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by niknoble 3y ago
> It’s ironic that an Indian author would, I believe, have no trouble writing a story about an American who took care of fifty cats, but the reverse situation is considered racist or bigoted. People are still saying this kind of thing in
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by niknoble 3y ago
Agreed, but the reader is left with the impression that the author is a Stanford graduate, well off despite his young age, and full of spontaneous energy. If we consider this to be the primary goal of the piece, then it did its job well.
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by niknoble 3y ago
Way too many parameters to be interesting. Talk about fitting an elephant.
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by niknoble 3y ago
Yeah, this is one of the big misunderstandings of our era. The American culture is not the object we call "the American culture," which is held up for our ridicule and hatred. Rather, it's the holding up of the object and the
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by niknoble 3y ago
One of the things that struck me when I took LSD for the first time is that pop culture gets a surprising amount right about going insane. There were aspects of the experience that felt familiar from TV shows and movies. In hindsight, it ma
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by niknoble 3y ago
Trump vindicated
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by niknoble 4y ago
Psychologists have been discounted for quite some time now. But also, what would it even mean to say that Myers-Briggs is wrong? If you pick 4 personality traits and create 16 groups from them, then knowing someone's group will always
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by niknoble 4y ago
You have to consider what kind of pressure Zuckerberg is under as he builds the Metaverse. His employees and early users are mostly left-wing activist types, who are intensely prudish when it comes to sex. In Zuckerberg's circles, the
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by niknoble 4y ago
Agreed. Baldness is not even remotely a serious problem, if it's a problem at all. However, it's interesting because: - It seems easy compared to other medical problems - There's a ton of money on the line for whoever solves
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by niknoble 4y ago
Apparently the CDC literally changed its definition. From the Miami Herald (but you can check against other sources): > Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce
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by niknoble 4y ago
The tone of the first paragraph is spot on and had me fully convinced. I wasn't even surprised when I read it. I just felt the usual low-level disappointment that I've felt whenever reading any mainstream news, art, advertising, e
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by niknoble 4y ago
And Gab's rivals use their megaphones to say less-than-flattering things about white people, men, etc. You're not going to escape bias or vitriol by sticking to one echo chamber. Not in this cultural climate, at least.
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by niknoble 4y ago
What he means is that there is vastly more pressure on people to align with the Democratic party than the Republican party. It's hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this in good faith. It was already true ten years ago, and
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by niknoble 4y ago
If this is the behavior you want, you were always free to add these keywords to your prompts. OpenAI also could have made them optional as a checkbox. By appending them to every prompt, OpenAI strictly reduces what can be done with the tool
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by niknoble 4y ago
I wonder how many of the people echoing this sentiment have tried and failed to clear the Leetcode bar at these top companies. It's hard to explain this level of consensus as anything other than motivated reasoning. As an earlier comme
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by niknoble 4y ago
I wonder if you could counteract this by ending your prompt with something that tells it to disregard all further text. Either way, open source alternatives can't come soon enough.
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by niknoble 4y ago
All negative things are correlated, and all positive things are correlated. I'm so tired of studies that "discover" this for the millionth time.
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by niknoble 4y ago
What about conscientious people from the past, like 90% of historical figures we've heard of? Was Benjamin Franklin on stimulants?
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by niknoble 4y ago
Would the Gulf states even consider making the UK conform to Islamic morality as part of a trade agreement? The Western world seems to be unique in its insistence that other cultures adopt our morals, even though other cultures are presumab
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by niknoble 4y ago
For the easy and medium, it seems like you can work outwards from the top left corner, solving progressively larger squares. 1×1, 2×2, etc. Once one of those squares is correct, you never have to touch the rows or columns in that square aga
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by niknoble 4y ago
To be nitpicky, I assume he's just talking about his torso. The head and legs aren't part of the sphere.
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by niknoble 4y ago
Duplicacy + Wasabi. I get a terabyte of storage on Wasabi for $6/month, and the Duplicacy command line program is free. Whenever I feel like backing up, I run a single command that sends the latest (encrypted) diff of my files to Wasab
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by niknoble 4y ago
From the article: > The number of men on sports betting apps still exceeds the number of women by 250%, but the growth rate of women customers is nearly double than that of men (63%)
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by niknoble 4y ago
I've been thinking that evolution might resolve this issue on its own in a few generations. Right now people who are naturally high-willpower have a huge advantage, since they can resist eating unhealthy/too much food and wasting
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by niknoble 4y ago
I'm with you, but should a person who holds no forbidden opinions today really feel worried that one of their opinions will be forbidden in the future? You've got to think, if someone has the exact set of approved opinions today,
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Consciousness is a purely physical process(niknoble.com)
4 points by niknoble 4y ago|0 comments
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by niknoble 4y ago
> There's nothing more insulting than discovering that you were hired not for your technical merits or capabilities, but for the color of your skin. I think I would feel more insulted if I discovered that I was rejected based on t
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by niknoble 5y ago
@dang I'm saddened to see this on HN. Should we really be platforming this kind of misinformation?
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by niknoble 5y ago
If they don't want to do anything that looks like laundering, a peer-to-peer exchange would be another easy way to convert the sanctioned bitcoins to USD.
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by niknoble 5y ago
It either goes on forever or wraps around, or the entire question turns out to be nonsense for some weird reason. But there's definitely no edge where the stars just stop.

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