hackernoteng

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by hackernoteng 3y ago
AI Skills - a bubble. Before the end of 2024 most companies will realize LLMs don't deliver what they have been promised. Salaries - a bubble that is popping. Many developers have been way overpaid. Roles - as Elon proved with Twitte
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Boomer wisdom.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
The future will be shaped by Minecraft. I foresee very blocky looking buildings.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I also have fallen back to just using curl + jq and a set of saved commands since both postman and insomnia have decided to make my life harder not easer. good old plain unix command line tools never fails you.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Good. Postman and Insomnia have shot themselves in the foot with overly complex UI and a mess of managing your collection of API calls in some horrible format and messing up the whole sync process and the simple ability to run everything of
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I loved reading that in the 80s and 90s, in high school and college, before I really knew that much about computers or programming. There was always stuff in there way over my head that I would read and re-read to try to grok. DDJ is a big
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
The growth and opportunities will be at the application layer. Training and fine-tuning LLMs doesn't really have that much value. Closed source (OpenAI) models and Open source models will be the foundation. As I said running some train
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I think all this is OK. The problem is when it's not transparent. Then you have early employees (even some naive founders) with a lot of stock/options who assume they are going to be compensated with the exit. Then it's qu
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Would not be shocked if he steps in as CEO
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Not a great analogy since Brin could step in as CEO unlike a past US president.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
It's the new-new-thing and lemmings want to capitalize on it and get rich. Only problem is it has limited utility and doesn't really work for a lot of the things they are trying to do with it.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Best Rx for depression: Sun, Steak and Steel. Get outside, get sunshine, get in nature. Eat meat, get enough protein. Lift heavy weights, get stronger.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
It's already obsolete. It doesn't work except for trivial cases which have no real value.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
PHP + MySQL + Plain jQUERY. The stack of champions. Seriously. Robust. Simple. Always just works. Minimal dependencies.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Nadella is the GOAT non-founder CEO.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I've worked for software company which sold products to hedge funds. And I've also done consulting work for big private equity firm. Both experiences taught me never to actually be employed by such companies. You will be disres
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I've have worked with ML/AI tech for 15 years, implementing software. I've worked very deeply with AI/LLM tech for past 3 years, implementing software. I used GenAI/LLM tech every day at work. And I can tell you abs
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Correct. If risk free return is 5% there is less need to take more risk on risky VC or private equity bets. Those allocations would necessarily be smaller overall. In addition the same effect on term sheets - the VCs will expect MORE ret
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I guess the ones who aren't convinced are supposedly the intelligent ones?
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Exactly. You can't trust any of it. Its all just CGI.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Gee really? You mean generated code by some ML model means people get lazier and just cut/paste hallucinated code? Who would have thought?
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Stop being afraid. Stay away from climate change cults.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Shark jumped
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Why open source it? Just another virtue signal while their real motivation is something more sinister? They are a for-profit publicly owned company. Are investors happy about spending billions to open-source it?
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
This is a great comment. Good search is really hard. RAG is much harder. At least with search user can pick the best result manually or refine their search. With RAG you pass topK to the LLM and assume its good results. The assumption
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I had one of these watches for 2 days. I returned it. These health monitoring features are just gimmicks. The watch itself just becomes one more distraction and thing that needs maintained and charged, etc. I'd rather just have a ba
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Those hazy-style IPAs absolutely wreak havoc on my stomach. I think the unfiltered yeast that does it. I also do drink Guinness without issues. Mostly it's hoppy IPA type beers that dont agree with me. More filtered traditional bee
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
Too low carb can actually slow down thyroid and end up increasing both LDL and A1C because overall metabolism slows down too much. healthy carbs combined with lots of exercise works.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I had an A6 all road from 2005 until 2020. Great car. Great engine. Maintenance costs eventually got too crazy.
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by hackernoteng 3y ago
I believe in objective morality. Porn is immoral. A persons immoral behavior outside of work is a red flag. It means they are also MORE likely to ack immoral at work. Based on that, it could be grounds for dismissal.

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