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Whatever it is, it sure sounds creepy.

I reckon you need tacit knowledge. Experience. Luckily in the order of 100 hours not 10000.

Build a GPT using Python and Pytorch. For a good course: Andrej Karpathy is your keyword. At $1000 his course is great value. But actually it is free which is even better ;-)

It wont take you to flash attention but will ramp you to the point you could probably read papers about it. I almost got that far then life lifed me. But I was able to implement changes to the architecture of GPT and do some “hey mum I am doing SOTA (2021) machine learning”.

My favourite “well actually” on HN. As a reluctant DIYer, thanks!

I think you are close to the truth there.

But I doubt companies purposely increase their hosting costs as some kind of firewall to only include the rich. More like they just don’t care. Same reason for technical debt, everyone wants to grow and move needles.

If a company could magically make their site more available and efficient for free I am sure they would jump at the chance. But spending a million on that vs. a million on ads wont seem worth it.

That is one performance metric. What about energy use and loading search results not just the home page. I find DDG faster from a perception point of view. I imagine on sone metrics it is faster.

Reddit for me is the slowest site. And while old.reddit fixes this they try to steer you back to main reddit at any opportunity!

If all the sites tot more efficient it may also increase longevity of laptops and PCs where unsavvy people might just “need a new computer it is getting slow”.

Also applies to bloatware shipped with computers. To the point where I was offered a $50 “tune up” to a new laptop I purchased recently. Imagine a new car dealer offered you that!

Been to a young colleague funeral too I know that is hard, my condolences.

Start ups will always be there whether you want to be the founder or employee 1 or whatever.

Nope. Want to work at OpenAI and Anthropic as researcher? Or hell even a small betting outfit as a quant? PhD.

This. I regret not trying a PhD. It is like turning down a call option :-)

So is it right, to make docker reproducible it needs to either build dependencies from source from say a git hash or use other package managers that are reproducible or rely on base images that are reproducible.

And that all relies on discipline. Just like using a dynamically typed programming language can in theory have no type errors at run time, if you are careful enough.

Is this about timestamps or is there more to it?

The way I read a watch ignores the numbers anyway (arabic or roman) and I know where 9 is etc.

if the device is upside down it is evident and I don’t even try to read it, I right the clock or take off and restrap the watch.

Mass media might mean large traditional TV, Movie and Newspaper organisations but I take it to mean also Google, Meta, X, Netflix, Reddit and so on.

Your other points I agree with.

But I believe you cannot be happy without discomfort. That is less from Taoism perspective but more to so with how the brain and body actually work.

A lot of hip remedies (medicinal psychedelics, ice baths, weight training for wellness as opposed to vanity/sport) are based on pain followed by gain. As opposed to alcohol, doom scroll etc. that are the reverse.

There is no best one. You will unfortunately (!) need to do some legwork to decide what you want to build, what you need, what tech you want to use and why, and see if there is a starter kit that is good or if you have to just do without one.

Is the chosen starter kit good? Clues may lie in licenses, the repo if source is available, if paid is there a money back guarantee, is it maintained, is the code any good (do they know what they are doing?). Does it meet your functional and nonfunctional requirements?

Take this as advise for a lonely programmer OR (!) user feedback for your gig (!!) ;)

The anecdote doesn’t sound too bad:

> During five weeks of job hunting, Croisant said she applied to 48 openings and landed two interviews. She finally opted to accept a lower-level data analyst role and a roughly $3,000 reduction in her base pay to take a contract role starting next month at a financial technology company.

> “This was an absolutely terrifying experience for me, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever truly feel secure in a job again,” Croisant said. “But I’m still one of the lucky ones in the end. I have friends who’ve been looking for months and still haven’t found anything.”

They raised $2M on the original idea this pivoted off which is insane.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/stashpad-is-a-notepad-for-...

I suggest a title update to “The J. Paul Getty Museum …” to the OP if they read this

I am eyeing up Hyundai Ioniq 5/6. Any comments. Irony is keeping the dumb old Toyota is cheaper even with the crazy tax breaks in Australia! I could hand over $10k to carbon offset company instead and still be ahead with the ol banger. And have the convenience of what they call service stations :-)

Damn why didn’t I think of that! Well done. And I wonder if in memory spreadsheets are similar to (and as efficient as) Pytorch Tensors anyway!