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by awb 1y ago
A recent project on HN declared Supabase dead: https://www.isthistechdead.com/supabase While the funding is impressive, I haven’t come across too many people touting Supabase or using it in production.
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by awb 1y ago
A Great Filter could come before or after intelligence. For example, predation could be a Great Filter. We made it past the threat of predation, but perhaps most life forms in the universe don’t. In this example, life could be pervasive in
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by awb 1y ago
One thing that I haven’t seen discussed much in terms of galactic colonization is genetic drift, speciation and communication. I believe there are simulations theorizing that galaxies can be thoroughly explored in 10M - 100M years. But how
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by awb 1y ago
There’s no evidence yet, but we also haven’t looked very carefully or in very many places. And we only know to look for planetary life as we know it. The middle of the galaxy could have a wildly different composition and habitat for life th
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by awb 2y ago
So every year I go to a swap meet and try to exchange my “expiring” belongings for something similar to reset the clock? Or, they get taken away by force? By someone who has meticulous records of all my stuff? What problem are you trying to
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by awb 2y ago
It exists in a superposition of being both a joke and not a joke until you observe the article.
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by awb 2y ago
There was broad bi-partisan support for the first Gulf War (response to Iraq invading Kuwait) and the war in Afghanistan (response to 9/11). The broader dissent started to come after the invasion of Iraq (based on the notion of Iraqi W
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by awb 2y ago
You might be right. I don’t know if new professions will appear though. My guess is that people will transition to those existing fields that are less likely to be dominated by AGI. Tech has already disrupted industries like travel agencies
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by awb 2y ago
Probably a similar transition to the Industrial Revolution, but much faster. Laborers had to learn skills that machines weren’t better at. Any work that is information based is probably in for a dramatic shift. But maybe some areas that are
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by awb 2y ago
Good point. The about page does mention this. But perhaps broadening the volunteer perspective to other causes might give them greater purpose. > i invest in companies and am willing to offer help to founders i vibe with for free and for
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by awb 2y ago
Abstracting out the details, it’s the same theme as the general who wins the war and now there’s no war to fight and thinks to himself, “Now what?” There are many people struggling with far greater challenges in life and with far less suppo
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by awb 2y ago
Also a worthy deal if you don’t lose your $300k/year job to someone who is willing to pay $2,400/year.
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by awb 2y ago
How would they verify?
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by awb 2y ago
On the flip side, it’s possible to sell a business for 7+ figures and then have little to no income in subsequent years in which case quite wealthy families would qualify for assistance.
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by awb 2y ago
Ok, I’m actually curious why folks think the 2020 election was stolen. I don’t know of any credible reporting on it. The polling average numbers are from Project 538. The dropdown lets you navigate to each state. https://projects
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by awb 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_relat... 62 lawsuits in 9 states, 30 dismissed on merits, several from Trump appointed judges. My recollection is that when the cases went to court, the lawyers ba
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by awb 2y ago
Polls seemed pretty accurate. Look at PA polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general... The last 2 polls had Harris at 49, and 48. She ended up at 48.5%. Last 2 polls for Trump were 50 and 49. H
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by awb 2y ago
Sure, but the FBI and DOJ still have the authority (and mandate) to detect and prevent election fraud, and certainly to the scale that was alleged. Deciding between the effort required for a political opponent to run a massive multi-state v
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by awb 2y ago
I don’t think many in either party are worried about small donations. But the concern from Dems is usually the unlimited donations as one billionaire could match the financial influence of millions of non-billionaires. Kamala raised 2:1 fro
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by awb 2y ago
So the theory is that the Democrats while out of power stole the election and then when in power didn’t steal it? Here’s another theory: the candidate with betting polling in 2020 won and the candidate with better polling in 2024 won.
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by awb 2y ago
I’m imagining LLMs might eventually have an upload tool, similar to Google’s site map upload, for registering content proactively instead of needing to be discovered through crawling the web or training on chat data.
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by awb 2y ago
LLMs have the chance to cannibalize the web and become the primary interface for knowledge. But if websites remain the final destination, it’s good for content creators. The only other way to kill the web without killing LLMs in the process
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by awb 2y ago
Check out “how are stories ranked” in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Overheated discussions get demoted. I think the idea is that the comments should support discussion of the content, but not usurp it.
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by awb 2y ago
Sometimes group activities can be helpful. Have you tried inviting 3-5 friends to go out for drinks, go for a hike, play a sport, play cards, watch a game, etc.? It’s less intimidating when you’re first getting to know someone if there’s a
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by awb 2y ago
> you really, really suck as a human That’s really, really harsh. Regardless of your reasons for feeling this way, this is not the appropriate forum for a personal attack like that
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by awb 2y ago
This actually illustrates the crux of the problem. Gravity is a single (highly accurate) approximation when applied to 2 objects. But when you have 3 objects interacting with each other, the system is chaotic: https://en.m.wikipe
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by awb 2y ago
Here’s my guess: I think it’s a question of agency. If you’re an adult that makes their own choices (crime, bad financial decisions, etc.), then you know what the consequences are. If you’re an unborn child, you’re don’t have agency. For so
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by awb 2y ago
> “I substituted [Allah] for the person who was really with me,” he wrote, saying he concealed the identity of the “real shooter” out of fear that “his associates might kill me”. He did not identify this person. If your friend is wrongly
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by awb 2y ago
Whereas the Governor’s statement does say that information provided to the police by one witness was not known publicly.

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