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michele_f··on Say No to Palantir in Europe
Palantir is currently used by Unicredit.
michele_f··on Tickets Are Prompts
Ok
michele_f··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Meta hires two people.
michele_f··on Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
The DoW or the CEO of Anthropic and his telenovela?
michele_f··on $250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on?
What does L&D mean?
michele_f··on Ask HN: What's the best documentation site you've come across?
Spacy documentation webpages are top notch!
michele_f··on Ask HN: Why does Microsoft prohibit employee personal open source projects?
Not true.
michele_f··on The Atari 7800
I had it!!!
michele_f··on What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
Feedly. PERIOD.
michele_f··on Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
Exactly! That was more relevant and critical than his opinion on Google's smart working. Plus, his view of EU and his attempts to "fix the AI Act".
michele_f··on Most of my Instagram ads are for drugs, stolen credit cards, hacked accounts
I totally agree! That’s why, as sad as it can be, a couple of weeks ago I decided to delete my FB and IG accounts.

I tried really hard in signalling inappropriate content, adding manual tags irrelevant for me, but nothing. I got frustrated of unasked violence, road rage acts, sex and physical injuries. Bye bye Meta.

The problem remain for everybody else. I hope governments start to pay close attention and investigate. Meta’s pure evil.

michele_f··on Show HN: Oblivus GPU Cloud – Affordable and scalable GPU servers from $0.29/hr
Is there any chance you’re going to offer the service in EU?
michele_f··on Meta was scraping sites for years while fighting the practice
By any chance, has Google being doing something different to improve and update its search engine?
michele_f··on Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
Fucking really?!
michele_f··on Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
Fucking really?
michele_f··on Physicists have purportedly created a wormhole using a quantum computer
Sure.
michele_f··on Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
Gary Marcus built almost entirely his public reputation (which is positively correlated with his income) by antagonizing whatever Deep Learning scientist he could reach. He speaks badly about people that worked hard with their hands, brains and souls to make incredibly complex things happen.

Yann Lecun, which I personally met a couple of times, is in a way another sort of typical character: the ever-childish researcher that likes money a lot, to the point of accepting a prestigious role in one of the most deplorable companies in the modern world (at least from an ethical perspective). He also like attention and public display of status: he can’t resist to pick a fight with Gary. From a pure research perspective he’s long dead.

The question is: do we have enough of those two? Can we move on? Thanks.

michele_f··on My Contribution to Markdown
zdw, I’m curious about what made you think this deserved to be shared with the world.
michele_f··on Is McKinsey and Co. The Root of All Evil? (2011)
> _Indeed, where ever there has been a financial disaster in the world, if you look around, somewhere in the background, McKinsey & Co. is nearby._

It seems that selection bias is something journalists really struggle with...

michele_f··on Ask HN: Natural language generation from structured data
500-1000 words. Thank you!
michele_f··on Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?
I did. Best decision ever!

I live in Milan (Italy), it’s gorgeous, glamorous, full of life, history and art. I wouldn’t say I made any sacrifice, at least after 4 years I still don’t perceive any. Here I feel a citizen, not just a worker. Here I can clearly see a future for me and my family.

michele_f··on ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
I'm not sure whether that is a viable option: after all ISO is a company. But it always stroke me as a paradox the fact that in order to be compliant to standards, one should buy their specifications. Certainly, removing such financial barrier will positively contribute to a quicker adoption and convergence of/to standards.

At the same time, I don't buy in the narrative that sees the ISO organization not wanting precisely that. Therefore I suspect that the current way of promoting standards is unfortunately the best system we've came up to achieve such goal.

michele_f··on Ask HN: I think I hate the software development industry? Am I crazy?
Hands down: "best answer".
michele_f··on Äike – First e-scooter developed and assembled in Europe
They improved lots of aspects, except for affordability. :(
michele_f··on Ask HN: Best book/resources on business modelling?
Thanks a lot!
michele_f··on Ask HN: Best book/resources on business modelling?
Thank you very much!
michele_f··on Ask HN: Best book/resources on business modelling?
Thank you!
michele_f··on The Full Automation Fallacy
I didn't notice that the word "algorithm" is now buzzy. OMFG.
michele_f··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
CISCO WebEx: the worst.
michele_f··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
CheckPoint VPN client: pure evil.
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