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by bfung 2y ago
> minimaxir uses Embeddings! > It’s super effective! > minimaxir obtains HN13
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by bfung 2y ago
Yep - and the hardest part about getting the input signs and symptoms data is that patients often don’t know the words to describe what they’re feeling. LLMs are not going to help if the input data is also garbage, let alone hallucinations
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by bfung 2y ago
Arable land is only to grow food. > Most of China lives in one third of the country Right, so U.S. has PLENTY of space ;) I’ve been to rural China (village where my family and ancestors are), there’s tons of space to modernize and build
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by bfung 2y ago
If you take a step back and look at the earth via satellite layer via Google maps, it’s not as full as it feels on the ground. Quite the opposite. A sibling comment about people cramming into the same area seems way more accurate. Also, lo
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by bfung 2y ago
Waiting for aiPhone in a few iterations </troll>
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by bfung 2y ago
It’s not that no-tipping policy won’t stick; it’s that it’s allowed by the tax code. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped The code allows for a lower minimum wage when tips are invo
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by bfung 2y ago
It’s a toy tic-tac-toe game with no monetary or life threatening implications, no need to bring the security mindset into this discussion. If someone copies this code and uses it in a non-toy application, well, that’s on them.
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by bfung 2y ago
For doctors, as a sibling comment mentions, there’s way more medical demand than doctor-time available. This isn’t even considering quality of care, only quantity. For other professions, if there’s already a glut of supply,… well, we don’t
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by bfung 2y ago
If we’re using NN’s to get fine motor skills right, like final steps in an assembly line, the simplest and most abundant source of training data are humans. :shrug:
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by bfung 3y ago
Some perl 5 syntax ain’t backwards compatible from perl 4, and there’s also perl 6.
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by bfung 3y ago
> “dependency manager”-manager Language toolchain. You have to do this for all the languages, not just Python. Hence nix and other tools were made.
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by bfung 3y ago
To the person who got flagged to death, apologies I wasn’t ultra precise in grammar, and yes, my experiences does bias me a bit. Though, in my experience, asking that question to people in China (or from there) is generally met with: *
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by bfung 3y ago
If you ask people in Taiwan, they will say they’re independent. If you ask China, they’ll say Taiwan belongs to China. The short history version is basically like this: after the overthrowing of the last emperor and WW2, the Chinese civil w
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by bfung 3y ago
grafana is built more for operational and timeseries data, but not so optimal for complex analytical queries. Ex: up-to-second data on cpu load on a host. superset is the flip side of grafana; not good for up-to-second updates, but good for
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by bfung 3y ago
> Every node is either a leaf containing a char, or a branch containing a dynamic array of the data structures. So it’s basically lisp, with either lists or atoms, at the char level
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by bfung 3y ago
Lisp code is == to its AST, the programmer is literally writing the AST that runs, hence meta programming is really easy. The trade-off ends up being that metaprogramming becomes harder while syntax gets changed shrug , do it long enough a
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by bfung 3y ago
Or how after they do a writer failover, they start seeing duplicate data.
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by bfung 3y ago
The actual article was from Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets , where any excuse to post meme trades goes. Go read for fun.
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by bfung 3y ago
100% agree here. With Remote, many things have to be put in writing, organized, and referenced back to. Way less room for misinterpretation than the occasional drive-by chat.
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by bfung 3y ago
The kicker is “at liquidation time”, which is unpredictable and unknowable. Most of the time, options go to zero due to company shutdown.
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by bfung 3y ago
100%, but I wouldn’t characterize yourself as cynical This pattern just happens over and over in VC/startup land. See IoT and cryptocurrency/NFT companies as previous example in previous tech hype cycles.
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by bfung 3y ago
It’s ok, lots of “normal” folks today don’t really know what a file is either. They just know it’s an icon you can drag around. The kid at least asks questions!
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by bfung 3y ago
<sarcasm>I guess people trust Blackrock and CZ on setting BTC prices more than they trust the greenback</sarcasm> Also, CZ (pleads guilty to money laundering charges): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38
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by bfung 3y ago
Ah, nice! Applies regardless of what the underlying asset is ~ some good ole’ tax engineering.
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by bfung 3y ago
Why does BTC need an ETF at all, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of owning one’s own wallets? Also… exchanges defeating the purpose of decentralization…
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by bfung 3y ago
The question asked doesn’t involved any computer science algorithm knowledge at all, nowhere near leet code complexity. Only the basics that are close to everyday programming work: write a for-loop, know what a Map/dict is, and Google
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by bfung 3y ago
> plans can always change Just commit and don’t change plans. Tell everything else this time is already booked and paid for.
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by bfung 3y ago
“Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion” - talk by Han’s Rosling (7yr ago) https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?si=ezHx2TfJa4-llCzX He was popular at TED and built gapminder data viz tool when web2 tech started becoming p
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by bfung 3y ago
I'll take the other side: life's not fair and you can't have your cake and eat it too. Move for the postdoc if you really want it. (the article author got a better deal at the end anyways, imo)
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by bfung 3y ago
While reading your Google examples, I don’t think I could parse out what you were intending as a human. Perhaps different keywords would work better? For example, “speed work running”, were you looking to improve sprinting? (I’m not a runne

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