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keepingscoreon We're bringing Pebble back

I went on a long journey trying to find a pebble replacement. If you are looking for the closet smart watch to the pebble experience then https://a.co/d/6hEwdmc check out the Garmin instinct 2. 28 day battery life. Gets notifications from phone. Eink like screen. Its my daily wear

keepingscoreon Meta will start automating the work of midlevel software engineers this year

Post by @naval on January 3: "AI won't replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else."

Reply by @X.Wallets on January 3: "AI can write programs per CEO Jensen Huang."

Follow-up post by @naval on January 3: "Calculators can do math per CEO of Texas Instruments." --- This exchange has been bouncing around my head ever since it happened. CEOs especially those who are investing heavily in AI keep saying stuff that does not align with you my experiences working with and building these AI systems to the point where I think that people are saying things to justify their own investment in technology.

This is a CEO selling themselves and their company nothing more.

keepingscoreon O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem

Fwiw I don't think he's talking to you. My feed is filled with ai influencers getting all kinds of likes and comments, ready to declare AGI is here!

keepingscoreon How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments

You should be able to do that already by taking all of your customers nit embeddings and averaging them to produce a point in space that represents the universal nit. Embeddings are really cool and the fact that they still work when averaging is one of their cool properties.

keepingscoreon How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments

This isn't my post but I work with llms everyday and I've seen this kind of instruction ignoring behavior on sonnet when the context window starts getting close to the edge.

keepingscoreon Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI

Learning from copy written work requires a license to access that work. You can extract information from the world's best books by purchasing those books. But no author is being compensated here they download books.torrent then uses that pirated material to then profit.

keepingscoreon Rank positive impact of a pull request

Define positive impact.

keepingscoreon Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

Was this team on holiday when they designed the mouse to have it's charging port on the bottom?

keepingscoreon Open Source Smartwatch

Looks like adafruit makes one https://www.adafruit.com/product/4500?gclid=Cj0KCQiA0MD_BRCT...

keepingscoreon imgcat: higher resolution

Hi! I made imgcat. I wanted to say how wonderful it is to wake up and find myself on the front page of hackernews.

Things are so hard right now in the pandemic and this has given me a little virtual hug.

Big thanks to the eng team at https://charm.sh/ who wrote the terminal library I am using and showed up with prs and great ideas.

keepingscoreon Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web

Is using this chrome/fx addon a option for your use case?

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265...

keepingscoreon Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

I don't understand the sued comment. Why can we heavily tax gas to pay for roads but taxing plastics to pay for recycling costs is a non starter?

keepingscoreon Asana S-1

Ooof I'm on asana for the first time after using jira for 10+ years. I hate it. Asana is a generic workflow tool where jira leans towards software development. This means that every part of your process you need to create in asana then explain to your team this is the one true way to use asana.

Example Epics. A way to roll pieces of a project into a larger ticket describing that project. There's no concept in asana. So you have to hack it by doing sub tasks and manually adding the project to each subtask so it shows up on the board.

keepingscoreon Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

I built a better rss feed for reddit to use with Feedly.

Notable features: * Links to the content rather than the comments * Embeds a summary of the content * Supports images, gifs and videos * Extra query params (nsfw block, up vote limits) * Open source https://github.com/trashhalo/reddit-rss

https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/fvg3ed/i_built_a_bette...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/galitc/my_improved_red...

keepingscoreon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Upside Travel | Full Stack Engineers | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://upside.com/company/careers

We are an ambitious, well-funded startup with plans to change a $1 trillion-dollar global industry. This is no ordinary startup. We have a proven management team that has done it before, done it before together, and done it before in the travel industry. The company is overflowing with fiercely intelligent people who have tons of energy and an upbeat view of the future.

Frontend: react, redux, nextjs

Backend: Microservices running in kubernetes. Nodejs python golang

Persistence: Mysql Aws Aurora

keepingscoreon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

Upside Travel | Full Stack Engineers | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://upside.com/company/careers

Frontend: react, redux, nextjs

Backend: Microservices running in kubernetes. Nodejs python golang

Persistence: Mysql Aws Aurora

keepingscoreon Mozilla: Ad on Firefox’s new tab page was just another experiment

Based on their logic ads in newspapers aren't ads because customer information isn't shared with the advertiser until they connect with the ad and visit their store.

keepingscoreon ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

Did I read that correctly we are going to lose the ability to require paths and modules eg import {} from './services' or import {} from 'lodash'?

keepingscoreon Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads

Re 3. Funny you should mention net http's goroutine per request model. Fasthttp massively out performs stdlib on every techemporer benchmark using a goroutine/worker pool model.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41627931/in-golang-packa...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-min...

keepingscoreon OpenAI Five Benchmark

How do 5 DotA players coordinate? They share information via voice?

How does a deep learning algorithm coordinate between 5 heros? I assume it's not 5 bots communicating over some channel but one bot acting on 5 heros?

keepingscoreon Example node http server powered by a golang webassembly module

If you are curious about the benchmarks https://gist.github.com/trashhalo/b2f120fb9d20bd4003bf125c02...

There seems to be a 3x overhead for using go webassembly for this use case. I filed an issue for performance hit. It seems high https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26277

keepingscoreon [dead]

He is operating in the mindset that the backend is just a dumb persistence layer with auth. If all the problems he is we solving fit into that world view than more power to him.

I'm a backend team lead for a travel company. To render that list of flights and hotels to the Android app it's not a database lookup. It's hundreds of soap and rest calls stitching together airline and hotel data from multiple platforms. This isn't something I can do on the front end. And even if I could I wouldn't want to replicate this logic between iOS, Android, web and our internal support portals.