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zulrah

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Training neural networks.
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zulrah··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
for me it's a most disappointing model release ever. It takes a very long, runs bunch of random commands and burns through so many tokens even for simple tasks
zulrah··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
Actually, I think we are living in the most equal times ever. Don't get me wrong the situation is very bad especially if one belongs to any minority group but the wealth is divided more equally than any time in the history before
zulrah··on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
My Amazon interview was cancelled as interviewer got ill. It was never rescheduled
zulrah··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
>I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads

The number of travelers in foreign countries are so low compared to local population that I don't think it even makes sense for Google to optimize ads for people like that

zulrah··on My Overemployment Story
It's an extremelly low effort post. How did it even make into the frontpage? Upvotes by bots?
zulrah··on Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
>Every time I dig into crypto I find things that seem stupid, or useless, or actively bad. But so many people are into it!

During my time in tech I've only knew two people who held crypto. However, I've know a lot of people(myself included) who got into crypto, got dissilusioned by the promises, and after seeing that nothing they promissed actually arrived left.

5 Years ago I've heard how crypto is going to be a killer usecase for e-commerse, banking, and even cloud computing but no actual work was ever done to acomplish these goals

zulrah··on A Note About Recruiters
The worst mistake I made was accepting linkedin invites from recruiters. I expected that it will increase my chances to get offered some kind of job but most of them never even wrote to me. And my linkedin absolutely filled with spam
zulrah··on Windows Package Manager 1.1
Wow, I've just tried it and it's really good. As mentioned in the article, I already had winget in my PC. So I was able to use winget upgrade and it listed all the apps that I can upgrade(None of them were installed using winget but it still worked).

It's a huge improvement over downloading new version of VLC from their website for example.In total it upgraded 10 applications. The only annoying thing was that it still had to open GUI installers for updating applications. I'm also not sure how does it handle applications that are currently open during the update

zulrah··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
I've noticed another trend recently where it seems that some websites write content for google SEO instead of optimized for human readability. E.g.: I've seen my exact search phrase repeated mutiple times and then a very long article about the topic when what I searched was a simple question with a few words answer.
zulrah··on Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing
Have you seen Kelsey's Hightower demo where he used s3 event as a trigger for Google Cloud Function? You can already use serverless providers that abstract your function from the provider, but of course in that case you're locked to that specific vendor.

Also, no licence stops you from migrating from Lambda at any moment. Other Companies have you to pay enormous licencing fees and lock you for a one year contract or even longer.

zulrah··on Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests
The problem isn't Firefox. The problem is chrome. Since it has a biggest market share and most of the web developers use it. Websites tend to be more optimized for Chromium engine than Firefox. I moved to Firefox and Gmail and other google apps work terribly slow. I'm trying to find a new email provider now . Does anyone have recommendations?
zulrah··on The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
with 1 order per customer and £3 shipping fee
zulrah··on Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops
I also have a Jabra headset. I bought it from Amazon I chatted to amazon support about the issues I have with it and they told me to keep a headset and issued a full refund
zulrah··on Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document
A lot of guys have their own businesses that they use for contracting
zulrah··on Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months
Have you tried https://blendle.com/ you can read wsj articles there
zulrah··on HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding
Except the fact that multi cloud doesnt work and I don't think it will. It adds too much complexity also costs are the big issue too since clouds price data transfer out quite heavily
zulrah··on Instapaper is going independent
Instapaper is still not available to users in EU. It's been to months. I started to use Pocket because of this and now I don't think I'm coming back.
zulrah··on GitHub Founders Will Own More Microsoft Stock Than Its CEO
How much influence with his stock will the github founder have in this case?
zulrah··on Hello, GitHub
So you tell that people trust private company which was loosing money since the creation better than Microsoft with all of its reputation at stake?
zulrah··on Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
I agree overcast is miles ahead of pocketcasts.It protects privacy of the users, smart speed is awesome (removing silences and thus saving tons of time) and app is not laggy as pocketcasts was
zulrah··on Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
haha, I have a guy like this in my job. He won't do ANYTHING that couldn't be represented in a promotion document. Which is annoying but at the same time he is always successful with his promotions
zulrah··on MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system
What a terribly writen article! Sure intel me is a terrible thing but all this fake information about minix being slow and obscure makes this article a joke
zulrah··on MINIX – The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel
so microkernel is finally a thing!
zulrah··on If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
If you care about diversity stop interviewing on these stupid algorithmic questions! Getting a job literally depends on buying the cracking the coding interview book and solving these stupid problems. I know some of my course mates who worked on very interesting projects but couldn't get a job because they couldn't white board a tree balancing problem :D
zulrah··on Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet
What happens when all extremist websites move to TOR at least now governments can monitor them. But with these extreme laws they are just going to start to use more secure communication channels
zulrah··on Privacy
When I was younger I hated apple for what I thought was overpriced products, but then I realised that I was simply a product to Google. After switching to Apple I never looked back. I hope that it can keep it's standards and keep delivering good products
zulrah··on TensorFlow Examples for Beginners with Latest APIs
Or you can use amazon mechanical turk to get everything classified by people
zulrah··on Introducing Surface Laptop
If this laptop can run Linux I'm buying it
zulrah··on Learning to Think Like a Computer
> At Stanford, Princeton and Tufts, computer science is now the most popular major.

In my times, comp-sci was only studied by geeks and wierdos. Glad that the steriotypes have changed and it became more popular

zulrah··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Wayland Support

- DESCRIPTION: MIR is almost a bigger joke than GNU/Hurd and will never be complete, I hope Ubuntu includes Wayland as default

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