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by extr 3y ago
Yeah, extremely bullshit on that takeover. Ruff and what I've seen so far of uv are very solid.
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by extr 3y ago
Zed is super nice. As soon as they iron out some of challenges with python development I’ll switch from VS Code.
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by extr 3y ago
You are making the exact same reductivist mistake but in the other direction. > I'm talking about people concerned about the "riff raff" that more permissive land use will bring. The fact that you are making the huge logic
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by extr 3y ago
My dogs bark at people on bike/motorcycles/scooters. I think they code as a big animal to them. Once we get up close and it's clear that it's a person on a machine they stop barking.
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by extr 3y ago
The real problem is setting "hard but not so hard as to be impossible" goals at any level is really more of an art than a science. If leadership has a strong vision and their finger on the pulse - OKRs will work great, as will any
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by extr 3y ago
There is a desktop app available (I mean it’s basically a wrapper around the web UI, but still).
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by extr 3y ago
I use https://www.typingmind.com/ . It is paid, but I've found it to be a reliable front end to OpenAI/Claude/Google, supporting everything you mention. I haven't done any hyper detailed security audit bu
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by extr 3y ago
Great summary of the situation. If you've ever been in the position of trying to explain to a bunch of R users why Python packaging is so much harder to deal with, you know the struggle. R/RStudio really makes it incredibly easy t
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by extr 3y ago
I think you should come live for a year in DC and see what you think about the winters. Notice that the comparison also shows it snows quite a bit more, ~~and is on average colder during core winter months~~! Weather is just more of a &quot
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by extr 3y ago
Northern European climates are not comparable to even mid-atlantic US cities. Take a look at a comparison between Amsterdam and Washington DC. https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/51381~20957/Comparison-of... .
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by extr 3y ago
It's not a fitness issue. The netherlands is fairly flat and has a cooler climate than any major US city. It's just not possible to be pedaling up/down hills in any amount of heat/humidity and not get sweaty.
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by extr 3y ago
E-bikes solve this, they're already basically mandatory for cities with a lot of grade. Personally I run 100% of my errands on a jack rabbit e-bike [0] which isn't even really a bike (no pedals) but a sit down scooter. [0] https:
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by extr 3y ago
I've been transitioning some compute-heavy workloads from Lambda/AWS Batch to modal recently and have nothing but good things to say about it. One of those technologies where you are shipping the same afternoon as checking it out.
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by extr 3y ago
The idea that they do not fall under jusrisdiction is a farce and legal contrivance. In reality they have no international standing and do not and would not constitute an independent state under any normal criteria. What's happening he
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by extr 3y ago
For pure SWE I don't think I have a great answer for you, but on the ML/DE side there are a lot of industry-specific problems, especially on the P&C side, it helps to have context and experience with: * Rating (a deep, classic
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by extr 3y ago
If you want my personal opinion, I think the hype around RAG techniques is mostly a fad. I don't see how it becomes a super broad high value technique that your average DS or ML Engineer is getting paid big bucks to know. It's als
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by extr 3y ago
That's a good way of putting it. In my experience so far everyone is very excited to build LLM-enabled apps but outside of some customer service deployments (mostly at the megascale enterprise level), I haven't seen many actually
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by extr 3y ago
I mention this in another reply but tl;dr the DS role is maturing and getting cleaved into different specialist skillsets. Research, ML Engineering, MLOps, Data Engineering, Analytics are what I see as the main ones. In 2016 you could get h
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by extr 3y ago
I'm going through a similar transition right now. I wouldn't say I've been downleveled but I left FAANG to go to a startup (pay cut) where I've been able to transition pretty fluidly from "Data Science" to &quo
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by extr 3y ago
I'm a DS with ~10 yoe mostly in classical ML and I've been wondering how much/how fast I need to pick up "high level" LLM skills. I've seen the way the winds are blowing wrt to the DS job title and so have been
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by extr 3y ago
You are a little confused. There’s no “compiling” of LLMs. It’s just once it’s trained, inference takes less compute than further training. So you can run things locally that you couldn’t necessarily train locally. Not sure where you are ge
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by extr 3y ago
I use OneDrive on Mac and I find it a great tool. The bottom line is as a user I want two things: * Enough storage at a reasonable price such that I "don't have to think about it" * Some kind of online-aware virtual file syst
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by extr 3y ago
Totally get it, shrewd business decision to monetize their content like this, but as a user this kind of stuff sucks. Used to be you could string together all sorts of cool little bots or automated workflows with reddit/twitter and wha
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by extr 3y ago
What would HN commenters define as a truly modern data stack right now? Mostly asking what this chart https://a16z.com/emerging-architectures-for-modern-data-infr... would look like in 2024.
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by extr 3y ago
You can scale to any valuation with any architecture. Whether or not you need sophisticated scaling solutions depends on the characteristics of your product, mostly how pure of a software play it is. Pure software means you will run into sc
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by extr 3y ago
I'm the same way. I've tried like a half dozen times over the years to "get into" vim. It seems like the perfect thing for me. I used to love wasting time ricing my Arch install. But you know what happens? I get 3 hours
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by extr 3y ago
Anecdotally (N~1) it does seem like the new GPT-4 Turbo is less lazy. I cut out of a bunch of my system prompt which was designed to encourage full code gen and re-tried some previous examples: it now works completely fine without all the f
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by extr 3y ago
This article has an uncharitable framing that confuses the issue. Coinbase is arguing that the definition the SEC proposes is so broad as to define many collectibles as securities as well as crypto. This is obviously not intended and so in
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by extr 3y ago
Great. The idea that we should take our lead in AI and ignore it's applicability for military applications is juvenile at best. I like living in the unipolar American world and I want it to stay that way.
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by extr 3y ago
Is this new? It says pre-order but then when you click through to mouser it shows a ton in stock?

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