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by luckydata 1y ago
that's not a technology problem, it's a political problem. You're trying to solve a political problem with technology?
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by luckydata 1y ago
I don't see anything obvious about the utility of cryptocurrencies. Money is not that difficult of a concept, you use it to store value or transact. As a store of value it has no intrinsic advantage compared to any other alternative we
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by luckydata 1y ago
I don't buy it, crypto doesn't bring anything to the table that improve either SWIFT or the gold reserve that we actually need, but I understand crypto product developers see an advantage in switching from something they don'
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by luckydata 1y ago
maybe they don't know the gender and playing it like at parties when you don't remember someone's boyfriend name.
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by luckydata 1y ago
then it's not a TODO, it's just part of the comments. Promoting semantic diffusion IMHO is not a good practice in software development.
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by luckydata 1y ago
I rarely find reasons to disagree so much with anything I read like I did with this blog post. Seems like the author lacks rigor and then goes looking for ways to excuse being sloppy, that's an attitude I don't think is productive
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by luckydata 1y ago
it's not a mistake because it's what ends up happening. There's serious research on it that everyone seems to want to ignore: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23153
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by luckydata 1y ago
they do all the time, with all kinds of tricks that misrepresent reality. the H1B system is a scam.
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by luckydata 1y ago
I agree. The cap should be adjusted to unemployment surveys by sector. If there's high unemployment in tech at the moment there should be simply no quota to hire from foreign countries until the labor market recovers.
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by luckydata 1y ago
nobody honest can say we ran out of US citizens that can work the type of jobs H1B do. Unemployment in the industry is not zero. Top graduates from MIT and Stanford? Sure, they can't make enough of them, but as a whole the industry is
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by luckydata 1y ago
if people from India and China were allowed to naturalize as fast things would spiral out of control. I know it's not a popular thing to say on this forum, but H1B visas are absolutely a wage control mechanism for US corporations even
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by luckydata 1y ago
That's a weird way to feel about a standard.
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by luckydata 1y ago
According to data nobody has friends anymore, especially men.
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by luckydata 1y ago
in my opinion the largest effect is how we build cities. Having to drive everywhere and the separation between commercial, residential and industrial areas of american cities is very clearly a driver of this isolation.
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by luckydata 1y ago
nah, we partied plenty when we rented and not knowing someone for long is not a reason not to hang out. What has been eroded is the habit of hanging out because there's no easily accessible third spaces. I'll give you an example:
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by luckydata 1y ago
it's the only way it works. It took me MONTHS to get a hold of the number of my son's best friend's parents so that now we can organize maybe an afternoon of play every 4-5 weeks.
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by luckydata 1y ago
I see this SO MUCH, I wonder if you're also in California. I find this state particularly difficult to have a social life in. Everyone is "friendly" but nobody wants to be your friend, always chasing something else and never
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by luckydata 1y ago
So you dropped a dying ecosystem for a very dead and buried underground one? Bold move.
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by luckydata 1y ago
exactly, this scenario is why I'm excited about bluetooth provisioning.
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by luckydata 1y ago
while your example is correct, I have many many examples in my experience why scanning a qr code is simply infeasible in some situations and as a owner of a heavily automated home I welcome the development with open arms.
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by luckydata 1y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, it's the same reaction I had tbh.
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by luckydata 1y ago
Well this statement is simply not true. Agent systems based on LLMs have made original discoveries on their own, see the work Deep Mind has done on pharmaceutical discovery.
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by luckydata 1y ago
this is textbook pointless pedantry. I'm just commenting to find it again in the future.
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by luckydata 1y ago
I noticed a significant degradation of Gemini's coding abilities in the last couple checkpoints of 2.5. the benchmarks say it should be better but it doesn't jive with my personal experience.
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by luckydata 1y ago
it's easier to just make it do a code review with focus on removing unhelpful comments instead of asking it not to do it the first time. I do the cleanup after major rounds of work and that strategy seems to work best for me.
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by luckydata 1y ago
Emotional is a big word for that movie.
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by luckydata 1y ago
this is the same team and it's pretty obvious they would apply the same ideas to two different problems that can both benefit from it no?
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by luckydata 1y ago
not worth the time for a human, but if you can throw AI at all of those "opportunities" it adds up substantially because all the chores can be automated.
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by luckydata 1y ago
a small nit: while I understand this is an introductory article, I think it's a bit TOO introductory. You should at least give a preview of a "killer app" of embeddings to make me want to read the next installments, I read th
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by luckydata 1y ago
I agree 100% but sometimes you see studies that confirm not only common sense but also very well researched science that is frankly beyond the need for replication, and that definitely triggers a "wouldn't that money be spent more

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