jameshush

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by jameshush 2mo ago
I focus on realtime voice AI uses cases and nemotron's time to first token is INSANELY fast. It's become a legit option for voice use cases
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by jameshush 2mo ago
I'm one of the most pro-AI support/solutions/FDE engineers you'll find, and I really don't see AI taking away support and hand holding. Even though I use AI to answer questions large customers would still rather wai
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by jameshush 3mo ago
Are you making less than 130k total comp in NYC while doing AI stuff as an engineer? I'd highly recommend looking for a new job.
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by jameshush 5mo ago
For the best experience, you'll still want it to communicate with 3rd party APIs to handle the speech to text, text to speech, and LLM.
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by jameshush 5mo ago
This is more of a VAD/turn detection issue. It's gotten a lot better over the last few years, but it's a hard problem. The extra ~100ms of latency makes a huge difference otherwise, especially when you have use cases that req
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by jameshush 5mo ago
I expected the same out come you're saying here, but in my experience this hasn't been the case. I've been researching new acoustic guitars to purchase, and I've been getting an equal amount of suggestions from the major
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by jameshush 6mo ago
Had the pleasure of working with Alex while at System1. Great guy. If I remember correctly I got one tiny change merged into Waterfox that's probably since been undone in the years since :-).
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by jameshush 7mo ago
@cootsnuck, if I didn't really love working with the people/company I'm at now, I'd also start my own consulting company. Once I realized you really only need 3-5 consistent customers (well, you only REALLY NEED one cust
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by jameshush 7mo ago
It might be role-specific. I'm a solutions engineer. A large portion of my time is spent making demos for customers. LLMs have been a game-changer for me, because not only can I spit out _more_ demos, but I can handle more edge cases i
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by jameshush 7mo ago
1000%. When the sale doesn't go through, it's the salesperson's fault. When the product doesn't work, it's the "real" engineer's fault. When everything works, the client gives you a high five. If you
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by jameshush 8mo ago
This is one of the few hills I will die on. After working on a team that used Phabricator for a few years and going back to GitHub when I joined a new company, it really does make life so much nicer to just rebase -> squash -> commit
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by jameshush 9mo ago
I agree with you for many use cases, but for the use case I'm focused on (Voice AI) speed is absolutely everything. Every millisecond counts for voice, and most voice use cases don't require anything close to "deep thinking.
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by jameshush 9mo ago
I'm Canadian. My parents are British. I always thought we spelt all words the same until now
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by jameshush 10mo ago
Why bother doing that when a non-engineer can just change the prompt and output a different result? :shrug:
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by jameshush 10mo ago
When I went through the grind, I just would open up levels.fyi and check the salaries whenever I felt like giving up. Now that I have a wife and kid, its very easy to find motivation to do things I don't want to do to provide for my fa
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by jameshush 1y ago
Great advice. Sometimes you need to take a step back to take three steps forward. Referrals are the key.
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by jameshush 1y ago
Referrals are the key to non-FAANG jobs. I also have over 10 years of experience, with six of those years spent working under the same supervisor across two different jobs. Four of those years were two different jobs, thanks to strong refer
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by jameshush 1y ago
Your logic works out fine if you don't mind a dash of risk (e.g. from a job loss). But when I ran the numbers from my perspective it didn't seem worth it. (I might be doing my math wrong). Let's say I get a car that costs $30
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by jameshush 2y ago
I worked at the company that acquired MapQuest a few years ago. It's been bought and sold a few times, but their most popular feature is still the "print maps" button... As you can guess it's mostly people over the age o
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by jameshush 2y ago
Unless I'm reading the wrong pricing page, Duolingo Max seems to cost $29.99/month. In my experience learning Chinese, it costs $15-20 an hour to find a decent teacher online with whom to practice via video call. A few teachers ch
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by jameshush 2y ago
I'll add to this: If you want to practice following up but are afraid of "bugging" someone, start by wishing 1-3 people happy birthday every day. I put every person I know birthday on one giant Google calendar and wish people
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by jameshush 2y ago
Anecdote from me: I jumped from leading an engineering team for an online virtual events company to working as a solutions engineer for a WebRTC vendor. They asked for a reference from my previous CEO. I had left on good terms (gave 4 weeks
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by jameshush 2y ago
I'm a foreigner who's live in Taiwan over the past four years. You can move here tomorrow if you want :D. You can survive with English (though your life will be easier with Mandarin), and there are plenty of English teachers who n
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by jameshush 2y ago
My wife teaches Chinese, and this is spot on our situation. Schools and language centers are always hiring. She usually has 1-2 private online students she tutors (generally adults who are learning Chinese for fun). As long as she commits t
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by jameshush 2y ago
Over the last 10 years, I've gotten every job except one through Hacker News or a referral from a co-worker I met at a job. I got way more callbacks fresh out of school as a 21-year-old living in Canada (aka no USA work permits) via Ha
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by jameshush 2y ago
Genuine question: What's the motivation for getting a PhD in an engineering field? I’m guessing you just really really love researching and have enough money/low enough lifestyle to take the oppertunity cost financial hit of not w
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by jameshush 2y ago
Anecdotally I’m using Kapi trained on our docs to help answer customer questions and its amazing at getting answers to level 1 support. We still need to edit the answers but editing something 90% right is much faster then searching the docs
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by jameshush 2y ago
Invest in skills that pay money and spend less then you make. Skills are key because they’re inflation-proof, and no person or government can ever take them away
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by jameshush 2y ago
For context, as a newly married couple, we spend 80% of our time in Taiwan and 20% in Spain. My job pays the vast majority of our income. I’m Canadian/British, and she’s Taiwanese. The day after we legally married, I added her as a ben
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by jameshush 2y ago
I have multiple "mentors" for various aspects of my life. I don't call them "mentors," though; I generally call them "buddies." There's plenty of successful people 10-20 years older than you, who want

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