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by quonn 6y ago
The article was about companies actually shipping complex products over a long time. All of that is fully justified. Not someone taking over a fairly small project, finishing it in 6 weeks and then charging 20 millions for the job.
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by quonn 6y ago
The cost of the app over 2 years is 50-100 million as you can check. That‘s like the cost of 1-2 weeks of testing. But it‘s silly to argue that just because something necessary costs a lot we can disregard all other costs. For 50 million yo
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by quonn 6y ago
Okay, and the additional 1.5 million should suffice to „maintain“ an app that will not need or get any new features. Let‘s assume another million for lawyers „writing the contract“. It‘s still far off. Additionally let‘s remember the 20 mil
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by quonn 6y ago
It doesn‘t work great. I actually run it on my phone. It has silly bugs, despite the simplicity. Additionally, for that price you could have easily have 3 independent teams develop it and take the best one and still be cheaper and better. I
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by quonn 6y ago
Peanuts compared to the cost of COVID? How is that a valid measure?
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by quonn 6y ago
I said a few 1000 and I actually browsed the code on Github when it came out. There were just six weeks to develop it. And the concepts where developed before by public research institutes for a tiny fraction of that price (not included). (
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by quonn 6y ago
In Germany the app was developed by research institutes. Then canceled. Then SAP picked it up and charged 10 million Euros for what is essentially a few 1000 lines of UI code. The German Telekom got the same amount, just „because“ and will
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by quonn 6y ago
First, I remember the demos for GTP-2. Later, when it was available and I could try it myself, I was kind of disappointed in comparison. Second, while impressive we are also finding out at the same time just how much more is needed to make
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by quonn 6y ago
This reminds me of a point Joel Spolsky made a long time ago. But I can‘t find it (Can anyone else remember?) It was about how in principle he can reason about markets, but it takes forever and „it all becomes very sad“. Or something like t
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by quonn 6y ago
I‘m sure many will rush to defend him, because after all there are also bootcamps. But no - we shouldn‘t. Sure there a people who obtain a PhD and haven‘t learned much. And there are those who are great engineers and have no formal educatio
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by quonn 6y ago
It would make sense to train a different model, specifically to pass the Turing test that‘s built on top of GPT-3. Perhaps by having humans actually have those conversations. Perhaps somebody could make a game out of it where humans can pre
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by quonn 6y ago
That answer is too easy. What does it mean to „understand it“? How do you know how you answer a question yourself? Presumably, what you mean is that you can stop and _reflect_ on what was asked. You‘re aware of it. And if it‘s complicated y
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by quonn 6y ago
It‘s not getting immoral, just because you can imagine some negative applications. I can image many positive ones. But there might be a need for regulation, it some point. On the other hand: If there is no interaction it doesn‘t really matt
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by quonn 6y ago
Well, I would say we are learning how such a test really has to look. In a sense it‘s like we are learning what it should look like at a time. Additionally, humans make mistakes, too, especially when they are too lazy to think. Currently th
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by quonn 6y ago
Various mammals are a more similar environment to live in than land and water.
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by quonn 6y ago
> topics that are actually deeply complex The topics you mentioned are all part of a CS masters degree (and by far not the most complex ones there). Many people on HN have a CS background so they are surely qualified.
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by quonn 6y ago
They might be, but the money nevertheless is pretty clean (has an acceptable origin). The way around this is to leave no traces of the hack or to cash in using another person.
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by quonn 6y ago
In a stock scam it is already laundered, because there is no direct flow.
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by quonn 6y ago
Yeah, but Twitter will surely: a) fix the bug if it‘s in their APIs b) roll out a framework to be able to respond quickly in the future. Like a regex on their edge servers.
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by quonn 6y ago
It can‘t really be the first three, because Twitter will fix this problem soon. So it would be wasting the exploit. It‘s either incompetence or your fourth option.
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by quonn 6y ago
Algorithms come up all the time. Sometimes standard algorithms to use, sometimes to implement or modify slightly, sometimes as something completely custom where some inspiration is drawn from the classics. But does this mean you need to lea
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by quonn 6y ago
Yes. There is a lot of (in my opinion justified) resistance against the policing of language. There is no reason to assume those who oppose these changes would also oppose certain meaningful structural changes. (For example, I strongly oppo
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by quonn 6y ago
Just because „it‘s said“ does not make it correct. I can‘t speak about the situation in the US. But I will speak about the situation in contemporary Germany. I completely reject all of this. Anyone who claims racism is baked into a (europea
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by quonn 6y ago
I have used these terms both in English and in my native language for decades and it never crossed my mind that there could be any relation to skin colors. But now they are associated with this so I would argue it‘s more racist now since we
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by quonn 6y ago
My ancestors were probably farmers oppressed by some kings. Your point?
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by quonn 6y ago
Absolutely, it will. The reason for that is that we will loose the support of a (large?) part of society who would otherwise help the cause.
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by quonn 6y ago
> it doesn't matter how you feel about it So his opinion does not matter? Only yours does? I was not only taught these words in the context of colonialism, because that‘s not only where they belong. Societies based on slavery were c
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by quonn 6y ago
Nobody would die since they wouldn‘t even exist in the first place. And what about the negative experiences? Especially for the vast majority of poor people? I agree that in the end the industrial revolution was a wonderful thing. But not b
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by quonn 6y ago
But the compiler will find that. It‘s very different from deploying services. (And I‘ve been doing both, for years.)
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by quonn 6y ago
But with microservices you have more supposed independent interfaces. With a more monolithic approach you might just change a system internally and deploy it. Internal interfaces are generally easy to adapt.

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