throwawaynay

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by throwawaynay 5y ago
I think the only way to really learn is to do. So I'll skim through the content first without trying to retain knowledge then I ask myself, is there anything interesting I can build involving this concept? or any useful activity I can
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Do you use windows or an android bloated with awful apps?(or your kids/partner?) My best guess would be hackers using your IP as proxy, and getting blacklisted I was suspended from reddit too, but my other accounts were never suspended
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
By have any chance have you tried to use a classifier? Like train a classifier(with good jokes and bad jokes) on r/jokes according to the scores, to filter/sort automatically what GPT generates?
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Ask HN: How do you deal with mail anxiety?
3 points by throwawaynay 5y ago|2 comments
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Math is math, not programming. No it's not about react or ror. It's about solving actual real life problems. 99% people don't do CS to do academical research, but to work on life change products(and that's more likely to
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Great content without ads was normal on the internet for decades if anything ads and SEO pushed people to produce worse content to make more cash creating good content costs nothing besides your time, hosting good content costs almost nothi
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
The first sentences are good, but the last part is a bit hard to understand. Do you write/speak very fast maybe? If I remember correctly you commented maybe less 2 than minutes after I posted, that seems extremely fast to write that mu
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
When I say potential, I'm talking about your own personal/mental abilities. Not about external factors that you couldn't control(such as poverty, abuse, irresponsible relatives, borderline criminal behavior from institutions)
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
You're supposed to actually read the message before answering it.
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Ask HN: How do you cope with realizing you mostly wasted your potential?
32 points by throwawaynay 5y ago|50 comments
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
So there's https://fast.ai MOOCs+library which don't require a big theoretical background I heard about a program that looked great to do data science from just data a while ago, but I can't find it :/ It was
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Ok I'm going to be more specific. I started this thread after watching a course from Yann Le Cunn, I just started thinking about how a smart guy like him could accept to work for FB. How can a man who revolutionize the field of AI, wor
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
>They're not selling your data, or bringing the financial system down, or emptying the wallets of the poor. A lot of those companies are literally doing that though.
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Google literally removed their "don't be evil" motto. Facebook knowingly use software that destroy teens mental health according to their own research. Do I even need to talk about the atrocious working conditions in amazon&#
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
"why do people get sick?""maybe because of diseases?"
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Ask HN: Why do so many geniuses work for evil companies?
8 points by throwawaynay 5y ago|16 comments
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
1 * how_much_you_can_convince_someone_to_pay_you if 32k is normal for your country look elsewhere maybe
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Idealistically yes. But you should focus on financial inequality first(for example with global remote work accepted as the norm). If all of a poor third world country move to a first world country overnight this is just the same poor countr
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
If you're talking about money, targeted ads and attention grabbing algorithms maybe. If you're talking about added value to our lives, probably better disease detection (computer vision models for cancer detection etc...), or mayb
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
to protect you from most criminals while still allowing the 3 letters agencies to spy on you don't forget that google was partially funded by CIA and NSA grants
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
sounds kind of insane that a 2-3k$ laptop can't compile stuff and allow you to browse the web at the same time lol
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
it can if you're not cutting corners
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
not an expert but the most straightforward way seems to be: identify potential leads on linkedin, contact them there or coldmail them with stuff like hunter.io+lemlist
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
Rich people have too much money so they put it in riskier ventures
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Ask HN: How to know if you're a decent programmer?
18 points by throwawaynay 5y ago|13 comments
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
I send myself emails, it's never really been much of an issue
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Tell HN: Whenever I search Heads or Tails on Google, I get tails the first time
5 points by throwawaynay 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
not a stack, mastodon
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
not an expert, but maybe try analyzing the network? with stuff like wireshark? if the driver is sending data there may be a problem
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by throwawaynay 5y ago
"I usually put all my code in one file " Stopped reading after that, are you insane?

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