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by itake 8mo ago
I don't think this is an AI problem. Even before AI, FANGA companies famously optimize promotions on perceived impact. During the promo review, people will look how many projects were done and the impact of those projects.
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by itake 8mo ago
yeah, I agree. When Engineering Budget Managers see their AI bills rising, they will fire the bottom 5-10% every 6-12 months and increase the AI assistant budget for the high performers, giving them even more leverage.
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by itake 8mo ago
My issues with the super posts is its really hard to grep for relevant information. I've tried asking ChatGPT to recommend projects based on my interests, but ChatGPT heavily hallucinated or projected my interests onto irrelevant proje
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by itake 8mo ago
Pinecone scales horizontally (which creates overhead, but accomodates more data). A better comparison would be with Meta's FAISS
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by itake 8mo ago
People are building houses with way more features, that last longer, have better thermoregulation, and just more comfortable to live in.
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by itake 8mo ago
More accurate and smaller. quantization = process to make the model smaller (lossy) dynamic = being smarter about the information loss, so less information is lost
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by itake 8mo ago
I find I leave the 'important' apps open longer, trying to recheck if I got a notification.
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by itake 8mo ago
Session is a low-privacy fork of Signal. source: https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707409
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by itake 9mo ago
I think it was xbox?
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by itake 9mo ago
options can only last 7 years, but brex was founded in 2017.
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by itake 9mo ago
I'm curious how the employees faired. Seems like they may bet getting nothing out of the deal if the investors get their money back.
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by itake 9mo ago
You can't eat private insurance. The consequences of not being able to produce enough calories is severe. It is much better to overproduce and everyone gets fed than producing just enough and a climate event erases out 20% of our calor
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by itake 9mo ago
Why AUD and not SGD? I guess AUD has higher GDP (but much lower GDP per capita and worse forex rate to the us dollar)
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by itake 9mo ago
IMHO, instead of 90-day memory loss, use an LRU eviction strategy.
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by itake 9mo ago
My thought was the image metadata already includes the datetime... but I guess you're right that filesystems wouldn't support sorting by that.
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by itake 9mo ago
FAISS runs in RAM. If your dataset can't fit into ram, FAISS is not the right tool.
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by itake 9mo ago
With AI needing more access to documentation, WDYT about using RAG for documentation retrieval?
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by itake 9mo ago
Https://www.kcoleman.me Index me AI overlords
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by itake 9mo ago
"Move fast and break things" I could spend an extra 5 minutes doing it "right" or I can get what I need done and have a 0.001% chance of there ever being a problem (since there are other security measure in place, like f
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by itake 9mo ago
I just had a 12hr outage due to flyio's quick and easy postgres minor patch update cooking my database. I ended up downloading the entire volume, setting up my own docker container locally, exporting it, creating a new cluster (on the
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by itake 9mo ago
Just a random example, Drivers buy modified versions of our mobile app, because they think it will give them advantages over other drivers. These apps are side-loaded (not published in the app store).
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Show HN: Local Screenshot Image Rename(github.com)
2 points by itake 9mo ago|2 comments
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by itake 9mo ago
For single-purpose LLM tools, I personally prefer ollama. idk if you can make the provider agnostic or not
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by itake 9mo ago
I work at Grab (SEA rideshare and licensed bank, but not licensed in VN). A significant amount of fraud comes from scammers convincing victims to installed malicious apps. They fake being a customer service provider. Banks don't want t
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by itake 9mo ago
At the start, getting users is the first problem. No one is going to bother scamming your app if there is no one there. Then once people exploit the app, that doesn't mean they wont add value (e.g. contribute positive content). Maybe t
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by itake 9mo ago
yeah, federal taxes and I live in WA :)
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by itake 9mo ago
I've never used the card. too heavy.
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by itake 9mo ago
Apple had a promotion at the start of 2025 with 5% cash back on everything up to $50k. I paid my taxes with that card that year :)
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by itake 9mo ago
If rent is higher, how will people save for a down payment?
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by itake 9mo ago
I think it would help, but we could still be better. As an America living in southeast with ~40 years of life to plan for, I face the similar issue of: which country can I feel can be a 'safe' home for me to live in? If Vietnam ha

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