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   by faizshah 4y ago

   I work on a frontend team, most of my coworkers use VSCode and very few use the vim plugin for it. On our backend teams I believe IntelliJ is still the most popular editor, it’s really uncommon to find anyone using vim or eMacs for work. Pe
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   Spacemacs is also a good option. I use VSCode + vim for remote development which is super nice now, I think VSCode has by far the best remote development experience, I even use it as my main terminal. For local development I use Webstorm, R
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   Ask HN: Does acceptance testing/BDD slow down development?

   1 points by faizshah 4y ago|1 comments
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   I like their template: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ab961ecbced617ccd24... At work I use a pretty similar template for my design docs. Lately I have started to include a “strategy” section earlier in the de
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   Yes, there are so many meetings where a doc is not prepared and they have booked an hour for something that could take 20 minutes to discuss. Then the meeting balloons to an hour because the structure is freeform, there is a lack of underst
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   I’m interested to see what strategy GCP will go with. Azure partnered with OpenAI and AWS partnered with HF. It seemed like from the Google blog post they are going to try to market their home grown AI tech through GCP but for many categori
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   I’d be happy if I’m wrong about this but I don’t think you can get a reproducible Node.JS build or python build from NixOS out the box. You need to build something on top of it.
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   Ah, there’s a really nice profiler implemented in one of their other projects here (AGPLv3): https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath/tree/master/packages/rath-c... There’s a lot of really nice features in
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   by faizshah 4y ago

   I love this, it seems like the heavy lifting is done by the web app here: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker I’m amazed that this is open source, it’s incredibly useful. I wish there was a profiler implementati
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I found a recent blog post on what seems to be the same phenomena: https://perishablepress.com/block-random-string-comment-spam... They didn’t find a motive though for the spam. To me what’s interesting is that the strings
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    There’s no equivalent OSS implementation of a multi language lock file like Brazil’s. You have to build your own or go with a monorepo tool like bazel. Amazonians take reproducibility for granted because of Brazil.
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    There was actually an interesting blog post I saw on using content hashing with makefiles: https://andydote.co.uk/2022/09/19/make-content-hash/ I was thinking someone could probably build a manyrepo solu
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    Even small companies deploy to staging environments before production. Your deployment pipeline most likely looks like: - Build your language artifacts - Build a container - Deploy that container somewhere - Run approvals like integ tests,
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    The article talks about their RLHF implementation briefly. There’s details on their RLHF implementation here: https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/blob/a619a190df71ea3...
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I think the last missing piece is getting reproducible builds which I think you can get from buildpacks [0], NixOS [1], or Bazel [2] running in your CodeBuild. [0]: https://buildpacks.io/docs/features/reproducibili
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I also found this post on Cell based architectures this morning, I didn’t know this was public: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/guidance/cell-based-archite... And a talk on what a cell based architecture is here:
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    Yea, I think CoPilot style tools that generate the prompts for you and pipeline the models are going to see wider adoption in the long run. I think this raw chat UX where you are directly interacting with the model is more of a demo of wher
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I haven’t worked at google but I think there is one other difference. At amazon teams “merge from live” and have control of their own service’s CD pipeline. They might manually release the merged changes or have full integ test coverage. Th
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I started appreciating TDD as I’ve been using GitHub CoPilot, the results it produces become scarily accurate after you write unit tests (that it helps you write). It’s actually an amazing workflow to just write out the tests first and then
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    Fluent python is great but I don’t recommend you start with Fluent Python, it’s for people who already know python and want to go that extra mile. I still use it as a reference almost every month. Automate the boring stuff is a good beginne
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I was the same way I always felt like I was writing Java in Python, I was able to make useful scripts in Python but I wasn’t able to actually “code” python. Then I took a class on python and finally everything just clicked (I studied some o
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    Ask HN: Anyone been able to launch a new product in big tech as an IC?

    1 points by faizshah 4y ago|0 comments
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    64 Network DO’s and DON’Ts for Game Engine Developers(ithare.com)

    4 points by faizshah 4y ago|0 comments
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I like this workflow, use something like mutagen to sync from your local environment to the remote machine. For me, I prefer jetbrains IDEs so I tried using jetbrains gateway, it’s really buggy and slow. I prefer to use jetbrains ides on my
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    This is really nice, just wanted to add to your list that you can extend SQLite in python with peewee orm: https://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/peewee/sqlite_ext.html... The workflow is basically prototype y
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    There is a huge opportunity on the backend for ML Engineers, running these models in production is expensive.
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I believe this is another one of those cases where it’s generating something that looks correct even though it’s not true. Human: What are the file names in the source code section of openai/transformer-xl ? AI: The file names in the s
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    I agree, this was more of a test of a technique where I got ChatGPT to generate prompts to interactively improve a prompt from another ChatGPT instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857328 If you ask ChatGPT if it
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    by faizshah 4y ago

    If you use it on a project “True intelligence” is not the word I would use to describe it. I have spent 2-8 hours using it every day since launch as a dev tool. It is very good for learning stuff, scaffolding solutions etc. but it is very b
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    Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ChatGPT’s abilities in your area of expertise?

    1 points by faizshah 4y ago|2 comments