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by rldjbpin 2y ago
it is humbling (and lowkey reassuring?) to know that not all large players use the absolute cutting edge approaches in their workflow. it seems and i hope that after all is said and done there is no major life-threatening consequence of thi
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
the "futuristic world if <X> was true" meme fully applies to the core idea that sw guys don't get the hw (and vice versa). even more true for the business people that leave no room for bridging the gap. abstractions exi
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
using ai might be bringing out some low-effort success but at the end of the day, it is skill issue on our front. a common heuristic to look out for is "badly"-written/spoken communication. the "AI vs Actual Indian"
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
mind the wording they've used here - "fully towards open-source" and not "towards fully open-source". big difference. almost nobody is going to give you the sauce hidden behind blobs. but i hope the dumb issues of t
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
trying to rejoin the tech industry only made me appreciate how easy we have it compared to the rest. but when getting on the train becomes tough, it only makes getting off harder. i feel that the employers would (and does) weaponize it agai
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
nowhere capable of solving them, but my understanding is that we still have a sea of unchartered territories when it comes to research here. but it has become apparent now more than ever that what seems alien or niche today might become sem
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
at the risk of discrediting the goodwill that his videos have been for the community, this comes across as an "interesting" development from a guy that has been behind the scenes of the recent development. imho ai-based education
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
as someone relatively junior and switching roles, it has been tough to find one after finishing school. wish my journey would been a success story for using hn for job search, but got no luck here. it might be the same for most non-NA talen
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
while globally we are in a better* state than our past selves, but being better off than the others have always been a zero-sum game imho. so this sort of messaging reminds me of the cutthroat competitiveness that folks from working-class b
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
this sort of argument was used for web3/crypto, vr, quantum computing, heck even nuclear fusion. but the first half vs the rest of the list did not receive the same proportional funds, at least from the tech phase from what we can see.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
through this, at least it is now fairly well known that chrome is able to share detailed hardware details to a website. now, is it bad that it is being done at all or that only google.com host requests can access it? personally i see the va
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
see related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623629 ( Cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English from the same site; 98 comments)
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
not sure why Sweeney is still so motivated about this, but i am glad someone is leading the charge on countering apple's mobile ecosystem bs. if apple behaves like a judiciary court about these things, then epic is helping setting prec
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
a lot of cool projects here, but i will share my relatively mundane ones: - made a tool to import all of my local music library to a spotify playlist by analysing the music itself. used a music tagging api to analyze a small section from th
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
This. i am much junior but from my experience, working with the toolchain of your team is better in the long run than against it. if you become proficient quickly with whatever your team works with, it is much better overall than making eve
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
> And for those opposed to generative AI on principled or functional grounds, putting similar energy into millions of Nvidia AI servers probably seems like just as big of an energy waste. while there is value and money-grifting involved
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
having used rstudio academically, the new ide looks like a refreshed version of it, which happens to come with the familiar vs code sidebar. personally, i see the value of rstudio (and in extension positron) while learning in a course, but
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
my knowledge of compilers don't extend beyond a 101 course done ages ago, but i wonder how the researchers enriched the dataset for improving these features. did they just happen to find a way to format the heuristics of major compiler
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
for me, the 2.5B model for gemma (now 1) was very interesting as that was the first major offering at this size level. for basic llm tasks that most people would use on their daily lives (simple rag on your own data), it did the job for the
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
from seo/visibility perspective, i feel like there will be a race to be on the first page yet again. i am sure it got switched to "first n" result or something but fun to be back i suppose.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
hacking around the limitations of proprietary soft-/hardware has been very interesting for me through project such as this one. personally though, i am awaiting the new generations of eink displays on android tablets to become more acc
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
hn hug of death in full action. currently unable to visit. all the best working it out tho!
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
tinyml fascinates me because its principles can be directly applied to web-based applications imho. micropython seems pretty accessible from first glance. would it be easy to create a webassembly port of its code?
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
more like the labour to get one made for you.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
streissand effect in play maybe? i think they lose more from this getting publicized than any losses from having this publicly available for the week or so.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
you just answered your own question, at least for gaming. the paid userbase for proton-based gaming needs to grow large enough to be taken seriously before most people can migrate.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
definitely seen the streamer behaviour elsewhere but i would cut slack for WoW ones especially given how toxic the (in-game) chat is over there. jokes aside, it is not easy to enforce this policy with m$. very few windows or non-apple devic
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
maybe for macs. in ios, however, icloud backup for EVERYTHING is enabled by default IIRC and you need to manually toggle everything off before you run out of the paltry 5 GB you get. m$ finds a way to bring together the worst of everything
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
i was unaware about the limitation. the experience sucks too much to put that limit to test as it is.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
amazon has another battle on ai-generated listings on their marketplace as it is ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969417 ). while highly unethical and a nuisance to navigate as a user, i respect the hustle compared to

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