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New comment by wufufufu in "Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes"

wufufufu — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:52:48 +0000

There are no clear details about what DOGE will alter. All the information we have so far amounts to outrage-bait one-liners. Where and how are they deciding to make cuts, and which agencies are they planning to change? Cutting is not intrinsically a good or bad idea, but everything I’ve read about this so far makes DOGE seem anti-intellectual.

New comment by wufufufu in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

wufufufu — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:54:11 +0000

> And then I tried gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. This is a closed OpenAI model, so details are very murky.

How do you know it didn't just write a script that uses a chess engine and then execute the script? That IMO is the easiest explanation.

Also, I looked at the gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct example victory. One side played with 70% accuracy and the other was 77%. IMO that's not on par with 27XX ELO.

New comment by wufufufu in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

wufufufu — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:57:31 +0000

Kinda? Chess isn't solved. Complex problems can have better solutions discovered in the future.

New comment by wufufufu in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

wufufufu — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:28:34 +0000

Anyone have a technical writeup of the actual bug? I'm trying to explain how this could happen to people who think this is related to AI or cyber attacks.

What happened to the QA testing, staggered rollouts, feature flags, etc.? It's really this easy to cause a boot loop?

To me, BSOD indicates kernel level errors, which I assume Crowdstrike would be able to cause because it has root access due to being a security application. And because it's boot-looping, there's not a way to automatically push out updates?

Ask HN: What are your favorite APIs you have worked with this year?

wufufufu — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:28:08 +0000

What APIs left an impression on you and why? Were they particularly well-designed, intuitive, or well-supported?

What designs or features of this API would you like to see be more common in APIs being built or refactored?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918729

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by wufufufu in "Titled Tuesday Cheating"

wufufufu — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:12:28 +0000

Doesn’t make much sense for Hikaru to cheat. He competes over the board where it’s much harder to cheat, and he makes most of his money through streaming, not through competition results.

New comment by wufufufu in "All-new solar-powered 'city car' is coming to the U.S. – it costs $6,250"

wufufufu — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:16:22 +0000

What about safety during accidents? It's better to be driving a heavier car in that case.

New comment by wufufufu in "'Dumbphones' make a comeback: 'No one calls me anymore'"

wufufufu — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:48:16 +0000

I would love if when buying an iPhone I was able to specify an entire class of apps that I could not install. For example, I could be banned at an OS level from a curated suite of social media apps. They could also make each app report the domains that it connects to so that the ban could continue at a DNS level. Apple is in a great place to do this because of their walled garden App Store model and withholding of root access from users. To undo it you would have to go into a store to use their proprietary software to change the type of apps you're allowed to install.

Ask HN: How do I improve my answer to “Tell me about a project you worked on”

wufufufu — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:15:38 +0000

I'm not the best engineer, but if my engineering skill is p50, my memory and ability to talk about technical things is probably p10. I strongly favor asynchronous communication like email because it requires less active comprehension demand.

Is there anyone else suffering from this? What do you do to get better at this in general? Or within the context of engineering interviews?

I will say that I think I have memory issues and auditory processing issues that aren't debilitating or that noticeable until they're exposed by a conversation like this. Is my only choice to yeet Adderall and "memorize my lines"?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37771906

Points: 14

# Comments: 34

New comment by wufufufu in "The world needs computational social science"

wufufufu — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:35:34 +0000

Don't we already have many answers? -- We just do nothing to address the problems.

New comment by wufufufu in "Animals Are Dying in Droves. What Are They Telling Us?"

wufufufu — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:54:26 +0000

Pragmatically, we need way more investment in environmental engineering and policies that put conservation first.

Since collectively we can't be bothered because we all need the newest electric vehicle, you can also accept that mass extinction is a byproduct of humanity.

New comment by wufufufu in "Bank Failures Visualized"

wufufufu — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:20:13 +0000

Can someone explain why this is being downvoted?

New comment by wufufufu in "Do looks matter for an academic career in economics?"

wufufufu — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:37:25 +0000

> We document appearance effects in the economics profession. Using unique data on PhD graduates from ten of the top economics departments in the United States we test whether more attractive individuals are more likely to succeed. We find robust evidence that appearance has predictive power for job outcomes and research productivity. Attractive individuals are more likely to study at higher ranked PhD institutions and are more likely to be placed at higher-ranking academic institutions not only for their first job, but also for jobs as many as 15 years after their graduation, even when we control for the ranking of PhD institution and first job. Appearance also predicts the success of research output: while it does not predict the number of papers an individual writes, it predicts the number of citations for a given number of papers, again even when we control for the ranking of the PhD institution and first job. All these effects are robust, statistically significant, and substantial in magnitude.

The paper is paywalled, but that's the abstract.

I'm curious about how much of that is self-sabotage. I don't think we can rule out self-perception of attractiveness as a confounding variable. Internalized attractiveness? If anyone has a good study about that, I'd be very interested.

New comment by wufufufu in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

wufufufu — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:02:03 +0000

I'm at about $700/mth but I don't see why I can't make it to $2k monthly. It's a Slackbot [1,2] that assists user story refinement for Jira. If you're a SWE that uses agile methodology this may be interesting to you.

[1] https://slack.com/apps/A01EL1SR7V4-groomba [2] https://groomba.ai

New comment by wufufufu in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

wufufufu — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:06:41 +0000

Thank you for commenting these in. I find this quote "That when allowed to be themselves, their psychological issues largely disappear." interesting and hopeful -- and the way it's phrased suggests some causation.

Is there a study that proves this? I did a brief literature scan and it seems to me that researchers are unclear about the causation direction of things like trauma, psychological disorders, and GID/gender dissatisfaction. I think this is a pretty important part of the ongoing debate.

I don't want to be the "citations needed" guy, but I do have a tremendous respect for science and I don't want to just have to go with my gut on something like this.

New comment by wufufufu in "Show HN: Unriddle – Create your own GPT-4 on top of any document"

wufufufu — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:58:19 +0000

Oh so there is pre-processing to find the useful portions? What are you using for the pre-processing?

I feel that it's inevitable that OpenAI et al. will be able to handle large PDF documents eventually. But until then I'm sure there's a lot of value of in this kind of pre-processing/chunking.

New comment by wufufufu in "Show HN: Unriddle – Create your own GPT-4 on top of any document"

wufufufu — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:15:05 +0000

What OpenAI API calls allow sending these small chunks?

When you query something like "What is this research about?" is it able to use data from all chunks?

New comment by wufufufu in "Who becomes an entrepreneur? Insights from research studies"

wufufufu — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:35:45 +0000

Lost me on "9 year olds"

New comment by wufufufu in "Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls"

wufufufu — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:36:04 +0000

I'd like legislation that acknowledges both the utility and harm that social media and more generally smartphones have. All I want is an internet-based texting only mobile-phone that doesn't have a browser or anything besides utilities. I don't want any feeds, reels, TikToks, etc. The fact that you basically need a smartphone to socialize, make payments, park, read menus, but it comes with a hamster-wheel for dopamine dispensing is like if the only way you could hydrate yourself is fountain soda -- you're just playing a game where you try not to get diabetes.

New comment by wufufufu in "Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not"

wufufufu — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:38:07 +0000

Given that the topic is pretty politicized and they didn't go into that much detail about controlling for possible confounding variables, I think the author is trying to express their personal beliefs through a study. I think the data is interesting but the title jumps to a conclusion that IMO the analysis doesn't support (yet).