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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
The smarter "f u nvidia" move would be for big tech companies to go to TSMC directly for their GPUs and cut out nvidia. They'd have to design the chips of course but that's probably easier than designing and writing an O
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I'm glad they haven't. If they did, it wouldn't be free and open source like Linux is. Also, there are myriad reasons why big tech companies wouldn't unite to build anything, let alone something as complex as an OS.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I have a genuine question for you. Are you aware that your comment is offensive?
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
This is exactly what I'm seeing everywhere these days. It's chaotic and exhausting.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Counselling. I won't be a psychologist or anything but there's a need for counselors. At first, I'll be volunteering with a phone and text based crisis support organisation ( https://www.lifeline.org.au/ ). Eve
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Counselling. I won't be a psychologist or anything but there's a need for counselors. At first, I'll be volunteering with a phone and text based crisis support organisation ( https://www.lifeline.org.au/ ). Eve
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I've worked in software development for over 25 years and made a decision last year to change careers. It will take a long time and I will reduce my number of days working as a dev as the other career ramps up. Step one is some online
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
From the link: lolzinventor 111 points 8 hours ago Would you consider releasing some model weights, and publishing some research? samaltmanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman | Verified 277 points 7 hours ago yes, we are discussing. i
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Yes you could give examples in the prompt rather than training a GPT model.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
There is a way to "make your own GPT" ( https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8554397-creating-a-gpt ) by feeding ChatGPT with some example questions and answers. If you include situations that ChatGPT is ge
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808889
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
It's time to retire the idea of a BMI and use better indicators such as waist to hip ratio, etc. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-11/body-mass-index-cant-...
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
The content of the article is a bit more nuanced than the headline. The study was about perception of accents from different regions: Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newcastle and standard southe
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
My apologies. The headline is written in a clickbait style. For example, "She found a way to earn $1000 per week."
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
"He" needs to get a better marketing team if this is what "He" is posting to HN.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
A long long time ago before reddit, facebook, digg, twitter, etc, there was usenet. It worked a bit like reddit but subreddits were called news groups. There were many front ends for usenet, called news readers. My favourite was "nn&qu
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
There isn't a lot of technical information in the Bloomberg article but I found this info from Tom's Hardware: Deepseek trained its DeepSeek-V3 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671 billion parameters using a cluster co
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Here's my layman's understanding: When light is transmitted through a transparent material, it slows down a bit. One way to think about this is that photons are being absorbed by electrons in the material and quickly emitted again
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Great read! Thanks for the post. A similar problem happens when trying to estimate a software development project by adding up estimates of tasks: https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l..
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
This post sets the bar of being alive so low that even self-reproducing patterns in Conway's game of life would meet it. By this definition, everything in this wikipedia page is alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Haha take a look at my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591805
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Middle manager is not a precise term so opinions on what is and is not a middle manager differ but in larger companies there are definitely senior managers and executive management.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I started as a developer at the age of 21 and in the next few years moved up a few levels until I wasn't developing any more. I decided I didn't like it and so left the company for a dev role somewhere else. Same thing happened ag
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
It's not clear to me that the responsibility lies solely with the companies producing fossil fuels. Surely a lot of responsibility lies with consumers of the fossil fuels creating a market for the fossil fuel. In any case, it's a
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Can anyone comment on why ECDSA and ECDH are on the list? Are elliptic curve cryptography algorithms vulnerable to quantum computing? Edit: To answer my own question, Shor's algorithm can also be used attack EC ( https://en.w
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
I think the author needs to define what they think Cyberpunk is. If we take the definition from Wikipedia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk ) then the article has not successfully argued that Cyberpunk is alrea
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Nope.
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by WantonQuantum 2y ago
Something else to consider: A code review process can and should be an opportunity for devs to get together and actually talk about the code. This interpersonal interaction leads to learning and team bonding. When the code review is a PR at

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