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by godelski 3mo ago
Every little fight is what got us here, but that's also how we get out. Do good for the sake of good. Don't let others push you beyond your ethical bounds. The good thing is we don't need everybody to do this. Even a small pe
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by godelski 3mo ago
> They likely already had healthy pile of cash and stock. True for every billionaire too. They have so much money not only do they make it faster than they can literally spend it[0]. They have so much money their great grandchild
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by godelski 3mo ago
> Whenever I leave a company Whenever I start at a company I create a "firewall"[0] between everything. No personal stuff on company machines, no work stuff on personal machines. I don't want them spying on my pers
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by godelski 3mo ago
There's also an interesting relationship to variance when you only have mean and median
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by godelski 3mo ago
Even you're relatively new. There definitely was a shift as AI took off Also, they said "year 1" not "1 year old"
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by godelski 3mo ago
> Which makes it a simpler problem. Yes, which is what I stated in the first comment > I'd say SOTA AI coding systems are better than 1 and still improving. I'm including Fable. I use agents every day. They st
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by godelski 3mo ago
Isn't the end of the article saying that their users are mainly in that tail? Seems to be exactly what you say: figuring out who those 2% are. In the OP's case, it's 30% of their users
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by godelski 3mo ago
I think you're not being generous in your interpretation. How I read it he could be talking about the number of 9s a server's uptime is. If you pay for 1 9 you'll lose a lot of customers. Hell, true for even 3 9's. Look
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by godelski 3mo ago
I think you're over generalizing. Software rot happens for a multitude of reasons - hardware changes - firmware changes - operating system changes - dependencies change - bits flip, thanks cosmic rays! > Right now, it
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by godelski 3mo ago
> why have an official firmware if it's not at least slightly maintained. Because it's still useful to have a blessed child so that people getting into the space have somewhere to start. You could accept zero additional
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by godelski 3mo ago
To be fair, some software does rot. But when you have control of the hardware and the software, rot is pretty uncommon. Honestly, I thought the whole point was to make a popular unified platform where the community could come together and e
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by godelski 3mo ago
> Last I checked, one of the Hacker News rules The guidelines do have these points though: - Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.
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by godelski 4mo ago
> the middle layers of the Transformer that are affected most by RL post-training This is where you should expect most change in models. The beginning layers need to embed while the later layers will reform the result to the fina
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by godelski 4mo ago
> It's not just a tautology, it's Inconsistent logic. You've made a grave assumption in treating this as a binary problem: comprehensible or incomprehensible. The truth is that this lies along a spectrum. I can &qu
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Thirdly try to pay it forward. An important step. If you don't it's not dissimilar from pulling up the ladder behind you. The thing I've found is that often what's simple and easy for me (the person being as
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Moreover, in my opinion, by buying Google phones you're feeding Google, and I, personally, would like to avoid that. I bought an iPhone based on that very decision. TBH, I regret it. The ecosystem is so locked down that I
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by godelski 4mo ago
I prefer Thunderbird
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by godelski 4mo ago
This freaked me out the first time I used Mail. It rendered a PDF about buying bitcoin on PayPal (I don't have PayPal). Looked at the same email in Gmail and Thunderbird, it's just a PDF attachment, no message, and the sender was
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by godelski 4mo ago
You can build all of mathematics on type theory? I very much doubt that considering there isn't even a fully unified mathematics. There's holes that don't know how to be bridged between entire subfields. So I'd be impr
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Nobody genuinely cares about the moving sofa problem, or about square packing, or about the minimum number of colors needed to draw a map Wild examples. These are all extremely useful. I agree that solving problems along the wa
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by godelski 4mo ago
> In some sense I always considered programming to be more trustworthy than maths arguments without the certainty of a solver proof. But programming is a subset of mathematics. They are both formal languages. I suspect the trustw
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by godelski 4mo ago
> just one kid needs to figure out how to bypass the system, and the knowledge spreads like wildfire. I'm surprised this is not obvious to people here on HACKER News. When I was in high school we all learned about proxies
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by godelski 4mo ago
> it’s certainly better than a server. I disagree, and so does the OP. > OP just had to use a bad implementation. Then it isn't so certainly. You act like machines are perfect. Machines glitch and have all sorts of
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by godelski 4mo ago
Is this true? I was under the impression that Apple signs long term deals with companies and the reason they didn't have a price hike for so long is because they were still getting parts are the former price
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by godelski 4mo ago
> There are economies of scale though Which is explicitly what my comment is about
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by godelski 4mo ago
> that money is saved for the company Sure, but you're not taking into account how much it costs the company. This is the definition of "penny wise, pound foolish". Nothing is really "free" Here's a
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by godelski 4mo ago
To clarify, the Doorman Fallacy is about the Doorman doing more than their job actually seems. The Doorman isn't just a greeter, but they are checking that the right people are coming in, they are going to report issues that patrons pa
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by godelski 4mo ago
Probably because they are trying to fight people that are trying to add them to their adblock. Which what a crazy thing to fight...
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by godelski 4mo ago
I avoid substack because of this. It's totally fine to email people about new posts, but at least let me read your post first. Make me interested. I'll follow you not because one good post (maybe if it's really good) but be
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by godelski 4mo ago
Last time I saw one of these conversations on HN that was the key question. What people disagreed on was what's good, or what's even good enough. I don't think that's a new thing but it's becoming far more apparent

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