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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yep these are the only ones I’ve found essentially! I don’t find Kara swisher to be very intellectually interesting but Scott certainly is. What he needs, for his platform to really blow up IMO, is to host a show with a panel that argues li
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by nikkwong 2y ago
The podcast has been elucidating to me in how it exposes the way in which individuals can become corrupted. Our politicians appear good on camera, they smile to our faces and kiss the foreheads of our babies—but we have decades of anecdotes
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Nope, no VPN, making it all the stranger.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yesterday I was attempting to buy a product on a small retailer's website—as soon as I hit the "add to cart" button I got a message from Cloudflare: "Sorry, you have been blocked". My only recourse was to message th
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Absolutely and verifiably false, again! There are numerous data points that prove that the CCP exploits the TikTok algorithm to influence western views towards a pro-eastern bend. See my comment history for references. The close-doored nati
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Absolutely and verifiably false. WeChat became so important to the CCPs surveillance interests that it was essentially nationalized; and other apps that grow to its scale basically suffer the same fate. The only reason that hasn’t happened
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yeah, you better hope the code that you’re writing is not important at all.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
This looks neat. If you’re going to add Duolingo style features, please don’t add fill-in-the-blank or word matching to the question types; or at least make them optional. They are an incredibly frustrating waste of time on Duolingo—they ta
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yes! Thank you for helping me affirm internally that I'm not crazy. I agree all of these other arguments that people are fixating on are complete red herrings. The 'fairness' of letting them operate their companies here and n
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by nikkwong 2y ago
People seem to discount the way they are influenced by the media they are served. I’m seeing a lot of comments about “free agency” and how “people make up their own minds” rather than 1 to 1 believing what they read. This argument just igno
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I don't believe so.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Was the process worth it?
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by nikkwong 2y ago
With all of my commentary, this is the point that you're fixated on? I'm clearly not saying that I don't agree with the fact that there's disagreement here, I'm just surprised about the nature of the disagreement. T
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Go post your useless unsubstantive comments on Reddit. HN is not the place for you.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
The level of naiveté in this discussion is absolutely astonishing to me. People are seeming to forget that dysfunctional states (totalitarian, facist, the like) all are sprung from one common thread: control of the mind through propaganda.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
They did get the blog post but I don’t believe they used it; it’s possible that they didn’t think it was well written and that’s why I was ghosted but I will never know. I know they were interviewing many very talented people for the positi
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I was willing to jump through hoops—I really wanted the job.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yes I was applying for software engineer. I think they wanted engineers who were good at explaining the product to users.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
If I was paid, I probably wouldn't be complaining publicly. :-) It's probably better for both interests if these types of engagements are paid.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Maybe a good product but terrible company to interview with. I went through several rounds and was basically ghosted after the 4th with no explanation or follow up. The last interview was to write an blog post for their blog which I submitt
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Again... the logistical structure of the company is not something that the customer should have to be privy to when trying to figure out if the product is going to workout for them, or not. If the product is not going to be working, the com
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I stated in a neighboring comment that our experiences could be anomalous. Based on how frustrating it was talking to them on multiple occasions with multiple different service reps I assumed it was endemic to their culture; a la Comcast. A
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Then tell the customer that, rather than string them along for 8 months promising fixes (software or hardware), that never come in
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by nikkwong 2y ago
2023 in the Pacific Northwest. We were given the argument that tree cover was a problem quite early on in our attempted troubleshooting. The house is a waterfront property, with a clear view of sky to the east. Anyways, the suspected issue
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by nikkwong 2y ago
My family had starlink installed at a remote house we own for internet access. While we could get it up and running, the connection wasn't reliable and we encountered many issues. When we tried to contact Starlink for help, support was
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Didn’t Sam Altman just go on some podcast last week and tell the world that he thought “We know exactly what to do to be able to reach AGI now”. What’s going on, is he just posturing?
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Location: Seattle Remote: Please Willing to relocate: Only to SoCal Technologies: Python, JS/TS, front-end, rust, C++. Moderate level of knowledge in Ml Ops. CI/CD, Docker, GCP, sql/psql, etc. Expert in design/figma&#x2F
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Safety is a social determinant, risk is an objective measure. We have not been able to adequately quantify the risk associated with the ambient level of microplastics in the environment and in our bodies. But we have an overwhelming amount
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I stand corrected!
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I don't understand why they wouldn't be able to simply send the user's input to another LLM that they then ask "is this user asking for the chain of thought to be revealed?", and if not, then go about business as us

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