Dirak

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by Dirak 7mo ago
Praying this isn't another Llama4 situation where the benchmark numbers are cooked. 84.6% on Arc-AGI is incredible!
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by Dirak 8mo ago
No, just when Europeans (like yourself) need a reminder that they're not exceptional in their "level headedness" and "soberness", and in fact are anti-exceptional when it comes to real world outcomes like GDP.
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by Dirak 8mo ago
This has never been the case across the history of humanity -- there has never existed a non-biased institution, and it's incredibly naive to think that a German think tank funded by the German government would be any exception. "
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by Dirak 8mo ago
Today the S&P500 is at an all-time high, energy prices are at all-time lows, and there is no clear indication of recession. This, all in spite of the fact that for the last decade, economists have been crying that tariffs would ruin the
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Blind Lady Review of the Rayban Meta Glasses [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Dirak 2y ago|1 comments
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by Dirak 2y ago
Blind person uses Meta Raybans glasses as a sight aid to help navigate her surroundings. For instance, asking the glasses what aisle of the supermarket she's looking at. Wanted to share this since it seems like a really cool usage of i
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by Dirak 3y ago
One should be suspicious of ulterior motives when the CEO of an AI company makes a claim like this. On one hand, LLMs do require significant amounts of compute to train. But the other hand, if you amortize training costs across all user ses
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by Dirak 3y ago
> do you commit feature flags It doesn’t really matter how you manage changes to feature flags, but using version control gives you a couple of nice benefits: * gives developers the opportunity to describe their change * let’s you roll b
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by Dirak 3y ago
> You don't seem to understand what a conditional is; you'd have a hard time doing math or formal CS. Ad hominems are against TOS. Answering the question is irrelevant if it’s the wrong question to begin with. And for the wrong
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by Dirak 3y ago
This is a classic example of the xy problem https://xyproblem.info/ , where the author is asking for advice on his solution (how to study react on a vacation without internet), when for the vast majority of circumstances the
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by Dirak 3y ago
I feel like this is a solvable problem: 1) make feature flags be configured to have an expiration date. If over the expiration date, auto-generate a task to clean up your FF 2) If you want to be extra fancy, set up a codemod to automaticall
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by Dirak 3y ago
Ads are not at all horrible. Ads help connect products with the niche markets of people that could benefit from them. Many cool products are too niche and would not be able to exist without targeted advertising. Yes, when done distastefully
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by Dirak 3y ago
Ads are human reviewed. Either you’re exceptionally unlucky with reviewers or there’s more to the story here.
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by Dirak 3y ago
> [At larger companies...] Talking to users is for PMs, silly! You stick to what you’re good at. At best you get a summary of user insights and a reasonable task priority list derived from it. At worst you get a confusing task list built
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by Dirak 3y ago
Building products and slowly grinding away at improving DAU is Meta's bread and butter. This has been the case with IG Stories vs Snap, now IG Reels vs Tiktok (IG Reels rev set to exceed tiktok as early as 2024 https://www.m
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by Dirak 3y ago
This type of hiring is most likely reserved for Yann LeCun caliber talent. If you walk in to FB HQ without an appointment, 1) they wouldn’t let you in, and 2) you’d probably just make it awkward for the security guard
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by Dirak 3y ago
This is a perfect example of how GDPR can present challenges to innovation. The fact the top comment in this announcement revolves around GDPR compliance and associated fines raises questions about whether companies will be motivated to sha
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by Dirak 3y ago
In fact, I would go further and say we would actually be worse off without personalized advertising. Personalized ads help connect innovative products with the people who would benefit from them. Without a way to reach these niche audiences
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by Dirak 3y ago
1) This is the largest launch of a social media platform this decade. Higher growth than ChatGPT, and already over 50MM signups https://www.quiverquant.com/threadstracker/ 2) Zero downtime on a day 1 launch at the scal
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by Dirak 3y ago
This has already be debunked https://www.threads.net/t/CuXRXDdNOtH/ You can "deactivate" your account and delete all of your posts individually, which is effectively equivalent to deleting your Threads a
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by Dirak 3y ago
Tangential, but I think strong social skills are very important if you want to improve as a software engineer. Examples of strong social skill would be being able to set project direction, set up cross team collaborations, communicate impac
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by Dirak 3y ago
Targeted Advertising serves a valuable role in free markets by giving exposure to innovative and novel products that improve people's lives. Without advertising, there would be no playing field for new products to challenge incumbents.
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by Dirak 4y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but this post makes me feel sincerely nostalgic for building games in Eclipse and Swing back in the day. Growing up, Notch's live streams[1] where he would code up a game in Java Swing for Ludum Dare were on
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by Dirak 4y ago
That's a two way street. I equally wouldn't want to work with someone who makes sweeping generalizations. > For moral reasons, I don't want to hire someone who worked at Facebook. That's quite a hostile and closed min
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by Dirak 4y ago
Depending on how successful your job searching is going, you should be able to negotiate offers with a postponed start date (say, 3 months in the future after your company folds). A proper job search can last one or two months, so your timi
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by Dirak 4y ago
Remove half the jobs and drop the month from the start - end date range
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by Dirak 4y ago
When I worked there me and at least 2 other engineers I knew didn't have college degrees and joined at entry level. If a job listing says it requires certain credentials, I've mostly gotten by by just ignoring that and applying an
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by Dirak 4y ago
Besides Pytorch, Tensorflow, gRPC, React, AWS, Kubernetes, GraphQL, C++ Swiss table, etc...?
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by Dirak 4y ago
You might be interested in checking out https://www.ggpo.net/ . It's an open source C++ library for game networking that's used mainly in fighting games and it implements support for input prediction and rollback.
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by Dirak 5y ago
Location: SF / NYC Remote: Ideally no Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Professional: Typescript, React, GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Rust; For Fun: Go, Kotlin, Python Résumé: fermidirak.github.io/resume.pdf Email: manuelebryan[a

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