Hacker News: shamino

New comment by shamino in "Sam Altman, Lately"

shamino — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:55:33 +0000

Paul Graham came out publicly to defend Sam, and we instantly have this blog post about, wait, just a sec, let's dissect actually why Sam is still evil.

Can we believe that Sam could actually be a good person? Today, Kara Swisher in her podcast on Pivot said, "Every time I tell people I actually like Sam, they become widely offended".

New comment by shamino in "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter"

shamino — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:27:29 +0000

I mean, yeah, same thought after seeing the signatories. What are some of the cliches being used around here ? Toothpaste is out of the tub? Arrow has left the bow. The dye is cast. The ship has sailed. (Thanks ChatGPT).

New comment by shamino in "GPT-4"

shamino — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:13:13 +0000

LLaMa technically is only limited to researchers, etc...

New comment by shamino in "GPT-4"

shamino — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:04:55 +0000

agreed - can you think of any other model that has such unrestricted release ? Open means available for wide use

New comment by shamino in "Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs"

shamino — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:12:19 +0000

exactly. this isn't a leetcode problem where all you have to do is re-run the function, or do it iteratively vs recursively.

New comment by shamino in "Ask HN: How does Apple achieve both secrecy and quality for a release?"

shamino — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:13:04 +0000

Interests align - those who keep the secrets are better off for keeping them (not just for punishment of breaking NDAs, but the fruits (pun intended) of revealing something wonderful).

New comment by shamino in "Tech salaries fall in Bay Area, New York City, rise in Austin, San Diego"

shamino — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:18:44 +0000

Umm, tech salaries are indeed not falling in SF Bay Area thank you very much.

New comment by shamino in "Statement from Mark Zuckerberg"

shamino — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:22:35 +0000

> Similar to balancing other social issues, I don't believe private companies should make all of the decisions on their own.

Then give up majority control.

This article needs a listen in compassion. It's all, "no we're not", instead of, "we understand why people feel this way and this is what we need to do"

New comment by shamino in "Ask HN: What are the best data science bootcamps?"

shamino — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:30:42 +0000

I think one of the comments said vulgar and predatory. I second this. You don't need a bootcamp to break into Data Science, or Data Engineering, or Data anything.

Deep Learning struggles reaching level of reliability required by production

shamino — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:11:40 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1373112777519230977

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547149

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shamino in "Ask HN: Startup employees getting nothing after acquisition, is this normal?"

shamino — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:26:07 +0000

This is my main grip with YC touting startups as a great place to join, but not helping them negotiating fair equity. Yes, founders deserve credit because they took risk, but they need to spread the wealth for execution. It should almost be illegal to give employees such low equity, relative to what founders get.

New comment by shamino in "Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap"

shamino — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:30:14 +0000

People have been saying these kinds things about Apple forever. Betting against a $2 Trillion company, not sure about that.

New comment by shamino in "The effectiveness of cloth masks has been misrepresented"

shamino — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:36:44 +0000

You also want to have someone doing a scientific study to be as unbiased as possible. As I understand it, (most of?) his family is immunocompromised. This doesn't mean he shouldn't do it, nor that what he's doing is not saving millions of lives, but it's a little easier to question the "salesmanship" aspect of it when he hasn't spent a lot of time in the field.

New comment by shamino in "The effectiveness of cloth masks has been misrepresented"

shamino — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:33:39 +0000

When giving out numbers scientifically, it's important to be precise, or have the uncertainty known. In that case, 96% is widely different than 70%. As Andy Slavitt says in his April 22 podcast, when someone claims to know something too precisely in regards to this pandemic, and they don't say "we don't know" enough, run the other direction.

New comment by shamino in "New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support"

shamino — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:50:51 +0000

I would argue that Apple is a luxury brand, and iPad Pro is an Apple product. If you're saying the Surface Pro can make people happy too, I'll give you that. It doesn't make me happy though.

New comment by shamino in "New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support"

shamino — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:29:55 +0000

We need to stop seeing the iPad Pro and Surface Pro as equals. iPad Pro is a luxury item, and it gives me so much more pleasure to use it. Aesthetics, design, the way I feel - these things matter. And they matter to most humans. We're not robots who only need to get a certain task accomplished. We need to feel happy.

New comment by shamino in "It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985"

shamino — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:57:12 +0000

And Elizabeth Warren wrote it in her book, The Two Income Trap. Such a a great read! This was before I knew she was running for president, many years ago.

New comment by shamino in "How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?"

shamino — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:54:16 +0000

I have some criticism of the idea, actually. As someone who doesn't think they have good taste in clothes, I would not use this. I would want to upgrade my wardrobe and improve my style.

New comment by shamino in "Uber’s Colossal I.P.O. Flop May Be the Worst Ever on Wall Street"

shamino — Mon, 13 May 2019 21:04:52 +0000

Eh, kind of a naive view. There's a moat in all the data Uber's collected, and analytics it's performed. Not to mention R&D into things like automatous driving, etc...

New comment by shamino in "Software Engineering Lessons from Aviation"

shamino — Thu, 09 May 2019 17:11:39 +0000

Nathan Marz talks about this previously, with unique insights: http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-becoming-a-pilot-made-me-a-be...