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I generally break these queries into - the low-hanging fruits (where there is a Wikipedia page or similar for X, and both Google and Bing do a good job of mining these) - the tough…

Oh I agree with that. LLM doesn't give you better search - better search {index, ranking, SEO-tolerance, ...} gives you better search. To me, Bing chat - although imperfect - augme…

They don't. They're fairly orthogonal concepts. You can have a concept of lifetimes without memory management (for example, the object changes state while you have a reference to i…

Strong disagree on this. I don't treat it like a person, but rather as ChatGPT that has access to Bing's search index. For factual queries ("who invented X? at what company?") it's…

180 million a day sounds about right

How would one go about finding such consulting gigs? I’m semi-retired now, but with nearly 4 decades of experience, I still didn’t feel comfortable becoming a full-time consultant.…

Could you share any of these “hosted” services? I’m thoroughly disillusioned after paying for 3 streaming services and still not finding quality content

Thanks for sharing. I love the design and how this app feels. Did you use any existing CSS library/framework or is everything “hand crafted”?

I’ve posited repeatedly that when Reddit IPOs, I’ll be reallocating a significant chunk of my portfolio into their stock. Their management has historically lacked focus, but if Red…

This has been the case for a long time on mobile. 1.5 vertical screens of ads is not uncommon.

Sequencing in distributed systems is difficult to handle correctly. When faced with such a situation, it’s often a matter of philosophy rather than technical brilliance - are you w…

Hello HN, I have been writing a technical book. It's similar to Clean Code, but a little broader as it places a larger emphasis on systems over programs. I've spent the last two ye…

I bit and got the book, hoping for something interesting. It’s more or less the documentation on MDN or a WS library docs rephrased. Finally, after 60 pages of docs I can Google, t…

Referrals don’t mean much if more than a small fraction of candidates have one

I very much get a cargo-cult vibe from this statement. In a 30-year career, I’ve pair-programmed under 100 times. Usually to get someone up to speed on a confusing part of the code…

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That’s a sponsored newsletter post AFAICT. There are a handful of those that shill for companies willing to part with their dollar

Yes.. I thought that incident made him look very, uh, disgraceful. He likes to predend Repl.it is some marvel of technology when it is unironically a weekend project (which the int…

I’d really like to see the author write an explanation as to why. I completed by PhD in “AI” (as it was then called) in 2001. Very little DNN work then, but I haven’t a clue where …

This author doesn’t have a clue about anything. After the first paragraph, this might as well have been written by GPT-3. Sounds like a consultant trying to cash in on the news of …

I think part of it has to do with black box models being easier to build incrementally. I’ve seen many teams start off with 3-5 features, which gets you to some threshold for launc…

I hate to use this language on HN - but this post is a crock of shit. This is just an opportunistic post by the author that cleverly evades defining anything in solid terms, provid…

This sounds like an ad :)

Very dishonest indeed. Does YC not do any due diligence anymore? They seem like they’ve become a quantity-over-quality investment firm now, casting the widest net possible based on…