<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: inductive_magic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=inductive_magic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:03:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=inductive_magic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "Most Americans just don't matter to the economy like they once did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but the US has >25% of the global GDP.<p>Go to India or China and look at the average persons buying power, then go to Texas or California. Singapore and Switzerland are in a comparable income bracket, but have a combined population of <15M.</p>
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<p>Murc's law</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 07:49:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43288048</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43288048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43288048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "Buy European Made. Support European Values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How are you not aware that the US painted "we are no longer a reliable partner" all above the sky?</p>
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<p>Startup CEO from Europe here. How am I supposed to turn a blind eye to the risk that the dependency from the US has become lately?</p>
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<p>> I don't think generating hypotheses is where AI is useful,<p>> Generating hypotheses is the fun, exciting part that I doubt scientists want to outsource to AI<p>The latter doesn’t imply the former</p>
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<p>Care to elaborate why you think this reading is so wrong? Vo2max has a significant genetic component, and it doesn't improve unless you actually push your anaerobic threshold, i.e. interval training and long distance running. It doesn't improve by "going on a 5 mile walk or whatever".</p>
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<p>Wouldn't simply starting a HIIT-workout on the watch solve this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050530</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool, ty.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:56:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298791</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YubiKey</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298756</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Maximilian Koehler, PhD candidate at ESMT, and Henry Sauermann, professor of strategy at ESMT, make the case for software-as-a-supervisor in a paper titled "Algorithmic management in scientific research."<p>I guess "AI is coming for the supervision of scientific research" doesn't have the same kick to it as the submissions title. Leadership is about people, not about tasks. But somehow I'm not surprised that this went over the head of "the register".</p>
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<p>It’s almost like they had systemic issues with their quality control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:56:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39967647</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39967647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39967647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "For young people, the job search has never been so miserable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not just thinking about software engineering. There are lots of interesting positions which require <i>any</i> degree just as a basic requirement, especially in emerging fields, strategic roles, and generally in big companies. Maybe they’ll consider me qualified after I’ve built my own company, but if they encode the degree as a hard requirement the screening AI will just ditch my resume.<p>I don’t plan to stay in software for the rest of my life. Currently, my company develops knowledge engineering solutions, but in 5-10 years, I’d like to get some fresh air.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848499</link><dc:creator>inductive_magic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inductive_magic in "For young people, the job search has never been so miserable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who “made it” without a formal degree: oh come on. If nobody opens doors for you, it takes a <i>lot</i> more than just intellect and grit to establish yourself. While I don’t have many good things to say about the established education systems, it’s beyond naive to act like “just do it on your own” is a scalable approach. Even today, some doors will stay closed for me, simply because I will always have to justify why I have no formal degree (and the doorkeepers are not incentivized to even listen since the pool of candidates is big), and some of those doors are highly interesting.</p>
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<p>I always felt that the decrease in intelligence is a side effect of the necessary consensus mechanisms.<p>10 genius clones would still take on various roles/positions in the system, requiring some optimization with respect to alignment under time/energy constraints.</p>
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<p>This is quite the misleading wording. Britains <i>own</i> standards remain largely unchanged, meaning that they did not reimplement the standards enforced by the eu via national law. It follows that the standards are lower than pre brexit.<p>/edit: apparently I stand corrected.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure I follow.<p>The eu regulations no longer apply to food companies operating in the UK, as the UK no longer is in eu-jurisdiction.<p>The uk govt would have to re-implement them one by one, which a) would be a considerable effort and b) defeats the point of brexit, and thus likely come at political costs.<p>/edit: thanks for the responses, TIL.</p>
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<p>>For decades, the idea that they were simply pornographic objects, designed primarily for the male gaze, has remained a popular explanation, alongside the view of the artworks as fertility figures.</p>
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<p>We're getting very solid results.<p>Instead of performing rag on the (vectorised) raw source texts, we create representations of elements/"context clusters" contained within the source, which are then vectorised and ranked. That's all I can disclose, hope that helps.</p>
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<p>I have. There are multiple types of engineer which insist on migrating "legacy" (stable) systems to "state of the art" (cooler, modern, en vogue) tech.<p>You'd be surprised how many companies that maintained <20 vms migrated to k8s. The motivations include ordering a chaotic status quo, premature optimisation, young blood wanting to prove themselves, boredom, "its new so it must be better", "i want to try this" [...], you get the idea.</p>
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<p>There is a pretty big middle ground between “tech will solve every climate related problem on every axis” and “wanting to see us living in caves again”. Polar extremes are just childish.</p>
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