The author is thinking of updating the book to a second edition as well. Looking forward to it
noice
Readit Newsahel commented on Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct bitbashing.io/haskell-con... · Posted by u/ingve
What do you mean? Excessive profit or _any_ profit? Haha. You'd prefer it people made things and just broke even?
I think I would like to be able to answer the following two questions:
1. what percentage of this object price is net profit? 2. is that percentage a "fair" proportion?
but atm, I don't have a "scientific" way to respond to those questions so I usually go with my gut, or do whatever other people in my circle do (which is not ideal and I'd like to change)
> curious about the risk of a "at cost" replacement
You can't tell consumers the raw manufacturing cost because people act weird when they are told it: they usually assume the "markup" is profits. They assume that they're getting ripped off because most people don't understand development costs or overheads and they always argue that any profit is too much. This problem can't be fixed.
Apart from the risk of scammers buying a watch to sell, saying it is broken, getting a replacement at cost and the scammer steals the markup/profit.
You can maybe think of ways to make it work, but they are likely to have excessive support costs or other hidden costs for the manufacturer or consumer.
Hey, I completely agree and I also suffer from this same bias: it's ruining me from enjoying stuff that I would like to buy but in the end I just give up because it feels that any profit is a scam.
What kind of resource can I study for me to understand and accept other people making profits?
ahel commented on The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was alexkolchinski.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/kolchinski
Sold for what though? Dollars of course. But why not just print more dollars in the first place? Gold could be used to make payments directly and I don't see that happening with BTC.
This argument still makes no sense, what am I missing.
sold for whatever you want.
Supposing the other party wants BTC (wild assumption) and you want 1Mton of lead, I guess the exchange would happen.
ahel commented on Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice? · Posted by u/NewUser76312
Google verifies with a third-party background check service, but the service fucked up my resume. I had an employer that had since gone bankrupt (actually, all my employers besides Google have since gone bankrupt), and they couldn't find the business, so they just did the closest string match to the business name, which happened to be a local grocery store whose name was one letter off. Sure enough, I come back as never having worked there, because that's not the company I wrote on my resume, doofus.
It ended up working out because I had previously worked at Google and my former skip-level, who knew me personally, was now the SVP signing my offer letter. But if the hiring process is this incompetent, it makes me wonder how many other people have real career consequences because background check services are lazy and incompetent.
welcome to the real world where no one does a good job and everyone is more or less impacted.
ahel commented on Software development topics I've changed my mind on chriskiehl.com/article/th... · Posted by u/belter
There's another way to look at this: if you consider the school of thought that says that the code is the design, and compilation is the construction process, then stressing over code style is equivalent to stressing over the formatting and conventions of the blueprint (to use a civil engineering metaphor), instead of stressing over load bearing, material costs and utility of the space.
I'm fond of saying that anything that doesn't survive the compilation process is not design but code organization. Design would be: which data structures to use (list, map, array etc.), which data to keep in memory, which data to load/save and when, which algorithms to use, how to handle concurrency etc. Keeping the code organized is useful and is a part of basic hygiene, but it's far from the defining characteristic of the craft.
Thanks for writing this.
It makes me question if I'm too much concerned with code hygiene vs my coworkers.
Why Meta decided to open source their Llama architecture and complete models?
From a strategic business perspective, I'm trying to puzzle why they would give that up, a competitive advantage (even though it might not be as good as OpenAI product), rather than directly competing with OpenAI. What's the reasoning behind this decision?
ahel commented on Alignment faking in large language models anthropic.com/research/al... · Posted by u/adultorata
IF one maintains a clear understanding of how the technology actually works, THEN one will make good decisions about whether to put it charge of the lawnmower in the first place.
Anthropic is in the business of selling AI. Of course they are going to approach alignment as a necessary and solvable problem. The rest of us don’t have to go along with that, though.
Why is it even necessary to use an LLM to mow a lawn? There is more to AI than generative LLMs.
LOL
smart fridge anyone?
ahel commented on Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns theregister.com/2023/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
At least in EU that clause is not binding, if you sign the handbook (or a contract) agreeing to it, that doesn't give the employer permission to do it - there are multiple precedents with GDPR fines for employee monitoring despite doing what you proposed.
Putting it in your employee handbook means acknowledging (in writing) that you have an illegal, prohibited policy, and getting employees to agree to it doesn't make it permitted.
I hope so, even though I don't think I'll ever feel the need to perish on that hill, just to check if it's actually true.
Here's my signature.
Such a manager is extremely rare.
Most will be oblivious to their own biases and cognitive short-comings.
I don't think most "bad managers," even know that they're bad at their job. There's no accountability, no metrics, no performance reviews, no studies on their productivity... mostly because their "job" is to be the proxy for the power of the shareholders.
I applaud anyone who finds themselves an engineering manager and wants to be good at what they do and work for their team. It's hard to find a good manager.
But the only recourse for an IC under a bad manager is to quit or find another team to work on.
Agree but nothing easy about that.