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Personally I think LLM benchmarks make agents worse. All these companies chase the benchmarks, overfit, and think being able to cheat at the math olympiad is gonna get us to AGI. I…

The man lived at the same time my great grandfather did, a ww1 Jewish German veteran. Everyone’s views on their integration into German / Gentiles society were completely upended t…

You can definitely go to a mall and get ray bans with solid barrel hinges

As a kid I ate this stuff up. In the eighth grade, I defaced my middle school website. The IT person easily figured out it was me and then tricked me into thinking I would be expel…

Not in an urban area. E-bikes fly through sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks in NYC. Threatening pets and people at all times. Bikes were already bad, now it’s just more and faster.…

Therapy, meds, support groups on Reddit, and exercise are the best thing you can do to deal with childhood trauma. It actually seems to get worse if you don’t manage it, I probably…

Yep. I’m personally skeptical of so many other use cases for LLMs but CoPilot is fantastic and basically just autocomplete on rocket fuel. If you can use autocomplete, you can use …

Be nice but remember you have objective skills and you need to suss out the CEOs objective skills. 1) Can they raise money? Proof is good here. Sometimes someone will say "I want y…

Well, in this scenario, you are actually the 'former' colleague getting recruited to be a co-founder while the other folks stay stable. You just admitted you would and I wouldn't b…

Oh absolutely. Twice I made the mistake of coming onto a startup to fix the “mess” the previous dev shop had made. Both times the founders had developed an incredibly negative rela…

The MAGA deadhead crossover vibe is so weird. At least the actual cultural icons they worship seem to have kept their heads on at old age.

Oh yes! Extend that to fish and you get Tokyo where you have to work your ass off to get mediocre sushi.

common app is over 20 years old.

everyone, except Reason, knows that scammers descend on disaster areas. who knows if this guy is gonna repair roofs to code? or just rip off desperate families. i lived in florida …

A large nuclear power plant may use up to 1 billion gallons of water a day and, for this reason, they are often built next to rivers, lakes or oceans to utilise the bodies of water…

the “PC mob” might be new but we’ve had mobs of every political, religious, and cultural motivation pressuring academia since it’s invention.

+1, and how many engineers do they employ? thousands, just like big tech companies.

a friend of mine went from working in oil extraction field engineering to being a patent agent. he does a lot of reviewing applications, finding prior art, and analysis of the inve…

I suppose when I read Hacker News, I think about the kind of companies that would apply to YC or otherwise compete with SV-ish funded companies.

I kinda agree with you -- half the job as a programmer is being really tedious and paying attention to written text on a screen. If you can't reasonably review your resume and use …

Take those assumptions and spend a year burning your savings. Once you see that all your competitors raised at least a few hundred k pre-product while you’ve got a hole burning in …

Yep.... Bootstrapping is for fools. Virtually no founders out there are pouring their personal savings into their company. The issues with bootstrapping: 1) No one to tell you to g…

yea especially when locals do the same shit all over the world: wake up get dressed do a job / raise kids / relax eat maybe do a hobby go to bed it's not like you get to Mongolia a…