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Epicism··on Running local models is good now
$5k? I work at a software company where one engineer has used that every month minimum.
Epicism··on Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
That’s not the point. The point is if Teslas marketing led the driver to over estimate the car’s capabilities leading to him engaging in reckless behavior. He admitted on the stand that he was acting careless, that autonomous mode required supervision; however, he also admitted that he thought that the car would drive better than a human and intervene when required _based_ on Tesla’s marketing. When you look at Musk’s tweets and the Paint it Black video the jury agreed that it was not an unreasonable belief that was factually _not_ true and found Tesla 33% guilty of the accident.

The fact that Tesla purposely mislead the investigators and hid evidence was why the jury awarded such a large sum.

Epicism··on QuantumAccel: A High Performance Quantum-Inspired Logic Library in Rust+Python
Very cool!
Epicism··on Show HN: RustTensor: a Rust Library for Tensor Computation and ML Learning
Very cool!
Epicism··on Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search
Try LanceDB https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb

It’s based off of the data fusion engine, has vector indexing and BM 25 indexing, has pipes on and rust bindings

Epicism··on Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust
That’s very cool! I appreciate how you can simplify interacting with rust applications without rust programming skills.
Epicism··on Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
More constraints?
Epicism··on M4 MacBook Pro
Steve Jobs was historically against gaming on apple devices and, I believe, went so far as to try to remove them from the Apple Store. Apple is only recently starting to introduce gaming seriously back into the platform.
Epicism··on Americans will be able to renew their passports online
Americans have passports?
Epicism··on Random access string compression with FSST and Rust
Thanks for the reply!
Epicism··on Random access string compression with FSST and Rust
Super interesting! I’m curious how this differs from InfluxDB’s German strings implementation https://www.influxdata.com/blog/faster-queries-with-stringvi...
Epicism··on A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters
Very cool! I was going to read up on bloom filters and this popped up the next day!
Epicism··on Vector: a Rust-based lightweight alternative to Fluentd/Logstash
I really want to like vector, but its lack of basic support for things like Windows logs is painful.
Epicism··on Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”
Calling each new disaster the new normal is now the new normal
Epicism··on Startup CEOs learned engineering management from captain kirk
Agreed 1,000%. I recently re-watched the next generation with my wife, since I was a teenager and could not believe what an excellent leader Picard was. I am a Director at a big fork, consulting company, and I found myself using techniques that I saw in the show with my team to great effect.
Epicism··on Peter Zeihan hour+ presentation, geopolitics, ramifications on the world order
Thanks for posting. I watch everything Zeihan.
Epicism··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
The end of the world is just the beginning by Peter Zeihan. It is an amazing walkthrough of the modern global economy and how it is changing based on changing demographics and politics. Highly recommended.
Epicism··on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture
This "I didn't know this was happening" excuse doesn't cut it. You don't know because you don't look. As long as you are getting the results you want it doesn't matter if you're demanding people to come back the day after a miscarriage. Listen to any interview with Jack Welch and he'll tell you how accountability of work culture comes straight from the top, and how HR reviews are designed not to ask the right questions. As a random example, there's a huge difference between asking "have you been illegally treated in any way" and "have you been immorally treated". Little changes like that make survey results wildly different, and if management wants they can make employee's say a labor shop is a great place to work.
Epicism··on Jeff Bezos' email to Amazonians
Does it piss anyone else off that he uses the term anecdote? 'I was forced to go back to work the day after my miscarriage' What an anecdote! Just makes me believe that he is a megalomaniac and a bit of a psychopath.
Epicism··on Working with the ELK stack
Has anyone been able to do any sort of correlation or alerting with ELK?
Epicism··on Started a stupid company. Failed.
Good for you, sir.