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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Rumour has it Brian Chesky is in talks with Airtable...
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
What a great practical article! I deeply resonate with the incident metrics section and the questions you need to ask yourself - I'd add another...how long does it take to get it running on your local machine? If you can nail this it m
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I would love to learn more about, this have you got any examples adding one or two extra linear equations to NG and solving like EM equations in place of GR? What do you mean by the "loss"?
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
These are one of those things which seem trivial and useless but indicate important directions to solving these problems - the travelling salesman one is the one I find most interesting where the paper is from October 2023! It makes me wond
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think Woz got the absolute best deal but that's coming from a tinkerer's POV. People underestimate how much it sucks to be under scrutiny 100% of the time as a face of the company (i.e. Steve #2)
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think one of the undervalued things is the hack-iness/curiosity nature of (good) developers which will be hard to replace. I imagine there'll be a very short time where developers are in even more demand than they are now and th
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I love the Django admin minimalistic "ugly" feel. I'm there just for information about my database. Nothing else.
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
This is a first step into turning the entire web into an API albeit before we hit the login/signup roadblocks (but then that's where agents come in)
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Have most HN people gone over to Mastadon? Personally I think Twitter/X has improved and become more interesting though the monetisation schema feels like it's pushing it towards it being a bit more LinkedIn'y (people are cha
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Fair enough, we could probably both agree that physical results are the best outcome or promises that may/may not be true? If we have self-landing rockets you could argue all day about truth and integrity but we'll still have self
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Why?
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Sure, it's hard to predict if Tesla hadn't been formed whether electric cars would be as big as they are now (perhaps another innovator would've jumped in). I'd agree that he's failed to deliver on the FSD so far, b
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I know what you mean and I agree that it's an easy reason to use but I felt the original question wasn't a reasonable thought-out argument and sounded more bitter than analytical and bitterness leads to envy which leads to the dar
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
In a world where our jobs and entire careers are based on "impact" and "fulfilment" I think this an interesting question to ask about someone who's had the impact he's had as in I don't know anyone who has
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Ah fair enough, in the context of the thread I made that incorrect assumption that was what you were inferring.
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
True. 1. You don't have to believe him. 2. We still get some impossible results in the end which leads to a more interesting future.
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
That's true I'm cherry-picking but you kind of have to when people are making impossible claims. Most of them won't come true (at least, yet) but as long as some of them come true I think that's a net positive.
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
You can be really smart in some areas and really bad in others - it's all context when people give you compliments. Would you be comfortable building a competing company against a buffoon? I would. If I could help it though, I wouldn&#
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
You don't think people don't envy people like him? Multi-millionaire. CEO of the most promising AI company in the world which might actually crack it. World Leaders are asking him when he's free for a quick chat. How fulfil
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
How do you know if the person didn't believe the prediction is likely to happen? (benefit of the doubt?)
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I mean the guy said "the rockets will land themselves in 5 years". He might be off a couple of years but he delivered . Same with electric cars. Stands to reason he'll deliver on the Mars promise (though I think someone will
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think a lot of people wish this were true as it would justify any envy people have of him. Unfortunately, I don't think you can be as successful at something like Artificial Intelligence by just sucking up to people with money. I don
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Isn't this just because the majority of us are not attuned to things that in fact do work remarkably well and it's only when they don't it feels like "nothing works"? e.g. plumbing in large cities is amazing it&#x27
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Something that weirdly helped me was watching live programming (not tutorials) of good engineers where they try and tinker - an example is geohot's 5 hour stints on YT. It made me realise that good engineers don't have any mysteri
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think It's actually quite a beneficial pattern for the likes of the consumer and the founders. Say Fly will eventually get acquired or IPO, their founders will justify it that they could use that money to work on Fly's mission s
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
Aha but the salty water will make them anti-fragile. Embrace discomfort. Especially if you're a fish.
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I always wondered what tech/programming was behind the notification boards on trains and in train stations. Do each station custom build their own solution, or is there a company who provides this to TFL/UK stations? There's
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think it's important to make the differentiation between hyper-productive and context-hyper-productive, I suspect most devs fall into the latter category. The context-hyper-productive dev is an individual who seems 10x more productiv
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by autonomousErwin 3y ago
I think this might be a future pattern for a certain group of startups. Company X creates something useful and then gets a acquired but because of natural bureaucracy of large companies Company X slows innovation. In comes...Company Y who c

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