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aprilthird2021··on A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Why do so many people in this forum not understand the article. He is not literally inventing work. He is finding out what work needs to be done by reading the signals. Users and customers don't often know or care about the requirements of your system (are users and customers going to tell Facebook what it needs technically to handle a surge in users for its new AI that gives everyone on Earth a private VM to mess around in?). That's why you hire engineers. To figure out what needs to be done to keep serving the product, which is what users actually care about.
aprilthird2021··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
You're insinuating a lot here. Pakistan helped tremendously with the wars we were in in the Middle East. The govt did not partake in hiding Bin Laden, he was in an air gapped room in a secure compound and never ever went outside. It's pretty hard to find someone hiding like that. The US govt also did their own investigations and found the govt there did not take part in hiding him. He was hidden by sympathizers in the country
aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
But even those temporary seasonal workers are in lower supply now bc the money doesn't outweigh potentially getting detained in a migrant detention camp or worse
aprilthird2021··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Not Dehli but Tier 2 city. Yeah power cuts were very frequent, even multiple times a day (but usually once)
aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Higher wages means higher prices. At a certain point your price is uncompetitive with imports. You can use tariffs to protect a local product against an imported one, but that would require a competent leader who doesn't get emotional and declare a war (bomb-based or trade-based) when his feelings are hurt
aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I was told if we kill people in the streets and create concentration camps to put everyone suspected of being an immigrant in (even if they have legal papers, bc hey those can be fake who knows when your Prez thinks voting is fake) and send every immigrant back then Americans would be wealthy and prosperous and you're saying that's not the case in a country that's had extremely low unemployment for almost 15 straight years (excepting COVID)?
aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
> there's talk that the new generation understands that alcohol is bad for your health, so they are stopping, but the reality is that we've known about alcohol's issues forever, yet people have not stopped. No way this will last.

I never understood this logic. It can absolutely change. Tastes and habits do change in society sometimes forever. Just because people did a thing a long time ago and a tradition has lasted for thousands of years doesn't mean it will continue.

aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
You're right, but the idea that "Oh I'm not drinking it's just not healthy" is more common among younger people I've noticed than it was around people who were older when I was very young. I meet many young people whose main two activities are overworking and overly gymming/fitness activities. Such people drink a lot less than normal.
aprilthird2021··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
No
aprilthird2021··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Before the War on Iran gas was equivalently priced to electricity in parts of California, like where I live, so a hybrid made more sense then. Especially as they are usually far cheaper than all electric vehicles
aprilthird2021··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
The kids only know each other as commenters on a video podcast which just stitched together trending TikTok videos. Since the only consumers of such content are kids whose parents ban them from social media, they got to know each other in that podcast's comments. When the podcast was taken down the kids, who all add each other on Spotify, see the other playlists of the other kids (one named "Chat here") and they go to the podcast in that list and chat there.
aprilthird2021··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Trump will pull his favorite move a fake promise of cold hard cash to vote for his preferred candidate bc he's the least America First president there ever was
aprilthird2021··on OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
They did not fabricate research or get caught burying their involvement in fabrication. That's not what your link says.

They are alleged to have funded research which one of their expert witnesses relied on. They may have other expert witnesses and their expert witness may rely on other research. And their funding of such research can also be above-board, after all it is not completely and totally different from paying an expert witness for his/her testimony. He may have many sources of funding apart from them as well.

Also all this behavior is alleged. It has not been proven and the judge hasn't ruled on this motion from OAI et. al. The judge may deny the motion still, making the accusations inconsequential

aprilthird2021··on One Month Without AI
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aprilthird2021··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
It definitely is. Go to any big tech company and they're worried about it
aprilthird2021··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
This isn't true. A lot of them are buying rare books or the only known copies of books, scanning them, then pulping the hard copy
aprilthird2021··on S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote
Proof for these stats? They contradict the article
aprilthird2021··on One Month Without AI
> with the right guideance, testing, framework

But you didn't write or read any of the tests so how do you know they are accurate?

aprilthird2021··on One Month Without AI
Be brave and post a GitHub of your code that you haven't written a lick of and haven't read.

EDIT: Come on? Won't post your code for everyone to see? Why not just put it all in a repo, client and server both?

EDIT 2: Amazing. If you punch in notes on the keyboard for like 10 seconds then click the keyboard-icon button on the bottom right the website crashes

EDIT 3: If you click the main CTA then click "Let's start" the website hangs and you need to manually refresh the page for the content to load

aprilthird2021··on S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote
London eliminated crime?

Doesn't seem like it: https://abcnews.com/International/report-london-safer-cctv-c...

aprilthird2021··on S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote
It boggles my mind that Dorsey is even welcome in the SF Dem Party space after he posted on Twitter that mass amounts of civilians in Gaza welcome being killed by missiles:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Daf9d_7mh22/?img_index=2

I know SF supervising has 0 to do with the Middle East. But if he thinks like this about groups he doesn't like, what about when one of his constituents is part of a group he doesn't like?

Also crazy that 2 of the 20-ish members were employees of Flock and allowed to vote on this

aprilthird2021··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
> Yes, and I'm arguing you can absolutely vibe code your way out of a corner you vibe coded your way into.

Problem is:

Eng 1 vibe codes team into a corner and forces Eng 2 and Eng 3 to either review a hideous amount of slop code or pretend they reviewed it.

Now who will vibe code the team out of the corner? Eng 1 is too lazy or at least doesn't know how to get out of the jam and Eng 2 and Eng 3 are not janitors to clean up after Eng 1 all the time.

You might say fire Eng 1, but by all tracked metrics he is a 10x engineer out producing everyone else!

aprilthird2021··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
I'm the opposite of an AI doomer but this is actually scary to me. Once knowledge is hollowed out like this how can we get it back?
aprilthird2021··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
The information density is a lot less for millions of yahoo groups. They are far more likely to cover the same topics and not have new information in them.

Books are more likely to be about a specific topic or story or time or setting and be more information dense

aprilthird2021··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
It's the FBI, the good ones were all fired for being woke and the new ones are loaded on whiskey all day
aprilthird2021··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
It's short for Kashyap
aprilthird2021··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Let's see in a year if they've been caught or dealt with? I have a feeling Patel is too loaded to even care about this
aprilthird2021··on Transit rewards
I don't really think it's about the data. I think by Occam's Razor, Waymo (owned by Google) just sees a way for them to put transit directions in Google Maps where the last mile of your trip is a Waymo. By subsidizing part of the transit cost and it all being on one credit card, in the future you could pay for a whole transit + taxi trip only once and not multiple times at each leg
aprilthird2021··on Transit rewards
Bc if they cement their status in people's minds as a last mile solution (there are other cheaper ones: bay wheels, lime scooters, etc.) that's an extra fare they didn't get before at a cheap customer acquisition cost ($3/ride)
aprilthird2021··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Sure but many many developers who are willing to outsource every modicum of thought and effort to AI don't care about design and maintainability. And the supposed "super intelligence" of AI gives them a cop out for that
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