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by hangonhn 2y ago
I had similar experiences in asking it about the role of conservative philosopher (Huntington) and a very far right legal theorist (Carl Schmitt) in current Chinese political thinking. It was fairly honest about it. It even went so far to p
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by hangonhn 2y ago
No. I don't think that's correct. The Concorde used its afterburners during take off and to get through the transonic region, where the drag is very heavy. Once you've gone past that the drag drops. At that point the Concorde
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by hangonhn 2y ago
I think that’s sort of the point of SPAC: a lot less scrutiny than a full on IPO so shakier companies can go public. If someone is the type who willingly hand over their money knowing what a SPAC is and does, he’s a contrarian who smarter t
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by hangonhn 2y ago
For those of us who are lay people outside of machine learning and AI, what was the critical insight that made “attention all you need” in the original Transformer paper?
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Even China has ruled 996 illegal in 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system#Legal_... No one should be forced to work those kinds of hours. It's unreasonable to call Westerners/Americans l
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by hangonhn 2y ago
You would think that because you're a reasonable person. However at my previous startup, which no longer exists, the new CEO failed to save the company and parachuted out so fast that the company who later acquired the startup couldn&#
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Yeah their agent will accept traces from the standard Otel SDK but there is no way to change their SDK to send the traces to anyone other than Datadog when I last checked a couple(?) of years ago. I mean I understand why they did that but i
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by hangonhn 2y ago
For the tracing part of Otel, neither Prometheus nor Grafana are capable of doing that. Tracing is the most mature part of Otel and the most compelling use case for it. For metrics, we've stayed with Prometheus and AWS Cloudwatch Metri
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by hangonhn 2y ago
But the human-ness of the person inside the room is not important. It's just there to follow simple instructions. I think Searle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle ) put a human in the room to help us empat
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Yeah I've noticed that and have always been so surprised by it. Given Meta's resources and AI strength, I would have thought they would have made their Reels so much better but TikTok, who has FAR FAR less data on me (I beta teste
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by hangonhn 2y ago
The campaign against TikTok has been driven heavily by Meta/Facebook: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo... (or https://archive.is/fffia ) My guess is that
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by hangonhn 2y ago
yeah I think that hypothesis has legs. China has been trying to diversify their energy portfolio for a long time now. They're also going full steam ahead on wind and solar and is the world leader in battery storage (lithium ion and oth
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by hangonhn 2y ago
At a startup where I worked many years ago, they trained a model to take the image and screen size as the input and it would output the JPG compression level to use so that the image appears the same to people. It worked exceedingly well th
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by hangonhn 2y ago
I have both an Apple Watch 8 and the Garmin Fenix and I use the Fenix for sleep tracking. I find the Apple Watch to be too general with the stats. The Fenix gives a lot more detail. You can debate if the extra detail is useful or not. I als
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by hangonhn 2y ago
oh wow. I think your original assertion is correct. Wow. What a crazy arms race.
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by hangonhn 2y ago
> biggest GPU compute cluster in the world right now Really? I'm really surprised by that. I thought Meta was the one who got the jump on everyone by hoarding H100s. Or did you mean strictly GPUs and not any of the AI specific chips
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Question from someone who doesn't know enough about GPUs: Recently a friend mentioned his workstation has 384 cores using 4 processors. This is starting to approach some of the core numbers of earlier GPUs. Is there a possibility that
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by hangonhn 2y ago
The other really impressive part is that they also treated the workers really well during the construction. Cautionary Tales did an episode on this: https://timharford.com/2024/09/cautionary-tales-steel-and-ki...
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Fabbing at TSMC is an embarrassing but great decision. The design side of Intel is the revenue/profit generating side. They can't let the failures of their foundries hold back their design side and leave them hopelessly behind AMD
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by hangonhn 2y ago
I've been using the Lingo so I can't comment on that. Also, it really important to note that I don't have diabetes or any metabolic disorders. I am mainly interested in learning more about the foods that I eat and their effec
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Yes! Abbott Lingo (iPhone only for now) and Dexcom Stelo. They go for about $45 per sensor that last for 2 weeks. I second the OP's suggestion. It's completely changed my eating habits.
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by hangonhn 2y ago
You can do this while you're staring up the whole time. Your brain can predict where the ball will end up even though it's on a curved trajectory and place your hand in the right spot to catch it without guidance from your eyes in
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by hangonhn 2y ago
From: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-s-hidden-s... "BYD received a total of 37.1 billion yuan in tax rebates over the five-year period, nearly four times the 9.3 billion yuan it received in
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by hangonhn 2y ago
They're now mostly in the form of tax rebates and cheap loans these days. According to the Nikkei ( https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-s-hidden-s... ) : "BYD received a total of 37.1 billion
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by hangonhn 2y ago
I may be the odd one here but my career consisted of finance and software engineering. Until my current job, there was always screaming and yelling at all my previous positions that I just assumed that was the norm. It’s more likely that I’
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by hangonhn 2y ago
That's exactly it. She (and other managers on our engineering team) doesn't fire arbitrarily or on a whim. That's not what I meant by quick. The management culture is to always give frequent and timely feedback so that the pe
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by hangonhn 2y ago
+1 to this. I'm currently almost 6 years into my dream job (20+ years career). My manager maintains a culture/atmosphere where belittling people, yelling, or any sort of overly negative actions towards someone, especially in publi
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Thank you SO MUCH!!! I wish there was a way to buy you a cup of coffee or a bear via HN or a link (let me know if there is!)
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by hangonhn 2y ago
I have not! Thanks for the tip! Much appreciated!
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by hangonhn 2y ago
Does anyone know how well it works on the Apple Watch? I have Overcast but am very frustrated with my experience on the Apple Watch because it doesn't sync properly even though the watch supports cellular connections. Nonetheless, it w

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