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emrah

957 karma · joined April 28, 2009

https://emrahdiril.com

Hardcore engineer, AI whisperer, Product doctor

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emrah··on Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal
ollama run phi4-mini
emrah··on Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
If one is to be pedantic, troubleshooting does not involve fixing which is a separate and also valuable skill
emrah··on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
"Damaged" has a particular connotation that is one particular opinion, but we can certainly say they are very different, and presumably got even more different over time from their starting point which was already very different
emrah··on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
Correction, he wants to put it all in Oracle ;)

> Of course, such a vast database system could also be the precursor to pervasive surveillance – an idea Ellison last year said he feels is desirable and would like Oracle to help facilitate.

emrah··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Can Sam reply on his own? Does he have controlling votes?
emrah··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
Yes and we should have at least a few competing AI architectures too
emrah··on Python 3, Pygame, and Debian Bookworm on the Miyoo A30
No screenshots were a bummer but a nice writeup nonetheless
emrah··on Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?
Yes they are. Where will LLMs get coding Q&A training data in the future? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
emrah··on Two-thirds of startups don't last 10 years. The brutal truth is no one cares
Most anything doesn't last 10 years, and that's ok
emrah··on Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
So "hacker" is someone who is allergic to using a mouse. We've come a long way from what it used to mean..
emrah··on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
So UK doesn't have freedom of speech any more? If the products are bad for people/kids/etc, why not ban the products instead of just the ads?
emrah··on Sqlite3 WebAssembly
Fwiw, duckdb is replacing sqlite for me, particularly due to its rich plugin ecosystem
emrah··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
Well it has an implied tense, it refers to the past by itself. It is possible to combine it with a tense, for example the future tense to report that someone said they will do something in the future
emrah··on SETI Researchers Engage in First Real-Time AI Search for Fast Radio Bursts
AI isn't enough of an unknown quantity, let's bring ETI into the equation as well to really mix things up :-P
emrah··on Ask HN: If you are from Florida, how are you preparing for Milton?
Based on videos I saw, they are barricading homes as much as possible then leaving the area
emrah··on Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker
If running multiple projects within the container, it makes sense to give each one its own venv
emrah··on Creating a notebook interface for Tailwind / shadcnUI
Why NextJS? I'm genuinely curious? Would it not be better if the output was backend agnostic?
emrah··on Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
Jules Verne books, particularly the submarine book and the moon book. I think that was my first foray into sci-fi as a kid. I think I was 7
emrah··on Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
Htmx does not seem like a good fit to replace a thick-client type front-end framework and that's ok. It meant for that. It is more in line with 37Signal's "HotWired" approach (hotwired.dev)
emrah··on Why Is Light So Fast?
You are correct, electrons (aka current) through a wire move at relatively low speeds at room temperature because of wire resistance. Changes of voltage however, like if you flip a data pin from 0V to 5V move at the speed of light.

So switching circuits need to take into account "transmission line" effects.

emrah··on SQLite triggers to track table changes
DuckDB is another embedded db worth taking a look. It has some unique features, such as, you can fetch data from an api, extract data from the json response and insert into database via sql
emrah··on Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
Chrome apparently also keeps track of "trails" but i did not find the implementation particularly useful unfortunately
emrah··on The Unraveling of Space-Time
There are great video series on YouTube, for example:

https://m.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime

https://m.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse

I often find videos easier to follow due to the great visuals.

You can also listen to interviews with the authors on podcasts. They talk about their books and the concepts in them.

And as always, your favorite LLM is a great companion to help you understand. I've consulted it several times and the answers and links it provided were very helpful

emrah··on Study shows 'alarming' level of trust in AI for life and death decisions
There are several categories of decisions as mentioned in the article (military, medical, personal etc) and we need a "control" in each to compare to I think. How are those decisions being made without AI and how sound are they compared to AI?
emrah··on A Post-Google World?
There are many alternatives, some better than others. They would swoop in and fill the void. Sure, some things would take longer than others to replace and get up running but it's not like Google is the only provider of such services
emrah··on Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
I love it when people guess how changing or trying something new will affect them without doing it and never having done it.
emrah··on How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles
Aether has a specific definition and it still does not exist. It was not rediscovered. QFT is not aether-like.

Aether was a substance filling all space, while QFT fields like higgs are not physical at all (but rather give rise to physical properties)

emrah··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I'm working on a single-file executable version of Fivetran you can run wherever you like, for free, without needing an account. It may or may not be OSS, we'll see.
emrah··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
This is a huge gap we have these days. Everything out there is incentivized to suggest the most selling stuff rather than unique and interesting stuff.
emrah··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Good for you! Graphics and audio (music, sfx) are such a huge part of game dev that every time I attempt to get in, I walk away shortly afterwards
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