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by abeppu 3y ago
I get the frustration with tips for things that are low-touch. When you go to a place that doesn't have waiter service, or you get a prepared item to go and the cashier who you interacted with for 5 seconds turns around tablet that ask
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by abeppu 3y ago
I dunno, I think intentional geo-engineering shouldn't have to hold itself to a higher standard of caution than everyone else on the planet. When this past summer, we saw record high ocean surface temps b/c container ships had cut
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by abeppu 3y ago
So ... how does one evaluate the quality of a framework + benchmark without results like this? I feel like this would be a lot more compelling if they had at least some reasonable first models with result metrics and analysis showing that t
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by abeppu 3y ago
IDK about "tomorrow" but I think they mean something on the spectrum of non-emissions-reductions geoengineering interventions that ranges from seawater-pumping to create clouds for albedo increases to stratospheric sulfur to inten
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by abeppu 3y ago
This comment seems to presume that Q* is related to existing LLM work -- which isn't stated in the article. Others have guessed that the 'Q' in Q* is from Q-learning in RL. In particular backtracking, which you point out LLMs
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by abeppu 3y ago
Does it matter? The start of the article is talking about reporting stuff _to their employer_, not e.g. a government watchdog or something. > 53% of software engineers have suspected wrongdoing at work with ~145,000 software engineers in
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by abeppu 3y ago
I build stuff because I love it. But why should I publish it? If I publish it, why should I release it under a permissive license? I think people get pissed off because they're working out of a spirit of generosity, and the users who t
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by abeppu 3y ago
Houston isn't _consistently_ in this territory, but it is worth a reminder that if the ambient temperature is above body temp and the air is humid enough, then a breeze makes you hotter faster.
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by abeppu 3y ago
When is that measuring the salmon? Surely, calories per gram per kilometer is very high if you're swimming upstream and low when you're going downstream, right? Is this when they're in the ocean phase?
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by abeppu 3y ago
That really depends on where you're going. Maybe you want to go to a different lake, or spot on a long river, than the train or bus line goes. Maybe your skill level or body benefit from a specific kayak you own. I think this kind of a
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think it's a mistake to assume that there is just one SV ideology. Of course there are multiple. In the 'Personality Disorder' section, the author switches to talking about CEOS, but (a) are those really the only people who
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by abeppu 3y ago
So is mine, supposedly, but overall we have a long way to go in switching the grid to renewables. The states that have the lowest dependence on fossil fuels for generation all have a significant amount of hydro power, which is probably not
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by abeppu 3y ago
But, to be fair, the first sentence of the article is "The average American household that uses electricity to heat a home this winter will pay hundreds of dollars more than those who use natural gas." How many households have hea
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by abeppu 3y ago
But also, how green is your electricity? The "electrify everything b/c it's greener" approach seems currently largely aspirational. My understanding is that most states still get most of their electricity from fossil fue
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by abeppu 3y ago
The last paragraph isn't about cost, and I think is quite important: > “I think the United States is heading for a very catastrophic situation in terms of reliability,” said Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Mark Christie durin
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the 'white' part is perhaps given too much importance in this headline. I think the more interesting thing is that study participants did _worse than chance_ in distinguishing AI and human faces when shown an even mix. The
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White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos(theguardian.com)
2 points by abeppu 3y ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think especially when the first "governments" arose, but also now, the difference between "thieves" who visit you repeatedly and "rulers" can be pretty fuzzy, and is mostly a matter of perspective. But if som
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think I read an popular press article about a research paper, but I think books did end up being produced on the topic. I don't think this was the piece I recall reading, but this recaps most of what I remember: https://ww
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by abeppu 3y ago
Years ago I read some theory that part of the social pressure to create early states with centralized power and militaries in places with grain-centric agriculture was about the ease of stealing harvested grain. By comparison, places that h
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by abeppu 3y ago
How to drink from a cup without dribbling. The feeling of sunshine on one's skin. The experience of the passage of time.
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by abeppu 3y ago
But the concept of punitive damages is about some claim on justice, right? Like, "in addition to causing harm to this other party worth $m, because your behavior was so bad, you should pay a further $n whose value is about your badness
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by abeppu 3y ago
The idea of punitive damages being awarded to a single person in a situation like this seems unjust on its own. If Roundup is responsible for this person's cancer, it's almost certainly responsible for the cancer of many other peo
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by abeppu 3y ago
When I complain about current e-ink book replacements, the problems are the ways in which it fails to act like a real book. For example, it's still slow/awkward to jump back and forth between different pages, e.g. when a definitio
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is that an explanation? I get that if GDP growth is less than inflation, then in real terms the economy is shrinking, even if nominal GDP goes up. But stock prices are in nominal dollars; steady stock prices (or prices increasing at the sam
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by abeppu 3y ago
> People who do nothing all day end up getting into trouble. This same line of reasoning could be used to imply that no one should be allowed to be financially independent.
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by abeppu 3y ago
> San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago. Sure, there can be lots of factors. But the original comment was about adjacent l
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by abeppu 3y ago
That survey is not addressing the specific question sargun raised. I'm happily 100% remote, working from the comfort of my SF home for a company based in NYC. I enjoy that being remote gives me control over my physical working environm
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by abeppu 3y ago
I don't think the physical peninsula is a good explanation -- prices in San Jose, the East Bay and Bellevue aren't "affordable" by a lot of measures.
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by abeppu 3y ago
Does this short page describing a base-10 way of dividing time actually fail to be internally consistent for the few sentences of text describing it? > A standard hour is broken into 60 minutes. There are 2.4 standard hours in 1 metric h

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