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by antipaul 3y ago
As a big Apple user, I think all three are very possible. Just one tiny example: see the manual dial or “crown” on Watch, AirPods Max, and now Vision Pro. You could easily imagine those products without an unnecessary manual “dial” when the
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by antipaul 3y ago
Agree. "software is eating the world" someone once said a decade ago, and yet most car companies still didn't get the memo. MBux, anyone?!? Personally, if Apple creates a standard car simply with a great software experience (
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by antipaul 3y ago
Why can't they say which company made it?
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by antipaul 3y ago
Can we get checkout video recording out of other grocery stores too?
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Ask HN: I am ready for the next AI winter
4 points by antipaul 3y ago|2 comments
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by antipaul 3y ago
Hmm, what was that tech from IBM deep blue, that apparently Google leveraged to such a degree? Was it “machine learning”? If so, I don’t think that was actually the key insight for Google search… right? Did deep blue even machine learn? Or
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Life Is Better Without the Internet(theatlantic.com)
1 points by antipaul 3y ago|0 comments
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by antipaul 3y ago
But Microsoft reinvented itself with precisely leadership change in Satya, right?
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by antipaul 3y ago
Snippets that stood out to me: Google's culture eroded. Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision The effects of layoffs are insidious… people c
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by antipaul 3y ago
They found a monolith, but are saying it’s an epidemic
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by antipaul 3y ago
Is it AI, or just a look up table?
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by antipaul 3y ago
Not sure exactly, but the whole thing was "shot on iPhone" so maybe related
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by antipaul 3y ago
No italic
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by antipaul 3y ago
"Management" definitely seems easier, than having to do technical work, without proper accountability. But it seems it's hard to hold management accountable. For an IC such as an engineer, if you don't deliver code for t
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by antipaul 3y ago
Were they "working hard" on individual-contributor-style work, or on management? "They can’t peer into everyday lives of the lower levels" - I'd imagine this is exactly what management should work "hard at&quot
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by antipaul 3y ago
"It can be hard to see if they're contributing anything valuable" Indeed. It's easier to evaluate "the appearance of change" than actual value or improvement. When I consider this problem, my current belief is
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by antipaul 3y ago
Here is a response, that PC himself references on his site: https://nintil.com/building-skyscrapers-and-spending-on-majo... Excerpt: > So all in all, if we control away war, and increasing complexity, and the fact that y
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by antipaul 3y ago
As another comment points out, what about "preparation" time? I guess the timelines depend on when you start the clock. Does anyone have a credible example of going fast, and where it really was a "zero to one" kind of p
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by antipaul 3y ago
> On August 9 1968, NASA decided that Apollo 8 should go to the moon. It launched on December 21 1968, 134 days later But they were planning to get to that destination, with the same Apollo program, for years before that... This example
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by antipaul 3y ago
For a long time, I thought this was bullsh*t too. But I think they make a subtle dig at many other consumer products. I have seen too many examples, where the "latest" product is inferior to previous-gen. EG: - A few car models I
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by antipaul 3y ago
"Apple's relentless pursuit of thinness and lightness" That ended in the previous generation. The 12" MacBook and previous-gen (final-gen Intel) MacBook pros were the most beautiful and the most thin/light MacBooks
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by antipaul 3y ago
That's a fine opinion, but I haven't found a more widely available tool to describe a project "recipe", where project is written in one or more, of many possible languages * Snakefile -> requires installation * bash -
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by antipaul 3y ago
This tutorial feels like its only for C++ (-like) coders, since it focuses on "(re)compiling" > Makefiles are used to help decide which parts of a large program need to be recompiled I've found uses for Makefiles, where us
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by antipaul 3y ago
Did SpaceX do this? Who’s been their CEO? Edit: lol, I guess she’s the President and COO, not CEO. Dunno if the point still stands, or not…
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by antipaul 3y ago
> It looks like Woz is not scared of Tesla’s “hardcore litigation” team, which has been a bit trigger-happy when it comes to suing people for defamation lately. Anyone can expand?
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by antipaul 3y ago
Why does Google X exist?
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by antipaul 3y ago
https://www.gene.com/scientists/our-scientists/prescient-des...
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by antipaul 3y ago
For excellent front-end alternatives, without recommendation, see: https://invidious.io Click "Use invidious" and bookmark 1-2 of the choices
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by antipaul 3y ago
If I sum up that chart, I barely get ~40%. (software engineering is “highest”, at 19.3%) What roles are in the 60%??
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by antipaul 4y ago
The overlap in "deployment" between MLOps and Software engineering was hinted at in that well-known 2015 NeuriIPS paper, "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems": "It may be surprising to the academic com

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