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by huijzer 3y ago
Makes sense. Insurers don’t have much trouble with a changing climate, they just calculate risk and raise prices if needed, according to Buffett.
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Ask HN: Is Antitrust Mostly a Farce?
18 points by huijzer 3y ago|5 comments
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DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser(dustinbrett.com)
2 points by huijzer 3y ago|0 comments
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by huijzer 3y ago
> I have a model Y. I hate almost everything about it. Can you tell more about this? I'm curious.
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by huijzer 3y ago
And sure, throw black-box models at low-stake decisions like recommender systems, sentiment classification, or spam filtering, but I don’t think it’s wise for high-stake decisions where the decisions cannot easily be verified by a human. Bu
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by huijzer 3y ago
I am disappointed by the fact that people are so willing to throw model explainability out of the window because black-box models have higher predictive accuracy and sound cooler. Or they say that SHAP can solve interpretability even though
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by huijzer 3y ago
NixOS for 3 years but unfortunately switched to Mac now for the M1 and love the speed. I can’t wait for great SoC Linux laptops.
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by huijzer 3y ago
> True, but he followed the cardinal rule of successful traders everywhere: gamble with other peoples' money. Great advice if you want to be rich and unhappy. It is better to raise money and invest it wisely.
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by huijzer 3y ago
And Chief Ethical AI back into the Sales Department.
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by huijzer 3y ago
I’ve come to believe that science is mostly about popularity and not about truth-finding. As long as peers like what you write, then you will get through the reviews and get cited. Feynman called this Cargo Cult Science. I think much of sci
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by huijzer 3y ago
In the end, we can only rely on anecdotal evidence, but my experience is that it doesn't work on NixOS and the issues are also mostly full of people who encounter multiple problems [1, 2, 3]. [1]: https://github.com/Pro
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by huijzer 3y ago
It’s okay if you use a regular OpenVPN client, but yes I agree that they could at least clarify that the Proton VPN client is broken for most Linux use-cases.
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by huijzer 3y ago
I completely agree with you that some/many VCs spend money on ridiculous business models. On the one hand, it seems like a waste of resources. On the other hand, you could also say that it's a great way for innovation to happen. M
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by huijzer 3y ago
The optimist in me believes that investments in fossil alternatives can actually be great investments. Just like what you see with car batteries (China) and EVs (US + China), the electrification of everything has some fundamental benefits a
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Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included(github.com)
2 points by huijzer 3y ago|0 comments
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by huijzer 3y ago
> The best way to assess a startup's value is to play a bank evaluating them for a traditional no-frills loan. In Shoe Dog by Nike co-founder Phil Knight, he describes how the banks kept refusing to borrow them money because they re
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think this is one of the main benefits of the cloud. Chips are expensive and chips at cloud providers will achieve the highest utilisation rates. So if you want to use resources in the best possible way and have a stable and quick interne
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by huijzer 3y ago
As a Dutch person who is often in Germany, I agree with you that Germany feels in decline, but we need stronger arguments for or against it. For example, not the whole of Germany is about manufacturing cars. Carl Zeiss, for example, is a bi
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by huijzer 3y ago
I have tried to go against some of the arguments because some are wrong, some are okayish, and some are just plain wrong, but I gave up. The article moves all over the place pulling random facts from all kinds of places in support of the id
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by huijzer 3y ago
> It's quite possible 2021-2022 was the best it was ever going to get for our profession. People probably said the same in 2001 (after the dotcom bubble). More generally, I think averages are extremely misleading; especially for job
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Smart Photonics secures €100M in additional funding(smartphotonics.nl)
2 points by huijzer 3y ago|0 comments
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by huijzer 3y ago
> Nix has the same problem as Terraform: it solves a lot of problems, but you have to 'live and breathe' their DSL. I find it much more pleasant to live and breathe the NixOS configuration than to live and breathe someone else&
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by huijzer 3y ago
Agreed, but also don't underestimate Coca-Cola, McDonalds, or Starbucks. McDonalds for example, is mostly a real estate company which franchises the McDonalds brand, infrastructure, and IP. So, they (1) sell the world, (2) have relativ
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Why are Vietnam’s schools so good?(economist.com)
3 points by huijzer 3y ago|0 comments
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yes. I agree completely. It’s the traditional investors dilemma or counter positioning (7 Powers book). The solution is the mantra from the previous Microsoft CEO: "Be bold and be right". You can say what you want about Ballmer,
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by huijzer 3y ago
How about "Never do a PhD, because afterwards you'll hate it"?
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by huijzer 3y ago
Sandy Munro currently believes that Tesla is 5 years ahead. Heck, even the Ford CEO has openly said that it’s very hard to catch up to Tesla in terms of software, batteries, and vehicle design [1]. For example, here is a video explaining th
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by huijzer 3y ago
> When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society? In the late 1980s, Koch Industries stole millions of crude oil each year by instructing their employees to always measure in a way that ben
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by huijzer 3y ago
Eliminate deep sea cables? How are they going to send the lasers in a curve from one base station to the next? Starlink is already working on a backhaul from satellite to satellite. Interestingly, they claim that they can speed up data tran
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by huijzer 3y ago
According to themselves, they are wealthy because they are patient and not they other way around. In Buffett’s own words: "The stock market is a device to transfer money from the 'impatient' to the 'patient'."

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