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by khafra 2y ago
The context of "stop making reactive decisions" isn't "start making proactive decisions." It's to just make fewer decisions. The specific example is of a rare event which, while regrettable, does not justify th
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by khafra 2y ago
I'm interested in reading about the application of Category Theory to API design.
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by khafra 2y ago
Container orchestration is second nature to us SRE's, so it's easy to forget that the average dev probably only knows the syntax for deployments and one or two service manifests. And pods, of course
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by khafra 2y ago
They don't hate you, but they're Out To Get You ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ENBzEkoyvdakz4w5d/out-to-get... )
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by khafra 2y ago
> If it's easy, then it means you already know this material, and you're wasting your time. One thing I'm anticipating from LLM-based tutoring is an adaptive test that locates someone's frontier of knowledge, and plot
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by khafra 2y ago
Along somewhat different fitness gradients, though. Meaning we've evolved some distance from them. In fact, given the dimensionality of all possible fitness gradients, our direction of evolution is likely near-orthogonal to theirs.
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by khafra 2y ago
I live in Germany and I see glass bottles that have been obviously re-used--e.g., beer from one brewery in glass embossed with the slightly-raised lettering of another brewery. I couldn't tell you whether it's economically efficie
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by khafra 2y ago
> Glass jars aren't just washed and reused, they have to be melted down to be reused at all. Glass, unlike plastic, is impermeable. In Germany, the pfand system incentivizes bottle return by around $.10 to $.50 per glass bottle; an
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by khafra 2y ago
I hadn't heard it either--I still don't speak much German--so I asked what it meant; and he explained that Deutsche küchenordnung means "German kitchen style," and refers to when "everything is laid out just so.&quo
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by khafra 2y ago
People want to do challenging things that are worthwhile. The $500 prize is necessary to prove that it's a worthwhile challenge. It's easy for anybody to see that, say climbing a mountain with a death rate of >1% is challenging
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by khafra 2y ago
> Well, technically he founded “philosophy” more than a religion. If it executes a guy for revealing secrets and/or heretical discoveries, it's mroe of a religion than a philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by khafra 2y ago
The consensus, that students would only be distressed if adults model distress for them, seems to me to be missing the point. The presidential election is much more consequential for their future than most other things that would upset a K-
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by khafra 2y ago
> Sure. let's make food more expensive for poor people. I know I started this whole argument by speaking up in favor of efficiently throwing things away, but I do want to speak out in favor of making (harmful) things more expensive
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by khafra 2y ago
After moving to Germany a few months ago, I asked a contractor about the wiring for the lights, and one phrase he used to describe it was "deutsche küchenordnung," referring to some features that made it especially efficient. I&#x
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by khafra 2y ago
> The real solution is sunsetting single-use anything...but $$$ Those $$$ correspond to real-world costs. For examplee, we also want to lower car usage. Do you imagine that people who commute by bicycle or train are going to carry around
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by khafra 2y ago
Broadcom, the current company, is a PE firm that bought Broadcom, the chip maker, long ago and is wearing its skin.
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by khafra 2y ago
A recent AstralCodexTen article pointed out that lithium battery price is 40x lower per kwh than it was in 1992. A few headlines about revolutionary battery technology have turned out to be vaporware; but there really has been a continuous
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by khafra 2y ago
If it were legal to import China's domestic EVs, I think you'd see them everywhere in the US.
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by khafra 2y ago
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QX98rCSXPkPSMriYi/rational-a...
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by khafra 2y ago
This is some amazing work; and it also raises my belief that a Langford Basilisk is neurologically possible by about 25%
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by khafra 2y ago
From the paper, it seems like that the blood flow changes and the seizures are both caused by the increased processing load in the visual cortex; with the seizures also resulting from some faulty wiring in localizing that increased load to
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by khafra 2y ago
There are lots of easily visible stars on the other side of any supermassive black hole that's nearer to you than other galaxies are. When those stars start lensing in ways visible to the naked eye, you're going to know something
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by khafra 2y ago
> I always thought that art is all about emotions, both preserving and creating them. But this leaves the role of intention ambiguous. If I double-park a BMW across two handicap spaces because I'm angry and entitled, is that art? It
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by khafra 2y ago
https://www.techtarget.com/healthtechsecurity/feature/What-I... agreement that lets a business associate handle HIPAA-protected data.
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by khafra 2y ago
> it's the fault of those who didn't do that earlier if the donors numbers were to drop It's certainly the fault of the ghouls hacking up living people, yes. But I'm not speaking as an organ donation facilitator; I h
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by khafra 2y ago
I mean, that's a wish you could make, that publicizing wrongdoing would prevent it. Realistically, though, publicizing it will politicize it. Someone, somewhere, will flip a coin, and then depending on your party you'll have to be
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by khafra 2y ago
1. You missed the part where I said "we should wish that it doesn't happen again." It's right up there in the first sentence. It's not ok to murder 1 person to save 5. 2. Naive utilitarians may think it's ok, b
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by khafra 2y ago
If we're making specific wishes, we should wish that it doesn't happen again but stays fairly private--after all, lots of people still die for need of donor organs, and if lots of organ donors decide they'd rather be safe fro
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by khafra 2y ago
If you want to set up an AI server for your own use, it's exceedingly easy to install LM Studio and hit the "serve an API" button. Testing performance this way, I got about 0.5-1.5 tokens per second with an 8GB 4bit quantized
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by khafra 2y ago
Seems like an "I understand the risks, keep me signed in" button would affect more than just HN users. Unless you have to prove you know the risks by logging into a HN profile with at least 1000 karma, or taking a short quiz on au

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