brutus1213

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by brutus1213 8mo ago
Apart from the actual exploit, it is intriguing to see how a security researcher can leverage an AI tool to give them an asymmetric advantage to the actual developers of the code. Devs are pretty focused on their own subsystem and it would
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by brutus1213 9mo ago
I fear SK is a harbinger of what's to come in other developed western countries. Companies seem to follow each other in getting more out of workers. When jobs and career become the most important thing (for survival, professional satis
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by brutus1213 11mo ago
I recently got a 5090 with 64 GB of RAM (intel cpu). Was just looking for a strong model I can host locally. If I had performance of GPT4-o, I'd be content. Are there any suggestions or cases where people got disappointed?
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by brutus1213 11mo ago
I am a manager. It is pretty bad in terms of tracking. Wandb looks great but really expensive (small team in a super large corp, pricing we were quoted plus the challenges of no-saas made this a no go for me). Been trying to get team member
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by brutus1213 1y ago
100% agreed. This can be solved with technology .. let users set a soft and hard threshold for example. Runaway costs is the problem here.
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by brutus1213 1y ago
Amazon is the same I think? I live in constant fear we will have a runaway job one day. I get daily emails to myself (as a manager) and to my finance person. We had one instance where a team member forgot to turn off a machine for a few mon
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by brutus1213 1y ago
Did you buy a home > 10 years ago? Given inflation, isn't your mortgage not easy to pay off at this point (even if you did pay the minimum?). I can imagine one of two scenarios: (a) at the start, you really stretched and got a nice
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by brutus1213 1y ago
CS PhD here. I've been involved in deep learning for many years now, and generative AI for the last couple of years. I saw some other major revolutions in my life starting with the Internet/Web explosion and the Smartphone explosi
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Hi .. wondering what the situation is for a senior Canadian scientist wanting to raise funds/do a start up in the US? Had H1B many years ago (and possibly have a year of time left on it .. not sure that matters). Lots of papers so can
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by brutus1213 2y ago
posted on reddit too about 6 hours back: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1jbc5gu/...
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by brutus1213 2y ago
That's pretty weird. Usually, less companies mean less demand for labor. If supply is the same, that means price-for-labor (salaries) would go down. Unless, this was accompanied by people leaving (reduction in supply). Do you have an e
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Curious about the military job (and other services including Police Departments). Are you eligible for pension/benefits as a presumably civilian subject matter expert? How does one get such a cyber gig?
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Asian companies in North America behave the same. Don't seem to give a crap about employees or lives. My jaw continues to drop at what I come across. It goes both ways. I am a non-asian manager but my asian employees don't seem to
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Does any Cloud provider have a 8xAMD MI300 host that one can rent? I use AWS for a lot of my professional work, and was hoping to try out an AMD GPU.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Spot on. Things are actually MUCH more relaxed in the office, which is why some people don't want it (e.g. people with caregiving responsibility). Everyone I know with children 0-10 wishes there was some more flexibility in scheduling.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
For VC funded startups, I would imagine sec 174 is less bad. For bootstrapping, I just can't imagine how to make it work. A Canadian company can hire globally without the craziness of this amortization too.
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Ask HN: Does Screwy SEC 174 tax reg make Canada a better place to bootstrap?
6 points by brutus1213 2y ago|3 comments
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I'm reading about the founding story of many startups .. at the early stage when they had few users, there was no moat. Success seems is a big moat. If this guy had taken venture financing(I know this wasn't a thing back then but
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I think a wider issue I'd like to see a discussion on is the current workplace. I think employers are pushing individuals and teams beyond their limit - what are you going to do? Quit in this job market? I'm literally doing the ma
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Back when I was in undergrad, I recall how I was taught C. Just read one of the bible books on a weekend, and was ready to go. I was recently taking a look at Kotlin books and literally banged my head on the table. I realized the language h
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Ask HN: What is the logic behind FANG companies doing acquisitions?
2 points by brutus1213 2y ago|2 comments
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Scientist here and have book marked this article for close reading (so apologies for this question if it is discussed in the article). I had a few brushes in RL (with collaborators who knew more RL than I did). A key issue we encountered in
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Ac actual academic career is the WORST in terms of burn-out. I was writing paper reviews at 4am. People I know who are professors board planes with a pile of papers to read or review. Midnight meetings to discuss conference organization. Ad
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by brutus1213 2y ago
To add .. the final paragraphs miss the reality on the ground. I've run into a few PhD researchers at Google and Meta at top conferences in the last 12 months. My conversations are mere anecdotal and recollections from my frail memory.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Interesting write up. I spent a lot of time at various industrial labs, and it is an interesting point the article made me realize .. the traditional industrial lab concept is dead. Yes, there are labs run by most major tech companies but i
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Well, after taxes, it is a bit less :p Seriously, you can't imagine how you'd spend a million bucks? I'd buy a nice home in Palo Alto, and I suspect that will set me back 6-10 million. You can also imagine a heck of a lot of
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Interesting point I never considered. Is the cut off for UC really just 1 million dollars in net worth? Seems implausible given house prices in places like California. Is essentially every home owner UC?
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by brutus1213 2y ago
In my company, when engineers were somewhat in charge, it wasn't like this. As management got to "manage" the process, that's where we are. Plus a shitty economy lets us be more selective I guess.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I'm in management (still technical, so low level of management) and the whole alignment thing is massively stupid. Language is inherently imprecise. When some group is saying they are doing X and another group is doing Y, which has the
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I think it boosts share price. Supposed to reduce tax burden vs. just giving investors dividends? With dividends, I think valuation only gets affected if it is done on a regular cadence (so old companies that are cash cows but don't re

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