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username_my1 commented on 95% of AI Pilots Fail   selector.ai/blog/95-of-ai... · Posted by u/mooreds
username_my1 · 4 months ago
I still remember the 2015 alexa 100M$ fund and the buzz around everything voice first.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-makes-echos-alexa-avail...

of course it wasn't as big as this new AI push, but since the 80s AI over promised and under devlivered, it's not the fault of AI, but the greed of the business people.

username_my1 commented on Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots   therobotreport.com/hyunda... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
username_my1 · 9 months ago
I'm always confused by the need for humanoid robots in heavy industry.

isn't it always easier to build factories machine first ?

same as the idea of building self driving cars enabled tracks with sensors and all instead of trying to resolve self driving cars in the wild.

username_my1 commented on Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1   huggingface.co/blog/open-... · Posted by u/jonbaer
ipnon · a year ago
Is this what the Web was like in the beginning? Something exciting and fascinating every week?
username_my1 · a year ago
maybe it's a generational difference ? I personally feel burned out by all the generetive AI stuff, the internet was already ruined with bots, and now generitive AI took the garbage to the next level.

very far from exciting or even "right"

username_my1 commented on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing   horovits.medium.com/lidl-... · Posted by u/taubek
Temporary_31337 · a year ago
Tax credits make sense for companies already with a steady profit margin. Cloud in particular is a capex heavy business so for a new company that is not very useful for at least the first few years.
username_my1 · a year ago
that's why you give credit to investors not just compnaies.
username_my1 commented on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing   horovits.medium.com/lidl-... · Posted by u/taubek
vjk800 · a year ago
As others here have pointed out, Gaia-X successfully funnels money to EU cloud companies and maybe this is what it's supposed to do. The deal is: company agrees to write some bs on how it contributes to this project and they get the money. The point is to get local cloud tech sector to grow here in the EU and maybe it's too difficult politically or otherwise to just give money to the companies directly.
username_my1 · a year ago
This also blows my mind, instead of adding more berucracy to apply for funding to review funding to give funding.

just give tax credits based on innovation / investment criteria, to both companies and employees, Europe needs digitalization so badly, yet they find more complex ways to enable it.

username_my1 commented on Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"   sethmlarson.dev/regex-$-m... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
hoc · 2 years ago
"I will hire you anyway, but I will pay you less"

Regex, useful in any job...

username_my1 · 2 years ago
regex is useful but chatgpt is amazing at it, so why spend a minute keeping such useless knowledge in mind.

if you know where to find something no point in knowing it.

username_my1 commented on ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO   nltimes.nl/2023/11/30/chi... · Posted by u/newswasboring
jedisct1 · 2 years ago
It's pretty nuts that so many industries directly or indirectly depend on ASML, and that they have no competition.

How come companies like TSMC can't build their own machines? Is there really only one company in the world that has the required skills? Or is it only because of patents and exclusivity agreements?

username_my1 · 2 years ago
As far as I know it's also the only company in the world where the US goverment has a major stake in (25% I think).

Good news is that China has delivered their 8mm lithography machines and are promising 3mm sometime in the next two years. maybe this will introduce more competion down the road

username_my1 commented on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression   moneywise.com/news/econom... · Posted by u/myshpa
Ensorceled · 2 years ago
Didn't say it's working :-/

Canada has two major problems with immigration right now:

1) the rapid increase in numbers is a shock that the immigration systems (including immigrant community resources) can't handle, that shock is exacerbating the housing crisis (and health care crisis and ...)

2) the family reunification program defeats one of the major purposes of immigration, increase the ratio of working age citizens to elderly citizens.

I say this as someone who has traditionally been pretty gung ho about immigration.

username_my1 · 2 years ago
No way immigration doesn't help, I see this in germany help so many startups enter the market and build successful businesses that drive the economy.

The problem is that it's not a solution, the solution is to constantly push against inequility and increase social mobility while investing in productive industries (less housing speculations more manufacturing).

those are tough bills to swallow and they will lead any elected goverment out of the office, because strong shifts to an economy like this come with a lot of short term pain. and no one is willing to setdown and deal with 10 years of poor economy so that the future of the country is better.

username_my1 commented on My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website   csvbase.com/blog/5... · Posted by u/qsantos
NelsonMinar · 2 years ago
Simple file downloads and CSV files are fantastic. I wish more folks would publish data in simple formats like this. Every time I have to fill a "shopping cart" for a US government data download I die a little.

There's a bunch of wrapper tools to make this particular pipeline easier. Also something like Datasette is great if you want a web view and some fancier features.

username_my1 · 2 years ago
it blows my mind that you can use sqlite with csv as input and then query it, it sounds so logical and useful yet I never came by it.

we have lots of reporting in CSV, can't wait to start using it to run queries quickly

username_my1 commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?    · Posted by u/imadkhan
firefoxd · 2 years ago
I hate to say this, stop applying.

Find a recruiter on LinkedIn. This is what it has come to. There are thousands of resumes being sent at my company, yet the recruiter can't find anyone. Why? Because no one is applying through her link. The regular resume channel is reserved for bots at this point. Contact a person and you have more chances.

username_my1 · 2 years ago
Not necesarly the only way as someone who often interviews candidates, if I'm getting bombarded by spam applications, the least you can do for me to take your CV seriously is a cover letter related to the job posting / company.

I don't understand any candidate who sends out a letter without researching the company for 30 minutes and taking another 10 to write a thoughtful cover letter. if you're not willing to put that effort into your potential future position, it's not even worth opening the CV from my side.

u/username_my1

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