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by maeil 3y ago
The article discusses the average, it'd be interesting to see the median given income does not have a normal distribution. It feels likely that aggressive behavior would create a higher variance, so more top earners, but also more peop
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by maeil 3y ago
Just going to add on to this motivation; yes, we would all be super interested in this! It would be truly valuable to people and society at large.
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by maeil 3y ago
I'm witnessing LLM-based workflows (that would not have been possible 2 years ago) being developed as we speak that will make thousands of jobs obselete. I have colleagues working on multiple such applications and they're very mu
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by maeil 3y ago
Ironically the US seems to be best, or at least the "least bad" at this (if you can afford it); it's the only positive thing I can see about US healthcare.
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by maeil 3y ago
Their competitors - which like the US military will be state-controlled entities - for burning the most fossil fuels aren't exactly known for their transparency. They're generally going to be in China. And then to be able to burn
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by maeil 3y ago
East-Asia chiming in here, Microsoft dominates enterprise, Google is a tiny player, single digit percentage market share for any enterprise product. Only on cloud does MS have competition from AWS and local players, everything else is Micro
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by maeil 3y ago
If anyone from Supabase is reading here, your main marketing page still says Edge Functions run on 29 regions. Since they run off of Deno Deploy, it seems like this needs updating.
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by maeil 3y ago
> do you want me to tell you what you are allowed and what you are not allowed to do with the electricity you PAY for? Yes. Absolutely yes. > you may not like what I do with the power I PAY for but you don't get a say in how I us
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by maeil 3y ago
If you look at the job threads on HN you'll see a huge number of Europeans (and otherwise non-US persons), many of whom likely make less than $100k+. This isn't 2015, HN has quite a broad non-SV audience now.
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by maeil 3y ago
I'm delighted to see that at least someone else here is cognizant of this. I don't think it's the scifi AI anchoring bias though - it's the "LLM leaderboard arena user bias". Reset all to the same Elo, put a gr
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by maeil 3y ago
Ask it to write a recipe given a couple of ingredients in a language like Thai or Persian. There's a single model that does a decent job, GPT-4. Then GPT3.5 is poor and Mistral is completely clueless. The leaderboards tell a very diff
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by maeil 3y ago
It is trivially easy to see just how massive the sampling bias is. There are countless tasks where e.g. the gap between a version of Mistral and a version of GPT are incredibly large. Anything that requires less common knowledge, anything
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by maeil 3y ago
The linked leaderboard is not at all trustworthy to generally rank LLMs (i.e. what everyone uses it for) because the sample bias is absurd. It ranks LLMs by how they respond to queries that users of the leaderboard are likely to test on .
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by maeil 3y ago
No repercussions for violent threats to innocent people when made by higherups in SV tech is par for the course nowadays. Take OpenAI's Head of Research (quite the public role given they're a research company) openly calling for g
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by maeil 3y ago
Would've been great if anyone disagreeing could've highlighted why, but alas. If you've tried Mistral on some creative tasks in a wide range of languages and found it competitive with GPT-4, please do tell.
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by maeil 3y ago
> and Mistral Medium is second only to GPT-4 on the Chatbot Arena ..Chatbot Arena is an incredibly flawed metric. Incredibly biased towards English, and towards certain kinds of tasks people are more likely to test on Chatbot Arena. If y
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by maeil 3y ago
I've replied to the person below you with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026946 The last one is 2 bedrooms for about $1000/month, fully furnished. Sure, it's stretching it, but a world of diffe
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by maeil 3y ago
Sure, as I live in such a place myself, and I got the contract last year. Since then housing prices have fallen in Seoul. - Random building here https://fin.land.naver.com/articles/2402864693 Last March, 2 contracts at
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by maeil 3y ago
> It's an asymmetric relationship. The nomad doesn't care if SK runs this program. But SK does care if people don't come. Unfortunately, they don't particularly care. The whole driver behind this program is optics. Bo
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by maeil 3y ago
> So I've got to prove I make $70k a year, and then put down a $7500 deposit on a small apartment that costs me $1800 a month Nice, <5 years old, fully furnished, two-bed room apartments in central, well-connected areas of Seoul
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by maeil 3y ago
Jail is not enough of a deterrent for the kind of enormous damage some of the involved have caused to society. For such large-scale, fully intentional, proven harm to society out of nothing but self-interest over a long period of time, stro
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by maeil 3y ago
The good news is that for most of those Korean forms the limitation/validation is only on the frontend, so a quick "inspect element" and some HTML editing solves it.
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by maeil 3y ago
The reality is that the rest of the developed world manages just fine living in houses without such garages, driving smaller cars. And having a family isn't a uniquely American concept. Of course everyone can live an eco-friendly lifes
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by maeil 3y ago
> Another mechanism that causes warfare is a lack of flexibility, a lack of options. Popular takes on IR love to urge that a 'line in the sand' or 'redline' should be drawn - another tough, angry way to feel powerful
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by maeil 3y ago
>strict immigration laws This is a bit of a misconception, at least by East-Asian standards: much easier than China, (surprisingly) easier than South Korea, and similar (maybe slightly stricter) to Taiwan.
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by maeil 3y ago
None that make a significant dent in the benefits. The societal benefits of getting companies to actually abide by the law on a wide scale are much larger than any realistic consequence. Including the death of a few big companies, which yes
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by maeil 3y ago
> 트위치는 지난 2017년 7월 국내 서비스를 시작해 지난해부터는 기존 1위 업체인 아프리카TV를 따라잡는 수준으로 점유율을 높였다. 빅데이터 플랫폼 '모바일 인덱스'에 따르면 올해 1월 기준 트위치의 국내 월간활성이용자(MAU)는 약 246만명으로 아프리카TV(230만명)보다 높은 것으로 나타났다. Twitch 2.46 million, Afreeca 2.3 million.
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by maeil 3y ago
> Also, from what I understand, Twitch is marginal in Korea, since they have their own alternative streaming platforms. This is incorrect, Twitch has been very popular in Korea.
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They choose to be constrained. Do you know just how big of a % of their budgets Tencent and the likes spend on employing people who maintain censorship on their Chinese platforms? Amazon, Meta et. al could spend the same amount to keep th
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by maeil 3y ago
What put Trump in the White House in 2016 was the worst Democratic candidate in at least two decades by a large margin. Was the HRC platform in 2016 significantly more "radically progressive on social issues such as abortion, immigrati

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