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Oh this is very nice, I think it was stabilized since I wrote said code.

Yes, this is the case that I ran into as well. You have to zero memory before reading and/or have some crazy combination of tracking what’s uninitialized capacity or initialized le…

Uninitialized memory being UB isn’t an insane default imo (although it makes masked simd hard), nor is most UB. But the lack of escape hatches can be frustrating

I wish that there was a useful “freeze” intrinsic exposed, even if only for primitive types and not for generic user types, where the values of the frozen region become unspecified…

https://github.com/jax-ml/jax

True, we absolutely couldn’t allow a place that people can voluntarily participate in to say things to exist without a governing body deciding what is and isn’t allowed to be said

“Financial derivatives” and “downside is limited” should never appear in the same sentence without strong conditions on what sorts of derivatives/ combos of them

Jane Street is one of the slower market making firms and generates a significant share of revenue from being everywhere on everything (MUCH easier said than done). You want to trad…

People who don't want to X can always find a reason not to, for any given X. Somebody might even talk about how they want to do X, and go through many of the motions and preparatio…

How is > How do you justify using AI for your game art? I have thought about this, and couldn't justify it. I also know that I hold on to morals almost to a stubborn degree. differ…

People who have some understanding of study design and data collection would be in a much better spot to understand and interpret day-to-day news / “information flood” than those w…

This is not true, you can run non-send futures using Tokio: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/struct.LocalSet.html

I mean yeah that's the point I made? FWIW, trading firm noncompetes are almost always compensated with the base salary and they're still blanket applied. A major contributor is tha…

> I feel like the solution is to force the company to pay full TC (average of previous years + inflation or something?) for the duration of the noncompete. It absolutely has to be …

Most tech work is not particularly novel at a technical level. Very few services have any sort of massive advantage in the technical IP. Some of them might have advantage in custom…

Lack of noncompetes is the reason that most trading firms have opened offices everywhere except SF

> So the solution is that employees should only be able to work for one employer in their career? Yes, I very definitely made this anything remotely resembling this argument in my …

Quant firms at least are one of the few places where noncompetes can make sense. It's an extremely IP sensitive industry with stupendously high pay where the employee is going to s…

It would probably be even worse today. Dynamically discovering ILP “just works” even as memory gets slower and slower and slower. A CPU today can execute hundreds of instructions a…

Beyond the fact that just telling people to do so is ineffective, my experience is that most people have a very poor idea of what is and isn't calorie dense (I've been there!), how…

Don't forget meaningful regulations and legal requirements placed upon these parties

Invisible can equally mean “actually invisible” but often means “we told the people shouting and screaming about this risk to shut up”

This is how most asset trading works, but outside of crypto these third parties are actually trustworthy

I know plenty of Jane Street (and other “prestigious” quant firm people). They’re generally smart, admittedly tend towards overachievers, and are otherwise relatively normal people…

The major hft firms do pay well but new grad pay is often inflated in a few ways - signing bonus is included in “total” as if it’s recurring, first-year guarantees/targets are trea…