CityOfThrowaway

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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
In a hostile landscape, the state exists to protect its people. If you have a weak head of state, you will very quickly not have a state at all. Bullies, weapons, power. It's not pleasant or delightful, but it is necessary.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
He did it through offering a _money management_ service to large institutions and wealthy individuals. That money management service includes, amongst other things, picking stocks. But that's the tactical "what". The value-ad
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
It's really an economy of scale thing, and is not that surprising. The economy of scale is separately at the level of hardware procurement, security, interop, bandwidth, access to electricity, and probably other things. This isn't
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Yup! That said, it is heavily biased in favor of meaninglessly metaphorical language and comma splices. I have a feeling that the early style guides were weighted heavily in favor of poetic forms because it was extremely impressive to see A
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Most of this critique hinges on the author not being skilled in the practice of using LLMs to produce good writing outputs. ChatGPT is a bad writer, and is the wrong tool for copy writing. That is a consequence of its post-training, though.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about. Cracked is just slang for insanely talented, ergo...
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
1. Be the ultimate judge of what excellence means to the company. Enforce this directly, in direct communication with people doing both a good and a bad job, instead of rigidly relying on chain of command. 2. Break the rules if the rules ar
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
There are many very good reasons why the top 100 most valuable people would not be the department heads. Cracked engineers, designers, growth people, AEs... the best ICs shouldn't necessarily be in management positions. Yet, the CEO sh
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
My guess is that this is strongly motivated by the success of LLMs. The lack of MD support makes manual IO from Docs to your favorite LLM lossy (or very annoying). Cool that it's fixed.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
110M people impacted = class action The lawyers work on contingency
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
Do you have any examples of the UAE using its military force to force foreign companies to abide a contract?
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
They did both > All of which makes the decision to get rid of senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci—along with her entire team—a bit of a head-scratcher.
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by CityOfThrowaway 2y ago
I feel that this argument is pretty outdated at this point. Most new SPAs people build use frameworks like NextJS that solve all of the big complaints. Sure, there's plenty of old, crufty SPAs from the pre-react-router days still out t
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Yes but generating that index would be expensive
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
His companies did literally re-boot the electric car industry, American rockets industry, American battery production, satellite internet business. These aren't the confident boasts of a charlatan, we have very concrete proof this happ
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Very interesting. Do you use ChatGPT for these?
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
My interest is massively piqued by the last bit... any rough ideas of what that looks like?
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
This all makes sense, thank you. And with ChatGPT are you using the paid version? I have been experimenting with both and found the free version to be very bad. The paid version seems to make fewer mistakes.
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Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?
65 points by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago|49 comments
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
This is pretty cool. I find it intriguing that we're neural surgery on LLMs!
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Wow, if I was the leader of this person's company I would immediately terminate them. It is so toxic to work with people who are this entitled. Getting this upset over a mandatory meeting? What a nightmare. You know this is just the ti
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
The best explanation I have is that during 2021 the US government looked pretty weak and a lot of companies forgot laws exist.
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
The field of research here is far older than ChatGPT's release. Neural network research has been going on for at least 50 years. Most of the research that enabled ChatGPT was also already known. "Attention is all you need" wa
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
Those who have run meaningful amounts of ads in The Platforms will know quite well that they are very frequently defrauded and almost never made whole. There is a fair (but tolerable) amount of click-fraud, etc that you basically factor as
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
They aren't separate questions, and there is a trade-off between protecting themselves and attempting to do right by good-faith customers. The correct amount of fraud the platforms tolerate against themselves is definitely >0%, and
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I don't see how spam or fraud brings value to advertisers (which is what I assume you're talking about?) or any one else for that matter (other than the spammer/fraudster). Perhaps I can squint and see how an email platform l
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
My first read was that the author was claiming that smaller companies are at least as competent at moderation than big platforms. In my first read, I took that to mean from a process and inputs viewpoint. But reading it again, I suppose the
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
To take your question seriously – one of the primary surface areas for fraud is exploiting the customer service function. Just to work one (real) example: 1. Buy expensive face cream from Amazon 2. Take out the expensive stuff and replace i
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
The author seems to be mistaking the benefit of selection effects with competence. Those who work anti-fraud for platforms know that there is something like a market for fraud. There is a market clearing quantity of fraud that will be prese
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by CityOfThrowaway 3y ago
I would support this!

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