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by lend000 2y ago
I genuinely don't understand what happened to HN. When did curiosity, hypothetical discussion, and an interest in solving problems with technology become a source of derision and insecurity? Are you on the right forum?
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by lend000 2y ago
Why not both? Plenty of well defended houses burned down this week -- don't underestimate just how fireproof your house needs to be to withstand something like this. And littering everything with fire retardants comes with a whole diff
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by lend000 2y ago
Running critical services is a whole different thing than developing technology to sell to fire departments (which is already what happens, albeit with less innovation than I'd like to see).
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by lend000 2y ago
This saga has led me to do some research on the state of modern firefighting. From what I've gathered, we're still using the same methods (more or less) we've been using since the 1960's when Phos-Chek was introduced. Th
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by lend000 2y ago
It's kind of sad. But I think that most people are fundamentally good -- they're just reactive and understand our broken healthcare system so little that they actually consider the victim to have actually earned a death sentence.
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by lend000 2y ago
The problem is that Intel is poorly run. Intel should be printing money, and did for a long time until a string of bad leadership. If they had brought in Gelsinger after Otellini, which they were reported to have considered, the company mig
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by lend000 2y ago
To have verifiable elections you need three properties: 1. The public should be able to identify who voted with some PII (so that people can audit for ineligible voters, deceased people, fake people, etc.) 2. The votes themselves should be
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by lend000 2y ago
I've wanted to convert a massive Pandas codebase to Polars for a long time. Probably 90% of the compute time is Pandas operations, especially creating new columns / resizing dataframes (which I understand to involve less of a spee
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by lend000 2y ago
> Twitter is a dumpster fire and algorithms purposefully boost the most toxic content Proceeds to be extremely toxic. @dang
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by lend000 2y ago
Ironically, you're attacking someone who is neither a Trump apologist nor voter. There are more than 2 uniform perspectives in the global stage of ideas. I imagine it's easier to argue with an imaginary Trump supporter (like you s
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by lend000 2y ago
> If you fact check Elon's tweets and retweets, pretty much none of them are true As someone who purports to care so much about facts, how can you open with this statement? This sort of behavior is why Trump won in a landslide -- pe
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by lend000 2y ago
> If your feed was utter garbage, would you be able to tell? Lol. Same way as you or anyone else calling it utter garbage. As another comment on this thread points out, this is exactly what the Community Notes feature is for, and it&#x27
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by lend000 2y ago
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, your feed is only toxic insofar you are likely to engage with it. I have never seen a single post on my feed of the vein you are describing. By the way, there is equally ridiculous garbage on the left, i
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by lend000 2y ago
Is your X feed an unfiltered firehose of utter garbage? Mine isn't. That really only speaks to the fact that the algorithm finds that you are more likely to engage with garbage.
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by lend000 2y ago
It's wild how much most people rely on being in an echo chamber. It takes a psychological toll being confronted with opinions that challenge your worldview on a regular basis, especially if you cannot easily dismiss them. I haven'
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by lend000 2y ago
If it's mandated by the government that's one thing, but if they could save training costs by only using one superior version, that's the obvious business move.
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by lend000 2y ago
Hopefully this will incentivize LLM designers to stop heavily censoring and limiting output and acceptable answers.
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by lend000 2y ago
An open mind is one of the most valuable qualities a person can have. For some reason, most people are unable to fake being open minded when discussing politics so it's a good litmus test. So consider the following perspective. We&#x27
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by lend000 2y ago
I get that people don't like Elon because he's a bit autistic and espouses political views that are unpopular on this platform, but if you can't acknowledge Elon's business acumen and technical vision, I feel like you ar
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by lend000 2y ago
The problem is that they have no moat, and Sam Altman is no visionary. He's clearly been outed as a ruthless opportunist whose primary skill is seizing opportunities, not building out visionary technical roadmaps. The jury is still out
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by lend000 2y ago
Generally all the governments that are considered excellent and easy to work with are smaller governments with small populations. Modern government ideas just don't seem to scale up well, which would seem to support the idea of keeping
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by lend000 2y ago
Reminder that Visa isn't really the problem: [0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1dyb7t0/whats_going...
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by lend000 2y ago
I do want to apologize for being unnecessarily confrontational, although I stand by my general points. It was your reply to the parent about misremembering their experience that threw me on a tangent. I will just say I think there's a
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by lend000 2y ago
This is what I'm talking about: shallow dismissals without even a footnote to avoid admitting that you don't understand the parent's experience. Your reaction to the parent, immediately trying to shut it down with weak explan
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by lend000 2y ago
You actually gave a pretty good example of what I mean here: > She didn't actually do it, or at least she didn't do it to the degree that you think she did. Instead, you had an intense enough experience that your memories
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by lend000 2y ago
You could instead say something like "I don't know." Unfortunately, a lot of people (especially engineers) default to attempting to discredit people's strange experiences and instead regurgitate some hand-wavy materialis
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by lend000 2y ago
Yes, which can be a huge limitation if you religiously attach yourself to the null hypothesis for anything science doesn't have an explanation for yet.
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by lend000 2y ago
I think pg is trying to be diplomatic here by saying that "founder mode" is something to be discovered and taught in business schools in the future, and there may be a sliver of truth in that. But I think the type of leadership th
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by lend000 2y ago
And yet, of course it happens to Windows.
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by lend000 2y ago
GPT-4 is an upgrade over a search engine (on the 2010 internet, which was much easier to search than the internet today) and there is certainly opportunity in using it to chain together complex programming tasks fully programmatically, but

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