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llaolleh··on HP Acquires Humane's AI Software
Not a humane way to treat your customers…
llaolleh··on Jim Keller and his pioneering work on chip design and architecture
I use his podcast to fall asleep. It has never failed me.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?
Supercool.
llaolleh··on Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road
It won't be the first time our understanding is flipped upside down if such a framework of thought arises.
llaolleh··on The Bitter Lesson – Rich Sutton (2019)
One of the best textbooks I’ve ever read
llaolleh··on The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked
Don’t underestimate Apple fanboys.
llaolleh··on My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919)
What's interesting about Tesla is that his visualization powess. He was gifted with insane capabilities of visualization. He said he would build assemble his inventions in his head, go to the lab to build it. And it would work on the first attempt.

That's similar to coming up with all the code in your head and passing the compiler and tests on the first try without any errors.

Crazy.

llaolleh··on Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python
Thanks for letting us know. I won't even bother clicking on the link.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
I understand your concern for clickbait but it has to sound exciting enough for users to try.

The other tag line with breaking a sweat would be much better.

Maybe you should think about it from the listener's POV? For me a podcast has to be interesting or useful. If a title can meet that I will click.

llaolleh··on Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
Maybe it's a marketing problem? I had a tab of your podcast open, but never listened to it.

The writing needs work. There is too much. You need to cut down and try to distill the good stuff essence for each episode to make users want to click.

For example,

"QAWolf Helps You Create Automated Browser Tests as You Use Your Site"

-> Automated Testing for your website

The verbiage adds up.

llaolleh··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
Yes. Please add donation button.
llaolleh··on Trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud
Google customer service is atrocious. Their ability to solve customer support issues is effectively a toss up.

Please do better Google.

llaolleh··on I Asked What it Would Take to Get Gen Z Back to the Office
Make it three hours a day. Grooming, picking pants, packing computer, etc, those all take time. If you're working 8 hours, you're spending 3/8 = 37.5% of the time not building value.

Which is insane in retrospect.

llaolleh··on ‘Some things never leave you’: Poverty’s indelible marks
People who have not grown up poor can't really understand it. It's not only about the money. It's about the constant stress and fear whether or not you're going to make it.

Just work hard in school to get out is actually pretty hard. Learning is like swimming through molasses because of the constant stress. It gives you a lifetime of trauma and damage.

llaolleh··on Mighty Retrospective
Mighty was great. If they had a Windows/Linux port it would be killer as it would have allowed you to run all kind of apps without carrying a $1.5k computer around. That was the dream.

I'd also expect their pricing to go down given economies of scale.

I lowkey wanted them to be super ambitious and one day roll out their own chips and become a full stack computer company.

llaolleh··on Tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework
Yea I miss youth. I'm in my 30s and all nighters are not the same anymore :(. When I was young I'd do 2-3 in a week and with a four hour nap I would recover.

Now after those I lay down and I can't get up for a couple hours with all this aching in my limbs lol.

llaolleh··on The paper that keeps showing up
This is beyond my pay grade for now. I need to go take a cryptography course.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: How to learn to sell?
This is a very subtle but great point to start off.

"How can I sell my software?"

Vs.

"How can I help these folks out?"

llaolleh··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I hear so many complaints about immigration. People who should have built great technology in the U.S. left because the system sucked.

What are some things someone like me, an engineer, can do to encourage the government to change the immigration process?

llaolleh··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
My ideal state of the internet is companies sell powerful all in one servers. Each household will have that server for their daily needs - email, messaging, social network, gaming, etc.
llaolleh··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Make Arpanet Great Again!
llaolleh··on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
Imagine if we got an HBO adaptation of TAOCP.
llaolleh··on Aristotle influenced the computer (2017)
What a bottom tier article. Writing is all over the place.

Aristotle influenced the computer is like saying there is oxygen in the air.

llaolleh··on Fake Men on Hinge
After the pandemic it has shifted. I read that 40% of couples meet through dating apps. Wild.

I believe it as that's how most of my friends met their partners.

llaolleh··on Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
Not your server not your photos?
llaolleh··on The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web
Part of why the web is shit is low barrier to entry. More often than not, if you read classics or older books, it's information dense. Every prose and sentence constructed had some economy baked in.

Now everyone and their mom, as well as bots and marketers,can spam right on over.

We either need a search portal with aligned incentives, or perhaps a new internet with none of this crap.

llaolleh··on FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
Facebook is adbook.
llaolleh··on Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
:).

Someone once wrote this. If someone gives you Excalibur, you don't fucking ask where it came from, who made it, etc. Just go use it and have fun.

llaolleh··on Ask HN: How do you get better at debugging/finding a solution?
I'm fairly good at finding bugs and understanding code. Then recently I've had to mentor a few junior engineers and it seemed they struggled a lot.

It's a mix of search space reduction + heuristics. You start looking for most probable areas of fault. This includes new commits. Then you try to partition the places where the bug could be by probablistic reasoning, logging as you go.

If these approaches don't work then you start questioning your assumptions. For example, if there is eatApple() method, what did you assume about this method?

Did you assume all apples are rex, or is the functionality actually eatFruit()?

llaolleh··on Why all personal websites die
Actually kind of agree. Need to go through revision. Sentences feel unnecessarily long and drawn out.
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