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atxbcp commented on The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation indiehackers.com/post/sta... · Posted by u/olalonde

dang · a year ago

The thread reached the top of Hacker News, then went to #15. It spent 5 hours on the front page, which is a lot longer than it would have if the topic hadn't been YC-related. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732846 for more.

atxbcp · a year ago

The article only states that the post was deliberately lowered in the rankings to reduce its visibility. "Is this true" ? What your explanation is hinting at, although you're not saying it outright, is that "Yes, that's true." The graph posted below speaks for itself.

atxbcp commented on The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation indiehackers.com/post/sta... · Posted by u/olalonde

havan_agrawal · a year ago

> In the wake of all this drama, a blog post titled "Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth" went viral and hit the top of Hacker News. Which you might have missed, because Hacker News — which is owned by Y Combinator — seems to have manually dropped the post lower in the rankings to suppress its visibility.

Is this true? I never thought HN moderated content critical of itself

atxbcp · a year ago

Yes, that's true. The thread reached the top of Hacker News, then disappeared. I had to use HN Algolia to find it again.

atxbcp commented on Large Enough mistral.ai/news/mistral-l... · Posted by u/davidbarker

staticman2 · a year ago

If ChatGPT fails to do a task you want, your instinct isn't "I'll run the prompt through Claude and see if it works" but "oh well, who needs LLMs?"

atxbcp · a year ago

Please don't assume your experience applies to everyone. If ChatGPT can't do what I want, my first reaction is to ask Claude for the same thing. Often to find out that Claude performs much better. I've already cancelled ChaptGPT Plus for exactly that reason.

atxbcp commented on Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads' asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight... · Posted by u/mikhael

treprinum · 2 years ago

Sure, I just remember on my last day in Japan I actually felt sadness that I didn't find whatever I was looking for, despite seeing like 15 UNESCO World Heritage sites, but essentially didn't make any lasting connection on a personal level with anyone due to being unable to break the formal shell of anyone. Total opposite to e.g. Brazil when one could make friends in 5 minutes and those folks remembered you for years.

atxbcp · 2 years ago

Tourists expecting to form lasting connections with locals always made me laugh. How deep can these connections be if you're only staying for a month? Why would a local invest in a 'lasting' connection that's just for a month?

atxbcp commented on What's New in Python 3.12 docs.python.org/3/whatsne... · Posted by u/alexfromapex

reallymental · 2 years ago

I've been using python for the past 10+ years, and I've got to say that the new Syntactic formalization of f-strings (PEP 701) has got to be one of the most "huh?" changes I've seen in a while.

Was this such a big problem?

In my experience, the GIL, faster start-up times are so much higher on the totem pole, why this now?

atxbcp · 2 years ago

And in my experience, nesting f-strings and using quotes in f-strings is more useful than the GIL and faster start-up times, so YMMV.

atxbcp commented on Illustrated JavaScript coding course for absolute beginners [pdf] codeguppy.com/site/downlo... · Posted by u/lovegrenoble

atxbcp · 2 years ago

200 slides to cover loops and conditionals ?

atxbcp commented on Python: Overlooked core functionalities erikvandeven.medium.com/p... · Posted by u/erikvdven

atxbcp · 2 years ago

  - none of these functionalities are "overlooked", this is pretty basic python
  - for fibonacci you have a decorator for memoization (functools cache / lru_cache)
  - you don't need to use parenthesis for a single line "if"

atxbcp commented on The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart telegraph.co.uk/news/2023... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2

gmerc · 2 years ago

Jesus Christ. What we are seeing is decade long failure to integrate the children of people who were integral to building the french economy.

atxbcp · 2 years ago

they've been in France a few decades, France is a more than a thousand years old, how can they have been integral to building to French economy ? were they here during the industrial revolution ? the "30 glorieuses" ? no.

atxbcp commented on Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

drones · 2 years ago

> I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic

They are, you just have to be creative with it. And what they demonstrate is that all of these LLM's can't reason, they only know how to parrot back what they think you want.

"What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or two kilograms of one kilogram feathers?"

GPT: A kilogram of steel is heavier than two kilograms of feathers.

"Why is a kilogram of steel heavier than two kilograms of feathers?"

GPT: This is because steel is a much denser material than feathers. Steel is made up of atoms that are much closer together than the atoms that make up feathers, making it heavier for its size.

Edit: This was with GPT 3.5

atxbcp · 2 years ago

Just tried the first prompt with ChatGPT... : "One kilogram of steel and two kilograms of feathers weigh the same. The weight of an object is determined by its mass, not the material it is made of. In this case, one kilogram is equal to two kilograms, so they have the same weight. However, it's important to note that the volume or size of the objects may be different due to the difference in density between steel and feathers." Okay...