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by jstx1 4y ago
The best libraries are in Python. > Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig, why has this not happened on these types of projects? 1. It's a lot of work and you need to good hardware support. There
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't know if you have an actual reason to attribute Meta's performance to their business model (apart from not liking advertising). They could reasonably run a steadily profitable business based on advertising without expecting
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by jstx1 4y ago
> we expect headcount at the end of 2023 will be approximately in-line with third quarter 2022 levels. > We do anticipate that Reality Labs operating losses in 2023 will grow significantly year-over-year. Interesting.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> There are tens of thousands of options out there and every single day a new one appears here on HN. Not really, realistically you have a handful of options for every use case unless you're deliberately picking really obscure stuff
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by jstx1 4y ago
Thoughtworks asked me talk about a time I've been discriminated against in their culture fit interview. One of the worst interviewing experiences I've had.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Great, more stuff for the cover-letter-reading AI on the other end.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Hiring because that's what everyone else does, now laying people off for the same reason.
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by jstx1 4y ago
No, Python is much more than an interface - the model architercture and definition happens in Python. If you're writing an ML algorithm, you're writing it in Python, it's just that the lower level operations are implemented i
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by jstx1 4y ago
Between Q3 2021 and Q3 2022 they went from 150k to 186k employees; that's a huge increase over only a year. It makes sense to slow down at some point.
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by jstx1 4y ago
All of these things are generally frowned upon already.
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by jstx1 4y ago
So when a senior person leaves you replace them with a junior?
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by jstx1 4y ago
> A "senior" engineer who has moved 5 times in 10 years staying less than 2 years in any company has five times the experience of a junior engineer. This doesn't make sense, new jobs don't reset your level. There&#x27
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by jstx1 4y ago
Probably not, here's a nice detailed breakdown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTBLsv4yYs - the style isn't for everyone but it covers a lot.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Their turnover is high though, a hiring freeze will reduce their staff by a lot (compared to other companies). Or is it one of those hiring freezes where they still hire replacements?
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by jstx1 4y ago
The article goes into really good detail about the nuances. It feels like many people in this thread are giving their answer to the question in the title instead of commenting on any of the content in the article.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Search by location, apply, interview etc. I'm not buying that there are no in-office jobs in the Bay Area.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Not having lunch helps me the most with this (I don't eat breakfast either). If it seems too extreme, you can try to have a smaller low-carb lunch.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's a good article, thanks for sharing. (I'm just now discovering the author)
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by jstx1 4y ago
What's your argument - that someone else was wrong about something else?
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by jstx1 4y ago
What was TF unable to do that you could do in JAX?
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's just that TensorFlow is big and bloated, has quite a few quirks and it's not the cool thing to use anymore so they're doing some work to address these issues. TensorFlow is still very popular and you can get work done wi
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by jstx1 4y ago
Looks good. Does adopting the numpy API standard while maintaining backwards compatibility mean that they'll have to duplicate a lot of functionality?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Whichever you want; who cares if HN says Typescript or Go if you yourself don't want to work with those languages. Look for languages that look interesting to you and which also have some job opportunities.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Go is played out at this point. What do you mean? Go's being used more than ever.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> nothing has been proven The court cases won't be about whether he cheated. They'll mostly be about whether the people he's suing could legally say the things they've said.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> But it's not a case of one of us being right and the other wrong, it's just that some people are more extrovert, and some are more introvert, and we simply don't enjoy the same things. I don't think the separation i
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by jstx1 4y ago
I think that you're mixing up Watson the jeopardy bot with Deep Blue the chess bot.
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by jstx1 4y ago
You could have at least used embedding layers for the categorical features. Stacking dense layers with AutoML doesn't do much. So the comparison ends up being "good baseline vs something nobody ever does".
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by jstx1 4y ago
> he said he'd rewrite the book to match if he could Anything to not actually finish the main books.
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by jstx1 4y ago
"Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" is in the Silmarillion which Amazon don't have rights to. So they need to actively avoid stuff that Tolkien has written, either by ignoring parts of the timeline or changing the story

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