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There's a discussion around the english words for people who come to a country. Some people are "expats" and some people are "immigrants". I was talking about "immigrants" rather than "expats". O
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These rules and laws esp. with regards to visas and immigration are not about the rules themselves. They're a proxy for government to be able to control the types of people they think benefit their society (and whether or not to let th
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There's a lot of gloom and doom around Japan, but I think there are a few counter-points. 1) Yes, the economy is stagnant. But it's interesting to think about it from the point of view that Japan disproves the idea that a growth e
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class action suits don’t contribute to case law?
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wwww - Wet World Wide Web
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Yes, I also agree there’s a parallel here. Something that affects a major bodily function can’t possibly be free of serious side effects. Reproduction or metabolism- how would it be possible to chemically alter this and not have it affect y
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Wow, I guess I wouldn’t have thought there would be GPU support. What’s the mechanism for this?
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> How many airplanes crashed due to The pilot being on drugs? As long as testing is uncommon you could say that number will remain at zero or near zero simply for lack of data. You comment implies but doesn’t state explicitly that you th
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Cool service! I like that it’s just HTML/CSS but the front end editor looks quite cool. I also just open sourced part of my app that does PDF generation, but it’s completely bare bones. I basically wanted a wrapper around the pdf gener
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The rest of gen AI tools might prove that wrong- Need help with your homework? We have software that will only sometimes give you facts that are incorrect. The res of the time it does great!
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A lot of people blame the current toxic culture on the McDonnell Douglas merger that happened in the late 90s. One of the reasons that merger needed to happen though, was that Boeing didn't know how to be profitable in a non-government
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They're starting to publish viewership statistics as part of the writer's strike agreement- is that what you're basing this on? I don't follow that closely but I hadn't heard anything either way about how things wer
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I agree, and.... One reason why Apollo might seem cheap is because a lot of the R&D dollars are counted against developing ICBM missiles to annihilate everyone on earth. The rockets themselves and the fundamental work was primarily moti
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From what I understand, vertically integrated design & manufacturing was a big factor. Are there any other big things that contribute to spaceX’s low costs? I would be curious to see someone make a breakdown
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Seems like none of Vulcan Centaur is reusable, how could it possibly compete on price? Genuinely wondering how that math could work out.
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The article hints at a lot of things that aren’t explicitly explained. They blame “the market” but don’t really get into the cause and effect. It sounds like there is some kind of regulation preventing a normal kind of bankruptcy where the
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Yeah. I think there's some ambiguity around the meaning of reasoning- because it is a kind of reasoning to say a Duck's material is less dense than water. In a way it's reasoned that out, and it might actually say something
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I’m not an expert but I suspect that this aspect of lack of correctness in these models might be fundamental to how they work. I suppose there’s two possible solutions: one is a new training or inference architecture that somehow understand
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How are the optimal architectures for weather simulations and LLM training different?
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Less a criticism of the map itself and more of the product, Google Maps overall keeps getting less and less usable. On iOS it’s possible to tap down into several layers of menus and options to where it becomes impossible to get back out. (F
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A classic case of enshittification. Quora is the new Yahoo Answers. The funny thing is that there will be a new one soon probably. Or is it the AI app he’s already building?
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I just got started with a Next.js project coming from React with JS and…. another JS/TS rant incoming….. For an ecosystem that purports to be ready for professional use it absolutely boggles my mind that the tooling is stuck at this ve
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It makes sense that they had to take out all of the cuts and fades from the training data to improve results. I’m the background section of the research paper they mention “temporal convolution layers”, can anyone explain what that is? What
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I like the idea of the web / js / DOM being for documents, but if you look at all the new browser javascript APIs it’s clear we’re constantly moving further and further away from documents. Once developers have all these tools ava
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I just watched this depressing video about the $130b dollars spent building a high speed rail in England (HS2). He actually mentions off-hand how many James Webb Space Telescopes that could buy. (the video is about the fact that the rail li
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The whole thing feels very pre-internet, I have a feeling that the arc of Calvin and Hobbes would look different today if Watterson hadn’t had to bitterly fight the syndicate for so long and had a Patreon instead
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TLDR: “learning to learn” != learning styles. To be more specific, I feel like there’s a strong correlation between a specific type of subject and a modality that fits- even if there’s no correlation between success and someone self selecti
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wow 33%, I haven’t heard that specific statistic before. Any source for that where I can learn more?
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> Finally, sometimes the best eval is human eval aka vibe check. Pretty telling about where we are in the evolution of these systems.
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> Fire is another important tool, he says, burning undergrowth and logging leftovers at the start of the summer to remove material that could fuel major fires later in the season. > The Menominee fire team spends as much time starting

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