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by Taek 2y ago
You might be too close to the screen.
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by Taek 2y ago
I've received professional advice from lawyers multiple times (related to SEC, related to FBI, related to local police, related to international police): "Every time you talk to an entity with enforcement capabilities, you signifi
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by Taek 2y ago
I've found o1 to be entirely useful at math problems that are beyond my own (admittedly modest) skills. I've had it write full proofs of correctness for me (one shot, verified), I've had it optimize equations to reduce necess
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by Taek 2y ago
I feel like we're getting closer to the moment where all high quality discussion will be locked behind invite only forums. (anyone can read, need an invite to write) I can't really think of any other solution to the prevalence of
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by Taek 2y ago
> May I hazard a guess that you worked on low-value recurring auctions? It varies. In all cases, the value was below $20,000, in many cases the auction was non-recurring and >$1,000 (for example, specific web domains). I've seen
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by Taek 2y ago
I have real world experience with a lot of different auction designs being deployed, including many variations of the VCG auction. The VCG auction is only good in theory. In practice, most people don't know how much they actually value
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by Taek 2y ago
I was unable to use the webapp on Firefox mobile, it was too glitchy for me.
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by Taek 2y ago
if you don't want monopolies then you need to create regulations that make it easy for new startups to compete
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by Taek 2y ago
Agreed, this is a "best of HN" class of comment.
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by Taek 2y ago
> You don’t need to make software for mass appeal. In Factorio, the things you make don't need to have *any* appeal. It's just fun. If you have more fun making random wonky software, that's great for you and I'm happy
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by Taek 2y ago
Its just fun. "Okay wth, today we're going to make the entire base solar powered" When making software that's supposed to be used, you can't mess around that much. At the end of the day, someone has to use it and if
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by Taek 2y ago
No, it's not an AI company.
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by Taek 2y ago
We aren't building the next generation we're building a successful statup.
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by Taek 2y ago
All startups operate in unknown territory. If you know what you are doing, you're in an already established industry.
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by Taek 2y ago
High stakes keeping up with organic growth. Doesn't matter what. The business would be a lot less successful and growing a lot slower if juniors were around, even if they paid us to be there.
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by Taek 2y ago
I run a startup, we're moving fast and growing fast. If you aren't already one of the best in the world, we don't have time to train you up or guide you. We are all swamped with work, and the team moves together well because
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by Taek 2y ago
Alternatively: AI gen is probably the future of music composition. By the time your kids are professionals AI is going to be a lot stronger than it is today. Are your kids having fun? Are they learning? Is it a good bonding experience? Thos
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by Taek 2y ago
"The science is way behind the engineering" - it has been my experience that this is the case for most fields with commercial or hobbiest applications.
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by Taek 2y ago
Only because of the presentation. I think the same argument could be made in a more professional way. As a society we have to choose where to draw the line between the rights of the author and the rights of the consumer. Every right that we
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by Taek 2y ago
I use the fib conversions quite regularly. Both of your examples are actually easy Fibonacci numbers. 50kph - 5 is a fib number, and the previous number is 3. I can go 50->30 without any math at all. And 80kph, well 8 is also a fib numbe
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by Taek 2y ago
It doesn't matter if he lost money on the trades, what matters is that he had a position in Boeing that was impacting his ability to make an impartial ruling.
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by Taek 2y ago
It looks like imgur is blocking Mullvad VPN connections
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by Taek 2y ago
This can be solved with local legislation, like in Navato
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by Taek 2y ago
Worth keeping in mind that NK has one of the most active / visible cyber teams on the planet, presumably including astro-turfing and propaganda. Which means any conversation on the internet about NK is likely to be polluted with propag
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by Taek 2y ago
Every kid is different. In highschool I had plenty of friends that would be way more dangerous (to themselves and others) in a fast car than in a speed limited car. Does that make the car safe? Well, in relative terms, yes it does. Probably
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by Taek 2y ago
Please don't use interesting articles as your chance to soapbox something entirely unrelated
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by Taek 3y ago
I think you would see fewer ties if players got 0.2 points each for draws instead of 0.5 points each for draws. It makes the risk of going for a risky strategy lower (you only drop 0.2 pts instead of 0.5 vs getting an easy draw) and it make
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by Taek 3y ago
You can do a lot better than binary search because you get a weighted score for each guess.
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by Taek 3y ago
You can do 2 guesses if you get lucky. If you want to assume worst possible luck you can't even do it in 3, you need 4.
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by Taek 3y ago
For smaller models, the quality drop is meaningful. For larger ones like this one, the quality drop is negligible.

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