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I don’t know about indiehackers, but there was hackaday.com as a hacking forum.

I’m on the novice side, and I think this could be neat! I’d benefit from a demo page (unsolicited feedback, regardless cool work!)

“Engineers” here mean software engineers. Or the author thinks this culture pervades all engineering disciplines - which is not the case.

I like the message of the article overall. And I am skeptical when “liberation” and “freedom” are used when not clearly defined because where I am from (US) these words are thrown around flippantly. If I follow this approach of quietness and attention, will I be free from hunger (ie have food)? Free from fear (eg security from violence)? No, clearly not. There are other freedoms.

Also, a left out item that we have direct access to sense, manipulation, cultivation: our bodies.

From my understanding, outside of taking the CCP at their word, there is no way to confidently state either way. To me, I haven’t seen much reason to trust the CCP’s word when it comes to discussing itself.

I enjoy reading these kinds of physics / astro-physics debates on HN. They make the neuroscience ones I’m use to seem quaint and manageable in comparison.

In terms of quality search results, kagi is ahead of google. Unless I misunderstand the situation, inferior search result are a natural product of google getting paid by advertisers rather than kagi getting paid by their users. Google won’t be able to get away from using their index to serve up adverts (rather than quality results).

> Alternatively, how many times have we seen phone users trip on the sidewalk or walk into something because they are so engrossed in what's on the screen?

It is impressive to me how different our views are. Rather than looking to help with the technology addiction of society (ie people glued to their phones, ipods in ears, walking in the physical world), let’s help them to keep the addiction going but not trip over obstacles while doing so.

I appreciate your insightful thoughts here :)

This article reads both like a confession (bungled contracts, mass worker burnout) and a puff piece (Wang’s young, skilled, and made a bunch of money).

I was curious to see:

INSKEEP: OK, so now the bottom line. After doing all this reporting, did you conclude that one less hamburger a week really could save the Colorado River?

STONE: Honestly, Steve, it's really hard to say. The food system is so complicated, and it's not just beef. Actually, yogurt and cheese is what's driving more hay to be grown in the Colorado River basin. But it is true that if we shift our diets just a little, that can have a long-term impact.

I would say the title alone kept me away from reading it. And this is coming from a person that worked in systems neuroscience and machine learning for a decade.

The scientific community (at least the neuroscience and atmospheric science I know about) does itself few favors with the manner it writes. Orwell's essay on politics and the english language comes to mind:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

To me people have power in these situations as far as their ethics go. And in the US, ethics aren’t in high demand.

> The last thing I think of when choosing a place to live are the societal implications of it.

I think this is part of the issue of rising housing costs. People not considering how their decisions impact their wider world. And paradoxically, I suspect many people buy property in cities because (a) others are doing it and (b) the fear of not doing it early enough (the costs are "only going to continue to rise"). Two reasons that are societally driven.

I interpreted it differently. That Biden was putting national interests ahead of reelection interests. That said, I should caveat that I tend not to read US based news cause it’s a cesspool of outrage based clickbait.

This sounds like a skewed perspective. For instance, I use Proton Mail. Proton Mail released a UI for Linux, Windows, and Apple a few months ago. Does this mean my Linux version of the Proton Mail app is 7 years behind?

One thing to know about data scientists are (1) there's the job posting and (2) there's the work. Often you'll be hired for one thing and end up doing entirely different work.

To improve your chops in this field, (a) learn the basics of NLP, (b) build yourself a RAG using llamaindex or langchain (or other but build it).

As for fine tuning and deep learning, without experience in that field it's tough. It's like any complex thing (fine tuning not so much but deep learning), knowledge comes with time and exposure. So go find a reason to fine tune or build and train a neural network and go friggin do it.

I'm no software engineer, only a lowly ChemE. But don't software engineers do more than just develop software (e.g., design software, communicate that design to other teams / lay people, etc.). Also, I could be mistaking software engineer for computer engineer.

Great points, and truly not in sarcasm. In the US, photos of intimate moments are plastered publicly on the internet by many.

Though, I doubt the line is always straightforward. There must have been reasons (hopefully not solely profit driven…). For example, Kafka. Granted I read, skimmed really, in an article that while his instructions were to destroy his writings, that he wanted them published.

What is the AK account? This sounds useful for keeping up on research in this field.

lol nice

Similar path, similar conclusion here. I appreciate you verbalizing your thoughts.

Dear author, please define your acronyms or variables.

Dogs are wonderful.

Dog owners are a menace to society.

No exaggeration. Living in a city all the poop and urine just…hanging about. In the winter time with the snow, all the aged crap sitting out there, for months!, is thoroughly disgusting. All because of laziness or negligence.

And you could say, well that’s just a fraction. So let’s add to that fraction by pointing to the other problems of laziness, negligence, and (imo) abuse:

- Owners have their dogs in lockdown, what, 22 out of 24 hours a day? (On a good day.) Feeding them the same food day in and day out. Whenever the animal goes outside to pee or poop they’re leashed and collared. That right there is a prison sentence.

- Owners that provide no discipline, training, and, worst of all, no purpose.

- Owners that get a specialty breed (for example a pointer or a spaniel) and hunt and work them none. (What a crime).

- Owners who have got down on all fours and played with their dog are few and far between.

You may say “how does poorly treating dogs result in being labeled as a menace to society?” I would say that so commonly dis-valuing such a great animal lowers the acceptable level of ethics and principles in a society. And all the urine and fecal soaked parks.

(Clearly, my writing style is not the best).

From my understanding, an agent is a collection of tools that can be navigated by an LLM. It follows an approach called reason-action (react) or thought-action-observation. Spit balling here, thought means getting a prompt and having a response to it (i.e., run particular action). An action executes (e.g., executing code in python repl, using a search a api, pulling info from wikipedia). The LLM receives some feedback (observation) and the process starts over.

Aaanndd your money’s gone.

How are the summaries scored for accuracy/performance/etc.?

Not only a court of public opinion but in judicial court IC behavior like this is deemed unconstitutional once allowed to be discussed.