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by lumost 2y ago
The concern here is mainly on practicality. The original mainframes did not command startup valuations counted in fractions of the US economy, they did qualify for billions in investment. This is a great milestone, but OpenAI will not be su
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by lumost 2y ago
It’s young, but my experience has been that developer ergonomics is not a focus, to the extent that c++ has a much stronger devex story.
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by lumost 2y ago
Rust is full of these, I’ve found the community simply falls back on user error to understand rust when vexed by in my opinion basic software operations. As someone who works extensively in cpp/java/python. I want so much to love
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by lumost 2y ago
The fortune 50 is thriving, but if you talk to a school teacher or any other “median” professional - they have seen a large quality of life decline in real dollar terms over the last 50 years. In the public sphere, the problems I learned ab
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by lumost 2y ago
I would venture, that the same factors which make the US resilient also contribute to its stagnation. The US government is now the world’s second oldest government. The system of checks and balances prevents large shifts in government. The
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by lumost 2y ago
I have a preschooler, it's been observed by the local preschools that kids need OT and other interventions at substantially higher rates in the covid cohort than in the non-covid cohort. We are likely to see an ongoing wave of kids ex
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by lumost 2y ago
I don’t follow how the insurance companies doctor escapes liability in this case. If they are interfering with a patients treatment plan, doesn’t that qualify as practicing medicine? Otherwise the insurance company could easily staff itself
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by lumost 2y ago
Can I sue the insurance companies doctor for malpractice? In standard care the doctor is liable, not the hospital.
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by lumost 2y ago
What forces the insurance company to give sound rejections? There are numerous categories of care where you would not expect the individual to survive long enough to bring a lawsuit, or the individuals in question would not have the financi
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by lumost 2y ago
Military kids hang out with other military kids for protracted periods (6+ months). Living in an ev in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language is different.
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by lumost 2y ago
In my experience, the relax and travel crowd has much more than 80k liquid - or the ability to acquire much more than 80k via relatives etc. Alternately, they have very cheap tastes. It's entirely possible to live off of 15k per year w
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by lumost 2y ago
A lot of queens/brooklyn is already covered in hi-rise. Hi-rises will only reach as far as subways along with a few dense clusters around shopping districts.
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by lumost 2y ago
Is that webcam guaranteed to be a live/up to date feed? regardless I'd imagine there to be some confirmation by now.
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by lumost 2y ago
I also wonder how much the USD's role as the reserve currency plays into this. If I build a home for 1 MM USD today which used to cost 150k USD in 2008 - this looks like economic growth, despite the home largely being the same between
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by lumost 2y ago
Searching for python documentation was the worst, geeks for geeks and others would get the top slot for reskinning the pypi docs with ads. The entire thing was so blatant and obvious that I assumed Google did not care due to ad revenue. Whe
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by lumost 2y ago
Uhhh why does this have to be the Bible? I have a just turned 4 year old and we read multiple kids books per day. We’re starting exercises on word recognition/spelling now. New favorite activity - the Pokémon video games require readin
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by lumost 2y ago
There is a short sequence of events to china being shut omit of the European market entirely. That sequence runs through troop and weapons deployments to Europe on Russia’s behest. If the US tried to force a negotiated cease fire, there is
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by lumost 2y ago
France and the UK have enough nukes to ensure MAD with Russia. It is highly unlikely that the US would stay neutral in a nuclear exchange between the EU and Russia. Country division amongst the superpowers political spheres was acceptable i
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by lumost 2y ago
PHEV means two drive trains, more parts and in turn more weight. Do you really want a plugin car that loses its charge in 30 minutes?
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by lumost 2y ago
Aye - it’s similar across most high end tech work. At the same time, most people in those positions have 5+ years of experience. Most studies show that such people maintain a lie about how much they are working.
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by lumost 2y ago
I suspect these processes are also there to prevent “rocking the boat”. There are a number of US F500 companies that are effectively static businesses with predictable market dynamics. In a stable environment, in a large organization, it do
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by lumost 2y ago
80 hours is mostly a lie for folks experienced enough to have families. What becomes more common is 80+ hours of “I’m responsive whenever I’m asked.”
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by lumost 2y ago
My bet is that LLM tools will do for tech what cloud, SaaS, and other productivity tools did before. Make productive users better and faster. My first job in 2010 required 12 operations personnel to manage a simple app server + database. Th
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by lumost 2y ago
What these arguments usually miss is that precision doesn’t really matter to an expert user. A professional, experienced engineer can filter the crap from the real. LLMs usually get me over the mental hump of project setup/boilerplate.
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by lumost 2y ago
It could also be as simple as OAI experimenting on different datasets. Perhaps Chess games were included in some GPT-3.5 training runs in order to see if training on chess would improve other tasks. Perhaps afterwards it was determined that
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by lumost 2y ago
There really isn't a "good" recruiter from a candidate perspective. Their incentives are to support the firms they recruit for, and screen candidates. They do not work for your benefit. My experience early in my career was th
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by lumost 2y ago
It makes everyone look busy. It helps calibrate interviewers so that the company remembers how to hire people. It maintains the illusion of growth. The last point is important, historically startups/teams faced the risk of exodus once
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by lumost 2y ago
This is why many job seekers are perpetually passive/work through recruiters. An in-house recruiter may be there to perpetually screen for purple unicorn candidates that bend the CEO's hiring freeze - a contract recruiter won&#x27
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by lumost 2y ago
It’s more about calibration. If you interview 100 people at a FAANG, you get an idea of where the bar is. This idea gets calibrated with a panel of interviewers, along with shadow interviewers. At a startup… who knows? I had an interviewer
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by lumost 2y ago
The Australian section likely deserves a flag for re-editing. It’s unclear what point is being made. However we have reasonably good ways of quantifying overproduction, a simple test would be Does a graduating student earn more or less than

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