romanhn

13 ms·

151.
by romanhn 2y ago
For general understanding of LLMs, Andrej Karpathy's recent deep dive is a great intro: https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI
152.
by romanhn 2y ago
Here's the source for those not familiar with the classic: https://slashdot.org/story/21026 . Can't believe it's turning 25 next year.
153.
by romanhn 2y ago
Is this it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718054
154.
by romanhn 2y ago
<The above comment has been deleted>
155.
by romanhn 2y ago
To this day, 22 years after I have last used Lotus Notes, it remains the worst software product I have had to work with. It tried to be everything and ended up being bad at all of it.
156.
by romanhn 2y ago
I think cloud is great for backup - as long as it's not your sole backup strategy. My personal approach is to have a local NAS with redundant drives that also replicates data to the cloud. I'm protected from drive failures, house
157.
Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by romanhn 2y ago|0 comments
158.
by romanhn 2y ago
Wow. I know the song but have never seen the video. So creative and mesmerizing.
159.
by romanhn 2y ago
I agree with the parent poster. They've chosen the best examples to show off, and yet all of them looked "off" to me. Perhaps because I was paying close attention I was more likely to notice it, but there was definitely an un
160.
by romanhn 2y ago
Focusing on the RA part of the RAG, which techniques or tools would you say contributed the most to the quality of the results? What sort of tradeoffs did you have to make?
161.
by romanhn 2y ago
Zero upside, all liability (however remote). Even if rejected after the full interview loop, you are very unlikely to receive any feedback. Expecting it after resume submission is entirely unrealistic given that the hiring manager (or maybe
162.
by romanhn 2y ago
There's Postgres with pgvector extension.
163.
by romanhn 2y ago
Well, in my experience lack of English was more of a small bump rather than having to learn a whole new language. The number of keywords used was fairly limited (if, for, while, begin, end, goto, etc) and not that difficult to memorize. I c
164.
by romanhn 2y ago
I was programming BASIC and Pascal as a non-English-speaking kid and the Latin-based syntax was not a problem at all. I think you underestimate how far sheer drive can get you. That said, I do agree that basic understanding of English is mo
165.
Online Mensa IQ Test(test.mensa.no)
3 points by romanhn 2y ago|0 comments
166.
by romanhn 2y ago
> His wife had died in 2018 of a stroke after suffering from vascular dementia for a number of years. His mother had also died of cognitive decline years earlier. Makes sense that he would want to avoid the mental decline he saw with his
167.
by romanhn 2y ago
Here's the full free link since the submission form seems to be removing the code: https://medium.com/@fareedkhandev/094d166af27f?sk=f0b04b82c9...
168.
by romanhn 2y ago
That's because L5 was the terminal senior level (whereas L4 is still mid-level).
169.
by romanhn 2y ago
Lots of large tech firms have defined career ladders with a concept of terminal levels - typically senior level beyond which there is no up-or-out expectation of growth. I think small and midsize companies that focus on fast growth will oft
170.
by romanhn 2y ago
Exactly. While 10x (or whatever) is possible on pure technical ability, I would argue that the majority of engineers who provide outsized value do so through enabling others to do their best work and unblocking the wave that raises all the
171.
Online Mensa IQ Test(test.mensa.no)
3 points by romanhn 2y ago|0 comments
172.
by romanhn 2y ago
Very common. I was a daily reader of Slashdot for ten years without ever creating an account. Took me only five to create one for HN :)
173.
by romanhn 2y ago
Thanks for posting this, very timely as I'm also playing around with pgvector for semantic search. I saw that you ended up trimming inputs longer than 8K tokens. Have you looked into chunking (breaking input into smaller chunks and doi
174.
by romanhn 2y ago
I was a Slashdot regular for around 10 years. Then somewhere around 2008/9 I realized that almost all of the stories appearing on the /. front page had featured on this new site called Hacker News days earlier, minus the random tr
175.
by romanhn 2y ago
Yeah, from my perspective this was just a dog and pony show. Trump and Vance got to look big and strong (their perception anyways) next to Zelensky, and he got to look like he's willing to continue the conversation. Doubt anyone actual
176.
by romanhn 2y ago
Everybody knows real programmers use the XMLHttpRequest object directly.
177.
by romanhn 2y ago
I would lose a healthy dose of respect for you if you trotted one of these out in a conversation with me in an attempt to convince me of something. As another comment mentions, argument from authority is literally a logical fallacy ( https:
178.
by romanhn 2y ago
Oh wow, outstanding game. One of very few games I played through to the end. Reminisced about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753079 .
179.
by romanhn 2y ago
As far as I know, a company still has to allow early exercise in order for you to be able to purchase unvested options.
180.
by romanhn 2y ago
Oh that's interesting. Explains the other common diminutive of Vladimir - Volodya. And yeah, Vlad is short for Vladislav. My favorite set of Russian diminutives that makes zero logical sense to a non-native is: Alexander (formal) = Sas

More ›