I hit a panic in btrfs using an ubuntu 24 LTS kernel. The trauma is still well and alive.

All of the smart people I know went to work at OpenAI and none at Anthropic. In addition to financial capital, OpenAI has a massive advantage in human capital over Anthropic.

As long as OpenAI can sustain compute and paying SWE $1million/year they will end up with the better product.

Attracting talent with huge sums of money just gets you people who optimize for money, and it's usually never a good long-term decision. I think it's what led to Google's downturn.

Google is doing great still. One of the few FAANG I am bullish on over the long timescale.

> I think it's what led to Google's downturn.

What downturn is that exactly?

> OpenAI has a massive advantage in human capital over Anthropic.

but if your leader is a dipshit, then its a waste.

Look You can't just throw money at the problem, you need people who are able to make the right decisions are the right time. That that requires leadership. Part of the reason why facebook fucked up VR/AR is that they have a leader who only cares about features/metrics, not user experience.

Part of the reason why twitter always lost money is because they had loads of teams all running in different directions, because Dorsey is utterly incapable of making a firm decision.

Its not money and talent, its execution.

Are those "smart people you know" machine learning researchers?

No, infrastructure engineers. The one who scale the system up so you don’t have to rate limit.

The feeling I get with jj is it is almost like people are trying to convince others why jj is superior instead of just sharing that jj exists and let others decide themselves. It seems like every few months there is a jj post on HN which devolves into the narratives of “git works for me” and “but jj is better at X”.

Exactly the same thing happened when git showed up (alongside the same things for bzr, darcs, hg, etc. too!)

Where X = something I’ve never wanted to do

I can see that gold settled in London is worth more than gold settled in NYC given trust in both nations right now.

I have seen that too. People on the way out trying to get access to production systems. Layoffs suck, but the business needs to protect itself from those who are departing. The company used to have more lax separation procedures but after that incident everything got locked down.

Runs fine on my iphone

I wonder if visibility was good enough that looking both ways before crossing the runway would have prevented this.

That'll be one of the things the NTSB investigates.

I also wonder if you're down to a "one controller" scenario if it would be better for there to be once frequency, not a ground/air split.

Or perhaps a "one controller" scenario is just terrible policy.

No. it wasn't. Delta crosses 04 in diagonal, so basically they should have taken the head out of the window and look behind. They had the clearance, so they just tried to cross. The problem is for some reason they did not hear the "Truck 1 stop" call.

That is a poor choice of naming. Sounds like JewNote.

As a non native speaker, it never crossed my mind and I was quite confused at the first comments...

ya...totally didn't occur to me. Probably would've been obvious to me if English was my first language..

Yea I knew meta was toxic, but publicly beefing over something over a decade ago is a whole other matter. I can’t even remember what I was working on 10 years ago, and even if I did I wouldn’t be bringing people down that much later.

The problem is a lot of very strong engineers are also very difficult to work with. I worked at Meta too and can tell you the other side of the coin is that people who were too toxic could get canned as well!

Yes, I have worked with the strong but arrogant/snarky engineers. Luckily most of them got canned or forced out because the environment they create around themselves more than negates the positive impact they have. The strongest engineers I have worked with are all humble and kind.

It is their loss, I cannot imagine letting a minor work quarrel live rent free in my head for over a decade. I feel bad enough when something is stuck in my mind for a week.

Yeah, I am loving the public mudslinging over shit from 10 years ago, like high school girls fighting. This is like the FAANG version of the TV show Suits. We can call it FAANGs and use Midjorney to create the cover art and give the actors vampire fangs.

On a more serious note, it seems like any hyper competitive company eventually spirals into an awful, toxic working env.

I work on infrastructure at bigco and we landed on a 5 second default timeout for our RPC framework which is interesting.

Sometimes I think there should be a list of sane and tested production configs: default rpc timeout, default backoff exponent, default initial backoff, default max backoff, health check frequency, health check timeout, process restart delay, process restart backoff, etc…