alcasa

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by alcasa 2mo ago
That's not how this works. It really depends on how close you are to a position, where people might want to bribe you. Low provincial officials with direct ties to local land development might e.g. be able to take many more bribes than
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by alcasa 3mo ago
They should have used Figher Jet codenames instead. The MiG-15 one has a nice ring to it.
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by alcasa 3mo ago
They forgot how to do pretraining.
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by alcasa 3mo ago
I used it as a daily driver back in 2014/15 and it worked ok from what I remember.
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by alcasa 3mo ago
Clinical research is in a weird spot, where you need both clinical experience and research experience. Getting the former already requires long hours and you are swamped with work. The latter is highly age gated and if you want to pursue re
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by alcasa 4mo ago
Isn't lisp getting advertisement every couple months here or so. After so many decades I don't believe the reason lisp doesn't have traction is just marketing.
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by alcasa 5mo ago
You can still get your Radium Spa treatment in the Czech Republic: https://www.axxoshotels.com/radium-palace-spa
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by alcasa 5mo ago
Employer cost is not 2x, more like 1.2x, employer overhead is mostly insurance related stuff. We had salaray to employer cost tables at my previous job. What true though is that after taxes you might just receive 60% of your total salary on
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by alcasa 6mo ago
I fear people will just get used to it. Nobody gets tailored clothing anyhmore and people don't question that we have standardized sizes that don't really fit anyone properly. People commonly buy standardized furniture and rarely
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by alcasa 7mo ago
Obligatory Simpsons reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqb-VzkfRrY
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by alcasa 7mo ago
Maybe controversial, but I believe a lot of OOP/Clean Code patterns are the software equivalent of corporate BS.
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by alcasa 7mo ago
Frankly the most critical question is if they can really take shortcuts on DV etc, which are the main reasons nobody else tapes out new chips for every model. Note that their current architecture only allows some LORA-Adapter based fine-tun
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by alcasa 8mo ago
Didn't know the L in Samuel L Jackson was for LeCun.
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Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing?
7 points by alcasa 8mo ago|10 comments
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by alcasa 8mo ago
Fair enough. I feel like designing AI-proof take-homes is getting ever more futile. Given the questions need to be sufficiently low context to be human-doable in a short time and timespans for AI tasks increasing, I'm not sure take hom
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by alcasa 8mo ago
No the 2 hours is their time limit for candidates. The thing is that you are allowed to use any non-human help for their take homes (open book), so if AI can solve it in below 2 hours, it's not very good at assessing the human.
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by alcasa 8mo ago
Source for the 10B amount: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/cerebras-scores-openai-deal-...
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OpenAI is partnering with Cerebras to add 750MW of compute in 10B USD deal(openai.com)
25 points by alcasa 8mo ago|9 comments
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by alcasa 8mo ago
Having worked in rare disease diagnostics in a non-US country with good public healthcare, most patients had to fight their way to the correct speciality to get their diagnosis. Without the persistence of family/specific doctors, its n
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by alcasa 10mo ago
I think there might be a culture divide here. That person is very likely from Germany/Berlin based on their attitudes and descriptions and I feel like the hacker/tech scene is very different from bay area vibes. FAANG is not reall
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by alcasa 10mo ago
I feel like the hacker response would be to roll your own models and move away from commercial offerings. Stuff like eleuther.ai is pretty inspirational, but that movements seems to have died down a bit. At least we still have a couple comp
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by alcasa 10mo ago
Tbf there are a lot of dishwashers, where I have had to essentially prewash all the dishes to make sure the dishes actually come out clean.
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by alcasa 10mo ago
Why? Its 4.1m AUD. Given the salary of devs and the scope of such a website, the original budget seemed pretty optimistic.
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by alcasa 1y ago
There is a german idiom "Totgesagte leben länger" (the ones assumed dead, live longer). Just because a business might be unsound, doesn't necessarily mean it will imminently collapse. There is a lot of money going around righ
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by alcasa 1y ago
A lot of people have fundamental beliefs different enough from yourself, that your torment nexus is just a normal good job for them. You can take almost any tech job, and there is a probably an argument to be made, that it is mostly reasona
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Why are so many companies pushing for AI adoption by developers?
6 points by alcasa 1y ago|13 comments
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by alcasa 1y ago
Really cool, especially once 256k context size becomes available. I think higher performance will be a key differentiator in AI tool quality from a user perspective, especially in use-cases where model quality is already sufficiently good f
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by alcasa 5y ago
I honestly feel like there were some issues in their specific hardware selection. Linux shouldn't be that bad on a recent Thinkpad system
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by alcasa 5y ago
Or use it for an eGPU connector, I believe there were also options to use it as additional storage
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by alcasa 5y ago
If you mean Mac Pro and not Macbook Pro I wouldn't be that suprised. Single thread performance is mainly dominated by clock speed and possibly instruction set improvements. Having a much higher TDP there isn't much magic you can w

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