losteric

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by losteric 3y ago
I'm all for unions (going as far as organization attempts at my company)... that said, in all my conversations there is one big thing that people seem to miss, which separates tech unions from automotive or sports unions: The type of
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by losteric 3y ago
The recent surge of inflation is in the double digits, exceeding most state taxes while solely funneling money to the rich.
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by losteric 3y ago
What would you consider credit card fees? Those are variable hidden costs that are passed on to all customers of that establishment - including cash payers.
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by losteric 3y ago
I look forward to my browser-based TiVo, buffering videos to ship over ads just like in the 00s... TV started as advertising channels, it's not surprising YouTube converges towards the cesspool of cable TV.
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by losteric 3y ago
Money is cheap, it's time that's expensive... I don't have any experience here, but my intuition is that organizing and executing the event with appropriate bureaucratic signoff, managing PR, reviewing all the candidates (in
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by losteric 3y ago
Yep, 2MM years of eating meat - it's definitely weird to suggest meat eating humans are a new "subspecies" rather than the historical norm.
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by losteric 3y ago
> 100 random indices from a billion-scale table -- without vectors, just a vanilla table with an int64 primary key -- easily took 700ms on beefy GCP instances. Is there a write up of the analysis? Something seems very wrong with that ta
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by losteric 3y ago
Isn't RAG "just" dynamically injecting relevant text in a prompt? What more would one implement to achieve RAG, beyond using Postgres' built in full text or knn search?
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by losteric 3y ago
HTTP 1 is on a depreciation path and HTTP3 requires TLS, which would mean getting the blessing of a trusted (typically corporate) root cert every 90 days to continue letting random people access my website. In the US, states recently passed
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by losteric 3y ago
Sci hub often needs to be accesses by a random IP and/or without a corporate-blessed TLS cert. The same goes for many counter-esrablishment sites across the world (China, Iran, ...). The premise of the Internet was distributed dissemin
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by losteric 3y ago
Price matching refers to lowering prices. That's legal, up to the point of predatory pricing. Raising prices then checking if so-called "competitors" follow is the illegal part - that's automated collusion, definitively
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by losteric 3y ago
MeetUp introduced a price change (increase) in mid/late-2019 which most of my local groups protested as not feasible... just in time for the pandemic. During the pandemic, it seems most groups in my locale went virtual with FB pages or
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by losteric 3y ago
Yeah, "failing" for 15 years is a pretty good indication that those demographers are actually succeeding at what their employer wants... :) someone in the system is probably paying for data that shows growth to protect their inter
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by losteric 3y ago
Failed in what sense? Completely off, or close enough (like weather forecasting)? Is it possible a school district couldn't afford the best services? Or that their goal wasn't necessarily the population number but rather an analys
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by losteric 3y ago
When considering "better value for the customer", remember that sellers are a customer of the marketplace too (arguably the primary customer!). imo the problem is specifically generics branded and marketed by the marketplace. That
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by losteric 3y ago
> The trouble with this argument (which gets made a lot) is that this is basically every large retailer. Alternatively: there's no trouble at all, Walmart/Safeway/etc are all clearly engaging in this anti-competitive pract
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by losteric 3y ago
Colluding to set prices is illegal, for both goods and labor. It's bad for competition
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by losteric 3y ago
The concert is the product. A ticket is one approach for artists to control access to the limited experienc, typically while maintaining substantial equity and equality of access. Of course profit maximization is not the only (or even prima
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by losteric 3y ago
imo Guidance is valuable, the underlying logic is sufficiently complex that I'm glad I didn't need to DIY it. Same goes for the faster Outlines project from Normal Computing. LangChain: I found having a framework useful to ramp up
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by losteric 3y ago
The Pentagon released the Tic-Tac video
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by losteric 3y ago
That's a disingenuous take. It's extremely unlikely you'll get asked any of these specific questions, but very likely you'll be asked something in the general space. Core knowledge extrapolates... to learn system design,
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by losteric 3y ago
Did you read your link? There's many mundane explanations of what was observed, most on the list. It is good to see the Pentagon releasing evidence even when it makes the government look silly.
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by losteric 3y ago
tbh the hypernormalization of needing to go in debt and pay interest for a home is extremely scary, regardless of the rate
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by losteric 3y ago
Who's drawing parallels with chaos theory? The origin is Netflix injecting "chaos" like taking servers down randomly. It's not tied to any scientific theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_eng
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by losteric 3y ago
Wouldn't cost savings also translate to simpler models? I anticipate the process of distilling knowledge to simpler models will also become much cheaper and non-technical
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by losteric 3y ago
LLMs come with a higher cost per transaction compared to dedicated models. imo the industry will consolidate around LLMs for early prototypes and as part of the workflow for building a corpus to train domain-specific models. Source: team we
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by losteric 3y ago
Your post basically says "it's bizarre you're expressing your opinion, don't do that" - that is not healthy for productive conversation (ironically op's point about those products) It's ok to express negat
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by losteric 3y ago
Well Facebook is a walled garden, perhaps the board hopes free highly capable LLMs will continue degrading the internet outside those walls thus acting as a moat for their money printer.
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by losteric 3y ago
I live in the city, 20 minute bus to office location. Love the city, urbanism, density. I'm one of the ardent never-RTO crowd, leaving a 9 year tenure.
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by losteric 3y ago
He took Saudi money.

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