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by lacker 3y ago
Well there's a $1m prize for the Riemann hypothesis. Now this is bigger. Which do you think will fall first?
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by lacker 3y ago
No, IMO problems are much too hard for the current generation of theorem provers.
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by lacker 3y ago
TLDR: NIMBYs are unhappy about the traffic problems caused by economic progress. Ghost kitchens are great. Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. And yet Americans spend about 5% of their waking lives on food prep. One day
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by lacker 3y ago
Yes, for example Novo Nordisk is a pharmaceutical company controlled by a nonprofit, worth around $100B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk_Foundation There are other similar examples like Ikea. But those examp
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by lacker 3y ago
It's the same thing, really. Even if you want to shut down the company you need a CEO to shut it down! Like John Ray who is shutting down FTX. There isn't just a big red button that says "destroy company" in the basement
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by lacker 3y ago
The board did it wrong. If you are going to fire a CEO, then do it quickly, but: 1. Have some explanation 2. Have a new CEO who is willing and able to do the job If you can't do these things, then you probably shouldn't be firing
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by lacker 3y ago
Yes, I agree. There will always be some evil person out there using AI to try to achieve evil goals. Scammers, terrorists, hackers. All the people who use computers now to do bad things, they're going to try to do even worse bad things
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by lacker 3y ago
Let's see, Sam Altman is an incredibly charismatic founding CEO, who some people consider manipulative, but is also beloved by many employees. He got kicked out by his board, but brought back when they realized their mistake. It's
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by lacker 3y ago
It's not just OpenAI. Every AI organization is discovering that they have internal groups which are pulling in a different direction than the rest of the organization, and trying to get rid of those groups. * Google got rid of its &quo
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by lacker 3y ago
I know this is a dumb comment, but I am entertained by the idea of some entity enjoying eating the universe like I would enjoy eating an oyster.
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by lacker 3y ago
It makes perfect sense that the world's largest producer of pistachios and almonds uses a lot of water. What doesn't make sense is using water to grow lower-value crops like alfalfa for cattle to eat in the California and Arizona
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by lacker 3y ago
ChatGPT (specifically GPT4) is very good at complicated but shallow questions. For example, "I'm setting up a new TypeScript + Svelte app, I made some changes to the config that I thought were good, but when I try to run the dev s
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by lacker 3y ago
Looks like the bounty is at 20k now with contribution from @rauchg https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1723400569392656771
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by lacker 3y ago
It sounds like you are relatively new to being a tech lead, so I write this comment with that assumption. This team really needs a manager. Someone who can take responsibility for the problem, someone who has the power to fire and hire if n
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by lacker 3y ago
It sounds like there are a lot of people working at GM who don't like Cruise and are willing to complain to the NYT about it. One of those frustrating "we're a startup inside a large company" things. Cruise employees wo
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by lacker 3y ago
You would have to not use a type-based proof system. I think those are not going to be the "as simple as possible" ones. Consider metamath for example.
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by lacker 3y ago
I think AI for mathematics will help us solve unsolved problems. There should be a virtuous cycle during its development. 1. More formalized training data makes the math AI better 2. Better math AI helps us formalize more known mathematics
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by lacker 3y ago
Once you have an infinite hierarchy of types, including universe levels, can the proof assistant really be "as simple as possible"? I feel like a simple-as-possible proof assistant would be more like, proving things about programs
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by lacker 3y ago
100 years ago everyone was worrying about whether the foundations of mathematics were consistent. We figured out some details that we had been taking for granted, like the axiom of choice, how to prevent Russell's paradox, and the inev
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by lacker 3y ago
Everyone picks on Penn, but really the whole academic community made this mistake. Her research was public; any other university could have offered her a job as well. Nobody realized how important her research was at the time.
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by lacker 3y ago
Ah, interesting - I did like The Mountain in the Sea, I forgot about that one. Eversion was decent too. I am going to get Beyond the Burn Line as a result of this comment's recommendation. So thanks!
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by lacker 3y ago
I'm curious, is there some novel that you think was underlooked at this year's Hugo awards, like if you were running the show you would have given them the award? I feel like my tastes probably agree with yours but I am not sure i
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by lacker 3y ago
I used to really love the Hugo and Nebula awards but over time they seem to be shifting away from the harder science fiction that I like the best, more in the fantasy direction. I miss the days of Hugo winners like Neuromancer, A Fire Upon
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by lacker 3y ago
I'm disappointed to hear this news. So many people are killed by cars every year. We just take that for granted. Self-driving cars have the potential to drastically improve this and save many lives. I worry that these regulators are we
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by lacker 3y ago
Nah, it's not poorly managed. Python has a lot of problems. But they are all problems that stem from Python's success. The worst parts of Python are the parts that are hard to change because Python is so popular, so the ecosystem
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by lacker 3y ago
Perhaps it could just fail at runtime if you ever import a module that doesn't support nogil mode? AFAICT that's how it works if, for example, you run Python code that uses f-strings in a Python version that doesn't support f
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by lacker 3y ago
According to Zillow, rent in SF is about flat over the past year and a half, so it's not like all SF real estate across the board is getting twice as cheap. I kinda like the NEMA building itself, but the location near Civic Center is r
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by lacker 3y ago
If you're wondering whether a job is worthwhile, the person who works at a job isn't the best person to ask. The person who is paying for that job to be done is the best person to ask. At a large corporation, that's the man
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by lacker 3y ago
From the Processing Foundation website: https://processingfoundation.org/ Every year, we support and sponsor programs that nurture diverse communities and their projects. Our programs include: A Fellowship and Teaching F
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by lacker 3y ago
I've noticed recently more of the food truck or farmers' market type businesses aren't officially cashless, which is illegal in California AFAIU. They just don't have change for a $20. It's a real problem that some

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