yodsanklai

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by yodsanklai 11d ago
LLM + static types is a winning combo. And if you want to be serious with what you do with your LLM, you need to understand the output to some extent. That being said, you may as well use Rust. The extra complexity of manual memory manageme
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by yodsanklai 11d ago
It's a good language to learn programming. Very simple semantics. But ultimately, you need to learn different paradigms, I think the order doesn't matter, they'll still be an element of surprise. Also OCaml lets you write imp
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by yodsanklai 13d ago
It seems like every few days there's a new model with hundreds of comments on HN. I find it hard to keep track of the progress. Is there a TL;DR on what benchmarks to look at to understand what is going on?
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by yodsanklai 19d ago
My point is that US can restrict visa all they want, it won't prevent companies to move somewhere else where they can get better talent and/or cheaper labour. So all this whining about H1B taking the jobs Americans feel entitled t
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by yodsanklai 19d ago
Big tech companies aren't patriotic, they work for their shareholders. They don't care about US or Swiss citizens. They'll open offices wherever there's a high density of talents, and where they can import qualified fore
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by yodsanklai 19d ago
What I'm saying is that I don't know if they are US citizens or not. From the look of it, most are not though. As for eligibility to work there, I suppose that's validated before with the recruiter.
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by yodsanklai 20d ago
If these companies relocate the jobs, Americans wouldn't even get a job. A megacorp isn't property of the US government. It's a property of this shareholders who very often aren't even US citizens. It's pretty ironi
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
> not if they rank first at whiteboards or fizz-buzz. As an interviewer, I don't rank candidates. I have my set of questions, some candidates solve them, others don't. You can argue that it's the bar to do your job properl
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
I work in a global company. As an interviewer, I don't even know if the person I interview is a US citizen. I don't even know if they live in the US or another country, and I'm probably not allowed to ask. I just rate their p
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
My pet peeves are junk food corporations. Companies like Mac Donald's or Coca Cola have been extremely damaging in terms of public health. And the level of marketing they use to feed people (especially kids) their poison is insane. I k
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
Youtube comments is a junkyard compared to HN.
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
I don't think this has to do with free speech. If companies can deliberately harm kids, they should be regulated.
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
Exactly. And also a way to opt-out of the comment section. It's hard for me to resist looking at the comments, and sometimes commenting.
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by yodsanklai 21d ago
Yes, and also if only I could disable shorts and the comment section in youtube.
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by yodsanklai 23d ago
> A few degrees warmer in the ocean and El Niño becomes an incredible problem for half the world. Ice age was only 6 degrees less than now, half of Europe was under ice
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by yodsanklai 1mo ago
Aren't LSP dying (and eventually IDE, at least in their current form) as everybody use LLM to code. I know some big tech companies redirected teams supporting them to new efforts (ie. tool integration with AI).
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by yodsanklai 1mo ago
Could it be that there's no magic formula, everybody uses the same known ideas, the same computation power, the same training data? if that's the case, we can imagine that models will be commoditized.
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by yodsanklai 1mo ago
> put the effort into keeping Search profitable The company would have ended up like Stack Overflow? I don't think there was an option for them.
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> All this ostensibly to keep teenage boys from watching Pornhub (when parental controls already exist). The real reason ... Maybe I'm naive, but I think there's no deeper motivation. There are activists and politicians who re
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
It's more complicated than that. You probably don't want all your equity in stock, unless you're young and you're confident you can keep your strategy when the AI bubble crashes. And what do you do with the part that isn
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> Trump is a nationalist and will defend US companies Does it though? Companies have to corrupt him in various ways to get his favors. Pichai won't get that for free.
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
Is that the standard Trump should be measured against?
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
So much energy to prevent resourceful teenagers from watching porn?
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
In the EU, the canary islands are known to have great skies. You check this map https://www.lightpollutionmap.info I've been in some place with very dark skies, like Death Valley or Teide in the Canaries ( https:/&#x2F
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> It's quite depressing how little society values the night sky, Considering how little value we put on far more important things (like the climate or biodiversity), I'm not really surprised.
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> I love seeing artificial objects in space, because it shows that we, humanity, are finally getting there. The problem is that nobody asked the other 8.3 billions people what they think about seeing stuff in the sky. For the benefit of
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> What's the goal of the US/Iran war? I'm just a layman, but the goal seems obvious to me. First it's not US/Iran but US + Israel / Iran. From Israel's point of view, I assume the goal is the preemptive
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
Funny how the two top comments are contradictory. We need better than anecdotes to understand what the new models bring.
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by yodsanklai 2mo ago
> Nowadays I wouldn't recommend anyone to get a tech degree in a university unless it's a world class one. I'm in Europe where education is mostly free or inexpensive so it may be different in the US, but it sounds like te
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by yodsanklai 3mo ago
There are certainly lines you don't want to cross if you want to avoid conflicts, and there are ways to ask questions nicely. Maybe it's a professional bias, but when you work in research or engineering, I think it's pretty n

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