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by majewsky 2y ago
If the traffic was coming in from people clicking a link on LinkedIn, how can it be shadowbanned by YouTube? If anything, if you shared the link on LI and people don't see it, that would be shadowbanning by LI. When you look at your YT
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by majewsky 2y ago
Executives (and managers in general) are used to delegating tasks to subordinates. I think they just don't perceive any substantial difference between delegating a task to a person and delegating the same task to an LLM. Most arguments
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by majewsky 2y ago
Here's the thing. You assert confidently that GP is acting on a "broken moral compass". But you can also make the case that it is moral to act in interest of the company: After all, if the company fails, a potentially large n
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by majewsky 2y ago
> One counterargument is that nobody forces you to use their services. Not specifically Microsoft, but more and more government services are accessible only through apps that are only offered through Apple's App Store or Google&#x27
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GP was drawing a parallel, not alleging that wage theft is a part of these particular bankcruptcy proceedings.
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But it is a necessary prerequisite for any solution that is accessible to non-technology-minded consumers.
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> Does 4k matter? The PC I'm typing this on has two 27in 4k screens. I'm sitting so that I look at them from about 75cm away (that's 2.5 feet in weird units). I archive most of my video files in 720p, because I genuinely d
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by majewsky 2y ago
Regular Prometheus inside clusters for collection and alerting, Thanos for cross-cluster aggregation and long retention.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Since the caller gets this as an error object, instead of as a plain string, it seems likely that this is within the same process, i.e. a library function returns the MaxBytesError to a level higher in the business logic, without a network
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by majewsky 2y ago
We are all in agreement here. This entire comment section is just about the coefficients for the objective function.
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by majewsky 2y ago
More discussion in a later dupe thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105400
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by majewsky 2y ago
Same link without tracking: https://youtu.be/zvbTDUSz8Cc
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Holding a phone in front of you to record is obviously deliberate, unlike wearing glasses.
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by majewsky 2y ago
The timeout is only a stand-in for the generic need to be able to cancel an acceptance loop. You could just as well want to cancel accept() when SIGINT/SIGTERM/etc is received, or when recreating the server socket, e.g. in respons
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by majewsky 2y ago
From my limited experience with the area, what Marcus says also matches what I've seen of democratic societies like Japan. I cannot offer any detailed insights into this, but a way to test the opposing hypotheses would be to see if dem
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by majewsky 2y ago
IANAL, and I'm German, not American, so I can't speak to the legal situation in the US. But in Germany, the section of the copyright law concerning data mining specifically says that scraping websites is legal unless the owner of
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by majewsky 2y ago
This is not a blog.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Maybe he's just German? "Pazifik" is in fact the German word for this ocean, as a shorthand for the proper name "Pazifischer Ozean".
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by majewsky 2y ago
Oh sorry, I went from memory and mixed up the numbers in "16.3 -> 17.0".
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by majewsky 2y ago
> There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos Agreed. I once heard an estimate of 1 hour of editing for 1 minute of video, and I find that to be an extremely low-end estimate in my experience. And the
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by majewsky 2y ago
Another horrifyingly bad idea is to make a comment like this without presenting any form of argument.
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by majewsky 2y ago
I guess they're optimizing for being impossible to google. Compare "worldcoin privacy issues" vs. "world privacy issues".
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by majewsky 2y ago
My team has upgraded several dozen databases from 16.x to 17.3. Went entirely smoothly. The thing is that we're running on a process of upgrading all dependencies every Friday, and then promoting to prod on Monday unless there are spec
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by majewsky 2y ago
As a German, I don't think this applies to Germany all that much. For example, multiple German states have enshrined in their constitutions a specific protection for several minority languages (mostly Germanic languages like Low German
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by majewsky 2y ago
> "Kati's Ecke" (urks) The worst I ever saw was an advertisement on a bar telling prospective patrons about the availability of "snacks´s". This is so wrong I can't even figure out how many distinct errors w
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by majewsky 2y ago
My personal favorite of this has got to be a particular mess of a Python API that led to me implementing "type veryFlexibleUint64": https://github.com/sapcc/limes/blob/9ea9d1f86383f8a5fe0fa1d1...
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by majewsky 2y ago
I met him once in 2012 and ate dinner with him and Kay Sievers. I agree to your observation about "mild" and "constructive", and will extend by saying that he appeared to me as someone fiercely focused on technical chall
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by majewsky 2y ago
If it "has to be done", then why have Windows and Linux etc. not done it?
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by majewsky 2y ago
> In my experience, a good engineer using AI tools will run circles around a good engineer not using AI tools. Even supposing that is true, what if you have a choice between a bad engineer who uses AI and a good engineer that won't?
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by majewsky 2y ago
Because the actions that lead to death penalties are usually committed without a calm and collected risk-benefit analysis, whereas economic decisions of a corporation absolutely are.

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