Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
manquer
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
25 ms
·
331.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
10 years ago the dynamics could perhaps be as you sketched between regulators and the carrier but today it is more complex. Air India was government owned company till 2020s when it was sold back to the TATA group from whom it was originall
332.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Seems a recent launch in beta just in June . Thanks for the share !
333.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Perhaps it as combination of how much founders were diluted and how much they are being offered upfront. We are hearing about $100M signing bonuses. It is hard to say no when Google/Meta gives you say $100M upfront and hundreds more if
334.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Everyone has a niche, Windsurf is the only large provider if you are a Jetbrains shop. There are some alternatives like continue.dev or Jetbrains own AI offering but no Cursor or Claude Code ( Sonnet 3.7/4) you can get through Jetbrai
335.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
You are right of course. I didn't mean to imply that all methods give 100% reliability as the structured data does. My point was just that there are non system prompt approaches which give on par or better reliability and/or injec
336.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Guardrails are a rough analogue to binding parameters in SQL perhaps. These methods do work better than prompting. For example Prompting alone for example has much poor reliability in spitting out JSON output adhering to a schema consisten
337.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
It is not for inference so population or market does not matter, this is only for training and only for Anthropic, which is pretty unprecedented in the history computing/internet. > all the poorer countries with large populations It
338.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
There are plenty out of band(non prompt) controls , it just requires more effort than system prompts. You can control what goes into the training data set[1],that is how you label the data, what your workload with the likes of Scale AI is.
339.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
It is also quite cool that proto-boomerangs were designed for flight characteristics and actively being used as long as 42,000 years ago. Not all throwing sticks are the same, these early sticks glided some distance, they are not same as sp
340.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Boomerang can be returning or non returning . Etymology in both the language of Dharwal and in English indicate it has been used from the start to include non returning ones as well. there has been strong efforts to make it only to returnin
341.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Traditional Broadcast TV(or radio[1]) uses limited shared airwaves. You can have only so many channels, so they has to be acceptable to plurality of people over whom you are transmitting and therefore needs content(and ad) moderation and ac
342.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
The money goes to creators as well, not just pay for video streaming . On average creators get paid more for premium views than they get from ads .
343.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
OPs statement should be modified to “ you don’t have to watch free Youtube “, You can always pay for it and not have any ads . There shouldn’t be an expectation that a free service should confirm to any standards ? Why should a service
344.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Thank you , I am not sure if those dimensions will deliver the kind of generational boosts needed to keep the exponential going. I could be quite wrong of course but it is not a certain bet that we will get fundamental breakthroughs from th
345.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
10,000 hours of what are we comparing ? . Compilers already do better than me million hours for every program I write because I am not crafting assembly code. Computers save billions of hours compared to doing it by hand with an abacus or p
346.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
That has always been the case, there is loads of empty distance between big population centers even today there are big cities many hours by flight from anywhere else of interest. In the age of sail, people were perfectly willing to spend m
347.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Doha isn't a shining example of sustainable city development but it still better positioned than Vegas, there are few key differences between the two. The population is roughly the same ~ 2.2 Million each[1], however Doha proper is ver
348.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
I find it quaint and amusing people expect politicians to live privately same as their public personas. As long as they votes consistently with their stated public beliefs (icky or flawed as they are ) on which they got elected does it matt
349.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Perhaps it is less about what whether they watch , but what kind of pornography it is . Most people aren’t not comfortable to be open about those topics. Many of the reasons would be worthy of months or years of therapy for even themselves
350.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Is it though? In this day and age I would think that someone who doesn’t watch porn is in the minority, it is like saying this person has sex. On the other hand what kind of pornography, or how frequently and so on could be social pressure
351.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Only if it is shared annotations is it a problem. It need not be shared , think more like a public notion/ share point document with comments visible . I.e experts(users) can create their own individual annotated versions and share wit
352.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Is it though? Would someone of author's caliber even be working on trivial slog item like Oauth2 implementation, if not for the novel development approach he wanted to attempt here ? For the kind of regular jobs a engineer typically is
353.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
> much of research is data janitorial work In applied research perhaps, Fundamental research is nothing like that in any field including ML.
354.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
You joke, but certification is important for some jobs, university admissions and visa applications in many countries. For example Cambridge has a big program for English which tons of universities in the english speaking world use for admi
355.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
Dividend means taxes . Buyback requires someone to sell (I.e. exit) usually no one wants[1] to especially when the company is going hot. investors would rather have (more)stock in a hot company than cash. Fund managers and staff have also d
356.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
For copying the product / service yes it is not worth much . However for people trying to compromise your system access to your code can be a valuable asset .The worth of that could be well beyond just enterprise value of the organizat
357.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
> just screwed over his investors. > didn't break any laws, To VCs, I would imagine the first is bigger disqualification than the second. Startups are modeled around breaking laws to disrupt all the time. Ask for forgiveness tha
358.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
It is because OpenAI is a competitor for Google search, not because OAI is also a monopoly. YC has a conflict of interest because of their relation to OpenAI(YC research) and Sam Altman directly. YC doesn’t after all often amicus briefs i
359.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
That is not unique to fund managers. Second time entrepreneurs are more likely to raise capital even if their first venture failed and spectacularly so. Adam Neumann got funded by a16z(their largest?) despite all the governance issues at We
360.
▲
by
manquer
1y ago
On the flip side few reasons why I don’t favor generalist profiles (while being one myself). - resumes which claim generalist tend to be SEO’ed than real, or AI generated and they will say experience dozens of technologies most of which wou
More ›