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by deet 3y ago
I strongly doubt that the campus is any more of a force multiplier than a collection of far cheaper class A office buildings of similar capacity, with similarly serene grass and vegetation connecting them.
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by deet 3y ago
100% agree that these general statements comparing in-person to remote are not helpful. Even within a single project of a single team, the remote vs in-office balance can change as the project evolves. Early days of a project, where everyon
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by deet 3y ago
Loss of agency is a deeply profound concern that is not discussed enough. So much of human life is tied to the reward of the sense of accomplishment, and AI threatens that in a meaningful way. From large things, like seeing a piece of softw
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by deet 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply any nefarious ulterior motives here. I'm more just intellectually curious about the dynamics of Github and marketing on it these days, whether it's for attracting contributors to non-commercial O
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by deet 3y ago
Tangentially, it's interesting seeing an open source project like this actually spin up a domain name, contact email, and some branding (the image in the Readme), for a project the author said was created in just a few days. I wonder w
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by deet 3y ago
These stories about Utah and the comments people make here on HN disappoint me. So many of them are based on prejudices and biases. I've lived in many places in the USA, from SF to Chicago to NYC to Utah. And honestly, they're jus
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by deet 3y ago
For those who are wondering, none of these things are "banned" though. Drive around Salt Lake County, especially the city itself, and you'll see plenty of bars, signs offering cannabis medical cards, and even a strip club her
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by deet 3y ago
For those who think this is just a Utah peculiarity, it's not. There have been attempts in Europe: - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-porn-ban-digital-economy-... - https://www.wired.co.uk/artic
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Pornhub blocks Utahns ahead of new age verification law(sltrib.com)
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by deet 4y ago
I'm happy this happened, and it's likely to prevent other bank runs in the near term, but the moral hazard and lack of clarity induced by the government changing policies last minute makes decisions about how to treat money and ho
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by deet 4y ago
Which part is silly though? The JPM report is indeed essentially saying that they didn't properly hedge interest rate risk. It just adds that SVB's situation was exacerbated by the fact that the health and size of the deposit base
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by deet 4y ago
It seems like everyone is reading this article to be about public web search. But what the article is really about is how products are using new AI tech to add shiny features instead of solving existing, core problems like search and inform
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by deet 4y ago
Well, you can verify if it is sending all data all the time, or only when you invoke it for a request. I believe most people are uncomfortable with all data being sent all the time, but more okay with sending some data in the exact cases th
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by deet 4y ago
I've been following XP1 and I don't think they have nefarious goals with this. The extension is even open source (though not sure if the proxy is). Check it out here: https://github.com/dust-tt/dust/tree&
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by deet 4y ago
Or sufficient adoption will make governments adopt a quite cheap (and even potentially profitable) solution: make obfuscation through such means illegal and subject to fine. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a liberal reading of exis
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by deet 4y ago
(Self promotion, sorry!) I'm working on a product with this capability, plus a lot more including cross-app contextual support and developer extensibility. If anyone is excited about this kind of embedded-in-your-workflow integration o
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by deet 4y ago
Would you want it if it offered you control and transparency? Like, how would you feel about someone taking care of the heavy lifting of API integration and GUI automation and then letting you as an individual choose how to extend or automa
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by deet 4y ago
That's not an existence proof as you stated. What you provided is an existence proof that contradicts the statement "without a symbolic approach there are no cases a robot will know what's important to you and which are not w
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by deet 4y ago
As a recent transplant from California to Utah, watching the discussions of this situation play out locally has been interesting. If water were well managed here, the area is potentially blessed over the long term compared to most of the We
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by deet 4y ago
This conversation is indeed a distraction, but for posterity and those curious the population for the SLC area is slightly confusing because of the population proportion of the central city itself with the legal name "Salt Lake City&qu
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by deet 4y ago
"Confidence" is an unfortunate term that shouldn't be confused with a human logic interpretation of "confidence". In most ML cases (and ChatGPT likely), "confidence" would generally just correlate how clos
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by deet 4y ago
There are various size options for the models. The choice of which you use trades off accuracy for higher performance. There is also a C++ re-implementation that performs well and can definitely transcribe in realtime on many machines: htt
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by deet 4y ago
Former Harlem resident chiming in here as an additional, concurring datapoint. I didn't fit the traditional Harlem demographic (ex-FAANG employee, startup founder, etc) but found the neighborhood to have solid access to the rest of Man
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by deet 5y ago
Seems like wishful thinking to me. Unless crypto becomes actually useful for real world transactions, it has to be converted to fiat currency for use, and all the exchanges or technologies that do that conversion are subject to the will of
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by deet 5y ago
Because the concept of "ownership" doesn't really mean anything unless it can be enforced. What's the point of owning a house if you can't live in it because someone else is squatting in it? Since there doesn't
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by deet 5y ago
Indeed. I've always wanted to know "Okay, so if we record real property ownership on a blockchain, and someone trespasses in my house, who do I call?" If the answer is "the police", I'm not really sure what hav
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by deet 5y ago
I’m a manager at a FAANG company—-resigning in a few weeks!—-and I previously small startup that was distributed (though we had an office too). So I’ve seen the good and bad of both remote work and in-person offices, and at opposite ends of
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by deet 6y ago
It's not a competitor to the Economist, but for general scientific topics including some health information Scientific American would be a step up in depth and coverage, while not being as dense as real journals or Science, Nature, etc
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by deet 6y ago
I’ll address your second point: We do need to think about the precedents we are setting with respect to free speech. It’s possible that action might be needed in the short term to moderate these channels. But we must also consider the longe
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by deet 6y ago
Perhaps I'm using the word "censor" in a way that points to the government being the censor. But I mean it to be more encompassing of any entity that has the right to remove content from communications channels. Currently the

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