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Comment · 1 month ago
this doesn't really make sense to me. fundamentally, if naively, price is a function of supply and demand. if there is no demand in Europe - then there is a price problem. but i don't like the expectation that governments should subsidize mega corporations profits. the article doesn't really convince me the investment is beneficial to europeans.
Comment · 7 months ago
just what an AI bot would say! ;)
Comment · 9 months ago
No, skills are telling the model how to run a script to do something interesting. If you look at the skillshub the skills you download can include python scripts, bash scripts... i didn't look too much further after downloading a skill to get the gist of what they had done to wire everything up, but this is definitely not taking security into consideration
Comment · 9 months ago
I agree with the comment above. I have not logged into hacker news in _years_ but did so today just to weigh in here. If people are saying that the audio sounds great, then there is definitely something going on with a subset of users where we are only hearing garbled words with a LOT of distortion. This does not sound like natural speech to met at all. It sounds more like a warped cassette tape. And I do not mean to slight your work at all. I am actually incredibly puzzled here to understand why my perception of this is so radically different from others!
Comment · 3 years ago
I haven't read it yet to be certain, but my impression is that rather than using lossless compression of entire chats, this uses lossy summarization to get the gist of chats. There will be tradeoffs between the two methods, hopefully this paper covers that.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not being snarky, at the simplest level by knowing x ahead of time you can change your code from y = n/2 into y = n * 0.5. Not wildly important by itself, but in a loop - maybe… I suspect compilers optimize for that already.
Comment · 3 years ago
In some areas it does a good job of giving me a better answer than me checking 5-10 random stack overflow and blog posts with different answers over 20 years...

But, it is completely incapable of saying "I don't know the answer to that" and will spew the wrong answer to anything. For fun I have arguments with ChatGPT that it is just making things up and it should just tell me "I don't know" and it will happily say "I'm sorry, you are right. Here is the right answer <insert made up fact>" and it will do so generating random garbage indefinitely.

The problem is that I can't trust it to provide facts any better than asking my bull-shitting co-worker who is convinced he is right about everything and when called out says "yeah, that's what I was saying, <insert contradictory thing>"

Comment · 4 years ago
I believe the name is hydrogen fuel cell. It takes hydrogen as a fuel and generates electricity like a battery, instead of combusting it like a typical gas powered motor

The output of a hydrogen fuel cell is water, so it is a fairly sustainable loop if you can capture the water and generate hydrogen from it. But you need an efficient process to convert water into hydrogen

Comment · 4 years ago
They would also make a Microsoft owned version of the protocol to support features only their client and server supported
Comment · 4 years ago
It is a text based laughing emoji
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It is an interactive query builder that understands the schema, and lets you arrow between fields and input values.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve switched back to IC. But my tendency to manage things has pushed me into a hybrid tech lead role that feels like a blend of IC and management. But the things I’m managing are cost savings, migrations, rearchitecting… so I’m very happy with this role. I don’t know what the jobs and roles are where you are, but I’m at a young company that is still growing and have been able to forge my own path. If you can use your management connections, find a technical area that is lacking and that you have the unique technical skills to solve, that could lead to some exciting work.

I’d worry that working on just any other team that you don’t feel passionate about would make you start questioning the move

But. Careers are not just about maximum growth. It sounds like you need to take some time to take your foot off the gas. Switching to an IC role could let you focus on what YOU want to do for a while and then pick something new when the time comes

Comment · 4 years ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “bumping the version in source after a release”. If it’s after a release then you released it with the old version? Or do you mean prep the repo for the next version by incrementing it optimistically, in which case it probably depends on your branding model. But I don’t understand the “immediately” part of your question.

Where I work we don’t increment until we know what branch/version we are working on, and determine the semantic version, and then we still use tagging because we tag the version + build id which is computed at build time

Comment · 4 years ago
Do you mean this part

“This is a busy-wait loop, which makes for a simple illustration but isn’t ideal. In a real program I’d have the producer run a job while it waits for a queue slot, or just have it turn into a consumer (if this wasn’t a single-consumer queue)”

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