ANewFormation

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by ANewFormation 2y ago
That 50% was after years of bubble optimism and actively blinding themselves to data strongly suggestive otherwise. Had the Apollo missions failed you would obviously be arguing, using the exact same data, that they 'knew they never ha
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The ISS's orbit is not particularly stable and it needs regular reboosts which leaves everything else scheduled with this in mind. Providing food and other necessary resources for a long stay would not be especially difficult, but ther
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
It's not just about doing something better but about the balance between the pros and the cons. The problem with LLMs are hallucinations. If cars just somehow made you drive the wrong way with the frequency that LLMs send one down the
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The fundamental problem is that we keep setting 'reasonable' benchmarks, implicitly because we want to make them seem reachable, but then when we inevitably do we find it feels we [of course] haven't achieved what we really w
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
All you're talking about there in the end would be another compilation step. I'm highly bearish on the concept of anything like that ever being possible (and near perfectly reliable) with llms, but if it were then it'd make s
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
This is not the sort of topic where that happens. Everybody is aware that if you spin the data this way or that on these sort of topics (broadly - social science with strong preformed views that tends to directly apply to oneself) that you
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
There's no trust or belief - you're just trading one scarce in demand resource due another scarce in demand resource - nothing more and nothing less. This is the reason your money becomes worth less when we print more. A vendor se
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You're referring to the normal and reasonable view, but I think most are targeting this weird new(ish) concept, heavily intertwined into politics, that any and all differences between groups are due to biases or other environmental fac
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Money has a perception of value because of scarcity + demand. The government could, in theory, 'print' enough money to make every single American a trillionaire tomorrow. Of course all that would do is make the dollar worthless an
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I think that's another interesting metric. It's also a rather terrifying graph. [1] [1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You can see a table of the deficits per year here [1], which should answer your question. [1] - https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Haha. People just have different drives. I'm definitely a space enthusiast, but also see this as an awesome idea. In the grand scheme of things I think humans will colonize all environments, and starting to master water would open up i
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Outside of Biden and Obama (first term only interestingly) deficits were far less. As recently as 2015, it was "only" $442 billion, and generally less than a trillion. USAID's budget was upwards of $50 billion, so cutting tha
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The problem you have here is differing perspectives on, for instance, current government financial responsibility. The government is currently $36 trillion in debt with that debt growing at an exponential rate. Our annual expenditure of int
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I'm not sure it matters if it's attributed or not. Very few people are capable of setting their biases aside, so even intimate hearsay is mostly just going to be driven by subjective opinions about the person in question. I mean I
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
That is the Weimar Republic Era as Germany suffered through the brutality that was the Treaty of Versailles, and it was hell. Germany was suffering through hyperinflation, lack of availability/affordability of basic goods/necessit
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
1920s-1930s Germany was "a/the center of research, culture, etc."? This is especially rich in the context of a post pedestaling against disinformation.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
While I'm unsure about chickens, they're also [ab]used for larger meat animals like cows and turkeys because they make the animals grow larger, faster. The fun thing is - nobody knows exactly why this happens. There's a bun
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The forms are still available: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app... Looks like this affects the online form filler. But there was never any online renewal - the form filler ju
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Happiness being subjective to cultural differences is a feature, not a bug. If a culture is breeding widespread unhappiness (perhaps in exchange for maximization of economic growth over all) then it's something that should be observed.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
That measurement of 'happiness' is inappropriate. Instead of simply polling people about e.g. life satisfaction it's based on a bunch of random metrics that have, at best, a mixed relationship with 'happiness.' So f
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I think if/when you have children you'll see that these sort of statements are not really realistic. In a sustainable society every single woman needs to have a bit more than 2 children on average. The 9 months are not so bad thou
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The article is what you'd expect from the headline. The change in gender differences is easily explained by more girls pursuing music from an earlier age. More people (as a ratio) from a group competently doing something means you end
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You can create toy experiments to 'prove' just about anything - this is why social psychology has a replication rate in the 20% range. Though it's really much worse since that's only independently repeating the same expe
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I can't wait for Project Unify which just devolves into a brand new p3-mini type naming convention. It's pretty much identical to the o3-mini, except the API is changed just enough to be completely incompatible and it crashes on a
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Exactly. This [1] headline from the NYT pretty much sums up the issue: "To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions." Different groups of peoples have different strengths and different weaknesses. This isn't some sor
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Theres some sort of something quite special about HN and I suspect it's the lack of anything special.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The 'Unreal community' has enough relevant content that it'd take a lifetime to go through it all. I'm sure the same is true of Unity. Maybe not the more general stuff you might be after, but those forums+ deserve a ment
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
The whole concept of 'got noticed' runs entirely contrary to the notion of merit, to an absurd degree in tech. One does not hope to get noticed - they strive to excel on their own or by bringing others in to help them. Your merit
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Merit is somewhat paradoxically only partially about ability. If it turns out the most testably intelligent person chooses to spend his life flipping burgers and smoking weed then he has no more merit than the most testably dumb person who

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