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601.
by tyre 1y ago
I think if you look at polling, people’s feelings on admissions is heavily influenced by whether the criteria helps/hurts them. Especially when it comes to students and parents. Which makes sense. If it came to your kid, would you give
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by tyre 1y ago
which monoculture? side note: “monoculture” and “freak show” seem incompatible. an entirely homogenous student body doesn’t sound too freaky
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by tyre 1y ago
You can include in your prompt for it to read the README!
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by tyre 1y ago
It was like a snow day! So fun.
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by tyre 1y ago
“Reality has a well known liberal bias”, as they say.
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by tyre 1y ago
I don’t think that’s the root cause here. The submitter decided that a 128k line PR was a good thing. AI is a tool. The problem is software engineering best practices (small, reviewable, incremental self-contained PRs.)
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by tyre 1y ago
> It's always worth offering to take equity as long as they agree in writing to not ever dilute your shares and vest them immediately. However, it's unlikely that any company will agree. Well, yes, because that’s insane.
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by tyre 1y ago
> This is a common mistake made by people who haven't fully internalized the distinction between numbers (which have no intrinsic representation) and _numerals_ which are the encodings of numbers. Counterpoint: it doesn’t matter.
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by tyre 1y ago
My brother in commenting they are doing trials. Trials are by nature bets. That’s how we move science forward. They’re not trying to kill people. There is a hell of a lot more money in _not_ killing people.
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by tyre 1y ago
I learned it in elementary school in the late 90s
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by tyre 1y ago
For example, UnitedHealth buried in its financials that it hit its numbers by exiting equity positions. It then _didn’t_ include a similar transaction (losing $7bn by exiting Brazil). This was stuck in footnotes that many people who follow
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by tyre 1y ago
> good times breeds weak people This is a silly and regularly disproven trope. For an extensive and approachable start: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
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by tyre 1y ago
If you are a paying subscriber, you are self-identifying as (likely) a higher net-worth. The problem for ad platforms allowing paid opt-out is that the most valuable users leave the network. Then they have to go to advertisers and say, “adv
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by tyre 1y ago
> it’s so weird to see two political factions that agree on 90% of policy get shellacked and overruled by their respective extreme wings These parties have primaries and Republicans are choosing—by a majority—the crazies over the “tradit
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by tyre 1y ago
The Supreme Court considered internment camps and segregation constitutional, until it didn’t. There are also people who disagree with the Supreme Court’s interpretations. Including members of the Supreme Court! Both current (dissents) and
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by tyre 1y ago
Yes and… UUIDs aren’t “just more difficult to guess.” They are inconceivably harder to guess. > Put another way, one would need to generate 1 billion v4 UUIDs per second for 85 years to have a 50% chance of a single collision.
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by tyre 1y ago
Both can be true: - They were taking a substantial risk. - They were manipulating the market.
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by tyre 1y ago
> And designed a nuclear reactor while I was at it, isn't it? Claude can one shot this.
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by tyre 1y ago
Okay let’s take off the tin foil hat for a second. HN has a very strong moderation team with years and years of history letting awkward (e.g. criticism of YC, YC companies) things stand.
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by tyre 1y ago
The author is mad at Stripe and PayPal for banning transactions involving unicorn wieners but this is imposed on them by the backing banks. The reason behind banning adult materials has to do with Puritanism and with the high rates of ref
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by tyre 1y ago
Counterpoint: concentration of talent is incredibly valuable for humankind.
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by tyre 1y ago
Personally, I prefer neutral lotions and detergents because I wear my own cologne. It could be because It could also be because we’re using more products. If my face moisturizer and sunscreen had different scents, that would be unfortunate.
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by tyre 1y ago
I love this website
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by tyre 1y ago
Sorry, to be clear, you’re saying that proof of their freedom is that they could build tunnels to smuggle goods?
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by tyre 1y ago
When Roo Code uses Claude, it does this while developing. It renders in the sidebar and you can watch it navigate around. Incredibly slow, but that’s only a matter of time.
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by tyre 1y ago
another shareholder, one of the largest, is the now-former-CEO who now works at Meta. They have full control.
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by tyre 1y ago
> Dropped out of MIT after freshman year and starts Scale to do data labeling I was in their YC batch, so two notes: 1. He didn't start it himself 2. They weren't doing data labeling when they entered YC. They pivoted to this.
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by tyre 1y ago
It's the year of the linux smartphone!
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by tyre 1y ago
Telling someone “I told you so” doesn’t move things forward. Suggest what to do next and leave the rest out.
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by tyre 1y ago
Interesting I keep getting blocked by the bot detection on iOS safari, both from our work WiFi and cellular data. Anubis let me go

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