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New comment by thecleaner in "Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?"

thecleaner — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:09:36 +0000

Math is off. Total number of people detained in 2023 was 270k out of 66million annual visitors. 0.4% chance. Chances of dying in a plane crash are roughly 1 in million (Google tells me so, not sure of the source). The ones I listed are the publicized ones but the story is the same.

New comment by thecleaner in "Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)"

thecleaner — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:26:28 +0000

Every MLE who didnt study Math really likes to downplay its importance. Yeah you dont need measure theoretic probability, but you need a grasp of Lin Alg to structure your computations better. Remember the normalization that we do in attention ? That has a math justification. So I guess yeah academics did have a role in building LLMs.

I mean computer scientists really do like to pretend like they invented the whole field. Whereas in reality the average OS, compilers, networks class has nothing to do with core ML. But of course are also important and these barbs dont get us anywhere.

New comment by thecleaner in "Particle Based Physics Engine in Golang"

thecleaner — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:23:52 +0000

What are they teaching in high schools these days that people can do this ? Well done and congratulations on the release.

New comment by thecleaner in "Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?"

thecleaner — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:51:30 +0000

One from Berlin, one from the UK, one from Canada. Not sure how many more.

New comment by thecleaner in "Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?"

thecleaner — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:52:00 +0000

I think at this point you should be more worried about being thrown in a detention centre. But the likelihood of being affected gun violence in be US especially if you stick to the right parts is low as long as you're there for a short while.

New comment by thecleaner in "Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act"

thecleaner — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:20:23 +0000

YCs success has nothing to do with just YC (not to take credit away) but rather from the fact that the US is a large unified well-regulated market. EU has sensible rules sure but the market isnt unified and the individual countries dont have big enough markets to sustain large numbers of software companies. YC itself is honestly quite open with their knowledge but its just that EU in itself is a pretty terrible place to run a business. Lots if regulation, some good ones.

New comment by thecleaner in "As Elon Musk makes thousands of workers jobless, pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal"

thecleaner — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:56:09 +0000

Honestly most people want to be him. Everbody craves money and unchecked power. The problem is nobody understands that what he's doing is against their interests.

New comment by thecleaner in "We built a Modern Data Stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%"

thecleaner — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 22:36:45 +0000

I think they do mean Kafka. Anyways theres connectors from Kafka to a bunch of things so I think its a reasonable choice.

New comment by thecleaner in "We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%"

thecleaner — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 22:34:34 +0000

This is a little bit of a word soup. Its hard to see why the various redesigns were done without a set of requirements. I dont get why you'd trigger Airflow workflows for doing CDC. These things were designed for large scale batch jobs rather than doing CDC on a some Google sheets. Either way without scale numbers its hard to why PG was used or why the shift to BigQuery. Anyways the site uses Hugo, which actually sticks out for me.

New comment by thecleaner in "Agno: Agent framework 10,000x faster than LangChain"

thecleaner — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:18:07 +0000

Congratulations on the release. Although I hope the developers take the lesson that AI frameworks are unnecessary. You don't need frameworks to write HTTP calls. Just a good enough SDK would do.

New comment by thecleaner in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"

thecleaner — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:03:43 +0000

Not the essay for me. I actually lost patience midway. The author lost me at "when we are young we dream of meeting our idols." I never gave a shit. I mean my idols were fictional so that obviously helped.

New comment by thecleaner in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

thecleaner — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:49:51 +0000

I have been on firefox since forever. Not quite sure why people would even bother with Edge unless of course its the "approved" browser in your org.

New comment by thecleaner in "ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods"

thecleaner — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:26:58 +0000

Hide it before Doge gets wind ?

New comment by thecleaner in "MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI for $220M"

thecleaner — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:26:17 +0000

Curious - do people migrate due to the price tag, ease of use, sth else ?

New comment by thecleaner in "Laravel Cloud"

thecleaner — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:25:23 +0000

Why are cloud based open source things working now but failed the first time Heroku came around ?

New comment by thecleaner in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

thecleaner — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:15:23 +0000

They are much better than Teslas, which are b generally shit cars.

New comment by thecleaner in "Why AI Spending Isn't Slowing Down"

thecleaner — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:26:44 +0000

Its not fast without pre-segmentation as they do in WhisperX. It actually has terrible transcription speed. For speedup we have to use Ctranslate2 kernels. The decoding code is also a mess where its hard to plug your own custom language model. Not to mention streaming ASR requires even more tweaks. Whisper Small is very fast and quite inaccurate. If you deploy whisper on a GPU which costs around dollar per hr, you really to ensure that the cost savings are worth it.

Although all of this is from a production lens. For personal use, honestly nothing is as easy to use as Whisper (even works on a laptop).

New comment by thecleaner in "Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive"

thecleaner — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:33:18 +0000

Their interviews were one of the easiest things I ever did. Pay 150bucks for Leetcode, sort by company, memorize the solution and show up.

Even when solving problems in the real world, nobody sits in a dark room until moment of genius strikes. We always try some tactics others have tried and only then innovate.

New comment by thecleaner in "Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive"

thecleaner — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:30:38 +0000

You dont need talent to succeed. Just grit and certain ruthlessness. If the market awards this behaviour then whatever.

New comment by thecleaner in "Ways to annoy your senior engineer"

thecleaner — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:28:40 +0000

I like t-shirt estimates but only when we all agree we known wtf we are talking about. I also really like hacks. They get the job done and not everything needs layers and layers of leaky abstraction. I also quite like easy things like Config fixes, esp if they get escalated. You can leverage these to show impact and get a good rapport going.

I hate meetings without agenda. Honestly send me a message and I'll make sure I reply. Meetings with written agenda are great.