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mydpyon Using Llama3.1 405B to generate political synthetic data

Is anyone using Oxen.ai? This is the first use of it I've seen.

mydpyon Modern AI Stack: Design Principles for Future of Enterprise AI Architectures

These stack diagrams are always such bullshit.

mydpyon List of photographs considered the most important

The technological and societal progress in less than 200 years is astounding.

mydpyon Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs

Benchmarks here: https://huggingface.co/databricks/dolly-v2-12b#benchmark-met...

mydpyon Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

Right, but this is still impressive given how quickly Databricks created and open-sourced the dataset. I would expect more improvements in the future.

mydpyon Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

What a great time to be in this field. It’s advancing so quickly!

mydpyon How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

The article doesn’t emphasize the impact made by new technologies invented in pursuit of this prize. For example, this contest was a motivating factor for the creators of Apache Spark.

mydpyon Layoffs Are Coming

If anything, I think tech is protected from the effects of the coming recession. Our industry is one of the best poised to maintain business as usual. That said, the impact of the economic effects is coming.

mydpyon FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default

Does anyone have statistics on the impact of robocallers? They're ubiquitous and universally obnoxious. I haven't seen any reporting on their effectiveness for the services they're advertising for. I wonder why do they even bother.

I understand these calls mostly take advantage of unsuspecting people, but I still can't imagine the impact these calls are making financially.

mydpyon Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond

For the uninitiated / confused, this refers to yarnpkg, the JavaScript dependency manager, not (Hadoop) YARN, the cluster manager.

mydpyon DataFusion (Rust) vs. Apache Spark – First Benchmarks

Exactly. This isn’t a benchmark at all.

mydpyon Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

This is going to kill snagajob.com

mydpyon James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google

Legal question: Most employment agreements require employees sign an arbitration clause. Even though these have mixed enforceability, they are very intimidating (which I believe is their intended purpose).

If you had a high-profile case like this, are you choosing to defy the arbitration agreement? Anyone ever gone through this and willing to share the process?

mydpyon A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their IQ

"We're going to call it 'extreme vetting'."

mydpyon Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

Agreed. Personally I think asking for general blog recommendations is not helpful. I just google topics I'm interested and start to create that list myself.

Also - I think the idea of creating blog followers is becoming less popular. I use aggregators like this to help collect the content and I can filter on my own.

mydpyon Databricks lays production data pipelines

I mean, it's CIO mag, so it's written for the audience. This is the first announcement I've seen for this topic, so maybe they'll follow-up with some engineering blog posts in the next few weeks.

mydpyon Cloudera files to raise $200M in IPO

This isn't unique. From Snap, which had a net operating loss in 2016 of $515 million, compared with a net loss of $373 million a year earlier:

"We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability"

mydpyon Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?

I agree with general sentiment expressed by others; a reasonable next opportunity shouldn't judge you because you worked for an unpopular company.

In fact, we're thinking the opposite: let's use this as an opportunity to hire engineers in your position (and we're currently hiring).

mydpyon Ask HN: Were you able to mitigate the impact of the AWS us-east-1 incident? How?

Which AWS services do you use?

mydpyon Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

The other way to respond: thanks, I'm interested. Alternatively: no thanks, I'm not interested. Recruiters aren't monkeys or slaves. This post is arrogant and rude.

mydpyon The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press

Sorry, I was criticizing the referenced article not your title on HN.

mydpyon The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press

He's not alone. The article talks about the importance of his collaborator Slee. Weird, click-baitey article title.

mydpyon What should you think about when using Facebook?

I think it's interesting that despite deep and widely-publicized privacy concerns, Facebook's users have mostly been loyal to the platform. Myself included.

Data collections seems necessary to monetize the platform. Are there any alternatives, or do we just need smaller more close-knit social networks?

mydpyon Ask HN: How to answer properly “Why we should hire you” question?

The answer to this will probably change based on where you are in your career.

mydpyon Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce

True, but I think the issue is that quality engineers of color are few. When I say supply side, I mean, there are far fewer graduates of color in STEM from top universities, etc.

mydpyon Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce

No, it's still fair to currently represented classes (whites and asians). In practice this means exploring different networks, using different sourcing techniques, creating mentoring environments, etc.

mydpyon Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce

I have always viewed tech diversity as a supply-side problem. Demand is definitely there.

mydpyon Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

I kinda see Jira and Trello as separate target markets. Jira = Enterprise (for me) and Trello = Small-to-mid-sized companies and personal use.

My company uses Jira (correctly) and it is great - for software. I keep all of my personal lists in Trello.

Also - VersionOne <<<<<<<<< Jira

mydpyon Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food

This is what worries me about Eatsa :-/

mydpyon Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food

I've been to their Spear street location in San Francisco. It's excellent for a quick and healthy (yet hearty) breakfast. It's novel to go inside and not see people cooking the food you're enjoying.