lonesword

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by lonesword 1mo ago
Congratulations! I came across herdr a few weeks ago and I've been daily driving it ever since. I've tried a few other tools like Emdash and Superset but Herdr is the only one that did a decent job rendering Claude code UI and did
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by lonesword 3mo ago
> I work at a frontier lab and have rejected Meta interviews (for much higher salary) many times over the years Good for you, but this is not the counter example to the wager that the parent proposed. It would be "I worked for a no-
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by lonesword 8mo ago
> You can easily put stablecoins in a Lulo savings account and get 5% interest instead of 0.1% or whatever your bank provides. Yes Lulo has insurance. From Lulo's site[1]: "Lulo’s yield comes from interest paid by traders and b
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by lonesword 8mo ago
>The much needed immigration should rather come from countries with similar society and culture to us Europeans, rather than India. The mass emigration from India is a direct consequence of India's poor wages and living standards. I
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by lonesword 8mo ago
> Video games are far too derivative to be taken seriously as art Even something like Europa Universalis IV? How is that derivative? I know of no other art form that will feed my fantasy of turning a no-name island in the Indian Ocean in
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by lonesword 8mo ago
Hyperoptic is niche? I thought they were available all over London.
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by lonesword 9mo ago
I agree with you, somewhat. But now you have taken the trouble to complain that you had to look up “most populous country on earth” and yet contributed nothing to the discussion.
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by lonesword 9mo ago
Pivot to being a student again :) > I come from the world's most populous country. > Realistically, moving abroad is tough but I want to! I applied to a lot of startups but not getting any positive response. I was in a similar si
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by lonesword 10mo ago
If I don’t like my coworkers, I’m out. I like people who give a shit about the work I do (a.k.a “collaboration”). “Whatever, you own it” is just lazy for “I can’t be bothered to understand what you are working on”. The problem is not the co
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by lonesword 1y ago
I moved from Germany (Cologne) to London recently and I am surprised to read that UK has safer roads than Germany. I have not yet driven in London - but I have driven in Germany and I have bicycled in both countries. London is hands down te
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Can we speed up model training by using binary weights?(kevinmartinjose.com)
3 points by lonesword 1y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 1y ago
> Facebook is widely hated and embarrassing to work at. Not sure it's widely hated (disclaimer: I work there), despite all the bad press. The vast majority of people I meet respond with "oh how cool!" when they hear that
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Matmul() using PyTorch's MPS back end is faster than Apple's MLX(kevinmartinjose.com)
1 points by lonesword 1y ago|1 comments
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by lonesword 2y ago
I work in this space (pretraining LLMs). It looks fancier than it really is. It does involve wrangling huge ymls and writing regular expressions at scale (ok I am oversimplifying a bit). I should be excited (and grateful) that I get to work
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by lonesword 2y ago
I have used both aerospace and yabai, and aerospace was far more simpler to configure. I really like it. Thank you for the great work! I had to unfortunately stop using aerospace due to some bugs. If I switch from workspace a to workspace b
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by lonesword 2y ago
I work with pyspark and parquet quite a lot. I never had to deal with parquet outside spark, but this is how I would do this: - Write a pandas_udf function in pyspark. - Parition your data into smaller bits so that the pandas_udf does not g
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by lonesword 3y ago
Genuine question - why assign seats at all? In my country (weddings with 200+ people are the norm) people sit wherever they want. In the US, you wouldn't assign seating at a house party (right?), so why do that for a wedding, since a w
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by lonesword 3y ago
Add the name of the institution you went to to your resume and add "dropped out due to health reasons" in tiny (but still readable) font underneath. This will get you past most automated HR filters without you having to be dishone
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by lonesword 3y ago
I turned 30 this year and had a bout with RSI. My elbows hurt, there was pain in the back of my hand, and my little finger even started going numb if I use the phone too much. What helped: - I got the logitech MX vertical mouse. This remove
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by lonesword 3y ago
No, it' not that low for mid level engineers. Here's some anecdotal data: An SDE II offer from Amazon (Berlin) was 90k base + 15K sign-on bonus + some RSUs. An SDE I (new-grad ish) at Amazon makes 72K euros + RSUs (at Aachen). Za
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by lonesword 3y ago
I wrote tweetscreenr.com to fetch articles from my twitter feed, and convert it into an RSS feed. The initial use case was to follow AI researchers on twitter and get notified whenever they post a link to an arxiv.org paper. Works well for
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by lonesword 3y ago
No finetuning for just a few facts could indeed end up being very costly. If you have 5 new examples that you want to fine-tune your model on, you probably wont fine-tune your existing model for 3000 training steps on just those 5 new examp
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Lessons learned from making a SaaS completely serverless(kevinmartinjose.com)
3 points by lonesword 3y ago|0 comments
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by lonesword 3y ago
Just deployed a fix and it seems to be working now. Thank you for your patience.
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by lonesword 3y ago
When the user visits `/settings` I fetch all the lists from twitter and BatchWrite them into DynamoDB. Turns out you have way more than 25 lists, and the BatchWrite fails. Let me see if I can quickly give a fix. Thanks for reporting th
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by lonesword 3y ago
Thank you for the kind words and for upgrading! Let me look into why the settings page is throwing an error.
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Show HN: TweetScreenr – fetch external links from your Twitter feed(tweetscreenr.com)
7 points by lonesword 3y ago|7 comments
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by lonesword 3y ago
I love the size of that case. I've been looking for a tiny case that can fit a GPU. This doesn't look like that though. It doesn't have to fit the largest GPU - I'd be happy if it can fit a gtx 3060. Does anyone have re
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by lonesword 4y ago
I have an Onyx note air (2?) and it's been wonderful so far. I use it to read research papers, something that's impossible on my kindle. It's not just the screen size - the onyx boox has options to segment a 2-column paper in
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by lonesword 4y ago
Google workspaces in India costs 125 rupees a month. That's around $1.5. Use a VPN + an international debit card (or wise.com) to pay Google in rupees? Is there a real downside to this?

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