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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Passports are usually considered to be the property of the issuing government. Some of them even say as much inside.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
YC usually says “a startup is the point in your life where tricks stop working”. Sam Altman is somehow finding this out now, the hard way. Most paying customers will find out within minutes whether the models can serve their use case, a ben
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
You’ve subtly confused “less accurate” and “smarter” in your argument. In other words you’ve replaced the benchmark of representing the base data with the benchmark of reasoning score. Then, you’ve asserted that was the original claim. Snea
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
I might regret saying this here, if it causes a negative change, but I find that a lot of the text materials YC and startup school have retain a lot of PG-era advice and can be a goldmine of wisdom. Most of the negative influence of post-PG
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
> The problem is that hypothetical VC fund will attract no rational limited partners with money because they know that startup founders can just take their invested dollars with no payback protection. YC famously claims it is not a VC fu
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Why care whether something is AI slop or human slop? It’s not worth reading in either case. The arguments presented here look suspiciously like the arguments scribe classes of old used against the masses learning to read and write. Seems li
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
If this is what people imagine when they hear of whiteboard interviews, no wonder they hate them! What this was and what a technical interview is supposed to be could not be any more different. This interview reminds me of some experiences
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Spotify is one of the worst at innovation. They pushed out the team that made discover weekly by downplaying their pioneering work while executives focused on “health integrations”, and they’ve now laid off some of their most creative peopl
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
I agree with what John Carmack said about that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170052
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
You don’t need any of this if you control the app doing the scanning (or the website/app handling the result).
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Thanks, that's interesting to know! Although my comment was addressed to willmadden, and I think they just do not know what jurisdiction means.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
It’s important to think not in terms of success or failure, but in terms of philosophy and mistakes. If you’re focused on the outcome there isn’t much you can improve on, the reasons for failure are many. Mistakes on the other hand stem fro
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Are you saying aliens are not subject to US jurisdiction while here? Like "sovereign citizens"? That's what it seems like you're saying.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Seriously. Better to tape something to your phone at that point!
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
This. It is not back in stores.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
When you ask people online for advice, keep an ear to the ground and an eye to the door. There isn’t, and will never be, a substitute for thinking for yourself.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Correct, though you can essentially edit the 'decompiled' code directly at low level (then put it back into a binary), and for some languages this is even tolerable e.g. languages which compile to CIL. OP didn't do this, beca
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Squid game reminded me a lot more of Liar game (the many variants) than a battle royale, though no one dies in the latter. I especially like the “minority rule” game.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Hey! Thanks for asking what I would do to make it better. First, of course, the karma system has to go - scoring can still exist without being visible and therefore pressuring people to be performative. In addition to that, I would adjust t
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
> pile of cash just sits there doing nothing What pile of cash? These are shares. Buffett and Munger have taken great pains to ensure that capital allocation will be done well at Berkshire after their death. There’s no “pile of cash sitt
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
> people generally like Kagi and generally dislike Google The reason the words "on hacker news" is missing from that statement is the karma system. I am describing echo chambers.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Say something positive about kagi, receive karma. Say something negative about google, receive karma. No place with this kind of system should be relied on for veracious claims.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
Depends on the impact. In some cases you do, so a class action lawsuit gets some traction.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
I imagine governments tend to be the same way, though my only direct experience here is that I don't report anything and nothing bad happens. The funny thing to me is that the discovery of these issues is not what triggers retaliation,
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
That’s just how colleges are. I once reported to my alma mater that a somewhat obscure (but obviously public) link seemed to trigger the download of a zip of student details for no discernible reason (I think it was a WIP site), and they im
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
My favorite book on AI is Sutton’s “reinforcement learning”. Looking just at the url I knew this would be some pop-sci tripe but leaving this comment here in case people want something other than what they can tout on twitter/X.
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
That’s a different discussion, because this one has the added benefit of being from a cornell.edu domain! /s The submission here is also more of a discussion of that post, so this thread would be a discussion of a discussion, not direc
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
There are wise people here, they are just lurkers though (wisely).
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
It does. If I come into the room and stab you with a steak knife every time you drink, and sometimes even if you only think about drinking, you will definitely panic when drinking is brought up in the future, after some time. Not sure what&
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by pockmarked19 2y ago
TFA is HN parlance to refer to the article. It’s not really profane, some people expand it to “the fine article”, but in my usage it has meaning independent of its expansion, akin to how lol does not actually refer to laughing out loud.

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