DHolzer

Just wanted to let you know that I think your posting on the page is great. Communicating so clearly what the application process will look like and what your expectations are of the applicant is really appreciated. I haven't seen that done a lot in Vienna.

like the idea, but i cant see what i'm doing when my finger coveres the screen

I switched over to Nix about a year ago. I was a Windows user before that for 30 years and tried Linux a couple of times, but it never stuck. Now I know I will never touch Windows again. With NixOS I've finally found a system that actually works for me — and the full OS configuration is in a repo. My god, I love it so much. Sometimes I even prefer nix-shells over uv for quick one-off Python scripts. I cannot sufficiently convey how absolutely barbaric everything else feels in comparison. Not having Nix would be like having to work on code without Git — absolutely unacceptable. And it really isn't that much work — you do it once. The next time you set up a new system, without Nix, you'll have to do the full configuration all over again.

i don't like the framing of $96 that pops up with this topic. There are so many reasons why the pricing point is completely irrelevant. Yet it frames it as if it were a similarly helpful option to fpv drones for the underdog nation - It's not, nor would it be if it were $9.60 or $0.96. This launcher has not even hit a PoC state - to mention the production cost of the prototype at this point is an extremely weak talking point - it means nothing.

another adhd guy here. I haven't tried it, so i can't vouch for it to any degree of certainty, but maybe it's an option to have your main payment card in a sleeve inside your phone case? Even if it works, it's only a drop in the bucket, but maybe that's enough if you consider the lack of NFC payment a major issue. thank you for pushing for an alternative to android and apple

I have to say, the brass arrangement is pretty good - would have loved to be there when they recorded that staccato part.

I did not mean to imply that you did not face any consequences. Sorry if that came across that way. But my point stands. While I heavily disagree with almost everything Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. stand for, I cannot hold the developers in these companies to the same level of judgment as I would politicians, lobbyists, and managers. You may compare selling heroin on the street to whatever stuff is going on at these companies, and I might agree or disagree. But the fact is — selling heroin on the street is illegal, while training a recommendation model is not. Quite the opposite. And the complacency and failure to put reins on this situation 15 years ago is a deep failure of our civilization. As long as we train people at university for these positions and pull them in with such incredibly high salaries, I can't not forgive them to a large degree. I do not forgive the policymakers that enable this madness, however. I understand that's just moving the blame to a higher level — that's not the intention. It's a systemic failure, and it needs systemic change.

look, i dont want to work at any of those companies anyway. I am with you - i was trying to say that money can break most of us. I appreciate you being so farsighted by leaving such a position, but for many other people that would be unthinkable - And that does not make them monsters.

At this point I would be more worried about working for a US company, than which one exactly - (not totally serious of course, but also not entirely inaccurate)

I would feel embarrassed, yes. But that's 5 times my current salary for a 'similar' position. I am not sure it'd be 5 times worse in terms of societal effect. And even if it were, I am not sure I would be 5 times as embarrassed, if we are considering a linear conversion rate.

What I am trying to say is that I am on your side - as of this moment it is incredibly unlikely that I would ever see this kind of money. That makes it an easy position to take in a online conversation. But I have seen decent people throw out morals for a 100th of what we are talking about.

250k per year would make me reconfigure my internal right/wrong classifier real fast...

The user had more arguments than just "it's all politics". What level of scrutiny does his statement have to hold up to? Because as far as I am concerned this is not here to find scientific truths.

Please provide any proof or references to what you are claiming.

I would hate to have a 40px title bar doing nothing except wasting space on my screen. I've been using this layout for years, and I didn't even consider that anyone could have an issue with this until I read your statement.

I'm not saying that you are wrong to disregard it due to your personal preferences, but please consider that this might not be such a horrible design as you make it out to be. Also, you can be certain that you are not the only sane person left - I think it's just that most of them don't show up on boards and forums.

An interesting and short talk about what Extropic is currently working on.

I love chatterbox, it's my favourite. While the generation speed is quick, i wonder what performance optimization i could try on my 3090 to improve throughput. It's not quite enough for realtime.

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how is that technological progress not fueling resource scarcity?

without wanting to sound overly sceptical, what exactly makes you think it performs so much better compared to claude and chatgpt?

Is there any concrete example that makes it really obvious? I had no such success with it so far and i would really like to see the clear cut between the gemini and the others.

I see, yeah, i am repairing a 16 channel tape machine right now. it's really nice.

For me it's about the recording and mixing process itself. I have diagnosed ADHD and i have a really hard time to focus on the production when i am working on my PC. I dont commit, i always tweak and i dont really care about the big view of the song because there is always some detail i can polish for the next 3 hours.

On a mixer and tape, i can turn down the lights and just sit there and listen and record. I dont care about the analog sound, i dont care about the inherent noise, i only care about the fact that i can sit down and actually be write music. I can basically do it all without even opening my eyes.

I was thinking that too. I am really not a professional developer though.

OFC it would be nice to just write python and everything would be 12x accelerated, but i don't see how there would not be any draw-backs that would interfere with what makes python so approachable.

what do you mean?

production is not distribution. also there are plenty of analog options to musicians if they want to go that route.

consider telling us upfront about the login requirement and/or have the three demo stories prepared in all combinations, saves you money too.

buying HDDs these days currently feels a little like navigating the dark web.

a tax evading soft spot that is.

Sure, I really do agree and I didn't mean to romanticize the past. However, there was a time when the self-interests of the EU and the US overlapped much more than they do now. From your point of view, it might seem like nothing has changed dramatically, but from our perspective, it certainly has.

I've noticed this shift both in my professional life and personally. And I'm not talking about just eating up what the media spews in my face, but actual cold, hard and direct consequences I've had to deal with since Trump came into office.

I recently checked out UV, and it's impressively fast. However, one challenge that keeps coming up is handling anything related to CUDA and Torch.

Last week, I started developing directly in PyTorch containers using just pip and Docker. With GPU forwarding on Windows no longer being such a hassle, I'm really enjoying the setup. Still, I can’t shake the feeling that I might be overlooking something critical.

I’d love to hear what the HN crowd thinks about this type of env.

I don't see this as an attack, but rather a push for independence from the US. I don't want America to be irrelevant, but i don't feel like I can trust them as much as I did before. Both private and in business.

Totally disagree here, using embeddings is much more reliable / robust, I wouldn't put much stock in LLM output, too much going on

I think both ways can be the preferable option, depending on how well the embedding space represents the text - and that is mostly dependet on the specific use case and model combination.

So if the embedding space does not correctly project required nuance, then it's often a viable option to get the top_n results and do the rest by utilizing the llm + validation calls.

But i do agree with you, i would always like to work with embeddings rather than some llm output. I think it would be such a great thing to have rock solid embedding space where one would not even consider to look at token predictor models.

I work in AI and love the technology. But all the hype and grandiose claims make it awkward when people ask what I do, and it makes hiring harder when experienced developers hear 'AI development' and walk away - even though it's mostly just solid full-stack engineering work.

Any negative aspect of media from the past can, and often will, be transformed into a positive trait in future media.

People embrace vinyl records in an age of digital music. They take photos with analog cameras even though everyone has a phone in their pocket. Musicians use the harsh artifacts of MP3 compression as creative effects in their music. The examples are countless, and they all emerge precisely when the media that once produced these unwanted artifacts becomes obsolete.

If you haven't noticed this shift, I suggest you learn to recognize it quickly. Otherwise, you might miss out on great content because it doesn't make it past your mental spam filter.

And if you don't want to adapt, that's fine too—just don't tell others how to manage their websites.