Hacker News: buitreVirtual

New comment by buitreVirtual in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:23:28 +0000

You posted first, so you are 1 here

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event"

buitreVirtual — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:14:20 +0000

:facepalm: :)

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Researchers taking on fraudulent science"

buitreVirtual — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 22:43:34 +0000

It's not just the funding but the jobs themselves. Universities and even the funding bodies want to show shiny easy-to-digest numbers to their stakeholders to justify tuition and government funds. Which means these institutions in turn expect those numbers from their researchers, who then are happy to comply and build their paper mills and citation cartels, solving no real problems at best and producing fake data at worst.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Most AI startups are doomed"

buitreVirtual — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:58:39 +0000

Something that gets overlooked here is that most people will associate the early players for a particular kind of AI (OpenAI) with being at the forefront. Even if there are 100 competitors offering the same service with similar quality, sticking to the best-known provider gives confidence to enterprise buyers, especially when they have to explain the purchase to their bosses or shareholders. This, and the ability to attract and retain top talent, will continue to be an advantage of the early winners as long as they also continue to focus on pushing the boundaries and don't fall too far behind when competitors come up with new advances. Heck, they can even relax and cash out after a while and continue to reap the benefits, like IBM continues to do for enterprise computing even to this day despite (shamefully) not caring to be at the forefront anymore.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "GitHub 404 errors"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:06:24 +0000

Is everyone laid off???

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:19:31 +0000

How did the other FTX kids get away with it so easy? It feels like prosecutors gave them deals too generous just to get SBF convicted more easily.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:15:42 +0000

Is there any place in the world where it isn't that way? Honest question.

How could SBF pay his victims back fully if he doesn't have enough assets?

New comment by buitreVirtual in "[dead]"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:20:05 +0000

Click on the top link to understand what's going on. The point is that ChatGPT purportedly generated that nonsensical answer to a human prompt and Google somehow picked it up as the top search result for that query.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Publishing my first game using PICO-8"

buitreVirtual — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:54:45 +0000

An alternative open source fantasy console is TIC 80: https://tic80.com

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Winklevoss twins secretely withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed"

buitreVirtual — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:15:54 +0000

No built-in regulation perhaps, but many jurisdictions are starting to regulate it, for good reason.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:17:47 +0000

Not quite, it seems...

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?"

buitreVirtual — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:47:05 +0000

Pouët (https://pouet.net) from the demoscene. Yes, it's programming, but at the intersection with art and retro culture.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

buitreVirtual — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:19:48 +0000

In this job market, it's hard. And many engineers are on H1B visas so it's even harder to jump ship.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "HashiCorp just let go 8%"

buitreVirtual — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:06:33 +0000

More like 10% in voluntary attrition afterward, if not more. And those will be the best people. Incredibly damaging to the company.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "Brazil judge orders temporary suspension of Telegram"

buitreVirtual — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:19:01 +0000

So they can talk to the representatives. They cannot make them remove the app.

Amazon starts layoffs impacting HR and cloud unit

buitreVirtual — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/amazon-starts-layoffs-impacting-hr-and-aws-cloud-unit.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714733

Points: 11

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New comment by buitreVirtual in "Incompetent but Nice"

buitreVirtual — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:27:50 +0000

Never ever hire incompetent people who are beyond help, no matter how nice. What's the point? You are running a team that needs to perform. It's not a charity or a social club. By keeping incompetent people you send a horrible sign to the rest of the team and the team will crack under the stress.

Reject the notion that you can only find jerks to get the competency you need. Just be sure they are willing to work for the team. Some will be real nice, the rest will learn to get along. Make expectations very clear up front and be willing to fire for bad behavior.

New comment by buitreVirtual in "HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)"

buitreVirtual — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:42:30 +0000

This CNN article is about recovery fund fraud, not money laundering, and more importantly it highlights that only middle to small bank executives, and only lower level executives at too-big-to-fail banks, were punished.

Liverpool and Manchester United, two giants of soccer, are up for sale

buitreVirtual — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/24/why-two-iconic-soccer-clubs-are-up-for-sale-at-the-same-time.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119432

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

FTX’s Gary Wang, Alameda’s Caroline Ellison plead guilty to federal charges

buitreVirtual — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/ftxs-gary-wang-alamedas-caroline-ellison-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges-cooperating-with-prosecutors.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34089038

Points: 26

# Comments: 2