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   by peab 2y ago

   The housing situation in Canada is insane and is so obviously due to not building enough housing and bringing too many people into the country via immigration. The fact that it costs 1200$/month for a room in a rural area is incredibly
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   by peab 2y ago

   "In other words, you have built exactly zero commercial-grade applications that us the working programmers work on building every day." The majority of programmers getting paid a good salary are implementing other people's id
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   by peab 2y ago

   Think about this: you very well may have already seen AI videos that fooled you - you wouldn't know if you did.
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   by peab 2y ago

   I was testing out a chat app that supported images. Long conversations with multiple images in the conversation can be like .10cents per message after a certain point. It sure does add up quickly
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   by peab 2y ago

   I can relate to this exact experience and I think anybody who's tried to bring scraping to prod can as well!
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   by peab 2y ago

   I had the same thought. You can actually look up the inflation data by category: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/find-me-the-cpi-inflation-d... New cars actually match the total average inflation the closest of any ca
7. 247.▲
   by peab 2y ago

   It really depends what you're building. If you're building code that's going to go in some medical system, or a space shuttle, then yeah, you probably want to write every small function with great detail. If you're creat
8. 248.▲
   by peab 2y ago

   Same. My elantra got stolen TWICE
9. 249.▲
   by peab 2y ago

   how does expensive bandwidth equate to dodgy clients? There are lot's of valid use cases for scraping data, and it's legal to scrape publicly available data, even if the websites hosting it try to block it (try a curl request to r
10. 250.▲
    by peab 2y ago

    where'd you see no more green text?
11. 251.▲
    by peab 2y ago

    I'm also curious about this! I've been learning about scraping, but I've had a hard time finding good info about how to deal with user auth effectively.
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    Show HN: Tarot Card Generator(youtarot.app)

    3 points by peab 2y ago|0 comments
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    by peab 2y ago

    With the exception being Quebec! Vive la province libre.
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    by peab 2y ago

    Is the day-to-day really that different? I grew up in Canada, and then lived in 2 different states in the USA as an adult. I'd say Canada feels as different as say, California is to Alabama.
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    by peab 2y ago

    Almost the entire Canadian identity is based around the fact that they aren't american
16. 256.▲
    by peab 2y ago

    I feel the same. Just look at accents of people back in the 90s compared to now
17. 257.▲
    by peab 2y ago

    I had built out a few util functions for llms using pydantil that I used all the time until I found instructor - it's so simple but so so useful
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    by peab 2y ago

    Oh I see - that's interesting. Honestly I'm happy to be proven wrong about the usefulness of it. I've used langsmith and found it quite useful. I think I was just so jaded by my bad experience with Langchain, that I'm im
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    by peab 2y ago

    I don't really understand why an engineer would use langraph. If a graph based interface for coding was useful, wouldn't they already be used for regular programming? Regular software functions can be viewed as graphs already, wha
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    by peab 2y ago

    I introduced feature flags at my last company, and ended up choosing growthbook. I love how compute experiment buckets with local hashing, so you don't have to make roundtrip server calls to get flag values.
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    by peab 2y ago

    you can just feed that output into another call, to have the next call continue it, since you have more than 28k extra context. The output per token is faster anyways right, so speed isn't an issue. It's just slightly more dev wor
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    by peab 3y ago

    So cool! I just tried it with a song with a fairly complicated chord progression - yesterday by the beatles. It did pretty well! But it got a couple parts wrong. Is there support for modifying the results of the chords/lyrics? I don&#x
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    by peab 3y ago

    I do the same thing on Youtube. It's incredibly convenient.
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    by peab 3y ago

    did people say the same thing when assembly code got abstracted away?
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    by peab 3y ago

    Location: Austin, TX Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Generative AI (Stable Diffusion, LLMs, etc), Backend, ML-infra, AWS, GCP, Python Résumé/CV: available on LinkedIn( https://www.linkedin.com/in&#x
26. 266.▲
    by peab 3y ago

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner)
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    by peab 3y ago

    Simplicity is underrated by a lot of people. I think engineers (myself included) like to overcomplicate things, and think that if something simple implies it not being an intelligent design. As I mature, I realize that intelligence != compl
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    by peab 3y ago

    my experience with HF is that it's incredibly useful for exploring models, and making prototypes, demos and MVPs. Once you want to scale to production, you're right, it doesn't make sense to use the HF repository, it makes mo
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    by peab 3y ago

    That's not true at all - content ID on Youtube works quite well, and the Music Industry has strong ties to Youtube
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    by peab 3y ago

    This is so cool, kudos to you for sharing