I knew some people who worked there, and one thing that was a red flag for me was just how much kool-aid everyone who joined on LinkedIn seemed to be drinking. It was like a Silicon Valley trope where people would write we’re gonna change the world! And then I looked up what the company did .. and I’m like logistics? Okay .. but basically I know startups are supposed to have charisma and all but it just seemed like too much. I’m trying not to become jaded and negative but I feel sadly that this is part of the rite of passage for software engineers, you join a hyper charismatic team and see hyper growth for a year or two, ride the high and then it falls apart and you have to figure out what you want to do next and how to avoid this the next time.
> It’s sad I can make this prediction about your opinion, but I’m assuming you are probably not an advocate of fracking or nuclear power or hydro. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Lol yeah you’re wrong. We’re on HN after all, everyone loves nuclear. Fracking is also horrible for the environment and for climate change. Most wells leak methane which is a 6x worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Hydro and nuclear are fantastic, although we’ve dammed most places we can in the US already. Anyway I’m against coal, the climate is a cost of coal, it isn’t cheap for society. I’m for investing in doubling the nuclear capacity of this country to eliminate coal completely. Or spend the trillion dollars we’ve dumped on wars to build a superconducting power grid and save the transmission waste. Also as others have said your argument is a ridiculous straw man. Nobody is talking about going back to the Stone Age. Just talking about how to build cleaner sources of energy. If the weather of the past year hasn’t convinced you of the necessity of this, I’m afraid for the future of the world.
In your equation above. The sun produces so much more ambient heat I imagine everything else is a rounding error. I highly doubt any number of fusion plants would affect global temperature.
I suppose I’ll bite here. We don’t need “fancy” energy production as Southern California and the Midwest becomes uninhabitable, you serious? Coal power should be dead in the water if it isn’t. It’s bad for workers, bad for the air we breathe, water we drink, bad for the people who live around plants. That has been well established. It actually kills more people than nuclear, solar and wind combined. There’s no redeeming quality to it other than being plentiful and cheap. It shouldn’t be cheap based on the externality of the destruction it causes here and around the world.
Nice way of deflecting blame there. Trump knew exactly what he was doing and he did it. He now got caught. It’s not like “hey nobody told me I couldn’t do this”, it’s why tf are you taking these documents sir. There’s no interpretation of reality which makes that an accident or oversight.
IMO FPGAs sound like they’d be good with extra flexibility but in practice ASICs are just better. Higher frequency, lower power and there just isn’t a way to make up for the frequency gap. You can quantize and do fancier stuff, but then you need to fine tune or train on your actual inference HW to ensure you’re actually correct. You can emulate your quantization scheme and train on GPUs, but then your GPU training will be slow af. Building a true model specific bitstream for an FPGA that is actually utilizing all of the resources of the FPGA is not simple, and even if you do, overcoming the frequency gap is hard.
At face value, all sides are not to blame. A president who lost the popular vote got to appoint THREE justices to this court and literally got a list of candidates from the religious right. This is the minority imposing their will on the majority, plain and simple.
It helps me to think about it in opposite terms. You're increasing the radius by ~1ft (radius around the whole earth), and 2pi is the linear relationship with circumference, so you'll get six ft. Thinking about it this way kind of ignores the fact the circle is huge. I'm not too visual of a person though.
This has been the absolute biggest surprise from me switching to MacOS after years in windows land. I can hit enter on my spotlight search results before they’re rendered and be confident. I don’t event need cmd+tab anymore. MS on the other hand STILL doesn’t have a search right, and they have a search engine. FYI this was a running joke at MS when I worked there, there is no search in any MS product that is functional. If you’re lucky you’ll get exact string matching, sometimes not even that?
I can tell you right now I have seen 3-4 principal “architects” who don’t know how to write simple tests and all of them were external hires. I absolutely respect any company that requires experienced hires to at a minimum understand how a hash table works. It’s embarrassing when a principal engineer can’t evaluate a simple design because they’ve been “leading” for the past few years. Finally I know at least one person who gets hired on at a principal level, immediately seeks out forward looking projects with no defined success criteria and leaves a year or two in, rinse and repeat at various companies. It’s a waste of a money (400k-500k/year) and a waste of everyone’s time who has to onboard him.
This right is here is someone on HN being the paragon of objectivity. How about taking the opposing argument in good faith? He didn’t even say anything about racism in the article and just gave evidence. The second someone mentions racism on HN this comment can be seen everywhere “wow and now X is racist?? So dumb!!” Relax it’s just the internet and try to learn something.
I tend to think the only sane path is a type error and anything else is arbitrary. It isn’t that hard to have converters which make sense in a standard library. isNone, isNil ..
After reading about stable coins they seem completely idiotic. I get the idea that pegging it to the dollar via arbitrage is great and all, but arbitrage only seems to work (like in ETFs for instance) when the underlying assets have value and high trade volume. Once trade volume goes down price stability goes out the window and you end up with this shitshow. Once that happens everyone leaves and the “value” is gone. It’s a death spiral waiting to happen.
It can end with whatever criteria you want. I think clearly a viral video with this behavior fits the definition of something that should be taken down. It’s a guy deliberately crashing a plane for views. It’s the same thing as not publishing a mass shooter’s name. I’m sure they’re written in books somewhere, but not everything is a slippery slope to PRC censorship. It’s the process of finding the blurry line.
I don’t know about you, but I imagine someone who after googling a couple questions about my field and holding up the results as fact would be pretty annoying to someone like me who has spent 6+ years studying said field. New ideas are great, but when the most basic knee-jerk ideas proposed without any self-doubt expect to be treated as well as replicated experiments, it’s nothing short of complete idiocy.
Not sure when you worked there, but I’ve seen that you have to enter a number that’s displayed on the device logging in, and the authenticator app shows the location of the device attempting to login as well.
Prices are a function of number of market participants and information of each participant. If insider trading is legal, fewer people will participate in the market because they will lose out due to information asymmetry and this will lead to pricing inefficiencies. What’s interesting is that what others are willing to pay is key public information as well.
I get anxious as well, not to the degree you do but I often need to take the rest of the day off after 1-2 interviews and have to prep the morning to help calm myself down. I usually run in the morning and eat a banana an hour before. The way I was able to get offers was practicing a lot. I did leetcode, mock interviews, and then real interviews to make them feel like just another meeting. Take interviews when recruiters offer them, convince yourself you don’t care, then do enough that you actually don’t care anymore. I did this last month and only interviewed with three companies. Another hint is interview with a different team at the same company even if you’re not completely sold on that team, getting the hang of a company’s interview culture is a superpower. Hope that helps.
For me it just wasn’t as bad as I thought. I do miss hanging out with my coworkers but now if we’re local we just hang out. Being able to commute from bed is just so much nicer. And also being able to take guilt free ad hoc breaks during the day is just unbeatable.
Yeah following this to its logical conclusion actually results in a pretty depressing outlook. I used to feel this way when I first graduated college, now I’ve learned that there can definitely be meaning in our experience. Also scientists don’t necessarily agree that heat death is inevitable, there’s still some debate. Basically I’ve become more of an optimist since and it’s made me feel a lot happier in general.
Reading about how they trimmed meetings and had everyone question where their time is going is like wow, they weren’t doing this before? We are so cult like in our commitment to 9-5 that we make useless meetings and have the default be an hour long? That’s another benefit of the four day work week, companies will find that people will get the exact same amount of work done in less time because 25% of the 40 hours were wasted anyway.
I work at MS not in gaming. I actually may be okay with this. I think Microsoft’s incentives are to grow gamepass subscriptions, which may work with this play anywhere mantra. I have my doubts that Xbox will not be seeing dollar signs though if they can make all of those exclusives. I think it depends on the relative size of Xbox users vs total video gamers.
Personally I think a video with drink acid in the title seems a little more dangerous than videos properly named with people pouring ice water on each other, especially for children.
I highly recommend reading the book “Sapiens” by Harari. The premise is that society is essentially collective psychosis. To me it’s on upper management to plan accordingly. If we are able ship products in the time allotted, the number of hours per day shouldn’t really matter right? Provided that it’s not burning people out.
I currently work at Microsoft, and all I can say is that I actually have so much respect for CEOs lately. It takes a huge amount of foresight and understanding of human nature to move a company this size in the right direction, because you’re trying to incentivize all these divisions to behave the way you intend. As I’ve become more experienced I’ve learned that company culture is way more important than I thought when I first graduated college.