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by kentm 5mo ago
Mostly on IRC people either learned or got told to leave. There was significant pushback on people just looking for someone else to do their homework. AIs have changed the feedback loop here such that these approaches are rewarded and even
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by kentm 5mo ago
> But when pushed on the occasions I've had my funds frozen they are never able to provide any evidence or what specific reason they have for triggering KYC/AML They are legally prevented from telling you by the regulators, at
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by kentm 5mo ago
There was a Daily Show skit about this: https://vimeo.com/44985418
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by kentm 5mo ago
Also the Supreme Court, half of Congress, and apparently something like 40% of the American populace.
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by kentm 6mo ago
> It's so wild that HN dunks on it so much: Here we have a societal problem in computing we've been complaining about for decades, someone offers an incremental but imperfect regulation to start taking steps to correct it, and
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by kentm 6mo ago
Also, "Be able to track a user's data and delete it on a request." This is not too hard if you do proper engineering work ahead of time and are purposeful about how you move and manage data (step 1 is just not collecting it u
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by kentm 6mo ago
Exactly. To this point I went to a Comcast store to cancel my internet and the person asked me if I meant I wanted to cancel my “Wi-Fi”. I was very confused for a couple seconds.
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by kentm 6mo ago
His reasoning doesn't seem like a political statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379#47757803 That seems very practical and well-reasoned to me.
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by kentm 6mo ago
> - Let's not enforce any immigration law, and subsidize those here illegally This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem.
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by kentm 6mo ago
"Smart" is something you do, not something you are. People with very large amounts of raw intelligence fall down some very dumb intellectual rabbit holes that its practically a meme: https://www.smbc-comics.com/co
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by kentm 7mo ago
Second life is trying to be a metaverse in the style of snowcrash; it’s one big world. Roblox is more like Newgrounds, where you have a bunch of distinct games or experiences that you select from a menu, but skins and currency and whatnot
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by kentm 8mo ago
I find the notion that Trump would have used discretion if not for Biden’s pardons pretty curious. At no point has precedence or decorum stopped Trump. Biden’s actions had zero effect on how Trump uses his pardon power.
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by kentm 8mo ago
He hired the private investigator before he was sued. You left out the part where he claimed a person was a pedophile and when asked if it was just an insult basically said “no I really think he’s a pedophile”, and started stating made up b
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by kentm 8mo ago
Notwithstanding the other myriad of reasons to not like Elon Musk (of which there are many)… You’re equivocating a childish insult with insisting that a person is a pedophile and hiring a private investigator to prove so and then writing s
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by kentm 8mo ago
As much as I'd like to see boots on the ground on Mars this is where I'm at. In my uneducated opinion, while building the massive rocket is incredibly difficult, its probably the easiest part of a Mars mission.
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by kentm 8mo ago
Is that a Reiser reference or am I missing something?
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by kentm 8mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment behind steelmanning but Trump has had over a decade of publicaly, vocally hating windmills because some were built too close to his golf course. See https://www.npr.org/2013/07/01/1
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by kentm 8mo ago
I’m pretty sure people vastly overstate how important “HD pre-mapped roads” are to Waymo.
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by kentm 9mo ago
“Second Amendment solutions” are only OK to talk about if you’re a Republican (I.e. “Real American”). I’m being sarcastic, for the record. Back during his first term, Trump talked about “second amendment people” doing something about libera
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by kentm 9mo ago
Do you happen to know if ES was the only storage? Its been almost 8 years, but if I was building a log storage and analysis system, then I'd push the logs to S3 or some other object store and build an ES index off of that S3 data. Fr
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by kentm 9mo ago
> I really never understood how people could store very important information in ES like it was a database. I agree. Its been a while since I touched it, but as far as I can remember ES has never pretended to be your primary store of inf
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by kentm 9mo ago
What engine and data format were you using for your experiment? You mention parquet and spark, but I’m wondering if you tried any of the “Lakehouse” formats that are basically parquet + a metadata layer (ie iceberg). I’d probably at least g
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by kentm 9mo ago
Yeah but everyone involved in the LLM space is encouraging you to just slurp all your data into these things uncritically. So the comparison to eval would be everyone telling you to just eval everything for 10x productivity gains, and then
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by kentm 9mo ago
This administration has not been operating the DoJ in good faith. One only has to look at the buffoonish attempts to push through charges on Comey, James and other political opponents to see that. Treating the investigation in good faith is
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by kentm 9mo ago
There’s no question about the independence of the DoJ. Its independence is undeniably gone and it is full on working as Trump’s enforcement arm. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is a clown.
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by kentm 9mo ago
Case in point, you’d think by how things are reported that Trump brought down inflation. But inflation was down when Biden left office and Trump has done nothing to improve it.
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by kentm 9mo ago
#2 is happening a lot more than people think. It’s incredibly hard to quantify tech debt in software and so as a result productivity measurements are pretty inaccurate. Even without AI there is a trend of devs writing a barely working syste
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by kentm 10mo ago
I don't think it does unless you ignore the context of the conversation. Its very clear that the reference about "letters" being made wasn't "all mail."
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by kentm 10mo ago
> Would you really choose a future where creators were compensated fairly, but ChatGPT didn't exist? Yes. I don't see how "We couldn't do this cool thing if we didn't throw away ethics!" is a reasonable argu
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by kentm 10mo ago
> The needle moved just a little bit, and suddenly everyone’s harm thresholds have been crossed? Its similar to the Trust Thermocline. There's always been concern about whether we were doing more harm than good (there's a reas

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