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by dvt 2y ago
> but if you had found/obtained access to the corpus that the model was pre-trained with, that would have been kind of interesting Definitionally, that input gets compressed into the weights. Pretty sure there's a proof somewhe
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by dvt 2y ago
While this is a cool idea, I'm not really sure how it's ever going to be worth $20/mo. At most I'd pay $5 (which should still make you quite profitable?), since all outreach will be essentially cold. Retention is also a
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by dvt 2y ago
I second this, and it tends to be a sitewide issue. HN has really changed over the past 5+ years: went from healthy or interesting skepticism to reddit-style snarkiness and shitposting.
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by dvt 2y ago
> EDIT: and one of the main reasons it's a useful feature is it tells you who to talk to to understand a piece of code, or to coordinate a roll back, or to do any other sort of communication. It probably matters more in a big compan
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by dvt 2y ago
If you own Apple or Nike products, you're supporting child slavery. If you own products made in China, you're supporting religious genocide. "Blacklisting" companies is just lazy slacktivism that only someone in the midd
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by dvt 2y ago
> behaves identically to euclidean distance Tbh, I would argue that's also pretty surprising, as Euclidean distance is notoriously unintuitive[1] (and noisy) in higher dimensions. (I guess norming does help, so that's likely a
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by dvt 2y ago
Great post, but what struck me (again, like every time I look at cos similiarity) is how unreasonably well it works. It's just one of those things that's so "weird" about our world: why would cosine similarity work in n-
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by dvt 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-te
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by dvt 2y ago
GitHub was just down the other day. Why would you want your personal website/portfolio to be tied to GitHub? Crazy "modern web dev" stacks are likely overkill, but that's not an argument against self-hosting.
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by dvt 2y ago
I'm kind of in the opposite camp. If Schanuel's conjecture is true, then e^iπ = 0 would be the only non-trivial relation between e, π, and i over the complex numbers. And the fact that we already found it seems unlikely.
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by dvt 2y ago
In-house recruiters are always worthwhile imo. I think they can really screen for culture fit, get context from hiring managers, make new employees & candidates feel welcome, etc. However, I do think that "recruiting firms" ar
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by dvt 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-te
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by dvt 2y ago
Dude come on, saying FSD "routinely" kills people is just delusional (and provably wrong). No idea why Musk just lives rent-free in folks' heads like this. He's just a random douchebag billionaire, there's scores of
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by dvt 2y ago
> routinely kills people Kind of agree with everything else, but I'm not sure what the purpose of this straight-up lie[1] is. I don't even like Musk, nor do I own TSLA or a Tesla vehicle, and even I think the Musk hate is just
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by dvt 2y ago
Taking a 3-month Salsa dance class starting early January. I've never been good at dance so I'm low key kind of excited. Might meet someone, too, you never know :)
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by dvt 2y ago
> The companies where we were like ”woah, these folks are smart as hell” for the most part failed Being clever, for the most part, almost never buys you anything. Building a cool product has nothing to do with being particularly smart, a
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by dvt 2y ago
If you don't use some kind of layouting language (like XML/HTML), this is inevitably what you will always end up with. See: AWT[1], SWT[2], Swing[3], Qt[4]†, Fyne[5], etc., etc., etc. [1] https://docs.oracle.com/
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by dvt 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a tech leader, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successf
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by dvt 2y ago
Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more, really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI image.
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by dvt 2y ago
The website is being purposefully obtuse and the birthday paradox is a "paradox" because it's sometimes formulated in the same way as the website. In other words, you are completely correct that the intersection of any two bi
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by dvt 2y ago
N=1, but the problem with dating apps isn't improving profiles or sending better messages. The most important thing (by far) is looking good and taking good pictures, so the old bro advice of hitting the gym is pretty solid. As a singl
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Dropbox cuts its workforce by 20 percent in latest round of layoffs(theverge.com)
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by dvt 2y ago
Man, I do really miss these postmortems on HN. We used to see several a month back when the site was more startup-focused. Great read! Don't want to dogpile with criticism, I'd just suggest brushing yourself off and trying again (
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by dvt 2y ago
Azure launched as (and still is) a complete dumpster fire. Unless your company has business ties to MS (e.g. your usage is heavily subsidized, which is most of their large clients from what I understand), I would never in a million years us
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by dvt 2y ago
The writer here misunderstands how short-circuit evaluation is supposed to be used. The idea is that you should use SCE in a few, pretty standard, cases: cheapFunction(...) || expensiveFunction(...) // saves us a few cylces
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by dvt 2y ago
This is what booking.com kind of tries to do, but I think it's actually a pretty hard problem not only because of scheduling quirks, but often times stuff being delayed, bad weather, etc. will totally throw a wrench into plans. It wo
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by dvt 2y ago
This kind of (ahem) "business model" has become rampant. We easily call out crypto scams, but the "buy now, I'll finish it whenever" strategy has been rotting away at the core of the internet since Kickstarter becam
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by dvt 2y ago
Please keep this stuff on reddit. HN is one of the last few remaining high-quality social websites precisely because we shun comments like this. It should go without saying, but if you disagree, please do so in a civil manner.
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by dvt 2y ago
"Coding" per se is a bit hard to quantify, but I at least write, read, or review/look at code for (I'd guess a minimum of) 2 hours a day since I was like 14 (38 now). If I'm working on a project, I can write code fo
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by dvt 2y ago
> How come are this specific for Haskell and not universal? The author says as much. There's overlap for sure, but all the monad stuff, for one, is mostly Haskell-(or functional language rather)-specific.

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