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by hnfong 3y ago
> Because Xi ham-fistedly forced through a badly-written security law [1] and intervened in its politics [2]. It’s like stupid Tiannamen Square. [1] has no mention of Xi. [2] is in 2021, way after the protests/riots. I have reliable
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by hnfong 3y ago
> It wasn’t rational for him to force his way onto Hong Kong When that happened, Hong Kong was involved in ongoing riots and people were proclaiming (Hong Kong) independence on the streets for months. The legislature was stormed in an ev
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by hnfong 3y ago
I agree probing into the candidate's childhood is probably a bad idea as an interview topic. However, for sake of argument, given that your story is true, shouldn't it also be evidence that those _not_ talking about "caring f
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Okay, what part of what I said are you trying to refute or educate me on? Not the GP, but that's why, when applicable, I try to prefix my replies with a variant of "I agree, and btw..."
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by hnfong 3y ago
You don't "need" an application framework. People have been building websites (even SPAs) before the 2010s and they didn't "need" these frameworks. Given what we know today, I'll grant you that in some cas
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by hnfong 3y ago
Given that we know people aren't infinitely intelligent and they perform better with intellectual tasks if given more time... Unless you have an abundance of "free" brain power eg. you work physical labor or otherwise don&#x2
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by hnfong 3y ago
Here you go (at least on the knowledge part) - https://hnfong.github.io/public-crap/writings/2023/00-Knowle... [Read at your own peril(?). Please don't debate me on this.]
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think the quartz sand metaphor was to illustrate how advanced our silicon-based technology has become, not just the ML parts. Imagine all the stuff... transistors, Turing/Von Neumann machines, lithography, theoretical computer sc
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by hnfong 3y ago
Is that an analogy? If so, it is an extremely interesting one, and I would like to know where does it come from :D
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by hnfong 3y ago
> "I read it when younger and it was like a powerful transformational psychedelic experience at a one day festival" I never had a psychedelic experience but I wouldn't object to this way of framing my experience with the b
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'm not sure you're responding to the same point by the GP. GP claims some truths cannot be proven. You took one claim that could be proven ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proof ) and
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by hnfong 3y ago
Speaking of Scott Aaronson he has more recently (2013) wrote a much longer exposition about consciousness and (quantum) computation, and has a chapter specifically for Penrose: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/giqtm
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by hnfong 3y ago
> if you like pop sci That's the "problem" right there. It wasn't a pop sci book. TBH while Gödel's incompleteness theorem might be seen as "science" subject, it is actually squarely in the realm of met
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by hnfong 3y ago
That's just it. It isn't a science book, I don't think it ever was intended to be one.
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by hnfong 3y ago
"I tried developing on <platform>, actively avoided using their tools and tech, and the experience sucked because nothing I tried was supported."
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by hnfong 3y ago
As an Apple user , the experience is generally fine, especially when compared to Microsoft. Most of the complaints about Apple seem to have come from devs. And in contrast, Microsoft [in]famously loves developers (Balmer on stage...)
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by hnfong 3y ago
I guess you could always get into a situation where you manage a farm that exhausts all your available time. But work is indeed seasonal, and I doubt you'd actually be able to be so effective that you don't have any free time at a
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by hnfong 3y ago
Reply from a sibling comment of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246642 > A FTP client was set in the wrong mode could easily corrupt everything. When PNG came out that was actually a super common thing that
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I assumed that was more the result of doing math on the properties the model generated for the tokens king, man, queen, etc. This isn't wrong, the model does do a bunch of "math" (HUGE matrix and vector multiplications)
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by hnfong 3y ago
I don't think the Luddite position is that the employer has a moral responsibility to keep their employees employed. As you said, it's "we as a society" needs to figure out a solution. If society ignores this problem,
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by hnfong 3y ago
Or worse, they may become thrilled and want a share of the $1M/year revenue since OP developed it while being employed by them.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Interest rates are not the only way of controlling inflation. GP's post is just a rather convoluted way of saying the US needs to increase taxes. Not sure whether they actually intended this, but it seemed the only logical conclusion.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who isn't anti-technology per your definition. Are you sure you're not an AI advocating for a world ruled by AI capitalists where us primitive humans have no role whatsoever? :P
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by hnfong 3y ago
This is the classic fallacy of treating absence of evidence as evidence of absence (especially when you're biased towards the conclusion). OP claims that the benefits of RTO cannot be easily assessed, and while the benefits of WFH are
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by hnfong 3y ago
At the risk of violating some rules/conventions here about generated content, I put the question to GPT4 and got some rather reasonable answers. It's enough to convince me not to do what you suggested. ---- Offering payment to an
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by hnfong 3y ago
I believe GP implicitly assumes that bash (and generally POSIX-y shell script) has lots of quirks and footguns (to which I generally agree). After skimming through the source code though, I'd say the concerns are probably overstated.
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by hnfong 3y ago
It wasn't a leak in the typical sense. They sent the weights to pretty much everyone who asked nicely. When you send something interesting to thousands of people without vetting their credentials, you'd expect the stuff to get &qu
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by hnfong 3y ago
> My point was that these things are a small subset of cognition, and most of cognition we have no particular reason to think depends on discreteness, which I think is the same point you're making. How do you convince yourself that
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by hnfong 3y ago
You're technically correct. That said, our Turing Machine model of computation is discrete, and the Church-Turing thesis implies human thought is Turing Complete. It's not empirical evidence, but it's something. (I really do
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by hnfong 3y ago
I dunno, it feels to me that people are too ready to tell "white half-truths" to simplify the message, and assume everyone else is too dense to understand nuance... Why can't we just outright say to everyone: "learn the

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