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by brutus1213 3y ago
Worked on an old ipad.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I remember when they did random stuff like the whole IoT push (frankly, their offerings made no sense to humble me .. Microsoft had a better IoT than Intel). They did drone crap .. gave a kick ass keynote at CES I recall .. also .. made lit
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by brutus1213 3y ago
In my opinion, there are multiple causes of the current tech job market situation: 1) Rapid rise in interest rates .. affects funding available to startups as well as makes corporate R&D more expensive relative to the payoff 2) Overhiri
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I've wanted to make a pin hole cameras since I was a kid. I didn't realize the photographic film part .. now that makes sense! Where do you source that in North America these days? How do you handle it? I recall loading film into
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Not sure if there are other folks like me on HN .. but I'm really hurting due to Lego. I started back into this "hobby" 3 months back, and have spent 3K so far. This is unsustainable for me, and I'm a pretty decent incom
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Fellow Canadians! I'm mulling moving (back) to the SF Bay area. I am at a senior position at work(AI). Pay is a factor but more about wanting to be at the cutting edge, and change of scene. Issue is I have two kids under 10. I was doin
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Ask HN: Stories of political intrigue in large companies
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I'd join OpenAI even if the cash comp was not good. Sort of like how Google pays less than the highest comp. OpenAI seems like a remarkable career catalyst.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
There is indeed something excellent about CUDA from a user perspective that is hard to beat. I do high-level DNN and it is not clear to me what it is or why that is. Anytime I have worked on optimizing to mobile hardware (not Jetson, but ac
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by brutus1213 3y ago
SNPE seems like the old way and QNN is the future as I understood it. I ran into some engineers at a recent AI conference and it appeared even they could not explain how to do model optimization in a sane way. What the heck is Qualcomm thin
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by brutus1213 3y ago
This whole approach makes little sense for a developer (not to mention a user). When a consumer buys a phone at particular price point, they expect it to offer some level of performance. Now if devs can offload to these accelerators on a ti
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Congrats! I know the old Java based Android and the old obj-c based ios but haven't bothered to get fresh on all the changes of the last 5 years (swift, kotlin, jetpack, etc). I have been considering the Flutter option as a cross-platf
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I'm curious if you can back this up from a technical perspective. I work with mobile (but all Android these days) and it is a mess. Best training ecosystem is Pytorch (and maybe Jax). For inference, you need to endure all manner of pai
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by brutus1213 3y ago
What general type of company? Need to avoid them like the plague.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Not in this space .. is Zapier the same as IFTTT?
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Thankfully haven't experienced it but my parents and relatives were in challenging situations during some parts of their lives. The point of Gold (as I was taught) is not to store your hoard of wealth but to facilitate getting out.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Very positive post. Thank you for sharing. My spouse and I both had a short part of our childhood in a poor and wonky South Asian country. We both feel that people (and ourselves) are far less helpful to our neighbours and strangers in the
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Totally correct. Was watching an interesting town hall by the Fed for educators, and it was interesting to hear JP say "we have so many fine [Econ] textbooks", and in a different sentence say "it takes a few editions to catch
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by brutus1213 3y ago
There is a nice Youtube channel called asionometry that shows that this was done time and time again (maybe more in Asia and Europe) in things related to electronics and semicon manufacturer, and it failed most of the time. TSMC was a shock
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Article had another interesting tidbit: "advent of generative AI has made it easier for companies of all sizes to create try-on experiences for their customers and made it harder for us to differentiate our offering.”" Some other
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by brutus1213 3y ago
When I finished undergrad, the most desirable tech company to work for was Microsoft. They paid 55-60K (starting comp) I recall? Interviews were nothing like today (with the insanity of leetcode). What is mind boggling is that I'd have
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by brutus1213 3y ago
This is a slick visualization and agree with your point. I feel ZIRP for such an extended time period was nuts and it was responsible for the asset bubble, let weak players survive and supported more risk taking. As I was looking at the cha
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by brutus1213 3y ago
As a teenager and young adult, I was an extremely good textual learner. I could gobble down book chapters and retain all of it. Then grad school happened. I had an extremely hard time reading scientific papers (where generally bad writers e
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I was going to reply to the parent and say Canada but you beat me to it. Canada's housing bubble (?) existed since at least the early 2000s when I was in grad school. Everyone expected the bubble to pop. When condo prices continued to
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I setup K3s recently. Is there a whole lot of difference playing with that vs. K8s? From a user/app dev perspective (not devops/k8s core dev of course) I ask as it seemed to work really well.. wondering if there is a catch/li
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Well .. if you hire people solely based on leetcode style interviews, this is what you get. Or maybe this is the fate of the industry gorilla? The other company that falls in this relaxed camp is Microsoft. I am sure there are others.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
This is a good point. I watch those videos for fun, but they do need to come with a warning (from youtube, just like the state-sponsored media warning or the covid health info warning). I actually feel stronger that this kind of stuff have
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Thank you! I didn't realize this can do 3D objects as well. Will check it out.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I had an occulus rift back in the day. Collecting dust and obsolete now. I've experimented with HoloLens 2 and found the dev env to be crap. Likely going to grab a quest 3 when it comes out. Anyone hacking software for it give their op
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I don't think these are competitive jobs ($$ wise) .. if I was advising a student, software and AI are the future.

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