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by d2049 1y ago
Reminder that Sam Altman chose to rush the safety process for GPT-4o so that he could launch before Gemini, which then led directly to this teen's suicide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886
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Bay Area startup Harmonic gets gold medal at 2025 IMO with formal verification(harmonic.fun)
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by d2049 2y ago
This was more than several years prior to that, I just tried to look up the financial aid of previous years and for some reason couldn't find it. If someone else finds it, I'd be curious to take a look.
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by d2049 2y ago
I met him when I was at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend when accepted students visit the school. Is it necessary to assume things in such a cynical fashion?
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by d2049 2y ago
I'm a bit hesitant to give my voice away to really any company. Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine the ways this could go wrong?
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by d2049 2y ago
When I was touring colleges as a high school senior I met someone who had gotten into MIT but whose family could only afford to send one kid to an elite college, him or his sister. He decided to go to a state school which was a lot less exp
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by d2049 2y ago
> build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours It depends on what kind of functionality we're talking about, but this kind of task is exactly what people at my current startup have been assigned at times. It is absolutely possi
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by d2049 2y ago
Just out of curiosity, where do you live?
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by d2049 2y ago
This is the person who was in the news a few years ago for commuting to Google campus using 19 different methods in 19 days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWftDrwY2U
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by d2049 2y ago
Probably the phrase "you hold the keys to your clone" should give anyone pause. I once worked at a company where the head of security gave a talk to every incoming technical staff member and the gist was, "You can't trus
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by d2049 2y ago
Is anyone else thinking that it might not be a good idea to give away your voice and face to a startup that is making digital clones of people?
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by d2049 2y ago
For this interested in topic, you might enjoy reading The Anxious Generation, which has been on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for a while. It goes into the data on how teen mental illness rates greatly increased when smartphones (apps
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by d2049 3y ago
I would have presumed that security-minded people, which includes those who work in tech, would not so easily give away their genome, and that most of 23andMe's customers are a slice of the general population. But then I read about thi
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by d2049 3y ago
A couple questions — Could you link to the film you used, and also the curtains? Did this at all block your ability to use your own cellphone?
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by d2049 3y ago
The world you propose sounds good in theory, but we are starting at a point where certain groups of people have been discriminated against (or enslaved) for the better part of two centuries. So some argue that we cannot simply treat everyon
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by d2049 3y ago
I guess there's no unions for VFX work? They're meant to prevent companies from making unreasonable demands of workers, that are described many times in the article.
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by d2049 3y ago
That's Max Park. I'm not a cuber but I recognize him from the excellent short documentary The Speed Cubers, on Netflix. It's nerdy, engaging, and heartwarming — perfect for HN.
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by d2049 3y ago
Is it lawful for an employer to factor in criminal history when choosing employees? Asking for my own education.
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by d2049 3y ago
What are the reasons you've heard your friends give? I don't know anyone who's done it.
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by d2049 4y ago
Many companies have skilled engineers and enough hardware, and still have outages. It's an expected part of running any software service. Outages can be minimized, but the idea that they can be eliminated with enough people and computi
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by d2049 4y ago
This post strongly resonated with me. Recently I have had no external life commitments for an extended period and I've constantly had the impression that I'm wasting my life. Most days I wake up trying to grasp at something meanin
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by d2049 4y ago
Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay about why the Segway failed. http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html Same principle here. People don't look cool wearing strange robot sandal shoes.
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by d2049 4y ago
I would hire a security consulting firm to do the work for you. This is not the kind of thing you can learn overnight, or even in a short to medium timeframe. Countless startups have experienced security teams and yet were still breached -
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by d2049 4y ago
Similar to “not your keys, not your crypto” is there not an analogy to be made for passwords? Genuinely interested in the reasoning of people who store their passwords in a cloud service they don’t control.
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by d2049 4y ago
Multiple engineering teams I’ve worked on have used per-individual “preview” environments as early as 15 years ago, and I’m sure they were widely used far earlier than that. The claim that this idea is suddenly on the rise strikes me as com
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by d2049 4y ago
The parent comment did not mention factory farming. Only you did. This is classic whataboutism.
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by d2049 4y ago
> To be able to tell if Scala 3 itself is faster, we would have to rollback to Scala 2 and try it with the proper JVM tuning. I'm not willing to do that, sorry! Once you've tried Scala 3, there's no going back. Pardon my i
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by d2049 4y ago
Everything Chamath says is purely out of his own self-interest. He's been a hypocrite for years.
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by d2049 4y ago
It defines that term at the top of the article
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by d2049 4y ago
In my limited few years of doing undergraduate / graduate research in this kind of field, and thus having to read research papers like this, I can say that this is BY FAR the longest paper I have ever encountered. Several times over. F

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