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spicyramen

440 karma · joined December 25, 2018

Software developer. Singapore. Skills: Typescript, SQL, CSS, React, Node, Python, Flask, Django.
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spicyramen··on Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confident is true?
Some good things German people actually did. (The ones that opposed the Nazi party), and now the _common_ belief is that _all_ Germans were Nazis
spicyramen··on [dead]
Thanks this helps
spicyramen··on It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing
Quality content: HBO > Disney+ > Amazon Prime > Netflix
spicyramen··on Dask – A flexible library for parallel computing in Python
What's your experience with Ray
spicyramen··on MLops Startups Profits
Totally agree with you, today Cloud companies: GCP, AWS and Azure native ML solutions are not a E2E platform but different teams that work independently and as a whole release a ML solution, specifically I can talk about Vertex AI. Notebooks, Training, Prediction while they provide Enterprise features (Security, Network, IAM, Encryption) do not play well with users. (Expect ML users to be Cloud Engineers) and an ML E2E workflow is hard to achieve.

I would divide the main challenges for AI startups as follows: 1. Support Enterprise Features. (Security, IAM, VPC-SC, Ecripyion) 2. If providing Compute Resources do not make that your main source of income (i.e. DeepNote, Saturn Cloud) which that may not scale. 3. Data integration. (BigQuery, S3, GCS, etc)

Databricks is one of the ones that have integrated with each of the clouds and provide this E2E workflow nicely, in addition they have seen the nascent Analytics market and invest on it. My concern with some startups: Cohere.AI similar to OpenAI GPT3, is that some are only solving some part of the ML workflow: (Seldom, OctoML, etc.) they may get some customers now, but will be hard to scale, and probably best destiny is getting acquire by major players.

spicyramen··on Ironbci: Open-Source Brain Computer Interface
Sorry for the simple question, how do you plug it to your brain ?
spicyramen··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
I'm a big soccer fan, dislike button is the best metric to gauge a game summary
spicyramen··on Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine
Anyone has the link how they come up with this number?
spicyramen··on Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City
No, that's incorrect I live in Orange county by far one of the best places for bikes and pedestrians and again I can tell you I won't use public transportation.
spicyramen··on Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City
You clearly have no kids
spicyramen··on [dead]
As a black person that have lived in Oakland i can tell you we need more bugdet and police and criminals behind bars
spicyramen··on Don’t do interviews, do discussions
In my experience I have seen some candidates that work very hard and mainly do boiler plate code in their projects, they struggle in the Algos/data structures but at the end of the day they get the job done. Others perform very good in Algos/data structures but produce very little at work, and also people that do good and perform above expectations. Is hard for me to actually filter good candidates, and at the end of the day, I value output and some quality.
spicyramen··on The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor
The West normally lacks understanding what hard work, innovation and intelligence is a universal value. During my years at Stanford I had the opportunity to learn about the North Korea nuclear program and how the West never imagine the advancement they produced with very limited resources and without Russian help. Couple of professors visited the nuclear facilities as part of the UN investigation and were shocked with the intelligence, and innovation of Korean engineers. The rest is history and we have now a North Korea with nuclear capabilities
spicyramen··on Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City
This may be unrealistic in our life time. I have 2 kids, 1 toddler and 1 newborn, i can't imagine biking, using public transportation or anything similar when going to doctor, grocery shopping, etc.
spicyramen··on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Just doing paternity leave before I quit to new job. Reading some system design, but is hard to find time. Just waiting for stocks to vest before I switch to the new job, so no real coding I have done in the past 3 weeks
spicyramen··on As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
I totally agree. I know people that work in different areas, but their salaries are mainly paid by Ads money. To me is like working for Nazi party and saying you were only working in poster ink technology...
spicyramen··on The Reading Obsession
In foreign languages such as Spanish, ortography is very important: reading helps you get better at it. This is true normally pre-college years.
spicyramen··on Ask HN: Did you ever travel or live in a country with different culture?
Culture is very similar, values the same, historically we both were Spanish territories
spicyramen··on Bash functions are better than I thought
We used to have very long shell scripts and recently I refactor most of them to use functions and shellcheck in our presubmit. This has greatly helped catching bugs and improving readability
spicyramen··on Leaving Google
Still depends on the org. Many orgs still engineering driven. This happens when engineers are more familiar with tech and business than PM, which surprisingly is not that uncommon (GCP)
spicyramen··on Ask HN: I'm afraid my wife is dying. Is there a “quora.com” for rare cancers?
Would u consider moving to US for work, get insurance and have your wife treated here?
spicyramen··on Ask HN: Career outlook in tech without a CS degree?
My advise is to get a technical job in tech support in a large company's which then later give you the option to do rotation. Other option is to do a boot camp program like Hackacademy.
spicyramen··on Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
I wrote Python code for 4 years, then moved to GoLang I really appreciate the typing languages as prevent so many bugs I just was used to handle
spicyramen··on Ask HN: A US programmer makes 3 times that of a EU programmer. Why?
This is tangential to the salary and benefits. I live in a county in California where homeless is close to 0 and still makes 3x what a SWE in Europe. American companies such as FAANG take care better of their employees than Europe.
spicyramen··on A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean reached the Southern California coast
Yes, was very disappointed as they closed the airshow.
spicyramen··on Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
Very limited and unfair comparison between Kubeflow and metaflow. Metaflow is dependent on AWS (it is mentioned but not emphasized). To me this is a non-starter. It makes sense for Netflix but not for the rest of the world
spicyramen··on Show HN: Chat with your contacts on different platforms without an app
I tried to sign up and got an error
spicyramen··on Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
Stripe, Robinhood, Square are offering larger TC. An experience is relevant
spicyramen··on Betrayal of Afghan Interpreters
Similar chaos happened during Bush to Obama transition and now in Afghanistan. I assume government transition for a country which invaded yours is always a red flag.
spicyramen··on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
Genius
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