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by Shindi 4y ago
GPT-J feels much worse than GPT Davinci on the lack of instruct capability. My understanding is that it was not trained on instruction-completion data as much. It's great for text classification, summarization, and other tasks. However
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by Shindi 4y ago
No worries, this really depends on the person and their smoking habits. I know for me I was smoking almost daily, using it to cope with founder stress in unhealthy ways, using it to run away from problems. For me personally, weed has the ef
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by Shindi 4y ago
People think that they can build Lyft in a weekend with simple GPS + queue system in reality it's a ton more complicated. There are 1. Dynamic pricing. Both drivers AND riders have different price elasticities depending on surge, etc.
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by Shindi 4y ago
> I have 1 - 3 glasses of wine a night to relax after putting my child to bed. I'm sorry but I have to acknowledge that 1-3 glasses a night by yourself is a lot of drinking. I was the same way with weed. It didn't have any majo
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by Shindi 4y ago
How do you know this? Not doubting you just curious. I've always been curious about requirements or size of GPT3 because Eluether's GPT-X 20B takes like 40GB VRAM to run and I think it is the closest analogue to GPT-3
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by Shindi 4y ago
Yeah for people asking to elaborate, this is what we did to get a ton of investor meetings for our MVP: 1. DO NOT BUILD OR SHIP ANYTHING 2. Instead spend all your time desperately talking to customers about the problem you want to solve. If
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by Shindi 4y ago
16 weeks pay on a $200k/yr salary (ie excluding equity acceleration) is $64k. That's a decent first check into a startup. I know people have families, visa issues, but if you're young and scrappy and already into startups, th
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by Shindi 4y ago
Even if only 2 people read what you write today, you'll have your writing forever. It's easy to repurpose writing, or literally repost. I feel like if you're not writing online today, you're severely missing out, me incl
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by Shindi 4y ago
People hate to hear this but the most talented younger people want to work in office at least hybrid because you learn more and get more done. Yes, at the expense of commute time. I understand families change this dynamic
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by Shindi 4y ago
A lot of people learned to code from completely free materials on the internet. In fact, it's actually amazing how much free learning resources there are on the internet. That's how we create a good internet ecosystem, not by maki
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by Shindi 4y ago
I think in the context of communicating bad news, the PIP system Amazon had sounds like it sucks, but at least it was a way to communicate that you should find another job. The problem with the person in this article is that there was no co
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by Shindi 4y ago
Absolutely, and it's a great way to win brownie points with the maintainers.
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Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
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by Shindi 4y ago
> And the median rent in Manhattan is allegedly $4k Remember that Manhattan != New York City. You provided numbers for the US but not New York City. If only there was an easy way to find median rent of New York, New York
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by Shindi 4y ago
> let's say between ~$150-180k > even at that income I'm saving very, very little living in a HCOL and high tax city Not the answer you want to hear but the problem is your spending. I have no idea what your life is like, bu
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by Shindi 4y ago
> contribute to an Open Source project that you really like My 2c: This is the harder but better way to prove your skills. It shows you can learn a new codebase, interact with team members to learn and get things done, and that your code
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by Shindi 4y ago
Hey, this is super cool thanks for making. A whole lot of rsync - dropbox comments here. I want to be able to give product managers a way to change the look and copy of components using retool. That way they can skip engineering interventio
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by Shindi 4y ago
As a Palestinian, I am not surprised this happened but surprised Facebook admitted to it. Obviously not a fan of FB doing the censoring but I appreciate their honest and open treatment of their mistakes. Any company, no matter how good or b
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by Shindi 4y ago
Everyone take note, this is how you post constructive criticism on HN.
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by Shindi 4y ago
Yeah, during the day. Work from home and sneak in an hour or two here. Building a company requires an incredible amount of hustle, if you can't figure out how to sneak in a couple of hours here and there to talk to people/pitch, s
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by Shindi 4y ago
I guess it depends on your financial goals. I'm a younger big tech employee that has at times seen my income drop in half. However, I personally believe tech will have a massive rebound in the next 2-10 years and long term capital gain
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by Shindi 4y ago
If you're an enterprising individuals you can "kinda" do this but it's not easy and definitely 100% a headache. Neobanks sometimes use this notion of a virtual bank account. My understanding is that it's a single FD
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by Shindi 4y ago
How is this different than Column Stripe Treasury Treasury Prime Unit Cross River Bank Any BaaS I'm missing? ???
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by Shindi 4y ago
This is pure negativity and not true. Hiring might slow down because of seasonality overall, but I was hired the last two times end of year. It's a great time to get new employees ramped up when things are slower. A polite reminder tha
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by Shindi 4y ago
I am not a lawyer (don't want to get sued by California!) but the law has been super super fucking annoying to deal with while figuring out basic questions like, can I lend my personal money to someone, what counts as a finance fee in
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by Shindi 4y ago
People here are going to hate me but there is a "right" way to do this if you're a startup. Have a cool dev tool that solves someone's problem? People actually want their problems to be solved. But DON'T blind pitch
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by Shindi 4y ago
> ... almost 7 years after Atlassian acquired my previous startup ... Yeah, OP you're a second time founder and that helps a ton. You don't acknowledge that at all in your medium post.
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by Shindi 4y ago
> payments/interchange made up 64% of WF's total public Net Income. This is wrong and not possible. WF is a public company so you can look up their financials: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WFC/finan
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by Shindi 4y ago
I'm sorry to be direct, I know your post has a ton of interesting knowledge, but it was impossible to read. Have you considered using newlines or breaks? You probably have amazing ideas and more people would read them if it was easier
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by Shindi 4y ago
> which is non-aggressively asked for This just sounds like bad sales. If you aggressively asked for donations, some users will get mildly annoyed, but then the service can still operate - ie not shut down and users can get utility out o

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