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by habinero 1y ago
It's fine if the US wanted to encourage onshoring of certain key industries for national security reasons. You do that through strategic investment. Silicon Valley is where it is because of government investment here. You don't do
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by habinero 1y ago
Why? What's wrong with humans having variance?
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by habinero 1y ago
That's absolutely not true. It's like saying autism didn't exist before the 90s. It did, it just wasn't recognized. I got diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago as an adult. I grew up without all of the things you mentioned
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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, standing up a new factory will take five years and hundreds of millions of dollars. Larger businesses like Apple will cut deals. Smaller businesses will just fold.
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by habinero 1y ago
The US is the world's second biggest manufacturing country, almost on par with China. We have lots of manufacturing -- we just rely on automation instead of people. China has something like 20x the number of people working in manufactu
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by habinero 1y ago
I think it's pretty self-apparent? He's saying it occasionally happens but it's rare and the fact that it's happening now is a concerning data point. It's like climate change: sure, historically you naturally get ye
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by habinero 1y ago
Yep. Ten years ago HN was hyping blockchain as the future and there were a million blockchain startups. Just look at the list of startups funded by YC around then lol
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by habinero 1y ago
"Obviously" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. They have a lot of competition and no killer use case and no IP rights. From the consumer point of view, they're fungible. That's not even considering the probability th
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by habinero 1y ago
Absolutely. People using it to write shitposts and spam and a first draft of something is one thing, but "fun toy" is not the same thing as "sea change"
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by habinero 1y ago
Speaking as a software engineer, I'm not at all threatened by it. I like Copilot as fancy autocomplete when I'm bashing out code, but that's the easy part of my job. The hard part is understanding problems and deciding what t
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by habinero 1y ago
It's true, though. It strings together plausible words using a statistical model. If those words happen to mean something, it's by chance.
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by habinero 2y ago
Russia interfered with our elections and is actively hostile to us. It's not a meme, it's real.
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by habinero 2y ago
Churchs are tax exempt. Are they supposed to be neutral?
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by habinero 2y ago
> partly responsible for the deterioration of race relations in the USA This is just a euphemism for "he was black in public and lesser white people didn't like it".
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by habinero 2y ago
ICE administrative warrants are essentially "I can do what I want" written in crayon. Their only real purpose is fooling the gullible into confusing them for real warrants.
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by habinero 2y ago
Why would you assume that? It's entirely plausible that a politically motivated set of agents decided to punish this judge.
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by habinero 2y ago
These kind of risible DEI ghost stories are exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all take a toothless, mostly lip-service kind of program and have hysterics about it. Honestly, probably rightly, because mediocre was previous the acce
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by habinero 2y ago
You don't know what the "diversity criteria" even is. Neither does the parent article. You assume you do and therefore it is bad because something something woke. That's not being condescending, that's just true.
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by habinero 2y ago
I asked what you find objectionable, not what it says.
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by habinero 2y ago
That doesn't counteract the point being made.
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by habinero 2y ago
> Do you really feel today's university professors need to write an essay saying they support teaching everyone? Yes, actually. Having it be a very explicit part of the job is a good thing. Because a lot of people absolutely need to
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by habinero 2y ago
Ok, so what exactly is the "high standard" here, and what about the standard do you find it objectionable? The fact that something exists doesn't count. If you don't know, you're just spreading urban legends and gho
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by habinero 2y ago
There's no facts to refute - he just states that this conclusion is true without evidence of how he knows that or what the criteria he's using is. That's the problem with all the DEI hysterics - it's never given any inte
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by habinero 2y ago
No, we're a very close second in terms of output, almost on par. [0] The difference is China has something like 10x the number of workers in manufacturing and can efficiently take on smaller or custom work. --- [0] https://w
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by habinero 2y ago
In my experience, it's a phrase use to mock the weirdos who anthropomorphize and fetishize a statistics model into some fantasy "intelligence", when it has none by design. It's less "humans are special" and mor
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by habinero 2y ago
They still do. It's unavoidable. Yes you can make it much safer, but the cleanest farm is still a farm. There's no way around it.
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by habinero 2y ago
Nobody is worried about the threat of Small Cheese lol. Pasteurization is about safety, full stop. Farm animals are literal breeding grounds for disease and plagues.
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by habinero 2y ago
You're Clever Hans-ing yourself into thinking there's more going on than there is. Machine learning models can do this and have been for a long time. The only thing different here is there's some generated text to go along wi
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by habinero 2y ago
Or it's just a bubble and after diminishing returns they'll go in the bin with all the blockchain startups lol
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by habinero 2y ago
It's not. A lot -- and I mean a lot -- of people who hype it up are hobby or aspirational coders. If you drill down on what exactly they use it for, they invariably don't write code in professional settings that will be maintain

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