Blind person uses Meta Raybans glasses as a sight aid to help navigate her surroundings. For instance, asking the glasses what aisle of the supermarket she's looking at. Wanted to share this since it seems like a really cool usage of integrated LLM technology.
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Dirak commented on Blind Lady Review of the Rayban Meta Glasses [video] youtube.com/watch?v=MRSxs... · Posted by u/Dirak
One should be suspicious of ulterior motives when the CEO of an AI company makes a claim like this.
On one hand, LLMs do require significant amounts of compute to train. But the other hand, if you amortize training costs across all user sessions, is it really that big a deal? And that’s not even factoring in Moore’s law and incremental improvements to model training efficiency.
> do you commit feature flags
It doesn’t really matter how you manage changes to feature flags, but using version control gives you a couple of nice benefits:
* gives developers the opportunity to describe their change
* let’s you roll back a problematic patch
* blame and bisect problematic patches
Ideally, you should also be able to see your feature flag changes in prod much faster than it takes to cut a release. You need this in order to be able to quickly roll back bad features.
> What feature flag tool do you use?
See https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/31/web/rapid-release-at-m...
You don't seem to understand what a conditional is.
_Given_ that I want to study React in the woods, how should I do it?
Whether or not to study React in the woods is completely irrelevant.
> You don't seem to understand what a conditional is; you'd have a hard time doing math or formal CS.
Ad hominems are against TOS.
Answering the question is irrelevant if it’s the wrong question to begin with. And for the wrong circumstances (ie if this is a family vacation) can be counter-productive. It’s far more productive to zoom out, ask why the author is asking for advice to study react on vacation, and address that instead. Consider this as you advance your career past recent college grad / swe1 :)
It's really annoying to answer a question by telling the asker that you know better and they should do something else. This person cared enough about this question to ask it to a community on the internet. Have the humility to answer their question instead of telling them that you're wiser than them.
This is a classic example of the xy problem https://xyproblem.info/, where the author is asking for advice on his solution (how to study react on a vacation without internet), when for the vast majority of circumstances the best advice for the author would be to not waste his vacation studying React.
Dirak commented on Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems docs.getunleash.io/topics... · Posted by u/ferrantim
> Make feature flags short-lived. Do not confuse flags with application configuration.
This is my current battle.
I introduced feature flags to the team as a means to separate deployment from launch of new features. For the sake of getting it working and used, I made the mis-step of backing the flags with config files with the intent to get Launch Darkly or Unleash working ASAP instead to replace them.
Then another dev decided that these Feature Flags look like a great way to implement permanent application configs for different subsets of entities in our system. In fact, he evangelized it in his design for a major new project (I was not invited to the review).
Now I have to stand back and watch as the feature flags are being used for long-term configurations. I objected when I saw the misuse- in a code review I said "hey that's not what these are for"- and was overruled by management. This is the design, there's no time to update it, I'm sure we can fix it later, someday.
Lesson learned: make it very hard to misuse meta-features like feature flags, or someone will use them to get their stuff done faster.
I feel like this is a solvable problem:
1) make feature flags be configured to have an expiration date. If over the expiration date, auto-generate a task to clean up your FF
2) If you want to be extra fancy, set up a codemod to automatically clean up the FF once it's expired
I don't see the problem with developers using flags for configuration as a stopgap until there's a better solution available.
I wish more people understood how horrible advertising truly is.
Your life is essentially a compilation of what captures your attention. Embracing this perspective, any entity auctioning off your attention to the highest bidder is trading away a part of your life.
People don't understand what this means. They also don't understand how cynical this is in the context of a search engine. I don't have a solution to this, but man, its horrible.
Ads are not at all horrible. Ads help connect products with the niche markets of people that could benefit from them. Many cool products are too niche and would not be able to exist without targeted advertising. Yes, when done distastefully, ads can be quite horrible (ie ads for gambling and other vices), but when done well, both the user and advertiser benefit. This has to be true, otherwise, if users never found ads useful they would never click on them, and then advertisers would’ve never pay for advertisements since they wouldn’t benefit them.
Yeah, screw them.
I've also been banned one day for posting ads for my pictures. Just portraits, nothing special.
I got zero explanation and could not recover my ad credits.
More recently I was shadow banned for including links to YouTube on my fb post. Got a reach of 21, where it was usually above 1000. My page didn't recover yet.
It's time to let meta die.
Ads are human reviewed. Either you’re exceptionally unlucky with reviewers or there’s more to the story here.