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New comment by xtreme in "How I estimate work"

xtreme — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:45:19 +0000

This aligns with my experience in the semi industry. SWEs tend to see trimming scope as moving the goalpost and do not consider as an option. Providing advance notice is mostly about client management, and clients are often surprisingly receptive to partial solutions.

New comment by xtreme in "GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers"

xtreme — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:15:49 +0000

"nvidia-smi -l <#num seconds>" works even better.

New comment by xtreme in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

xtreme — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:41:22 +0000

Replace AI in your comment with "intern" or "junior employee" and you will quickly realize that it needs a different set of skills. Do you think two different managers can achieve wildly different results with the same team by using different processes and style of communication? That's the value of learning this skill.

New comment by xtreme in "What if your website had business hours? (2022)"

xtreme — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:56:03 +0000

If only 10% of Tax software users are affected, IRS may not give an extension and the customers would be cursing you. Probably worth it to keep those extra engineers on call during the tax season.

New comment by xtreme in "Long Term Software Development"

xtreme — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:24:48 +0000

Doctors refer patients to specialists all the time.

New comment by xtreme in "Updates to H-1B"

xtreme — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:19:43 +0000

It's a policy based on unsound reasoning. Why is India treated as a monolith when it is more diverse than the EU in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity? If tomorrow India magically broke off into 30 separate states, all the same people who have been waiting for decades would be immediately eligible for green cards. How does it make any sense?

New comment by xtreme in "Extending the context length to 1M tokens"

xtreme — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:19:08 +0000

This actually tells you why AI doesn't have to be better than all human experts, just the ones you can afford to get together.

New comment by xtreme in "AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey"

xtreme — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:32:23 +0000

Chegg wasn't a victim — it was a middleman profiting from locked-up educational content and exploiting students’ needs. ChatGPT didn't "lure" users; it provided a superior, accessible alternative, democratizing learning rather than hiding it behind paywalls. The argument against AI due to resource usage is selectively blind to the inefficiencies of legacy systems like Chegg. Calling this hype is like dismissing the internet as a fad — it’s a failure of imagination. Disruption always displaces incumbents, but clinging to outdated, exploitative models is far worse than embracing a tool that genuinely empowers users.

New comment by xtreme in "AMD Open-Source 1B OLMo Language Models"

xtreme — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:46:14 +0000

200 mm/year gets you roughly 1000 engineers at 200k salary. Is that not enough to make rocm experience equal to cuda?

New comment by xtreme in "The human cost of our AI-driven future"

xtreme — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:09:38 +0000

Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. AI moderation should easily catch the worst offenders and the most obvious ones. The examples you gave easily stand out from non-offensive content and are easy to catch with high confidence. So, human moderators will have to look at where AI has low confidence classifying the content. In fact, AI will reduce the likelihood of human moderators ever seeing traumatic content.

New comment by xtreme in "The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia"

xtreme — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:55:51 +0000

So what? Maybe there would have been multiple island nations, maybe they all would have seen other countries and joined hands together. Why should the Dutch get any say in what modern Indonesia should look like?

Same goes for the parent comment about India. The decline of the Mughal empire and the possibility of multiple states arising instead of an unified India doesn't justify the British colonialism and in no way absolves them of their atrocities.

New comment by xtreme in "Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java"

xtreme — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:27:39 +0000

As someone who loves Typescript, the first chapter of your book deeply resonated with me. Good data representations and data types that encode meaning can eliminate entire classes of bugs by making invalid states unrepresentable, and I wish more languages emphasized and supported these principles.

New comment by xtreme in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

xtreme — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:58:05 +0000

I agree with what you are saying, but I find it interesting that physics can also predict properties of planets, stars, and galaxies interacting over cosmic distances. At that scale, you can zoom out and reduce the complexity again back to a handful of rules.

New comment by xtreme in "Research into why some people have a better sense of direction"

xtreme — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 03:05:54 +0000

It's not doable because your current location needs to be in the center of the screen in north up mode but can be placed lower in regular mode. Also the non square aspect ratio of the phone screen means that you don't get the same field of view in all four directions.

New comment by xtreme in "Devin: AI Software Engineer"

xtreme — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:24:13 +0000

Buying handcrafted artisan stuff is a luxury few can afford. I come from a poor family and I was always grateful for mass produced mediocre stuff that we could actually afford.

New comment by xtreme in "Deno in 2023"

xtreme — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:58:36 +0000

There are size limits when deploying on serverless or edge infrastructure so developers have to care about that. The providers also typically charge by compute seconds * memory consumed so a larger executable costs real money as well.

New comment by xtreme in "Culture Change at Google"

xtreme — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:14:57 +0000

I'm nitpicking, but the expected value for a project with a 50/50 chance of either (a) making $3m or (b) losing $1m is $1m. Not $2m.

New comment by xtreme in "CLI user experience case study"

xtreme — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:10:16 +0000

For now. Soon they will pay an LLM to translate their imprecise requests to precise commands.

New comment by xtreme in "New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers"

xtreme — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:29:16 +0000

You don't have to look far, Canada has already implemented a point based system for granting permanent residence to skilled workers. It assigns scores to applicants based on education, skills, employment offer, language speaking ability, etc. I believe it can be a good starting point for a more objective selection criteria than the current system which is more based on luck.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

New comment by xtreme in "Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word"

xtreme — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:16:53 +0000

The government is already interfering with the labor market by denying work visas to many US-educated students, limiting number of employment based green cards, handing out diversity visas through random lottery, and in general dictating who should or should not be eligible for work permits.