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by aparsons 4y ago
I generally break these queries into - the low-hanging fruits (where there is a Wikipedia page or similar for X, and both Google and Bing do a good job of mining these) - the tougher nuts ("who was the UK prime minister when the wrigh
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by aparsons 4y ago
Oh I agree with that. LLM doesn't give you better search - better search {index, ranking, SEO-tolerance, ...} gives you better search. To me, Bing chat - although imperfect - augments search positively to fill my specific needs. 0) I d
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by aparsons 4y ago
They don't. They're fairly orthogonal concepts. You can have a concept of lifetimes without memory management (for example, the object changes state while you have a reference to it).
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by aparsons 4y ago
Strong disagree on this. I don't treat it like a person, but rather as ChatGPT that has access to Bing's search index. For factual queries ("who invented X? at what company?") it's more reliable than ChatGPT and sav
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by aparsons 4y ago
180 million a day sounds about right
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by aparsons 4y ago
How would one go about finding such consulting gigs? I’m semi-retired now, but with nearly 4 decades of experience, I still didn’t feel comfortable becoming a full-time consultant.
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by aparsons 4y ago
Could you share any of these “hosted” services? I’m thoroughly disillusioned after paying for 3 streaming services and still not finding quality content
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by aparsons 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. I love the design and how this app feels. Did you use any existing CSS library/framework or is everything “hand crafted”?
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by aparsons 5y ago
I’ve posited repeatedly that when Reddit IPOs, I’ll be reallocating a significant chunk of my portfolio into their stock. Their management has historically lacked focus, but if Reddit ever builds a half-competent search index, and positions
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by aparsons 5y ago
This has been the case for a long time on mobile. 1.5 vertical screens of ads is not uncommon.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Sequencing in distributed systems is difficult to handle correctly. When faced with such a situation, it’s often a matter of philosophy rather than technical brilliance - are you willing to accept that failure is inevitable even with a neat
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Ask HN: How much money to realistically expect from a technical book?
28 points by aparsons 5y ago|14 comments
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by aparsons 5y ago
I bit and got the book, hoping for something interesting. It’s more or less the documentation on MDN or a WS library docs rephrased. Finally, after 60 pages of docs I can Google, there’s a section called “Scaling Websockets”, which is an in
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by aparsons 5y ago
Referrals don’t mean much if more than a small fraction of candidates have one
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by aparsons 5y ago
I very much get a cargo-cult vibe from this statement. In a 30-year career, I’ve pair-programmed under 100 times. Usually to get someone up to speed on a confusing part of the code base. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that if pair program
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by aparsons 5y ago
That’s a sponsored newsletter post AFAICT. There are a handful of those that shill for companies willing to part with their dollar
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by aparsons 5y ago
Yes.. I thought that incident made him look very, uh, disgraceful. He likes to predend Repl.it is some marvel of technology when it is unironically a weekend project (which the intern he attacked did better). Bruised egos are dangerous.
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by aparsons 5y ago
I’d really like to see the author write an explanation as to why. I completed by PhD in “AI” (as it was then called) in 2001. Very little DNN work then, but I haven’t a clue where the connection lies.
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by aparsons 5y ago
This author doesn’t have a clue about anything. After the first paragraph, this might as well have been written by GPT-3. Sounds like a consultant trying to cash in on the news of the week to me.
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by aparsons 5y ago
I think part of it has to do with black box models being easier to build incrementally. I’ve seen many teams start off with 3-5 features, which gets you to some threshold for launch (say 90% precision and recall) and get badly burnt on the
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by aparsons 5y ago
I hate to use this language on HN - but this post is a crock of shit. This is just an opportunistic post by the author that cleverly evades defining anything in solid terms, providing even one concrete example, and is a pot of handwavey BS.
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by aparsons 5y ago
This sounds like an ad :)
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HTTP State Management Mechanism(datatracker.ietf.org)
1 points by aparsons 5y ago|0 comments
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by aparsons 5y ago
Very dishonest indeed. Does YC not do any due diligence anymore? They seem like they’ve become a quantity-over-quality investment firm now, casting the widest net possible based on the strength of their reputation.
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by aparsons 5y ago
The signage on the vehicle indicates this lad is from Kilinochchi [1]. Not surprised in the least- the last time I was in Ceylon, I learnt that the people in the North are expert boat-builders and very resourceful. [1] https://en
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by aparsons 5y ago
You’re thinking mid-2000s IE. In the 90s, IE was far ahead of everything else. The gap between 2008 IE and Chrome was FAR smaller than the gap between 1997 IE and Netscape/Mosaic
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by aparsons 5y ago
The IE effort was gargantuan - it was not NT in terms of sheer difficulty, but 1) we had built operating systems before NT, but never a web browser, and 2) Microsoft wanted to keep it under wraps as much as they could. The IE team had a car
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by aparsons 5y ago
Same for me (chrome on windows)
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by aparsons 5y ago
This is extremely slow and laggy on the Pixel 3
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by aparsons 5y ago
Machine and abstract machine are both overloaded terms. If the set of system calls is considered the “ops” for your OS “machine”, characterizing it as an abstract machine is not incorrect.

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