nonasktell

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by nonasktell 4y ago
How about a giant freaking pandemic.
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Possible, yes. Easy, no. Chinese people don't have the best reputation here, most people think you're very smart, but people will worry about your English level/the readability of your code, culture fit, timezone differences,
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by nonasktell 4y ago
We just went through a huge pandemic, a lot of people think we're on the brink of WW3, near a financial crisis, big inflation, huge mental and physical health problems. Everyone is on edge, not just HN lol.
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Having kids is mostly reproductive instincts. Which is different from the instinct to support your "tribe". Maybe you need find some place to volunteer? help your community? or do any kind of meaningful work?
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Have you checked your privacy settings? They may also automatically shadowblock famous companies logos to prevent phishing/scamming
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Ask HN: What's the ONE book I should read about software engineering?
4 points by nonasktell 4y ago|3 comments
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by nonasktell 4y ago
it depends on your lawyer and on your face/outfit really
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Have you tried pentesting/security? A lot of the time it seems like it's about finding bugs, maybe not directly fixing them, but at least find what needs to be fixed
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by nonasktell 4y ago
For anyone reading this and thinking about spending your last 10 bucks on a programming book please use Libgen or a free mooc
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by nonasktell 4y ago
I read that more than once before. And while I agree(even though a lot of the people I've suffered with didn't stay my friends), it seems "slightly" unhealthy to look for a situation where I could suffer just to form a b
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by nonasktell 4y ago
I'm not that afraid to go out of my comfort zone but if I spontaneously talked to random people there is a good chance they'd see me as a dangerous lunatic given how weird I can be lol
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by nonasktell 4y ago
(Failed founder here, but still a founder.) That you can't really help people without making money, having a profitable product/service/model. Even the most selfless billionaires investor rarely want to burn a billion dollar
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Ask HN: How do you build a social circle as a remote worker/nomad in a new city?
38 points by nonasktell 4y ago|30 comments
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Price. I have a dozen ideas that could be done using GPT-3. Most of them aren't financially viable, I'm not burning half my income to build an MVP.
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by nonasktell 4y ago
maybe because pdf vulnerabilities are found so often that it would unleash one zero day a month
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Here's what used to work for me, if you do all of that at the same time you'd probably be fighting to stay awake after 10PM -as few stimulants as possible, the optimal amount being exactly 0(no nicotine, no caffeine) -no eating a
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Yes. I know at least one way to create unlimited outlook accounts for 0$(no paid proxy needed, no phone number, just a captcha solver model that can run on any PC, you could get a million outlook accounts for 0$). I found this by accident,
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Expect you're not licensing functions, you're licensing a repository. If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Copilot is not selling code, they're selling GPU time. If you're ready to buy a hundred GPU/TPUs to train a new Copilot that is just as good, but for free, then go do it please, everyone will thank you
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Why would anyone want to stop Copilot is beyond me. Reinventing the wheel, millions of time a day, is an atrocity. Millions of (wo)man hours, wasted, every single day, on writing solutions to problems that have already been solved. There is
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Ask HN: How do you decide on what to build/avoid decision paralysis?
24 points by nonasktell 4y ago|11 comments
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by nonasktell 4y ago
I mean yeah but Google doesn't count those clicks for ad revenue at all or maybe just on OVH or smaller provider,but AWS ips are definitely flagged for advertising
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Well it: -cuts their profits in half or more because they have to pay for the proxies(or if they own them they can't sell them since they need them) -it prevents most low skilled people from doing it -it prevents them from doing on it
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by nonasktell 4y ago
>When I worked in adtech, I proposed a simple solution to ad fraud on our platform - assume any UA coming from an IP range owned by a cloud provider was a bot and don't show them ads, don't count their impressions. Wait, is tha
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by nonasktell 4y ago
they don't https://email-checker.net/validate johndoe@fastmail.com exists noonehavethatmailhn@fastmail.com doesn't exists most mail providers don't guard against that
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by nonasktell 4y ago
if you see the other addresses, can you check if they're registered on comcast website? https://login.xfinity.com/login to try to see if it exists if someone got a fresh list of mail addresses, they'd probably tes
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by nonasktell 4y ago
have you tried the new whisper model from openai?
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Before any backdooring purposes there is probably some marketing/analytics reasons, keys, OTF updates etc...
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by nonasktell 4y ago
if you can't trust Meta, why could you trust apple?
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by nonasktell 4y ago
Cool!(but yeah english is really important!!) which models do you use for speech recognition and text generation?

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