sovnwnt's comments

> No disguised booleans

Do indexes count? If not, there's a simple one liner

    def fizzbuzz(n):
        return [str(n), "fizz", "buzz", "fizzbuzz"][1-min(1, n%3) + (1-min(1,n%5))*2]

Yeah I wasn't sure if the "run on the bank" had actually happened or not.

I wouldn't say it's "garbage prose" but I read A Tale of Two Cities in school and found it impossible to form a mental image from the text in some parts.

I'm still struggling to understand what "Tellson’s Bank had a run upon it in the mail." means.

> for many software engineering positions in Silicon Valley these days

Do US most companies outside of Silicon Valley not use leetcode style interviews? Every single software interview I've done in Canada had at least one round of leetcode programming exams.

I actually had a chat with my local MP (Canadian equivalent of Member of House of Representatives) about this.

Why can't we stop companies selling our data? You'd think it's easy:

--- very clear opt-in method for having your data sold

--- rejecting cannot prevent regular use of services

--- heavy penalties for breaking these rules

Problem is that no politician wants to touch this because

--- manufacturers sell data to subsidize the product

--- if they can't sell data, costs are going to shoot up

--- if they do this in response to a law, they get to raise costs even more because it affects the whole industry at the same time and there's a clear scapegoat

Consumers care a LOT more about their cheap, connected devices than their privacy. Because getting by your data like [2] happens to individuals, but costs affect the group.

EDIT: To clarify, the MP only suggested that costs would go up and people don't care. The rest is my personal speculation.

You make a compelling argument as usual.

Even with all the questions, it's not a lot of effort, you're right. I apply for the diversity visa every year and that's more work for maybe, oh about the same chance of success?

> I don't know where you got that idea

Admittedly I haven't seen a large percentage, but of the founders I've seen speak, all of them had a certain charm. Granted, there's a bias where people with these personalities put themselves out to be seen.

> Upload a founder video

Yeah definitely not. No thank you.

It's a great filter though. I am exactly the type of person who you don't want to see a video of, and therefore perfectly unsuited for YCombinator/SV/etc. which are all about personality.

>my pediatrician told me that acne is just something that happens to teens

Certainly not... https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/acne

> Clinical trial data revealed that approximately 50% of women in their 20s, 33% of women in their 30s, and 25% of women in their 40s suffer from acne

>which could have some pretty intense side effects

Your site recommends benzoyl peroxide which has similar or worse side effects compared to tretinoin.

It's also a lauded product on both r/SkincareAddiction and r/30PlusSkincare. Not something recommended for kids, but for adults with persistent acne it is worth trying, especially over antibiotics and alongside BP.

Strange that you chose as acne your demo topic but none of your results mention one of, if not the most, powerful treatments that is Tretinoin/Retinol and which comes up in the first search results on Google.

Problem is that some of the best skincare is not available over the counter, and surfacing prescription treatments dips into medical care, which is a whole other can of worms.

In the end, you are missing valuable treatments but presenting a summary of poorly researched (by Reddit users) or anecdotal information.

I love the concept though and would love to see it catch on!

Original title (shortened to fit): "I may be the only person to have ever killed every single MMO player on the planet..."

First the LLM needs to know what it doesn't know, and it looks like except for the explicit limitations embedded by the developers it isn't capable of doing that. When I asked ChatGPT about its own model variants, it gave me wild answers for things that made sense but didn't exist.

"""

There are several variants of GPT-3 model, each fine-tuned for specific tasks or industries. Here are a few examples:

- GPT-3 "davinci" is fine-tuned for creative and imaginative writing tasks, such as poetry, short stories, and song lyrics.

- GPT-3 "curie" is fine-tuned for conversational and dialog generation.

- GPT-3 "babbage" is fine-tuned for code generation and language understanding.

- GPT-3 "einstein" is fine-tuned for question answering tasks.

- GPT-3 "jules" is fine-tuned for summarization.

- GPT-3 "parliament" is fine-tuned for legal text generation.

- GPT-3 "bronte" is fine-tuned for creative writing tasks like storytelling and fiction-writing.

"""

I'd almost assume "parliament" it's a leak of some sort if any of the other examples (except for davinci) were accurate.

> Are your top performers only there because of the pay

In an ideal work environment, probably less so than other employees. But I think anyone who has their salary reduced is going to reevaluate their position, and those with more valuable skills are more likely to leave. The question is, what is more likely to cause a serious reevaluation, salary reductions or layoffs?

I think for most tech companies, a single round of layoffs is preferable, as the people who you want to remain are more likely to feel they aren't and won't be affected and not reevaluate their position. The reductions approach could work for smaller or startup companies with a flatter structure, where employees are more invested in the company's goals and successes, either through culture or shares.

> instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

This doesn't seem like a good strategy for tech. Cutting everyone's salary will dislodge your top performers who can get a better position even in poor market conditions.