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by hooande 5y ago
It's because the debt is owed directly to the US Treasury, just like debts to the IRS. You can't discharge any debt you owe to the federal government, to my knowledge. Same reason they can collect the debt using wage garnishments
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by hooande 5y ago
Even if you remove personal merit from the idea of college admissions, which most people do not, then you've still got a system that's selecting for the cultural knowledge and position of parents instead of the benefit received fr
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by hooande 5y ago
Web scraping can be a viable business. It depends on what you're scraping and who your customers are. Are there a couple thousand people who would pay for a SaaS offering? Then it's a business. The real goal would be identifying a
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by hooande 5y ago
> "Poverty makes things harder, no doubt." This is all you needed to say. The problem is that the system is designed to identify the most effective parents, not the most talented children. If you look at college admission as a
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by hooande 5y ago
which of these sites do people find is better for analyzing games? I have trouble remembering what I learn from looking at one game at a time
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by hooande 5y ago
It's just not as efficient because the size of a dataset is often the biggest factor in determining performance. simply, I get way more labels if I'm paying $0.10 each vs the cost of a full time salary. And individuals are prone t
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by hooande 5y ago
Someone should write a package that goes through your existing codebase to see which open source projects you make the most use of (however that is measured). Then a company could run it once a year, say around tax write off time, and build
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by hooande 5y ago
lol. a rough translation is that the new super language models are good enough that you don't have to keep track of specific parts of speech in your programming. if you look at the arrays of floating point weights that underlie gpt-3 e
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by hooande 5y ago
So is the big lesson here...don't use us-east-1?
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by hooande 5y ago
has this company done anything note worthy since 2013?
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by hooande 5y ago
What software do the seconds use to do deep dive research into the moves of specific players?
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by hooande 5y ago
This seems a little far fetched. China can bring overwhelming force to bear on Taiwan. Without the US being involved, it would only be a matter of time before the PRC had near total air superiority. And they also have medium range missiles.
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by hooande 5y ago
this sounds horrible. did they eventually take it down?
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by hooande 5y ago
"When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed."
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by hooande 5y ago
asking "what's happening right now?", especially in social situations like meetings. it reminds me to look beyond what is being said, as opposed to why things are being said. It's also a good way to gain perspective on a
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by hooande 5y ago
Think about how difficult it would be to make a fly from scratch . Not editing the genes of an existing organism, but combining the raw chemical components into a form that's identical to a fly. There are trillions of examples of inse
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by hooande 5y ago
How far are we away from gene editing that will allow humans to be born with working gills or wings? Animals have these things, so we know it's possible. But having the technology to do that is very far off, if ever. The same is true o
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by hooande 5y ago
A warp drive is theoretically possible, and also driven by boring chemical/thermal/electrical interactions. humans may create one of those at some very far point in the future, too
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by hooande 5y ago
AGI is currently as likely as teleportation, time travel or warp drives. You can write a computer program to do just about anything. Artificial "General" intelligence is simply not a thing. We're not even making progress towa
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by hooande 5y ago
It's possible that success isn't determined by something that's normally distributed like intelligence or hours worked. Say the key factor is what they call "grit" or determination. If this occurs according to a pow
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by hooande 5y ago
This is excellent analysis, thank you
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by hooande 5y ago
not necessarily disagreeing with you, but odd that you think your tip at applebee's is an argument against a basic income
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by hooande 5y ago
People turned out to vote for the marquee election, the governor's race, and voted for that party all the way down the ballot. Almost anyone from the republican party would have wound up in the same position
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by hooande 5y ago
Employees negotiate salaries. In theory this means they should take possible future scenarios, like inflation, into account when coming up with the salary that they'll accept. You can always ask to re-negotiate, or look for another job
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by hooande 5y ago
this is the only way to reliably use GPT-X in a production setting. you have to postprocesses the responses with a second model, until you find one that is 1) reasonable 2) coherent 3) related to the topic of the prompt
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by hooande 5y ago
I don't think that any of these benefits are worth the number of hours that people are asked to spend studying calculus
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by hooande 5y ago
This is a terrible idea. It fixes the cost for speeding or not signaling to something that a well off person can easily afford. Even I would consider just paying a $5 fine in order to speed to get to an important meeting, etc. A $500 fine f
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by hooande 5y ago
I could swear that spotify had a dislike button, at least on the android mobile app. I remember using it on songs that I found annoying. It would continue integrating them into playlists anyway. The thumbs down dislike was removed from the
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by hooande 5y ago
The tax dollars didn't completely disappear. They were used to pay you and hundreds of thousands of others
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by hooande 5y ago
You can do an analysis of this, you don't have to rely on personal impressions. Download representative samples of the top hn posts over time. Use open source or free sample tools to classify the text of posts or titles and see how tha

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