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maskil··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
He's not dead. No need to eulogize just yet.
maskil··on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
If CEOs can be replaced, shouldn't founders be also (who are often CEOs)? What about all levels of leadership? Why can't AIs just run full companies autonomously?
maskil··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
Wikipedia is completely unreliable on any area of controversy, there are armies of editors who are skilled in fitting the articles to their agenda.
maskil··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
Why is there an Israel exception to politics on HN?
maskil··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
I just did. No question a number of these comments are completely inexcusable.

2 points:

1. A number of them, especially by more moderate voices, were made in the immediate days after Oct 7 when there was a tremendous amount of anger as a reaction to what happened.

2. The above comment and others like this were made by the extreme of the extreme right in Israel. I don't think that even Ben Gvir would utter such a thing.

Nobody with decision making powers is making any attempt to exterminate a people.

maskil··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
I found that AI models really have a hard time with Android native, kept reverting to the latest libraries which don't have broad support. I had more success with Flutter but still needs a decent amount of course correction.
maskil··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Isolating Netanyahu like this will only lead to a hardening of the Israeli position because he now truly has nothing to lose
maskil··on Interview with Yann LeCun on AI
You still will need clear benchmarks as the reward for RL. With Chess, the rules are simple but you may not have a clear loss function for a complicated architectural challenge.
maskil··on Israeli Supreme Court says ultra-Orthodox must serve in military
People, the most hawkish parties in the current government are also the most over represented in the army. Don't project US issues on everyone else.
maskil··on Israeli Supreme Court says ultra-Orthodox must serve in military
The Hareidi parties are actually the least hawkish in the current government, and historically were equally willing to prop up left wing governments.

"Security" related issues are not on their agenda.

maskil··on Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M) [video]
I suggest to put Karpathy in the title for visibility
maskil··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
Understanding existing code is in its wheelhouse (provided the infrastructure feeding the existing code to the prompt is working well), but I believe if you examine the totality of work a human programmer is involved in, an LLM is woefully behind in many areas (gathering proper requirements, potentially iterating/pushing back on requirements, architecting a solution on a macro level, other gaps an LLm cannot fill).
maskil··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
I would argue the opposite is true.

My experience with coding with LLMs is that the only thing it's really good at is generating boilerplate that it has more-or-less seen before (essentially a library, even if is somewhat adapted), however it is incapable of the creative thinking that developers regularly need to engage in when architecting a solution for their use case.

maskil··on Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
Please do! It's a fantastic series!
maskil··on Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
Except that people aren't dying as a result
maskil··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
Since when is the entire Europe a party in the war on Ukraine?
maskil··on The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem
Why is this comment being downvoted?
maskil··on Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
I tested this prompt with GPT 3.5, GPT 4, Gemini and Gemini Advanced, they all answered the question straightforwardly, except for Gemini (plain), which did answer but then proceeded to go on a long lecture about science and religion.
maskil··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
On the contrary, they seem to be doing it quite fine without a union
maskil··on Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
"Make the slope approx 20-60 minutes", to be clear does this mean it should take that period of time to gradually go from 120 to 20-60?
maskil··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
So you're advice is basically to give up?
maskil··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
Don't see how anyone could view the feds actions in the last few years and conclude that they had this as their mandate
maskil··on Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned
No company deserves loyalty, but 2+ months severance at a tech salary isn't a tragedy. I wouldn't mind getting laid off at some of the companies
maskil··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
Twitter is by far and away the #1 place to exchange and debate ideas. It is critical that speech on it remains free.
maskil··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
That may have been the case in the very beginning, but it certainly evolved into let's scare the crap out of people to achieve whatever outcome we want.
maskil··on Holodomor
Plenty of Jews were victims of Holodomor. I don't know which Jews you are referring to, but any high ranking Soviets who happened to be Jewish by birth involved in this, had thoroughly discarded their Jewish identity and were ideological Soviets in the extreme.
maskil··on Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?
I'm more comfortable with the Windows OS. But why is there not a single competitor to Mac in terms of build quality??
maskil··on Hacker News Predictions
Cryptocurrencies didn’t take off? Does Bitcoin reaching 60k from nothing not count as taking off?
maskil··on Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips
For some reason, I have a feeling that handouts would only make these giant corps only more bloated, bureaucratic and inefficient
maskil··on Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud
What does this have to do capitalism?

Funding for these projects is often disconnected from the market.

They are usually dispersed by massive bureaucratic agents with incentive structures that have nothing to do with profit (more internal politics and prestige).

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