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by kvathupo 3mo ago
As a former AAA dev, this is spot on. At the end of the day, games are a business. Margins are not attractive and competition is fierce as the barrier to game development has lowered with Steam: both are downward pressures on wages. After e
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by kvathupo 1y ago
This is awesome! Cigarette ads are so seductively cool, yet the embodiment of selling you a fantasy
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by kvathupo 2y ago
Ah, walking across glued trees [1]! Not sure of its practical merits however, aha... [1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209131
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by kvathupo 2y ago
They're not easily comparable since quantum complexity refers to the upper bound on queries to some black-box "quantum oracle", which exists on the gate-level. A classical parallel would perhaps be queries to a translation lo
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by kvathupo 2y ago
Possibly of interest, but I wrote a (hopefully approachable) report on quantum perceptrons a few years back [1]. Perhaps it's found elsewhere, but I was surprised by how, at least in this quantum algo's case, the basis of trainin
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by kvathupo 2y ago
The bar for entry is surprisingly low, you just need to brush up on intro abstract algebra. I recommend the following: 1. Kaye, LaFlamme, and Mosca - An Introduction to Quantum Computing 2. Nielsen and Chuang - Quantum Computation and Quant
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by kvathupo 2y ago
As a young dev, interested in your point about 1996. Mind elaborating?
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Ray Ozzie – Dawn of a New Day (2010)(web.archive.org)
1 points by kvathupo 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: In the 90s, did programmers job-hop frequently?
30 points by kvathupo 3y ago|40 comments
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Ask HN: Early Amazon Culture?
1 points by kvathupo 3y ago|0 comments
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by kvathupo 3y ago
As a Tupac fan and lover of print news, I think this article encapsulates what's wrong with modern media: the selective use of context to engender a political stance, from which outage is engendered The problem isn't social media
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I wonder if layoffs will affect company loyalty in the future? I'm leaning towards not, given the frequency of turnover at big tech companies for higher TC
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I would be inclined to agree, but I'm reminded of passages from Edwin Black's book [1] depicting the capriciousness of medical providers. E.g. a board of doctors was typically responsible for sterilization decisions in America whe
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I like this. That said, I doubt we'll ever escape towards subscription-based social media models due to the prohibitive costs of CDNs, bandwidth, and storage for video/images. But I suppose it's a question of ends: do we want
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Completely disagree: Yann LeCun, John Carmack, Rui Ueyama, Andrei Alexandrescu, Matt Goldbolt, Horace He, Tarun Chitra, George Hotz, etc.
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Even more interestingly, Anthropic isn't traditionally structured: it's a Long-Term Benefit Trust [1]. That's not say shares can't be sold, but, rather, shareholders have very little governance rights. Debatable whether
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I'd agree. I'd say adversaries are unlikely to steal data now, wait a decade or two, and then decrypt on a quantum computer for _most_ private company ip. It's only relevant to government at this stage, yet Congress is, unsur
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by kvathupo 3y ago
As the child of blue-collar parents, I'd agree that there's a lot of price anxiety in their neck of the woods. I'd also add that the statistics can be misleading: of the jobs added, many are in food services and front-line he
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I'd suggest changing the headline to the original, more sensationalized one. It certainly went against my initial impression that an Amazonian brought Amazon culture to a startup, and got booted for it. In this regard, I'd imagine
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Another cheeky comment from Meta devs: The location for pytorch's git repo is listed as "where the eigens are valued" : ^)
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by kvathupo 3y ago
This discussion brings to mind the monastic practice of copying texts for the purpose of preservation [1]. An interesting practice I learned from the sci-fi classic "A Canticle for Leibowitz" [2]. [1] - https://en.wikip
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Any good alternatives to Google Photos?
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I'd echo this. I'd also add (perhaps prematurely as a gen-z) that I see a lot less playfulness when it comes to side-projects. Rather, it seems projects start with monetary or career motives. Nothing wrong with this, but I'd
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Years after its Audm (YC S17) acquisition, The NYT launches its own audio app(techcrunch.com)
2 points by kvathupo 3y ago|1 comments
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by kvathupo 3y ago
As an Audm subscriber, I got an email about this today. On one hand, I'm disappointed since I used Audm for listening to long-form journalism from a variety of papers, as opposed to exclusively the NYT from their iOS exclusive app. On
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Considering Anthropic and Open AI will be there, I think the right players are at the table. I would've liked to have seen Meta there since I think they're focused on generative deep learning. That said, with the administration&#x
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by kvathupo 3y ago
As I understand it, the raison d'être of nostr is to use relays to store your data, which is presented on clients. So if a front-end bans you, then you can grab your data off any relay. If imgur shuts down, you're out of luck! Blu
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Open Source Chinese LLMs(github.com)
1 points by kvathupo 3y ago|1 comments
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by kvathupo 3y ago
Wanted to share since I haven't seen much discussion of LLM development in China other than Baidu-Wenxin (at least in US media). Sharing this particular one since it's open-source and apparently started by an undergrad [1]! That s
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by kvathupo 3y ago
I agree and would ask: is linting that much of a bottleneck to development? Having an automated lint run upon opening a PR seems like a minor expense, especially when you can work on other tickets while you wait.

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