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mbb70
·5 gün önce·discuss
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mbb70
·2 ay önce·discuss
YMMV but every gym I've been to in the US had a huge social component.
mbb70
·2 ay önce·discuss
If the unit-economics work out and they can sell $0.99 of tokens for $1.00, doesn't matter how many agents you spin up. The flat rate subscriptions can't last though.
mbb70
·3 ay önce·discuss
Reminds me of "a terrible project with a great slide deck might end up decent. A great project with a terrible slide deck won't even exist."

In the real world there is no If You Build It They Will Come, you've got to get the word out
mbb70
·4 ay önce·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
mbb70
·4 ay önce·discuss
They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones. Generic black over-ear headphones could be $800, could be $80, useless for signaling. Doubly true in the context of a gift.
mbb70
·4 ay önce·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
mbb70
·4 ay önce·discuss
>> "almost no competition"

>> "costs way too much"

>> "It's not like chat is a hard problem"

Surely these statements can't all be true. Since Slack is expensive and has little competition, I think chat is a harder problem than you think.
mbb70
·5 ay önce·discuss
Ads are a ratchet that only tighten in one direction. Once the paychecks of 1000s of motivated, intelligent OpenAI employees depend on ad revenue increasing, the only option is to make them more invasive, more prevalent, more annoying, more data hungry etc.
mbb70
·5 ay önce·discuss
In the foreward, she calls out to her, great SF is descriptive, not predictive. TLHOD is about sex, gender, friendships and culture in our world.

Also a huge number of spacey contemporary works like A Mote in God's Eye, Rendezvous with Rama, Dune, Ringworld...
mbb70
·5 ay önce·discuss
That's not fair! Sometimes the ideas come from Snow Crash, which gave us the Metaverse because Zuckerberg wanted to cut a guy in half with a katana from a motorcycle.
mbb70
·5 ay önce·discuss
Enshittification is a technique to make more money _without_ raising the price by simply making the product worse.

Self-driving taxis have a high floor for 'making the product worse' because the car fundamentally has to drive itself.
mbb70
·5 ay önce·discuss
As is often stated, microservices is a solution for scaling an engineering org to 100s of developers, not for scaling a product to millions of users.
mbb70
·6 ay önce·discuss
Start with your chosen dictionary, remove small words and all 's'es.

Then find all words with 7 unique letters, then get the unique set of letter sets. These are your valid puzzles times 7 for each selection of a center letter.

Construct a trie of your dictionary. For each letter of each puzzle, walk the trie using only the puzzle letters. When you find a word, if it used the center letter, add to list.

In practice it's log(n) for size of dictionary.
mbb70
·6 ay önce·discuss
The bigness of your data has always depended on the what you are doing with it.

Consider the following table of medical surgeries: date,physician_name, surgery_name,success.

"What are the top 10 most common surgeries?" - easy in bash

"Who are the top physicians (% success) in the last year for those surgeries?" - still easy in bash

"Which surgeries are most affected by physician experience?" - very hard in bash, requires calculating for every surgery how many times that physician had performed that surgery on that day, then compare low and high experience outcomes.

A researcher might see a smooth continuum of increasingly complex questions, but there are huge jumps in computational complexity. At 50gb dataset might be 'bigger' than a 2tb one if you are asking tough questions.

It's easier for a business to say "we use Spark for data processing", than "we build bespoke processing engines on a case by case basis".
mbb70
·6 ay önce·discuss
Probably it actually ran git checkout or reset. As you say git revert only operates on committed snapshots so it will all be in the reflog
mbb70
·6 ay önce·discuss
I explored the space of valid Spelling Bee puzzles and found out the lowest scoring puzzle is (x)bejkou with 14 points.

Hoping they do it for April 1st one year.
mbb70
·6 ay önce·discuss
Wish we lived in the universe where the term 'monkey' won over 'agent'. Would have given everything a cool Planet of the Apes feel.

I remember this getting a lot of buzz at the time, but few orgs are at the level of sophistication to implement chaos testing effectively.

Companies all want a robust DR strategy, but most outages are self-inflicted and time spent on DR would be better spent improving DX, testing, deployment and rollback.
mbb70
·7 ay önce·discuss
The goal of "actual projects" is also fast and correct enough though
mbb70
·9 ay önce·discuss
The very next ask will be "order the zipcodes by number of customers" at which point you'll be back to aggregations, which is where you should have started