b3kart

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by b3kart 5y ago
> What if... the average viewer was willing to pay for video content That would solve all of our problems, wouldn't it? Too bad there's likely always going to be someone willing to offer the same service for free + ads and&#x2F
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by b3kart 5y ago
All the examples you provide have to do with tangible, physical things. Tech is in some sense special because we're dealing with intangibles. It costs a bad actor next to nothing to upload the same video with harmful content to YouTu
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by b3kart 5y ago
Isn't that basically how reddit operates? And last I heard they have their native video hosting as well. Sounds like this could work, but doesn't quite at the moment. Is YouTube handling content discovery better? Network effects m
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by b3kart 5y ago
The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube? Would that work with the current society&#x
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by b3kart 6y ago
A whole day of sun? That’s not the Manchester I remember.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Oh, I see. Thanks!
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by b3kart 6y ago
> ML languages What are those?
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by b3kart 6y ago
Nice. Seriously, humans are the greatest pattern matchers.
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by b3kart 6y ago
> Norvig's code is beautiful and very good Lisp. But it's so dense that it requires more lines of explanatory comments than actual functionality. I've thought the same. Just look at the comment for the `print-translations`
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by b3kart 6y ago
> unless you are arguing that lockdowns are and will be, in perpetuity, the status quo I am not arguing either way, what I am saying is shouting "here's what I think, prove me wrong" is not how it works. "Here's
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by b3kart 6y ago
> Evidence to the contrary is welcome You understand the burden of proof is on the person who's making a claim, not on people who disagree with the claim? I've too suffered being stuck at home for more than a year, but in my b
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by b3kart 6y ago
Spotted a mathematician. ;-) > theories can be valuable in themselves Maybe they can be (in pure mathematics, or philosophy, as the sibling comment points out), but not if your end-goal is to apply your theory or its predictions in the r
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by b3kart 6y ago
With no experimental validation my theory is as good as Freud’s theory for all intents and purposes. Maybe we should be thinking around improving experimental methodology instead? Then we can try to come up with complex theories and test
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by b3kart 6y ago
Doubt there's anyone who literally can't code without a full-fledged IDE. There's just people who are used to certain conveniences, and it would take them longer to write code without them. I don't see anything particu
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by b3kart 6y ago
And yet here on HN it's the workers themselves who are often blamed for choosing to work for these soulless tech companies while they're free to go cure cancer at some startup.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Doesn’t sound like a bad way to weed out less important work. If an inactive issue is closed an nobody cares: good, that’s the intention. If someone does care enough to re-open/open a new issue: no harm done, and maintainers have clear
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by b3kart 6y ago
There's "passion" and there's "professionalism". I would categorise many of the activities you mention under the latter. Passion isn't the only reason to try to be good at what you do and get ahead. Pride,
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by b3kart 6y ago
Have you considered therapy to try to get to the bottom of this? Not being snarky -- you yourself seem to realize that this is really detrimental to your wellbeing.
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by b3kart 6y ago
> Literacy of employees and customers transform(s/ed) all industries but we don't talk about the literacy department or literacy investments in corporations. Well, we do, it's just called the "copywriting department&q
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by b3kart 6y ago
It's not a DeepMind project. The authors are on the Stadia team.
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by b3kart 6y ago
I'd use the Hanlon's razor [1] here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by b3kart 6y ago
I don't think negative vs. positive is a useful bifurcation here, both for biographies and scientific results. I'd rather we do interesting/surprising vs boring/expected. In other words, can we learn something from this?
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by b3kart 6y ago
> As a salaried worker you are expected to do a job, if that job takes you 20 hours this week and 45 next week that's fine as long as the job is done. I suspect the problem is with measuring what "job is done" means exactl
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by b3kart 6y ago
> a lot of the work that needs doing isn’t anywhere near anyone’s cognitive limit Is this sort of work potentially automate-able?
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by b3kart 6y ago
Landlords don't accept GitHub stars as rent payment, unfortunately. Unless they do in the Bay Area...?
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by b3kart 6y ago
> normal lifespan How many animals actually grow old in the wild though, not getting eaten by a predator? At least humans have the decency to kill them first... I agree both the scale and the cruelty are important problems, but the ethic
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by b3kart 6y ago
What a harmful viewpoint. A single lifetime is nothing in the context of a country's history, but it's all a person has. Might as well go somewhere you'll be able to realize your full potential. If only to gain the skills and
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by b3kart 6y ago
Have they mentioned any particular problems that they've had, if you don't mind me asking?
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by b3kart 6y ago
No company is perfect, but it doesn't mean they should stop trying to hire competent people.
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by b3kart 6y ago
Hmmm, I am not convinced. How do you see this stigma manifest?

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