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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
What I don't like about this terminology is that I associate these "schemes" with a malicious actor. Someone trying to scam you. But often that's not the case with these crypto projects. Often, nobody is explicitly tryin
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
While the analogy is correct, a key difference is that startups are illiquid by definition. Founders can't just cash out and are thus incentivized by build something of value. With protocols, there is no incentive to build something of
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
It's kind of a Ponzi scheme, but not really since it's not (usually) orchestrated by one malicious entity. Instead, it's a collaborative community effort with the community doing marketing and driving the price. In other word
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Disclosure: I don't hold any crypto and I don't work in the space, but I have worked in traditional finance hedge funds for many years. Don't get your crypto, or more generally finance, news from HN. Reading most comments her
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
It happens with technology sometimes, but all time the with finance. Having worked in hedge funds most of my career (as an engineer but I see enough of the business side) it's hilarious how clueless but confident people on HN are about
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Oh, THAT Steve Blank? Not someone I expected to ever write about AI!
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I don't think anyone knows for sure. There is a decent chance that Tether is (or was before the crash) decently backed by "stuff" - just not with what it claims to be backed by. I'd imagine other crypto holdings were a s
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I'm generally not a fan of these kind of high-level tutorials that tell you "use X library to get Y result" - it's just not good for learning. But any content that tries to sell you on learning ML/NLP/etc in a
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I no longer see Google as a neutral "search engine" the way it used to be. Now it's just another company that owns and promotes certain types of content, no different from reddit. For some things Google has the best content,
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
That's really interesting... and sad. For what it's worth, I've noticed comment bots dramatically increase over the last year too. They have always been there, but looking at Reddit, YouTube, etc, now there seem to be 10x mor
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Wow, in typical crypto fashion, another post with manipulated upvotes and comments. First few comments here are fake, made by spam accounts. I assume the upvotes too given how crypto-friendly HN usually is.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there is some manipulation going on to get this article to the top. It's extremely basic and "baity" compared to what you usually find here. I hope HN doesn't turn into the next Medium. It has been g
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Shower, take out the dog, workout and stretch, breakfast, make coffee. I don't wake up my computer before that. Then I start work.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
This is a bot.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Not surprising to me at all. I just have to look around me and it's super obvious that social media has ruined people's lives, especially teens who don't yet have the mental maturity to understand how their brains are being h
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Nice charts without axes. I use those all the time. Especially in pitch decks.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Everything Apple except for the base MacOS operating system. The App Store, iTunes/Music, Finder, Safari, xcode, the list goes on. It all feels so sluggish and unresponsive and bloated. I love their hardware, but despise their software
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I stopped caffeine for a while (~2 months) to test this out. It didn't really have a huge effect. The first week was hard, but I adjusted pretty quickly. Not really as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Now I drink coffee again
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
But isn't it in-memory? In my experience, data warehousing, BI, analytics, etc are usually defined by large data in data lake or warehouse that doesn't fit into memory. How would duckdb help here?
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
> With DuckDB, it’s like you can build your own AWS Athena at likely a fraction of the cost Isn't the whole purpose of Athena to scale to large amounts of data that don't fit into memory? How does duckdb fit in here? I thought
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Can someone explain what the purpose of duckdb is? From what gather from the docs, it's a column-oriented in-memory SQL database? So I would use it over something like in-memory sqlite simply because it's faster due to vectorizati
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I'm also a grump and I know it's useless when the word "superpower" is in the title. I'm just allergic to that word and anyone who uses it immediately loses credibility.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
I'm not part of this group myself, but I've seen this quite a lot as people get older. My anecdotal evidence is that it's less about becoming a "believer" in the supernatural, and more about realizing that many of t
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Ask HN: What's on your learning list?
73 points by mywaifuismeta 4y ago|110 comments
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Except that Facebook is nearly irrelevant these days. Facebook is relevant only because of its acquisitions of apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, etc. Twitter doesn't have that.
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by mywaifuismeta 4y ago
Twitter is just another social media fad that will go away and be replaced by the next one, Musk or not. I don't think anyone can "solve" that.
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Ask HN: What's Going on with Amazon Search?
43 points by mywaifuismeta 5y ago|25 comments
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by mywaifuismeta 5y ago
> At the same time there's seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence that a lot of developers are now flocking to these crypto companies, enough that I think its fair to assume its likely true. Crypto companies are overfunded by VCs a
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by mywaifuismeta 5y ago
Yes, I agree that's bad but looks like sloppy copy and pasting as opposed to intentional plagiarism to claim contributions. Would it have been okay if they said "they" instead of "we"?
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by mywaifuismeta 5y ago
I disagree with this: > But even putting aside the fact that claiming someone else's writing as one's own is wrong, the value in survey papers is in how they re-frame the field. A survey paper that just copies directly from the

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