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magic_man··on Ask HN: Why did LinkedIn become what it is today?
It feels like people want to be "though leaders" and boost their personal brand. Heck people are using to pick up dates. People are pushing a lot of political stuff too. It is kind of turning into facebook.
magic_man··on Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
You can use a loop and a stack and can get recursion without adding all the overhead of a function call.
magic_man··on Hyundai Ioniq EV battery replacement costs $60k, more than new car
Nio does that. Chinese are killing it with their evs.
magic_man··on How many software developers work in non-tech companies?
Those usually don't pay as well as tech company jobs.
magic_man··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the new Google Gemini AI?
It's pretty terrible especially for programming. I don't how it got good scores on whatever benchmark they did.
magic_man··on Tim Sweeney on why Epic did better against Google than Apple in court
Apple basically didn't write anything down.

Tim Sweeney:

The thing with Apple is all of their antitrust trickery is internal to the company. They use their store, their payments, they force developers to all have the same terms, they force OEMs and carriers to all have the same terms.

I think the Apple case would be no less interesting if we could see all of their internal thoughts and deliberations, but Apple was not putting it in writing, whereas Google was. You know, I think Apple is… it’s a little bit unfortunate that in a lot of ways Apple’s restrictions on competition are absolute. Thou shalt not have a competing store on iOS and thou shalt not use a competing payment method. And I think Apple should be receiving at least as harsh antitrust scrutiny as Google.

magic_man··on Why doctors in America earn so much
There is a reason why most med schools have like a 5% acceptance rate. They have a much bigger moat than most software engineers. They are guaranteed a lot of money even if they aren't that good. They don't have to worry about leet code grinding and learning the newest random framework either.
magic_man··on Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going to Testify
Seems like a bad idea. Why did people give him billions of dollars? Did he ever make money on his trades? When markets are going up every one is making money. I am wondering how many of the super rich are smart or hard working or just got very lucky.
magic_man··on College football in the US is awash with money
Primarily young black men. Some of these coaches make 10s of millions of dollar and they are against paying the people who helped them make all this money. College football is the 2nd most popular sport behind the NFL.
magic_man··on Prisoners of Google Android development
One of the reasons why I appreciated windows. Even old software would run on newer versions.
magic_man··on IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
IBM revenue has been shrinking over the last 10 years. They aren't selling well.
magic_man··on Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?
For ee you need to know programming plus all the engineering math. If you do chip design you need to know computer architecture. EE is probably a harder major, and is probably one of not the hardest majors there is. Maybe physics or abstract math is harder.
magic_man··on GoDaddy suspended our site on Friday evening and doesn't respond back
Who exactly do you trust. Seems like none of the big tech companies provide much customer service
magic_man··on Bruce Lee and Me
He was sort of a dick when he was younger. Very standoffish with teammates, fans, and the media. Definitely mellowed out with age.
magic_man··on Ask HN: Why can't I buy a MacBook that is connected to the cellular network
They do it for their ipads
magic_man··on ask HN: How does an LLM like GPT3 perform addition/division?
>what is 2.87863853+2.345435345?

>The sum of 2.87863853 and 2.345435345 is 5.224073875.

I can't find either of those sequences on the web, but it seems to able to add them together so it seems to have some logic ability, or they check for math terms and do math on it.

magic_man··on ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money
Ama also keeps supply of doctors down too. That's why all these medschools have such low acceptance rates.

If you are an Indian and have a 3.8 gpa you still might not get into medschools which is pretty absurd.

magic_man··on TikTok lays off all employees in India
Why did they have employees there given they are banned there?
magic_man··on Ask HN: Will an EE get any attention in the software world?
EE AND CE are very similar. You can do a few different classes and you can get CE degree.
magic_man··on Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon
None of the other companies really had to do layoffs. They are still printing money.
magic_man··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Tech changes fast. Nokia, bb, aol, yahoo used to be top dog and now they are mostly gone.
magic_man··on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
Also crazy non competes. Like 2 years.
magic_man··on Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Results
They made about 60 billion dollars or 366k in profit per person before the layoffs.
magic_man··on Ask HN: Is Recursion Worth It?
Probably just use stack and a loop. Recursion has more overhead.
magic_man··on OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B
Does Elon still have stake in it?
magic_man··on Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm
Amazon is an everything company. A little tech, a little retail, a little ads,a little logistics, a little entertainment.
magic_man··on “I drove for Lyft for a week and learned its business model is broken”
Some companies make enough in cash flow to justify paying engineers that much like facebook, google, or apple. Lyft doesn't generate the cash flow or income to do it.
magic_man··on Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction
Surprised his opponent or his party didn't do some vetting. the gop only has a very small majority. If this came out before, it could have cost them. Seems like he lied about everything on his background.
magic_man··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
Maybe he was scared he was going to get arrested in the US?
magic_man··on Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC
The ccp is playing the long game. I don't think they really care about short term economic loses. I mean look at what the did with hk.invading a island is hard and they probably need to worry about America. Otherwise Taiwan is probably in trouble.
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