hack_edu

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by hack_edu 9mo ago
If your tooling gains attention, will you take seed money from rich VCs? When the product succeeds and you get offers to exit, would you sell to the uber-wealthy? They will exploit your user's data and collect the gains. Those are th
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by hack_edu 10mo ago
Human drivers that are at fault face repercussions that affect the rest of their lives. Robot drivers that are at fault face repercussions of a minuscule fine and a "sorry... again" press release.
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by hack_edu 3y ago
Could you share a bit more about semantic chunking with Phi? Any recommendations/examples of prompts?
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by hack_edu 3y ago
ChatGPT's search is powered by Bing.
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by hack_edu 3y ago
Words with capital letters typically have higher token counts. This causes the LLM to apply attention differently.
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by hack_edu 3y ago
> Those impoverished kids you talk about are often lactose intolerant. Exactly. Same goes for other common allergies options like legumes, seafood, and gluten. That's why you provide options.
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by hack_edu 3y ago
No one thinks that peanuts and vegetable oil combine into some magic superfood, yet Plumpy'nut is concretely beneficial to keeping people fed and healthy. Now, consider this same rationale into to a kind of poverty close to home. There
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by hack_edu 3y ago
Its impossible to have a sane conversation about nutrition, especially in a historical context, when addressing folks' anecdotal cultural notions of what foods make their body feel good. Whatever point you're trying to make is m
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by hack_edu 4y ago
> When did we become so comfortable with the government mandating presentation of papers and tracking of private transactions? After Timothy McVeigh blew up a building with a truck full of agricultural supplies.
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by hack_edu 9y ago
If this is the case, you are merely writing a piece of "our interview process is entirely average." I don't know about you, but 5-6 hours is standard. What's the point of breaking out your day-of process into 4 bullet po
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by hack_edu 9y ago
To start, thanks for the self-submitted promo piece on your company. If you want publicity, earn it. You ought to make a statement about this fact in the comment section. Or, submit this using an official account. Here is basically how it
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by hack_edu 9y ago
Dear Blaine/Solve-employee, we know this is you. Be honest with us and just post on the OP account. Faking it is even worse than self-promotion spam. :)
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by hack_edu 9y ago
Oakland, CA is a strong contender if you step back. Especially for one of a Stephensonian-styled second-wave cyberpunk. It even plays a part in Neuromancer. It has its dark parts along with strong facets of common cyberpunk themes: drastic
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by hack_edu 9y ago
> How do you do that without some basic understanding of computer science-y stuff? > How do you define "scalable", how do you measure it? How can you have some intuition about a design before we spend 3 months and many sprin
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by hack_edu 9y ago
> You can't really test a candidate with real-world workloads, can you. But you can test a candidate with imaginary non-workloads?
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CIA Python Coding Conventions(wikileaks.org)
5 points by hack_edu 10y ago|0 comments
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by hack_edu 10y ago
In my experience, a familiarity with the command line along with the associated general systems/server exposure will elevate your career faster than anything. For those with such exposure already I'd recommend diving deeper and be
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by hack_edu 10y ago
With this attitude, you might as well just give all your money to the bankers now and just be done with it.
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by hack_edu 10y ago
California's damming of the Sierras and construction of the aquifers were primarily about flood control. Supporting the growing population came secondary (that's the easy part). An enormous effort was put into diverting melting sn
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by hack_edu 10y ago
Overflow over the top of a dam this size and type will almost certainly result in complete structural failure. The overflow we've seen so far is a secondary canal diverting excess water away from the main dam.
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by hack_edu 10y ago
Find a niche whose sole responsibility drives the bottom line. Advertising is a good one if you have strong networking and rich media fundamentals. One good web dev with a solid background and comfort working in advertising can produce bett
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by hack_edu 10y ago
ffmpeg and libav
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by hack_edu 10y ago
Though you are whining about downvotes. To such an extent that you comment on your own post exclusively regarding the subject.
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by hack_edu 10y ago
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted. Consider the gu
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by hack_edu 10y ago
That makes it better? This is a marketing post and should reflect your company's strengths, especially when the topic of the post is about said quality.
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by hack_edu 10y ago
Not a good reflection on your actual ability to scale when a 500 word blog post makes your entire web server choke after just a few minutes on the front page.
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by hack_edu 10y ago
As long a there are keyboards, there will be Vim.
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Yes, and folks are shifting towards React for the same reason. What's next?
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Indeed, but you need those for-profit enterprises to prop it up. The business economy is lacking in market diversity, and much of the country's most successful indigenous businesses have sold large stakes to foreign multi-nationals. W
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by hack_edu 11y ago
I too wish I was sitting on near-infinite reserves of natural resources. The Norwegian economy and social state can sustain itself for generations on oil income alone. Its population literally doesn't need to work and can still support

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