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eddd··on Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks
[SDA] Haha, are you kidding me? Golang is a million times better than C++! It's way more efficient and powerful, and it's so much easier to write clean and maintainable code. Plus, Golang has built-in concurrency support and garbage collection, which makes it much easier to write scalable and high-performance applications. C++ is just outdated and clunky, and nobody wants to deal with its ridiculous syntax and endless memory management issues. Golang is the future, my friend!
eddd··on Ask HN: Did improving conversation and listening skills win you anything big?
It won't "win" you anything. However, it gives you ability to convey your arguments more effectively and makes you a decent human being.
eddd··on Apple headset leak reveals new details and confirms earlier rumors
If true, it looks like the most un-apple product since iphone. It is probably years until they officially showcase this product. The potential backlash from the market is enormous.
eddd··on How to Calculate the Trappiest Openings in Chess Using Stats
Eric Rosen porn.
eddd··on Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
This article fails to mention how much waste got generated on the other end of the economy.

Poland generates much less green house gases now they It was back in the day (https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/poland-co2-emiss...).

Argument that we were too poor to generate waste somehow doesn't resonate with me. The amount of toxic pollution going to rivers and ground waters was much higher than developed countries.

Industrial sector got virtually no environmental oversight, all that mattered was to beat the west in the cold war.

eddd··on Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth
Do they want to "grow" or just want to deploy shiny projects that showed on HN last week?
eddd··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
Sure it will be kept separate.

In separate sql-like tables with a key to join on.

eddd··on Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds
you don't need many neurons to do MNIST.
eddd··on Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
Thanks!
eddd··on Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
I used to drink a lot of cool-aid from erlang. It is true, that they have got concurrency model right. They embraced actor model, messages between processies are copied over for a good reason, etc. However, I don't think it is enough to call it a day. Comparing to modern languages, erlang lacks a lot. Elixir is trying to fill those gaps, but how many layers of abstraction can you add to an ecosystem before it is unusable? With go and rust available, erlang/elixir looks like a very good tool but for a very limited pool of use cases - routing/filtering/messaging.
eddd··on Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
The fact that Rust and Python are quite high in the rankings, makes me hopeful about the future of programming again. The fact that remote work is not growing is a bit concerning, but if people from the valley want to overpay - it is none of my business. I hope eventually the market will correct it.
eddd··on Tech Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge, UK
Why would you chase people from Universities who have high salary expectations when you have the internet? It is beyond me. Developers storm remote positions, yet the industry is super slow with adoption.
eddd··on How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics
I kind of a hoped it'll end up a joke saying "Don't use mongo". Last time I used it was 2.4 and it was the worst db experience ever. Back then It was more sane to craft a solution with PG and HSTORE. Now, I think RedShift does the job, why would anyone use mongo on production for anything today?
eddd··on 'Unique' cannabis compound reverses brain aging in mice
To me THC helps to find relations between concepts. I can think of any problem from a completely different angle. But,

1. I have to take notes to be able to go back to the line of reasoning.

2. Almost all of the concepts are garbage, but the remaining ones, are the best I've ever had.

So, THC helps to start with an idea, but delivering value from that idea requires being sober.

eddd··on Ask HN: What is your comfort book?
Wiedźmin (The Witcher)
eddd··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
I wouldn't blame Google for this. It's sole purpose is to make money. So they make money wherever they can.

People voted for a government that bombs other people, that's a consequence.

eddd··on AI winter is well on its way
As a beginner in deep learning space, I am a bit baffled about the case "You need a lot of computational power". Good models learn fast, so if potential model looks promising on local machine, one can do training on gcloud for 100$ on high end machines. Where am I wrong in this line of thinking?
eddd··on Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?
"Crime and Punishment", "Science of Evil", "Developers Hegemony".

Well, it's 3 - but it is a hard question.

eddd··on Ask HN: What's an (article|book|vid) that changed the way you view programming?
It is a good read, but for someone who already understands problems erlang solves - it is not for beginner.
eddd··on Ask HN: What's an (article|book|vid) that changed the way you view programming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
eddd··on Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed
Physicists work closely with philosophers for a reason. It's philosophers who are masters of such thought experiments.
eddd··on How to Write Dockerfiles for Python Web Apps
I am not currently running docker on prod (but I am about to) you Sir pointed me to a good direction. Thank you!
eddd··on How to Write Dockerfiles for Python Web Apps
I don't think alpine solves the process reaping problem. The only base image suitable for production I found so far is: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
eddd··on A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)
I wish someone said to me a year ago (when I started ML) clearly at the beginning: "Machine Learning is about MATH, deal with it".

It'd be much easier.

eddd··on JMESPath – A query language for JSON
How do this query language compares to jq?
eddd··on Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
I talked to a friend who is a part of R&D 5G team. He is completely terrified. Pointing a high energy stream of photons to peoples phones, creates a risk of signal interference resulting in burning people (yeah, lasers).

I don't know much about mobile tech, but when I heard that from a person who sits in the lab doing it, my feelings about 5G are a little mixed.

eddd··on Who Killed the Junior Developer?
First of all, absolutely no employer (at least the sane ones) cares if you are junior/senior/old/ninja or superman. The goal is, to hire people that generate a cash turnover. If you cannot deliver a value that the company can capture as a profit - you are denied. It is that simple.

Maybe these "Junior" people just don't know enough to be productive? How can I hire someone who will waste my time on explaining something that is so basic, one can learn by being involved in open source?

And here is the conclusion. Stuck in Junior limbo (what ever that means)? Commit to some open source project, show me value you can create. I guarantee you, you'll be hired.

eddd··on Stock market enters the correction territory
That's true. But Treasury issues bonds quite often, partially to cover interest on existing bonds. So, the day rates raise to high, treasury is insolvent.
eddd··on Stock market enters the correction territory
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/09/bond-market-i...

Sorry to leave you with a link, bed time ;)

eddd··on Stock market enters the correction territory
> No, because most government borrowing is not borrowing from the central bank.

To be precise, it almost always against the constitution. The problem is, the amount of money the government can borrow is tied to the money supply. If FED raised rates a couple percent, US would bankrupt in a few days after.

> Empirically, that has worked out rather well .

That's arguable, since we don't know what would happen if we didn't intervene with artificial interest rates.

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