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predicting that a startup will fail is.. well, you got a ton of probability on your side there. so it isn't a particularly impressive thing to be right about.

Unimpressive doesn't mean incorrect, sometimes it's good to take the side of the most probable. And yet at the same time I am reminded of this quote:

> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw


Sometimes adapting oneself is, in fact, progress.

well played sir. well played.

Well played sir. Well played


That's an exceedingly unkind summation of the piece in question.


I wasn't talking about the piece in question, which just says "BTW I don't use AI".


No


working fine for me.


Well played sir. Well played


The OxCaml work is great. I don't use OCaml much but I have been following along with OxCaml as they are doing fascinating work that leverages a lot of research that interests me.


As a general rule, not all system calls are thread safe.


500k tech workers have been laid off since accounting for expenses under Section 174 changed on January 1, 2022.


I think that excuse goes in the same bucket as "It was a Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon."


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