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by m_ke 6y ago
Here’s a recent interview with them https://youtu.be/VykTBPKwYnA I’ve been considering starting a software coop to build open source versions of these middleman gig work services for a while. Would anyone on here be interes
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by m_ke 6y ago
Can definitely confirm this. My brother and I grew up on the same diet, followed the same routine of brushing twice daily, flossing, using mouth wash and going to the dentist at the same time but for some reason he has only had like 2 filli
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by m_ke 6y ago
Maybe they should focus on stopping their tax dodging and deal with their labor issues abroad first. A Pan-African watch face is not helping anyone get out of poverty.
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by m_ke 6y ago
To be honest it's still kind of a mess. I started out with a FastAPI service that wasn't performant enough and figured that putting ray serve behind it would take a day but it turned out to be a pain in the ass. The docs are reall
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by m_ke 6y ago
Yes and it's made worse by the fact that there's no way to get the raw body of the request in a synchronous endpoint. I also ran into some really bad validation / serialization performance degradations for large response bodi
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by m_ke 6y ago
Yeah I also just ran into that issue a week ago. Had to look for awful hacks to try to get around it, ended up using Ray Serve to offload the processing to a background worker.
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by m_ke 6y ago
I also ran into some performance issues with model serving using FastAPI and ended up using Ray Serve to handle properly distributing the workload and batching requests. With a bit of work I was able to 10x the throughput and cut down respo
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by m_ke 6y ago
Valley billionaires used to build, now they mostly extract value by using their financial leverage to starve out the competition, operating at a loss and screwing the workers in the process. Their money is not made on profit margins, inste
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by m_ke 6y ago
I'm much more concerned about the inverse, not people getting fooled by fake content, but believing that anything that doesn't align with their views is fake. We can end up in a post truth society where someone like Trump, Duterte
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by m_ke 6y ago
It's worse than that, politicians will be able to credibly claim that anything that's not advantageous to them is fake. We'll end up in a world where a tin pot dictator like Trump can go out and say that anything he said or d
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by m_ke 6y ago
I recommend watching Adam Curtis' documentary called Hypernormalisation to get a sense of how badly this can get abused by political operatives. Especially this clip: https://youtu.be/Y5ubluwNkqg https://www
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by m_ke 6y ago
A few related projects: - https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc - https://github.com/cheind/pytorch-blender - https://github.com/DIYer22/bpycv - https://github.com
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by m_ke 6y ago
iOS has around 70% share of mobile app revenue and most of the premium customers. If you're building a business, media or communication tool you can't compete without an iOS app.
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by m_ke 6y ago
They control almost 70% of mobile app revenue: https://swagsoft.com.sg/blog/android-vs-ios-which-platform-t... . A service like netflix, spotify or basecamp can't compete without an iOS app.
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by m_ke 6y ago
I live in Brooklyn and have seen 2-3 business close a week around me. At this point almost every other storefront is vacant (many of which have been since before the pandemic). My hope is that this will bring down commercial real estate pri
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by m_ke 6y ago
I agree, but as mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159257 QAnon has morphed into a master conspiracy to unite all of these crazy groups. The same people that push Qanon are also pushing anti mask, anti va
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by m_ke 6y ago
This was a pretty good take on why QAnon is such a big issue: https://youtu.be/6k-w-2KIV7Q?t=4728 "q anon is a conspiracy theory incubator it's not like the other conspiracy theories out there it's not like p
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by m_ke 6y ago
A good listen about QAnon: https://youtu.be/lf3xlx9K0DI Big issue with QAnon is that unlike normal standalone conspiracy theories, this one engulfs all other ones into a single plot.
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Facebook Bets Big on Future of NYC, and Offices, with New Lease(nytimes.com)
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by m_ke 6y ago
On top of that student loans have been frozen. That allowed me to save an extra $900/month.
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by m_ke 6y ago
Has to be a really strongly held opinion to write a book about it. He's probably not racist though, just like Rabois wasn't a homophobe when he was shouting anti gay slurs [1]. I interpret it as a typical conservative distraction,
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by m_ke 6y ago
I'm not claiming that he's a racist but it takes a special kind of person to write a book against multiculturalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9iG0cSjbc
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by m_ke 6y ago
See #7 in my updated comment. For a hardcore libertarian he sure loves government contracts. Also I'm not accusing him of being a racist, just trying to point out that he's a major figure in the alt right circus and that it might
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by m_ke 6y ago
Sorry, that was supposed to be sarcastic. What I meant to say is that Sam has a huge network and is a phone call away from pitching any CEO in the valley. One of the biggest benefits of YC these days is the huge network of companies in your
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by m_ke 6y ago
That's true, but machine learning models are not twilio or sendgrid, you have to tune them for your use case, monitor their performance and handle the uncertainty of their outputs. Doing that well requires a data scientist and if you h
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by m_ke 6y ago
Nobody is putting these huge models in production, even the smaller transformer models are still too expensive to run for most use cases. With the way the field is moving, GPT-3 will be old news in a month, when more advances are made and o
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by m_ke 6y ago
I guess Sama plans on manufacturing growth metrics by forcing YC companies to pretend that they're using this. Generic machine learning APIs are a shitty business to get into unless you plan on hiring a huge sales team and selling to d
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by m_ke 6y ago
I doubt that they use face recognition for tracking, instead they can just log MAC addresses of mobile phones that come within range. Here's an example of a company selling this: https://www.skyhook.com/blog/nuts-a
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by m_ke 6y ago
Most New Yorkers have no idea that LinkNYC is a Google project that's meant to track them without ever even connecting to the "free" wifi. I'd be willing to bet most people don't even know that those things have cam
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by m_ke 6y ago
I made a gatsby site about 2 years ago and it has been a nightmare to maintain, the build breaks for random reasons every time I come back to it. Forcing everything to go through graphql is also a pain and adds an unnecessary indirection th

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