hintymad

11 ms·

211.
by hintymad 1y ago
A mystery about Apple is that some of its software are ridiculously bad. iTunes sync was one of them. Another example is removing iCloud sync used to wipe out the content on the disconnected devices. Screen Time is pretty much unusable. It&
212.
by hintymad 1y ago
Just curious, wouldn't it get harder for companies like Databricks or Clickhouse to compete against AWS in the long run? They have better products, for sure. Yet over time, the product gap between what they offer and what AWS offers w
213.
by hintymad 1y ago
All good points. I really can't explain why it is perfectly okay for natives to listen to Chinese/Japanese yet it is so hard to parse Pinyin or Kana when reading, even when spaces are provided. Maybe it is because we still think i
214.
by hintymad 1y ago
This made me spend 20 minutes cleaning up all the drinks from my desk and my screen.
215.
by hintymad 1y ago
> it's chunking. I guess the ultimate question is whether we can have a spelling system that totally mimics how we communicate verbally, so chunking becomes as easy as when we listen to the the spoken language. I doubt it will happe
216.
by hintymad 1y ago
There were online discussions on abolishing Kanji in Japanese (漢字廃止論). There were tons of interesting examples, and I took some notes. Unfortunately I don't remember the original sources now.
217.
by hintymad 1y ago
I've always wondered how some countries manage to drop Chinese characters, while others can’t—or just don’t want to. And how did Vietnam and Korea manage to understand their historical texts after they stopped using Chinese characters?
218.
by hintymad 1y ago
Yeah, I mixed up my input and chose simplified Chinese
219.
by hintymad 1y ago
My understanding is that Japanese are very open to external influences, even when they come from enemies. Case in point, they embraced the legal framework and political reform that was pushed by the Americans. On the other hand, MacArthur w
220.
by hintymad 1y ago
Are you sure? If anything, spelling along makes it hard to read Chinese or Japanese. Examples: can Japanese people correctly understand this: “かんじをせんねんいじょうつかっていたけいいからかんじをはいしするとぶんしょうによるいしのそつうにへいがいがしょうじるからです”？ In fact, the following two diffe
221.
by hintymad 1y ago
You strategy makes sense. Truth be told, even native Chinese and Japanese tend to forget how to write many characters as they spend more time typing than writing.
222.
by hintymad 1y ago
What drove me crazy when I started to learn Japanese was that a Kanji characters can have so many different pronunciations. The most egregious example is 煙草, whose pronunciation is the really just tabacco(tabako, or タバコ). I knew the etymolo
223.
by hintymad 1y ago
> Tech layoffs by year I was wondering how much was due to over hiring during the crazy 2020-2021. Multiple companies increased their headcount by more than 50%, or even by 100% during the two years. That does not make business or techni
224.
by hintymad 1y ago
Do we need to train an LLM to be warm and empathetic, though? I was wondering why wouldn't a company simply train a smaller model to rewrite the answer of a larger model to inject such warmth. In that way, the training of the large mod
225.
by hintymad 1y ago
I think AI is going to make senior engineers at big tech companies 10x more productive. A lot of senior engineers in the big tech companies spend most of their time in meetings. They're still brilliant. For instance, they read papers a
226.
by hintymad 1y ago
> But here’s the kicker: we were told AI would free us up for “higher-level work.” What actually happened? We just found more work to fill the space. That two-hour block AI created by automating your morning reports? It’s now packed with
227.
by hintymad 1y ago
That’s the issue, isn’t it? A hallmark of the industrial age or modern society is cheap products accessible millions of people, as the cost is related to productivity. It’s Ford making T-model accessible to normies. Be expensive in massive
228.
by hintymad 1y ago
Politics aside, I'm really curious how much the renovation should cost. $1.9B seems exceedingly high. To put it in perspective, it cost less than $1.6B to build the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which is 36 kilometers long. If the cost is in
229.
by hintymad 1y ago
I also noticed that increasingly more people opted to watch movie/show walk-throughs instead of the original work. That baffles me to no end.
230.
by hintymad 1y ago
Isn't it funny? Lina Khan and the US government in general blocked all kinds of tech acquisition and merger to the point that companies got creative and as a result many Windsurf employees got screwed. On the other hand, it's tota
231.
by hintymad 1y ago
Honest question: why do people prefer developing code inside a docker? I get the benefits of docker as a deployment unit, but wouldn’t configuring a dev container and using it a hassle nonetheless, compared to not doing them at all?
232.
by hintymad 1y ago
> The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering Sounds like good managers and leaders now have an edge. Per Patty McCord of Netflix fame used to say: All that a manager does is setting the context.
233.
by hintymad 1y ago
Most likely not. That said, I could at least understand enough to enjoy the show. Not sure why understanding Spanish conversation has been so much harder.
234.
by hintymad 1y ago
> To this day, I still find Spanish a bit more challenging than my native language or even English I feel the same, albeit on a much lower level. Somehow Spanish just feels strange to me. For instance, a subject in Spanish often gets pla
235.
by hintymad 1y ago
Copying from another post. I’m very puzzled on why people don’t talk more about essential complexity of specifying systems any more: In No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks argues that the hard part of software engineering lies in essential comple
236.
Ask HN: How does AI overcome the "essential complexity" as in No Silver Bullet?
6 points by hintymad 1y ago|1 comments
237.
by hintymad 1y ago
> Fighting insanity with more insanity Yeah. Big tech bad, but big non-elected government (EU) good?
238.
by hintymad 1y ago
Thanks! Bootstrapped business is a great path! I hope I know how to make it a success. It looks to me that even finding the PMF of a business is hard.
239.
by hintymad 1y ago
A trajectory question: has anyone thought about becoming a journeyman in their day-to-day work? Like a backend engineer switching to building machine learning models. Or a frontend engineer moving into optimizing LLM serving infrastructure.
240.
by hintymad 1y ago
> The current crop of tech doesn't get us to AGI I actually agree with this. Time and again, I can see that LLMs do not really understand my questions, let alone being able to perform logical deductions beyond in-distribution answer

More ›