t8sr · HackerTrans

há 2 mesesdiscuss

I’m really not a fan of the therapy speak and everyone trying to diagnose everyone. Historically, this kinda medicalization of everyone you disagree with has not led to good things.

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

Emphasis on global blocks. Meaning everywhere in the world.

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

I read the tweet twice and I don’t see any mention of free speech. What he’s describing, when you look past the rhetoric, sounds ridiculous: a single medium sized country is demanding power to institute global blocks of content on the internet? If that’s an accurate description, that’s deeply concerning for the long term viability of the internet.

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

Something about the way the author expresses himself (big words, “I am so smart”, flowery filler) makes me unsurprised he finds it hard to have satisfying conversations with people. If he talked to me like this IRL I wouldn’t be trying to have a deep conversation either, I’d just be looking for the exit.

Lacking a theory of mind for other people is not a sign of superiority.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Two things:

1. I basically agree with everything you say, I only think the limit should be ~50-100% higher. Not 10x, but 1.5-2x.

2. For some reason, concise writing is the hardest thing to teach and demand consistently. I think a part of is that people try to hide incompetence behind a word salad, but also I think non-native speakers use more words than they need. It gets to a point where you either have to become everyone's English teacher or accept some amount of word salad.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

No, I think a reasonable limit is around 100 with the mode being around 80. 50 is not a reasonable limit for a commit message in English.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Yeah, I specifically think 50 is too short. I am a big fan of brevity, but I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 100. Consider that all of these messages exceed the 50-character limit:

  [startup] Don't drop uid until all controller fds are open
  [bpf] Fix the exec exchange hitting verifier limit on Fedora
  [controller] Optimize partial policy updates with delta

They're as short (IMO) as can be without omitting useful information, but git says they're all illegal by some margin.

I agree on the value of concise writing and dislike word salads, but if you're a junior engineer, then I have maybe 1 hour with you per week and I probably shouldn't spend that time being your English teacher.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

I've worked with 5 different SCMs and I'm convinced that the reason why git repos often have such poor commit messages is because of the git commit style guide. So much of it only makes sense once you realize it's been optimized for like 5 of its original users reading it on 72 character terminal screens.

Asking people to fit a meaningful description of the change into 50 characters is silly, and it's IMO the reason why so many of them just write "fix bug" and call it a day.

Someone else has posted the Google guide for CL (change list) messages, but let me boost the signal: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-d...

This is, I believe, still the best guide out there. When I'm coaching juniors, I recommend this guide, over the opinionated and outdated git "best practices" and I think the results are much better.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

It surprises me how many people working as software engineers absolutely despise programming. Consider that if you must “grind” through leetcode questions, maybe you will be unhappy in the job itself. There are other roles, technical roles even, that don’t require algorithms. Why not pursue those?

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

My friend, it renders at 15 fps on a literal supercomputer. It takes 30 seconds to load. The time between clicking a button and something happening is measured in seconds. It may be successful, but it is not good.

The problem is that you’ve (and we all have) learned to accept absolute garbage. It’s clearly possible to do better, because smaller companies have managed to build well functioning software that exceeds the performance of Google’s slop by a factor of 50.

I’m not saying RETVRN to plain JS, but clearly the horrid performance of modern web apps has /something/ to do with the 2 frameworks they’re all built on.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Abstraction for its own sake, especially with js frameworks, doesn't make anything more readable or maintainable. React apps are some of the most spaghetti style software I've ever seen, and it takes like 10 steps to find the code actually implementing business logic.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

The problem with React apologetics is that you need to only take a cursory look at literally every production app written in React to see it's terrible and must be abandoned in the long-term.

To see how fast a properly engineered app can be if it avoids using shitty js frameworks just look at fastmail. The comparison with gmail is almost comical: every UI element responds immediately, where gmail renders at 5 fps.

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

1. Your argument is about the grammar of a sentence about black holes on Wikipedia? This isn’t some kind of gotcha.

2. I missed the dwarf part, but think about what you’re arguing: the mass range of a loosely defined category (the lower bound of a few thousands is not one I’ve ever heard, btw) that has nothing to do with the paper in question. Collections of stars of any kind produce light. This doesn’t. What are you saying?

What do you think physicists do all day?

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

I’m admittedly a few years out of date in this, but weren’t those already kinda ruled out? I’ve never met anyone who took MOND seriously - it looks like it’s a pet project of a small number of people who cite each other, and people in different subfields have always been saying it doesn’t work for them (diffuse galaxies, etc.).

I know the current models favor cold DM, I thought the hot DM model was abandoned already when it became clear that clusters of any size exist?

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

Berlin’s tech industry is to Zurich and London as Berlin’s art scene is to New York or Paris.

And yes, Switzerland, but especially Zurich, is on another level compared to the rest of Europe. (Except maybe London.) I’ve been a hiring manager at multiple large tech companies: Europe in general has less tech talent than the US, but in London and Zurich you can fill any role, from kernel, through ML, computer vision, hardware, manufacturing, robots, quantum computing, etc.

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

I’ve done hiring in tech, and the availability of broad spectrum talent in Europe really only exists in London and Zurich. There are hubs for different fields, but only those two places have everything, IME.

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

Definitionally, yes. It’s inert but lenses light around it.

The paper is more about the technical achievement of detecting it, IIUC. It’s not the first dark matter inference we’ve had, and doesn’t really tell us anything new about the stuff.

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

(I’m an astrophysics undergrad.) Black holes aren’t composed of anything, they’re just defined by their charge, spin and mass equivalent.

Dust clouds have those mass ranges. It’s not a galaxy-scale mass by any measure.

This thread has a lot of CS people being confident about physics.

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

Name one other place on the continent that has:

1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company

2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice

3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering position

4) A funnel from a big engineering university to the industry that generates startups

5) Tax authorities willing to work through complicated situations like acquihires, IP riders in contracts for a consideration in the form of stock, etc.

It’s much smaller than the Bay Area, of course, but it’s the only place in Europe that has everything you need in one spot. (Except maybe London, but that’s more like the New York of Europe, minus the high salaries.)

Also, “IT hub” is a place where salaries are low and you plop down a call center. IT are the support roles that install antivirus, not a profit center. There’s a huge difference between that and a “tech industry.”

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

Zurich and its environs are basically the Bay Area of Europe. Probably explains the huge concentration of HN users.

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