Hacker News: totorovirus

New comment by totorovirus in "ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses"

totorovirus — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:06:06 +0000

this is why we need zero knowledge proof

New comment by totorovirus in "Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity"

totorovirus — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:34:52 +0000

What shines better in a resume? ex-founder or ex-founding engineer? If ex-founder is a better role for next job, I think founders are taking much less risk than founding engineers. They get all the exposure to talking to rich people, VCs, learning how financial game works, which i regard much more rewarding career-wise.

New comment by totorovirus in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

totorovirus — Sun, 19 May 2024 15:32:14 +0000

I can already see how many people are so illiterate about GPUs.

New comment by totorovirus in "Top AIs still fail IQ tests"

totorovirus — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:04:45 +0000

proves my point that llms are simply a next token predictor. There are many interesting properties that we see "emergence" of intelligence but I think it's just human's incapability to hold so much knowledge on active memory.

New comment by totorovirus in "The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid"

totorovirus — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:46:00 +0000

There are professional wedding guests in Korea

New comment by totorovirus in "WyGPT: Minimal mature GPT model in C++"

totorovirus — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 09:06:22 +0000

sexy self is a cool naming convention that will possibly replace foobar https://github.com/wangyi-fudan/wyGPT/blob/main/cpu.cpp#L140

New comment by totorovirus in "FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease"

totorovirus — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 07:05:27 +0000

could we have a CRISPR based penis elongation medicine in future? I would like to invest to that startup

New comment by totorovirus in "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google"

totorovirus — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 01:25:01 +0000

The author is roasting Jeanine Banks and she is probably the real motivation that drove the author writing a whole long article of google's culture when things were beautiful.

New comment by totorovirus in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

totorovirus — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:00:52 +0000

Is ADHD a real thing? I see too many SV engineers diagnosed with ADHD to the point that it feels like a large scam run by psychiatrists that they lowered the threshold of the actual ADHD.

New comment by totorovirus in "Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments"

totorovirus — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:19:23 +0000

How could a sane engineer think that chatgpt wrapper could be the next unicorn?

New comment by totorovirus in "Immanuel Kant – What can we know?"

totorovirus — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:48:08 +0000

this is strikingly similar to the buddhist view of the perception. In one of the theory(唯識思想) in buddhism everybody in their mind has a kaleidoscope or window by which we perceive the world. This kaleidoscope is shaped by six emotions: sorrow, modesty, happiness, joy, anger and love. The important part is that the kaleidoscope also interacts with the world around you. If you want to change the world, you need to become the very person you want to see in the world. That is why buddhism says the change starts from disciplining and harnessing your emotions, hence "be the change you want to see"

New comment by totorovirus in "Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar"

totorovirus — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:31:04 +0000

How is FastAPI in large projects?

New comment by totorovirus in "Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites"

totorovirus — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:01:58 +0000

lol Korea achieved government censorship by blocking certain websites by sni headers without any announcement. I wish we had those dumb politicians like France does. It is actually a good thing that old dudes who are clueless about tech are high up.

This kind of meager understanding of tech in especially in Europe make me wonder how the life of those old politicians would be like. They are still living in pre tech-boom era, where rich people paid someone else to do the chores for them. They don't even need to know the latest tech advancements because they have so much "old-money" to live like in 90s, which means they were born rich european and will remain rich european for rest of their lives.

New comment by totorovirus in "LK-99 isn’t a superconductor"

totorovirus — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:29:57 +0000

As a Korean, I had a feeling this might unfold in this way. It's truly disheartening to witness Korean academia repeating a familiar pattern – this rush to make a splash globally, it's like history repeating itself. We remember back in 2009, when Dr. Woo Suk Hwang claimed the first successful human embryo cloning, only for it to unravel as a fraud (source: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html). With LK-99, I couldn't help but notice the same signs that triggered my skepticism back then. The tale is familiar – researchers hungry for funding, limited interaction with the global scientific community, and bold declarations of "innovation" that likely could have occurred despite less-than-ideal research conditions. Their bold claims to their break through resonates with the typical korean cinderella narrative - overcoming harsh conditions, through relentless determination to achieve the goal, just like we made such a rapid growth from basically ruins to OECD membership in less than a century. It is a common pattern in research proposals in korea to tout the patriotism of government officials in this manner. I see this incident as a extension of that research culture in korea. I too have enjoyed the hype and hoped it to be true but sadly it turned out to be another false pursuit for attention.

New comment by totorovirus in "A PhD student's perspective on research in NLP in the era of LLMs"

totorovirus — Fri, 26 May 2023 08:05:19 +0000

well I see topics like NLP in ethics, healthcare, etc, which I think is a sign they don't have much to do here.

New comment by totorovirus in "Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple"

totorovirus — Mon, 22 May 2023 07:51:41 +0000

What I've seen in the past two years, a lot of people who have seemingly no fit to a life of a programmer have joined software industry. In my experience the best devs were the people who self-taught programming for pure joy of building a software, making a glimpse of imaging to something real through writing code. The others who were on this job because the compensation was hefty - they were likely to opt out to a manager. I am not saying that hobby-devs are better people or co-worker. Every people has their role in a team. Nevertheless these people who habitually code are the ones who remain as devs after all.

New comment by totorovirus in "People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living"

totorovirus — Sat, 20 May 2023 17:43:54 +0000

Lol what a discovery :) I considered committing suicide because it felt like there was no way out of this mess. Suicide is more like an escape from pain rather than quitting your life.

New comment by totorovirus in "Protocol Wars"

totorovirus — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:56:05 +0000

Sounds like what's happening in blockchain scene right now.

New comment by totorovirus in "I wish GPT4 had never happened"

totorovirus — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 15:29:39 +0000

I wish instagram and tinder never happened.

New comment by totorovirus in "Git branches are named sequences of commits"

totorovirus — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:26:36 +0000

I thought git branch is an alias to specific commit...