Jack000

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by Jack000 7y ago
I've submitted threads like this to the google webmaster forum, and standard response boils down to: - negative seo doesn't work, google can tell the difference between spam links/sites - it's probably an issue with your
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by Jack000 7y ago
I mean the !g bang - DDG has the option of getting results from Google and Bing. Bing offers an API for $6/10000 queries, but Google does not - I'm curious how they have access to Google search results.
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by Jack000 7y ago
how does ddg get its google results? Last I checked the api is gone. If I wanted to do the same thing as ddg, is it still possible?
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by Jack000 7y ago
Have you tried batch inference on the GPU? In my experience it increases throughput by an order of magnitude.
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by Jack000 7y ago
Not sure if everyone feels this way, but I kind of hate "software engineering". I feel like once the logic or core principle is figured out, the rest is just the chore of implementation. It's like the fun part is visualizing
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by Jack000 7y ago
AWS gpu compute is extremely expensive. If this is due to datacenter licensing costs, I hope they come out with their own hardware soon to reduce these costs. If on the otherhand, it's because their value-add is not in renting out the
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by Jack000 7y ago
current generation "VR" is pretty underwhelming imo - it's literally a 3d movie attached to your face, providing parallax but not depth of field. There are things like magic leap that have 2 focal planes, but I don't kno
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by Jack000 7y ago
isn't that just a limitation of the current incarnation of serverless systems? ie. serverless is only effective for burst traffic because it's expensive. You would think that after you tailor the code to the platform and make it
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by Jack000 7y ago
just saw this app on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013117 not sure if it's been made yet, but it occurred to me that a much better version can be made now with on-device ML based OCR. Clearly th
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by Jack000 7y ago
lamp for web app, python for ml bits, node for a couple of things that have handy node packages. I use pretty much anything that gets the job done with the least dev time.
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by Jack000 7y ago
didn't know about Cascade Lake, thanks! Every time I did the numbers it didn't add up for cloud GPU. I could buy a new gaming desktop, serve the model from that, and make my money back in 2-3 months
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by Jack000 7y ago
just curious how you're hosting this? The cheapest GCP GPU instance is $0.5/hr, which is pretty expensive long-term.
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by Jack000 7y ago
the really obvious idea is lunar tourism. "literally the experience of a lifetime! see the Neil Armstrong footprint, eagle lander and more. Bring home lunar rocks as suveniers" then you'll have demand for all the other parts
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by Jack000 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but after playing with some pre-trained transformers I think they are mostly good at the exact thing they're trained for. eg. GPT-2 is great for text generation, but if you try to use it for say translation, it
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by Jack000 7y ago
about the battery thing: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv... the original idea makes much more sense in the context of the story, it's basically my head-canon now.
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by Jack000 7y ago
pizza has the highest margin of all fast food varieties. I think this is also the reason it was available for delivery long before modern food delivery services.
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by Jack000 7y ago
my sites are down as well. ironically the first thing I did was check downforeveryoneorjustme.com but they're showing a 502 cloudflare page too
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by Jack000 7y ago
Why not just look for a new job immediately? I've never done this myself, but as I understand it the fastest way to rise through the ranks as an SWE is to jump to a different FAANG every 3 years or so with a raise and promotion. I thin
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by Jack000 7y ago
It's an invasion of privacy if the tracking is unsolicited. It's not an invasion of privacy if the tracking is the point of the app. The app had paying users, it clearly had value to some people.
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by Jack000 7y ago
a bit niche, but here's one of my projects - svgnest.com in addition to the render blocking issue brought up by this article, there are a lot of applications for cpu-bound web apps (eg. anything requiring machine learning or computer v
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by Jack000 7y ago
if it's just crud, a bootstrap ui kit can make things easy. Copy/paste the HTML, add some interactivity and you're done. I actually can design but still use UI kits because it's so much faster.
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by Jack000 7y ago
I use VPSdime to serve a fasttext model. Low end VPS providers could be flaky, but honestly at 1/5 the price I can just buy from a few different providers and have better redundancy. ($7 6gb vs $40 8gb at linode) I do host my main appl
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by Jack000 7y ago
the user have to reenter their email, so it's opt in. some people do expect a live response, but some also expect a bot. People have come to associate chat bubbles with chat bots I think
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by Jack000 7y ago
I'm curious too. I just let most of my chat messages go to email. How do you hire for this, especially when the message volume is low (eg. average 1 per 10 minutes or so)
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by Jack000 8y ago
automation of human cognitive tasks
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by Jack000 8y ago
bearish on crypto, bullish on "AI" in practice I've sold most of my index position for MCD, as the VIX (mean volatility) is trending high. Even if you're right about the sector, it's virtually impossible to predict
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by Jack000 8y ago
the new design reminds me of digg's old design. it would have been a good April Fools prank to launch a "HN redesign" in the same style
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by Jack000 8y ago
another one is sudden hearing loss. I wish google searches for sudden hearing loss would have an explicit warning to get to an ER immediately. it seems most gps don't know about the condition, and on their advice I waited until about a
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by Jack000 8y ago
in high school there were a lot of "manual" arithmetic math problems. It was a lot easier to type the formula into a python terminal than using a calculator.
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by Jack000 8y ago
by this standard, Japanese would be a variation of Chinese

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