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Article URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Curator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573880

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Article URL: https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2024/09/running-ai-inference-at-scale-in-the-hybrid-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573691

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I heard someone saying that most of the AI startups aren't getting funding. I know that the first AI winter started by not getting enough funding.

So what's your opinion?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573689

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I work on a Big Data-based SaaS product at a Big Tech company, but I never really wanted to work in the Big Data world. I've always wanted to do more systems and network stuff. I've always been a privacy advocate at heart and feel even the slightest use of Big Data is an invasion of privacy.

But with all the layoffs, I'm not sure if changing my job is even possible. I did have an interview with a startup I was very keen on, but why should they choose me who's still employed remote over someone freshly laid off willing to work for peanuts? My mom said I should just apply anywhere but I'm not even sure it will work if there are 1000s of people willing to undercut me.

Once upon a time I got FAANG interview requests, now I only get contract jobs requests from no-name enterprises (or maybe F500) on LinkedIn. And while I am willing to join a no-name company for less, I'm not willing to compete against every laid off employee grinding LeetCode because they'll choose someone more desperate than me.

I considered becoming a sysadmin or network engineer since I am a big self-hoster outside of work hours, but learned the non-SWE IT job market is sour too. I'm also considering being a technical writer as I had done documentation work for a specific Linux distro, but am not sure if I'll get in.

Is there any place I can go outside of engineering? Any good side-business which could become a main source of income? A good non-tech job for a former software engineer? Should I build my own startup and maybe ask for VC? I'm really considering building up an eBay side business as a separate stream of income. Are there other low-risk side businesses I could try (outside of freelance coding)?

It's so bad I don't even use my company's products just as a form of rebellion. I'm typing this on my competitor's product. I self-host my email and website. I even want to "gift" my competitor's products to family and am willing to be their tech support while they re-learn, or "offer" (read: force) them to install Linux Mint on their existing laptops.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573601

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Article URL: https://clickup.com/blog/clickup-chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573584

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Article URL: https://js13kgames.com/2024/games/dr1v3n-wild

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573576

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Article URL: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-technology/reports-death-dental-cavities-are-greatly-exaggerated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573550

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfZPGpj4Sg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573535

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Article URL: https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/using-ai-replace-actor-against-law-california-1235048661/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573530

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573524

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Article URL: https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/quantinuum-accelerates-the-path-to-universal-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing-supports-microsofts-ai-and-quantum-powered-compute-platform-and-the-path-to-a-quantum-supercomputer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573515

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Article URL: https://requstory.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573501

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24245572/snap-spectacles-ar-developers-evan-spiegel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573497

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Article URL: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinterest-tiered-storage-for-apache-kafka-%EF%B8%8F-a-broker-decoupled-approach-c33c69e9958b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573495

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Article URL: https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/metal-in-swiftui-how-to-write-shaders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573494

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Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/healthy-soil-sounds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573492

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Article URL: https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/09/17/intel-suspends-planned-new-plants-in-poland-and-germany-for-two-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573477

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I have a personal project I'd like to pick back up again. It's a music composition environment, which is defined by UX: a multi-touch-gestural, game-like interface, controlling precisely-timed audio events.

It's similar in mechanics and demands to a isometric game, that can scroll in any direction, with hundreds of elements and a good bit of eye-candy.

My problem (and blocker) has been that while I've built prototypes, including in iOS for iPad using Core libraries,

the performance requirements mean I really need to go "down" a layer (or two). Not use frameworks made for conventional UX.

And I haven't had the time/energy to learn e.g. OpenGS or Vulcan or... or for that matter Unity or Unreal.

But! With AI copilots to help, maybe I do have time?

So—if I want to build from scratch, are there any game/app engines I should be looking at?

Or should I focus on Swift/ObjC (as I did last time), but, leverage new frameworks I don't know about?

I'm _hoping_ it is feasible for a solitary dev to take on a project which requires very performant graphics, multitouch gestures, and (especially) tightly-scheduled audio events...

...if I pick the right tools. Both for heavy graphic/audio lifting...

...and as an AI-powered copilot.

(I was looking at the question of, "can I use Cursor.ai to help with Swift/ObjC development for iPadOS, and if so how do to integrate this with xcode... but that seems like a lot of scaffolding, that is in active flight, that would take time away from the actual project.)

If I'm not asking the right question or thinking about this the right way, all ears. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573473

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Article URL: https://getfast.ai/boston2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573454

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncolytic_virus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573440

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