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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139636

will no one think of the poor baby exec who makes 8 figures? how could they be so mean to him??

Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn't actually read anything.

You have a lot of growing up to do.

It's a narrative whose connection with reality is hard to discern

If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

One could instead say enshittification is an emergent and often unstoppable force, carried out by whoever happens to be in place at the time.

Yeah sure, and you can keep pissing into the ocean while you're at it while real people try to fix the problems they perceive.

All roads tend to lead to the same place.

Hopefully that's a place where no one has to read bizarrely dismissive drive-by comments made by people who have No Fucking Clue about what they're talking about and lack any kind of intellectual spine.

The amount of tone-policing in the comments is sickening though.

lol @ hn spam attack

the shitheadery is probably? due to the author being 19.

I mean sure? Swapping the pointers recursively is also fine. It's a question meant to see if the interviewee can talk about data structures or code, not to come up with a perfectly optimal working solution. Having a lengthy discussion about what "inversion" of a binary tree even means would even be totally fine imo.

I've interviewed a fair number of candidates and I ask them a very simple question with a bunch of edge cases and grade them based on how they talk about it, not the final solution.

I get the feeling that Max got frustrated and wasn't able to coherently speak about the problem, or the interviewer was dumb as rocks. I think both are equally likely.

Dude couldn't invert a binary tree in an interview and so couldn't get a job, allegedly.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

how are all of the AI girlfriend services doing? The last time it hit the news, one service ("replica" or something silly like that?) cut off the lewdness which angered users greatly. Are there new players in this space?

the hypocritic oath

(the joke doesn't really work but I had to do it)

can't wait for impotent blubbering about alignment while everyone's lives are made measureably worse by greedy failsons throwing AI at every conceivable problem it can't solve.

do I also detect a hint of "failed to be a engineer/scientist but desperately still wants to appear like one"?

I'm sure Paulie G understands the necessity of regulators in a market which has real world consequences and is just being disingenuous here. If he actually believes the things he said i wouldn't care much, but he clearly knows what he's doing (as evidenced by replies). Fucking scum.

Maybe it's a sort of recency bias but I feel like the old CNN/GAN image generators produced far more visually interesting "art" than the hyper-realistic unnerving shit that today's generative models put out.

Midjourney is profitable, so they fucked up BIG time. Imagine going bankrupt while someone else uses your technology to make money hand over fist.

What's wrong with the weed advice? Seems reasonable enough to me.

The 2 page treatise on inequality which is primarily impotent faffing about from "first principles" definitely hurt me though

I got a chuckle out of the coin concept artist's name "DonkeyHotey". Very fitting.

just looked the guy up. He's handsome. He literally looks like Jerry Seinfeld (actually, he looks even more like Pablo Schreiber who played Nicky Sobotka in The Wire). What a god damned twat. (Not that being attractive makes any of his arguments any worse than they already are)

100 megameters with no issues? How could Tesla not be #1 in car reliability rankings with that kind of performance? The rankings make it seem pretty average in terms of reliability.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/

Bankman-Fried is still doing what he can to spread the hype. Recently, one of the guards at the Brooklyn prison where he’s being held asked him for crypto trading advice, according to a person with knowledge of the interaction, who requested anonymity citing legal concerns. Bankman-Fried suggested the guard sell his XRP tokens and buy Solana.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.