Twitter's algorithm code is canonical good Scala - https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
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What would HN recommend? I prefer Hugging Face as it has a stronger community built in but others prefer a open source project we can customize.
You'll be fighting against the type system constantly. You'll be asking questions on Stack Overflow only to get no response. You'll be rewriting software that's in other language's standard library.
Productive programmers don't use Haskell.
The rich social events and intellectual discussions of America’s past have turned into depravity and crude dancing, and curse filled lyrics.
And Hashicorp’s founders sacrificed ideals for the sake of billions.
They force you to structure your thoughts in a way that others can understand.
Notebooks are extremely unorganized and un-understandable after a few days.
Zoom never said video calls are the best way to work.
They said video calls offer a level of globally distributed collaboration unprecedented in history. And that’s true.
Having followed Mitchell Hashimoto’s work on Vagrant, I felt like he and Armon were truly value driven and not purely money oriented.
But it’s true, dollars corrupt and billions of dollars corrupt absolutely.
OpenAI hasn’t even touched low level languages yet.
And mint it did, billions, in the IPO. And now, abandoning its ideals for the sake of money, I feel a lot less optimistic about open source going forward.
And they’re building, and they’ll keep building, and a more open financial system will be built.
It might take decades but it will happen.
It’s too bad. With MSFT they wouldn’t have had to do this.
They’ve got a monopoly. And with AI’s coming explosion, I’d wager 50/50 odds Jensen becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
Immigrants touch I guess?
But the median packaged baklava blows the granny’s median baklava out of the water. There’s no contest.
Once enterprise adoption of AI picks up, demand for chips will increase 2-3 times further.
I'm told Nvidia's building their own fab in Southeast Asia over the next few years. This will massively boost their output.
In 10 years, programming languages like Java, SQL, etc will be dead.
I predict everyone will write in their native language (English, Chinese, etc) and a AI-based compiler will write the actual code for them.
Age or ingredients don't matter much.
Baklava needs to be made just right to work. There's no room for error. And the machines seem to have a upper hand over us on precision.
Space races are real, it's each country for itself, and it's a zero sum game. And today's not a good day.
Picture a board chairman discussing a CEO position with his or her top candidate. The chairman's courting the candidate, they're playing golf, they're dining together and he's trying to convince him CEO is a job worth taking.
The job's his, and so is any reasonable dollar figure he wants.
Now, if that fails then the chairman may have traditional interviews with his second or third choice candidates. But they're for sure getting paid nowhere what the first candidate would get.
The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony.
Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pole. And our next project is a manned landing on the moon, which we already accomplished in the 1960s.
Reliability: I don't want a single host EC2, I want a multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster.
Security: I don't want a EC2 behind a firewall, I want a zero trust architecture.
Performance: For a auth service, I don't want a boring Spring Boot app, I want a performant Rust server.
And after him, it became like any corporation, with everyone seeking to gain as much personal wealth as they could. The dream was dead.
I saw this firsthand.
Having read hundreds of books and papers over the years, no problem seems new to them. They can rapidly find a solution, especially compared to someone trying to derive a answer from first principles like Polya suggests.
As promised, they released GPT3.5 fine-tuning today. They opened GPT4 API access a few months ago. In a few months, they'll release GPT4 fine-tuning.
Many favor open source AI, and criticize OpenAI for not being open enough. But the most important thing is, OpenAI innovates. Fast.
Llama, Bard, FB's open source stuff is good but it's lightyears behind OpenAI. You have to credit them for that.
Why won't the US?
I truly become the time for decoupling from China has come. It will require a massive economic cost. China's economy will suffer greatly and many millions will be prevented from overcoming poverty.
And, it's worth it. It's absolutely necessary to ensure our country's security. We just can't depend on an adversary for critical goods.
If anything, interdependence creates more destructive wars because countries group themselves into (global) blocs who now go to war.
The FDA can inspect food plants, and if in the public interest, shut them down temporarily.
Let me ask this, without this power how do you propose the government hold TikTok accountable for anything?
Let's say you have a goal to increase revenue by 50%. You come up with a plan, and assign different sub-goals to departments like Marketing, Sales, etc. Each person then gets a sub-goal down to the lowest levels of the org.
KPIs provide incredible org-wide alignment which no other management technique before, or after, them produces nearly as well.