sarabande

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by sarabande 15d ago
Seems like an unnecessarily broad brush to paint with, as if "tech" were a monolith. Just don't work for the companies that cross your self-stated lines in the sand: > But my personal lines definitely extend to don’t give
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by sarabande 29d ago
I manage our company's model spend and build tools around it. The good thing about the developer experience is that it is dead simple to create keys that are time-bound, model restricted, and have budgets against them in an easy, progr
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by sarabande 4mo ago
What happened then?
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by sarabande 4mo ago
This is extremely difficult to read. Can someone summarize the point?
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by sarabande 4mo ago
It would be helpful to show n. speakers of those languages or at least grade based on % of remaining non-English, non-Spanish speakers. My intuition is that German, for example, is much less active of a language in the US, where immigration
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by sarabande 8mo ago
Could you please consider making your points without "you'd have to be insane/an idiot to believe X"?
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Ask HN: Contract shops who can prepare codebases for internationalization
1 points by sarabande 10mo ago|0 comments
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by sarabande 11mo ago
I found the article interesting, even given a large range of possible definitions of CTO. I do wonder if it is possible to agree on a general definition of the CTO from the perspective of the job to be done, rather than how they do it. Fo
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by sarabande 11mo ago
I really appreciated this blog post, John, to know that you're doing what I've been doing without a guilty conscience. I'm a VP eng/research at a startup and also feel like one of the few people apart from the founders w
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by sarabande 11mo ago
Does anyone know if they published the dataset?
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by sarabande 1y ago
I'm curious about the simple, lightweight change management process listed in the article. Anyone have any tips on doing this well? I kind of hate the part of having to convince everyone of something "obviously better" :)
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by sarabande 1y ago
I enjoyed this piece, including references to the Stoics and Spinoza. It preaches serenity, goodwill, composure, etc. As someone in their 30s with children, work and a generally busy life, I wonder if anyone can recommend some pieces with m
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by sarabande 1y ago
Consider outbound AI calls as a weapon against inefficiency. What is the game-theoretic equilibrium when faced with adversaries like call centers & other businesses with labrynthian customer service? I bet it leads to more efficiency fo
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Ask HN: How to generate product docs E2E?
4 points by sarabande 1y ago|1 comments
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by sarabande 2y ago
Can you add calendar week and fiscal year start
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by sarabande 2y ago
I used the example sentence from your link.
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by sarabande 2y ago
纔 in this case should use the definition of 才 (cai2) not (shan1) which is extremely uncommon. Otherwise, cool app!
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by sarabande 2y ago
Can you share more about your experience regarding how management at a small company lead to management at a big company? Was the switch voluntary, and how did you do it?
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Ask HN: Romanian Salary Data
1 points by sarabande 2y ago|0 comments
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by sarabande 3y ago
"Absolutely ruined"? We still get value from flight, just now trade wait time and privacy for security. It's clearly still worth it for the vast majority of the world, see global flight stats.
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by sarabande 3y ago
Multiple EU airports like Schiphol already do facial scanning+passport for automated entry for citizens of select countries; so does CBP on US entry from abroad. What's the issue, that it's a subcontractor?
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by sarabande 3y ago
[This is not legal advice] Not a good sign. Most DE-based eng contracts max at 3 months, or the default per § 622 BGB. 6 months likely means the company fails to retain good staff. Negotiate for asymmetric § 622 BGB notice for yourself, and
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by sarabande 3y ago
I like the article's premise. I would like some argument for why we'd suddenly get better at measuring something that has escaped us for at least 80 years when knowledge work became more common. > My suspicion is that [...] the
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by sarabande 3y ago
It's your personal preference to be addressed with _Sie_, but languages change and German is seeing shift to the use of _Du_ even for transactional business [1]. Target audience, region, familiarity etc. will all affect which word is u
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by sarabande 3y ago
I also didn't know, some Googling led to this being the likely reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb#2022_Russia_controver...
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by sarabande 3y ago
Here is a summary, part ChatGPT and part me: The “Lone Banana Problem” describes subtle biases of Large Language Models (LLMs) in AI: LLMs reproduce the statistical average of the inputs that they have consumed in the context of the questio
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by sarabande 3y ago
FYI: A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
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by sarabande 3y ago
I'm trying to use this on a 3M mp3 file to test ASR with language code deu, CPU only, and I keep getting this error -- are there limits to the MMS inference? File "fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.pyx", line 30, in
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Ask HN: Have you tried Google's Workspace AI?
1 points by sarabande 3y ago|0 comments
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by sarabande 4y ago
I don't know about in the US, but I suspect it is similar to Germany, where the bar exam also requires you to argue/reason about/solve novel cases, i.e. not regurgitation of stored information. The AI likely wouldn't p

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