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I’m typing this just down the road from this Kirkland roundabout. It is fine. I’m used to roundabouts from my old country tho. I do fear someone else will just hit me down there cause I don’t trust people around here on roundabouts.

A breath of fresh air is how much faster getting off I-405 is now. I used to wait a lot on the traffic lights that were there before, and now it is like a mini slow rollercoaster.

I’ve seen a setup like this in software for some specific high-demand SAP (ERP) consultancy roles. The nature of SAP migrations are per-project in nature (you wouldn’t want to migrate your company’s ERP all the time). The person had such a skillset that they had what is effectively an “agent” who would negotiate their next job assignment. The agent was even baked into the contract with the client as a party, I don’t recall how much of the hourly this agent would get, but they were invoicing the company separately.

At least this is what I recall.

Meta: this is probably the first time this year where I use the word agent to refer to a human. Feels odd even.

Ironically, we have an infringing website right now on the front-page of HN (nypost).

Wow, thank you for the explanation. Such a complex topic and yet you’ve made it simple to understand.

Is it correct to rephrase PolarQuant as “embeddings vectors but as complex numbers” since polar vectors were represented with i complex numbers in other fields of applications? Would this open a new field of transformations using complex number arithmetics?

Edit: I believe I have my math concepts all wrong. Vectors are currently represented with xyz coordinates, so that can be our complex number equivalent. This paper saves memory size by ‘simply’ transforming this “complex number” into its polar form (radius/size and angle). Since you use less bytes on angle + radius you then always refer to that polar form instead of the regular vector/complex number part. If I have my concepts correct this idea is simple and genius.

Edit 2: I may be missing the forest for the trees here. I’ll try to learn more from the actual sources if I can.

I work at a enterprise tech company that has kinda of a monopoly on its market. The hate I get when I mention I work there is so big… I can only imagine what a MS Teams dev would get these days. The worst is when they complain about the UI… when I’m one of the few frontend focused devs there.

I’ve had a government worker stop processing my request and start complaining about the product I build. Lost a good half an hour trying to understand their bug but we didn’t get anywhere

Yep, bugs are already just another cost of doing business for companies that aren’t user-focused. We can expect buggier code from now on. Especially for software where the users aren’t the ones buying it.

Disclaimer because I sound pessimistic: I do use a lot of AI to write code.

I do feel behind on the usage of it.

This was 2008 when they were fighting for titles still (turns out they were robbed and the FIA knew about it and let it play out).

That said I imagine what Jonathan Wheatley would be able to achieve in a task similar to this since he had the Red Bull team maintain a consistent sub-2 second pit stop at Red Bull and he was able to significantly quicken the Sauber one this year.

I like this. I have crafted a Claude Code docker container to similar effects. My problem is that my env has intranet access all the time (and direct access to our staging environment) and I don’t want a coding agent that could go rogue having access to those systems. I did manage to spin up an iptables based firewall that blocks all requests unless they’re going to the IPs I allowlist on container start (I was inspired by the sandbox docs that Anthropic provides). My problem right now is that some things that my company use are behind Akamai, so a dig lookup + iptables allow does not work. I’ll probably have to figure out some sort of sidecar proxy that would allow requests on the fly instead of dig+iptables.

So they automated most of the production in order to compete with cheap labor. It didn’t bring the manufacturing jobs as we think of them back: it did something better.

I’m not not a lawyer at all and I have no real idea. My guess is that existing visas are already printed and henceforth there is no petition anymore, you have a status or visa already. Since the old petition didn’t require the payment, you don’t need to show proof of payment now. But lol if I actually know how this works, can be anyone’s guess.

My guess is that if this goes forward new h1b visas petitioned while the worker is outside the US will have a line saying “must show proof of payment” or something like that, while petitions while in the US won’t have that line on their visa stamp

Yes, but a visa stamp renewal is a visa “application” while the document that allows the application is the “petition”, which is the word used on this text and the step requiring the payment.

But I said the book does offer replication studies in different populations in different continents, albeit from the same author

Yes, maybe I was not clear but I’m in doubt of the Italy claim in the book and that’s why I remember it

IIRC the author compares brain scans and recognition abilities of children of hunter gatherers that where sent to school vs same age relatives that were not. I’m bringing this up from memory now and I’m not so sure of this, but this claim stems from some studies of the author