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by godelski 9mo ago
Do you have a source (link) on that? I have follow-up questions but they'll be much better if there's a source we can talk around. Literally the first result of a google search for "RosIndex" coca cola brand recognit
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by godelski 9mo ago
Then go out and campaign to convince others to vote more similarly to you. It would be a bad government if asdff's votes got to overrule everyone else's. Your favored candidate can lose. But the best thing to do is convince others
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by godelski 9mo ago
Because she's not your representative or because your favored candidate lost? Either way, fundamentally your vote is not supposed to be more powerful than anyone else's (even if that does happen...): and it is a (representative) d
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by godelski 9mo ago
Yes, indirectly Go to this website[0], type in your zipcode, and write a letter or email to the address provided. It may also help reading this[2] [0] https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member [1] https:&#x2
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by godelski 9mo ago
> Who is the buyer? You are With your tax money. With your votes. They're there not to sell you a plane directly but to make you happy with the money spent. To make you excited about the machines. Think of it as a political
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by godelski 9mo ago
Is the same idea around why companies like Coke make ads. Does anyone seriously think Coke needs brand recognition? LOL Car companies do this too. Frequently expensive cars are advertised to people who could never buy them. The ad makes the
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by godelski 9mo ago
And it's weird that this even needs to be argued given that our long explanations are needed to even convey fairly simple concepts. Not to mention that it still relies upon correct interpretation. The result of natural language program
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by godelski 9mo ago
It amazes me people say that serially, given in the next breath they'll complain about how their manager doesn't know shit and is leading blind. Or complain about how you don't understand. Maybe we need to install more mirror
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by godelski 9mo ago
I think you have the correct approach. Tests are signals, not proofs. I do often hear on HN people advocating for Test Driven Development (TDD) but that I think is a different category of error. It encourages people to write to the tests, n
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by godelski 9mo ago
> I just prefix it with a backslash: \grep I have an almost identical grep alias. Word of warning, I use `\grep` quite frequently. The usage is when you are piping after grep or saving to a variable. Illustrative example: $ T
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by godelski 9mo ago
> it needs to be "build the right things right", vs "build things right and then discover if they are the right things" I still think this is a bad comparison and I hoped my prior comment would handle this. F
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by godelski 9mo ago
> The answer they always give is that compilers are deterministic and therefore trustworthy in ways that LLMs are not. I don't see this as a frequent answer tbh, but I do frequently see claims that this is the critique. I wr
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by godelski 9mo ago
> why do you not program in assembly? There's a balance of levels of abstraction. Abstraction is a great thing. Abstraction can make your programs faster, more flexible, and more easy to understand. But abstraction can also
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by godelski 9mo ago
> it's still just six months away Reminds me of another "just around the corner" promise...[0] I think it is one thing for the average person to buy into the promises but I've yet to understand why that happen
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by godelski 9mo ago
> "build the right things" [vs] "build things right" I think this (frequent) comparison is incorrect. There are times when quality doesn't matter and times that it does. Without that context these discu
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by godelski 9mo ago
> it’s now four years later Well yes, but look the x axis of the graph. It doesn't show 2025 and it's barely 2016. Also yes, that's kinda the point. You don't think doing poorly in a grade below makes it likel
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by godelski 9mo ago
I'm curious, why did you make this change? The article isn't about Oregon. Plus, the claim itself is pretty disingenuous since it is including covid data, vastly exaggerating the effect[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.c
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by godelski 9mo ago
> I think that Oregon teacher salaries have gone up quite a bit more than the national average in the last 10 years, less so in the last couple. Also let's not forget Covid. Yeah, Covid is at the tail end of the time period
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by godelski 9mo ago
As a reminder to everyone, here's what the guidelines say[0] > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. There are reasons to edit the title other than this quote
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by godelski 9mo ago
Don't confuse what I'm saying, I do find LLMs useful. You're right, about knowledge based systems being useful and I'm not disagreeing with that in any way. I don't think any of the researchers claiming LLMs are not
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by godelski 9mo ago
It is weird to read because they bring up many things a lot of people have been critiquing for years. > But as impressive as these feats are, they obscure a simple truth: being a "test-taker" is not what most people need fr
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by godelski 9mo ago
> If you're not willing to have 8 starship landings Your math is WAY off. You used LEO payload... Their GSO payload is 21tons[0] and the moon is a lot further than GEO. If you use the GSO numbers you get about 37 launches. B
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by godelski 9mo ago
> you lay out a huge specification that would fully work through all of the complexity in advance, then build it. This has never happened and never will. You simply are not omniscient. Even if you're smart enough to figure e
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by godelski 9mo ago
I don't get your argument. That everyone should know and recognize our community celebrities? That seems really out of touch. Given the age of their profile I'm assuming they just spend more time touching grass. Either way I'
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by godelski 9mo ago
> basically his entire fortune Money is a completely different concept for someone that rich. If I give away 50% of my fortune my entire life falls apart and I am struggling. If I give away 10% it is going to hurt. But Gates? He
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by godelski 9mo ago
Is that meaningfully different? If you read malfist's point as "tptacek's point isn't valuable because it's from some random person on the internet" then the problem is "random person on the internet"
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by godelski 9mo ago
> but I understand that the first principal component of casual skepticism on HN is "must be a conflict of interest". I think the first principle should be "don't trust random person on the internet" (Bu
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by godelski 9mo ago
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. - Feynman
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by godelski 9mo ago
A perfect solution never exists
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by godelski 9mo ago
Be careful with the math there. While a 4th power is awesome you got the Stefan-Boltzman constant to consider and that's on the order of 10^-8 Radiative power is really efficient for hot things but not so great when you're trying

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