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by area51org 2y ago
There's so much dystopian science fiction about people being completely helpless because only machines know how to do everything. Then the machines break down.
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by area51org 2y ago
While I do like a lot of what AI brings us, it also scares the hell out of me and makes me fear more for the future of humanity than I ever have. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't sto
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Ask HN: Best way to get started learning modern AI?
2 points by area51org 2y ago|2 comments
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by area51org 2y ago
The problem is that trump believes the president is king of America, and that a dictatorship is the best form of government. Even bigger problem: far too many Republicans seem to agree with him and will try to hasten the descent into a fasc
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The Shift: From Meaning to Money(guykawasaki.substack.com)
5 points by area51org 2y ago|1 comments
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by area51org 2y ago
I wouldn't say it's that drastic. Also, SELinux can give you a false sense of security. It's best to harden the system overall instead of relying on one security feature (however good it might be).
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by area51org 2y ago
You have to wonder if these people ever stop and think through these decisions. Start with: why are we even renaming this thing? Everyone already knows the name. The new name is not going to make us any more money. So what are we doing? Nex
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by area51org 2y ago
It may be free speech, but a lot of companies would not want to advertise next to racist tweets. That's their choice.
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by area51org 2y ago
I would not. See the Chinese Room thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by area51org 2y ago
In other words, it can't think or reason on its own. It depends on prior human thought and work in order to approximate "intelligence".
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by area51org 2y ago
> Microkernels still have lower performance than their monolithic counterparts This is what I've understood, that the idea sounds good but in practice isn't as good as it seems like it would be.
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by area51org 2y ago
Given that the industry is trying to retire USB-A for good, this doesn't seem likely.
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by area51org 2y ago
He likes to pretend that the president is King of America. Obviously this isn't true, and no, he could never actually get away with trying to do this. But it feeds his base, which seems to desperately want a return to the 19th century.
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by area51org 3y ago
We didn't think of it as job-hopping, but yeah, staying at a job for about a year was not uncommon. The thinking was: demand is high, so if you aren't eventually recruited out and you really can't find anything better, maybe
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by area51org 3y ago
The thing with C and D players is that while things can appear like they're going just fine, in fact, they tend to slowly and surely inject damage (badly written code, badly designed systems, ad nauseam) that will likely cost the compa
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by area51org 3y ago
If you don't know who's getting their jobs done and who is not, you don't have an employee problem—you have a management problem.
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by area51org 3y ago
Ironically, the in-office employees tend to be the dead weight, just people who pretend to look busy, stand around and bullshit, and otherwise just waste time. Meanwhile, the WFH employees, who prize productivity and accomplishment over off
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by area51org 3y ago
> If there is anything that can actually get a tech worker unionization effort going, it's going to be the back and forth on these RTO policies. I have nothing to add, but I wanted to say this is a really good point. If nothing else
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by area51org 3y ago
This is the Costanza Disposition, the idea that all you really need to do is look annoyed and people will just assume that you're super-busy and overwhelmed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8PzhNuh7w
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by area51org 3y ago
You're right. Usually the better people leave, and the people who remain are largely dead weight. Really good strategery there.
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by area51org 3y ago
TIL about the Dead Sea Effect. I've been talking about the effect for years without realizing it had a name. Thanks!
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by area51org 3y ago
Absolutely. They'll talk about "culture" and how you need to have an office in order to have it, ignoring the fact that most larger companies have multiple offices—so, what, each office has its own culture or something? More
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by area51org 3y ago
> Every human is equivalent in their given role when it comes to planning/org structure. It's the Burger King approach to management: all employees are just generic worker bees, and you can just go down to Burger King and order
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by area51org 4y ago
Meanwhile, it's the knuckle-dragging cro mags who are having all the babies. I wonder how this ends.
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by area51org 4y ago
> it is hard to take them seriously Especially when their "opinion" directly contradicts the stated facts of the situation. The feds are not going to bail out the bank—Yellin specifically said, "We're not doing that a
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by area51org 4y ago
That's what they're saying, yeah.
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by area51org 4y ago
This guy is a NYC (self-described) entrepreneur, and if he has a serious background in law or even business, it's certainly not apparent. I take his flurry of tweets with a grain of salt. Obviously he's time-stamped his prediction
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by area51org 4y ago
The packet filter, for one thing. Yup.
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by area51org 4y ago
Lyons has also made a "career" out of hating on technology and SV in general. Besides writing for the TV show, he's also written several books about why technology and SV really, really suck and are to blame for practically e
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by area51org 4y ago
Only when forced to.

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