Hacker News: MrMan

New comment by MrMan in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

MrMan — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:21:17 +0000

Being anti globalization means everyone loses which you will find out more about soon

New comment by MrMan in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

MrMan — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:05:43 +0000

I never heard of the ACE score, I just took a quiz and I would score a 6. I am a failure since high school, never went to college and had a period of 12 years of scraping the bottom of the barrel but I got a tech support job through a friend after not touching a computer for 15 years and then retaught myself programming after not doing any since middle school. managed to leverage that into a job at a quant trading firm by luck. I am still a failure but I have used my ability to learn and absorb information to build a stable life. success is always just beyond arms reach but luckily success doesnt matter I am just happy to be alive able to keep learning and making things. and now I have LLMs to help me

New comment by MrMan in "A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines Across the U.S."

MrMan — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:52:27 +0000

The carbon tax we should have started 20 years ago how about

New comment by MrMan in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

MrMan — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:35:56 +0000

I am sure Sutskever knows openai as an economically competitive entity has been living on borrowed time. this is a global arms race and this tech will bleed out everywhere. implementing LLMs is not rocket science per se and there are multiple places in the world this work can be done.

the bottleneck right now is mostly compute I think, and openai does not have the resources or expertise to allieviate that bottleneck on a timescale that can save them.

New comment by MrMan in "The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch"

MrMan — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:02:35 +0000

We need immigrants in North America, why send them somewhere else

New comment by MrMan in "Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)"

MrMan — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:05:55 +0000

why is promiscuity a bad thing? this sounds very old fashioned to me

New comment by MrMan in "Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)"

MrMan — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:55:34 +0000

yeah this is a very bad incel kind of view by the GP. I want my sexual partners to have had as much experience as they wish, I dont have some weird virgin fetish.

New comment by MrMan in "Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin"

MrMan — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:04:07 +0000

I just downloaded llama2 - what more do I need to access it from the command line than the code and the weights?

New comment by MrMan in "New York City will charge drivers going downtown"

MrMan — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:18:33 +0000

yeah this fact alone is so mind-bending. imagine if that waterfront on both sides of Manhattan you could just easily walk to with out the freeways! very sad.

New comment by MrMan in "Archive your Reddit data before it's too late"

MrMan — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:43:59 +0000

I use the browser on my phone

New comment by MrMan in "Ask HN: What happened to fuzzy logic?"

MrMan — Fri, 26 May 2023 08:43:49 +0000

and rice cookers. fuzzy logic was not speculative it founds its way into a fair number of real world control applications

New comment by MrMan in "The NIH has poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it"

MrMan — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:55:10 +0000

the only people I know with long anything are people who had chronic fatigue and long lyme disease but these two or three people are all wealthy neurotics

New comment by MrMan in "SVB was particularly poorly run"

MrMan — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:49:19 +0000

yes its the inverted power law thing - the same dynamics that make 1/n approach work in a VC equity portfolio seems like poison in a debt portfolio - only one company out of n survives? fine if that company pops on the equity side, that pays for all the other losers. but on the debt side, it seems like a bad idea lol.

New comment by MrMan in "How Silicon Valley Bank Avoided Oversight"

MrMan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:37:09 +0000

by tech savvy do you mean javascript?

New comment by MrMan in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

MrMan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:59:11 +0000

do you know what you are talking about or are you just being dramatic

New comment by MrMan in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

MrMan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:06:51 +0000

its impossible to guarantee all deposits

New comment by MrMan in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

MrMan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:21:48 +0000

that money will be stolen from all the other banks customers. this is not a case of "hypocrisy" its theft.

New comment by MrMan in "Credit Suisse finds ‘material weakness’ in reporting, scraps exec bonuses"

MrMan — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:05:10 +0000

If there is any bank that should be dismantled it’s CSFB but it’s survived this long by getting big enough that regulators are afraid to break it up

New comment by MrMan in "Moody's downgrades US banking: ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’"

MrMan — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:54:14 +0000

SVB was insolvent your statement is false

New comment by MrMan in "SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole"

MrMan — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:26:25 +0000

from the comments on HN it seems well-nigh universal.