Upvoter33

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by Upvoter33 11d ago
Not sure why this is interesting; it seems like anything that becomes "popular" could be cast as a "virus", including things like "having a fridge". Why does this give particular insight?
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by Upvoter33 12d ago
That is woefully naive. But even if so: aren’t you against it?
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by Upvoter33 22d ago
No offense, but "the idea that families with wealth offer easier paths in life for their children" - like isn't this obviously the case? The amazing thing about America is that there are paths for those not as wealthy, but
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by Upvoter33 23d ago
What about Page? Brin? Etc.
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by Upvoter33 26d ago
I love this idea. At least make them turn it into some form of a public good.
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by Upvoter33 28d ago
I’m sorry to hear that about your parents.
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by Upvoter33 28d ago
It’s because of the opportunity to truly learn responsibility to others, instead of selfish responsibility to self.
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by Upvoter33 2mo ago
Blockbusters were like the worst business ever and embodied enshittifying before the term existed. Once in a rare while there was a local video rental though that was cool. And the General point is true.
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by Upvoter33 2mo ago
I would describe him as a leading educator / explainer / teacher in this space.
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by Upvoter33 2mo ago
"US government bans floating point numbers"
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
ah cool - thanks for the clarification. some of the comments here read like nothing like this has ever been done before ...
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
Lots of great work that pioneered here (I wish the website did a better job showing that?) e.g., Dr. Brett Seales and his decades of work: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601247
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
No that is not true. Read about PARC and all the crazy tech they built some time. It was ahead of its time!
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
Come on. It reads all the code in the world; then, you ask it to produce code; then, it gladly writes out something "new" which is a synthesis of what is out there, often with direct copying. It's more than reading.
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
Also connected: many composers would write out previous great works, to learn them more deeply. Bach as I recall would do this.
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
Which Hamming quote, btw, do you refer to? I think he mostly talks about talking with other "smart" people, and communicating what you are working on a lot (like giving talks, etc.). But, this doesn't read like much of a case
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
this is true in all human endeavors. Tech is not special in this regard, alas.
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
It didn't strike me as modest, to compare oneself to another who is known to be great. "Van Gogh is almost certainly a better painter than I am" -Monet
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
You know, there seems to be a hidden thought here that it's either just (A) let the Founders do their thing and of course they will provide great value and happen to become billionaires as a result or (B) tax those crooked cheaters who
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
written with confidence too. I'm amazed at the levels of confidence people have in predicting the (unclear) future.
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
I'm having a hard time putting much faith into posts like these, especially as they near IPO.
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by Upvoter33 3mo ago
I read this differently: they are actually seeing that it's hard to keep advancing frontier models, and now are moving the goal posts so that when they start getting evaluated more harshly, they can point to something like this.
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by Upvoter33 4mo ago
"Links No Longer Mean Credibility" - did they used to? I mean, I mostly agree with this article but a person could have written this about the internet. I remember people linking to all sorts of random web pages and using that as
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by Upvoter33 4mo ago
I'm amazed by all the "people hate AI therefore this won't get anywhere". This is a first (perhaps real) attempt to envision what a desktop of the future looks like assuming AI progress continues. If I'm Apple, I&#x
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by Upvoter33 5mo ago
Really? I see this all the time. Maybe I'm going to all the wrong places. I see "couples" on their phones, I see groups of friends on their phones, etc., etc. Maybe different parts of the country / world?
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by Upvoter33 6mo ago
so is the Unix command line ...
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by Upvoter33 6mo ago
me too. It's like it was written in 1980.
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by Upvoter33 6mo ago
“The presence of greatness” - ugh.
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by Upvoter33 6mo ago
Yes I’ve had to do this but it does work. Unfortunately it’s a constant cost to have to look for stuff like this and then do the work.
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by Upvoter33 7mo ago
Honestly this thread was been one of the funniest HN threads I've seen. So much gold in here - for which I thank you all. "My React website can't star React" "in what sense is this software not a virus?" "

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