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> I imagine that there are various triggers of early mathematical derailment I have come to believe that the main trigger by far is the attitude of society. Of parents, family, fri…

Not for scalar, but certainly for vector multiplication which a large part of the audience certainly needs a lot.

They are at a place in their career where it still feels relevant to mention that title.

And how much can you trust those replies?

Yeah, the submission heading should indicate that there is a high risk for a sales pitch in there.

Have you noticed any difference in picking up the language(s) yourself? As in, do you think you'd be more fluent in it by now without all the help? Or perhaps less? Genuine questio…

"as a staff engineer" Such an unnecessary flex.

Extra bonus for just putting it out there with a Github link. Instead of landing page, login, "just $4/month or $20/year" with a "Show HN" and everybody patting them on the back fo…

Sure, a computer nerd dad could have somehow surveilled me dialling into some BBS with my 28.8 kbps modem, but the number of people in the world that actually did this to their kid…

> So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway. How old are your kids and do they know you are doing this? There surely is a difference between a…

Good interviews are a conversation, a dialog to uncover how the person thinks, how they listen, how they approach problems and discuss. Also a bit detail knowledge, but that's only…

What does deepseek have to do with a comparison between o1-mini and o3-mini?

And the consequence is that people get banged on the head if they either use sth existing (cause they will be using it wrong) or they build sth on their own (because that's obvious…

That's the unix philosophy of using one tool for one thing, that does it well. The advantage is that it really opens a marketplace which means you are not tied to one solution if t…

I'm a little puzzled by your response. 1. The message was net-upvoted. Whether there are downvotes in there I can't tell, but the final karma is positive. A similarly spirited mess…

A 12% margin is literally the opposite of a coin flip. Unless you have a really bad coin.

That makes the result stronger though. Even though many people click randomly, there is still a 12% margin between both groups. Not the world, but still quite a lot.

The article was for normal folks, not for techies for whom this obviously was a joke. My mom would totally believe that the traffic goes via Carribea.

Right, why would anybody ever legitimately want to access that portal from outside switzerland? /s Geofencing is a typical techie "solution" that solves nothing and only brings hea…

> There is not much time left: taxpayers will be able to complete their tax return for 2024 online as early as next week - probably with a slight detour via the Caribbean. A "detou…

I work in a field with lots of cheap microchips. I can tell you that the amount of counterfeit copies flooding in from China as well as the speed in which they are copying is truly…

> We passed peak original content years ago. In relative terms, that's obviously and most definitely true. In absolute terms, that's obviously and most definitely false.

Point is that not all lines are equal. The 30% that the tool didn't make are the hard stuff. Not just in line count. Once an approach or an architecture or a design are clear then …

> It's definitely possible for AI to do a large fraction of your coding, and for it to contribute significantly to "improving itself". As an example, aider currently writes about 7…

The exact same discussions were going on with "western" models. Don't remember the images of black nazis making the rounds because inclusion? Same thing. This HN tread is the first…