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New comment by anthony_barker in "Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time"

anthony_barker — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:32:02 +0000

RAG is dead?

Here is an implementation https://github.com/lucidrains/titans-pytorch

New comment by anthony_barker in "Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver?"

anthony_barker — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 10:00:36 +0000

From an interview with the founder of Wordpress - "NVC - non violent communication". I didn't find a "best" book to describe the basically simple process though.

As far as problem solving specifically I enjoyed taking the CFA exams. Particularly L1 was good for looking a Financial problems.

New comment by anthony_barker in "Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver?"

anthony_barker — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:55:59 +0000

Very nice... Canadian guy with a very level headed interviewing style.

New comment by anthony_barker in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

anthony_barker — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:04:20 +0000

I had both at the time... the nokia was more capable. Android kept iterating and copying apple until it was pretty useful.

New comment by anthony_barker in "I regret my website redesign"

anthony_barker — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:36:06 +0000

what percent is charged up front?

New comment by anthony_barker in "Asus Zenfone 9"

anthony_barker — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:29:24 +0000

yeah best way is to create a new gmail account for every phone. Or a phone only email which has the associated photos.

Other option is a yubikey

New comment by anthony_barker in "I regret my website redesign"

anthony_barker — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:00:32 +0000

Couple of questions:

1) Did you pay everything up front or was it a 50% up front and 50% on delivery basis? 2) Did you manage any deliverables on a google sheet (dates, owner etc) or something similar?

New comment by anthony_barker in "Buying an ebike"

anthony_barker — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:38:14 +0000

Deaths per mile of bikes is 1/4 that of motorcycles in the UK.

https://www.motorbikeclaims.org.uk/blog/these-shocking-accid...

New comment by anthony_barker in "Buying an ebike"

anthony_barker — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:34:02 +0000

Tokyo sprawls as do many chinese cities but people bike to the train

New comment by anthony_barker in "Buying an ebike"

anthony_barker — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:24:31 +0000

There was an MIT Phd student thesis I read 20 years ago that electric bikes (escooters) are the future transport for Taiwan.

Roll the clock ahead and ebikes (at least here in Paris) are taking over. Dedicated lanes, government subsidies, government lending system plus private systems (2 or 3) have pushed it into main stream.

New comment by anthony_barker in "Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate"

anthony_barker — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 21:16:34 +0000

No one mentioned that governments benefit it 2 ways.

1) All the unemployed autoworkers who got automated away can move to make something that has had almost no productivity gains

2) Debt payments by government are basically nill.

Another view: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/vampires-at-the-g...

New comment by anthony_barker in "Mosh: The Mobile Shell"

anthony_barker — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:56:44 +0000

I would love to use it more but:

1) Has there ever been a full security audit?

2) if not and I run it inside a VPN (wireguard) doesn't that remove most of the benefits?

New comment by anthony_barker in "Who’s into Crypto?"

anthony_barker — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 02:01:06 +0000

Main issue is sending outbound from maybe 50 countries.

New comment by anthony_barker in "Who’s into Crypto?"

anthony_barker — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:59:50 +0000

hard to pay for a apartment in paris in land or olives in Argentina - but I can use bitcoin.

Meanwhile it is almost impossible to send out Argentine money without government approval. This is the case for most non OECD countries....

New comment by anthony_barker in "112 Gripes About the French"

anthony_barker — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:18:30 +0000

Mexico and then Canada.

New comment by anthony_barker in "112 Gripes About the French"

anthony_barker — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:18:02 +0000

hmm japan isn't very west nor is mongolia...

New comment by anthony_barker in "Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?"

anthony_barker — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 06:43:53 +0000

I would argue Big Pharma free rides its self on research from universities around the world which are mostly publicly funded and not for profit.

The US represents less than 34% of global research. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17354441/

New comment by anthony_barker in "Software estimation is hard – do it anyway"

anthony_barker — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 12:07:22 +0000

Have done some apartment renovations recently I find the same thing with architecture, architects.

Without a detailed plan a lot of space is wasted and the apartment ends up less nice and you often end up reconstructing stuff (if it is small and non standard).

The process takes 10-15% of the total cost of the project. Do people want to spend that? No.

New comment by anthony_barker in "Shorting Bitcoin"

anthony_barker — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:46:59 +0000

More than 50% of the worlds population live in a countries with currency controls(China, India, Angola, Nigeria etc). They have reasons to avoid currency controls.

Another less nice example is the guy who had 50 million in BTC who went to german jail and they couldnt' recover the funds. This the first time in history you can have a "buried treasure" that you can protect just by memorizing 12 words.

Greece was almost in continual default from 1800 until the EURO. (Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth. This Time Is Different).

New comment by anthony_barker in "Shorting Bitcoin"

anthony_barker — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:42:56 +0000

If you purchase the put you can only loose the premium.

Naked puts (writing them) are another story