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by phenkdo 6y ago
And to add to that, there is this presumption that phones are purely for entertainment aka "time wasting". They are also very useful devices for business, work, education, etc. Let those individuals decide what's good/ba
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by phenkdo 6y ago
icymi, i was trying to be rhetorical. Please take your holier-than-thou sanctimony somewhere productive.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I feel that is a false dichotomy: programming ability is strongly correlated with work ethic.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
The "cheap labor"/"greedy company" epithet is such a knee-jerk response to "H1b" on HN, is a testament to the very successful demonization of H1b by some entitled and spoiled bunch of Americans who feel te
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Isn't that true for pretty much everything in life?
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by phenkdo 6y ago
"Hell is someone else's code" (to rephrase Sartre)
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I am old enough to remember when similar things were said about AI - neural networks in particular. Sometimes these bets payoff, the investors adjust for that likelihood. But it's not a game for the faint of heart.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Many (most?) of us business-founders/owners do worry about inequalities, please don't label us all as a heartless one-track automatons. There are many entrepreneurs/CEOs who would like universal healthcare, justice system ref
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by phenkdo 6y ago
That's the core problem with such ideas: Blekko, metacafe et al have tried it. It's getting people to pay for this service that seemed an impossible hurdle to cross.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
This sounds awfully lot like metacafe.com , or mamma.com from even before - the so-called metasearch engines. You perhaps should try and see if you can monetize it.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
IMHO, an expert is someone who not only is good at something, but truly enjoys doing it.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Put another way, our already overpaid highnesses want higher and higher salaries, without having to work for it. So it goes both ways.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Are there simpler ways of magnifying video? For example, converting to HSV and amplifying the Hue scale inter-frame differences for example? Sorry if that seem a very simplistic approach, but curious what other techniques have been tried o
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I think we might need more creative solutions to the problem of spam <everything> including online reviews, posts, phone calls. Some kind of PKI id verification system that every user should sign up with. Sure that will be turn off a
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I think lot of these analyses are post hoc woo-woo psycho-babble. I am a 3x entrepreneur (1 failure, 1 moderate success, 1 ongoing) and IDK of anyone who got to product market fit using the "start with why" or even "start wit
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this viewpoint. This is the cancel culture run amok. While these people might very well be well-meaning, their ideological purity tests often end up being just sanctimonious holier-than-thou rants and tantrums.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
It is at its core, the issue of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Bill might be an imperfect angel, but he is an angel nonetheless in spending his fortune to help millions/billions out of abject poverty and suffering. That dwarf
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Isn't the fact that we are even having the debate if GPT can potentially "know what it's talking about", the real breakthrough?
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by phenkdo 6y ago
awesome idea! great implementation.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
> One of the functions of politicians in recent decades seems to be being public cheerleaders It's very easy to blame the politicians, the average American has led a largely comfortable, coddled life and is unprepared to hear anythi
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by phenkdo 6y ago
To paraphrase Steve Martin from LA story: "the peace prize nominees might not be the truth of life, they are what we wish were true".
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by phenkdo 6y ago
While there's something to be said about wealth inequality, but the current atmosphere of demonizing the successful/wealthy is a perfect example cutting off one's nose to spite the face.As they say, the road to hell is paved
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it'd be great if some serious science/politics show hosts an extended debate from both POVs and have a serious scientific conversation about what's next in covid? herd immunity or not?
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Why not try something very different outside of programming? Such as learning to play an instrument, a foreign language, Jiu Jitsu etc. In the long run, such offbeat pursuits have a multiplier effect.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Tens of thousands killed, millions forced to flee their ancestral lands overnight, guess who I am talking about: Germans Post WW2. They too loved their lands which they too had lived in for millennia. How many Germans do you see blowing up
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by phenkdo 6y ago
A comparable precursor to the internet was MINITEL in France.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I think "search" needs a paradigm shift, in fact keywords -> links paradigm needs radical change. Something akin to a GPT-3 model but with interactivity and self-customization.
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Ask HN: What use cases are you using/considering GPT-3 for?
1 points by phenkdo 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why aren't convolutional decision trees or convolutional SVMs a thing?
2 points by phenkdo 6y ago|1 comments

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