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by Fede_V 6y ago
Whenever I read something this far off the mark, I genuinely wonder if it's total lack of intellectual honesty, or, having drank so much kool aid that this argument genuinely makes sense. Bitcoin transactions require the solution of a
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by Fede_V 6y ago
> I think that requiring politicians to make public their statements explaining their the decisions on behalf of their constituents would be and unalloyed public good Sure, this is fine, but that's very different from requiring all
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by Fede_V 6y ago
I know this is well meaning, but it will almost certainly backfire. Senior leaders (public and private) need to be able to have confidential discussions where they acknowledge trade offs and negotiate deals: if everything was open and broa
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by Fede_V 6y ago
Beyond naked self interest - it's also completely unclear to me how it's possible to defend mining. It's literally useless work that ruins our beautiful planet to accumulate wealth. How is that in any way defensible? It&#x
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by Fede_V 6y ago
I've been moderately interested in crypto, but, I've held off on touching them in any form until a real ecofriendly alternative is in play - and I emphasize real (not a few obviously paid shills/imbecilles talking about how
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by Fede_V 6y ago
INRIA is an exceptional institution and is able to hire a lot of amazing talent. They were one the earliest public research institutions that had a separate career track for developers and technical staff. It's truly a national gem. R
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by Fede_V 6y ago
If you are a great engineer that can get a job at FAAG, joining a start up is almost never worth it from a strictly financial point of view. 17 years ago, Paul Graham was able to post this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/we
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by Fede_V 6y ago
The other problem with the tenure system is that professors - even the ones that want to try cutting edge research and have tenure - cannot risk the career of the PhD students in their lab on some very speculative and high risk research tha
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by Fede_V 6y ago
I'd rather have a section of the conference that's clearly dedicated to ethical issues in AI - or - mandating rigorous discussion in papers where it is clearly warranted (ie, anything concerning facial recognition/generation,
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by Fede_V 6y ago
This is one of my favorite types of HN comments: admits the bias upfront, offers a meaningful technical answer, and links to relevant documents for a deeper dive. Thank you so much!
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by Fede_V 6y ago
Why not allow users to specify that they do not want any site with autoplay videos (in any shape) to show up in their top results? Alternatively - when Google shows a search result, indicate if the website has autoplay videos, this way I c
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by Fede_V 6y ago
Alexia is one of the most original researchers working on GANs: she invented the relativistic discriminator (a brilliant and obvious idea in hindsight: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00734 ) which is one of the easiest twea
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by Fede_V 6y ago
I want to emphasize one thing: all the graduates from IITs I've worked with are truly top notch.
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by Fede_V 6y ago
This is so incredibly ironic after the call to build stuff in the real world. As I posted at the time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913860 ) - talk is cheap, let's see where they put their money before we comp
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by Fede_V 6y ago
I'm quite sympathetic to a lot of what's in that blog post but... A16Z directly invests gobs of capital, and, indirectly, shapes the outlook of other VCs who follow their investment decisions, and they plow way more money into so
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by Fede_V 7y ago
This is exceptionally good. Fantastic journalism.
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by Fede_V 7y ago
The part of the original story that upset me the most is how the people she abused were underpaid and overworked customer support staff. An incredibly strong signal of how decent someone is is how well they treat people that have no ability
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by Fede_V 7y ago
A nice compliment to that article, via Dylan Matthews of Vox News: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6vYu_uN9keb9iiT2R5UJihA_61... Short version: paying CNA more increases lifespan and quality of life for people i
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by Fede_V 7y ago
I thought the article got better later on, but, the opening couple of paragraphs that emphasized story telling were very weak. Senior leadership has a much better understanding of the business context and long term plan than I do, but, I ha
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by Fede_V 7y ago
Thanks for the update, immediately did the same.
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by Fede_V 7y ago
And I presume you made an utter killing by putting your money where your belief were? Because if you didn't I don't believe you in the slightest.
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by Fede_V 7y ago
I don't have issues with the technologies, I have issues with the early papers that came out with 'gene signatures' based on maybe 40 or 50 patients. I think in general it's actually quite easy to tell which results are
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by Fede_V 7y ago
I am as anti-pomo/critical theory as it gets, but, sadly, this phenomena is very much present in the hard sciences as well. For example, about 10-15 years ago, the big craze in biology was microarrays, and the early papers made crazy p
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by Fede_V 7y ago
I agree with this. To the extent that we have lots of influential people browsing this forum, make it clear that unless to any politician that unless they aggressively tackle global warming, they won't get any donations/votes no m
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by Fede_V 7y ago
Global warming is the single scariest existential threat our species has ever faced, and we aren't doing nearly enough to tackle it. Our future descendants will heap scorn and curses on our generation, and we deserve every bit of it.
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by Fede_V 7y ago
Slightly OT, but, did anyone else get echoes of Gogol looking at the paper? :)
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by Fede_V 7y ago
If you've never experienced it before, the first time you work with someone who is a pathological liar and bullshitter is a completely disorienting experience. Normal people just don't lie that brazenly and with so little remorse
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by Fede_V 8y ago
That is a very important job, but that typically falls more on the shoulders of an SDE manager, not a distinguished engineer.
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I totally agree with this, and I think this makes the point that social outrage can sometimes play a positive role. In an ideal world, we could get people to act ethically because it's the right thing to do: if we can't do that, a
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by Fede_V 8y ago
The world would be such a better place if there were 1000 more people like him. What a wonderful human being.

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