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greatpostman··on Ask HN: What are your favorite index ETFs for Investing?
TQQQ
greatpostman··on As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
Even as a cofounder of a vc backed startup, both of us felt disposable and replaceable by the investors.
greatpostman··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
OpenAI must be cooking something huge for them to not be releasing products far ahead of competitors
greatpostman··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Dude he’s probably worth > 1 Billion.
greatpostman··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
I think that’s just standard software engineering now. Like no one is struggling to build these architectures.
greatpostman··on Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
You know you’re approaching AGI when creating benchmarks gets difficult. This is only just beginning
greatpostman··on Is Aschenbrenner's 165 page paper on AI the naivety of a 25 year old?
The bigger question is whether the paper reflects the views of insiders at OpenAI.
greatpostman··on The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
This isn’t true, most of the best software is written by individuals. Even inside large tech companies, it still happens that major value is created by one person.
greatpostman··on Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal
Gotta make money somehow
greatpostman··on A venture capitalist walks into a bar
Venture capital places wild constraints on the type of products you can build, the price point, etc. I do wonder if when ai brings down the cost of software, it will make existing venture backed businesses financially obsolete

As a venture backed founder, I had less control over the product than I did in big tech

greatpostman··on Ask HN: For the non compete ban, is startup equity part of executive comp?
Was wondering the same thing, this could be really disruptive to early stage tech
greatpostman··on Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’
The big secret is managing a bunch of people is easier than doing grunt work
greatpostman··on House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold
This is government censorship
greatpostman··on Meta Llama 3
Huge resources are being spent on these models at meta. Some very interesting software will come out of there in the next decade
greatpostman··on H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts
The real fraud is H1Bs just hire each other at American companies
greatpostman··on GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Generally Available
Apparently Gemini by google has a 20% LLM market share.
greatpostman··on Generative UI and outcome-oriented design
It basically means throwing out everything we know about ux design
greatpostman··on Ask HN: How do I find a job, in this market with ADHD
I have adhd. The only way I can focus, is the keto diet. I encourage you to try a diet of low carb veggies, steak, chicken, nuts, and avocados. It might change your life.
greatpostman··on Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
Yes. You need an expert based in the USA to manage the technical solutions. This is the pattern that works
greatpostman··on Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
This is going to put fuel on the fire. I run a startup, we hired two devs out of Eastern Europe at 60k each that are absolutely phenomenal. We’d love to hire American but can’t afford it. I know many other companies doing the same (nyc based seed/preseed startups). With ai, high interest rates, and covid accelerating remote hiring, I don’t see this recovering.
greatpostman··on DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest
The number is highly political
greatpostman··on DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest
A biology professor at Stanford claims it’s in the 10% range in modern times
greatpostman··on Young men and women are drifting apart
A lot of articles on this, never the truth. The truth being most women are chasing the top 10% of men. Not all women, but the internet has exacerbated this phenomenon.
greatpostman··on I'm a Programmer and I'm Stupid
I think some people enjoy the aesthetics of good code, much like math. That’s a smart person thing
greatpostman··on ChatGPT 4 Vision Vs Claude 3 Opus
Claude is better at coding. I use these LLMs all day long, am very surprised to see OpenAI behind.

I already cancelled my OpenAI subscription until they come out with something new. They have absolutely no moat.

greatpostman··on Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?
Actually for coding sometimes it’s better than GPT4. A lot of times worse, but my work flow is to give the same coding question to both. I play them off eachother. OpenAI will lose their edge if they don’t release a new model soon
greatpostman··on Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
Meanwhile google still hasn’t released anything substantial
greatpostman··on Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
The biggest office politics I see these days is demographic/racial based. Big tech splits very cleanly on these lines, exceptions abound
greatpostman··on When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter?
With the amount of outsourcing and immigration these days, judgements on employment tenure are only getting more harsh
greatpostman··on Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared
There’s a huge difference
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