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by hcks 4y ago
I would qualify this type of online comment as infohazard. If you have ambition and have the potential to get into a nice school, then going to community college is ackin to shooting yourself in the foot. Sure, you can still have a nice car
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by hcks 4y ago
Good answer. Some developpers seem to think that their jobs is to engineer nice and beautiful systems. It's not. As a developper, you're getting paid (fyi the minimum so you don't leave the company) in order to maximise total
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by hcks 4y ago
I don't understand why, if it really worked, the org holding the patent didn't do anything of it.
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by hcks 4y ago
Absolutely! But then why even work in software? There are a lot of much more impactful, dirtier jobs out there! You should maximise your impact and utility by being a garbage man. You may even do it for half the salary: even better utility
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by hcks 4y ago
> They have no intrinsic pride in the work they do; it's all about status, money and power. Damn these modern people, why would they look after things so irrelevant as “status, money and power” instead of taking pride in completing
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by hcks 4y ago
Thanks for illustrating what parent comment said: it would be ridiculous to categorise only between “tall” and “short” when most people would fall into “kinda average”
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by hcks 4y ago
Well, I don’t think an employee who fantasises about sinking the ship by leaving is still a “good, well motivated” employee
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by hcks 4y ago
You are literally stating what makes it a bubble: the narrative according to which psychedelics are now being rehabilitated into treatments due to very promising results. But this narrative is getting old now, and the promising results in q
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by hcks 4y ago
Contra a lot of popular belief here: I don’t understand how working as an engineer (because this is always what seems to be implied) will improve your odds at starting a startup. Working as an engineer, and kickstarting a business are two v
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by hcks 4y ago
I really wonder about the economics and business models of large models APIs, mainly because of: * large running costs due to the expensiveness of the inference * low barriers to entry: the tech behind Dalle appeared 1.5 years ago if I reca
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by hcks 4y ago
One of the main goal of “low-tech” is efficiency, where “efficiency” means minimising the wasting of the processes / systems built. This appeals to most people as it is very intuitive. However, I argue that minimising wastefulness shou
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by hcks 4y ago
This reminds me of an old joke I heard a while back, which is that the opposite of "it's like riding a bike" is "it's like the UNIX command line". No matter how many times you do it, you will have to re-learn i
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by hcks 4y ago
The exemple at hand is literally about allowing truckers to work from their homes and increasing their hourly rates
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by hcks 4y ago
For the science part of it: >100 years old scientific literature
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by hcks 4y ago
Let’s see how “safer” Europeans are by the end of next winter
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by hcks 4y ago
The argument saying we don’t need more than N pi decimals because we could compute the radius of the universe down to an hydrogen atom is indeed not very convincing. This is also unrelated to NASA’s past or present activities
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by hcks 4y ago
This story is cool but it’s premise always bugged me. “meat” as a concept emerges from our own experience. From an alien point of view, “meat” would appear first as some kind of programmable nanotechnology matter, which is far from the triv
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by hcks 4y ago
This seems to be the dominant opinion is here, that is, to approach this problem as we approached civil aviation and flying commercial planes. To respond in a sentence: first, you have no proof that "investing in infrastructure" w
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by hcks 4y ago
This is such a tired argument. LGBT+ acceptance is fortunately not limited to « what people do in their bedrooms ».
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by hcks 4y ago
You don’t get it. It’s actually a very important result that tells us that you can’t lock humans in a sauna and ask them to ride a bike. This new information allows us to know that > 1 billion people will die of climate change in the nex
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by hcks 4y ago
At a high level, "flash loans" work by being acquired and repayed atomically. For example, this is useful for arbitrageurs
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by hcks 4y ago
This is an example of a common type of discourse that present itself as subversive and opposing what "society" wants. In practice, I really don't see how it is subversive. Most people do not pursue a career where they activel
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by hcks 4y ago
Do you have any links / references regarding that? I'd like to read more
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by hcks 4y ago
Their marketing is so bad. Terrible website, they present themselves first by opposing OpenAI, they name their datasets the way established orgs name their models. Their only project is a non-curated filtering of already open source data us
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by hcks 5y ago
The author is not a client but a user. He doesn't pay GitHub, and is certainly not entitled to having a day of internal engineering workforce (costing in the tens of thousands of $) fixing his mistakes.
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by hcks 5y ago
On the meta level, we are now at the point where the dubious comments downplaying the AI starts arguing on the plane of art criticism
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by hcks 5y ago
What are you calling distribution in that context ? What does it spans ?
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What I learned gathering thousands of nootropics ratings(troof.blog)
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by hcks 5y ago
Peak boomer aesthetic (no value judgement)
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by hcks 5y ago
> Putin’s and his inner circle’s plan was that it will take 1-4 days to take Kiev and two weeks to take most of Ukraine. This is being said a lot these days, but I haven't seen any proof of it. I'm not saying that proofs don&#x

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