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by czep 4mo ago
The economic question is whether the average company will have the time or talent to roll their own models instead of eating the cost increases. The firms in question are exactly the same that have already decimated their teams. Can they so
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This time is no different(czep.net)
2 points by czep 5mo ago|0 comments
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Iran war is threatening supply of helium(cnbc.com)
12 points by czep 6mo ago|0 comments
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by czep 7mo ago
It is really beautiful to see distilled to the core algorithm. Despite AK’s claim that everything else is simply optimization, I am sure there’s a bit more to training a useful frontier model! Still, an excellent teaching tool and nice way
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by czep 8mo ago
While true, it's still a user-hostile move. You kinda have to meet your customers where they are. If people are clicking ads without knowing it, that's a serious design problem. Yes, people should learn to read, but the risk of pl
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by czep 8mo ago
> You need to know that your data and conversations are protected and never sold to advertisers. > we plan to test ads at the bottom of answers in ChatGPT when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current conv
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by czep 11mo ago
If you’re referring to body shop consulting agencies this may be true, but IME as an IC consultant in DS/ML, my rates are well above Staff+ at FAANG, and nobody has ever tried to leetcode interview me. Yes, I have to do a lot of smooth
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by czep 3y ago
You're right, of course, there are suitable alternatives that work well. There are some things that will just be easier to manage such as Parental controls, backups, and Family features. Additionally, I've lost basic tech support
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Ask HN: How to plan the big move from Android to iOS?
5 points by czep 3y ago|10 comments
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by czep 3y ago
I lean towards your viewpoint as well. Their assumptions (axioms, postulates?) are highly controversial, while the actual principles seem quite sound to me. The only issue I can see is with #5. I would argue for decision making, you absolut
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by czep 4y ago
There are too many insightful and thoughtful points in your comment for a single upvote to repay, so I must thank you with a reply. Becoming so demoralized with the present media and political landscape, it is comforting to find that there
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by czep 4y ago
Think of the people you've helped get their jobs done over the years. That's worth more than author credit in the colophon of a man page.
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by czep 5y ago
Bluff? Putin wants to live out his golden years in unabated luxury after anointing a loyal successor. If he nukes the entire world, he will live in squalor and misery while being hunted by the entire human race. He won't do it. Me hop
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by czep 5y ago
Any recommendations for best practices in "modern C++"? I have to resurrect an old codebase and would like to refactor it using more modern idioms, but its been a loooong time since I wrote any decent c++.
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by czep 5y ago
> Application developers are your users. No. Equating internal teams with paying customers is the very attitude that is causing these problems. Encouraging teams to think about their "internal customers" leads those customers t
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by czep 5y ago
It's actually a very low risk investment. The HOA is suing the city, blaming the construction of the Transbay terminal next door. They have access to some serious attorneys, so if the building falls down they'll still profit.
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by czep 5y ago
> It levels the playing field a bit, in the sense that code is more objective than an interviewer's notes Except that writing code in a Google doc on the phone doesn't in any way resemble the real "playing field". I g
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by czep 5y ago
Thanks for the tips! One mantra I've tried when starting at a new job is "for the first 3 months say yes to everything, for the next 3 months say no to everything." The idea is you first immerse yourself in everything, to fin
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by czep 5y ago
This is so eerily familiar I swear I've had many of these exact conversations word for word. The only way this doesn't turn into a complete nightmare of a cluster is if the exec team "gets it". If so, you just might sta
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by czep 5y ago
The problem is that the average voter will not understand that distinction. They will be persuaded to vote against environmental protections because of the doubt cast on "climate change". My original point was about the framing
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by czep 5y ago
It used to be called "pollution". Reframing the topic as global warming or climate change was a dedicated effort to soften the language and introduce room for doubt. I mean, everyone agrees that pollution sounds bad and is bad an
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by czep 5y ago
But were they really your choices? Everyday you wake up constrained by what someone who is no longer you did yesterday. Nobody is responsible for anything. I mean that philosophically of course. Give yourself a break. I recognize your name
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by czep 5y ago
The "infinite backlog of work" is the problem. It will be used as an excuse to ding you on your next performance review. Th fact that companies are structured to ensure that there is always too much work for anyone to do is what l
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Obfuscating Your Primary Keys(czep.net)
1 points by czep 5y ago|0 comments
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by czep 5y ago
To this day I still actually have a physical reaction of nausea when hearing the numbers 162 and 163.
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by czep 5y ago
<Immediately clicks to Calculus>... "Spivak". Yup, list is legit.
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by czep 5y ago
What a wonderful summary of the benefits this change has wrought. I feel the same, but haven't maximized the opportunity as much as you have! I might head out to listen to some birds right now...
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by czep 5y ago
> Most people don't learn this lesson till the first layoff You hit the nail on the head. While I definitely feel for all the early-career folks out there who are genuinely missing out on the camaraderie of working together, I urge
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by czep 5y ago
Fundamentally this is about respect for the autonomy of my time. I am paid to deliver value. Sometimes that is best served by direct in-person collaboration, but not every single day. The deal I offer to prospective employers is this: I do
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by czep 5y ago
To address some of the skepticism about when and where javascript would be appropriate in data science, would you want to fit a logistic regression model in javascript? Probably not, but to build a solver that takes model outputs and visua

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