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by rectang 2y ago
The C standard with its extensive undefined behavior causes programmers and compiler writers to be at odds. In a sane world, "undefined behavior" wouldn't be assumed to mean "the programmer must have meant for me to opt
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by rectang 2y ago
> undefined behavior gives the compiler leeway in deciding what a program does, so the more undefined behavior a C program invokes, the easier it is to translate its code to rust. That's the kind of language lawyer approach that c
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by rectang 2y ago
I have to imagine that in the general case it will be a translation to unsafe Rust, with occasional isolated leaf nodes being translated to safe Rust. If you think it's hard wrestling with the borrow checker, just imagine how much hard
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by rectang 2y ago
I really liked how jmac03 put things, and I don’t see the dogma you’re seeing — consider that it’s “struggles to test” not “impossible”. I don’t see any advocacy for ”dozens of files”, just breaking functionality down into “manageable chun
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by rectang 2y ago
To be cynical and uncharitable, in my experience non-engineering leadership tends to be receptive to the idea that engineers are by their nature wasteful and self indulgent, and saying “just don’t do that stuff for it’s own sake” reinforces
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by rectang 2y ago
For starters, the graph would have been easier to intuit if time had been on the usual horizontal axis. That would better illustrate the “point of diminishing returns”, which is the theme they’re trying to explore. By presenting it in thi
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by rectang 2y ago
This is exactly the analysis that is missing from the article and any facile, absolutist statement decrying “perfectionism”. Productivity is an optimization problem . There are tradeoffs which have to be managed. Depending on the contex
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by rectang 2y ago
I see no tools in this article for managers who wish to optimize the productivity of their team while taking into account the natural, unfortunate, human tendency towards perfectionism. It’s an unsophisticated and unrevealing analysis.
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by rectang 2y ago
Indeed. An article on “perfectionism” really needs to grapple with “good, fast, cheap: pick two”.
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by rectang 2y ago
Classic problem: management hits workers for “perfectionism”… and then hits them again when things aren’t perfect.
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by rectang 2y ago
Haha this is the second time my degree has come in handy after getting me a job in a record store after college. I’d say “music theory” as a general concept is closer to understanding computer science principles like managing complexity or
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Photos of your kids are being used to train AI and there's nothing you can do(thehill.com)
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by rectang 2y ago
> Those methods either give me a tiny slider that I can only use 10% of or about 15 steps where the jump from step 3 to step 4 takes the speakers from “a bit too quiet” to “definitely bothering the neighbors” levels. Volume controls ne
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by rectang 2y ago
Probably: The text was represented in UTF-8, the curly apostrophe (code point U+2019) was represented as the 3-byte sequence 0xE2 0x80 0x99. In buggy code, the individual bytes were then misinterpreted as code points U+00E2 "â", U
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by rectang 2y ago
Irrelevant to the article but 2014 is back in the era when we used to see even more of this: it canÃ¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½t be helped
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by rectang 2y ago
> Nobody is claiming they own the image when they don’t. An AI generated work may still be derivative enough to be judged as infringing by a court. AI is not a black box which magically performs copyright laundering.
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by rectang 2y ago
Getty will have to indemnify users against infringement claims in the event that the images it generates turn out to be based on unlicensed materials and judged as derivative by a court. So will all other AI companies eventually, it's
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by rectang 2y ago
I would not be fine with that, and I hope that you don't believe that it should be imposed on me.
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by rectang 2y ago
The NYT had another article a couple of days ago about Getty leveraging the images it owns to go into AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/technology/generative-ai-...
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by rectang 2y ago
Voices like those from Natives in Tech would just get downvoted to oblivion and greyed out, no matter how civil and guidelines-compliant. This is a place where the marginalized are erased. Think of engaging with HN as venturing into hostil
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by rectang 2y ago
It gains Native Americans agency when they are able to determine how their culture is portrayed and represented, rather than be told that they have no choice but to have bear the representation that is foisted on them. Self-determination do
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by rectang 2y ago
Just because the ASF's officers won't go to jail for changing the name doesn't mean there aren't any legal ramifications. Trademarks are a legal issue, for starters. Defending the Foundation's trademarks is a big
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by rectang 2y ago
Kudos to the critics for raising the issue, and to the Foundation for engaging with them. The changing of the convention name and the changing of the logo represent incremental progress. Changing the name of the Foundation may be challengi
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by rectang 2y ago
I’d go so far as to characterize HN as a hotbed for scientific racism. It’s an inevitable consequence of the guideline to “assume good faith”.
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by rectang 2y ago
> To be clear, as always, I am not defending the Tuskegee experiment, the people who did it, their views, or anything of the sort. But it looks to me as though you are tirelessly excusing the researchers and spending many hours startin
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by rectang 2y ago
Characterizing "rather low intelligence of the Negro population" (not educational attainment, but "intelligence") as "likely correct" is shocking. But it's also not an uncommon perspective on HN. Lots of
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by rectang 2y ago
> Buxton himself could be self-effacing about his actions, saying he did not anticipate the vitriolic reaction of some health officials when he started questioning the study’s ethics. Humans relentlessly believe themselves to be just a
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by rectang 2y ago
This is likely to be personal incompatibility with Roland’s style, but I’ve always found Roland user interface designs to be inscrutable banks of deep menus, arbitrary buttons, tiny screens, and “wizard” style branching between wholly dispa
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by rectang 2y ago
From the abstract: > This paper investigates cyber-physical attacks on avionics data buses, specifically focusing on the ARINC 429 protocol. The objective is to demonstrate how message injection, modification, and deletion attacks can
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by rectang 2y ago
This has an easy answer — it’s just not the one that people who desperately want to use LLMs for copyright washing want to hear. The test for what constitutes a derivative work has not changed; it’s the same whether a single human author pr

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