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by screye 3y ago
Most transparent Fed plant if I've ever seen one.
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by screye 3y ago
Agreed. I have a slightly different model for financial planning. I plan around macros instead of micros. I'm a scatter brained person, so Type-A systems don't work as well for me. I don't have a family, so there are only a f
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by screye 3y ago
Somehow, this is the one product I have seen on HN that I always think : "Huh, I hope this works out, and HN is exactly the place where people would appreciate it." So, I guess I was mentally primed for thinking of your tool when
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by screye 3y ago
I didn't know what product this was. I didn't read the article. I don't know your username. But somehow, in my heart of hearts, I knew it was the financial planning sandbox that I create a free account on everytime it is post
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by screye 3y ago
I call it deliberate self-delusion. It's incredibly powerful.
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by screye 3y ago
I mean, MOJO has 100 million in funding and is 'supposedly' building a faster and better python. Programming improvements are all about hiring a small group of highly talented engineers. Funding a lab of 10 tenured R1 level PL res
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by screye 3y ago
Microsoft congratulates the baby of their distinguished engineer. Nothing wrong, but it is so easy to forget how much of tech is owned by a handful of companies.
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by screye 3y ago
AI and capitalism are an incredibly dangerous combination. Associating your human worth with your economic productivity and then limiting exponential economic productivity to a few already powerful people is a nightmare. Economies of scale
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by screye 3y ago
Same family as the 'everests' (of Mount Everest) and the guy who coined the term tesseract, and the Voynich family of the Voynich manuscript. https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/1719598749146624481?s=19
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by screye 3y ago
Nope, Go above and beyond, but still close tickets = work 60 hrs/week Do a tech detox = you better not have family to visit, because every vacation has to be about recovery from work. Do side projects = what are kids ? All of these the
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by screye 3y ago
Langchain is a wrapper. If you adopt the wrapper, it allows you to use a bunch of (1st party) and community implementations of LLM inference seamlessly. It allows easy integration, the thinness of its wrapper and velocty means that consiste
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by screye 3y ago
I love how the art community has decided to permanently troll this man. I accidently fell down an Anish Kapoor rabbit role on 1 internet evening, and everything I read about him (or by him) makes him sound like a bit of a prick.
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by screye 3y ago
Yep. The best geopolitical starting position in history. Classic video by a legend we lost far too early- https://youtu.be/ILn85WKo0Qk?si=83X9ptWPH2ZpHsp3
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by screye 3y ago
The US has 3 unsurmountable advantages over everyone. 1. Natural resources 2. The American dream of entrepreneurship and immigrant success. 3. The work-is-sacred American professional-managerial class. Stable countries decay due to 3 things
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by screye 3y ago
Being a losing member of the cloud race after inventing every modern systems paradigm is profitable ? Missing the entire LLM/Diffusion cycle despite having laid the groundwork for it is profitable ? Their peer tech companies - MSFT, AA
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by screye 3y ago
> Google... Phenomenal engineering, and horrible customer service How can a company with THAT MUCH MONEY be THAT plagued with an issue that everyone has been shouting about for more than a decade ?? I wonder if there is a business model
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by screye 3y ago
> driving extremely conservatively one-third of all road vehicle deaths resulted from speeding [2]. > traverse, say, a left turn against traffic is absurd Because that is how most people in SF pedestrians are killed
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by screye 3y ago
I would like to live in a world where my fellow adults have the liberty to make a complete and utter fool out of themselves. At the same time, if hysteric antisemitism is spreading like wildfire, then I wonder what the right tool to address
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by screye 3y ago
Oh for sure. The H1B process is completely broken and in dire need of revision. I was talking about how the O-1 is not a sufficient or even ideal visa for extraordinary STEM practitioners. It only selects for a sliver of the overall extraor
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by screye 3y ago
To drive this even further, you can solve the problem of inefficiencies by making energy consumption cheaper or energy cleaner. Electric cars cause a ton of emissions through increased tire wear, road maintenance and by having much larger w
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by screye 3y ago
Other than premier pure researchers and university professors, every immigrant programmer I know came here on an H1b. This includes the brightest and best programmers I know.
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by screye 3y ago
It's tricky. In reality, an O1 can be extremely hard to get in tech. All tech O1s that I know of are PhDs and many PhDs have been denied O1 because they worked in an applied role, in industry or immigration officials woke up on the wro
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by screye 3y ago
Coal miners, car companies, and sears catalog were not consulted when their industry was disrupted. No one is entitled to a gravy train, especially when your entire industry is cartelized. Middle men jobs, no matter how good, need to be on
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by screye 3y ago
Yep, I had been building them up during peace-time when I had idle-fascination about the conflict. In this case, most of the reliable sources are operational intelligence pages, and people who have done on-the-ground reporting near the Gaza
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by screye 3y ago
The alternative to professional new outlets is not a free for all. It is to establish granular sources whose reputations hinge on their ability to give multiple sides and report known facts instead of conjecture. NYT can't be held acco
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by screye 3y ago
> It's basic media literacy 101 Can you imagine applying this standard to other professions ? Say you doctor says "The Lab technician read your report and says you have cancer" or a scientist says "Our experiments say
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by screye 3y ago
Don't need to go too far to see how this is a bad idea. In light of last yesterday's malicious reporting by the likes of NYT, BBC and Al Jazeera, can any outlet claim to be authoritative ? > In a sample GIF provided, that inclu
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by screye 3y ago
No, these totally are solved problems. What apartments are you living in ? Why is your neighbors smoke entering your house ? In my country, everyone cooks highly aromatic food, and even then I can't tell what my neighbors are cooking..
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by screye 3y ago
Private builders. The 5 floor condo gets converted into a 30 floor tower. The residents gets 2x space and the first 10-ish floors. The rest goes to the private builder to sell to whoever they want as profits. It often involves demolition of
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by screye 3y ago
Words have meanings. > sexual predation I don't think this term is appropriate for anyone who is less than an attempted rapist. There are many existing words to describe Feynman's behavior. Pervert, philanderer womanizer, consu

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