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by dehrmann 1y ago
I've also heard you want a judge trial if you're innocent, jury if you're guilty. A judge will quickly see through prosecutorial BS if you didn't do it, and if you did, it only takes one to hang.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Not at Facebook, but I used to work on an ML system that took well-defined and free-form JSON data and ran ML on it. Both were used in training and classification. Unless a human looked, we had no idea what those custom fields were. We also
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by dehrmann 1y ago
LLMs gonna LLM, and guardrails are hard and unreliable.
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> I failed that interview by overengineering. Almost. You needed to clarify what the interviewer was asking and discover requirements. As much as HN likes to hate on coding interviews requiring specific algorithm knowledge, determining r
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It seems more like a weird Hetzner thing that they won't give you a IPv4 NAT gateway.
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Obviously you should use a SaaS for SaaS uptime monitoring. No need to build this yourself.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Unknown crypto vulnerabilities and 51% attacks are crypto currency risks that are theoretically out there, but we mostly haven't seen play out. At some point, someone doing AI might amass enough GPUs to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin. You&
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The high-level pitch of P cores and E cores seems so elegant, but when it actually comes to scheduling, it gets messy fast. Even in a laptop running off a battery, you can't simply switch to E cores because some short-lived work might
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There are also Xeons, but it limits an OS to use in data centers.
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> it seems like he doesn’t just go out in public these days, does he? It is kind of odd. It's certainly ironic considering his company's founding mission was connecting people. Some amount of isolation can be normal as a high-p
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I used to work in a part of the Meta office he used to work. All of the windows in the area were bulletproof.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
One issue with a minimum wage is there isn't a great economic theory for what it should be. So even if this one had good effects, it doesn't mean $25 per hour would also have positive effects. It's also possible a personally
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You don't think 5-year-olds can learn two new fancy colors?
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How did they save for the down payment? The ROI for college isn't what it used to be, but there isn't a clear non-college path in the US, either.
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I agree that set() is the ugly child of the [], {}, () family, but is a two character optimization for readability really worth it?
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Headlines like this don't help. "Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796526
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I guess the key lesson is don't subsides your main product with an also-ran side project that's actually your only viable business.
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The web in 2000 wasn't actually very useful.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> ...resets the prices to some multiple of dividends But wouldn't you want to pay more for a company that has a history of revenue and income growth than one in a declining industry? And you have to look at assets on the company&#x2
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Back then, the money poured into building real stuff Its limitations are well-documented, but cutting-edge AI right now is very much "real stuff."
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Github was part of it. The other part was Linus being the author of Git and putting his weight behind it. It wasn't for technical reasons.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
If it weren't for tariffs on foreign panels, I wonder how cheap solar would be. Solar's gotten cheap very quickly; we might be at the point that it's viable on its own.
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The default depends on your party and which party is in power.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
My person pet peeve for insurance is dental insurance. Here's what Delta Dental offers for its own employees : https://www1.deltadentalins.com/content/dam/ddins/en/pdf/car... If you get the PP
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Excel Exchange should be SaaS for 99% of businesses. There's a web version of Excel that's probably OK-ish. I'm not sure what Active Directory looks like in a world without Windo
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Certain types of insurance can be funny because of how much information asymmetry there is.
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> either Altman... Another option is this was to sweeten the pot during OpenAI negotiations.
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It's actually the artists who can sue since it's their work being distributed. The distributor might have a fair use argument since the purpose is artistic preservation and the artists clearly never intended to profit off the song
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Yes, but for how long? At some point, IT realizes everything's in the browser, and general-purpose computing is a security risk.
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> they each paid about $14,000 in annual premiums for 10 years, and the daily benefit started at $200 per day. Insurance companies have to make money, but that's not that good of a deal, and the payout isn't that high ($73k ann

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