yet another dj

@KnowingBetterYT It's almost here!

Uploading your first video in a year and a half only to find out that Youtube's Content ID leveled up and now it can tag segments only 5 seconds long! It used to be like ~25! 😭

@saikenMD AI could never

Cannon minions (egg cells) spawn (ovulate) every other wave (cycle). Minion waves build up the game state (endometrium) by pushing (sustained by progesterone from the corpus luteum). Every so often, a top laner will come around with S7 Banner of Command (sperm cell) and promote (fertilize) one of the cannon minions. Combining a Banner of Command with a cannon minion creates a promoted minion (zygote) which can then push down the lane (fallopian tubes) and reach the base (uterus) to hit the nexus (implant in the uterine lining and create a pregnancy). When the minion wave (endometrium) becomes too big, the enemy team has to respond to stop your push (involution of the corpus luteum after 14 days). So the Level 16 Sivir runs it down mid and presses W and clears the entire wave, stopping the entire push, and resetting the lane (menstruation). Watching the Sivir clear the whole wave with one button is painful and makes you feel like shit, even though your top laner will never understand what it feels like. This cycle repeats every month.

@greatbong Needs Operating Systems

Then that’s the fault of the CS curriculum. A good CS curriculum should have: 1. Discrete maths (no code) 2. Theory of computation (no code) and algorithms (logical puzzles) 3. Compilers (50 per cent code) 4. SW engineering, graphics etc: 50 per cent code and 50 per cent design, the assignments should stress design (SW) and algorithms (graphics) Yes you can always ask AI for the no code part but the you could always ask your smart friend and copy assignments.

@finn_hulse Hyperloglog seems unfair to expect candidates to induce from scratch without immense guidance along the way, at which point it's not useful signal.

i had to retire my favorite technical interview problem so it is time to ask it to my loyal followers (solution in replies) given a stream of N not necessarily distinct integers from an O(N) sized universe, for some massive N, find a way to estimate how many distinct integers appear, only using O(log(log(N)) persistent storage use 5 lines of pseudocode there was a time in my life where i wouldn't work with someone who couldn't answer this

@Reaktorrr1 @lemire The useless metrics part has truth to it. Oculus' success is arguable. It was also an acquisition and while it does have a decently significant user base, it's certainly not the billion user platform Zuck was hoping for. The hardware is industry leading for sure though.

@Reaktorrr1 @lemire This is completely incorrect. Nowhere close to 50,000 people work in the FB app. Meta doesn't even have 50,000 engineers.

Two news items at the same time: Meta plans to lay off 20% of its staff due to AI, and they are delaying the release of their next AI models. They justify the upcoming cuts by saying they need to invest heavily in AI. Yet Meta is highly profitable—a true money-making machine. There is a hint that they are letting people go because AI will enable more work with fewer employees. Or perhaps it is just an excuse, and they realize they are overstaffed relative to what they actually need. Having more people than necessary is never positive—even when those people seem “effectively free.” Meta’s failure to lead in AI is interesting. It is the only major AI lab that bet heavily on one of the academic fathers of the field (in this case, LeCun). LeCun famously mocked @elonmusk and xAI, saying he was doing “research” and pointing to the many papers he had recently published. I have argued for two decades that research is not the process of publishing papers. Research is about discovery, not paper production. Confusing the two is a red flag. To be clear, peer-reviewed publishing papers is not even a necessary component of research. Peer review became a dominant paradigm during the cold war, long after Darwin, Einstein, and much of the great scientists had done their work. People typically object that I am conflating research and engineering. I am not. It would have been obvious to Turing that people building increasingly advanced systems to emulate intelligence are doing research—just as building better cancer therapies is research. Meta did not fail to lead because of a lack of talent or money. Nor is it short on engineering talent. That is not why they failed to lead. By many accounts, Meta’s AI spending is several times larger—and over a longer period—than xAI’s. It is also true that Meta has published far more papers than xAI. So what to make of it? Is Meta about to double down on AI? Will they succeed?

@for_yield Beautiful throwback

My lift is 6am to noon, and I'm not crazy, you're crazy for thinking it takes 24 hours just like some dude in a cave did 300 years ago. My second lift starts at Noon and goes to 6, that's lift #2. And the next lift is 6pm to midnight. What I have done now is changed and manipulated time. I now get 21 lifts a week, stack that up over a month I'm gonna kick your butt. Stack that up over a year, you're toast. Stack that up over 5 years I'm so malnourished I have a 14 pack

@thenanyu Yes for sure

Is it better to just render PDFs as images and OCR them rather than read directly then?

@tenobrus He's missing the whole brain

what an absolute fucking retard. genuinely what could possibly lead someone with even half a brain to write this kind of dogshit.

@vortex482446490 @merdestinoincel Her dad committed suicide before she turned 18, is that struggle enough for you

@merdestinoincel i promise this girl never faced a single struggle in her entire life this shit pisses me off so bad literally just attention seeking and mentally ill for the sake of it fucking weak pathetic human being

Context: She was bullied to commit suicide but the mom went into her room and found her with rope and bags (someone people who hang themselves out bags over their heads to get light headed before they hang themselves so it's less painful) and the mom said she loved her and to not commit suicide

@VicVijayakumar Great schedule but 930 is PACKED

Not dunking on this, I just want to show you a typical day in my life: 730am: wake up, get dressed, start coffee, help with breakfast, help with kid lunches, empty dishwasher 840am: take kids to school 920am: start work 1240pm: toddler comes home 420pm: older kids come home 520pm: done with work, make dinner possibly 630pm: dinner 830pm: kids bedtime 930pm: walk dog / go on a run / workout, shower 1130pm-1am: go to sleep (glad to not have to commute, that would be a massive time waste for no reason) So I work roughly 8ish hours a day (often more- if I have a 6pm meeting I just take my laptop to the kitchen and cook while I'm on my call), then get to spend 3 hours with the kids, then another 3 hours or so with my wife. During the week I only see my older kids for 5 hours in the evening and an hourish in the morning.

@ryanlpeterman AS?

At Meta, it's easy to see anyones coding stats Naturally, the first thing my friends and I did as new grads was find who had the most commits at the company It was always the same people on the top, and their commits often showed them solving problems that were way over our heads Those engineers were often an inspiration for me even though I know now that code volume by itself doesn't mean much I was lucky enough to get to interview one of those senior engineers I've looked up to my whole career. I hope you enjoy our conversation and learn something from his career story Episode is dropping tomorrow morning! Meta engs any guesses on who it is? I think the tool times out these days if you try to do query recursive reports of Zuck

@jordannoone I'm in this picture and I don't like it

Typical factorio player

@VicVijayakumar @andruyeung if the story is true (big if) presumably he had 2-3x his salary in yearly stock

@andruyeung Not to go off on a tangent but what kind of person buys a $1.2M house on a $280K salary

2025 was brutal for tech workers 1.2m Americans were laid off - a 54% increase from last year. Amazon, Cisco, Snap, Microsoft, Pinterest When I worked in big tech on a visa, layoff anxiety consumed me But that fear forced me to build a plan, so I'd be shielded no matter what. Here's what I'd tell myself today if I were worried about AI layoffs:

@businessbarista Got the "you're in" email, must be skill issue as I head back to terminal and don't see anything lol

@businessbarista Fun challenge, 19/19 in ~1 hour. Appreciate a good nerdsnipe. Although, I disagree with maybe 2 of the easter eggs, don't think I'd use them in this context. Also didn't know you're supposed to find them before you apply so redid it.

Claude Code Community is the biggest unfair advantage in my professional life right now. I get to live on the frontier of AI daily & watch how cracked engineers and big-time executives are applying AI in their work. Members include: - Folks from the Claude Code team - Creators like @lennysan, @clairevo, @AlexFinn, @petergyang - Execs from NASDAQ, Capital One, Walmart, Databricks, etc We're very very selective for new membership because quality is everything to us, but if you're interested, apply here: claudecode.community

@TheGeorgePu If you think topping internal claude code leaderboards will get you redefines I have a bridge to sell you.

Meta now tracks 200+ data points on employee AI usage. - High adoption = 300% bonus. - Low adoption = managed out. Your employer is next.

@GergelyOrosz Waterloo interns are always cracked

Inside a group of ~50 CTOs + founders. Talking about hiring new grads. 4 of them violently agreeing to how amazing University of Waterloo [Canada] is doing something so right - and their goto place to hire standout interns + new grads. What is Waterloo doing others are not?

@Andrew_Semenza @FangYi11101 They exist. It was a literal 9-5 during the summer

@FangYi11101 The type of grinding Yap references (cram school) doesn't exist in the US. I I wasn't a grinder but I feel like the type of grinding my peers did was at least somewhat productive--science fair research etc... I'm extremely cynical about all that stuff but it's not useless

If Asians grind harder on average, then at any given achievement level, the Asians you meet will be a bit less naturally gifted than you but got to the same place through effort. The more gifted ones sorted into a tier above you where you never see them. That’s basically the whole mechanism behind “Asian grinder” resentment.

@rauchg Sorry we only hire 10000x engineers

It used to be controversial to state that there exist 10x engineers. People would get all worked up. I have news for you. AI has created 100x, possibly 1000x engineers. Time to update those hiring plans.