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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Unsubstantiated claims accusing companies of criminal offense and implying that individual people are also criminally liable. This should be flagged.
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
The article made the wrong statement. The thought experiment isn't that you can't measure length with infinite precision. It's that you can't measure length with precision better than the Planck length. No infinities are
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
I don't understand how computational irreducibility matters for the perception of time. Surely, even a computationally reducible universe could be so insanely expensive to predict that it wouldn't matter? I also don't underst
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
To avoid disappointment, just think of the mass news media as a (shitty) LLM. It may occasionally produce an article that on the surface seems to be decently thought out, but it's only because the author accidentally picked a particula
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Useless trash paper. It's like saying any object can disappear and reappear anywhere in the universe due to quantum physics, so there's no point studying physics or engineering. Just maybe we care if the probability of that happen
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Jeez why do people think I'm against the union? This is a forum for asking questions and understanding the world. I truly didn't mean to discourage unionization, I was curious about the thinking behind joining the union. It's
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
How much of a comp boost would an average NYT tech worker get if the union succeeded? Let's say 10% for the sake of the argument. Please correct me if I'm way off. Wouldn't they be able to get a much higher comp by interviewi
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Flagging this because it's clearly trash / fake news. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404229 for background.
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Does it mean that for getting high quality news, NPR has become just as garbage as an average media outlet?
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Seems like this information came from Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-1-844-457-1420-really-Facebook-supp... . Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/gallery/2nFq5Cm . I suspect the helpful SEO guy who posted th
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
I didn't say anything about responsibility. The article has a title and it's intentionally misleading.
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Yes, legally responsible. There's no legal violation here, though. The article made a specific claim: that Altman was aware of something. It provided no evidence that he was. If it accused him of some criminal misdeed, then it wouldn&#
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
No evidence in the article that Altman knew about this, and intentionally clickbaity and misleading title. Quoting: "there are only two plausible reasons for Altman's alleged lack of knowledge: either he didn't fully read the
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
How is this different from KV caching? (For reference, basic KV caching is explained here: https://www.omrimallis.com/posts/techniques-for-kv-cache-opt... .)
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Can you point to any evidence that Google intentionally skews organic results towards paying customers (as opposed to, Google's paying customers have the money to afford expensive SEO to get themselves a higher ranking)?
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
So your point is that a good investor should agree to a buyout offer but the bad investor doesn't? In other words, the original warrant holders (the accelerator) would have happily agreed to the founders buyout offer funded by the bank
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
This article is absolute trash since it doesn't explain how the bankruptcy of the accelerator would change the amount of dilution the startups experience. Taking the information in the article at face value, the startups paid the accel
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by _cs2017_ 2y ago
Ah yes, katakana was invented by The Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. On behalf of the author, please accept the apology.
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
I think your argument is flawed. By the time a company is successful, it has around 100-1000 employees. If those employees are all sampled from the same statistical population, any individual randomness in employee quality will wash out whe
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Innumerable times quite reasonable political leaders have started wars that resulted in their own deaths; and sometimes resulted in the destruction of civilization as they knew it (most recently - World War I, which effectively put an end t
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Researchers are human and as such tend to say weird things due to various psychological biases or issues. We should be careful not to take all their statements seriously. The most reasonable comment is quoted in the article: Noah Giansiracu
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Interesting. The guy copied source code via copy paste... And it seems, also regular Google documents. He was already caught uploading secret stuff, quit Google and bought a ticket to go to China, and was arrested only because he delayed th
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
I would say this very bad, even worse than internal logical inconsistency. It has expressed a completely incorrect picture of the world (that people write mirror messages to ensure the opposite action is taken). The fact that it produced th
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
No, you don't need evidence to prove that this is a possibility. You only need evidence to claim that this is impossible.
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
The author is a PhD in CS from Berkeley and teaches data science at a (decent I think?) college. And yet, he writes completely incorrect statements about statistics. Why? > "(1) that the supposed effect is really the cause, or in th
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu , and didn't understand how Kissinger's actions caused Cambodian Civil War. Can you explain? (I assume it is the Civil War the he's blamed for?)
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
The reporter, Joe Tidy, isn't virtue signaling. He is an honest zealot full of righteous fury. He is 100% confident he's right, just like those who killed heretics during crusades a couple thousand years ago, burned witches a few
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Why do you say that MS beating Google on AI? OpenAI is not part of MS (49% ownership is nice but it doesn't give MS control of the company). MS by itself doesn't own any of foundational models competitive with Google. MS has a sol
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Holy shit, this article is such garbage. And not only is it incorrect, it is obviously incorrect. The website owners do not pay Google for clicks on the "10 blue [organic] links"; so it gives Google no business advantage to make
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by _cs2017_ 3y ago
Flagging this article for being too stupid to warrant reading. In 1970, nobody was afraid their savings disappeared; when a bank fails, people would lose their savings unless the government insures or rescues the bank. Given the extremely

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