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by rhtgrg 4y ago
Isn't this proof that the CEO doesn't understand the tech? Or am I misunderstanding something?
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
These days the expectation around promotions is that you've already been working at the next level for 1-2 years and are due for a correction in title and compensation. Basically, you have to let the company exploit you while crossing
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
I had to check your profile based on this comment -- looks like you're new and the HN hivemind hasn't assimilated you yet. Don't worry, you'll be in the loop soon enough if you stick around. However, be mindful that echo
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
To me this article is almost the equivalent of claiming that Nvidia has stayed out of the generative AI discussion so far. Apple's investment in AI is absolutely massive, they just haven't focused on first party B2C products right
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
Yeah, this is just capitalism in action. Almost every startup has stories like this, which appears to be why YC's startup school shies away from "goody two-shoes" type people and has questions like "please tell us about
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> Is there a good reason for this other than if you're about to buy a house or something? Liquidity. FDIC insurance upto $250k. Of course, you don't want to put a big chunk of your money into a bank like this, but $100k is not
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> lesson is that GPT'S reasoning capabilities are always a bit of smoke and mirrors that passes off memorization for logic. That is the lesson, but people do not want to hear it. See my downvoted comment here [0]. [0] https:/&
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
It's not that we don't "know" how to do these things, most of us are just resource-constrained. Interestingly, that's similar to the issues with GPT-3 et al. People aren't saying "give us the secret sauce&
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> save it in a format that won't store layers or undo history or something For eliminating such risk, just screenshot your censored content and use that image.
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
ChatGPT does indeed know nothing at all. Proving this is quite easy, it was trained on text generation and can generate paragraphs quite well, so if you ask it to tell you about Harry Potter's family tree it will do well. However, it w
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> Please lay out your definition of smart? Firstly, I agree that "smart enough" is what we should focus on here, as I tried to emphasize with my focus on utility. Secondly, I'm assuming your intent is to ask me when I woul
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
"More powerful" here just means larger (another commenter says faster chips, but you don't even need that if you spend the next ten years training a model, although that could be a more accurate representation of what Nvidia
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
I wouldn't try and argue with someone who retorts to stress by asking you whether you work more than 40 hours a week, which is like telling a foie gras goose that actually it spends less time a day eating than most other poultry.
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
I'd say a programmer is to a software engineer as a handyman is to an architect. Can a handyman do the "dirty work" of most projects? Sure. Can they design a skyscraper to spec, tell you exactly what to expect in terms of res
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
Something seems amiss. You can ask this chatbot how old Stephen King is and you'll get the answer.
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
What you're missing is that the article says the ones doing the wiping are "responsible recyclers and refurbishers" -- at this point the machine has already passed out of the hands of the owner, so it can't really be arg
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
Yeah, this sounds 100% like "working as intended". Even if they aren't stolen, this prevents people who've gotten their hands on these laptops for free/cheap (recycling) don't also get their hands on an unassum
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
I've documented some of my improvements to Foam and my workflow [0], brings it very close to endgame for me. [0] https://csh.rit.edu/~rg/productivity/20221109203834/
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> It's not just the leak that makes me lose complete faith in Lastpass. It's how they've handled the leak. Absolutely. I'm switching to 1Password, and though the critics are correct that it isn't a great solution
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> You can’t give people amazing comfort and stability then expect them to take outsized risks. This statement doesn't make any sense to me. Who's going to try crazy new maneuvers on the trapeze, the person with the safety net o
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
Damn, burned $10M and still better known as 'millionaire' than his real name.
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by rhtgrg 4y ago
> I specifically dislike the "Lessons" section, as it throws all the blame on github and doesn't mention the seemingly obvious advice: "make sure you're not on autopilot when taking potentially dangerous actions,
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
> given the location I doubt they were talking about an Indian accountant Possibly. As an Indian I'd just appreciate it if people were given the opportunity to have a dialogue around this. I agree that there are many cases where suc
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
> I mean, I'm going to have a hard time treating a person wearing a swastika necklace with respect - I'm going to let them know that I will not be using their services and the reason why. I hope you walked out of there and foun
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
I think you’ll have to define “superstar programmers” to get meaningful answers. Otherwise people will make assumptions that range from “autistic savant” to “famous personality” which is quite a large space. For famous personalities, for ex
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
A long time ago, I used listen to the radio on my Walkman just before sleeping, but I don’t think I could do this with podcasts or audiobooks. I’d be afraid of a) missing something, or b) feeling obligated to finish listening to the piece a
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
+1. I wanted to build a daily journaling habit but digital just wasn’t cutting it for me. I managed to do it once I bought one of these [0]. I punched a hole in it and tied a pen to it. The forgiving format (entries are not pre-dated so you
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
I think pg is missing something important here. The reason Google was able to beat Yahoo, Altavista, Ask, etc. was not just because they had a better formula — it was also because they started in the era where 'search' was still s
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by rhtgrg 5y ago
I’m not sure the problem statement for Stripe is quite right. PayPal was quite simple to set up when Stripe came around, it was just a little amateurish looking compared to the big players, and you couldn’t white-label it at all. The Facebo

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