Hammershaft

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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
I think the author is selecting good gifs and structuring arguments, but the prose is painfully AI generated.
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
Isn't that a consequence of Zurich housing & zoning policy?
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
AirBnBs are not responsible for the housing crisis. Voters that vote to block development at the municipal level are responsible for the housing crisis.
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
Has hacker news lost it? Maps & Gmail & Search all have plenty of accumulating flaws... but they also completely defined their product category and today are among the most popular software products ever made.
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
If you're a materialist and you think there is no afterlife then I don't believe there would be a void. There's no mechanism for "you" to perceive a void or perceive time. Its the difference between: "I see not
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
I mean the goal is that the money invested increases the value of the company so that the founder's reduced stake is worth considerably more than the founder's full stake of the counterfactual company where he didn't take VC
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
Because LLMs are not humans, and the code they produce will have a different distribution of failure modes than human written code, so attribution is useful info while reviewing?
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
Clojure programmers tend to be some of the highest paid[1] on average of any language, so I'd lean more towards a lack of appeal. [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2019#technology-_-what-langu...
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
It's fascinating that Clojure has consistently the best performing solutions and yet at the same time such a low success rate. Do you have an idea as to why that is? If I had to guess, two things lowering reliability: A) Balancing pare
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
As someone who loves Clojure, I wonder about the real portability across host languages. Do you have experience with any of these other dialects? (beyond the obvious CLJS & Babashka?)
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
Absolutely agree. Recently learning emacs with vertico/consult/orderless/embark has had me thinking constantly about how needlessly crippled most OS windowing system workflows are.
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by Hammershaft 4mo ago
It is absolutely painful for interviewers and candidates. I used to be able to email managers & founders directly and discuss what they were looking for... today everybody is navigating a deluge of spam and the interview process is beco
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by Hammershaft 5mo ago
Pangram says this comment is %100 LLM generated. It certainly reads as LLM generated!
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by Hammershaft 5mo ago
I agree. I'm as skeptical as many commenters but I also think the degree of polarization in HN around this technology and the degree to which people are calling those with different views shills or naysayers is pretty sad.
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by Hammershaft 5mo ago
There's nothing sneaky about terms & conditions. If the gov wants a service they legally need to abide by its terms, same as us, if they don't like it they should choose another product. Anthropic doesn't want their AI us
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
We only know that people vote (slightly) blue in an inconsequential twitter poll. I think it's likely in a real scenario like this red would win.
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
I'm sure you're right that AI augmented workflows can (& do?) produce beautiful works that I would call art... it's just that the overwhelming majority of AI 'art' I experience on the internet is slop.
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
There are so many basic gaps in functionality and so many underbaked & poorly designed Mac OS features that I end up papering over with paid 3rd party applications.
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
Apple hardware is incredible but the OS software & increasingly the design is mid at best.
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
I've directly experienced this and it is roughly as sane and effective as it sounds.
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by Hammershaft 6mo ago
I notice the title mentions the author is a former employee but he never mentions the terms on which he left.
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
I agree it's disturbing and sad. Vaccine mandates are more difficult. If this mother's freedom wasn't violated then she would only risk herself and her baby. If somebody doesn't take a vaccine they place risk on many oth
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
Is that necessarily true or just incidentally true in certain metros given the regulatory restrictions we have now? Our food is supplied via markets and yet with just subsidies almost nobody starves across western countries.
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
You're defending a government using force to prevent terminally ill people from voluntarily experimenting on themselves to find a cure and further our understanding of disease. It should not be easier for a layman to design and build a
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
The animal is terminally ill and the vaccine's slated purpose is to cure that illness. If you're rich & terminally ill these kinds of regulatory mazes are less of a burden, but if you're poor you'll likely die before
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
There's pictures of the dogs tumor progression and scientists from government labs validating his story.
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
I think people & companies get value from these markets because they are able to plan on the basis of accurate forecasts for scenarios like potential wars and election results. I agree that these markets also create bad incentives, I ju
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
The findings are consistent with academic research that these markets are well calibrated.
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
Why? We have years of experimental evidence that these prediction markets are well calibrated (ie accurate).
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by Hammershaft 7mo ago
1. That is not how prediction market calibration plots work! Calibration is measured across the range of markets with different forecasted odds. https://calibration.city/introduction https://manifold.markets&#x2F

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