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by hintymad 4y ago
ChatGPT is an amplifier of our skills. As Ben Thompson in a recent episode of the Podcast dithering said, something along the line that differentiable people will become more prominent. The existential threats are coming to current low-code
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by hintymad 4y ago
I don't think people lied about their expertise. Instead, they likely believed that what they knew was sufficient for their work. Another possibility is that the big tech hired so many people in the past few years that many people ende
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by hintymad 4y ago
I actually don't expect the candidate to know any particular algorithm or design. Instead, I'd ask the candidate to dive deep into their most familiar project or design something that's closely related to what they have done.
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by hintymad 4y ago
> We've had a massive influx of new tech talent over the last few years Very true, colleges have been seeing double-digit growth in applicants of CS majors every year in the past 10+ years, and this year the number of applicants is
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by hintymad 4y ago
> A manager writing code would have been an absolutely jaw-dropping ludicrous idea – their function was to engage in high-level planning, manage people by doing 1:1s and participating in the stack ranking process, and they had four laye
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by hintymad 4y ago
> I’ll have to pay 2¢ per GB that I replicate between AZs, whereas I will pay nothing if I use RDS. This is surprising as I remember that data transfer on EC2 within the same region was free. Maybe I always got it wrong.
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by hintymad 4y ago
Yet in the meantime UCLA got 146K applications this year, and UCSD more than 130K. Students with 4.3+ weighted GPAs and 15+ APs still got rejected. UC's admission officers (AO) in their pubic talks made it clear that academic performan
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by hintymad 4y ago
> If humans stop producing new content and rely solely on AI, online content across the world may run the risk of becoming repetitive and stagnant. I doubt if this concern is valid for humanity. Creating is an innate desire of human bein
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Microsoft lays off AI ethics and society team(theverge.com)
1 points by hintymad 4y ago|0 comments
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by hintymad 4y ago
Any book about org structure and incentivizing people? I always find it hard to incentivize people in a large org, and building culture is all about implementing the right incentives. Different incentives have different trade-offs, and in t
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by hintymad 4y ago
The service feed.ly, even its free version, seemed have implemented most of GReader's functionality. That said, somehow the vibe offered by GReader is gone, and I started to visit feed.ly less and less often.
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by hintymad 4y ago
They are probably on some BERT variant already, but to match ChatGPT's accuracy and low cost will be hard.
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by hintymad 4y ago
If I were AWS, I would be very nervous about the their NLP services like Amazon Comprehend or Amazon Lex. ChatGPI's API is both cheaper and more powerful. It's just a matter of time that ChatGPT can support those so-called enterpr
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Massively The word massive, in the way tech people use it, is a real sore to the eyes. No matter how massive the word is meant to be, it is still a god damn weasel word.
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by hintymad 4y ago
Just heard that the payroll company Ripping is down, as they use SVB as their partner. What a rippling effect...
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by hintymad 4y ago
Will startups have problems paying salaries now?
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by hintymad 4y ago
> I would need to open a PR to the repo and wait weeks, sometimes months, for a new release. Just curious, is this a limitation of the Operators framework, or that of your system's implementation? My knee-jerk reaction is that any
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by hintymad 4y ago
> They don't much care about quality of life (or lack thereof) for regular employees. But many talents do stay in the Bay Area and many startups grew to become giants too. So, I'm not sure it's a one-sided decision by the
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by hintymad 4y ago
> Six of the top ten school districts in the state are in the bay area. This is because the majority of the parents in the tech industry in Bay Area are tiger parents or 24x7 helicopter parents. I kid you not, in a lunch with random tech
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by hintymad 4y ago
Plus, LA is too dry, and the commute is even worse than in Bay Area.
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by hintymad 4y ago
My life is good, thanks to the booming tech industry. And as other comments said, the weather is great for me. Indeed, mediterranean weather is a godsend. There was a reason that Greeks and Romans had leisure to come up with foundations of
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by hintymad 4y ago
How does Bay Area fit in the narrative? From my personal point of view, Bay Area, where I live, offers very little to its residents: public schools have super low standards and low teaching qualities. Many of the schools use seemingly run-d
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by hintymad 4y ago
Speaking of lessons, I envy the kids who can join teams in those ski resorts, and the team coaches are usually regional or national medalists, who know how to drill fundamentals into kids. Adults are not so lucky. I tried many coaches or le
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by hintymad 4y ago
Does ski matter to beginners? Say, for a Ski beginner who can cruise light blue runs with ugly movement when carving? Should I just pick a pair in a certain price range, or pay close attention to all kinds of parameters.
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by hintymad 4y ago
I was. I don't have answers and I recognize that labor dispute can be nuanced, hence my questions.
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Uber’s move to the Cloud: Part 1(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
12 points by hintymad 4y ago|3 comments
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by hintymad 4y ago
> One acquisition was particularly interesting: Postmates, a business acquired in 2020 for $2.65B. Uber’s leadership noticed Postmates’ infrastructure costs were significantly lower as a percentage than Uber spent on its infrastructure.
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by hintymad 4y ago
Supply and demand is a big issue too. Take Bay Area as an example. The number of newly minted millionaire families every year on average exceeds the number of newly added houses around those job centers. In the meantime, we've been hav
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by hintymad 4y ago
Not really. In fact, I mostly watch dubbed animes, as I can't stand Japanese style of shouting and yelling in those animes.
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by hintymad 4y ago
I used to spend a lot of time on Duolingo just to get to the top of Diamond league, until one day I realized that the Diamond league meant nothing to me and there was more effective way to learn a new language. By the way, is it just me or

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