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sonofaragorn··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
yes! I think it's yet another fad that is slowyly dying. I wish my company hadn't spent a whole team working for like 6 months creating an MCP server that no one will ever really use at scale
sonofaragorn··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
We used to use the jira mcp, then a jira skill, and now simply use the jira acli. Much cheaper and works fine
sonofaragorn··on Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet
I couldn't find an example/screenshot of how the reminder would appear on the screen
sonofaragorn··on 12ft.io Taken Down
That's what the Basic Attention Token (BAT) from the Brave team tried (is still trying?) to do: https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
sonofaragorn··on CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider
I'm not sure that is fair. I've been reading her blog for over a decade, and she has always taken a contrarian view.
sonofaragorn··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
Loved this. Would it be possible to add subtitles?
sonofaragorn··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
What about a post or comment that includes proper names?
sonofaragorn··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Aidan Gomez, Nick Frost, and Ivan Zhang, all of whom were Hinton's students at UofT started Cohere (https://cohere.com/about)
sonofaragorn··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Not true. I've done SRED every year for the past ~7 years. It is work, but there are specialized consultants that do most of it. If the work is truly R&D (which would be the case for a cutting-edge AI company) and you track your work in JIRA or something like that, then it's mostly just writing a few pages describing the efforts.
sonofaragorn··on Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
I get your sentiment, but I think it's important for science communication to adapt to the times. Decades ago (and even as little as one decade ago), most scientists (maybe Hawking being the exception) who would dare appear in these 1hr documentaries would be belittled by the "hardcore" scientists with the same words you used "Science should not be over-simplified like that", "they are not real scientists, they just want to be on TV", etc.

The truth is that young people are mostly on TikTok et al, so this type of content needs to get there.

sonofaragorn··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
What if they were liable? Say the company that offers the LLM lawyer is liable. Would that make this feasible? In terms of being convincingly wrong, it's not like lawyers never make mistakes...
sonofaragorn··on Rarbg Is No More
are these safe? being clones doesn't really inspire much confidence

rarbg was my go to for years :S

sonofaragorn··on IPyflow: Reactive Python Notebooks in Jupyter(Lab)
Agreed on the confusing page. I use notebooks every single day but a quick glance at the README gave me zero indication of this being something I need
sonofaragorn··on CERN researchers have observed and generated high-energy neutrino radiation
The energy of the IceCube neutrinos is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than the ones detected by this experiment. But this is still cool because it's the highest energy neutrinos detected from man-made sources.

See slide 13 here: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29681/contributions/122474/att...

sonofaragorn··on Jaccard Index
what is a children model? I'm curious but can't really follow what you wrote, can you add a bit more context?
sonofaragorn··on Gail.com FAQ
Why keep the domain if you don't plan on monetizing it? What's the point?
sonofaragorn··on Apple Rankings
Surprised this domain was available
sonofaragorn··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
They are also saying that departments are affected disproportionately. It's likely much harder for recruiters to find a new job, especially when hiring is being frozen at most companies
sonofaragorn··on I surveyed 500 startup founders about their salaries
I was going to say this, beautiful data viz! OP can you talk a bit about what tools were used?
sonofaragorn··on A Universal Cancer Treatment?
If you got cancer and the onclogist recommended chemo, would you refuse it?
sonofaragorn··on Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
it's even easier to do somethign atrocious like being a serial killer
sonofaragorn··on The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)
And frigid winters. Why am I here again?
sonofaragorn··on I stopped working on black hole information loss
All these topics are so advanced that even for someone trained in one it would take years to become proficient in the other.

Source: I'm a Physics PhD

sonofaragorn··on Ask HN: Affordable places in the world with 10G unmetered fiber home Internet?
Good point. I would define that as slow lol
sonofaragorn··on Ask HN: Affordable places in the world with 10G unmetered fiber home Internet?
https://nomadlist.com/places-on-a-budget-with-fast-internet
sonofaragorn··on How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months
I'm pretty sure that's what everyone who clicked on the link was interested in LOL
sonofaragorn··on Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur
Thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity, how have you supported yourself all this time?
sonofaragorn··on I resigned from Twitter
Twitter does a have a large "health" department tasked with figuring how to measure and improve the quality of the content and discourse in the platform. I don't have details since I only interviewed for a role in that team, but I do know it exists and it has a large number of PMs, Data Scientists, and Researchers. They have even collaborated with academia on the topic and a recent open RecSys competition (recommender system) was organized by Twitter with their data.
sonofaragorn··on 10 Year Smartphone
I think whoever is behind this website has to make it clearer that this is sarcasm. Most people here missed it (including myself).
sonofaragorn··on I might have gone a little bit overboard
Good point! I guess I just thought the bar was higher. I've seen people write on their bio that they got to the front page once lol
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