antasvara

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by antasvara 1y ago
Just out of curiosity, is there nothing that you have preferences about? Because I think it's easy to look at someone else's hobby and reflexively say that they're overpaying for something. For example, I can't persona
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by antasvara 2y ago
I guess the problem I see is that I can think of a lot of careers (teachers, basically all of healthcare, certain kinds of engineers, etc.) where "below market pay" is translating to shortages and the need to push under or unquali
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by antasvara 2y ago
But what if the rate at which things change increases to the point that humans can't adapt in time? This has happened to other animals (coral has existed for millions of years and is now threatened by ocean acidification, any number of
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by antasvara 2y ago
I'm not saying that our ancestors were wrong. Hell, I live in a house that was originally built under similar conditions. That being said, buildings collapse a lot less frequently these days. House fires happen at a lower rate. Insulat
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by antasvara 2y ago
I think it's one of those things where you don't "notice" it, but where it nevertheless has an impact. Sort of like someone might not "notice" the fact that there's more butter or salt in restaurant food,
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by antasvara 2y ago
Worth questioning who that benefits the most. It definitely benefits consumers in the sense that they won't be bombarded by advertisements. But it also benefits large businesses that already spent millions advertising and now have a
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by antasvara 2y ago
Is there a sentient human that has access to (and actually uses) all of the Pokémon game guides yet is incapable of beating Pokémon? Because that's what an LLM is working with.
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by antasvara 2y ago
That's my point. This is a website with readership comparable to the WSJ that is pulling in reader revenue closer to the Minnesota Star Tribune. It's just something that I feel should be in the conversation. The Guardian's bu
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by antasvara 2y ago
>The Guardian US expects to hit $44 million in voluntary reader donations in the U.S. and Canada this year, up 33 percent over last year >"We’re now at a place where our audience is actually bigger in the U.S. than The Wall Stree
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by antasvara 2y ago
What sort of business are you running? Are you under time pressure from competitors to get the product out? Do you personally have monetary pressures? How do you feel about this work schedule, and does it feel sustainable? The point I'
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by antasvara 2y ago
Patent trolls benefit from it being expensive and time-consuming to challenge patents (and defend yourself from infringement claims) These regulations are actually beneficial to big business. It makes it significantly easier to defend you
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by antasvara 2y ago
I feel like you're discussing this from a legal perspective, when it's really more of a moral (not the right word but the general concept is fine) one. "GE defending a patent they use in their products" and "an LLC
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by antasvara 2y ago
The point here is that a patent troll isn't really a "business." There would be no real reason to work with the patent troll outside of the extortion they're using the patent for. Given the options for engagement are &qu
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by antasvara 2y ago
While the point here is generally true, investor owned utilities have revenues (i.e. electricity rates) that are tied to their expenses. That's the reason they have to ask for a rate increase; if the rate increase was designed to juice
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by antasvara 2y ago
Where does an investor owned utility get the money to pay for infrastructure? Because they're generally not cutting into profits to fund infrastructure improvements. PG&E is paying 2.4 billion dollars a year in interest expense (at
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by antasvara 2y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying that LLM's exclusively make non-human errors. I'm more saying that most errors are happening for different "reasons" than humans. Think about the strawberry example. I've seen a lot
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by antasvara 2y ago
Just brainstorming, but is there a world where you can buy a car equipped with Waymo (or similar) sensors long-term? The thought being that you can buy a car that you can use, but that can drive Uber/Lyft when you're not using it
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by antasvara 2y ago
>Ramadan wanders through the solar year, sometimes occurring in the summer, sometimes in the winter, because it is scheduled according to the lunar cycle. To be honest, that's the difference people are talking about (at least to my
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by antasvara 2y ago
This highlights a thing I've seen with LLM's generally: they make different mistakes than humans. This makes catching the errors much more difficult. What I mean by this is that we have thousands of years of experience catching
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How important is fast progression in your career, and what are your ultimate goals?
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The integration is fine, but it's not perfect. It kicks my wife off her iPhone Hotspot every time she closes the lid on her laptop. It also burns the battery on her iPhone, which is a concern in the exact situation you'd want cell
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by antasvara 2y ago
A few thoughts: 1. The low hanging fruit is definitely drying up. There aren't a lot of opportunities to (for example) replace a human doing a job that can easily be handled by a computer at this point. 2. The remaining opportunities a
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by antasvara 2y ago
IIRC, Alexa lost money because: 1. People didn't actually use it to buy stuff because they want to comparison shop. 2. The devices were sold at a huge loss. What I think has changed is that Amazon now has a lot more "products&quot
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by antasvara 2y ago
A CSV of this data is free to download per the pricing page, whereas the raw data (not sure what that looks like versus the CSV) requires a paid account. So I guess it depends if you consider the CSV as fundamentally different from the raw
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by antasvara 2y ago
Is your issue actually with "creating an account," or is it with "giving up your personal information?" Because as the commenter indicated, you can create an account on this site without giving up any personal informatio
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I think the approaches usually fail because commercial farming with chemical fertilizer is pretty efficient and optimized to work at a large scale. A lot of agtech startups (think vertical farming) just don't get this. They don't
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The article specifically says that he had tech CEO's running the project. The mistakes they made also seem pretty fundamental to farming; things like: 1. they didn't consider that a greenhouse designed for the desert wouldn't
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Based on what I know about one of the states in question, I'm thinking that "Active and Passed" means they have both a passed bill and an active bill that isn't passed. Though I'd think they'd call that &quot
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by antasvara 2y ago
Which measure are you going off there? Because I see the "Chance a poor student has to become a rich adult" metric at 41% for UC Riverside and 58% for Harvard. There is the "overall mobility" metric that favors UC Rivers
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What do you see as the goal of the daily ranking (and by extension the new "hot" ranking)? I ask because personally, the daily ranking allows me to evaluate myself on an "objective" basis versus other players on a given

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