Bukhmanizer

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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
To be fair some people rent places with really old dishwashers.
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
> Haidt is not the world's most careful data analyst This is a massive understatement. The ironic thing about Haidt is that his writing is heavily geared towards social media. He writes a good headline and usually has a few facts in
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
You think that TikToks strategic advantage is being able to coordinate “seas of Asians” so that undercover Chinese spies can meet, and presumably since all Asian people look alike no one will be able to know?
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
Seems pretty consistent to me. People were also upset when IT employees got fired. The general rule that employees good, contractors bad still holds. Even though people seem obsessed with the belief that firing public employees and replacin
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
This has been posted twice now in HN and seems to have attracted a lot of attention. But this seems to be the type of essay that just confirms HN’s pre-existing beliefs but has no real data around it. I can absolutely see professors from wh
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
> there is a LOT of apps out there, and really, humans don't need that much to be happy. There’s more music out there than there’s ever been. More tv shows and movies than I could possibly watch, but I still find new things to watch
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
Yeah I think there are a bunch of different reasons that corporations are doing less, interest rates are a major factor, but the point is that it isn’t exactly the “AI is taking our jobs” narrative that people want it to be.
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
I’m surprised not many people talk about this, but a big reason corporations are able to do layoffs is just that they’re doing less. At my work we used to have thousands of ideas of small improvements to make things better for our users. No
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
I think the issue is that a lot of orgs are systematically using the tool poorly. I’m responsible for a couple legacy projects with medium sized codebases, and my experience with any kind of maintenance activities has been terrible. New cod
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
In the most literal way possible.
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
The owner of X is in the government.
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by Bukhmanizer 2y ago
I am applying for PERM through my employer, and have gone through PWD process and yesterday I submitted my PERM application under EB3. I also recently married a US citizen about a month ago. They estimate that it will take about 1 year to r
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I fell down the pontifier rabbit hole from a HN comment in early 2021 as well and I’m glad other people have found the story as fascinating as I did. I do think the article makes him a bit overly sympathetic and glosses over some of his ecc
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
> But in general, this is Cruise learning what traditional car companies already knew - you need to act with integrity What do you mean? Cruise is owned by GM. It is a traditional car company. And also traditional car companies do sket
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
This is a very silly comment when you look at actual prices. Even adjusting for inflation house prices have doubled or tripled in a lot of places while wages have remained stagnant. No amount of scrimping and saving will overcome the fact t
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I think it’s getting to the point where the noise is overwhelming the signal in this story.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
Wild speculation aside, it probably wouldn’t be a good thing for this lawsuit to be successful. Broadly speaking, allowing a nonprofit to own and control a for profit is already a big loophole in the tax system. If the nonprofit then become
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
This is nice to read because I’ve been recommended rebase by so many people who clearly have no idea what it does and what to do if it goes wrong.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
IMO this is a weak criticism. It’s pretty common for eg. podcasts within the same network to promote a new podcast by pointing their listeners towards it. Is it annoying? Yes. Is it a Ponzi scheme? No.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I agree and what you say isn’t incompatible with what I said. But the point of the OP is “why even bother using other models/open source models when OpenAI is cheaper”? Well take away the competition and see what happens.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I was most thinking of Uber and AirBnB for price hiking and Google and Facebook for extracting value.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
The bleeding obvious is that OpenAI is doing what most tech companies for the last 20 years have done. Offer the product for dirt cheap to kill off competition, then extract as much value from your users as possible by either mining data or
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
Either you misunderstood my comment or you're deliberately interpreting it in a way that is easier to argue against. In no place do I argue that we should be importing the "concept of caste".
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I don't think this is very good logic. I'm not South Asian, but I can understand not wanting to be subjected to the judgements of a majority who neither knows or cares about the nuances of my culture, yet has to judge me through t
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I’m a much bigger fan of the magazine article title “Red Shift”. I’m sure the New Yorker changes it’s online titles to optimize for clicks, but I usually find them much worse.
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
Even comparing traditional sysadmin work — where operations are even more crucial — to software engineering, it’s easy to see that engineers tend to get paid more, get treated better and have more freedom. Obviously there are reasons for th
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
It’s kind of a miracle engineers are treated as well as we are compared to most traditional office jobs. IMO there’s probably a good reason for it, namely some institutional memory of when engineers would just defect en-masse and literally
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I don’t doubt that fact, but housing isn’t a typical market. It’s a market that for most people’s lives, has never gone down for a long period of time. It’s a market that the government will actively intervene in to prevent it from going do
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
> You're going to sit on a distressed asset for 20 years hoping it recovers? Do you realize how financially debilitating that is? I’m saying they have the financial ability to do so if necessary. Approximately no one actually believ
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by Bukhmanizer 3y ago
I noticed that too. I hope it’s not as bad as it sounds but if so, yuck.

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