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by caeril 2y ago
That's why the Good Lord invented caching. In most applications, 90% of your workload will be over ids less than a week old, so your hit rate is likely to be pretty high for this sort of mapping.
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by caeril 2y ago
> because Hacker News for whatever reason HN is largely pro-status-quo. Deferring to parasitic gatekeepers is how things get done in the worldview of the HN mindset, so this reaction shouldn't surprise you. When evaluating a given a
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by caeril 2y ago
Any type of transaction that "traditional finance" or the governments behind them don't approve of. Controlled substances, firearms, sex work, gambling, funding politically unpopular movements, etc. The mindset that can'
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by caeril 2y ago
That's an unrealistic fix. Even if Doritos, Big Macs, and french fries were expensive, most people would still eat them for their hyperpalatability. The only "fix" is to ban these foods, perform public executions of food comp
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by caeril 2y ago
These mimetics are peptides, which don't hold their structure very well when they interact with the pepsin your stomach secretes. That leaves injections or transdermals, and weighing in at over 4000 daltons, good luck with the transder
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by caeril 2y ago
Wow. Water is wet. The sky is blue. FFNN models don't update their weights during inference. Who doesn't already know this?
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by caeril 2y ago
Same reason people try to compete in sports without using PEDs, or prepare for standardized tests without a good nootropic stack. There's some large contingent of the population who believes being "natural" places them on a m
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by caeril 2y ago
Indeed. My home "value" has roughly doubled in the last five years. Sounds nice, but land/home values in the area I'd like to move to has nearly tripled in the same timespan. I feel bad for renters priced out of the ma
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by caeril 2y ago
> ChatGPT is currently king of the mountain. This is completely false. Claude Opus is significantly better than GPT 4. > Mistral/Mixtral (decent with no censoring/guard rails) These models have been heavily censored, I'
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by caeril 2y ago
I agree that he should have been honest, but from the opposite perspective. Altman should have said, "Yes, we made the voice similar to this washed-up actress, but her voice is not much different from anyone else with similar regional
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by caeril 2y ago
Yeah it's hard to read this as anything other than "I'm an awesome idea and marketing guy and I partnered with this lowly engineer to build something, which is super easy, and a monkey could do. I paid them an ENORMOUS ($84K)
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by caeril 2y ago
Wealth is correlated with conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is partially heritable. The bankruptcy rate for former NFL/NBA/Music superstars and lottery winners is significantly higher than that of trust fund babies. Make of t
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by caeril 2y ago
That's a bit different. There's no reasonable path to reverse-causality with smoking. "People prone to developing lung cancer are more likely to take up smoking" doesn't really make sense. On the other hand, "F
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by caeril 2y ago
Nothing, obviously. When Twitter/Facebook/Instagram is ordered by the DHS to censor accounts or modify engagement algorithms, that's just good ol' fashioned Americanism, bro. Uncle Sam's Ministry of Truth is superio
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by caeril 2y ago
> is being caused by carry trades by the financial sector. This is a solid short-term explanation, but there's always an investment sector focused on the long term, and those guys are looking at the demographic disaster Japan will i
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by caeril 2y ago
Yes, but people can move. Remaining in an urban hellhole is a choice. Bitching about the consequences of your choice, and blaming local policies for your own cost issues when you could literally just get out of there, is a whole level of so
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by caeril 2y ago
Thank you, sir. If I may also suggest, you could also try being actually factually correct in your initial assertions in the future. In the United States, White men are pretty middling in terms of per-capita power[1]. If you really intend
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by caeril 2y ago
> I think their biggest differentiator is the way they sell their products. They still sell their products in the same way the other contractors do, though. Specifically, you have to flash a badge to even get in the door. Civilians, if t
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by caeril 2y ago
> Large scale hacking of US companies This is a solid point. What most people don't get is that despite the enormous investment the CIA, NSA, and DoD Sigint have made into their offensive security teams, most of their budget is dedi
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by caeril 2y ago
Awful lot of people on "Hacker" News incredibly worried about the livelihoods of people who look pretty and dance for 15 seconds for a living. Any time one hears someone mention the phrase "content creator", one should,
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by caeril 2y ago
Sorry, dang. I know the guidelines, it's just so hard to not get baited sometimes. I'll do better.
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by caeril 2y ago
> promote detached single family houses, discourage density, The cheapest housing in this country comprises primarily single-family homes in very low-density areas. These homes are substantially less expensive than the vast majority of
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by caeril 2y ago
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by caeril 2y ago
It's certainly unsurprising that a representative of the profession that misdiagnosed my mother's hematoma as a tumor - while she was bleeding internally at a rate of 1 unit per hour - would lack in both reading comprehension and
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by caeril 2y ago
> 1) why didn’t doctor not even think of it This is such a strange question. Of course they thought of it. Imagine you're a software developer, and you're not paid on the basis of software quality, responsiveness, features, or
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by caeril 2y ago
This is a solid point. When humans have vague or incomplete knowledge on a specific topic, the very LAST thing they do is fill in the gaps with their best guesses. Humans are built with no ego, and when they don't have a high degree of
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by caeril 2y ago
> people not listening to basic instructions. Unless the basic instructions are "put down the fork, you piece of shit fat fuck", you aren't doing your job. Presumably, you know that ~80% of medical costs are due to chronic
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by caeril 3y ago
Yes, I've seen this, but I am a bit of a fitness enthusiast, and nobody's going to prescribe semaglutide or tirzepatide until I gain 200lbs and wreck my health, which I am unwilling to do. I'm not sure if you're tried vi
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by caeril 3y ago
In my personal experience, this is generally untrue, especially if the cancer is terminal. There is a human tendency to adopt a "fuck it" attitude when confronted with death, and any recreational substance that doesn't interf
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by caeril 3y ago
I think it's likely that the WHO is considering people like me in their recommendation. I have friends who can drink a beer, maybe two, and be quite happy and satisfied. This is a phenomenon I have never been able to understand, becaus

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