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rat9988

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    Comment #49130396

    Still, seems useless to measure tokens when you can measure speed.

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    Comment #49110367

    This is why I have been asking to fire product owners. Givven the same input, but different software engineers working with them, they can produce different output (code).

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    Comment #49002024

    > My guess is, Zuck really likes the idea, You made an assumption, that's a good thing to expand thinking. > It's almost as if having a CEO of a company placed beyond the control o…

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    Comment #48980386

    Please link these comments in chatgpt, grok, claude and gemini announcement threads on hacker news.

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    Comment #48977819

    I don't see it in grok or chatgpt launch threads.

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    Comment #48593820

    The current case still seems very heavy on personal preference. Principles application is subjective as we are all human. I found the comment as interesting as the quote it is answ…

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    Comment #48339814

    They never claimed it was technically hard. Brand recognition is their forte. They found out there is a need, developped a product around it.

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    Comment #48310581

    Your answer's tone is weird.

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    Comment #47921973

    Obviously B2B given the context

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    Comment #47847514

    Not really, there is a promise of a better career in the future.

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    Comment #47607175

    The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.

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    Comment #47603678

    Too late for what? For you? maybe. There are many others that are okay with it and it doesn't disminish the quality of the work. Props to the author.

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    Comment #47594470

    You usually cite the original story

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    Comment #47439107

    Banned from doing free work?

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    Comment #47321378

    N*Log(N) can be approximated to O(N) for most realistic usecases. As for LLM, there is probably some cost constant added once it can fit on a single GPU, but should probably be alm…

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    Comment #47261597

    I wonder how you get paid if you fail the interview.

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    Comment #47252581

    There is a difference between being smart and acting smart.

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    Comment #47252565

    if you answer ""Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand." You probably are missing the wood and the trees.

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    Comment #47134518

    This part of trust was not about you trusting the government though so it is okay.

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    Comment #46974153

    Just curious how much does it sell? It gives an idea about how much my personal data is worth

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    Comment #46945688

    This feels like piracy to me and an unintended usecase of archives.

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    Comment #46797548

    I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential diff…

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    Comment #46778046

    Given we are more interested in the end than in the mean, it is a good usage.

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    Comment #46532500

    What is the difference between having the militaire have boots in the ground to kill you if you don't comply, and having military in the border next to you to kill you, bomb you or…

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    Comment #46529890

    Self driving cars is not a proof. It only proves that having quick gains doesn't mean necessarily you'll get a 100% fast. It doesn't prove it will necessarily happen.