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Feature Flags SDK by Vercel

melony — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:45:27 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535648

Points: 4

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Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks

melony — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-addressing-ai-risks-2025-01-21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775196

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by melony in "How can I be an AI engineer?"

melony — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:53:30 +0000

I expect my "AI" engineers to know both RAG and what KL-divergences are. If you only know the former, you are just a backend developer, not a ML engineer.

Go: Range over Int

melony — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:24:07 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/7J8FY07dkW0/m/iwSs6_Q3AAAJ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42315202

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by melony in "Show HN: Chonkie – A Fast, Lightweight Text Chunking Library for RAG"

melony — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:20:57 +0000

How does it compare with NLTK's chunking library? I have found that it works very well for sentence segmentation.

New comment by melony in "Rust Trademark Policy Updates"

melony — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:27:56 +0000

There's nothing stopping them from just adding the feature like npm.

New comment by melony in "Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings"

melony — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:43:43 +0000

Some optimization suggestions:

- cache the prompting somehow, unless you are doing dynamic stuff with the prompts, the language embeddings generated should be static (this depends on the architecture of the model that you are using, it's only possible with certain setups where the language processing is a separate part in the pipeline)

- consider fine-tuning an img to img model with your current outputs instead of using a language-coupled model. My intuition is that this is currently significantly over-engineered on the ML side.

- Play around with local hardware acceleration instead of sending everything to the cloud, you also probably don't need particularly high resolution for the images either.

New comment by melony in "USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough"

melony — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:54:57 +0000

Sigh it means in their neural network layer they have a random sampling step. Yay for Gaussians.

New comment by melony in "Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference"

melony — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:11:24 +0000

Does it work with WSL2?

New comment by melony in "Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government"

melony — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:12:52 +0000

> The government has power. Craig the office drone asking for "misinformation" to be taken down at behest of his boss does not have the power "The government" does. Or am I now supposed to believe that if you anger Sheila at the DMV the IRS will audit you?

Craig's boss is the highest executive power in the country. Most of their work is handled by aides and subordinates like Craig, with authority delegated from their office. The boss only directly makes the important decisions. You are being disingenuous by claiming Craig is a innocent, powerless trigger-happy drone. And if you have lived in small towns, expect to receive worse service or discrimination from Sheila in future. The highest power in the country cannot be held to the same standard as a county clerk (and frankly speaking, most DMV employees need more training in customer service and have their compensation tied to overall productivity and performance, lots of fat to be trimmed there, both literal and metaphorical).

New comment by melony in "New Zealand teachers shocked at leaked curriculumn – 'Where's the science?'"

melony — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:23:56 +0000

The issue is that many things ultimately still require rote learning. Most STEM subjects cannot avoid it unless you are genuinely talented and mathematically inclined. You can appreciate Newton's laws in classical mechanics as much as you want but you still need practice if you want to apply the kinematics and force equations in any reasonable amount of time during an exam. Same with Hamiltonians and Lagrangians. The further you go, the more intuition requires rote learning to build up. (I would note however that rote learning doesn't necessarily impart any mathematical maturity, but it does help with achieving conceptual understanding of the problem. Solve enough differentiation problems on pen and paper and gradient descent and backpropagation become obvious, but proving epsilon deltas won't necessarily be as helpful.)

New comment by melony in "New Zealand teachers shocked at leaked curriculumn – 'Where's the science?'"

melony — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:15:07 +0000

Because so long Bloom's 2 sigma observation holds, pedagogy only matters at scale. In other words, it mostly affect the lower middle class and poor people. Good education systems can ensure that most people get educated. The elites and upper middle class are more than capable of giving their children an excellent education anywhere. Working class parents don't have time to babysit every single homework problem or to fix every gap and flaw in the school's syllabus by themselves.

New comment by melony in "Adding Elixir to our Nextjs app (2022)"

melony — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:52:34 +0000

Why not use Go? They have one of the best networking stacks among language standard libraries, excellent support for low latency soft real-time concurrent operations, and single binary deployment is trivial.

New comment by melony in "Formula E team caught using RFID scanner that got live tire data from other cars"

melony — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:47:57 +0000

Are there antennas in car wheel wells? The main car battery can probably power it with a correctly calibrated antenna.

New comment by melony in "Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative"

melony — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:51:10 +0000

The Gitea team is full of crypto shillers.

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/a-message-from-lunny-on-gitea-...

Their founder claims to have invented Gogs (he was one of the early committers) when the original author is another engineer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea

> Gitea was created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of the self-hosted Git service Gogs.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/three-years-at-sourcegrap...

> About the author Joe Chen is Software Engineer and maintainer of the open source project Gogs, a painless self-hosted Git service. You can chat with Joe on Twitter @jc_unknwon or our community Discord

New comment by melony in "Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative"

melony — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:26:38 +0000

The Java web framework (Apache Wicket) it uses is vintage, about as old as Rails.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wicket

New comment by melony in "Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative"

melony — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:48:56 +0000

OneDev: https://github.com/theonedev/onedev

Gogs: https://github.com/gogs/gogs

New comment by melony in "The Wait Until 8th pledge"

melony — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:08:50 +0000

CyanogenMod?

New comment by melony in "Java 21: No more public static void main"

melony — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:00:51 +0000

What do also and use do?

New comment by melony in "Java 21: No more public static void main"

melony — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:59:28 +0000

My main gripe with Dart is their package manager. Unlike NPM or Cargo, it is possible to get conflicting diamond dependencies. The lack of shared memory concurrency is also disappointing.