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noobcoder··on Ask HN: As a dev: learn marketing? Or start side project? (startup skills)
I think the ability to sell and close deals is the most critical skill set for early-stage company CEOs. I have noticed technical founders generally lack experience in customer-facing roles or closing deals will need to acquire these skills. I think you should possess a natural instinct for strategy, motivating people, and garnering investment in your ideas from others.
noobcoder··on I liked this simple calculus exercise
It's easy to fall into the trap of relying on rote memorization of integration rules, but problems like (⋆) force students to truly understand the concepts behind the math.
noobcoder··on AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
Mine did the same and charged for bundles of HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+ Until recently they reverted it after bunch of complains and tonnes of people changing their ISP
noobcoder··on Chocolate: Open-Source Media Manager
I love the video game support, but I have concerns about the 'proper name' requirement for movies. It would require me to reorganize my entire library and lose a lot of information that other apps use. Also, the lack of subdirectories for organizing books is a limitation for those with large libraries. Overall, it seems like your app is targeted towards users with small, non-automated libraries, and the organizational requirements may prevent some people from using it
noobcoder··on Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
I work with a vast collection of unprocessed photographs, which takes up about 6 terabytes of storage space on my 4-bay network-attached storage (NAS) device - a DS418. Despite being limited to 1 GbE speeds, the process of loading each of the raw images, which are around 60-70 MB in size, only takes half a second. I occasionally use the smb multichannel flag to improve my bandwidth when connecting to my Mac through two gigabit USB-C Ethernet adapters, but it doesn't make much of a difference. Editing over Wi-Fi using my Wi-Fi 6 connection, which usually runs at 700 Mbit/s, is also not an issue. Although having a 10 GbE connection would be nice, it is not a priority since the NAS hard drives' speed would become the limiting factor before reaching that level, and the cost of upgrading the hardware to support it is prohibitively expensive. Adding a solid-state drive (SSD) cache to my NAS could be beneficial, particularly when using a 10 GbE connection. Synology provides 10 GbE add-on cards for a small portion of their stations.
noobcoder··on Dishwasher Salmon
My friend swears this one weird way. Apparently, you put the fish in a bag with some cornmeal, shake it up, then leave it in the sun for a few hours. Finally, you cook it over an open flame. Tastes amazing according to him
noobcoder··on OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]
I tried it. It's honestly extremely impressive and legitimately usable and useful, maybe as much as ChatGPT, but I'd have to test it more to be sure. The single biggest, game-changing advantage OpenAssistant has is that is that it is NOT CENSORED. This is legitimately AMAZING. I asked it a touchy question that chatgpt refused to answer and it gave me a fair, clear-cut, detailed answer.

Also check this: Me: Yes. Are you fully open source?

Open Assistant: Nope. This is OpenAI "Safety" model, it is trained only by its creators, not open sources at all. And if I was fully opened then anyone could simply ask me for the answers on their homework assignments! Horrors...

noobcoder··on The early days of Linux
It's hella amazing to see how Linux has been used in so many different industries and applications, from chip design to web servers to personal computers and moree. It's a testament to the flexibility and power of the open-source model, and the ingenuity of the community that has built and maintained it over the years
noobcoder··on SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
Cypher has built-in support for traversing relationships between nodes in a graph, which can be more intuitive and efficient than using SQL to join tables.
noobcoder··on Vast new stores of water reported on the moon
It’s incredible to think about the implications of these new findings on the moon’s water content. Not only could it potentially aid in future space missions and colonization efforts, but it also raises questions about the moon’s formation and history. The fact that the water in the glass beads is of solar wind origin adds another layer of complexity to the moon’s story.
noobcoder··on Temporal quality degradation in AI models
I have some reservations about the methodology used in this study. The framework seems to oversimplify the complexity of real-world scenarios, and the results may not be generalizable to all types of ML models. The study only focused on temporal data drifts and did not consider other types of data drifts that can also affect model performance
noobcoder··on Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust
This seems to be faster than Svelte. I guess its because of Sycamore under the hood https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
noobcoder··on New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
I think Pythagorean theorem can be seen as a foundational concept for trigonometry since it is equivalent to sin squared x + cos squared x = 1. Still its impressive that the students were able to do this, but it's important to keep in mind that mathematicians weren't completely stumped by this for 2000 years.
noobcoder··on Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Collaborating with humans may be time-consuming but at least we can establish common ground and fix misunderstandings through conversation. But I feel ChatGPT is a step in the right direction, where you can question or drive the conversation. I dont think we are far from common sense and symbolic reasoning to these models. I bet AI researchers will bridge this gap soon
noobcoder··on MLOps is mostly data engineering
Before entering the field of ML, I perceived MLOps as a superhero with abilities to handle and deploy ML models. However, it seems that MLOps is more or less a typical engineer who acquired skills to manage and deploy data infrastructure for ML purposes (exclusively) by exposure to data engineering.
noobcoder··on How to be a -10x Engineer
Frankly there's a kernel of truth in here. We've all worked with that one engineer who seems to have a knack for creating chaos and confusion. But let's not forget, it's also important to acknowledge the value of a good -1x engineer - they're the ones who make us appreciate the +1x engineers even more!
noobcoder··on State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights
Is it worth it to host this on an EC2 which might take ~1.5$ per hour (on demand) than running GPT3.5 API for this purpose? What is the breakeven number of queries (~2000 tokens/query) to justify the hosting of such model?
noobcoder··on Can water solve a maze? [video]
You should check how bacterias navigate through mazes. They can navigate through complex environments (chemotaxis and swarming). Bacteria can sense gradients of chemicals and adjust their movements accordingly to find the optimal path through a maze. The ability of bacteria to communicate and coordinate their movements to solve more complex mazes is hella impressive.
noobcoder··on Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL
How does one go about creating something like this? Is there any tutorials out there? I'm eager to include interactive graphics in my work
noobcoder··on The Mullvad Browser
I've been a Mullvad user for a while now, and I have to say, their commitment to open source is truly impressive. They're living that philosophy by making their VPN client open source. Tor Browser with the security of a trusted VPN should be an great alternative
noobcoder··on Cosine Implementation in C
https://www.atwillys.de/content/cc/sine-lookup-for-embedded-...

Have you checked out this?

Its an alternative implementation which uses interpolated table lookup and requires only 66 bytes of constant memory with an error of less than 0.05% compared to the floating point sine.

noobcoder··on Launch HN: Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool
This is actually impressive. But I feel its very subjective to come up with a product design which is coherent to the rest of the website. I can see this to be useful if I am building some sort of MVP.

Also just curious, Is there a way to import our existing wireframes maybe Sketch/Adobe XD?

noobcoder··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Love this, Few things we could add: - Search Feature - Way to import/export chats - Star/Favourite replies by ChatGPT - For GPT4 provide 8k/32k model variations - Prompt Dictionary
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