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by cs702 3mo ago
Reminds me of caveman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455
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by cs702 3mo ago
Very interesting. The author claims to have proved that markets can be informationally efficient or competitive, but not both. The implications for policy and regulation are significant. The author looks credible: https://phili
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by cs702 3mo ago
... and funny too. A great book!
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by cs702 3mo ago
Interesting, these really old menus would not look too out of place at a restaurant today.
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by cs702 3mo ago
> The problem is millions of people have been raised in a bubble built on the assumption that this is a good thing. Please don't attack a straw-man. I've never met anyone who believes extreme inequality is a good thing on its o
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by cs702 3mo ago
Hi, I shared the OP. I don't agree with all the points it expresses, but I found them thought-provoking.
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How Modern life compounds the ancient struggle to belong(current.fas.harvard.edu)
4 points by cs702 3mo ago|3 comments
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by cs702 3mo ago
> If anyone has an outline of to whom the other hundreds of billions are owed, I’d be curious to see it. Me too. That's one of my questions. The other questions I have are about the shocking misuse of funds.
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by cs702 3mo ago
The legal claims from expropriation, I get that... but everything else was actually borrowed . Whether the form was debt issuance or unpaid accounts payable, the rest actually was borrowed. It's kind of an "impressive accomplishm
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by cs702 3mo ago
Obviously, but $240B is a lot of money for a country with only 9M households, so, around $27K/household. It's an "accomplishment" of sorts to blow up in smoke that much money per household, with nothing to show for it.
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by cs702 3mo ago
According to the Financial Times, it will be the world’s largest debt restructuring.[a] Venezuela's economy has been a disaster for many years.[b] Surely I'm not the only one wondering: Where did all that borrowed money go? If a
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Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)(euronews.com)
87 points by cs702 3mo ago|105 comments
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by cs702 3mo ago
EDIT #2: Former Googlers here say that for a long time it was common at Google to let employees publish code with Google branding on github, in which case the firing was not justifiable. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by cs702 3mo ago
Looks like a textbook example of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy .[a] People like the OP, Justin Poehnelt, who build cool things out of self-motivation that others find interesting and want to use, are now at the mercy of those in
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by cs702 4mo ago
Originally meant to be aired on April Fool's day, this hoax documentary's broadcast had be moved to a different date, and, as a consequence, many naive viewers thought it was real. Now, the hoax has taken a life of its own on the
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by cs702 4mo ago
A superior alternative to standard Muon and AdamW optimizers for training large models. Fantastic work, instantly valuable, immediately usable. A big THANK YOU to the authors: Jack Zhang, Noah Amsel, Berlin Chen, and Tri Dao
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Nvidia unveils general-purpose chip for laptops and desktop PCs(tomshardware.com)
5 points by cs702 4mo ago|0 comments
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by cs702 4mo ago
There's an old saying, "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Here we have the opposite: In the land of the one-eyed, the blind are leading. The blind in this case are all those executives and managers who do
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by cs702 4mo ago
Over the past two years, I have found Uber and Lyft rides getting more expensive than taxis in several large US cities, including Boston, Chicago, NY, and LA. Taxis are now 10-50% cheaper in my experience. When I do take Uber and Lyft rides
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by cs702 5mo ago
Was this written by an LLM? It def reads like it!
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by cs702 6mo ago
How I imagine the Nash equilibrium in chatbot ads, driven by profit-seeking in a race to the bottom: User: "What's the best way to fix this problem I have?" Chatbot: "I recommend buying this shiny thing here." (Next
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by cs702 6mo ago
Ah, OK. Sorry I didn't get it right away!
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by cs702 6mo ago
Thank you. Apologies in advance for nitpicking, but I think the correct spelling is "pardoned" (a quick search on Google confirms it).
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by cs702 6mo ago
UPDATE: Well-regarded people on HN are saying OpenAI's most recent GPT-5x codex model is better than Claude 5x for certain coding tasks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707494
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by cs702 6mo ago
The core developers need buy-in from nodes controlling > 50% of the computing power in the network to make any fundamental change to the network.
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by cs702 6mo ago
Thank you for keeping HN sane :-)
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by cs702 6mo ago
I didn't asking him to evaluate them. I asked him how customer and partners perceive them. He's had so many conversations that he likely has a sense of how perceptions of the company and its offerings have changed. I'm cu
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by cs702 6mo ago
Thank you. Yes, I saw that. The company's always been surrounded by endless talk about insane hype, speculative bubbles, and financial engineering. I wasn't asking so much about that. I was asking more about your informed view on
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by cs702 6mo ago
Thank you for coming on HN and offering to answer questions.[a] This is a fantastic piece, very timely, evidently well-researched, and also well-written. Judging by the little that I know, it's accurate. Thank you for doing the work
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by cs702 6mo ago
Profit-seeking at society's expense. Also known as rent-seeking: "The act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking activities have negativ

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