Fede_V

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Ask HN: What high quality paid (non-subscription) software would you recommend?
2 points by Fede_V 3y ago|1 comments
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by Fede_V 3y ago
Isn't this a stochastic variant of Barnes-Hut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut_simulation
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by Fede_V 3y ago
The fast.ai courses are exceptionally good for getting started and learning the concepts, but, once you've mastered an intuitive understanding of the techniques, I highly encourage people to dig deeper into the concepts - specifically,
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I completely agree re: Potemkin village tour of recruiting, but, those townhalls are not a window into company culture at all exactly because they get leaked. The only way to get a candid view into company culture is to have insider friends
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by Fede_V 4y ago
It's a vicious cycle, but, every time one of these internal town halls gets leaked to the internet, the execs lose the ability to speak candidly, and the workers feel like execs are completely aloof and detached from the reality on the
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by Fede_V 4y ago
Joe Weisenthal (who is always worth listening too in matters of finance) put it well here: https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1634985524007157760?s... Some VCs were definitely better than others: the very wors
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I absolutely think that depositors should be made whole - and - they will. At the same time, I think a lot of the VCs who systematically talked shit about government regulations while trying to shill crypto as a solution should very publicl
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by Fede_V 4y ago
Absolutely: the challenge is that any signal that you use to identify "good websites" from "bad websites" will be adversarially optimized by incredibly motivated people. You are dealing with a moving target that has a hu
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on. He paid 44 billion dollars to be a mod - I hope he is getting his money&#x2
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by Fede_V 4y ago
You.com has a similar code search specific product. What do you plan to offer that they don't?
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by Fede_V 4y ago
Beyond the criticism of the format, I found the explicit clout chasing to be completely offputting, and I think I used Clubhouse a grand total of 3x before never turning it on. I would genuinely love to read an anthropologist dive into what
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I wish this was on the GoodNotes/SublimeText model: pay once for a premium version of the app, and then never worry about subscriptions. The moment something requires subscription my threshold for buying it goes up 1000 fold.
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I know that Apple is incredibly secretive about their launches, and I'm not surprised that carries over to their internal culture, but, I'm incredibly skeptical of stories told from the point of view of an HR person that has every
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by Fede_V 4y ago
I agree with your first point: 24 out of 394 is too many for my taste, but, given how hyped the sector is, it’s not a huge amount. Per the second point, I actually completely disagree. I think there’s huge social dynamics in play that make
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by Fede_V 4y ago
What a disappointment, so many NFT/crypto companies. Given current blockchain technology, this is something that straight up makes the world a worse place by making existing processes significantly more carbon intensive. I would consi
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I'm a bit torn: I see the potential for civil liberties abuse, but, one of the things I loathe the most about American culture is how entitled 'consumers' feel towards treating workers that are serving them. I feel that the
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I think the complaints about SEO spam are valid - but - I think msweibel and pg misdiagnose the challenge. The challenge is that you are dealing with an adversarial system, and, the better your search engine is, the more widely used it bec
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by Fede_V 5y ago
Reading that story, I wonder where hustle culture went wrong. Paul Graham famously celebrated "breaking the rules" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html ) - but - this is a crazy ratchet. I really hope that thi
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by Fede_V 5y ago
Really exciting work: could you make it easier to find peer reviewed studies (or even better, ongoing clinical tries) that critically evaluate your product on the webpage?
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Ask HN: Non-Subscription Paid Software Recommendations
4 points by Fede_V 5y ago|4 comments
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by Fede_V 5y ago
Microsoft almost certainly still loses money on the Xbox itself.
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by Fede_V 5y ago
That's exactly right. I've seen zero products where the blockchain is a compelling value ad, with the exception of: - it makes it easier to raise capital by claiming that what you are doing involves crypto, because then you get c
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I'm a bit confused: Google Stadia (and the Amazon/Nvidia) HN has a deserved reputation for missing the obvious value add of a service, so I'd like people to correct me but - isn't this basically Stadia, except it costs 5
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I've been reading a few of the white papers about this, but I'd absolutely love to go deeper in this. Do you have any suggestions? I am especially interested in assessment about CO2 emissions from credible sources (please, no V
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by Fede_V 5y ago
We should do a much better job of building energy efficient devices, but, the amount of energy that's "wasted" by things like TVs that never turned off is really tiny compared to the energy footprint of the crypto ecosystem.
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I'm horrendously worried about crypto gaining more marketshare as long as proof of work crypto remains mainstream. It has significantly worse externalities than just about any company I can think of (including defense contractors&#x2F
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by Fede_V 5y ago
Excellent post, thank you.
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by Fede_V 5y ago
I had a chance to speak to Marino when he came to give a talk about bioethics at my PhD institution. He was a very smart man - but he made several mistakes. For example - he made up a ridiculous story about being invited by the pope to att
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by Fede_V 5y ago
A couple of years later - Thatcher had a similar confrontation with the miners striking against the government in the UK. Note that miner strikes had taken down the previous government and obtained a lot of concessions - so the Thatcher go
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by Fede_V 5y ago
You are right, I should have used short term and very short term.

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