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some_guy_nobel··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
Nice - anything to offer up other than name calling? Do you have any ideas of your own related to the displayed data and narrative?
some_guy_nobel··on Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
Right? As a former founder, I laugh every time I get a 'Founding Engineer' recruit email...
some_guy_nobel··on The Illustrated Transformer
Great article, must be the inspiration for the recent Illustrated Evo 2: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/blog/illustrated-evo2/
some_guy_nobel··on Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership
In what other professional industry can a partner just be openly racist, hostile, and spread Alex Jones like propaganda? It's so bizarre to watch.
some_guy_nobel··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
What do you expect? a16z-funded and they love to talk about how much they've raised, thought-leader style co-founders, etc.
some_guy_nobel··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
> Yes, why would you bother not exercising power you possess?

By that logic, I suppose well-funded police should respond to every call with a SWAT team, or at the least guns drawn?

(I guess Uncle Ben's quote in Spiderman actually wasn't redundant!)

some_guy_nobel··on An SVG is all you need
SVG has been transforming web-experiences (particularly for viz) for quite some time now, see:

- https://mlu-explain.github.io/neural-networks/

- https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics

- https://pudding.cool/

some_guy_nobel··on An SVG is all you need
I agree with the author when they write:

""" In my idealistic vision of how scientific publishing should work, each paper would be accompanied by a fully interactive environment where the reader could explore the data, rerun the experiments, tweak the parameters, and see how the results changed. """

I do like seeing larger labs/companies releasing research full of SVGs. In recent memory, I quite liked this from NVIDIA:

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/blog/illustrated-evo2/

some_guy_nobel··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
What are you responding to?

How much of the current burden is shouldered by the middle class? How much by the 1%? How does that compare to other Western nations? What measurable effect would raising this on the 1% be? What about the middle class?

some_guy_nobel··on All it takes is for one to work out
Of course you did, his PR team knew exactly who to market it to.
some_guy_nobel··on All it takes is for one to work out
Laughable that you believe this. Do you still after seeing all the counter evidence? Do you sit back and ask yourself, "I wonder if the world's richest man has a PR firm, one so effective it has me working for it part time spreading the lies."?
some_guy_nobel··on Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street
README could use more work. Zero images, demos, etc. - why put all the effort into a tool just to market it so poorly...
some_guy_nobel··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
Wow, a shockingly argumentative tone for someone who is just flat out wrong.

Beyond the response someone else commented explaining exactly where the comparison was mentioned, the anecdote itself is useful in offering an experience of someone who's life has been changed by the drug.

In any case, the study mentioned in the article is a meta-analysis about children, not adults, so there is no onus on OP to qualify anything about placebo or not.

some_guy_nobel··on GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
Probably because this was made in 2014 :D
some_guy_nobel··on A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism
You claim OP's interpretation is inaccurate, while it tracks perfectly with many of EA's most notorious supporters.

Given that contrast, I'd ask what evidence do you have for why OP's interpretation is incorrect, and what evidence do you have that your interpretation is correct?

some_guy_nobel··on Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
a16z has become a badge of honor for the worst people in tech (the ones who chase Forbes 30u30), and a stain to everyone else.
some_guy_nobel··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
This thread is about the FBI, yet you're referencing strawman arguments about DUI checkpoints from local police. Do you have any experience with crimes against children?
some_guy_nobel··on Why I'm Learning Sumerian
What makes you say that? Sad how easy it is for someone to dismiss writing these days as, "must be AI written!" (I'd wager the average LLM blog post takes more effort than your dismissive response, though I wish I didn't have to read either).

I'm not a fan of the author's writing, but you can look at their other articles and see the same (non-AI feeling) style of writing and general theme of content (airport-book style motivation).

some_guy_nobel··on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
The one word answer is cost.

But, if you'd like to instead read the article, you'll see that they qualify the reasoning in the first section of the article, titled, "Rethinking the Old Trade-Off: Cost, Complexity, and Access".

some_guy_nobel··on Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
There's an edit button...
some_guy_nobel··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
> OpenAI applies the same strategy, but they’re using their equity to buy compute that is critical to improving their core technology. It’s circular, but more like a flywheel and less like a merry-go-round. I have some faith it could go another way.

I'm commenting here in case a large crash occurs, to have a nice relic of the zeitgeist of the time.

some_guy_nobel··on Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals
> In what way? Demanding that people who are being paid $200k-400k TC need to execute and show that they can execute is something which needed to be done in the tech industry.

Where does this come from? Maybe if you're drinking whatever (toxic) koolaid Amazon gave you, but Amazon has a lower profit-per-employee than Docusign: https://www.trueup.io/revenue-per-employee

Not exactly the steward of execution you think it is.

some_guy_nobel··on Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals
From the outside looking in, if your "last resort" comment truly was a guess to their reasoning, then I'm rather shocked. We're both on HN, so I have to assume we both work in tech and have access to the same information regarding why Amazon has earned its awful reputation.

Beyond that, I agree with your larger point, with an asterisk on "overpaying", as I do think an American company should have an incentive to prevent laying off workers just to refill them with offshoring and hiring H1Bs, especially at Amazon's scale of profitability.

some_guy_nobel··on Hacktoberfest 2025
Ah, my favorite time of year, the wave of low-effort README and library version update PRs.
some_guy_nobel··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
Never new ctrl+l, that's great, thanks!
some_guy_nobel··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
These are great, and I have a few matching myself.

Here are some super simple ones I didn't see that I use almost every day:

cl="clear"

g="git"

h="history"

ll="ls -al"

path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'

lv="live-server"

And for common navigation:

dl="cd ~/Downloads"

dt="cd ~/Desktop"

some_guy_nobel··on State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments
Would you consider yourself a supporter of free speech?

Do you think it should apply only to citizens?

We can default to the Supreme Court's ruling in Bridges vs Wixon: "Freedom of speech and of press is accorded to aliens residing in this country.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107220981080384...

some_guy_nobel··on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
Sure thing.

"When I’m 33, I’ll quit – I don’t want to be a rock star all my life.” - Mick Jagger

Also, I've never seen a hypen used in 'planning ahead' before.

some_guy_nobel··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
> You first!

In any honest conversation, the person presenting the numbers will provide this, but I'll bite:

How many years are cumulative negative in this table?

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=ne...

(I guess the correct way to model this would be as the difference of Poissons between hires and separations, but a student-t should do just fine since we don't have separations)

some_guy_nobel··on No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
Yes, I agree there is a funding requirement for academic science. Hell, even attending a conference you've been accepted to is prohibitively expensive if out of your own pocket.

But your original statement was far too broad:

> there is not a scientist, artist, researcher or writer who is not driven by funding.

There are absolutely members from every one of those subsets driven by curiousity.

(In my own life, I have reached out to labs in completely different fields than my own to help publish out of nothing more than pure curiosity.)

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