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by herval 2y ago
YC is just spraying & praying AI, like most investors
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by herval 2y ago
OpenAI alone employs thousands of engineers _more_ than Chegg, and does a better job than it. Destroying old stuff is part of creating something new. "The economy" wasn't destroyed by a legacy company folding.
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by herval 2y ago
> the author seems like they were only there for a promotion? Based on Blind and personal experience, the vast majority of people in big tech are literally doing that. It’s probably the most used carrot used by management in those compan
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by herval 2y ago
There’s also common knowledge that’s not wrong, like the fact that gravity exists and that cats learn their own names
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by herval 2y ago
How is this not common knowledge? Anyone who ever interacted with a cat knows they learn words. Cows, horses and other mammals do too.
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by herval 2y ago
How do you define “successful”?
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by herval 2y ago
“The web” is, by definition, a collection of things that are loosely connected and accessible (searchable, etc). While the current internet is still “a web”, it’s mostly a web of 2-3 massive properties, entirely operated by the same 2-3 com
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by herval 2y ago
> Google is good at searching, they just have no incentive to show you results. “ to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” was a nice mission while it lasted
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by herval 2y ago
Today I tried finding a rather popular product I used recently, which I had forgotten the name. I had to search THREE TIMES before finding it: First search (“products that do X”) got me a bunch of those comparisons sites, none of them conta
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by herval 2y ago
Community edition is free, and it’s a sizable chunk of the entire product
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by herval 2y ago
In my experience, that was always the case with gpt3.5, most times the case with gpt4, some times the case with the latest sonnet. It’s getting better FAST, and the kind of code they can handle is increasing fast too
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by herval 2y ago
Overeating doesn’t cause any issues to any animals during their average reproductive period (younger ages). Longer lifespans and calory deficits lead to lower quality offsprings. Nothing “demonstratable” there.
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by herval 2y ago
No evolutionary benefit.
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by herval 2y ago
Not to everyone, clearly
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by herval 2y ago
And then you store the rest of the food cache you found… where again? A prehistoric fridge? Oh wait that’s called fat cells , one of the best evolutionary advancements ever! Overeating really pays off.
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by herval 2y ago
You don’t believe the medicine that billions of people take to treat diseases that would’ve otherwise demonstrably killed them is “accumulated knowledge” enough? From insulin to antibiotics, we have sufficient evidence that many types of me
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by herval 2y ago
Humans (and other mammals) starve to death way more often than died of calorie overconsumption, since the first little mammal climbed a tree
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by herval 2y ago
There’s no evolutionary benefit to eating as little as possible any time in human history, other than the past few decades. We’re barely into the third generation where calory overconsumption is an issue. It takes a few hundreds of thousand
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by herval 2y ago
Add me to that sample set, I drink far, far less with it
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by herval 2y ago
There’s an example output linked on the github page
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by herval 2y ago
How’s that in any way related to the topic?
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by herval 2y ago
I read about a half hour every day. That means I probably clocked some 6 thousand hours in my lifetime. Imagine all the time I could’ve invested in playing the rat race more, in those wasted 3 years of books :(
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by herval 2y ago
That’s a crazy ascetic view of life. Also completely unrelated to almost anyone on this forum, since it’s unlikely most here are doing any work that saves anyone’s life
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by herval 2y ago
Being productive doesn’t require you to be productive non-stop. It’s not good for you and will likely make you far less productive in the long run Trivia on farming: Medieval peasants worked far less than modern employees (at most 150 days
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by herval 2y ago
IMO coding is to solving puzzle the same way as any other discipline (from people management to architecture) is to solving puzzles
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by herval 2y ago
People say the same thing about Sudoku. Or any video game (historically claimed as a hobby that creates coders, just because many coders liked computers at an early age, I suspect)
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by herval 2y ago
It’s not in any way similar to coding, though - it’s a puzzle-solving game. It’s not made to simulate any engineering discipline, nor user to train engineers (like flight sims are)
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by herval 2y ago
Experience and wisdom make you less sure about things. You can see this in older people: the truly wise ones are often uncertain, while the bigots remain as sure about everything as they were when they didn’t know better. The paradox is tha
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by herval 2y ago
Lots of comments on this thread in the vein of “I dislike this game because it’s not productive”. My honestly question is… why? Why is “being productive” this goal that has to consume your entire life?
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by herval 2y ago
Are you asking why you did it?

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