ed_balls

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by ed_balls 7d ago
We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI.
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by ed_balls 8d ago
Amazon bedrock
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by ed_balls 24d ago
I mean this sympathetically, but you and your partner seem to have an unhealthy relationship with work. Employment is a business transaction. You sell the company your time - it gives you money. That’s the deal. The company is not your fami
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by ed_balls 1mo ago
Any better data source? Only things I found is that job postings are down 30% and number of employees at FAANG is lower than in 2021.
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Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
11 points by ed_balls 1mo ago|4 comments
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by ed_balls 1mo ago
1) Marketing and PR - people fear self driving cars 2) Politics - loss of jobs and urge to ban them - there needs to be a counterargument 3) Government does mandate a lot of safety features. Just insure it wont fly as this is number one ris
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by ed_balls 1mo ago
> Ultimately, people will vote with their wallet. Nope, you need a regulatory approval, insurance etc. Self driving cars need to be 10x the average driver. So the trillion dollar question is when Lidar will meet all requirements and when
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by ed_balls 2mo ago
we'll be better off - assuming we'll generate revenue on our own. LLMs have opened up an enormous new frontier of micro-SaaS opportunities. One person can now build what used to require a small team. The real problem is zero-sum w
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
Well if us gov would block people from using windows or macos, then it may well be.
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
Unless it's c-corporate which require 25k usd. Money don't have to sit in bank account, you can buy a laptop etc.
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
>resistance to air conditioning Where is this meme coming from? I'm in Poland atm. Half of my neighbours have aircon. I dont just because I'm on the ground floor and the max temp is 25.5C Every new apartament building is build
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
Same thing happened in Poland and it was confirmed that Russians did it.
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
We stopped burning grass and got ticks infestation. I used work and play in tall grass as a 7 year old in my grapa farm. Never got a tick. 30 years later I found 7 ticks on my cloths after 2 hours walk on the same farm.
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
Have tired ADHD diagnosis?
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
"We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
>gear boxes with ratios like 13:1. you add planetary gears >sprung mass you can integrate all into one hub (breaks, bearings, gears etc) and it weights pretty much the same. what you gain is more space for a bigger battery, torque vec
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Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
5 points by ed_balls 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
Could be just that USA is trying to reindustrialize and need more people that can do stuff with hands? - the smallest population cohort is entering workforce - Trump and Covid slowed down immigration - high interest rate slows down R&D
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by ed_balls 3mo ago
it's not, they have a good PR. Best intelligence is quiet. >Any man who must say, 'I am the king,' is no true king
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by ed_balls 4mo ago
> The unionised Openreach in UK who are really the de facto layer 1 network provider telco build infrastructure to a staggeringly higher quality and it's crap compared to Romanian or Polish which are not unionised (I think)
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by ed_balls 4mo ago
Meta: Why 1000 votes?
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by ed_balls 4mo ago
intern that never sleeps
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by ed_balls 4mo ago
pointy is scary
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
Palantir delenda est
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
Something I read recently really stuck with me: giving people methylphenidate or other stimulants may lower the risk of a second suicide attempt by around 25%.
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
Palantir must be destroyed.
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
Palantir must be destroyed.
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
yep, or call a clinic that does it. Search for MOXO, DIVA 5. The most important part is education. Sure, the medication helps, but understanding the root causes of mood swings, motivation, executive functions, hyperfocus, perfectionism, and
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
I could ask LLM to find me "legal" parts that are 1:1 with gun parts or even better find metal parts in craftcloud3d.com or sendcutsend.com. With big enough database it could find right items on Amazon. It's impossible to leg
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by ed_balls 5mo ago
Due to prolonged stress, which lack of control is the main contributor e.g. you have expectations, you cannot control variable x,y,z, which leads to stress, which over long period of causes burn out.

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