Hacker News: alkibiades

New comment by alkibiades in "Google lays off its Python team"

alkibiades — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:47:24 +0000

lol so this guys takeaway is “capitalism bad”. even though capitalism is what got him his cushy google job to start with

New comment by alkibiades in "Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula"

alkibiades — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:30:26 +0000

itt a bunch of cs undergrads thinking they know more about economics then one of the greatest economic minds of our lifetimes

New comment by alkibiades in "San Francisco-to-L.A. overnight train inches closer to reality"

alkibiades — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:11:33 +0000

maybe im just a hater but rather take the 1 hour plane ride

New comment by alkibiades in "Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results"

alkibiades — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:22:12 +0000

wow so right!! those saudi sheikhs must have really good policies too. rich = correct

New comment by alkibiades in "Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results"

alkibiades — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:48:40 +0000

top down government technology mandates never work. the early adopters and rich california folks all already have EVs. normal people don’t want them

toyota was right and that’s why i got their hybrid vehicle instead of an EV

New comment by alkibiades in "Fresno School Tracks Students' Bathroom Breaks with Countdown App"

alkibiades — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:26:54 +0000

if you know anything about fresno it’s likely because they’re doing illegal behaviors there

New comment by alkibiades in "Chronic stress spreads cancer"

alkibiades — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:35:49 +0000

i actually felt way more stressed when i started making more money because it opened up way more possibilities which led to analysis paralysis.

New comment by alkibiades in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

alkibiades — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:06:52 +0000

it’s because they’re woke and think it’s sexist to ban that stuff

New comment by alkibiades in "A massive tech company exodus occurring in Austin, Texas"

alkibiades — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:19:16 +0000

the article gave exactly zero figures to justify the title. just a few anecdotes

i don’t see anything that makes me think there’s a “mass exodus”

New comment by alkibiades in "A massive tech company exodus occurring in Austin, Texas"

alkibiades — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:15:20 +0000

or they can take a 1 hour flight on southwest for like 50 bucks.

New comment by alkibiades in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

alkibiades — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:41:25 +0000

lol, or maybe they don’t care about woke virtue signaling

New comment by alkibiades in "30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000"

alkibiades — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 05:59:48 +0000

it’s strange to me how little attention this is really getting. you’d think politicians would run on solving the housing affordability crisis when half the country is having their life ruined by it.

New comment by alkibiades in "Terry Tao's generals (2012)"

alkibiades — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:07:52 +0000

so has he accomplished anything big/groundbreaking other than being a child prodigy and having a high iq?

serious question. i only know his name for being smart. not anything specific

New comment by alkibiades in "TikTok Rankles Employees with Return-to-Office Tracking Tools"

alkibiades — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:20:43 +0000

they can hire those outdated middle managers from elsewhere

New comment by alkibiades in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

alkibiades — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:39:11 +0000

i’ve never taken my phone off mute except by accident

New comment by alkibiades in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

alkibiades — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:26:51 +0000

never broke my phone until i moved into a house with all hard floors instead of carpet

with carpet you could drop it from the ceiling and it would be fine

New comment by alkibiades in "Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force RTO"

alkibiades — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:40:11 +0000

you’d have to compensate me extra to have that name on my resume

New comment by alkibiades in "Buzzy AI startup for generating 3D models used cheap human labor"

alkibiades — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:14:04 +0000

seems like the investors are the ones that are getting misled. for the customer, it shouldn’t matter whether the image comes from a human or ai, as long as it suits their business need

New comment by alkibiades in "Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers"

alkibiades — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:52:00 +0000

actually most deaths are in city intersections not highways..

reason being you can’t really get t-boned on the driver side on a highway

New comment by alkibiades in "The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag"

alkibiades — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 06:27:10 +0000

yes but the expected value of having a true positive is infinite because it saves your life. so that seems to outweigh the cost of false positive even if that’s more likely