors with masks as well. The grocery store is about 20% people with masks. I guess if it has nothing to do with the pandemic, then there are a variety of reasons people do it now. I still think there is an element of the las
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by proc0 3y ago
Even indoors? I even see people driving alone and wearing them. I see so many I seriously doubt they are sick or have allergies. Maybe it's just an area with a lot of sick people, but if not, I'm amazed how much people don't
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by proc0 3y ago
I'm in the Stanford area and I see people still wearing masks outside every day. I think there should be a study of mental trauma if there hasn't been one already.
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by proc0 3y ago
> Sam Parnia at NYU Langone Health says the gamma wave surge might happen as people die because falling oxygen levels disable some natural “braking systems” on brain activity. Woah, they should study this in context of the practice of me
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by proc0 3y ago
Printing money to handout to people is not part of any free market theory I know about. Also buying banks with tax payer money to avoid their fall is also not part of any FREE market. When some business get saved but others are forced to cl

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