highwayman47

329 karma · joined November 14, 2019

highwayman47··on FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Should Serve 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say

That’s his act, so he doesn’t have to serve a full sentence.

highwayman47··on Financial systems take a holiday

No, leave the trading hours as they are now.

highwayman47··on Stock markets are booming but the good times are unlikely to last

The performance of the stock market is more related to the money printing by the federal reserve than anything else. Modern economics seems to deny this, and thus will make articles like this.

highwayman47··on Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring

millenials get screwed again

highwayman47··on Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work

Surely most things do then

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

I have bills - I was broke before. Debt from a few failed business ventures.

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

I appreciate it - what's the company?

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

What do you do for work?

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

what do you mean? I've been trying to get a good W2 job.

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

I'd be willing to take a stab at 1099 sales jobs - I just haven't found many

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

I appreciate it - what's the best way I could leverage my life sci background?

highwayman47··on Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

yes there are inefficiencies - but biotech is expensive - I can't just start a business. My credentials aren't good enough for consulting either.

highwayman47··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

People who lack achievement in life feel joy when it appears as if Europe is being outwitted.

highwayman47··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

Half the board lacks any technical skill, and the entire board lacks any business procedural skill. Ideally, you’d have a balance of each on a component board.

highwayman47··on Inversion Art is trying to become the YC of the arts world

> amazing that the rest of the culture doesn't think tech people are skeevy

They do

highwayman47··on Inversion Art is trying to become the YC of the arts world

I don’t disagree with you, but why is this a red flag specifically?

highwayman47··on [dead]

I thought OpenAI said fine tuning and not bigger models were the future?

Side note: Wonder if Twitter will be filled with graphs of the motivation crowd’s interpretation.

Tiny circle = GPT4 Huge circle = GPT5

highwayman47··on Show HN: Bulletpapers – ArXiv AI paper summarizer, won Anthropic Hackathon

You should make a weekly newsletter with a few: new / featured / hot papers

highwayman47··on SoftBank paid $1.5B to WeWork lenders days before bankruptcy

Why is SoftBank so bad at investing

highwayman47··on The standard American household is now a millionaire, according to the Fed

Bad news for me with negative net worth.

highwayman47··on Ask HN: What's a marketable and lucrative skill I can learn online in 6 months?

I worked in an office for 8 years and it was the worst experience of my life.

highwayman47··on Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents

A lot of US airlines fly their planes down to South America for maintenance. I assume this is related to the parts.

highwayman47··on The CEO of Airbnb wants you to charge less for your house

AirBnb sucks, but why wouldn’t he just add a tool to the website to accomplish the rate comparison he is asking sellers to do?

highwayman47··on Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

Ya exactly, I’ve had 2 family members catch pancreatic cancer early and be cured. It’s typically the most fatal cancer.

highwayman47··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse

Suddenly climate change doesn’t require lifestyle changes when it’s time for the plebeians to get back to the office.

highwayman47··on Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults

Oh look another government program I’m too rich for despite living paycheck to paycheck

highwayman47··on Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better

True, but at what cost?

highwayman47··on Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless

Explain

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