I would recommend trying. I once quit HN for six months after a particularly nasty comment exchange, and I think I was the better for it. But one day I came back, and… well, old habits die hard.
Haha… “streaming services were supposed to end piracy”. Only in ways that they care about. Musicians are dead last on the priority list of streaming services.
Seymour Cray used to say this all the way back in the 1970s: his biggest problems were associated with dissipating heat. For the Cray 2 he took an even more dramatic approach: "The Cray-2's unusual cooling scheme immersed dense stacks of circuit boards in a special non-conductive liquid called Fluorinert™" (https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10...)
The digital half of class is available via extension (which is how I did it) although it moves at half speed. And for some reason the analog portion hasn’t been offered for a couple of years.
I took a class where we used Learning the Art of Electronics (with AoE as a reference), and that book was also excellent. Class was taught by a former student of Horowitz and Hill, and one week the OG did the guest lecture! Unforgettable.
I'm ignorant of this space, but it seems like the obvious solution for heat dissipation is to layer lattices and not solid layers, in order to increase the overall surface area of the chip. I assume the manufacturing is too difficult...?
I think we have been far too complacent as a society in tolerating these kinds of assaults on the backbone of our civilization. I would hope the perpetrators are being… dealt with.
The US has developed a strong culture of believing that government is always the problem and government workers are always lazy and overpaid. And so cutting funding to these kinds of services becomes an easy sell. The problem is our society depends on these government employees. It’s no different than nursing, teaching, and many other professions - disparage it enough and eventually you’ll succeed in making no one interested.
Agree. At this point the JVM ecosystem is pretty mature. Complaining about it is a bit like complaining about Unix. The question isn't whether or not it's good compared to an ideal; the question is whether or not it's good compared to existing alternatives.
My first paying job! At least for the relatively simple problems for which I was using it (rating auto insurance premiums by insurer and by state), it was a very nice environment.
This is an interesting story and was worth reporting, but I don’t believe it changes the fact that Altman is uniquely qualified to lead OpenAI. I am, however, disappointed to see that an organization that at first espoused the ideal of careful, responsible development of AI seems to has decided to go full throttle no matter what. I’m very sad the board tried to exercise their authority in such an amateurish, hamfisted way. They overplayed their hand, and now we’ll all just have to hope that everyone at OpenAI chooses to keep ethical considerations in mind.
Chomsky takes as axiomatic that there is some magical element of human cognition beyond simply stringing words together. We not be as special as we like to believe.
Thank you - this is one of the few reasonable takes I've seen on this whole mess. There is literally nothing Altman could have done that would justify the board having handled the situation in this way, and it makes them look grossly incompetent. Even if Altman had been engaged in some kind of criminal act, this is not the way in which you proceed. And regardless of whatever corporate structures you have in place, it is the height of naivete to think you can ignore the concerns of people who have written you a $10B check.
I do think this is a shame, because the structure had the potential to allow altruistic people to maintain some kind of governor on the commercial growth engine, but now that will be gone.
The worldwide jobs program that is modern-day Javascript would have you believe that elaborate front-ends are necessary to give end users the experiences they expect, which is an utter pile of lies. What users want is something simple that works.
Great list that I wish we all would consider more seriously. Version two should edit the list down to core ideas to avoid repetition, and suggest some ways to address one or more of the items.
Another example of: you can’t manage what you can’t measure, but be careful what you measure because that’s what you get. Alternately: measuring cost is easy, measuring value is hard. So we don’t hire another dev because that’s expensive, whereas I don’t see all the time wasted by the people I already employ. Having said all that, it’s a hard problem, and I’m not sure what general advice can be applied.
The responses here are giving me some hope. I’ve just had many experiences as a customer where products I’ve used became worse (or were shut down) after their companies were acquired
Oh no you are right! My mistake - my first “real” programming job was at a game studio in 1997, and I devoured both of these books (well, and more, including Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden). Great books.
Good point. I only have my own anecdata and that of friends; it would be nice to see some real stats. Of course, even if Amazon has that data, they would be unlikely to share!
That’s a fair point. I would say the agreement that has been broken is an implicit social contract (in the sense of Rousseau) that people should share the burdens of society to make society function, and that individuals should do the work that would most appropriately be their responsibility.
I didn’t think so, but it’s the text I used as an undergrad, so I don’t have a basis for comparison. I just have seen that criticism pop up on HN when this topic has arisen in the past.