civicsquid

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by civicsquid 7mo ago
Really cool. I'm wondering: what background did you need to be able to think of the question that resulted in this project? I know you said you're involved in some retrogaming and were experimenting, but as someone who works in a
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Ask HN: Any open source infrastructure projects under active development?
1 points by civicsquid 1y ago|1 comments
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by civicsquid 1y ago
I think one of the biggest challenges for a team lead is understanding the team's priorities, followed by identifying and acting on the leading indicators of success towards those priorities. By understanding priorities I mean: the tec
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by civicsquid 2y ago
Hm, I’m not sure what you saw in the post before my edits, but I think this answers “did AI motivate / help discover the breakthroughs we saw 20 years ago?” which I definitely agree would be a “no”. Either way, before and after my edit
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by civicsquid 2y ago
Good suggestion! I’ve seen federated learning come up before but have not explored it much. This seems like a good direction for sure.
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Ask HN: Is distributed systems research slowing down?
22 points by civicsquid 2y ago|10 comments
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Ask HN: When does it make sense to build wealth in taxable accounts?
2 points by civicsquid 3y ago|1 comments
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by civicsquid 3y ago
This is the sort of trivialization attitude that I’ve come to associate with people who only care about the “big picture”. It is really irksome if you work on the lower-level stuff that (in some sense) makes the big picture possible. I thin
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by civicsquid 3y ago
I would be curious to understand the "How to Prompt" section more. As someone who does not interact with LLMs regularly I have no idea why this looks like a templating language. Would anyone be able to explain what's going on
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Ask HN: How do I find technical papers (for distributed systems)?
3 points by civicsquid 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Why do so many VR games move the camera now?
6 points by civicsquid 3y ago|5 comments
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by civicsquid 3y ago
What is the impact of this, are images broken?
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by civicsquid 3y ago
This was the main reason I moved my money out of a bank account early during the rate hikes. I was waiting around for a better rate, but even when T-bills were being offered at >2% annually, banks were offering less than a percent. Even
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Ask HN: How can I discover mid-stage statups?
4 points by civicsquid 3y ago|3 comments
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Past losses aside, the press release says that there are about $180B in deposits with the bank holding about $210B in assets. Assuming the FDIC liquidates and restructures the bank, I don’t see why deposits could not be made whole. If there
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by civicsquid 4y ago
For those who haven’t used Datadog, what do you mean by auto-muting logic? What does it do exactly?
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by civicsquid 4y ago
> We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again I don't know if there are more details elsewhere, but I feel like a
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by civicsquid 4y ago
I believe this is correct. Anecdotally, at FB, there was quite a push to get coroutine-supporting-features into the standard because we had a C++ coroutine library built through non-standard means, which meant that compilers didn't ful
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by civicsquid 4y ago
At least in the case of Meta / Facebook, I don't think there is any pressure on the CEO. Zuckerberg owns controlling interest over the company to the point where the board of directors are essentially advisory. I believe I read th
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by civicsquid 4y ago
I have no idea what will happen, but it sort of sounded like (from the limited reporting that's been done) they'll focus a bit more on managers / non-ICs this time -- if it happens at all. It is kind of nasty to think about t
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Ask HN: Has anyone started an IaaS after working only at large tech companies?
1 points by civicsquid 4y ago|0 comments
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by civicsquid 4y ago
I think what I'm looking for is someone who understands the technical side of a team and org enough (perhaps through support of a tech lead) to set expectations and goals for the individuals they manage (and likely hired). If the manag
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Can you rephrase your question? I'm not sure I understand
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by civicsquid 4y ago
That's fair. In my case, I think our managers have historically done very little outside of collecting information for promotions, fielding questions from other teams about our roadmaps, and approving expenses. That makes me think to s
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by civicsquid 4y ago
Yeah I am fine with being at my current level with a meets-all for a bit. I just was promoted to IC5 at the beginning of the year and people were giving me some really surprising feedback on how hard it would be to succeed. This is the firs
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by civicsquid 4y ago
I think this is a bit too simplistic. You can perform well without having pressure on you to perform well. Self-motivated people don't need that. In fact there are some companies out there that my friends have moved to that don't
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Ask HN: Are ICs at tech companies usually so concerned about job performance?
71 points by civicsquid 4y ago|50 comments
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by civicsquid 4y ago
archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20221105194440/https://www.jefft... Additionally I'll note this is an article from 2019. Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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Ask HN: Where did you go after big tech?
15 points by civicsquid 4y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: 'Restorative' trips for the fall?
2 points by civicsquid 4y ago|1 comments

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