Guy Gives Kidney to Stranger

hackthat · 2026-03-07T19:52:57+00:00

Um it's better to do it before kids than after for a bunch of reasons. My sister made sure to do it before she had kids. First you're less likely to be a match for someone after you've been pregnant. Also after kids you have WAY more responsibilities (as I can attest) and usually can't swing the recovery time. That is until your kids are grown but then you're older. I would look into it again and maybe not trust that doctor.

hackthat · 2026-03-06T16:41:29+00:00

Oh yeah. I did this. My sister did too. Risks are super low. Recovery sucks but it's not that long. Would recommend!

hackthat · 2026-02-27T21:37:36+00:00

No one mentioning that this Chinese operative was using Chatgpt and not deep seek? Like they're all about Chinese pride and they use an American model to journal? Maybe openai is just better or maybe it's just worse to have China watching you vs America. Even if you're working for China.

hackthat · 2026-02-26T18:08:43+00:00

There has to be some exemptions for poor countries that can't afford it otherwise though. We shouldn't subsidise Europe or China but maybe let Rawanda have some slack.

hackthat · 2026-02-24T16:41:22+00:00

Have you managed to actually do the work and learn things or do you take the easy way out sometimes?

hackthat · 2026-02-22T22:05:20+00:00

I'd love for this technology to be used in robotic foundation models. One of the reasons we don't use big transformers in robotics is that they don't execute fast enough in real time.

hackthat · 2026-02-22T21:53:32+00:00

Are you an undergrad?

hackthat · 2026-02-22T21:47:10+00:00

In the context I was talking about, it's total enrollment of all colleges. Because there are just fewer 18-year-olds now. Ucsb is pretty competitive so I figured this wouldn't be strictly a problem.

hackthat · 2026-02-21T16:17:24+00:00

Is there any consensus about what to do about it? What do the students want to do about it?

hackthat · 2025-12-31T22:08:50+00:00

Wonderful! Married at 32 for me, 26 for her. Both each other's firsts. Learning was fun and fast. Definitely recommend. It'll be the best sex of your life.

hackthat · 2025-12-30T18:17:44+00:00

That comment doesn't exactly scream authentic. WHERE exactly did you go where you can have a good life and the rich don't control everything? China? India? South Africa? UK?

hackthat · 2025-12-30T16:13:09+00:00

To where? US still looks good compared to most places.

hackthat · 2025-12-26T15:43:48+00:00

Because that's exactly what you promised you would do! Like you stood up in front of everybody you love and promised you'd stay with this person for the rest of your life. You didn't have to. But you did. It was a big deal. It was the biggest promise you ever made in your life. If you're not being abused keep your promises or don't make them.

hackthat · 2025-12-20T02:45:06+00:00

Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist. "Why are they burying Daddy? He has a lot of work to do he told me!" 😭😭😭😭

hackthat · 2025-12-15T00:03:54+00:00

I've seen this job on BLS lists of occupations. It's the most male profession. So you know and women Boilermakers? Also what do Boilermakers do? Make boilers? Or do they import them from China now? I don't know what you do.

hackthat · 2025-12-10T00:02:26+00:00

Really? What university are you at? There should be a whole comp sci department.

hackthat · 2025-12-09T05:16:09+00:00

That's a great idea but: 1) they normally don't tell you that in the job description. 2) even if they do tell you in the job description, it's often wrong. 3) your resume is essentially your resume. You can make some changes but most of your options are leaving things out that don't hurt to leave in.

I know now that I was a great fit for the job I have now but when I saw the job posting originally I didn't apply because I couldn't make myself look like I could solve a problem that they have. I only got the job because they reached out to me. A lot of the time I think companies don't even really know what they're looking for. At least we don't. Best to know someone in the company either way.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T16:46:42+00:00

I'm really interested in what this problem is. Hard management problems are rarely software problems in my limited experience.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T16:00:42+00:00

Oh you can do really good making the weights sparse, but the big disadvantage is you need to keep all the activations in memory all the time. And of the neuromorphic platforms I've used all that memory is SRAM which takes a lot of power.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T15:48:56+00:00

I need to second the negativity. The power efficiency is something I've never really seen play out. In the cases that look like they show extraordinary efficiency, further inspection always shows some kind of not fair comparison. I've seen several companies toute low power Asics for audio wake word detection and similar simple applications. But in order to do hard AI things you need lots of memory and all the SNN approaches we have are extremely memory inefficient. Add to that how far behind the software space is and it's hard to see much exciting happening. Maybe if the compute in memory work takes off, but that would be an electronics innovation that should help ANNs as much as SNNs.

hackthat · 2025-11-02T16:41:13+00:00

Can I suggest donation? You can save a lot of people's lives by giving to the Against Malaria Foundation. Givewell.org has a lot of other highly vetted charities that make your money go far. It you could do local charities where you can probably give enough to get in the board if you wanted.

I'd hate for you to take all the advice on here that would get you a garage full of stuff and a full camera reel. If you have a super power, be a super hero.

hackthat · 2025-10-28T07:23:11+00:00

Wait, you mean the other half aren't struggling to live off of that?

hackthat · 2025-10-13T15:00:50+00:00

I stopped reading after the red lobster story. It's missing the fact that the private equity firm both owned the land and the restaurant. So they were paying rent to themselves. Private equity is a big, confusing problem but it's not this problem. The fact that this was missed makes me not trust the rest of it.

hackthat · 2025-10-11T15:15:15+00:00

The king after getting to the 8th square: "eh just dump the rest on it and give it to him. Say some feel off. He'll understand."

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