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New ask Hacker News story: I am so tired of startups doing worse than me

I am so tired of startups doing worse than me 3 by sankde | 7 comments on Hacker News. I literally saw a multi million funded startup build an AI model for Android devices and tout it as their best achievement. I put a 32M parameter looped model on ESP32, an 8MB chip. I have three different softwares in production right now. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. How are these guys getting so much money?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?

Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job? 3 by bumicodes | 2 comments on Hacker News. If AI took away my job and I cannot return to software engineering, I cannot imagine a fit for me at any place yet. I was wondering if anyone else had the same thought and what would you do?

New ask Hacker News story: If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival 5 by hanstyle | 1 comments on Hacker News. Imagine this. Twenty years from now, if AI is capable of handling all work, how will your kids make ends meet? If you want to prevent that future, what should you be doing today?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?

Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy? 5 by dfps | 2 comments on Hacker News. Questions of passing the touring test rely on fooling people that the machine is like a human, but how that machine behaves in situations we would deem important or consequential (eg a man trapped in a room as in Ex Machina) may depend on other things, such as empathy (which is cross species). Opinions?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?

Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server? 3 by fragmede | 4 comments on Hacker News. When you get access to a new server via ssh, what's the first command you run? ls? nproc? lsb_release -a? uname -a?

New ask Hacker News story: Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired

Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired 4 by karimelgazar | 1 comments on Hacker News. Aaron Swartz's personal site now shows an expired-domain page. WHOIS says it expired Sept 29 (registered via Hover/Tucows). It's probably still in the grace period, so his family or estate can still renew it. If anyone is connected to them, please inform them. I read his blogs often, they mean a lot to me and I am upset about this. Archive: https://ift.tt/oc3nz4t