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Nowadays. The last 50 years haven't been kind to people in the US.

Bullshit. We built a world that constantly exploits human limits, then act surprised when people hit them. No one has infinite willpower.

I'm an American and I've really never related to Charlie Brown myself, but I've heard Peanuts is huge in Japan and other asian countries.

There was also a discussion somewhere where they switched off the OSS subtitling software they were using onto a commercial product that doesn't implement many of the features (mos…

Relevant discussion from a previous post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497900

I get it and it does make sense. Humans always consider the unfamiliar dangerous by default, but I believe it's deeper and simpler than the arguments you present. This is not a str…

Do these get posted publicly?

I’m not sure you really can, at least not in the way it’s often portrayed. Founders usually need a high level of skill or a clearly transferable capability in something already val…

This is such a good point. People tend to focus on money as the main form of privilege, but that internalized sense of “I belong here” might matter even more. It’s not just confide…

What are you skeptical of? I believe the problem this is solving is a framework that's not CUDA that allows low level access to the hardware, makes it easy to write kernels, and is…

Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.

Not sure I fully understand your comment, but I'm pretty sure the talk addresses exactly that. The primitives and pre-coded kernels provided by CUDA (it solves for the most common …

I'm really hoping Modular.ai takes off. GPU programming seems like a nightmare, I'm not surprised they felt the need to build an entire new language to tackle that bog.

Anyone know anything about this or can evaluate this claim? Seems like a major thing if it’s true that would inspire an entire new area research.

No, where'd you get that impression?

I definitely used to. The work culture and attitudes, particularly of management, passed the breaking point for me a few years ago. I realized work was not my whole life nor did I …

I find this attitude baffling. In my time at tier one companies I have worked with the best engineers I have come across in my entire career (even the worst engineers were more tha…

I felt like I was doing that with what I described. What changes to expectations are you talking about?

It has turned into something similar to what people in trading companies on Wall Street deal with. Constant grind, unrealistic expectations, and projects done in order to get a pro…

Honestly, it was also a red flag for me that they don’t actually know what they want and have bad communication between leadership and engineering. Prior to this interview I was al…

That doesn’t answer the question. For me as a job applicant even in the best case I would need to do 3 to 5 interview interviews. The same is true for companies in the best case it…

I’m speaking as a human looking at the historical context of eating animals. Predators taste terrible because they are high effort, low reward in terms of nutritional value. I am a…