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Re:Why is the AI black box such a big deal? on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:50AM (#35247007)
The world is not a friendly place and some people do want to use ai against you and your interests. If the model is open source it makes this harder.
Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:53AM (#35244587)
How did you manage/avoid burnout over 35 years in the industry?
Great take
Re:Reviewing code is more horrible than writing code on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:19AM (#35178093)
Lgtm
what about the money printing
Re:Why aren't we regulating AI research? on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:03PM (#34931448)
Yeah great idea we will be safe once the government starts dictating progress gotta stay safe.
Re:Why DSLs Fail on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:39PM (#34904718)
His DSLs fail because he doesn't know how to use DSLs. There must be one for each level of abstraction for each little problem, all built on top of a single host language so that they can be intermingled and COMPOSED.
The money printing and lockdowns curbed many ambitions I once had. Inflation in particular is so incredibly destructive and an inexcusable injustice, it might be a psychological effect you are experiencing.
Re:Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:38PM (#34733357)
For years I used to prepend site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com to Google searches but these are tapped out now as the communities have fully reverted to the mean along with heavy censorship. Currently it’s all through networks like clusters of people on Twitter who work in a niche or even 4chan hearsay to keep on top of things.
You see, if you squint hard enough it’s actually all just lisp…
Re:Ask HN: Grants that pay you to pursue your passion? on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:54AM (#34664537)
Get a job and do it in your spare time like every other struggling artist who eventually made it.
Re:Ask HN: How do I know that I am authistic? on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:39AM (#34528401)
This makes so much sense
Re:Ask HN: How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:32AM (#34475757)
Check his ‘early life’ section on Wikipedia.
Re:The creator economy: the top 1% and everyone else on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:01AM (#34288564)
Fair enough, it must be inevitable and the algorithm is irrelevant.
Re:The creator economy: the top 1% and everyone else on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:44AM (#34288389)
Yeah, is the top only fans girl really 10x or whatever more valuable than the penultimate only fans girl? Same for the arts. Same for most market segments whose products are artfully differentiated to prevent the customer from commoditising them mentally.
Re:The creator economy: the top 1% and everyone else on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:34AM (#34288294)
Can the algorithms be changed to prevent Pareto outcomes from occurring?

Most content is arbitrary anyway so no real cultural value discovery is occurring with these algorithms IMO, just chance and feedback loops.

Well the old installed the fed and regulated the housing market. Will probably take violence to fix.
My dad was an electrician his whole life, retired at 65 still going out to job sites.
I blame: the currency and inflationary environment
Re:Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (Book) on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:44PM (#34240844)
Pathetic
No, nothing I’ve tried in the last 16 years of professional life has worked, other than legitimately good opportunities which do not inspire procrastination.
Re:Why Not Mars on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:27AM (#34214678)
It's more up to Elon as the man in the arena, rather than Maciej Cegłowski who would be the timid soul in this case.
Re:Ask HN: What’s your way to get rid of a hangover? on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:42PM (#34213234)
Hair of the dog, i.e. start drinking again. Hangovers are mild withdrawal effects so you can’t get rid of them without drinking or using a GABA drug like diazepam.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't people medicated to fear death less? on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:43AM (#34114862)
Fucking hell, read a book.
Re:Decline of Men in the Workforce on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:52AM (#34049281)
Yes men aren't needed anymore as evidenced by the trajectory the world has been on this past decade.
You’re a spiritual being having a human experience :) reconnect with your higher and hidden nature from which you have become separated.
Re:Is low code a dead end? on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:45PM (#34023349)
Yep, it’s a grift to shill to non-technical management. AI will do what low code promised to do.
Re:Ask HN: Is it sloppy coding culture or just me/ADHD? on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:18AM (#33841172)
Sounds like the team sucks, run.
Yeah, just conveniently they were ‘dark’, so can’t be substantiated.
The vast vast majority was to Democrats though. Unbelievable pilpul.

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