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jaskyle··on Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?
No one is collecting squat from my 2006 minivan!
jaskyle··on Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool
Classic AWS...ripping off GitHub CoPilot. Haha!
jaskyle··on Ask HN: Why is the support website traditionally hosted on a subdomain?
Sometimes it comes down to having a third party service handle support or provide the framework, so adding it as a subdomain makes it easier to integrate into your site. And Google often treats subdomains as their own site so you can have a well structured support driven layout, rather than a site trying to showcase featured content while battling with support content.
jaskyle··on Data centers are melting in U.K. heat wave
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably: https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...
jaskyle··on Machine Learning for Change Detection: Part 1
That's pretty cool! Can't wait to see the next part of the series.
jaskyle··on Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
Comic Sans
jaskyle··on Nobody likes self-checkout. Here’s why it’s everywhere
I hate it when a large grocery store doesn't offer self checkout. I don't want to have to stand and wait in line for 15-20 minutes when few lanes are open and people in front of me have full baskets, when I only have a handful of items.
jaskyle··on Doctors using AI catch breast cancer more often than either does alone
Since the introduction of AI, doctors using AI to help in detection (not as a replacement to their own work) has been the driving force in improving healthcare outcomes. There may come a time where AI can be the sole source in locations that have a deficit of doctors (cause something is better than nothing), but I don't see it changing any time soon.
jaskyle··on Ask HN: Has Marvel got out of hand?
It's tough to top their arc with Infinity Way/Endgame. They definitely need to regain focus on where they want to go since they are introducing so many new characters.
jaskyle··on Show HN: Namecheap AI business name generator
There was a really cool Windows app about 10 years ago that helped you create names for just about anything: https://www.amazon.com/Summitsoft-00142-7-Name-Brand-Generat...
jaskyle··on 50% of what you are taught is wrong
But that 50% is 100% right everytime!
jaskyle··on Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
A great video tutorial on Version Control for Code Using Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mndB6zHmU3k

And Managing Code Projects with Git Branching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJDZY1x31I

jaskyle··on Great America, a beloved Bay Area theme park, to shut down within next 11 years
This is a huge disappointment and will remove a great destination for kids in the Bay Area. Super bummed.
jaskyle··on PyTorch 1.12: TorchArrow, Functional API for Modules and NvFuser
TorchArrow looks pretty cool:

TorchArrow is a machine learning preprocessing library over batch data, providing performant and Pandas-style easy-to-use API for model development. Currently it provides a Python DataFrame that allows extensible UDFs with Velox, with the following features:

- Seamless handoff with PyTorch or other model authoring, such as Tensor collation and easily plugging into PyTorch DataLoader and DataPipes - Zero copy for external readers via Arrow in-memory columnar format - Multiple execution runtimes support: - High-performance C++ UDF support with vectorization

jaskyle··on Ask HN: Are there good reasons not to deploy Machine Learning models?
Yea, and I understand researchers may just be training models but don't intend to move into production or deploy once they fine tune them, especially in an education environment or when using them as a basis for a research paper.
jaskyle··on Ask HN: Are junior developers entitled to work machines?
100% look for a new job if the current employer is not willing to enable your success. It's completely reasonable as a developer to expect a work computer that allows you to do your job effectively. If they gave you an older model that doesn't perform well, make sure you document on the performance and detail how its limitations are holding up your work. You don't need to request some supercomputer but a reasonable alternative to what you have now. If they refuse without giving any reasonable explanation, then move on.
jaskyle··on The Annotated GPT-2
This is a great article for anyone working with language models!
jaskyle··on Copilot just got company: Amazon announced Codewhisperer
Interesting! Wonder if they will go straight to a pricing model or release free version for a time to pull copilot users away from GitHub.
jaskyle··on Storage Wars: R2 vs. S3
Interesting to see a couple use case scenarios that give the win to each, so there doesn't seem to be a clear cut overall winner. Just depends on what you are looking to do.
jaskyle··on A recession could kill the work from home revolution
Companies can save a lot of money with a wfh strategy, and also hire top talent from around the world instead of being limited to a smaller pool of talent living close to a physical location.
jaskyle··on Why a Gas Tax Holiday Is a Bad Idea
A 4th point missing in this blog post is the simple fact that producers and gas stations can easily start adjusting the price up again, wiping out the 18-20 cents per gallon consumers would be saving in an effort to gain that as new profit. Then when the tax holiday ends, gas prices would jump back up to an even higher price with no guarantees that prices would decrease to pre-tax holiday levels.
jaskyle··on Ask HN: What's a simple setup for creating an offline LAN?
Here's a good walkthrough: https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Local-Area-Network-(LAN)
jaskyle··on Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine from Cigarettes
Maybe something similar to alcohol free alcohol?
jaskyle··on Meta has built a new language AI–and it’s giving it away for free
"Meta’s move is the first time that a fully trained large language model will be made available to any researcher who wants to study it." - Is that true? Isn't GPT-2 open source? I mean, I am totally onboard with releasing models like this as open source but Meta isn't the first one to do it...