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by hcks 3y ago
What's the point of this comment seriously. Making universal function approximators is trivial. It's not where the value lies.
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by hcks 3y ago
> All the crying about piracy is greed: nothing more, nothing less You mean the crying and the greed of the people that don’t want to pay to see movies right
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by hcks 3y ago
These mandatory lectures on survivorship biais are annoying, especially when we’re not talking about Elon Musk levels of insane success. 20k a month is… what make an average senior SWE in the USA? It’s ridiculous to think you’d have only 1%
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by hcks 3y ago
The purpose of a corporation is not “world utility optimisation” and decreasing the number of Netflix hours watched is good, actually.
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by hcks 3y ago
Imagine having nothing better to do on your weekends than coding for a form SaaS lol
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by hcks 3y ago
A million is very little capital to raise (literally a 2 senior engineers team over 2 years), and no one “make bank” over raising that.
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by hcks 3y ago
Are these crappy, pointless startups (“a student raising 1 million on an idea”) in the room with us right now?
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by hcks 3y ago
I know that HN loves small models because they are more accessible and hacking-friendly. However, the returns over increased capabilities vastly overwhelm the costs of running larger models. It doesn’t matter that a model requires $100,000
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s been 4 years of Carmack “getting into AI” and the only results so far are weekly HN posts
130.
by hcks 3y ago
This is why he decided to be a body builder > actor > politician of course, makes perfect sense (people usually profess the beliefs their actions contradict the most)
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by hcks 3y ago
Sorry but presenting awk as a serious alternative to pandas in 2023 to people who aren’t very computing savvy is just mischievous.
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by hcks 3y ago
So you mean Unity decision will marginally disincentivize low-quality, free to play games with in game micro-transactions, and incentivise high quality, pay upfront games? Are we supposed to be mad about this?
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by hcks 3y ago
They stumbled upon a mass market product while releasing a rough research poc… If anything it vindicates even more their initial thesis about pursuing AGI as a business goal.
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by hcks 3y ago
I can’t access the article but how do they account for the fact that high minimum wage and good social safety nets in Western Europe results in lower participation in the workforce from people with lower economic productivity?
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by hcks 3y ago
I mean Microsoft hires any college grad that can solve medium leetcodes, its not like it’s a huge endorsement.
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s massively overrated too. It’s a detailed handbook on the engineering problems of it’s time (sorting, parsing, …) which have all been ‘solved’ since.
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by hcks 3y ago
The static typing hype bubble which started 10 years ago is soon going to burst. As a falloff expect decades of engineers lamenting overly engineered, overly verbose, overly complex TS legacy apps.
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by hcks 3y ago
Ghosting, where it is most ubiquitous now, that is short lived interaction with obvious disinterest (bad first date, failed job interview, etc), is good actually. Even in professional settings, responding with a “no” often leads to unwanted
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by hcks 3y ago
This is all extremely bad advice. To sum it up: work is a long endless grind that will alienate you, therefore therefore left-libertarian flavoured YOLO. Without downplaying the existing structures of social oppression, you may be lucky to
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by hcks 3y ago
How so?
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by hcks 3y ago
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by hcks 3y ago
Metaculus currently gives 165 months with a very flat distribution https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13532/sbf-prison-sentenc...
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by hcks 3y ago
Probs took less than 17 seconds to be rejected by rentech too lol
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by hcks 3y ago
There is no conspiracy here. It makes a lot of sense to offer a service for free (as a customer acquisition tactic) to a VC funded company because the 2 options are either they go bankrupt or they can be charged 100 times more revenue in 2
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by hcks 3y ago
"The world needs another field where nothing replicates and those main function is to produce fake results for airport books aimed at management consultants"
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by hcks 3y ago
1/ it’s literally the most used PL atm 2/ python is type safe, actually 3/ if you need python for leetcode you can’t really look down on anyone
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by hcks 3y ago
> Every company that issued forced relocation ultimatums to their pre-pandemic remote workers will not only lose most (if not all) their top talent in the next year, but they will struggle to hire for at least the coming decade People ha
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by hcks 3y ago
“What is your way to stay a toxic middle manager?”
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by hcks 3y ago
What do you mean? Europe has been pretty much degrowing since 2008
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by hcks 3y ago
Why? The real BS is from the people arguing the earth is over populated actually

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