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Some Meta employees were told to work remotely for the day as layoffs loom(businessinsider.com)
4 points by kpw94 7mo ago|0 comments
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by kpw94 7mo ago
The Autoboxing example imo is a case of "Java isn't so fast". Why can't this be optimized behind the scenes by the compiler ? Rest of advice is great: things compilers can't really catch but a good code reviewer sho
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by kpw94 7mo ago
People complaining about how hard to get simple answer is don't appreciate the complexity in figuring out optimal models... There's so many knobs to tweak, it's a non trivial problem - Average/median length of your Promp
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by kpw94 7mo ago
That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of "good and bad", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast. So if you flood the Internet with "of course the moon landing
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by kpw94 7mo ago
"water is wet" kind of study, as tariffs are precisely supposed to increase price for consumers for imported goods... But the last 3 paragraphs are interesting: - Importers raised the price more than needed (i.e. blame tarifs to i
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by kpw94 8mo ago
On my 32GB Ryzen desktop (recently upgraded from 16GB before the RAM prices went up another +40%), did the same setup of llama.cpp (with Vulkan extra steps) and also converged on Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (also Q4_K_M quantization) On th
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by kpw94 8mo ago
> Basically, I was told to make it so that my phone's camera could see something on the screen and my desk at the same time without washing out +1. The low-tech version of this I've heard and I've been doing is: Hold a pri
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by kpw94 8mo ago
Per https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5 , more are coming: > News > 2026-02-16: More sizes are coming & Happy Chinese New Year!
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by kpw94 9mo ago
> However Germany and it's infrastructure can not be compared to the Netherlands. I refuse to take trains through that country anymore. In which country are the trains bad? Netherlands or Germany? Do you care elaborating why? is tha
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US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes(reuters.com)
1052 points by kpw94 9mo ago|1140 comments
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by kpw94 10mo ago
Very cool! And important for sure, thank you. Few questions: - is the stack to index those open source? - is there some standardized APIs each municipality provides, or do you go through the tedious task of building a per-municipality crawl
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by kpw94 10mo ago
> I've personally decided to just rent systems with GPUs from a cloud provider and setup SSH tunnels to my local system. That's a good idea! Curious about this, if you don't mind sharing: - what's the stack ? (Do you
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Stanford Agentic Reviewer(paperreview.ai)
2 points by kpw94 11mo ago|1 comments
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by kpw94 11mo ago
> $1 and $2 coins in wide circulation (instead of worn-out $1 bills). This has its own pros/cons... One advantage of $1 bill over coin is the majority of people in US don't need a wallet with zipper to hold coins. Five $1 bills
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by kpw94 11mo ago
> one can absolutely check the text to remove all occurrences of Indiana Jones How do you handle this kind of prompt: “Generate an image of a daring, whip-wielding archaeologist and adventurer, wearing a fedora hat and leather jacket. He
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by kpw94 1y ago
Nice! So the cache check tries to find if a previously existing text embedding has >0.8 match with the current text. If you get a cache hit here, iiuc, you return that matched' text label right away. But do you also insert a text em
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by kpw94 1y ago
A workaround: Long press on image, "open image in a new tab"
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by kpw94 1y ago
Yeah the landscpe when there were many more Search engines must have been exactly the same... I think the eng teams behind those were just more competent / more frugal on their processing. And since there wasn't any AWS equivalent
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by kpw94 1y ago
> military forces exist to protect the country from existential threats — such as an invasion or rebellion — not to enforce the law. serious question: are Countries such as Italy, France etc not a democracy? All of them are, verbatim fr
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by kpw94 1y ago
Books have a back cover for that reason: so you can read it before buying. Long-form articles could have a back cover summary too, or an enticing intro... and some substack paid articles do that already: they let you read an intro and cut b
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by kpw94 1y ago
So first linux distribution was this one Feb 1992. And first linux distribution with a GUI was "TAMU linux", 3 months later: https://lwn.net/Articles/91371/ Both were released by universities
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Retrieval Augmented Generation in SQLite(towardsdatascience.com)
1 points by kpw94 2y ago|0 comments
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by kpw94 2y ago
yep, especially knowing this isn't their first rodeo... 18 months since https://time.com/6272470/love-is-blind-live-reunion-netflix/ > But the real indicator of how much Sunday’s screw-up ends up hurting N
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by kpw94 2y ago
> But when people talk about "fairness", it usually means quality of life right? Seems you're focusing on the Floor whereas pg refers to a Ceilings? It's normal that enterprise sales lovers ends up as taller poppies t
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by kpw94 2y ago
> France is not very accommodating to non French speaking foreigners. Trying to get around in life with just English there outside of Paris is not easy. I don't really get this kind of comments... Usually people also say the same th
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by kpw94 2y ago
I'm sure Clojure is a great language for some tasks... But, looking at the examples (picked the Wordle one since I know that game): https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI/blob/main/dev/examples&#x
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by kpw94 2y ago
They're easy to spot, at least for recent sedans & suv, they're the ones with a front grille looking like beaver teeth and the grille look more solid vs traditional vent (which make sense since there's no combustion engin
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by kpw94 2y ago
> I think they’re talking about more sensitive internal numbers. What are the costs and margins on the unit? How quickly are units moving at a certain price? What’s the turnover at particular prices? Yeah that's my understanding of
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by kpw94 2y ago
Many listings for apartments are on on-site.com (which is "a RealPage company") and are publicly available... So it could be argued it's not "private prices" + "autoaccept" + "compliance" But rat
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by kpw94 2y ago
The author provides an example of the bad "Loading bar writing" but unfortunately not a good example of what they call "Outline speedrunning writing" pg, who's good at writing essays, does provide a good example of

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