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Why are AI researchers constantly handicapping everything they do under the guise of ""safety""? It's a bag of data and some math algorithms that generate text....

Can't read the full article due to paywall but ostensibly it's due to bias rules on race and not visa rules? Sounds like visas being abused and then backstopped by unrelated rules …

You joke but I have seen this far too many times... in very highly valued startups... 100% line coverage though!

Not really. Do you think that this is trivial at AWS scale? What do you do when people hit their hard spend limits, start shutting down their EC2 instances and deleting their data?…

Can start with the number of unicorns in USA vs Europe, especially when you take population in to account https://www.failory.com/unicorns

If you can’t afford to pay the current employees that raise, you certainly can’t afford new people - the market rate is the market rate.

The best way to do this is message passing. My current way of doing it is using Aeron[0] + SBE[1] to pass messages very efficiently between "services" - you can then configure it t…

Part of test-driven design is using the tests to drive out a sensible and easy to use interface for the system under test, and to make it testable from the get-go (not too much non…

I did some research in to this this year in the context of maybe trying to start a business to solve this - and this was the conclusion I came to. There’s lots of threads here on H…

> There are many instances I've encountered where two pieces of code coincided to look similar at a certain point in time. As the codebase evolved, so did the two pieces of code, t…

Learning to program does not equate to learning to architect and evolve over many years a non-trivial system, operate it, document it, train others on it, scale it, etc. - “unmotiv…

The difference is that nobody has to actually accept updates that the core team make - and this has happened a few times, resulting in forks, although those cases were for things t…

> Even if this leads to humourously Java-esque code, it's worth it Some people seem to get mad about the verbose naming common in Java - but it’s one of the biggest blessings I’ve …

Then the price has to go up. This sounds like… regular market dynamics? It’s still not clear why that’s a crisis?

Works absolutely fine with git, you just have to take the time to keep the pre-commit checks reasonably quick

> Should Microsoft be forced to rename itself to Microsoftandhard because they make hardware? I and I suspect many others would not be averse to this

> and what everyone wanted most was a stable relationship, a job they enjoyed and to be able to afford a modest house. > It's reassuring that in a seemingly insane world, the kids …

> spend 4 hours putting a webflow site on top of GPT APIs GPT _is_ AI though, no? I would think that this would count. Might violate "a re you exaggerating what your AI product can…

You still have to do all that with cloud though - instead of firewalls and IP tables it’s VPCs, IAM, security groups, auto scaling groups, etc etc. The reason I think it’s still pr…

that's actually a very interesting idea. you could probably generate a proto schema from your edgedb schema...

> What I want is a new database that defines tables in terms of rich structures like proto, like Spanner. Do you mean like https://www.edgedb.com/ ? Or something more... rich?

> Does this mean we could fragment an application into, say, a low-level "engine" or "kernel" in C or Rust, an application server to handle requests to it, and the view be any of a…