Would that mean you have to undersee one or more people? cue rimshot
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shoo commented on Memory optimizations to reduce CPU costs ayende.com/blog/203011-A/... · Posted by u/jbjbjbjb
The given task can be accomplished with not more than a few kilobytes of RAM, a constant independent of the input and output sizes, but unfortunately I suspect the vast majority of programmers now have absolutely no idea how to do so.
i can see how it'd be possible to transform from the input tabular format to the json format, streaming record by record, using a small constant amount of memory, provided the size of input records was bounded independent of the record count. need to maintain position offset into the input across records, but that's about it
but, maybe we'd need to know more about how the output data is consumed to know if this would actually help much in the real application. if the next stage of processing wants to randomly access records using Get(int i), where i is the index of the item, then even if we transform the input to JSON with a constant amount of RAM, we still have to store this output JSON somewhere so we can Get those items.
the blog post mentioned "padding", i didn't immediately understand what that was referring to (padding in the output format?) but i guess it must be talking about struct padding, where the items were previously stored as an array of structs, while the code in the article transposed everything into homogeneous arrays, eliminating the overhead of padding
shoo commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
Did this a few years ago and made close to $350.
However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play.
I have two tips:
Sell hardware and then you can get real cash. For example, use the Steam Wallet balance to buy Steam Deck Docks which you ship directly from Steam to your customer on eBay.
Secondly, use Steam Economy Enhancer.
> However, if I reflect on how much time I spent in the game in order to receive that much money it's laughable as it was easily 2 thousand hours of game play.
but, you weren't playing the game as a job to make money, you were playing to have fun (hopefully?) so arguably the extra surprise money is a bonus.
for me, playing a game in order to make real world money would turn it into an awful grind and sap all the joy out of it
shoo commented on Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians blog.demofox.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ibobev
I can look around me and find the minimum of anything without tracing its surface and following the gradient. I can also identify immediately global minima instead of local ones.
We all can do it in 2-3D. But our algorithms don’t do it. Even in 2D.
Sure if I was blindfolded, feeling the surface and looking for minimization direction would be the way to go. But when I see, I don’t have to.
What are we missing?
Many practical optimisation problems are less like "let's go hiking and climb a literal hill which we can see in front of us" and more like "find the best design in this space of possible designs that maximises some objective"
Here are some alternative example problems, that are a lot more high dimensional, and also where the dimensions are not spatial dimensions so your eyes give you absolutely no benefit.
(a) Your objective is to find a recipe that produces a maximally tasty meal, using the ingredients you have in your kitchen cupboard. To sample one point in recipe-space, you need to (1) devise a recipe, (2) prep and cook a candidate meal following the recipe, and (3) evaluate the candidate recipe, say by serving it to a bunch of your friends and family. That gets you one sample point. Maybe there are 1 trillion possible "recipes" you could make. Are you going to brute-force cook and serve them all to find a meal that maximises tastiness, or is there a more efficient way that requires fewer plan recipe->prep&cook->serve->evaluate cycles?
(b) Your objective is to find the most efficient design of a bridge, that can support the required load and stresses, while minimising the construction cost.
shoo commented on Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma cfr.org/blog/time-end-rou... · Posted by u/luu
Corporate taxes are blunt instruments. They preferentially hurt workers. The C-suite decides how higher corporate taxes affect the company, and it’s not by lowering the CEO’s salary. It’s by firing people, hiring less, and making less investments in the business all else being equal. Corporate taxes also distort decisions of small business owners, who will pay out profits as salary to themselves rather than reinvesting the money in the company so as to avoid paying taxes on profits twice, first as a corporate tax and the second time as an income tax.
A better solution is to slash corporate taxes and raise income taxes on high earners. This will end the practice of offshoring the story describes, and also spare workers the negative effects of corporate income taxes.
Australia has another (strange?) solution: Australian public companies pay tax and issue dividends to shareholders. these dividend payments have attached tax credits ("franking credits") that can be used by the shareholder to reduce their income tax, so those dividend payments are not subject to double taxation (being subject to company tax and again to the individual shareholder's income tax).
E.g. suppose you are a shareholder and receive a dividend of $1000 from some australian public company. If the australian company is large it will be subject to a 30% corporate tax rate. If the company paid company tax on earnings before issuing the dividend, then that dividend comes with a $(1000 / 0.7) * 0.3 = $428.57 tax credit which the shareholder can use to reduce their income tax bill.
That said, in terms of the global landscape of low tax jurisdictions, Australia's corporate tax rate of 30% and highest marginal individual income tax rate of 47% make things less attractive.
shoo commented on AI is propping up the US economy bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
A bubble isn't related to whether something is useful or not, it's about speculation and detachment from reality. AI being extremely useful and being a bubble aren't mutually exclusive. It can be the case that everyone finds it useful but at the same time the valuations and investments aren't realized.
Yep, there's a big difference between a company and its stock. Even if the company is great, an investment such as a stock can never be good or bad without reference to the price you need to pay for it. A famous example from the dot-com era is Cisco. Great company, but buying Cisco stock at its March 2000 peak was a bad investment -- it was "priced to perfection" and the stock price today, over 25 years later, is lower than the dot com era price.
(It's late, apologies for a random collection of thoughts)
One key bit of missing information from your post: do you have 1 year, 2 year, 3 years+ savings? And can you deal with the salary hit (you'll very likely get a new job with a much lower salary)?
I quit a few weeks ago – I was being pushed out. It was not fun. I'm still processing how much psychological warfare was really going on and how much I was being gaslit.
I was going to do some travelling but I can't stop looking at my budgeting spreadsheet. But luckily it's summer and where I live is quite nice.
I'm still in recovery mode. Some health issues have already resolved themselves. I've lost ~8 pounds. I'm sleeping better.
What is keeping me sane is that I knew the job, the environment, my colleagues etc was seriously not working and I would have got fired anyway.
Luckily my family can help me out a little bit each month, and I'm thinking of getting a housemate, both of which will reduce my burn rate massively.
I have enjoyed re-evaluating my spending. It was a bit out of control. I was getting fat eating too much expensive food/takeout etc. I'm cooking more.
It feels weird being away from the computer. I feel like I should be learning more AI/interview prep etc. Like every moment not doing that is further damaging my future. Ugh. But I've also massively lost my love for tech. I need to find out if I can rediscover it
I wish I had watched a lot more Jordan Peterson etc a year ago. He touches a lot on having a plan, not just giving up, really contemplating the future, explaining poverty isn't fun, analytically working backwards from your problems etc. It's like the advice my father might have given me if I had one. I think I have mental health issues that affected my work, rather than my job being the sole source of all my mental health issues.
Ultimately it really is trading one set of stresses and issues for another, I feel.
> I'm thinking of getting a housemate, both of which will reduce my burn rate massively.
> I have enjoyed re-evaluating my spending. It was a bit out of control. I was getting fat eating too much expensive food/takeout etc. I'm cooking more.
These are both excellent ways to reduce your living expenses, particularly spreading the cost of housing + utilities over two or more people by sharing a house or an apartment. Also a great way to boost your savings rate when you start making an income again.
shoo commented on AI coding tools can reduce productivity secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-co... · Posted by u/gk1
Okay, so why not 246,000 issues?
If you read through the methodology, including how they paid the participants $150 / hr, for 20-40 hours work per participant, you can probably hazard a guess why they didn't scale up the size of the study by 1000x.
related book: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Can anyone share how this is used in practice? Somehow I imagine implementing numerical optimization often fails due to the usual problems with data-driven approaches (trust, bad data, etc.) and ultimately someone important just decides how things are going to be done based on stomach feel.
have a read through the case studies:
gurobi case studies: https://www.gurobi.com/case_studies/
some cplex case studies: https://www.ibm.com/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio/...
hexaly (formerly localsolver) case studies: https://www.hexaly.com/customers