ViktorRay

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by ViktorRay 6d ago
PG is still involved in Y combinator batches and all that right? He regularly posts about giving advice to founders on his twitter account.
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by ViktorRay 6d ago
Flock was a startup that was funded by Y Combinator. Paul Graham and the other Y Combinator people provided expertise and advice to them throughout their whole journey. I wonder what Paul Graham says to the Flock executives now?
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by ViktorRay 6d ago
Here is a link to the original article: https://poshenloh.com/posts/20260919-math-ai The original posted link from OP is from Terry Tao’s website where the article was posted as a guest blog post.
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
I have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt. Anyone else here have fond me
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by ViktorRay 8d ago
Are you sure about this? If you look at the ancient stories in India you can similar phenomena
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by ViktorRay 10d ago
This seems like a pretty catastrophic failure on Amazon’s part. It seems pretty incompetent actually. You should have multiple copies of your customer’s data across multiple locations. And these multiple locations should be in different par
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Oil Prices Could Hit Highest Levels in Months After Saudi Pipeline Attacks(nytimes.com)
7 points by ViktorRay 10d ago|1 comments
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by ViktorRay 11d ago
Something about this article seems suspicious to me. It’s this part: ”It’s difficult to sympathize with people making a combined income of $365k, which places them comfortably in the top 20% of San Francisco households.” If someone withou
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The White Revolution(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ViktorRay 11d ago|0 comments
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China Pushes Back Against AI Slowdown Talks, Alleging "Fearmongering"(forbes.com)
2 points by ViktorRay 12d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
The only restriction currently[1] in place on newspapers in the United States is that you cannot write libel i.e you cannot knowingly falsely write something that hurts another’s reputation. This is the same restriction as in verbal speech
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
Are you sure the attitude changed generally or did it change more specifically here on Hacker News? Perhaps the kinds of people who use Hacker News changed. https://youtu.be/ZIaOBAjvc38 Go to the 2:00 mark of this interview
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
https://youtu.be/ZIaOBAjvc38 Garry Tan and Sam Altman recently did this interview together. They seemed pretty friendly with each other during it. Wonder what Sam Altman would say about Tan advocating for OpenAI’s models to
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
But it’s not an approximation right? In our reference frame it is the truth.
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Hollywood fears an AI future. China is living it(latimes.com)
4 points by ViktorRay 13d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
Ah yes that’s indeed true. But from the Earth’s reference frame wasn’t the Pluto activity I mentioned earlier simultaneous with what happened 5 hours ago on Earth? So couldn’t you say from Earth’s reference frame this black hole’s activity
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
Wait then what about events that happen on Pluto? Pluto is around five light hours away from us. If an astronaut goes to Pluto and films herself doing activity A and then broadcasts that back to Earth, it would take around five hours for th
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by ViktorRay 13d ago
Is is true that they believed women couldn’t rule? England was not the first European country to have a female monarch. By the time all this was going on there had been a female monarch elsewhere in Europe a few decades earlier. Would be in
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Why George W Bush is Africa's favourite US president(ft.com)
3 points by ViktorRay 13d ago|2 comments
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by ViktorRay 14d ago
Wonder if it is similar to the frustrations some people feel when they retire. Some people have these very driven personalities and this can cause quite a bit of angst for them when they get a lot of free time. I remember when I was a teena
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by ViktorRay 14d ago
Wonder if someone might use an LLM to specifically vibe code a program that takes LLM code and makes it appear like non-LLM code.
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by ViktorRay 14d ago
I thought this was super cool… And then I clicked the “Explore” button on the top right and there are even more things that you can see! Pretty neat.
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by ViktorRay 15d ago
But the moderator wasn’t just wringing their hands. The moderator banned the account. He even said so at the end of that comment.
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by ViktorRay 15d ago
You could argue that a bullshit job is a form of rent seeking. The bullshit job worker is increasing his or her share of the wealth without actually creating any wealth through labor. Rent seeking overall is not a good thing for the economy
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by ViktorRay 15d ago
Unfortunately the video game industry is still filled with bullshit jobs with people who do nothing important. https://youtu.be/s5qKN2Yxaok This was a good video from Laura Fryer talking about this. She compared how there w
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by ViktorRay 16d ago
I think an interesting problem would be for a LLM from OpenAI or Anthropic to try to learn chess from first principles and then use that knowledge to try and beat Stockfish. I wonder if anyone at those companies is trying to tackle this pro
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by ViktorRay 16d ago
Why have the streaming costs increased so much? Surely the cost of storage has not gone up. And the cost of sending the 0’s and 1’s hasn’t gone up either. Are movie studios demanding vastly more money from the streaming services for the mov
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by ViktorRay 16d ago
There were times on this site where I saw some pretty bad comments that hadn’t been moderated. I emailed the mods at hn@ycombinator.com to let them know about those bad comments and the moderators were always super nice and helpful in respo
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by ViktorRay 16d ago
I guess we will find out when GTA 6 comes out as Rockstar has become unionized. Although actually…Rockstar didn’t become unionized until most of GTA 6 had already been completed. So I guess we’ll find out when their next game comes out.
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by ViktorRay 16d ago
Maybe my original comment wasn’t clear. If so I apologize. I was actually criticizing Noah Smith. I agree with what the author of the posted article said. EDIT: actually it isn’t even that. I personally don’t know enough about this topic to

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