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871.
by bko 2y ago
I don't know, my life is made better by electric vehicles, Starlink, Amazon one day delivery and large language models. What does "working on climate change" look like? The only thing I hear from climate change activists is t
872.
by bko 2y ago
This book seems insufferable, at least based on the review. Half of the review is trying to poke holes in why people won't live on mars and the other half is about how people trying to pursue goals such as this are self-serving and cor
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by bko 2y ago
What is the topic? You said they should now build foreign campuses. I said they won't because it would dilute their brand. And they could have done so in the US or abroad before this. What am I missing here?
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by bko 2y ago
I get it, it helps to have wealthy foreign donors and you don't have to give them aid. I was more asking why is this acceptable? If its an American university, benefiting from American tax dollars, shouldn't it primarily benefit
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by bko 2y ago
The universities could have expanded campuses and opened up new ones at any time. Harvard could easily double or triple their class size with no negative effects in terms of student body. They choose not to because it would dilute their bra
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by bko 2y ago
The post claims that it's fake and racist, which is probably correct. But could you imagine a science that isn't fake but is racist? Does something being real prevent it from being racist? For instance, if there were some connecti
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by bko 2y ago
I remember being moved by behavioral science. Seemed like a cheat code. Simple tricks in life, backed by science, that could make a world of difference. This was pretty new popular topic when I was studying finance. Get a job, win arguments
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by bko 2y ago
I don't think HN is representative of much outside of a niche corner of the internet. A lot of people, like the parent post, don't like Twitter due to political differences with the owner. So any Twitter post or post about Twitter
879.
by bko 2y ago
Because it's where important information gets distributed and discussed Because a lot of important people are on it It's the social media platform that is the least "managed" by PR. In other words, you're more likel
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by bko 2y ago
> I’ve written about the platform’s array of issues before, but, in summary, the removal of the verified public figures and the introduction of the new Blue Ticks basically allowed people to pay for engagement. I think the alternative wa
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by bko 2y ago
> We're supposed to pay $20/mo with usage limits for that? I never understood the pushback on pricing. A junior engineer maybe makes 150k a year in US so $20 is 16m of his time. If you can save 16m of a junior devs time a month
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by bko 2y ago
I think you have to be practical. It would be difficult to train an AI to consume Harry Potter and compress it but prevent it from recreating it. You can try and people do, but there are always ways around it. But it's on an individual
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by bko 2y ago
One of two ways I think this can be accomplished: 1. The entire context of all your conversations is stored in some highly compressed form, basically summarized conversations that get appended and edited constantly 2. There is some kind of
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by bko 2y ago
I don't know, they went from productive work (someone paying them to do it) to unproductive work. This is the old Keynesian argument I never bought that you can pay people to dig ditches and fill them back in and it would stimulate the
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Profile of Paragon's Co-Founder and Managing Partner Matt Huang(joincolossus.com)
1 points by bko 2y ago|0 comments
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by bko 2y ago
I don't know, most of the things I'm reliant on, from my phone, ISP, automobile, etc are built on fragile interdependent supply chains provided by for-profit companies. If you're really worried about this, you should learn su
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by bko 2y ago
A large part was to preserve cultural knowledge, which is kind of like answering questions about it. What wisdom or knowledge does this entail. People do the same with religious texts today The other part I imagine was largely entertainment
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by bko 2y ago
Maybe 40 years ago there were programmers that would not work with anyone that use IDEs or automated memory management. When presented with a programming task that requires these things and you're WITHOUT your IDE or whatever, they wil
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by bko 2y ago
When modern search became more available, a lot of people said there's no point of rote memorization as you can just do a Google search. That's more or less accepted today. Whenever we have a new technology there's a response
890.
by bko 2y ago
It can be both. If they believe there is some harmful effect on this particular pseudo science about grievance politics that's driving social contagion and self harm, then they believe it should be removed, at least from places like li
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by bko 2y ago
The charitable interpretation is that this isn't real science. If you have gender studies papers like the fake "Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity in Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon" that showed dog
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by bko 2y ago
Naw, that's just big waters psy-op getting you to buy their nectar to fill up the Pacific ocean with plastic. In all seriousness, I met people that essentially don't drink water. They get water through food. Give them a glass duri
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Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript(andersmurphy.com)
172 points by bko 2y ago|34 comments
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by bko 2y ago
I remember reading that they were in panic mode when the DeepSeek model came out so they must have scrambled and had to re-work a lot of things since DeepSeek was so competitive and open source as well
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by bko 2y ago
I think Meta sees AI and VR/AR as a platform. They got left behind on the mobile platform and forever have to contend with Apple semi-monopoly. They have no control and little influence over the ecosystem. It's an existential thre
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by bko 2y ago
As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those
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by bko 2y ago
So they're incompetent but can integrate an LLM to their entire human resources management, payroll, and administration system in a few months? Makes sense.
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by bko 2y ago
As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those
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by bko 2y ago
I don't think an LLM has access to payroll or authority to fire anyone. It just flags and people review. Have you worked in a large organization? Have you ever had to fire anyone, or tried to get someone fired? It's not easy.
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by bko 2y ago
I want to feel safe at work and feel like I'm contributing to the mission of the company. Then log off and live my life. I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction. I don't want people badmo

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