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It's incredible how quickly TBC lost the interest of a _lot_ of (mentally) invested users. From a tool that a lot of people swore by and absolutely loved, to a new product that I honestly feel a little embarrassed about.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:39PM (#44064533)
It isn't available on mobile AFAIK, which is like my primary use for pocket etc., saving links to later read on my laptop
Re:Ollama: Embedding Models on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @08:58AM (#39978936)
You're thinking in human dimensions. With so many dimensions available, it might be the case that one dimension represents the "animal" dimension, and the others represent other features. Oversimplification obviously!
Seldon Core has its license changed from Apache 2.0 to Business Source License
Re:Apache Arrow and MinIO on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:53AM (#24541182)
We use it as for on-prem deployments where cloud deployments use S3, also useful to spin up for local dev with Vagrant
Re:Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux on Monday September 07, 2020 @03:19AM (#24397311)
Anyone know of anything like this but for Windows?
Re:Lo-Fi Player on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:50AM (#24350988)
They do sell merch, although I don't know how much that's likely to bring in
Re:Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff? on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:02AM (#24222756)
Hmm I agree with what you say, but I only think it's pop music that is moving away from that format
Re:Ask HN: How working from home has affected you? on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:50AM (#24222261)
Fortunately (for me) I'm back working in the office, albeit on my own most of the time.

The main thing I hated about working from, apart from not having the space to have a proper desk setup, was just feeling constant anxiety about not feeling productive or maybe more so not being seen to be working. And I don't really know why I experienced this, because we don't have that sort of culture at all. However this lead to poor sleep and stress.

I know a lot of people much prefer working from home, and most of if not all of my coworkers do, but I do feel like a lot of the conversations around WFH, especially from software engineers, is WFH is brilliant with no downsides, and the conversation completely negates the people that dislike it for whatever reason

Re:Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff? on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:39AM (#24210218)
I don't think this is something you can force, it just happens when you enjoy music, and a range of music.

A couple tips from me though:

1) Use Spotify, and the personal generated playlists that expand out (ie Discover Weekly, and Release Radar), avoid the ones that just play what you listen to a lot, it just reinforces a limited set of songs/albums/artists. And use the 'Fans also like' section of artists. Spotify's recommendations tend to really impress me, especially niche stuff

2) Never prejudge music. I used to do this, and since I grew up and stopped, my music taste has expanded in every direction. Own the embarrassing stuff, it's music for your enjoyment

3) Give everything a chance. Listened to something which was too experimental/loud/ambient/whatever? Come back to it later, some genres and even albums are growers, so never discount anything quickly.

4) There's no bad music. There is music you may not like, there's music which may be poorly produced/poor musicianship/etc, but music is about more than the sum of it's parts

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Nearly forgot the most important IMO.

5) Songs are (for the most part) designed to sit in their place as a chapter in an album. They typically make more sense in the context of the other songs, so try and listen to full albums rather than songs or playlists. And make sure to turn off shuffle!

Re:Your team might not need Kubernetes on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:52AM (#22994393)
Whilst I think we will all agree that a lot of / most teams do not need to use Kubernetes, is there not advantages in actual team satisfaction and development?

Kubernetes is a hot thing, and people want to use, understand it, and become experts in it. Mostly for professional reasons yes, but it will help attract talent, and will likely help with retention.

So I see it as a bit of a trade off. You might have higher infra costs, and a more complex system (and the things that go with that), but you arguably have a happier team aiding retention and hiring which also has a financial value.

Re:Turing Pi: Kubernetes Cluster on Your Desk on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:58AM (#22683431)
Not the person you replied to, but we do this.

The main reason being on premise deployments. Our workload is primarily machine learning models, as such they are well suited to docker containers due to good support and being able to quickly build images, deploy and tear down.

Additionally, whilst the task would be well suited to a Kubernetes deployment which is ideal in the cloud, on prem we're likely running on a single box running multiple VM's. Hence we use containers within the VM.

It isn't the perfect solution and definitely has it's downsides, but it is good enough and better than the alternatives when considering everything possible.

Re:Lesser-known Pandas tricks (2019) on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:48AM (#22544961)
Just block all cookies for medium
Re:Ask HN: How can I transition Data Scientist – Engineer? on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:55AM (#22414147)
I have just made this move in my current workplace.

I wanted to do it for the same reasons as you, I enjoy building stuff, and I am of the opinion that data science without engineering is pretty useless as nothing written has the trust of dev teams which is needed for them to plug things into your ML models/pipelines. Some will argue that DS's can do this with dashboards etc, but in my experience they always seem to be made and not used.

In my case, having sat with software eng teams throughout my (short) career, I ended up picking up conversations and challenges they faced as asked questions about technologies and methods they used. I'd go home and look stuff up - enough to understand benefits and disadvantages of things.

Like you, getting to grips with CI/CD, APIs etc etc I had done in past DS projects.

On the money side, I have stayed exactly the same as I was before changing, but obviously ymmv

Re:Show HN: Dating app focused on chatting and gamification on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:26AM (#22355439)
I used to think Tinder and the like put too much weighting on looks, but Aziz Ansari in his book asks how that is any different to approaching someone in person? You wouldn't approach someone you didn't find attractive, and you can't get to know someone before you've approached them.

Additionally, I would argue that you can tell quite a lot about someone provided they've made an effort with their profile. You tend to know music taste, career, where they're from, and interests.

Re:Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:32AM (#21583312)
Have you tried [Theia IDE](https://theia-ide.org/)? Remotely hosted VS Code?
Re:Tesla Owners Can Edit Maps to Improve Summon Routes on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:21AM (#21503563)
I read a Facebook blog post a few weeks back about how they integrate OSM updates. I forget all of it but they use satellite images and CV to detect if a road exists, as well as some other automated tests. I think they open-sourced it, although I can't seem to find the post now
Re:Dyson has scrapped its electric car project on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:50PM (#21216684)
Yeah okay