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They do not call attention to this aspect of their new company, but it is implicit in their business model: https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 In short, they a…

Do you believe that securing cyberspace is problematic solely because it has military implications? I mean, everything has military implications. That fact doesn't imply, however, …

Note that Jeff and crew have cleverly structured their company to avoid problematic uses of AI (e.g., weapons or tracking humans). I suspect that many top researchers will want to …

This is great feedback. Thanks! Let me provide some additional context. Maybe it will change your mind about some of these examples? But just to be clear, I think all of your takes…

Thanks for your feedback. I am not sure Mr. Martin agrees with me, however. To be frank, I don’t know how to interpret Martin’s advice. If his concern was, as you suggest, that com…

Thanks for your feedback. (I am the author of that article.) I was trying to argue that it’s the code’s job to communicate its authors’ intent for the code itself. To help me clari…

Mountain mints are also pollinated by beetles—and a bazillion other critters. They are extraordinary pollinator magnets. Beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitos (!), moths, butterfl…

Of late I have been reading the writings of some of the United States' founders. I am struck by how sophisticated they are compared to modern writing. Consider this portion of a le…

I'm not talking about using a walk as a way to avoid doing real work. I mean doing real work, putting your focus in it, while you walk for, say, at least twenty minutes to really g…

Counterpoint: I have been running Fedora Linux on multiple systems for about two decades, including on my daily drivers, and it's been pretty much solid.

Here's something that worked for me: put your phone in your pocket and go on a design walk . While walking, design the next step in whatever you're working on. Design walks work gr…

I don't believe the GP is claiming that the idea of human rights is itself rubbish. Rather, the GP is claiming that what is rubbish is the practice of veering into the topic of hum…

Until you replace it with "1" because your title is too long for HN to accept as is.

For me, it maps to pandemic, which was midway through my time at GOOG. That's when the COVID-sparked Zero Interest Rate Policy caused the company to hire engineers and PMs like cra…

Are there any risks associated with NAC supplementation? For example, could long-term usage reduce aptosis and thereby increase risks of developing cancer?

But five years ago they had a stronger engineering culture. The old values were rapidly eroding, but some still held.

I think it’s important to acknowledge that today U.S. citizens in the bottom economic decile live longer lives and do so with more comfort and convenience than even the wealthiest …

Why do we have legislated cliffs instead of gradients? Because approximately nobody understands lerp. And linear interpolation is the simplest (nontrivial) gradient scheme. Consequ…

> You can't unit test for taste if you haven't written down what you mean by taste. If you can externalize it, then you can. I'm not so sure. For instance, you can write down what …

Nifty! What motivated you to create these tools?

Yes, you are technically correct (the best kind), but when s is much smaller than g , then s /( s + g ) and s / g are approximately equal.

Yeah, this is a promising solution to scalping. Previously, if you had only small numbers of consoles available at launch, scalpers and their bots would claim a large share of them…