Radim

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by Radim 3y ago
Second-order effects are hard! Especially when your day-to-day is already consumed by first order effects: keeping your job, putting food on the table. In times of great turbulence, it pays to hold on to fundamentals. Partly because they&#x
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by Radim 3y ago
Brute force search is both exact (100% accurate) and pleasantly linear – a predictable algorithm. CPUs and caches like that, so performance is much better than you might otherwise expect. From my https://rare-technologies.com&#x2
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by Radim 3y ago
> Zuck-level money wouldn't matter in a situation where a bunker is needed We're entertaining actions the rich take in preparation for a societal meltdown: build a bunker vs build a community. They take them now (hence the a
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by Radim 3y ago
You're not wrong, but more puzzling is that this is Zuckerberg 's bunker. I mean, it takes a pretty dumb billionaire to not realize that when a real crisis hits, you'll be a sitting duck (mostly for your own guards / se
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by Radim 3y ago
As a follow European, having lived in several countries east-to-central-to-west, I concur. Where did this myth that European healthcare is some sort of panacea originate? Maybe from far away, if you squint really hard, through ideology-tint
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by Radim 3y ago
A reaction to the relentless anti-Polish & anti-Hungarian propaganda being spewed by the " mature fully-liberal regimes " of the EU. Enough. You'd think the people of Poland and Hungary (who voted in their leaders, democr
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by Radim 3y ago
Especially with these gems in the text: > (Norway) the most robust democracy in the world (which also happens to be a EU member state) Norway is not in the EU. > Hungary and Poland, are still immature barely-liberal regimes with mo
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by Radim 3y ago
I did not miss the cold war (I was born under communism), I do believe that societies exist and have power, and I do not want to check out of society. What a bizarre non-sequitur.
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by Radim 3y ago
> I have no faith in "yes the law has technical pathological cases but obviously nobody would do that". I used to, but I've just seen enough cases of the letter of the law being twisted with complete disregard to the spir
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by Radim 3y ago
That review was a lot of words saying nothing much. On the topic of Iliad, I always found it puzzling that the (supposed) war started at the wedding of Achilles' parents, i.e. before Achilles was born. Yet Achilles apparently participa
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by Radim 3y ago
> Europeans seem to have Stockholm Syndrome, a fetish for authoritarianism of their preferred flavor. Not all of us! Please trim your paintbrush. Europe comprises dozens of countries, with hundreds of millions of people. My personal di
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Ask HN: Longest period with zero GPT posts on HN?
10 points by Radim 3y ago|2 comments
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Ad tracking company Criteo fined €40M under GDPR(noyb.eu)
4 points by Radim 3y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 3y ago
It may be a generational thing, a matter of familiarity with computing and computers. For someone who's lived through the 80s, "handrolling postgres" doesn't sound nearly as scary as you imagine. I expect the cost/b
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by Radim 3y ago
I remember that "radon killer" story being vastly overblown / debunked. Apparently anything up to 150Bq/m3 is fine or even beneficial for your health. [0] Has the debunking itself been debunked? It's hard to keep tr
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by Radim 3y ago
You're thinking different "rich". When poor people talk about "taking from the rich", they typically mean (well) salaried people. Their bosses, managers, higher up employees… folks they personally know, just with mo
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by Radim 3y ago
> it's the tragedy of the commons, again and again with our attention as the abused common good Don't worry, your attention is abused only as long as it is of value. I.e. only to the degree said attention triggers an action t
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by Radim 4y ago
Why stop there? Since you believe that human reproduction is a de-facto property of the state, simply calculate how many women should have babies, for optimal society , and force them to? No need to muck around with some tax incentives. Re
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by Radim 4y ago
There's some irony in BigCos using everyone's actual IP freely to train their models, no qualms whatsoever. And then people being scared to even download said models because of "OMG IP!" The asymmetry of power (and dare
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by Radim 4y ago
On seconds thoughts, interestingly, that difference between "wealth" and "power" also becomes relevant when quantifying your "most" in They can do without MOST of the "we" . Like, how many people do
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by Radim 4y ago
I agree with that sentiment, just a small correction: It's not the rich who will decide; it's the powerful . In the classical sense of "capacity to impose will" – up to and including the capacity to turn off {machines
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by Radim 4y ago
> the sense of unease comes from people fearing for their livelihood, given that it looks like that their raison d'être is about to be revoked by some AI automating their career away You're on the same boat with Carmack if th
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by Radim 4y ago
Yes, human economy is about the exchange of value between humans – a cheap tautology from Carmack. Money is indeed irrelevant to a snail, as opposed to a would-be SW engineer. But Nature is about making better use of energy gradients, alway
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by Radim 4y ago
Do I believe that when others choose to not buy your work, and buy something else instead and are happy with their choice, your output wasn't as valuable to them as you maybe thought? Yes, I do. In fact, I see that statement as nearl
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by Radim 4y ago
This is a self-correcting problem. If people consume "credible bullshit" and can't tell the difference, without consequences, then your thoughtful work isn't as valuable as you thought. If on the other hand people consum
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by Radim 4y ago
> The reason this backstop is necessary is because without one, pulling your funds is the rational decision Have you considered that rational decision may actually be a rational decision? As in, something is actually wrong there, wit
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by Radim 4y ago
Not OP, but it's probably a feel-good low-resolution bonmot that resonates with certain demographics. On the resolution level of "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" and
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by Radim 4y ago
Reminds me of an old joke: > The best part of having cold showers every day? You'll never get arthritis! > The worst part? You'll have cold showers every day.
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by Radim 4y ago
Article so wordy it could use an AI summary, but this quote stands out: > Writing of the enthusiastic embrace of a fully computerized world, Weizenbaum grumbled, “These people see the technical apparatus underlying Orwell’s 1984 and, li
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by Radim 4y ago
> “To be clear, we see the breakthroughs in AI opening up a new era of creativity that will allow humans to harness creativity in new ways with endless opportunities and applications for good,” Peretti said. [0] Depends how the AI part

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