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Y Combinator removes Canada from list of places where it invests(nationalpost.com)
1 points by lbrito 9mo ago|1 comments
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by lbrito 9mo ago
I was just starting to learn about embeddings for a very similar use on my project. Newbie question: what are pros/cons of using an API like gpt Ada to calculate the embeddings, compared to importing some model on Python and running it
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by lbrito 9mo ago
So the choice is either stare into screens the whole day or be bossed by an AI doing manual labor? Is that a serious argument?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
This is lopsided. Technology promised to remove drudgery from our lives, and now we're seeing experiments that automate all the easy, air-conditioned decision making while still delegating the toil to humans Unequivocally awful
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Strong disagree. While I share the 90s nostalgia, the trend of just relaunching everything is a sad reminder of how bad tech is today, not an exciting new development
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Yeah. More importantly though, AI seems to be a novel way to pry open the crazy out of some people, with sometimes disastrous results. Or putting it more charitably, some people seem to be more vulnerable, for whatever reason, to multiple d
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>One could also say that TV makes humans angry and violent It does Anderson and Bushman (2002) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11440811_The_Effect... Evidence is steadily accumulating that prolonged exposur
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by lbrito 9mo ago
He just chewed them and spat them out
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>AI prompts themselves become a giant source of data. Good point, but can it match the old organic data? I'm skeptical. For one, the LLM environment lacks any truth or consensus mechanism that the old SO-like sites had. 100s of user
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>There very much is still time to significantly control it + regulate it. There's also huge financial momentum shoving AI through the world's throat. Even if AI was proven to be a failure today, it would still be pushed for man
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Its being downvoted because HN has a very active billionaire-techbro-fanbase. Also who's this Dario?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>If the argument is sustainability of training, I'm skeptical we need these payment models. That seems to be the argument: LLM adoption leads to drop of organic training data, leading LLMs to eventually plateau, and we'll be le
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>The US was both back in the 40s as well as the late 80s when Germany and USSR crumbled. So hail to Pax Americana. This is the historical equivalent of selective memory, and only really applies to a tiny slice of the planet - western Eur
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by lbrito 9mo ago
If your idea of socialization is the transactional exchange of emails between yourself and someone who happens to work in a company you might be interested in also working, then most people would agree you have a very peculiar definition of
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by lbrito 9mo ago
The flaw in that thought is that doing this nagging is thinking about it as a zero-effort thing you can do to increase your odds. It is not zero-effort. You (candidate) will have to expend time looking up people and messaging them. There ar
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>Get in contact with current employees at the company. It is important that you send more than one email. I've gotten dozens of emails asking for meetings and referrals. The only time I actually respond to these is after the second
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Non-asshole-seeming people tend to be, unbeknownst to themselves, conspicuous in these scenarios
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! I'm baffled by this too, but I think some people get accustom
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by lbrito 9mo ago
People blasting awful music any time of the day or night, anywhere (neighbours, beachgoers, public park, transit) is enough of a problem in my country (Brazil) that arduino/Raspberry Pi/ESP32-based bluetooth jammers are somewhat c
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Is "fat uncle" a slang I don't know about?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
People surprised by Mr. $3000-cocktail party's expenses are forgetting about class and wealth differences. Up to a point, expenses are elastic and proportionate to income. Across different incomes, things like "dinner" or &qu
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Amazing. I have a hard time believing that comment isn't sarcastic, its just too perfect. Its hard to tell these days If its not, it sounds like the output of an LLM if prompted "You are a toddler. Write the most naive and illogic
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>Blame the economists and policy makers if you want to blame someone. I wouldn't go as far as blaming, but American society should at least acknowledge their responsibility for this. Its not like the KGB imposed zoning laws in Texas
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>4. Urban design and walkability. >We need to spend trillions of dollars to completely redesign and rebuild cities? lol what. That doesn't mean the point is wrong. The US bet on the wrong urban planning ideas, and now it is facin
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by lbrito 9mo ago
People are suffering from PCNS. Here is a great documentary about it https://youtu.be/9kqgF5O354E?si=5UMifCZuk_sP71m0
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>Any time anybody needs a pen, several are at hand, in exactly the first place they look. >Now, today, under the hood, Sprites are still Fly Machines. But they all run from a standard container. So its basically a faster VM? What are
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Reading comment sections for news like this makes one understand better how it is possible that widescale horrible things happen. At first you'll learn about something horrible in the past and think, How could people let that happen, y
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by lbrito 9mo ago
I really liked this design, especially the "pagination" for each article.
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AI and the Joy of Programming(lbrito.ca)
5 points by lbrito 9mo ago|0 comments
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Why do people downvote this? Bizarre - and plain stupid. This is a legitimate question and has precedent: Hugo Calderano, the third best table tennis player in the world, is denied an entry visa to the USA. Thus, the Brazilian misses the pr

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