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by kthejoker2 3y ago
From the article > Critics say the cooperation between RealPage and apartment managers has emboldened landlords to raise prices even if it means more units are left empty when tenants are forced to leave. Without RealPage, the plaintiffs
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
To be fair when you click the button: * it throws a.big warning text * it lists out all the resources you're deleting * you have to type out the name of the subscription * click another button * and then another yes I'm sure butto
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Did you read the article? He's not advocating for doing 10 times as much. He's just setting the bar for fluency / excellence in a topic. He even says > Either that, or admit that you’ve got higher priorities. No one succee
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
The public foundational models maybe. But this isn't true in general, you can easily train a local model to write in very localized styles, and include temperatures that allow for wild swings outside of average. If you want a rambling,
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
> Maybe he has a better reason for believing it, I can't guess. Did you even read what you responded to? He absolutely has "better reasons" for believing it.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
The people who own those plants employing them are not "leftists", quit projecting biases.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
We already have a wealth decay function, it's called taxation and when properly applied can absolutely redistribute wealth ie "reduce inequality."
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
It's more of a straightforward risk calculation. Set up controls, if anyone bypasses them, you have expensive litigation and potentially existential financial penalties. Or don't and lose the revenue of Texas folks. Interested par
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
That was Pascal not Twain. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettres_Provinciales > The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Another great way to shed load is just turn off their power and not pay them at all. What it is now is effectively extortion.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Nah,pushing through negative externalities of wasteful industries to other more desperate economies is a cool use of first world power. Also strong disagree that local impacts of crypto mines are net positive - here in Texas we have to pay
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
The thing I hate the most about politics is how id-driven it can be (give me soulless technocrats any day) so seeing this warmed my heart.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Obsolete does not mean extinct.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Because she isn't one of the founders of Databricks. No slight intended, it's Kay's project, but any interest in Sparrow in 2023 is purely for nostalgia.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
It's more interesting archaeologically as a paper written by the creators of Spark and founders of Databricks, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell (and it thanks Ali Ghodsi and cites Reynold Xin) Lots of interesting papers aroun
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Yeah this wildly off. 4 kids, typical tech salary ladder career / upper middle class lifestyle, my marginal costs are maaaaybe another $40k year in total ... and I get about a $25k tax break for having them.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Got this great quote from Garry Kasparov in Wired's article on multi-agent RL[1]: > “Creativity has a human quality. It accepts the notion of failure." As faithful min-maxers, LLMs are always going to have an overconfident Pris
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
I just want to give a shoutout to Community Impact ( https://communityimpact.com/ ) who provides amazing local / regional news coverage of major Texas metros. Mostly politically neutral articles on city and county plan
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Dad of 4, feel a ton of empathy for double income families. Just today my (stay at home) wife cheerfully and idly answered, "That's my job!" to a breakfast request while I was reading this thread .... So that being said, ba
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Regardless of whether he's right or wrong (in fact, the actual quote and assessment he gives is right, this headline is clickbait) But the denial and just straight inability of people in this forum to actually address the topic, and in
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Was this comment generated by chatHPT?
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
The problem here is not the nudity itself, the problem is consent. Since the photograph we've had 6 catgeories of nude pictures centered around consent. A: real, consensual, and meant to be in public (ie porn) B: real, consensual but n
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Yeah it seems like it will be much easier to create an AR environment that uses pneumatics, robotics, lighting, AI, maybe technology like this to manipulate the environment around you into an actual physical "playscape" (e.g. crea
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Databricks ... so hopefully my subsequent opinion Is worth even more. PRQL and DuckDB are amazing. I've been building a Power BI clone - think low code ETL, semantic layer, dashboards + chatbot - on top of Databri
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Anecdata; my dad is a dentist I've been in 20 or 30 dentists' homes for parties and such, they all have home offices which are glorified library / trophy rooms.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
When I joined my current company I quickly found our internal Azure environment was effectively unmanaged. Four weeks in I shaved nearly 55k in monthly spend just scripting out VM shutdowns and service pauses. Cloud revenue in most large co
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Not only will you not get the discount you won't get the commit at all, AWS only reups commits with incremental growth. You can spend less; you just don't get commit pricing.
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Before reading the article I had a different lens as to what these were. Askers - Peers exhibiting learned helplessness about their problems and questions in work chat and meetings. No research done, ask easy LMGTFY questions, assume anyone
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
How do you "absolutely" know? It seems trivial to hide a death for a long period of time without a potentially extensive investigation. "They moved abroad."
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by kthejoker2 3y ago
Can we fix the title of this to the actual title of the blog per HN guidelines? The article isn't just about or even focused on Iceberg.

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