kidintech

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Correcting the Record: Responses to the May 30 2025 NY Times Article on Palantir(blog.palantir.com)
4 points by kidintech 1y ago|0 comments
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by kidintech 2y ago
> Bitcoiners are drawn from a normal distribution and not from the bottom part of the distribution I think it's objective truth to note that "Bitcoiners" are predominantly comprised of: a) people conducting illegal affairs
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by kidintech 2y ago
Forgettable fodder, as so many of these recent allegedly groundbreaking talks are. I don't know if it's my increased exposure to them or something else.
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by kidintech 2y ago
// personal opinion: I think machine learning as it currently stands is widely overhyped How is this the top comment? > I am starting to notice a pattern in these papers - Writing hyper-specific tokenizers for the target proble
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by kidintech 2y ago
Got spooked by the exact quote you mentioned, but your conclusion is more precise. You're correct, this is a recipe for messing up your chances lmao.
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by kidintech 2y ago
I wanted to label this as a “nothingburger”, but all the pieces of advice are either tautologies, vague general dating tips (i.e. "make sure the vibes are not off"), or straight up untrue: "They want to work on this part-time
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by kidintech 2y ago
> don't see it as any less dignified than any other work You do not, and that is your moral judgement. Rationalizing earning money by any means necessary is a very slippery slope, and the discussion is much more nuanced than popula
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by kidintech 2y ago
tried it quickly on a personal machine running windows; all attempts at submitting `BUY`s for popular tickers (regardless of price, tax, quantity, ticker, date) seem to result in an unknown error. Notably, I tried having the account match t
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by kidintech 2y ago
> The answer is it's faster and (in my experience) generally accurate for common command syntax. If you don't mind, around what level of complexity are you querying it for? Are the queries along the lines of "how do I find
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by kidintech 2y ago
I am honestly asking and not trying to be a smartass: What are the advantages of LLM summaries over man pages/google searches/stackoverflow threads? I could maybe empathize if an engineer only had 30 seconds to understand a code s
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by kidintech 2y ago
Why does every category theory primer use this exact formulation: (.*) is just an [arrow|object] in the category of (.*)` Every undergrad course, office hour, research paper, and manual that I've ever seen spams it.
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by kidintech 2y ago
"radical" is definitely a word imbued with meaning in recent times and might take away from OP's point here. I saw a version of this question in a book once and it stuck with me: "What important truth do very few people
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by kidintech 2y ago
In this particular discussion, I am not looking for the best process for the task. I am looking for a process that will not get deemed a "red flag" by candidates.
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by kidintech 2y ago
> places like RenTech don't specifically look for the top <1% cognitive ability There is no way more than 1 out of 100 arbitrarily sampled humans can win Putnam or get tenure in pure math/physics/etc. at an Ivy.
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by kidintech 2y ago
No, because I feel like mentioning previous employers AND mentioning the languages I speak would get quite specific. You are interested in Eastern Europe, so you should be familiar with olympiads; ask around any circle of ex-olympiad partic
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by kidintech 2y ago
no. I wanted to say Eastern, as I have examples from both Asia and East Europe. I wished to not be more specific so as to not derail the discussion into "user kidintech implied that nation X has a tendency to cheat".
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by kidintech 2y ago
realistically we're looking for much higher (sub 1%) cognitive ability. I understand this is highly sought after, so we incentivize by paying a few times what FAANG does locally. I was genuinely wondering how OP preferred to be approac
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by kidintech 2y ago
The most common example would be 1point3acres. I'd prefer to not be more specific; I chose the word Eastern on purpose. For DEI committees reading this: I am both eastern european and asian, so I hope to be exempt from any scrutiny.
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by kidintech 2y ago
> and are asked to solve it. I think this is where our different opinions come from, while we agree on the other aspects. In my personal experience, I have never felt that the hire/no-hire decision relied exclusively on my ability o
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by kidintech 2y ago
I am genuinely curious: I am starting a company, and I need smart people; I do not care how good they are at programming language X, or technology T - all the skills my employees will need can be learned on the job. I want to optimize the t
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by kidintech 2y ago
Question banks that are too big: huge variance, and OP's point stands. Question banks that are too small: leaked on eastern forums immediately, candidates show up reading answers out to you (some of the guides include guidance on when
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Ask HN: Reading list for young founders, after the initial stage?
1 points by kidintech 2y ago|0 comments
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by kidintech 2y ago
Piper and Protobufs lmao. Based on personal experience, the two services are best used as litmus tests of a person’s character — the most insufferable googlers I've met are fans of both. Any other usage of either generally results in u
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by kidintech 2y ago
In a vacuum where precise numbers do not exist, maybe. In this real scenario, if someone's goog shares were vesting at an earlier value - let's take a rough average at a glance of goog YTD to be $145, they will have lost on a year
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by kidintech 2y ago
Could you please expand on this? If a person got issued RSUs but they have not vested yet, wouldn't they be happy that the RSUs are going to be worth more by the time they get vested?
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by kidintech 2y ago
Although I hold a similar view about "youtubers", please give these guys a chance; it's at best ignorant to type that instead of supporting one of the few teams/channels that are visibly passionate, hard working, and con
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by kidintech 2y ago
> The article talks about a high traffic site, maybe a top 10 one The article explicitly restricts the problem space to top 1000 websites. I've taken 30 seconds to browse through top 1000 websites and outside of the usual suspects u
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by kidintech 2y ago
> The above and I don't ever have to run security updates or patch an OS. This has to be satire?
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by kidintech 2y ago
Your sentence ANDs together an overlap of a bunch of improbable scenarios: - if the site is down for more than a few seconds - if you attempt to access the site during its downtime - if you pay an ongoing subscription (this could very well
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by kidintech 2y ago
As a bystander I just wanted to say that I aspire to translate my thoughts into words as effectively as you do.

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