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by habosa 2y ago
The constant pushing of sports gambling by leagues and broadcasters is well on the way to ruining sports themselves, so it might ban itself when there's nothing left to bet on.
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by habosa 2y ago
Once Sam Altman has consolidated all the power (think: top-10 richest person in the world and control over AGI v0) we’ll find out what he actually wants. And we will hate it.
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by habosa 2y ago
I just want to say that Firebase security rules deny every operation by default. An empty rules file allows nothing. The devs that wrote these rules had to intentionally allow overly broad reads/writes to this part of their database in
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by habosa 2y ago
It’s sad to me that this type of car is street legal. It’s so clearly unsafe for everyone on the outside of it (other cars and all humans who share the streets). It’s a massive steel battering ram with acceleration that has no purpose other
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by habosa 2y ago
I’ve always wanted this to exist! Very nice execution.
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by habosa 2y ago
The reason founders are different is because they generally own enormous chunks of the equity. Everything matters to them and the rewards of success are enormous. Us “fakers” get 0.1% if we’re lucky and then pg writes an essay saying we’re
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by habosa 2y ago
Just some feedback on the landing page: ditch the Stanford/MIT/Carnegie Mellon logos. I’m not hating on elite universities or anything, but it has no relevance here (this is not a research project) and I think it detracts from the
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by habosa 2y ago
While the base of your argument is true, it’s also a bit dishonest. LLMs are significantly different than any of these other abstractions because they can’t be reasoned about or meaningfully examined/debugged. They’re also the first of
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by habosa 2y ago
I tend to agree with this post. I am the only person on my team and one of the few at my company not using LLMs to assist my programming. So far I don’t think I notice any difference (better or worse) … we’ll see how this experiment plays
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by habosa 2y ago
A good example might be the practice of “garden leave” in finance where employees are paid to not work between jobs to reduce the risk of bringing active strategy information to a competitor. Seems pretty low harm to the employee (it’s pai
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by habosa 2y ago
Eric ran Google while the Android team often worked 7 days a week in office (famously: “bacon Sundays”) and still managed to blow every advantage they had over iOS by making repeatedly terrible strategic decisions. But yeah, he’d have won A
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by habosa 2y ago
These are amazing. Some people just perceive light and the world around us differently and more perfectly than the rest of us. Reminds me of one of my favorite artists I’ve ever seen at a museum, Vija Celmins. Her ocean drawings are remarka
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by habosa 2y ago
The other comments have made the point that this is the marginal cost and ignores the fixed cost of the trials, so I’ll leave that aside (and all of the tricky morals). I just want to point out that most people on this site work in the soft
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by habosa 2y ago
Those of us who worked for tech companies trying to make “Uber for X” really accelerated this. Having an app for everything makes life a series of impersonal transactions.
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by habosa 2y ago
Maybe this should be GitOps without Docker? Which is something that’s pretty attractive to me for personal projects.
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by habosa 2y ago
It’s weird to be a “fan” of programmers but I’m a big fan of Hundred Rabbits. Orca is one of the most fun projects I’ve used in years and the fact that it’s from some hackers on a boat makes it all the more delightful. I hope they keep it u
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by habosa 2y ago
> Your barista at Starbucks is not going to increase the stock price Not sure I agree. If all the baristas did a better job then I think that would positively affect company value.
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by habosa 2y ago
The connection between UBI and Silicon Valley elite (specifically the VC class and, lately, AI people) should give everyone pause. Why does this group of people that are not historically known for their generosity or their sympathy for the
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by habosa 2y ago
GitHub’s most important product at this point is probably the API. It’s incredibly comprehensive so it’s easy for tools to augment or replace pretty much any part of the experience. So many teams with private repos only use GitHub for the b
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by habosa 2y ago
The article sentence mentions that this is in the British Library, and I assume it’s in the Treasures Gallery? If you’re ever in London, you owe it to yourself to stop there. It’s a room on the first floor of the library, free to enter with
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by habosa 2y ago
Did the WSJ really just report on the basic concept of supply and demand?
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by habosa 2y ago
Just want to say that the animation on the home page is delightful and a lot more creative than you'd expect from a git tool.
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by habosa 2y ago
It could be better than Waymo today and it wouldn't matter. As long as Elon runs that compant with his middle finger extended to regulators, they'll never be allowed to do what Waymo has done by being so careful. Look at Cruise. T
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by habosa 2y ago
Sometimes it's a form of research (a rare copy may have unique inscriptions or other details) but often it's a form of art collection. If you live anywhere near an antiquarian book fair (NY or CA are the ones I know) I'd hig
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by habosa 2y ago
This post has an unnecessarily aggressive style but has some very good points about the technology hype cycle we're in. Companies are desperate to use "AI" for the sake of using it, and that's likely not a good thing. I
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by habosa 2y ago
In some ways they’re still popular, but the abstraction has changed. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc often resemble message queue architectures when used with non-HTTP triggers. An even happens and a worker spawns to handle the even
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by habosa 2y ago
Many founding engineers do later start their own company after they see how much of a better deal the founder can get (mentioned in the article). Foinding engineers that need the job and would take it without any equity aren’t the differenc
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by habosa 2y ago
Founding engineers are so underpaid relative to founders. I’ve seen it be founding CTO with 40% and founding engineer with 1%. It’s ridiculous and we should not accept it as the standard. A few good early hires can be just as valuable as go
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by habosa 2y ago
Funny, because Elon has said in the past he thinks induced demand is an “irrational theory”: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1211076829395738626
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by habosa 2y ago
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is at the top of my list for pure literary beauty (and I also love most of the authors you mentioned)

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