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Re:Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:49PM (#42360891)
Yes, but you expect much better from a seasoned engineer.
Re:Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:44PM (#42360842)
One man’s extremely horrible mistake and look how the whole industry has been suffering for decades - countless articles debating the existence or absence of comments, new formats, new parsers, new ways of adding comments, post-processing, etc. What a pity!
I just installed AdGuard and the ads didn’t go away. What should I be uisng? I have an iPhone.
If Martin Kleppmann is the author I know this stuff will be worth watching out for.
Re:The Daily Scrum: Does It Have to Be Daily? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:39PM (#41652156)
I mean if it doesn't fit the team's or the project's stage, don't do them daily. Simple! I just solved it for you. Not sure why we need tons of articles on scrum to state the obvious :-). Are the engineering teams so dumb that they're following scrum to the letter? Come on!
Re:B-Trees and Database Indexes on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:05PM (#41492284)
Slightly off topic: Learnt a new word today 'vulgarization' which seems to have a completely different meaning from the obvious. Thanks.
Re:TensorFlow Lite is now LiteRT on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:19AM (#41454067)
Hahahaha, what a joke Google has become! Another half baked name change. Looks like no one really cares anymore at Google.
Re:Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop on Saturday August 31, 2024 @07:09PM (#41412733)
This is excellent. Thanks for sharing. It's always good to go back to the fundamentals. There's another resource that is also quite good: https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/
> These days, the roles I consider are in leadership so if we lack vision and a clear understanding of our value I’m usually empowered to fix that. If you’re interviewing for a more IC role, your hiring manager and teammates being unable to communicate expectations and success criteria is obviously a bigger concern.

So, the author doesn't seem to consider IC role a leadership role. I see, ok.

Re:Why does getting a job in tech suck? on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:57PM (#41335478)
A whole article about getting a job in tech and no mention of the abominable leetcode. Surprise! From junior to principal Leetcode is here to stay. Good luck solving 2 problems in 35 mins.
Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:10AM (#41264271)
Meta is less leetcode oriented? I'm shocked to read this. Meta is the poster child for leetcode style interviews. Meta requires you to solve 2 leetcode style questions in 35 mins (out of 45 mins - first 5 mins for initial pleasantries, last 5 mins for asking questions). For each question, you're required to (based on the signals they look for) ask clarifying questions, present a solution to the interviewer, get buy-in, code, verify with test cases - all this in 17.5 mins/question. Go figure! :-)
Even though the title has the word "translation" in it my mind ran to Apache Kafka :-).
Glad that people are realizing the ChatGPT/AI hype that is driving all companies nuts by creating unnecessary peer pressure to integrate some kind of GenAI in their products even if it doesn’t make sense.
Re:Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:36PM (#40149272)
Why are Meta quarterly results so special that they always enjoy the front page of HN?
Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Saturday April 13, 2024 @04:22PM (#40025736)
Thanks for sharing. This is so disheartening. The other day I was debating with my friends how a doctors life is so cool that they don’t have to go though grueling coding interviews every single time they want to change jobs, don’t have to prove themselves every single quarter, don’t have to be answerable to anyone or write performance reviews or be subjected to arbitrary rubrics. Boy, I was so wrong. Every procession has its hazards. This has been a learning for me. Although I do feel that the PCP doctors in US seem to have a simpler life. They leave office at 5 and don’t take calls in the night. Happy to be corrected though.
Re:XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:58PM (#40019759)
Did you create a throwaway account specifically to write a snarky comment here? Looks like this practice is becoming more common.
Re:Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:41PM (#39974027)
Sshh! I asked why it was written in C and got flagged.
Re:Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:07PM (#39973714)
Automatic resource management thanks to RAII. To me this is the most important thing.
Re:Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:04PM (#39973691)
Not yet.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible threads? on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:16AM (#39914788)
Thanks!
Re:Marissa Mayer's Startup on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:23PM (#39877306)
It’s 100% truth my friend. Denying or flagging my comment doesn’t help anyone.
Re:Engineering Managers Should Not Exist on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:26PM (#39833061)
Horrible article. So many things are wrong. As with any thing in this industry, there's a pretty big spectrum and nothing can be generalized. Someone with a decade of experience simply cannot write such an article. This is click bait at best.
Re:Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @01:09PM (#39757937)
This is really bad news for Microsoft culture. See https://archive.is/ZuvYu. Also from Wikipedia: In August 2019, Suleyman was placed on administrative leave following allegations of bullying employees.[17][18] The company hired an external lawyer to investigate, and shortly thereafter Suleyman left to take a VP role at parent company Google. An email circulated by DeepMind's leadership to staff after the story broke, as well as additional details published by Business Insider, said Suleyman's "management style fell short" of expected standards.[19][20].
Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @04:23AM (#39753837)
Try writing high performance math in Java even for CPU.
Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:57PM (#39751496)
I acknowledge C++'s safety concerns, but no, Java is definitely NOT running rings around C++ perf. Not a single AI/ML model is implemented in Java. The core of AI/ML runs on C++ only. You may see a lot of Python, but the core engine that Python is wrapping is written in C++. Sorry to break it to you but Java cannot even come close here.
Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:46PM (#39751423)
With all due respect Stroustrup seems completely delusional about real software out there in the wild. He needs a dose of reality.
Re:Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:06PM (#39722007)
Not angry. Having a discussion :-). It just amazes me how the HN crowd is more than happy with just trying out a model on their machine and calling it a day and not seeing the real picture ahead. Let ignore perf concerns for a moment. Let's say I want to run it on a shared server in the enterprise network so that any application can make use of it. Each application might want to use a model of their choosing. Ollama will unload/load/unload models as each new request arrives. Not sure if folks here are realizing this :-)
Re:Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:52PM (#39721923)
And what will you do after trying it? Sure, you saved a few mins in trying out a model or models. What next?

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