hideo

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by hideo 2y ago
Assuming you're asking in good faith Based on this and your last couple of posts, I can sense you are struggling. Please don't rely on the advice of strangers (mine included). Some things I would suggest 1. Find someone in real li
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by hideo 3y ago
Why are there so few Shazam alternatives? Does it have something to do with licensing perhaps? The algorithm itself is fascinating but I don't get why this space seems to have just one player - i.e. Shazam
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by hideo 3y ago
What you described is the present of tech, not the future.
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by hideo 3y ago
i have the inexplicable urge to whip a llama's ass
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by hideo 3y ago
You're missing GPs point. GP is not arguing to remove the concept of LLCs. GP is arguing that the entity in charge of all your medical information should not be an LLC. LLCs in general are great. This company probably shouldn't be
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by hideo 3y ago
That is an absolutely massive number. I wonder if openAI or anyone has published their retention rate.
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by hideo 4y ago
Those examples help, thanks. I misunderstood your original post and thought you were planning on doing something to _change_ policy. I see now your thought is more about helping people navigate existing policy. I do think this can be very h
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by hideo 4y ago
Ah, that makes sense. So the focus is on helping people navigate the policy, not changing the policy. I can see how that can help.
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by hideo 4y ago
Maybe I’m missing the point - all these issues are because of various governments’ policies. how could startups possibly address immigration policy problems? I can’t think of any way a startup could e.g. help someone waiting months for a vi
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by hideo 4y ago
I have great respect for John Carmack but this feels like a very unnuanced take. Lead time isn't about "startups", it's about code complexity, side effects and blast radius. The time it takes to push code when you have 1
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by hideo 4y ago
> Unless everyone in the org works the same three days a week in-office Amazon had a culture of small teams (≤15 people) being somewhat independent. I would imagine that you don't need _the whole org_ there, you just need the whol
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by hideo 4y ago
LLM n00b here. My 2c - Prompts are the input that you send to LLMs to get them to give you output. In general LLMs are large black boxes, and the output you get is not always great. The output can often be significantly improved by changing
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by hideo 4y ago
> If you've worked on a large Python or JS codebase, what was it like to work in? Rife with footguns. Things broke all the time until we eventually re-added some form of static type checking. > How did you make small refactors fo
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by hideo 4y ago
Wayfair is a major player in e-commerce and a very "tech heavy" place. They offer work and salaries that are highly competitive outside of the FAANG bubble. Chewy is another similar company that people often disregard. E-commerce
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by hideo 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious if there's a wall this was written on. Does anyone have links to articles/websites that predicted the size and timing of the layoffs?
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by hideo 4y ago
It is incredibly weird. I can only speak for CS academia and industry. It is very different in the industry. In my industry jobs, there is a lot of structure. New grads are often given very close direction and very specific tasks to complet
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by hideo 4y ago
I think its a distinction between the type of person that says "I want to build a business, I think building product X sounds like a good way to do so" and the type that thinks "I want to build product X, I think building a b
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by hideo 4y ago
My goals from 1-1s are asking for regular feedback and preventing surprises. I keep a running list of things that I need to talk to my manager about. I pull top 2-3 things off this list for each 1-1. And once a month I talk about career pro
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by hideo 4y ago
On a long enough time scale - all of my decisions to reuse vs reinvent were wrong. At a given point in time though they all seemed fine.
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by hideo 4y ago
About 15 years ago I was trying to debug a pesky timing issue and couldn't reproduce it. I wrote a script to capture and replay network traces from Wireshark (then called Ethereal) that included keeping the timings intact. Caught the b
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by hideo 4y ago
What's really awesome about this is I think you independently discovered a huge trick in performance optimization. "Zero copy" solutions for eliminating the overhead of moving frames around are very popular - if you look up t
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by hideo 4y ago
The problem, I think, is that only the people who don't like reading this leave comments. So here I am, commenting that I feel exactly the same way as you. This is the reason I went back to the office I used to think I was someone who
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by hideo 4y ago
I know nothing about Airbnb's numbers but the thesis just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like this is a whole article around a hashtag. The easiest explanation is that not everyone is mad at it. Assuming that airbnb is growing
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by hideo 4y ago
https://archive.ph/M7Krm
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by hideo 4y ago
I consider myself a 'Solver'/'Fixer', mainly because that's the title others gave me, and I mostly disagree with this. Specifically the problem with me is I don't have deep expertise in any area. This is f
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by hideo 4y ago
> This stuff is complex. It requires some careful, thoughtful approaches. Is this comment allowed on the internet?
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by hideo 4y ago
Without getting into too much detail some of these are software/hardware (e.g. niche libraries and tools used in very specific industries) and some are non tech (maintenance for specific types of vehicles, animal care, etc)
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by hideo 4y ago
They are not experts in the process of moderation. They are experts in a field and also mod subs in that field.
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by hideo 4y ago
I'd wager this is an extremely low estimate about the value of that labor. From the paper it seems like they compared with freelance moderators on upwork. I'm a part of a couple of super niche subreddits where there are moderators
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by hideo 4y ago
Yeah I didn't get it either. Perhaps a reference to the time AirBNB allegedly farmed craigslist to grow listings? https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-harvested-craigslist-...

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