mikert89

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by mikert89 1y ago
Social class is genetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book) "The book follows relatively successful and unsuccessful extended families through the centuries in England, the United States, Swede
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Hire an intern at minimum wage, theres a ton of ones from good schools that want to work at startups. hire two.
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what a time to be alive!
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Yeah I think its over, it will take a while for the effects to ripple through society, but writing code will be seen as something like wood working
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No it was venture capital and low interest rates
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what planet are you on? RAG has been working everywhere for a while
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idk maybe im old, but most of the high scale serious systems i have seen are in a language like java or c++. big important python systems are mostly from startups that succeeded and have trouble migrating off
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the real problem is python, great at the start of a project, by the end i am dying to rewrite in java.
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ive been in these rooms and heard the conversations, employees are seen as disposable liabilities
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seen many many cases first hand in NYC. Also, as an individual its very hard to sue a company with a huge amount of VC funding. you need a 100k to burn on it to even have a basic chance, and most cases are a legal gray area, most lawyers wo
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actually the big scam is the difference is not big at all, alot of times founding engineers do more work than the CEO. a startup that raises 1-3 million alot of times doesnt even have revenue. sometimes its just that the founder went to sta
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nope, it happens in "good businesses". once real money is on the line, everything is a dog fight. no one talks publicly because of the reputational repurcussions
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Wish I could go back to a time when I believed stuff like this
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yeah if you leave, you lose all the value you created at the company. they keep it.
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If you want to dedicate yourself to your career, you are are far better off starting a company.
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it used to be high signal though. you have to wonder if the type of people posting on here is different than it used to be
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that people on here dont know alot of the leading researchers only post on X is a tell in itself
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yeah alot of the time now, i will draft a comment, and then not even publish it. like whats the point
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Yup, we have bootstrapped to enough intelligence in the models that we can introduce higher levels of ai
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dude we have computers reasoning in english to solve math problems, what are you even talking about
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its very clearly a major breakthrough for humanity
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its honestly ruining this website, you cant even read the comments sections anymore
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The cynicism/denial on HN about AI is exhausting. Half the comments are some weird form of explaining away the ever increasing performance of these models I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this b
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this is medical gate keeping ("only the holy priests can practice medicine"), please take this attitude elsewhere
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This is a collectivist opinion on something which is very personal
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Yeah, after a detection there is alot of work to determine if what they detected should be worried about. But this doesnt take away from the fact that cancer can be detected very early, and these screenings could easily save your life
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Nope, the cost is 5-10k maybe more, and there is alot of nuance and follow ups to those detections
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Nah the tests can go up to 10k per person
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The big secret is that they could detect cancer very early in most people, but the health care companies don't want to pay for the screening. You can pay out of pocket for these procedures. I was told this by a cancer researcher EDIT: