Hacker News: floe

New comment by floe in "Word-processor idiot (Japanese expression)"

floe — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:01:14 +0000

This website just looks like an SEO farm.

New comment by floe in "Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”"

floe — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:23:41 +0000

Well, it was spun off into its own company in 2020. In the West we have similar companies like Replika.

Also translating 'XiaoIce' as 'Little Bing' is extremely misleading given that Bing's branding in China is 'Bi ying' https://www.labbrand.com/brandsource/bing-chooses-%E2%80%9C%...

New comment by floe in "By way of introduction – EWD 1041 (1989)"

floe — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:32:47 +0000

> For instance, the well-documented decline of productivity of the American white-collar worker has convincingly been linked to over-automation of the American office, but the “negative” outcome of this study has been totally ignored, in fact so much that many people involved in computing cannot believe it.

Does anyone know what study he was referring to?

The Instagram Reels Gold Rush

floe — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-instagram-reels-gold-rush

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246384

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by floe in "Political betting site PredictIt to shut down after CFTC withdraws approval"

floe — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:58:48 +0000

Although it doesn't make sense to have prediction markets for truly catasclymic events -- anyone who believes nuclear war is imminent is gonna prefer to buy canned food over prediction market contracts.

New comment by floe in "Every U.S. Crypto Exchange (and Binance) Is Being Investigated by the SEC"

floe — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:28:22 +0000

Pokemon cards fail the Howey test

New comment by floe in "Why I left Google: work-life balance"

floe — Wed, 11 May 2022 06:21:53 +0000

Same for the monthly mortgage payment, at least the part that goes towards the principal.

New comment by floe in "Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates"

floe — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:20:04 +0000

> you can't even hide them

I changed my trends location to Tokyo on someone's recommendation, and it's been a great workaround. I don't speak Japanese, so it's the same as 'hiding' the trends to my brain.

(I think the way to do this is 'Explore' -> gear icon, at least on desktop.)

New comment by floe in "On Being Broke"

floe — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:32:24 +0000

Damn, I guess I should become poor

New comment by floe in "Snake in a block – how I ran snake on Ethereum"

floe — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:32:02 +0000

I see, that's interesting!

I guess there's another causal chain, which is 'buying ETH to pay gas fees -> price of ETH goes up -> value of block reward to miners goes up -> more miners find it profitable to operate rigs'. I wonder how strong that effect is.

New comment by floe in "Snake in a block – how I ran snake on Ethereum"

floe — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:42:00 +0000

Driving up gas fees increases the number of miners who find it profitable to operate their rigs, no?

New comment by floe in "Decentralized Woo Hoo"

floe — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:14:14 +0000

Then why have all countries abandoned the gold standard? What makes bitcoin more suitable than gold for this purpose?

New comment by floe in "An oral history of Bank Python"

floe — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:14:43 +0000

What makes this an 'oral history'?

New comment by floe in "Things my dog taught me about software development"

floe — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 16:16:27 +0000

OTOH, you do have a lot of control in many cases. I realized that I was way too emotionally invested in a lot of work interactions because I just hadn't thought through what I actually wanted. Once I realized that, I was able to dial down my emotional investment and I stopped forming grudges at least in those cases.

New comment by floe in "Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (2011)"

floe — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:10:37 +0000

> Ask the candidate. I would often straight out ask people how effective they were at GSD, and how did they compare to their peers? It was surprising how honest some (very smart) people would be on this. E.g. "I am average compared to other engineers". For an early stage startup, average is not enough.

lol, wait, if this line of thought works, why don't you also just ask them how good they are at coding, instead of wasting all that time doing interviews?

New comment by floe in "The uncanny absence of nihilism"

floe — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 21:05:14 +0000

I think the target audience is 'people who believe that they have to believe the strawman', if that makes sense.

Pointing out that certain statements are self-defeating and (by definition) have no proponents can help someone escape a dangerous psychological process ('stance').

As a personal example, when I deconverted from evangelical Christianity, I was disturbed for a long time by the idea that I now had no reason to act morally. Even though that's obviously self-defeating (being disturbed was in itself a sign of morality), I didn't realize that for quite some time.

New comment by floe in "Ask HN: Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?"

floe — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 18:03:31 +0000

+1. I think it's dangerous to try to tell yourself there's a win-win (make more money AND make the world better) when there isn't one. I really like the way Anand Giridharadas talks about this. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/the-win-wi...

New comment by floe in "Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google"

floe — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:29:48 +0000

I'm amused by the implication that if Google has even one piece of incorrect information in its knowledge corpus, it's justified in returning absolutely any answer to any question. You can deduce anything from a contradiction, after all.

New comment by floe in "Exploring new forms of chess using artificial intelligence"

floe — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:18:19 +0000

> isn't given the game rules, so it doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal moves

But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state, and a way to determine whether a state is winning. To me, that's being 'given the game rules'.

> before any training it would evaluate a capture no differently than any other move.

That's a good way to say it!

New comment by floe in "Security by obscurity is underrated"

floe — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:35:36 +0000

They're verifiably hard to guess. That is fundamentally different.

(At least when passwords are generated with enough entropy.)