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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Which tool for chatting multiple LLMs?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: I don’t want an LLM career

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

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I grew up in the US and lived there for 30 years, but now I live in Europe. Every single one of my friends in their 30's finds visiting the US absolutely terrifying (even those who have previously been). I have yet to meet a single friend in today's day that has expressed any interest in visiting.

As someone with a light phone 2 who hates cellphones, I love this company. The light phone is a breath of fresh air.

For 90% of people it seems like it would be unusable so I’m glad they are still going hard to expand their market.

My biggest gripe is that companies in the USA like Verizon have really fucked me swapping to the phone. I recommend you FIRST get a SIM card and then and only then attempt to swap phones.

Major issues trying to swap when using eSIM

The trick is balance and if you don’t practice it, you won’t achieve it.

I tried to make my work the same as play and it burnt me out. I’ve tried to recover with play and lost interest in work.

The trick is to build a routine where the expectation is that you work whatever is required, but not overwork (time and energy are finite), but you prioritize play just as importantly. Play (exercise, social, travel and experiencing life) fuel work. It’s a circular dependency that is key to a happy life. How much of each you do, for how long and what exactly falls into each bucket is what each person on this planet needs to figure out for themselves.

I’ve read the books and tried the apps, but at the end of the day none of that stuff really unlocks anything. For me, baseline is to eat healthy and sleep a lot. From there, things unlock

Not a right or wrong answer here either. Have had 215k+ tech jobs since I was 24 and now 30 making 300k.

I’ve learned it’s now so much the amount you get, but the company culture.

To answer question to OP more directly. Save and invest intelligently and don’t spend what you can’t afford. Been fairly frugal and sitting over 1 mil. My dad had a boring desk job and just retired with same philosophy and currently sitting at 10 mil networth.

He drove a truck for 20 years that he sold for 500 bucks and a crappy car he drove for another 15 years that he sold for 1k.

Not saying you need to enter the extreme to have happiness, but financial growth is like a snowball. Slow and steady

Im curious how Tile addresses this concern for the safety of individuals themselves in the opposite direction. I know people who have been stalked and assaulted before. Does tile have protections against this for people hiding tiles in your vehicle or bag?

The same things. Ops, quality code, people skills, debugging, networking, multiple languages for multiple use cases based on whatever your company does, a little ML understanding and distributed systems.

The field moves fast, but fundamentals are forever

I’ve been experimenting with this on the side for fun.

Langchain is not my favorite, so I just wrote my own abstractions.

I hosted a neo4j graph database and extracted entities from the input data. You can do this with spaCy or LLM. I then generated nodes and edges between these entities, the chunked text and the embeddings for semantic search.

This combines the power of search with higher relevance due to crawling the graph with more intention

I mean, comon man, _most_ tech people work on in general is also useless. FAANG has a retainer on talent whether they are spending their time wisely or not.

LLM stuff is not in a different echelon

AI noob, but instead of training and fine tuning the LLM itself, don’t more specific and targeted embeddings paired with the model help alleviate the hallucination where you incorporate semantic search context with the question?