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by alfor 4y ago
Having a common stack that is fast and coherent from the highest to the lowest level would be wonderful. But it seems it’s what make Python successful: it force a interface between the low level serious stuff and the configuration/use
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by alfor 4y ago
I think that Apple control where the language goes. That mean that things will serve other use cases only accidentally. fast.ai was very interested in Swift but dropped that project for that reason.
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by alfor 4y ago
I find more and more that downvote of HN are a sign of a good post. I was on the leftist side all my life without knowing it, it was the water I was swimming in. I agree that love/truth in the christian sense is what is missing. The se
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by alfor 4y ago
I got 2X vax, my wife also. We both got covid anyway. I also got covid early and it was bad, took time to get through it. My aunt got heart problems 3 days after second dose, almost died, dismissed by doctor, unreported. I saw that a simple
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by alfor 4y ago
They look oppressive because they are. Our perception is right, the buildings are wrong. What they mean is that someone is at the head of a structure that house thousand of people, putting the the person living there far from any impact on
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by alfor 4y ago
If the vaccine help (if covid is the culprit) then you will see lower rate of death in the vaccinated group. My trust in the medical system is at the lowest it’s ever been. I saw how they operate. Health is a result only when it align wit
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by alfor 4y ago
Important rise, we don’t know why(job loss? stress?, covid?), we don’t talk about mRNA vaccines.
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by alfor 4y ago
I don’t know much about Japan. I know they have a huge problem of low birth rate, they could be on a path of extinction. For sure there is a mix of cultural norms that are mixed with religions. I see religion as knowledge that span multiple
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by alfor 4y ago
Loss of religious grounding. Christianity was the north star for our societies, it organized people, align them to work together, put the future(love) before personal interest(excess pleasures, sins) Without religion we are going to fail. T
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by alfor 4y ago
Don’t worry, we will see plenty of other GPT very soon. The genie is out of the bottle.
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by alfor 4y ago
You assume "bad actor" I think it’s a good actor that is going to save a lot of lives. But the media/government is going to use every accident to punish Tesla and slow them down, costing way more lives. Remember the media is
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by alfor 4y ago
How do you see the path from no autonomy, to partial autonomy, to full autonomy? What if it’s a net positive (reduction of death) and delaying the progress cause more death, who is accountable for those death? The Tesla system was approved
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by alfor 4y ago
In a video from 2016 in an lawsuit about a crash in 2018 in which the driver was repeatedly told by the car to pay attention. The driver knew about how this part of the road was incorrectly recognized by the software yet didn’t pay attentio
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by alfor 4y ago
Is there open source plans? It seem to me that we could have open source full plans for a few models of cost effective houses. Then builders and prefab manufacturers could bid on the price and selection of parts to build it. The houses I se
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by alfor 4y ago
The therapist are also very biased: they learn in university that are very left leaning compared to the rest of the population. I can see the AI being better than most human at that job very soon. Just like programming, it’s not perfect, bu
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by alfor 4y ago
Just basic common sense would do. Everything is dangerous and has some risks, but usually weights the risks against other things, we see what are the ways to mitigate them, etc. If you say that gas stove is bad for indoor air quality, how d
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by alfor 4y ago
You need a plumbus for that. Everyone need one.
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by alfor 4y ago
Just switched back to windows after a decade with macos. It seem that microsoft care way more about developers at the moment than Apple does. So much good stuff, open source, Linux subsystem, vscode, copilot, documentation, plugins, etc. Th
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by alfor 4y ago
In this article I understand the concern about NOx, good ventilation, a detector might be a good idea. A quick look at the site show how much it is targeting at fighting all fossil fuels. But fossil fuels are the backbone of our civilisatio
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by alfor 4y ago
The cost of moving data from one gpu to the next will destroy performance. The system are moving in the opposite direction (look at Dojo architecture or TensTorrent) The silver lining is that the cost of training will fall substantially wit
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by alfor 4y ago
We always use heuristics to assess if a source is credible. Otherwise we have to do our own research, collect our own data. There is no other way around if there is no trust. It’s very easy for some information to be true, but also excludin
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by alfor 4y ago
This thread got remove from the main discussion. Fell like Twitter before the cleanup here.
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by alfor 4y ago
Way more people die of cold each year it’s not even funny. Huge wildfires are caused by preventing regular small fires until there is way to much material and the condition are perfect: heat, wind, dry. Then you get a massive fire that can’
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by alfor 4y ago
The site is dedicated to fighting fossil fuels as if there were pure evil. Does not seems like a place for balanced views.
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by alfor 4y ago
I think we mostly recognise pattern of the world. We train ourselves by minimizing surprise, improving our predictive capabilities. The same is true of AI at the moment. The affordance is another pattern (tool) we train ourselves all our li
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by alfor 4y ago
What is happening at lake Mead? The water level is still at an historical low, does the rain hit its watershed?
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by alfor 4y ago
I just bought this and I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner. The dept of the key is a bit too much (I am used to the mac keyboard) but both the keyboard and mouse it’s really quiet and smooth. The mouse is quite small but has ergonomic sh
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by alfor 4y ago
Go for mob programming. Zero manager, zero meeting, zero standup. True team work. Project owner work with the programers (when needed) https://youtu.be/28S4CVkYhWA
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by alfor 4y ago
Powerful computer, good large monitor, quiet wireless mouse and keyboard. We spend so much time in front of a screen, but it’s easy to stay with old tech as it still work and do the same thing, but quality and speed matter. An improvement o
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by alfor 4y ago
He value truth more that the jobs of the former employees at Twitter. The Twitter files tell us about the level of corruption going on with real implication on the live of way more people that the select few that worked at Twitter.

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