If you’re curious (many HN readers are) and have basic math literacy (ditto) once you come across the concept, grokking interest rate risk takes about an hour at most.
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“The SVB conundrum”
> Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem
This is not really about authority. An outsider can have good ideas. A person who has no experience and no knowledge of the subject will usually spout nonsense as seen on this thread.
If someone was talking about how child birth doesn't need any sort of pain medication because the experience isn't that painful, wouldn't you want to know if they had actually given birth at least once?
Concretely, reading what a person who has never worked a full time job (much less had to juggle having a family and a full time job), has to say about work-life balance is pointless.
Reading their thoughts on how not working overtime precludes raises and promotions is a waste of time.
Watching as they finish their rant by appealing to a sense of duty that every software engineer must have because "if Google or AWS goes down, it breaks everything" when the people responsible for these systems are a tiny minority of all software engineers...
Come on. If OP was not a 2nd year CS student, I would have been surprised.
According to whom?
AI in games, has historically been all about human comfort/enjoyment. Extremely good AI that seems "unnatural" to humans is usually not the goal.
If you're able to make it that far on ESL, mathematical background certainly won't hold you back when learning anything "neural networks" related. Specially not a spelled-out practical intro.
> I know basic python (read python for data analysis)
You may want to get more comfortable with programming in general (outside of the data analysis realm), but you can learn everything you're missing while watching Karpathy's series (and referencing the python docs).
I agree but also think that’s a very different statement from “alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than most”
> Crime — including robbery in public spaces — spiked 14 percent from 2021 to 2022
I wonder what else changed between 2021 and 2022 that could have caused robbery in public spaces to spike.
So many things have changed in Portugal over the last decade, Lisbon and Porto in particular, that looking just at drug policy is insufficient. In particular, cost of living and immigration from poorer countries (both correlated with “number of desperate people”) have risen significantly.
The overall impact of alcohol on society is not because it is “much more dangerous than most”, but because it is consumed (and abused) by orders of magnitude more people than almost every other drug.
https://www.jmeiners.com/pre-rendered-backgrounds/img/ff7.jp...
and the image in the article about Meta's library:
https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/blogs/2023-july-blog-...
I was going to point out that a correlation of 50% is pretty good (specially for predicting job performance from a single interview), whereas flipping a coin has 0% correlation with anything that is independent of the coin flip (such as job performance).
You probably meant to say the probability you rank job-performance of two random candidates correctly based on an interview is about 50% (what your source calls "percent concordant"), a correlation of 0%.
Out of curiosity: do you remember which section of the book looks at "chat about tech" interviews compared to other kinds of tech interviews in regards to their job performance prediction capabilities?
Definitely not my experience growing up. I'm sorry.
So, in response to your first comment, "it doesn't even matter how smart you are" is not accurate unless you specify the context you're referring to.
If you care about being "happy"? Sure.
But plenty of things require a bit more than "a surprisingly low threshold". You're not going to be Jeff Dean (for example) if you're just "smart".
That's probably way too high of a threshold. Many standardized tests lump everyone who is in the top 5-10% of ability, as long as they prepare sufficiently well.
That being said, addiction is not easily cured with or without free housing, if the substance of addiction is easily available nearby (alcohol, drugs, casinos) without additional support systems.
“that cannot be grown in most climates except for a very few select regions”
But to be clear, the statement in your original comment that I quoted
> you can just look at Nintendo who to this day still goes hard after Youtubers who just cover their games
(emphasis mine)
is false, right?
> They're extremely protective of their IPs, especially when it comes to foreigners or people in Japan whom they have no professional relationship with.
If that's the case. What are all of these gameplay videos of their most recent release doing on youtube (all of them uploaded by foreigners afaict)?
The first computers to beat (and completely surpass) the best human beings at chess were not trained on anything. Just efficient search techniques and human feedback through heuristics/opening books.
https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-vietnam-relationship...
So communism clearly isn’t the issue.