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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…

> 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 …

> 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 …

>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 conse…

> 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 f…

Hyperoptic is niche? I thought they were available all over London.

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.

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 get…

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 un…

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 an…

> 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…

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…

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 d…

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 y…

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 …

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 aut…

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…

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)…

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 when…

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 exis…

Just deployed a fix and it seems to be working now. Thank you for your patience.