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by hnfong 3y ago
Of course nobody gives a crap about college degrees. But if you actually led a team of software developers for a few years, created a product and the whole thing didn't fall apart, well, you're way more than a senior developer.
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by hnfong 3y ago
> It's just reads that the author works/worked at horrible companies. Hard disagree. > Boring meetings, working during the weekends, stress and awful legacy tech is not a necessity. Boring meetings are not a necessity, but m
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by hnfong 3y ago
Do you have evidence to back your claims up besides "the hype is overblown"? Because hype only indicates that the precise hyped up claims are wrong, it doesn't imply the opposite extreme (i.e. LLMs can never achieve AGI) must
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by hnfong 3y ago
What, you think (for example) Microsoft or nVidia is going to fund scientists to claim anthropogenic climate change doesn't exist? They literally have PR teams that intentionally aligns company objectives towards the popular climate na
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by hnfong 3y ago
But there weren't a billion of them around. FWIW, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow : "The trade of yew wood to England for longbows was such that it depleted the stocks of yew over a huge
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by hnfong 3y ago
A quick Google search indicates that life expectancy in Haiti is ~64 years. This is obviously inconsistent with what you're claiming.
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by hnfong 3y ago
廣東話基本上係用漢字但係台灣嘅情況有啲複雜。可以睇下 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Hokkien (Written Cantonese basically uses Hanzi, but the situation of Taiwanese is more complicated [or maybe I don't understand it enough]. You can
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by hnfong 3y ago
From a practical (rather than moral) perspective , as long as the research is approved by the government and the government is authoritarian, there won't be any public beating down your door with torches and pitchforks.
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by hnfong 3y ago
This is mostly true, but not exactly. Most Chinese speakers can understand (written) Mandarin, but all the spoken languages can be written in theory. Mandarin was just the first one to have been popularly written and it was the official dia
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's very weird that you seem to have such faith in the so called reputable journals, and speak in such a seemingly elitist tone, at a time where the "replication crisis" and in general academic fraud is so well known.
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by hnfong 3y ago
My best theory is that FedEx outsourced the process of sending these SMS notifications to some external contractor. Of course, the scammers already have the scam systems in place, so they can win the bid on price :D I know this sounds ridic
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I think it a testament to the collectively perceived value of semiconductors. Taiwan has been a subject to threat of invasion for a long time before TSMC was a thing. A short while ago Intel had the best fabs and CPU chips. Nobody thou
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by hnfong 3y ago
> the bet is that their customers eventually make money (spoiler: they won't, every technological innovation has been an incinerator for cash Wow.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Since it's a scandal, it worked until it didn't. And AFAICT "the computer did it" wasn't the argument, it was "the computer did it so it must be correct because the experts said so".
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by hnfong 3y ago
> going for libc by default I understand this isn't relevant to the original discussion since the kernel doesn't use libc, but in userland, the flawed design of libc is as much a liability as the language itself IMHO. For examp
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by hnfong 3y ago
Whew! <- The sigh of relief after reading comments here and realizing that I'm not the only one preferring the standard style of writing Python instead of this "functional"(??) style... I get that Optional return values ca
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by hnfong 3y ago
Unless you earn enough money to retain good lawyers and are prepared to get into complicated legal troubles, getting sued isn't a great outcome even if you win. The prudent thing to do is to stay away from anything that might make yo
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by hnfong 3y ago
Authoritarianism is definitely "compatible" with benevolence at least on some levels. China had always been a large empire, so the rulers did not rule directly. To the rulers at the very top, their interests aligned with the peasa
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by hnfong 3y ago
The literary style of Zuo Zhuan can be described as highly refined if you wish, but not quite "poetic". It's basically a very succinct style of old Chinese. And it reads more like a diary than an epic story. I'd say Sh
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by hnfong 3y ago
> namely how a society, despite huge technological change and diversity, remains relatively stable for thousands of years Most people in the west wouldn't want to hear the solution: value the collective over the individual, install
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by hnfong 3y ago
I suspect there's also the language barrier... If an institution in China invites a western scholar to teach the Iliad for example, they wouldn't insist the person teach it in Chinese. But I presume, when you said you wanted to ta
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by hnfong 3y ago
Arguably the US censors were late to the party. Years ago Facebook execs proudly boasted to have been part of popular uprisings that toppled regimes around the world (eg. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS1650658071&#
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by hnfong 3y ago
You're talking about better models for our current physical reality. I'm talking about consistent models that don't match our physical reality, but that can potentially simulated and which can give rise to intelligent life.
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Perhaps 'because' if the consistency did not exist then the universe would fail to exist. I think the unsatisfactory feeling I get from these answers is that nobody ever tries to model worlds with different physics or differe
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by hnfong 3y ago
If a binary from 2000 doesn't run, it's because of glibc ABI changes. I still have faint memories of glibc crap happening in the early 2000s. But if the binary from 2000 is statically linked, then the Linux kernel probably runs it
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I’d read a post someone made about his spending 8 hours a day in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041 ? Might be worth comparing to for those who've tried the AVP.
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by hnfong 3y ago
This was on HN two(?) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313170 > I wrote the initial version of SSH (Secure Shell) in Spring 1995. It was a time when telnet and FTP were widely used. > Anyway, I design
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by hnfong 3y ago
> However, these frameworks are forever changing and playing continual catch-up there still wouldn't be a great place to be, especially without a large staff dedicated to the effort (writing hand-optimized kernels), which AMD don&#x
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by hnfong 3y ago
The appointment of Carrie Lam was a mistake and I have no idea why the CCP did it. If the original claim is that CCP/Xi was irrational for appointing somebody who had a past record in somehow inciting mass protests (she was responsible
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by hnfong 3y ago
> That doesn't preclude Beijing's feet on the scales, which from everything I saw, in the open This is what I'm telling you didn't happen. My sources are not public, and you're free not to believe it.

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