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by itissid 3y ago
I am wondering how they will build out Wifi-Index for positioning(GPS sucks in cities) assuming they want to do location based targetting for any number of purposes(ads, recommendations, location based geo-fencing etc). The critical piece f
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by itissid 3y ago
Because there is no way meta can challenge Google and Apple's dominance on the mobile platform(e.g. look at how the they have monopolized location services and apple has dented their ad market) and they are desperate to redefine what t
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by itissid 3y ago
If your firm cannot afford >= 400K salary engineers you will/cannot be big tech(not in the US). Good Engineers(in the US, EU etc) who command this will leave. You can be a dollar printing tech company and have good engineers but y
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by itissid 3y ago
Its a fancy term for s piece of code that has some context(memory) and can communicate with other AI APIs(aka lang chain) including itself. It can retrieve certain information from other sources(called vector stores). What makes it differen
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by itissid 3y ago
Mint already uses Plaid, but I the transaction information it gets is too low in information to categorize anything reasonably. For example my Amazon Grocery transaction happen on my amazon Chase Credit card(gives me 5% discount). But conne
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Apparently the indian government pushed the canadian delegation on the issue of Khalistan at the G20. The Canadians were like "Look we have evidence of your guy killing this guy". The Canadian delegation then did not get invited t
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by itissid 3y ago
A math major named Dave Beazly is also figuring it out: https://www.dabeaz.com/bits/ct.html . You are in good company.
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> I would be constantly annoyed by the sound of my own heartbeat doing things like trying to sleep. Wait what? explain more please.
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by itissid 3y ago
Attempt 2: ------------ User: You have to answer a question about a family on a planet inhabited by aliens called Frobians. Here are some rules for a family Each Frobian can be one of two types Frobel or Frobo. A twerp is a Frobo, is also
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by itissid 3y ago
I think the larger point is about solving problems not within the transitive closure of stuff it has not learnt already. In the following scenario where I replace brothers and sisters with different names but give ChatGPT Plus plenty of hin
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by itissid 3y ago
Oh yes. If you look at the number of software products that have failed at Meta you will cry in joy or intrigue(or both). Possibly why "Move fast and break things"(or acquire if all else fails) is the only way the money train kee
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by itissid 3y ago
This is great! I often find myself using ChatGPT plus to summarize discussions for articles manually. We should make the summary and discussion summary part of the HN Feed home page? It does not have to affect ranking.
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Could this be an artifact of just not reshuffling the dataset and how the weight regime is? What if you reversed the dataset in the second epoch, under the memory hypothesis the training loss would not plummet if it has not learnt anyth
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by itissid 3y ago
Microfocus has been posting more actively since the pandemic: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=microfocus.com But is this because of the pandemic?
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There were multiple calls in the pandemic to support COBOL mainframes from the new jersey government[1] because the unemployment system was not functioning well. A lot of (older) people volunteered for it. [1] https://www.cnbc.co
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by itissid 3y ago
The amount of damage BS socio-economic systems like caste have done to human dignity is incalculable[1]. Some idiot ages ago (lets call them M) thought it was a good idea to build a system where people could bake in a heirarchy that dictate
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by itissid 3y ago
> Well the real answer is to reduce consumption. It can and should be done without sacrificing comfort. Comfort Or reducing their standard of living . Remember for most people in the world this they will keep consuming to get to *a* sta
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by itissid 3y ago
When NYC turned manhattan's 14th street[1](a bidirectional wide traffic street) into bus only for rush hours with very strict rules for cars, car farers yelled and hollered and people warned of traffic snarl-ups up the wazoo. In realit
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by itissid 3y ago
Also apparently most of the Romani Gypsy(southern Spain and in Serbia) are also of Indian origin.
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Why is landing on the moon ~75M?(wsj.com)
1 points by itissid 3y ago|3 comments
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Because you cannot fully ask the question without context. 1. Why is it so cheap to make rockets? - Because the program was born into and from scarcity. - Because everything else from schooling to housing to healthcare to decent food is che
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by itissid 3y ago
Reading other projects code(especially their unit tests to figure out code) is an invaluable time tested skill I learnt. Once you have learnt the basics of coding getting into doing this is what I highly recommend.
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by itissid 3y ago
Assume location is East Coast(NYC).
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by itissid 3y ago
Noob Q: If I have 25000$ can I buy some GPUs and support the effort for supporting GPU Poor? Like is there a DIYer's guide to do this? I don't want to donate the cash but instead set up a handful of GPUs(Somehow?) and let people p
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by itissid 3y ago
Aren't hash joins done in RDBMS just like a general application of map-reduce? In left joins The big table is hashed on the join key value and sent to N machines and the little table is just everywhere. IIUC this is how any OLAP/B
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by itissid 3y ago
Isn't that Rama framework(Nathan Marz's new thing from Red Planet labs) the latest iteration of "lets completely abstract computation latency/complexity from the framework"? In my mind it tries to do different thing
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by itissid 3y ago
To clarify, I meant if there is a ship in the air and there is a fire does it increase the risk for the ship? Also does the ship increase the risk of a wildfire in some extreme weather conditions?
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Tell HN: NW Indian state Himachal Pradesh suffers ~5% GDP loss after monsoon
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Noob Question: What happens when the area you are inspecting has a wildfire risk or develops a wildfire risk while HyLighter is in the air?
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#TIL. Also cool to know is pydantic's @validate decorator: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/validation_decorator/... and in case you were thinking its not superflous to mypy( https://docs

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