JoeCortopassi

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by JoeCortopassi 5mo ago
Agreed. My frontend/react builds use esbuild, and rebuild fast enough that it feels like hot module reloading
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by JoeCortopassi 7mo ago
The big money is going to the OpenAI/Anthropic types producing foundation models that have to raise billions on a regular basis. This is money that would normal be spread across the startup ecosystem instead of concentrated in a handfu
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by JoeCortopassi 8mo ago
I think you missed the parents point. They were saying they don't have the resources for proper defense , my guess is parent would agree about their offensive capabilities
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by JoeCortopassi 1y ago
This is some weird takes... - music apps and gapless playback: basically all major car manufacturer software is trash, I'd challenge you to find a car software that's better than Tesla - stretches without superchargers:
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by JoeCortopassi 1y ago
Yeah, it really came from scratching my own itch in wanting a quicker/easier way to think through different companies offers. They always present them in slightly different ways I really like the idea of a side by side comparison. I&#x
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Show HN: Engineering Offer Breakdown(engineer-offer-breakdown.pages.dev)
2 points by JoeCortopassi 1y ago|3 comments
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by JoeCortopassi 1y ago
Just like writing normal software: have it work on different parts of the codebase that don't have overlap, or do the work sequentially. AI is a time compressor, but it's still constrained by the same problems as normal engineers.
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by JoeCortopassi 1y ago
I read this book because I misunderstood a recommendation and thought it was a business book talking about how companies get people to forget negative information (e.g. dump news on Friday etc). Boy was that first chapter a wild ride until
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by JoeCortopassi 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift#Safety Their overall rate of accidents is estimated as 30 times higher than conventional elevators Germany saw an average of one death per year due to paternosters
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
> ...the new Gemini "replacement" is still by all accounts a disaster Small nit: the initial rollout of Gemini was a dumpster fire. It is now quite good. For my use cases, I can't get any other current LLM to give me bette
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
You have to remember, HN is fully supported by YCombinator, and has a huge leg up on any possible similar sites. There will always be content thats encouraged to be posted here first from YC startups, and it will always be a valuable PR ass
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
I've noticed that while a bunch of developers have played with LLM's for toy projects, few seem to have any actual experience taking it to prod in front of real users. I’ve personally had to do so for a few startups, and it's
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
I think the best way to understand/appreciate javascript as a language is to A) separate it from the DOM, and B) take a functional programming focus Too many times, when people complain about javascript, what they are really complainin
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
Hey HN, want a side project idea that's easy, and would be a huge hit? Make a web crawler that hits publicly traded tech companies careers page, once a day, and tracks how often their job listings change. Make a big line chart at the t
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
A lot of people here haven't integrated GPT into a customer facing production system, and it shows gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, and gpt-4o are not the same models. They are mostly close enough when you have a human in the loop, and loose constr
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
If you are a hobbyist reading all this, and trying to compare it to arduino or raspberry pi, do yourself a favor and buy one of these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5325 $12, fantastic documentation and tutorials, a
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by JoeCortopassi 2y ago
planes/helicopters have a fuel source that is orders of magnitude less volatile, and are also able to safely land without power
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
The case is not trivial, not crazy, but not trivial. It's also the least hard part about putting together a similar package. A non-EE type person could probably get some dev boards from sparkfun/adafruit, and connect them up to a
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Fun fact: part of the licensing agreement to use USB, is to have the usb symbol on top of the connector. So unless you're using a cheap unlicensed cable, look for the symbol facing up and you'll always be correct
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
To expand on this, if software was like hardware: - when your function calls don't have enough white space between them, they'll some times mix up their return value (crosstalk) - the more deeply your if/else statem
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Bitcoin is cryptographically secured distributed accounting ledger, that created a novel way to incentivize participation
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
"Speed of light" makes more intuitive sense when you think of it more as the speed of causality i.e. the fastest physical speed a cause can have an effect The speed of light in a vacuum happens to be the best representation of the
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
OpenAI will absolutely be able to raise money again, but it will likely never be on the same scale and will also likely have some serious safeguards in the contract language. Whether you agree with investors agreeing with firing Sam or not,
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Honestly, this is the wrong question, but I understand the intent. What you really should be asking is "Where is the online community for your hobby/interest?" The thing with HN, is it works for the startup/hacker/t
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Practical Electronics for Inventors[0] is the go-to book for what you're looking for. Has the right balance of practical application without dumbing things down too much. That being said, if you need help getting familiar again, Adafru
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
The standard answer is: - Hello World - Calculator (add/subtract/multiply/divide) - Todo List (create/delete todo items, mark them as done, view completed and current) - Blog (user facing blog posts, a
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Not sure I follow. ChatGPT can solve leetcode questions, and leetcode for better or worse is what everyone has to study for big corps. I'd agree with your main premise: big corps are using leetcode questions to see what hoops you'
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by JoeCortopassi 3y ago
Super fun to use. I hate having to “give up” on a question when practicing and this gives me a bit more options rather than just pass/fail
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by JoeCortopassi 4y ago
He co-founded and was president of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that Hacker News is the community site for. Not famous in general, but very famous here
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by JoeCortopassi 4y ago
This is the most naive take on HN. The only secure computer is one that's been unplugged and buried in six feet of concrete, everything after that is a compromise The real world security issues that companies face are things like:

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