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by jmward01 2y ago
To make my comment clearer, the article made many statements like: > If the main appeal of joining YC isn’t the mentorship but the prestige of being able to write "YC W22" in your Twitter bio and on your company’s landing page
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by jmward01 2y ago
> I don’t see how any of the evidence martialed in this article proves the conclusion. Agreed. Making this level clam requires a lot more evidence. It would have been better if the author presented this idea as something like 'YC be
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by jmward01 2y ago
The regulatory structure of the FAA is broken. The evidence of this is the time and cost required to do basically anything in space or otherwise. Zero risk is not an acceptable stance since it leads to the only zero risk option, not doing a
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by jmward01 2y ago
Solid point.
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by jmward01 2y ago
This was not a requirement before Uber but it is now somehow an argument after. Reporting a crime or vandalism during a ride is grounds for being banned from the service, but the actual service, if you aren't banned, doesn't requi
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by jmward01 2y ago
I noticed this exact behavior between my wife and I. I avoid Uber like the plague but unfortunately they have destroyed the alternatives. We need a right to anonymity for services. Knowing who I am isn't a requirement for the actual se
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by jmward01 2y ago
> Third, that AI technologies won't be perfect substitutes for actual human-to-human contact. I think that, unfortunately, they will eventually become better substitutes. We are at a real crossroad where people are actively choosing
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by jmward01 2y ago
If only we could give our obsolete scientific satellite tech to the NRO instead of the other way around.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I wonder what drives these decisions? Is there that much solid evidence that they get more value out of people in the office rather than home? Or are there other reasons like tax incentives that encourage in-person work over remote? Is this
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by jmward01 2y ago
I totally agree. The tie to whole patient outcome is stronger in that system. Still not perfect, but a lot more direct for sure. It may be an odd thing to say, but because of that there is an argument that the Canadian system is closer to a
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by jmward01 2y ago
I can agree that good enough is not tied to cost and that is likely unfortunate for the patient. It is instead tied to profit, for the company. If increasing the standard of care leads to more profit a rational company will do that. If it m
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by jmward01 2y ago
No, my argument isn't that this wouldn't be used, it is that by using it there will be overage in quality of care above 'good enough' for the same or similar cost. That will result in the most expensive resources being r
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by jmward01 2y ago
That was a rational capitalist argument. If a company has an opportunity to make money, they will. Any better than 'good enough' isn't rational and the people running that company should be fired. In the long term the entire
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by jmward01 2y ago
The question is will this lead to better care or a reduction in resources? Technology allows companies to become 'just good enough'. Any better than 'just good enough' and resources are withdrawn. If there is a 26% impro
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by jmward01 2y ago
> In the short term, it's a smart strategy for Israel, but they've likely opened Pandora's box in the process. Is the short term here a few days or maybe just hours? For the reasons you pointed out and more this is likely
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by jmward01 2y ago
Solid point. Not sure. I barely use social media and I don't think I have shared a meme in my life. Not sure I will change much about what I would do, but I have considered contacting my representatives about things like this. (I have
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by jmward01 2y ago
It is hard to read things like this and not have a strong emotional reaction instead of the appropriate strong intellectual one. Fundamentally attacks like these need to start with the question 'What is an appropriate response?'.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I wonder if this could be solved with standardized embeddings. There are reasons to hide exact content but giving a peak at the content with an embedding could allow meaningful search while still hiding the exact content.
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by jmward01 2y ago
A machine learning program walks into a bar. (loss .999) A machine learning program walks into a bar. (loss .625) A machine learning program ducks a bar. (loss .482)
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by jmward01 2y ago
There is no doubt that this dystopian view deserves immediate condemnation, but that doesn't meant that there wasn't one possible good idea in there. Don't watch people, just watch the watchmen: "Every police officer is
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by jmward01 2y ago
Something similar from Moderna for melanomas has been discussed in the past on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775439
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by jmward01 2y ago
That is exactly why I used 'update' in my first comment. I stopped calling these things 'upgrades' at least 10 years ago.
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by jmward01 2y ago
A long time ago I started dreading major updates from corporate providers. They push features they want, not features I want. It got so bad with Microsoft that I fled. Apple's updates have been aggressive in resetting my preferences an
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by jmward01 2y ago
I'd argue that designing an aircraft still fails badly with waterfall and it is a major reason that aviation is massively behind where it should be right now. Space-x shows that you can build rockets, a lot better, if you ditch that wa
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by jmward01 2y ago
I did some cursory research on how important 'forgetting' is to neural networks. I didn't have conclusive results because I just played with a few ideas, never really making it serious, but the idea has stuck with me as impor
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by jmward01 2y ago
> They would be illegal if private companies made them. A lot of things governments do would be illegal if private companies did them. Are you arguing that governments shouldn't have special abilities that companies can't have?
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by jmward01 2y ago
I believed you missed my point about 'in the short term'. My argument, backed by the linked data, was that for the last 30 years the prices actually look flat when you factor in the lost services like luggage. (is that actually a
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by jmward01 2y ago
This is the natural result of businesses only fighting the regulations that actually hurt them and quietly letting the bad ones that help them stay. They have no incentive to lobby to get rid of that silliness. In fact, the worse the airpor
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by jmward01 2y ago
In the short term? The flying experience is less than miserable now and the costs are going up. I see a lot of articles out there talking about how prices have fallen, but I haven't actually seen the data. The one article that actually

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