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by steno132 3y ago
Twitter's algorithm code is canonical good Scala - https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
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by steno132 3y ago
Congratulations! Elon's team over at X.ai, who I'm helping advise, is choosing between Hugging Face and a locally hosted alternative. What would HN recommend? I prefer Hugging Face as it has a stronger community built in but other
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by steno132 3y ago
If you want to get things done, don't use Haskell. You'll be fighting against the type system constantly. You'll be asking questions on Stack Overflow only to get no response. You'll be rewriting software that's in
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by steno132 3y ago
I feel intense nostalgia when reading articles like this. The rich social events and intellectual discussions of America’s past have turned into depravity and crude dancing, and curse filled lyrics.
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by steno132 3y ago
Ideals are more important than money. And Hashicorp’s founders sacrificed ideals for the sake of billions.
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by steno132 3y ago
I’ve tried notebooks but wikis like Confluence are much better. They force you to structure your thoughts in a way that others can understand. Notebooks are extremely unorganized and un-understandable after a few days.
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by steno132 3y ago
Sorry, where’s the hypocrisy? Zoom never said video calls are the best way to work. They said video calls offer a level of globally distributed collaboration unprecedented in history. And that’s true.
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by steno132 3y ago
Personally, I trusted the founders. Having followed Mitchell Hashimoto’s work on Vagrant, I felt like he and Armon were truly value driven and not purely money oriented. But it’s true, dollars corrupt and billions of dollars corrupt absolut
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by steno132 3y ago
It’s sustainable. Llama.cpp is orders of magnitude more efficient than Llama because it’s in Rust. OpenAI hasn’t even touched low level languages yet.
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by steno132 3y ago
It also shows naked greed. Hashicorp’s founding as an open source company was a bet that a company could open source everything and still mint money. And mint it did, billions, in the IPO. And now, abandoning its ideals for the sake of mone
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by steno132 3y ago
Crypto’s still alive. The grifters get indicted, the greedy pivot to AI and only the true believers will remain. And they’re building, and they’ll keep building, and a more open financial system will be built. It might take decades but it w
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by steno132 3y ago
I’ve heard rumors Microsoft was going to buy BioWare from EA, but when that fell through, they pursued Activision instead. It’s too bad. With MSFT they wouldn’t have had to do this.
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by steno132 3y ago
There’s no competitor to Nvidia for the next 10 years. They’ve got a monopoly. And with AI’s coming explosion, I’d wager 50/50 odds Jensen becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
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by steno132 3y ago
New Jersey baklava is much better than Istanbul baklava actually. Try it. Immigrants touch I guess?
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by steno132 3y ago
I’ve had both. The granny’s peak baklava may be better, I’ll concede. But the median packaged baklava blows the granny’s median baklava out of the water. There’s no contest.
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by steno132 3y ago
Nvidia's undervalued. Once enterprise adoption of AI picks up, demand for chips will increase 2-3 times further. I'm told Nvidia's building their own fab in Southeast Asia over the next few years. This will massively boost th
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by steno132 3y ago
Excellent! This blows writing SQL by hand out of the water. In 10 years, programming languages like Java, SQL, etc will be dead. I predict everyone will write in their native language (English, Chinese, etc) and a AI-based compiler will wri
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by steno132 3y ago
Hot take: Packaged baklava blows bakery (fresh) baklava out of the water. Age or ingredients don't matter much. Baklava needs to be made just right to work. There's no room for error. And the machines seem to have a upper hand ove
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by steno132 3y ago
Humans don't view things from a moon perspective, they view things from a human perspective. Space races are real, it's each country for itself, and it's a zero sum game. And today's not a good day.
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by steno132 3y ago
The US should have been to the first to the lunar south pole, not a foreign country.
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by steno132 3y ago
If you're interviewing, you've getting lowballed. Picture a board chairman discussing a CEO position with his or her top candidate. The chairman's courting the candidate, they're playing golf, they're dining togethe
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by steno132 3y ago
An embarrassing day for America. The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony. Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pol
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by steno132 3y ago
Simplicity sucks. Functionality rules. Reliability: I don't want a single host EC2, I want a multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster. Security: I don't want a EC2 behind a firewall, I want a zero trust architecture. Performance: For a auth se
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by steno132 3y ago
Google was never the same after Sergey left. With him, all employees, execs, investors shared the original credos of organizing the world's information. And after him, it became like any corporation, with everyone seeking to gain as mu
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by steno132 3y ago
The best people I work with don't use this stuff. They solve problems based on pattern matching. Having read hundreds of books and papers over the years, no problem seems new to them. They can rapidly find a solution, especially compar
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by steno132 3y ago
And OpenAI continues to ship. As promised, they released GPT3.5 fine-tuning today. They opened GPT4 API access a few months ago. In a few months, they'll release GPT4 fine-tuning. Many favor open source AI, and criticize OpenAI for not
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by steno132 3y ago
China won't stop at anything to have a semiconductor industry that's not dependent on Western powers. Why won't the US? I truly become the time for decoupling from China has come. It will require a massive economic cost. Chin
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by steno132 3y ago
And in the century that followed 1900, history's first two world wars occured. If anything, interdependence creates more destructive wars because countries group themselves into (global) blocs who now go to war.
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by steno132 3y ago
I'm not seeing any "spying" here. What the government is requesting is a audit capability, similar to what the FDA has for domestic food manufacturers. The FDA can inspect food plants, and if in the public interest, shut them
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by steno132 3y ago
Hard disagree. KPIs are invaluable for any modern tech business because they provide clarity on what the organization's goals are, and how to achieve them. Let's say you have a goal to increase revenue by 50%. You come up with a p

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