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by romanhn 2y ago
The rates are believable, but this seems somewhat different from what the thread is about - compensation in tokens rather than equity. I suspect many an engineer who's OK with crypto work in general will balk at this arrangement. EDIT:
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"Half" seems like a significant underestimation.
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The suspicious part is that ChatGPT did not have any kind of answer when the parent poster checked before posting. Yet soon after my reply it suddenly not only had the answer, but also used many of the same words and had the exact same time
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by romanhn 2y ago
Not just Google. A couple weeks back I saw pretty strong evidence of OpenAI ingesting an HN comment of mine and regurgitating it in ChatGPT within 10-15 minutes of posting. This is the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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That's funny, the quote exists, but it got the user wrong.
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Once I had to track down an issue where very rarely, with no discernible pattern the web app would produce garbled PDFs. Turned out this happened when an admin account remotely connected to the app server, which caused a reset of default sc
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I can believe it with dogs, but my cat of almost 20 years has never indicated any understanding of or interest in human speech. She sometimes reacts to tone of voice, sometimes to specific noises (like treat baggie crumbling when opened), b
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I really don't understand the product decisions at Spotify. Some really basic functionality is missing like shuffling across all tracks in my library or treating Liked Songs as a playlist but not really (can't share with others).
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Without going into specifics, trying to classify a body of freeform text (or rather, many such bodies) along a bunch of dimensions. Imagine a fiction story that you're trying to answer questions about such as "what is the genre?&q
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by romanhn 2y ago
I've been playing around with data extraction using OpenAI's structured outputs feature last week. Perhaps this is due to me still being fairly new to this world, but man, has it been an exercise in frustration. My general takeawa
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I'd love to hear more about how an org structure (or lack thereof) killed a public company in 3 weeks.
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This looks pretty close to your description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342143 EDIT: Looks like the parent post entered the second chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ). No
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+1 for One Night Ultimate Werewolf. Removing the need for a narrator role and keeping the game short enough that the antagonistic behaviors don't have a chance to develop works wonders. Friend and couple fights after Mafia are real. We
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Wow, haven't seen this before, thank you. Amazing that the writing can still be read by a modern reader (that said, really helps to know what it's supposed to say though). The note I found most relatable is the one with greetings
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So is LLM pre/post-processing the best approach here?
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Say I generate embeddings for a bunch of articles. Given the query "articles about San Francisco that don't mention cars" would cosine similarity uprank or downrank the car mentions? Assuming exclusions aren't handled we
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by romanhn 2y ago
Just a couple of months ago you posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983089 , which makes it pretty clear (together with your earlier submissions/comments) that you're not anywhere close to 18 or that this
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by romanhn 2y ago
Rands Leadership Slack is a fantastic and supportive community targeting Engineering and Product leaders primarily, but not exclusively. At around 35K members right now, it has channels on just about every topic. It's invite-only, but
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Not necessary at all, but the thought is very much appreciated regardless. Have a good one!
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Haha, you're very welcome. The ChatGPT thing is odd in how close the answer was to my comment, including specific words I used. Makes me wonder about the likelihood of it being scraped and processed by OpenAI in the 10-15 minutes betwe
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Oh hey, that totally sounded familiar :) Pretty sure this is from Konyok Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse), a 1975 Soviet cartoon based on a famous Russian fairy tale. The bit you're describing is at 1:07:30 of https://
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Awesome, thank you for the suggestion!
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I was unexpectedly blown away by a post-apocalyptic book called Wool by Hugh Howey, the first one of the Silo trilogy. Hard to say what did it exactly, just the overall combination of plot, storytelling and pacing. I read (or rather listen
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Amazing story, got sucked into watching the whole video despite not knowing much about the hobby. A random little bit stood out to me, when the president of Sony made a personal promise to fix the TV after it stopped working (a while back).
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Charity Majors ( https://charity.wtf ) is a great writer and speaker, and her work on observability is directly relevant to infra at scale.
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I read that comment as a sarcastic response to the "we don't know the Great Pyramid's age" claim, rather than a disagreement with my mortar post.
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While we can't radiocarbon date rocks, we can do that with other building material. From Wikipedia: Mortar was used generously in the Great Pyramid's construction. In the mixing process ashes from fires were added to the mortar,
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by romanhn 2y ago
Every discussion I've seen mentions filesystem-based storage rather than any database. Haven't seen any evidence to the contrary.
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Suit charges SF's Scale AI with misclassifying workers, wage theft(sfexaminer.com)
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by romanhn 2y ago
Really sorry this happened to you! I don't really have an immediate solution for you, my own experience tells me you're unlikely to get the account unlocked any time soon. That said, my story did have a happy end eventually: http

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