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james_marks

647 karmajoined 10 anni fa
Founder and software dev. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslmarks/

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Query neural network weights like a graph database

github.com
2 points·by james_marks·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: OBTF-2, simple notes with screenshots

vgkids.github.io
2 points·by james_marks·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Cardi B sets record for most drone deliveries in an hour

retailtechinnovationhub.com
3 points·by james_marks·10 mesi fa·1 comments

comments

james_marks
·17 ore fa·discuss
Solved problems are invisible.
james_marks
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business.

It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flourish.
james_marks
·19 giorni fa·discuss
"When you a realize a guitar cannot, in fact, be perfectly tuned, you are beginning to get somewhere with the guitar".

Paraphrasing and I don't remember the author, unfortunately.
james_marks
·24 giorni fa·discuss
The final rebuttal to “the data doesn’t lie”: pull the sensors.
james_marks
·27 giorni fa·discuss
> If you think you could step into those shoes, you're either built different or delusional.

Being a bit delusional is a critical quality of some CEOs, so the distinction hardly matters.
james_marks
·30 giorni fa·discuss
Thanks for the tip! Ironically it’s the opposite in this case; where we’re willing to exceed the upper bound for the right person.

Your point about the good people self-selecting out makes sense.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rivora/c146a25b-dddb-4ac0-a8c1-c8b3...
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
In the news I hear about tech layoffs, but I am having a difficult time trying to hire high quality senior SWE's. Perhaps it's not the senior's that were hit by the layoffs, or I'm just looking in the wrong places.

The big job sites feel rife with unqualified applicants and outright fraud, leaving me frankly unsure how to proceed.

It feels like a crisis of candidates-to-job-openings matching, and AI has made it much worse.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
In the US there is a widening income equality gap[0], of which outsourcing is one plausible component in a large, complex system.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
Exactly this. When I reject a refactor PR (or ideally, _before_ there's a PR), it's not because it's a bad idea, per se.

But there's risk associated with every change, and it takes time to review, QA, monitor the rollout, communicate to stake holders, etc.

The refactor itself may be the smallest part of it.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
Adding a can of coconut milk for your liquids works really well, too. We skip the egg replacement altogether, and it just works.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
We called drinking the raw batter a “cake shake”.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
Love this idea, can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing!
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
> this fetish for controlling people through coercion that seems so prevalent in certain new modern business contexts, like amazon warehouse workers and delivery employees. The only thing it creates is resentment. Is that how you want to build a company or society on. Resentment?

"Resentment" is a bad-faith interpretation at what it creates. What it creates, and why you see so much of it, is a powerful mechanisms to automate routine business of management and extraction of value.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
Jevon’s paradox. We’ve been constrained by how much software could be produced for decades.

Making it easier/faster doesn’t increase leisure, it increases the demand for (cheaper) software.
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
When the parent buys the store, they are also buying their contracts and obligations.

Unless the contract was written so poorly this didn’t happen?
james_marks
·mese scorso·discuss
> One of the most prominent improvements in Opus 4.8 is its honesty. We train all our models to be honest—for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support. But a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, confidently claiming to have made progress in their work despite the evidence being thin. Early testers report that Opus 4.8 is more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims.

Would be awesome if true
james_marks
·2 mesi fa·discuss
17 months of runway for the something with the scale and ambition of Wikipedia is living hand-to-mouth.
james_marks
·2 mesi fa·discuss
As an adult, I now write clean error handling first thing.

The person it benefits the most is the author, when they are building it and the errors-per-use are as high as they’ll (hopefully) ever be.
james_marks
·2 mesi fa·discuss
By “American People” you mean native Americans?

Because Literally everyone else in the US is an immigrant. Or are you referring to the Spanish that settled the west? The French in the far south? The Italians and Jews that populated New York? The British and Africans?

I’m painting in broad strokes, but to say “the American People” as if it’s somehow distinct from immigrants is just ladder pulling.