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by chillacy 4y ago
Read only is a good case, afaik one of the usecases of flatbuffers is that you can mmap a huge flatbuffer file and then randomly access the data quickly without paying a huge deserialization cost.
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by chillacy 4y ago
I saw a trick to increase the output by putting the text like “page 1 of 10” right at the end of the prompt Then to keep going type “page 2 of 10” and the AI will keep it going
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by chillacy 4y ago
I'm not a finance guy, but from what I've heard, much of this is driven by the risk-free rate of return going up due to interest rate hikes. As the risk-free rate increases, business performance has to change on two fronts: 1. The
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by chillacy 4y ago
From what I heard early GoPro cameras were designed in China as well, they were off the shelf devices rebranded. Only later did GoPro start doing in house camera design.
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by chillacy 4y ago
You can’t come up with the topics yourself either, because the topics you will think up are different based on your demographic / type of person you are, and ad networks basically try to guess that.
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by chillacy 4y ago
I’ve heard this theory before but wouldn’t that mean you could take these substances while anesthetized and derive the same benefits without remembering any of the “trip”?
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by chillacy 4y ago
I started having more success with setting up habits after reading up on habit formation science. The junk food example is one aspect on frequency and availability. There are other aspects to habit formation like understanding how habits ar
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by chillacy 4y ago
I’m curious what you consider a legitimate moral conversation to look like. When I hear that I think “philosophy before 1800s” where you can appeal to moral absolutes via God (yet still end up in unsolved debates. It seems even harder today
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by chillacy 4y ago
This is the moral theory behind patent laws, and I’ve never seen definitive evidence that it actually helps, and a lot of examples where IP law completely hampers innovation or at least adds layers of bureaucracy. I’m glad we don’t have to
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by chillacy 4y ago
On this note it’s always useful to reflect upon the era where the US also had a cultural acceptance of “stealing” technology from the UK, since America wasn’t always such a tech leader. Also the story goes that the Wild West was so famous f
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by chillacy 4y ago
Look up Polymarket There are also no-money markets like Forecast and the traditional forecasting competitions like GJP and Metaculus
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by chillacy 4y ago
Taking somebody’s real story to fall back to a hypothetical moralistic scenario? I’m confused if you think this helps you actually understand someone else’s beliefs. Ultimately questions of right and wrong are entirely values based (barring
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by chillacy 4y ago
For the record in the novel The Dark Forest, most aliens don’t actually get in space ships and visit, they hurl relativistic projectiles at the sun and blow it up. The reasoning being something like the prisoner’s dilemma (in space!). Also
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by chillacy 4y ago
By extension what do you think about people living comfortably in the United States and benefiting economically (and indirectly helping prop) the military industrial complex?
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by chillacy 4y ago
My favorite conversation to observe in person now is the “yea my industry isn’t actually bad and I’m a good person (says the person in finance, social media, etc) but yours is, how do you live with yourself?”
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by chillacy 4y ago
I assume you mean book value? Since most stocks trade for far less earnings, we have an a tire concept of revenue multiples to account for that.
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by chillacy 4y ago
I once heard from an engineer that the learning corpus for digital assistants like siri contains a lot of abusive (and usually sexist) stuff, like some section of the population regularly takes it out on digital assistants…
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by chillacy 4y ago
Speak for yourself, I have no proof that anyone else experiences an “I”, you may as well be a philosophical zombie for all I know ;)
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by chillacy 4y ago
The justices on the Supreme Court all have pretty different* interpetations of this absolute truth, so I do kind of get OP’s point. * different enough that it matters to people who care about modern day politics
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by chillacy 4y ago
The worst part is that it’s entirely narrative, so not really disprovable in the same way that “it is raining outside right now” is. And it is like you said self fulfilling, where the world makes more sense the less economic success one has
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by chillacy 4y ago
Upon a second reading of parent poster's comment, there's nothing much to debate the conclusion but mostly debating the degree of certainty of the conclusion, which is a much lower bar. The way I see it though, unless anyone is sh
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by chillacy 4y ago
Case in point, some old tweets from Luna founder Do Kwon: https://www.yahoo.com/news/terrausd-founder-kwon-mocked-econ...
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by chillacy 4y ago
Professional organizations have stronger incentives to increase their compensation through restricting supply instead of decreasing their compensation to help their customers. The AMA is actually doing a great job at this recently compared
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by chillacy 4y ago
In my experience, insinuations of brainwashing are applicable in both directions. We all hold assumptions about the world which lay upon foundational beliefs like a pile of bricks. The ones at the bottom are often invisible or taken for gra
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by chillacy 4y ago
Russell Conjugation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
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by chillacy 4y ago
I get what you mean but the statement that reasonable people would agree could always be tautologically true, as opposed to evidence for others.
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by chillacy 4y ago
On a large team I’ll often be debugging someone else’s code anyways, and the framework code is usually better than hacked together product code (and comes with a public bug tracker).
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by chillacy 4y ago
Lenders add to the base rate so the return is nonzero afaik.
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by chillacy 4y ago
To be very cynical, HN isn’t a nonprofit we all donate to either: it’s the wholly funded pet project of an organization who teaches growth and engagement (and in fact from what I hear is quite strict with its companies on expected monthly g
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by chillacy 4y ago
Reminded me of the ray kurtzweil predictions: extremely generous grading. This issue of grading fuzzy predictions is somewhat applicable to political pundits and stock market gurus as well. There's an entire body of knowledge on how to

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