skwirl

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by skwirl 3y ago
We have diversity in the space, and OpenAI just happens to be the leader and they are putting tremendous pressure on everyone else to deliver. If Sam leaves and starts an OpenAI competitor I think it would take quite some time for such a co
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by skwirl 3y ago
>I don't believe professionals who work in biggest AI labs are spooked by GPT. Then you haven't been paying any attention to them.
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by skwirl 3y ago
> Suburbia may have little traffic, but they are also devoid of "third places" where teens can be teens. Could you unpack this? I grew up in a small town, moved to a very walker/public transit friendly city for 10 years, a
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by skwirl 3y ago
This is a pretty unimpressive list for 9 years of progress, and is merely a small subset of features Kotlin was already providing. I left the Java world for the C# world around 2008 and then returned to the Java world last year. C#/.NE
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by skwirl 3y ago
I’ve seen this sentiment a lot and I don’t understand it. I actually feel like very little has been added between Java 8 and Java 21. Virtual threads is probably the biggest thing, and it looks very promising, but the language itself is sti
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by skwirl 3y ago
Do you have to baseline on Java 21 if you want to add support for virtual threads? Couldn't you continue using heavyweight threads on older versions of Java? My understanding is that both use the same Thread abstraction.
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by skwirl 3y ago
Have you ever actually written software professionally? I get strong teenage vibes from your comment history.
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by skwirl 3y ago
C# is one of the best designed languages that I've had the pleasure to use.
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by skwirl 3y ago
This hasn't been true for many years now, but that legacy persists in the popular consciousness.
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by skwirl 3y ago
How are "the elite" forcing companies that do not own real estate and who rent their office space to mandate RTO? How are they forcing these companies to renew their leases when they expire?
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by skwirl 3y ago
It's very hard to define what is and is not "related to language" and this is kind of a fundamental question that seemed to get a lot of attention in the 20th century. Maybe these language models can help shine some light on
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by skwirl 3y ago
LLMs are good at a lot of things we don't have a good reason to expect them to be good at. It's very hard to come up with "theoretical reasons" it should be good at things, in "theory" they should not be nearl
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by skwirl 3y ago
They will have to fix Boston’s horribly broken subway system first.
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by skwirl 3y ago
I’m guessing you aren’t from the US because in the US there is not much prestige in the title of engineer, but it seems to be a title people in Europe get weirdly hung up on. If anything, software engineering positions are more prestigious
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by skwirl 3y ago
Whooosh
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by skwirl 3y ago
You could have just read the article to see what the author meant by AI Engineers. You also would have seen that the entire article was addressing a point you tried to make, and you could have responded to the arguments made in the article
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by skwirl 3y ago
Where was the lie? It’s pretty crappy to baselessly accuse someone of lying.
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by skwirl 3y ago
Carmack was on the Lex Fridman podcast last year and doubled down on these comments and actually went even further. He has not changed his mind at all.
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by skwirl 3y ago
Carmack is very much atypical, but I don’t think getting completely wiped after 7 hours of any focused work is normal, either. It’s certainly the case if you are doing 7 hours of something you hate or find tedious. I would probably be fried
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by skwirl 3y ago
Looks like the owners of “kbin.social” are learning the hard way that hosting your own social media service isn’t easy. Just 25 minutes on HN in the early morning US time brought them down.
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by skwirl 3y ago
Principal Engineers are supposed to raise solutions to problems. This (3 year old) blog post raises complaints, but does not propose a solution. People who can raise complaints are a dime a dozen.
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by skwirl 4y ago
There seems to be some unfortunate social herding around AI beliefs in the 'rationalist' community that seems very un-rationalism-like to me. Some of these arguments are really poor.
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by skwirl 4y ago
The episodes are really hit or miss. I really enjoyed the interviews with John Carmack and with Guido van Rossum. I started several other episodes that I just bailed on, though, and it's a big time investment just to get to the point
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by skwirl 4y ago
I think the fact that a bank called "Silicon Valley Bank" collapsed is really breaking a lot of people's brains. The big tech companies (and other big companies) have treasury departments that manage short and long term cash
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by skwirl 4y ago
I think there's a real misunderstanding here with the distinction between banks, depositors, and what protections apply to each. The scenario (betting on red) is illegal, but assuming it was not, it doesn't matter to the bank whe
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by skwirl 4y ago
I don't think it's a big change. I think very few people are qualified to do due diligence on their banks. It's a bit like expecting people to inspect bridges before they drive over them. It's a piece of financial inf
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by skwirl 4y ago
To prevent bank runs.
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by skwirl 4y ago
>Why would any bank look at SVB and NOT think "oh, time to take more risk for more profit; the government will prop up the FDIC limit if we fail anyway". This makes zero difference to the bank. The bank doesn't get saved
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by skwirl 4y ago
Ok but did you really not address the fact that Signature Bank literally collapsed today? You know that is a different bank, correct? Did you see the stocks and sector ETFs for regional banks last week?
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by skwirl 4y ago
The people I lost respect for was a large portion of HN commenters calling on bank depositors - largely small businesses - to be snuffed out because there was a run on their bank. The comments have largely been factually wrong, misleading,

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