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by mclightning 4y ago
30 years old, engineer here. I am starting to get really scared. I don't mean that for my job security. We are just starting to observe societal effects of social media. We haven't reached the era where we, as an entire species, r
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by mclightning 4y ago
Imagine training a GPT on your own whatsapp/fb/instagram/linked/emails conversations: all the conversations, posts. A huge part of our life is already happening online, and the conversations with it. It is not too much w
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by mclightning 4y ago
holy sh*t. that's so true! that could definitely be possible.
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by mclightning 4y ago
Not even factual trivia
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by mclightning 4y ago
Palantir, not a big tech giant, but a tech giant for sure.
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by mclightning 4y ago
Commuting in London is a headache by itself. I live/work in London but remotely. I earn less than what I used to, but I think I am happier.
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by mclightning 4y ago
same here. the product had a literal design error, not just a faulty individual item.
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by mclightning 4y ago
OMG. I thought that was a weird thing that I do :D I have a similar experience with ChatGPT. I sometimes just think stuff in my head, conceptual stuff about life, science etc. anything that interests me. Every now and then, I come up with a
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Tell HN: Google search results include more genuine blogs lately
4 points by mclightning 4y ago|4 comments
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by mclightning 4y ago
Programming can be many things. I don't particularly appreciate finding or fixing bugs, or unit tests, incidence response. Very rare breed of programmers do these for a hobby. But you know what many more people program/code for a
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by mclightning 4y ago
This is the exact subject of the book; The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr. Airline industry avoids too much automation for this very reason. Vigilance is hard to moderate when you start automating too much.
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by mclightning 4y ago
What does it mean to act as a ballast? What are some signs? Is there a general terminology for this? Are you talking about "meat-shield headcounts"
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by mclightning 4y ago
If you enjoy it, keep doing it. If you don't enjoy it, seek solutions. I wrote this as a secondary alternative because your article is not seeking any solution but rather stating a fact and asking the resolution on why you may be doing
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by mclightning 4y ago
> to be an expert You should be able to offer solutions to problems impromptu. You should be dependeable in a wider-group meeting involving business or other competencies to represent what does the frontend say about it. This means havin
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by mclightning 4y ago
I interviewed Full Stack Engineers many times. They usually cannot finish a coding challenge that is entirely frontend. The same challenge for me, it is all about how fast I can type. I can narrate the code and architecture I am writing as
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Road to Space: The Struts(maximusabrams.medium.com)
1 points by mclightning 4y ago|0 comments
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by mclightning 4y ago
I was that guy for some 5-6 years in earlier years of my career. It doesn't pay well. Job security is non-existent. You won't get visa sponsorships. Your only way out is to build your own startup/product. It is too far out of
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by mclightning 4y ago
no, not with that mindset. security is about creating obstacles. obstacles create friction and traces, even when they fail.
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by mclightning 4y ago
I am 30, and I already feel alien as a millennial. We did not become immortal, but the contents of our lives have already become bigger than what previous generations experienced in their lifetimes. We are already there. We already face thi
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by mclightning 4y ago
ahh... I forgot Turkey has a dysfunctional opposition party. I sometimes, wonder, perhaps with an opposition like that, this is what they deserve...
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by mclightning 4y ago
with you on that...
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by mclightning 4y ago
>> force the hand of the opposition to appoint the Istanbul mayor as presedential candidate. how is this in favour of erdogan? mayor has better chance of winning than kemal.
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by mclightning 4y ago
They’re a tiny tiny minority if any, compared to what we are seeing here in comments. I’m sure they would agree with what I said when they scroll through the comments. I would not want to wander into HN comments section if I am doing any ki
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by mclightning 4y ago
I have been a HN user for a long time. Honestly, I disagree. Most HN users commenting here with smart stuff about fusion, just read it on another page a day or a week ago, from a bite-sized article or a reddit comment. Everyone, for the mos
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by mclightning 4y ago
Welcome to armchair fusion engineering discussions of HN. Remember to wear your hard hat safety helmet.
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by mclightning 4y ago
I think what they're really asking is; why tech hasn't disrupted higher education economically, with VCs, startups posing as universities etc. because in every other aspect tech disrupts culture and higher education continuously..
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by mclightning 4y ago
People's concerns start from food, housing and many other immediate pressing issues, before it gets to identity and purpose. (i.e. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs) It is not very possible to buy a house with high interest rates. So, m
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by mclightning 4y ago
>> The tax system and other incentives lead people to not really work their hardest and best, and this propagates all the way to the stock indexes I used to be a believer in this. But I recently moved from Sweden to UK, from a very so
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by mclightning 4y ago
That's super interesting. When GPT-3 came out, I wrote an article inspired by it. That we could one day build an AI that acts like AGI, by a crazy vast amount of multimedia training data, collected by willing users to participate in ev
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by mclightning 4y ago
Ironically, Android's core UI elements are horrid in this regard.

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