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by nradov 5mo ago
This is very much location dependant. Cars are convenient, predictable, and affordable in most of the USA. People just drive to their destination and park in one of the abundant free spaces without worrying about it. There are only a handfu
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by nradov 5mo ago
You've got to be kidding. SF police and prosecutors barely do anything about real crimes, never mind blocking a road for a few minutes.
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by nradov 5mo ago
The HN commentariat skews young and male so opinions seen here are often disconnected from average people in the real world. Many women feel unsafe riding on US public transit because other riders act out in antisocial ways. We can argue ab
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by nradov 5mo ago
Driving is actually not "very dangerous" if you're sober, not distracted, and driving a properly maintained modern car. Like most any activity the risk isn't zero but you can cut it down a lot. https://www.iih
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by nradov 5mo ago
Obviously the Waymo Premier service should also include a nice handgun with the car.
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by nradov 5mo ago
I don't understand your comment. Companies like Netflix, Old Dominion Freight Line, Nvidia, Comfort Systems USA, and Intuitive Surgical have all significantly outperformed the S&P 500. What "awful" things have they done i
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by nradov 5mo ago
Huh? The DoD has maintained relationships with many area startups and tech companies for decades. Have you not been paying attention?
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by nradov 5mo ago
That's one of the reasons why most of those other countries have stagnant economies.
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by nradov 5mo ago
It will be interesting to see how many of those companies remain "incorruptible". Your new book seems a bit like a sequel to Jim Collins's 2001 book Good to Great . Several of the "great" companies including Circui
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by nradov 5mo ago
Nonsense. Supporting adult children after they've finished education equates to putting family last , not first. Some youths need a forcing function to reach their full potential.
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by nradov 5mo ago
Shipping debug symbols isn't a security vulnerability. It might be sloppy, but we all know that security through obscurity doesn't work. Especially not with modern analysis tools and access to the executable code.
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by nradov 5mo ago
American parents on average may be less willing and financially able to support deadbeat adult children than their Chinese peers.
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by nradov 5mo ago
Stock index composition isn't really a regulatory issue. S&P can make their own policies about what to include or not.
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by nradov 5mo ago
It's ironic that the EU has adopted English as their primary language now that England is no longer in the EU.
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by nradov 5mo ago
Really? How much did Tesla spend on marketing?
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by nradov 5mo ago
Cool. In the meantime though we should do whatever we can to help the Ukrainian military kill as many Russians as possible.
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by nradov 5mo ago
Does this mean that Anthropic is having trouble raising cash so they want all of their competitors to pause for a while and give them a chance to catch up?
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by nradov 5mo ago
How do you propose to prosecute Vladimir Putin? Will the UK send some unarmed police officers to arrest him?
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by nradov 5mo ago
Don't be pedantic. There may be resource limits but we're so far away from them that they're irrelevant: that's why software demand is essentially infinite for all practical purposes.
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by nradov 5mo ago
There is essentially infinite demand for software. Every time new technologies have made it cheaper to build software we've ended up with more new software, and more people employed in software development. There's no reason to ex
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by nradov 5mo ago
Construction is in fact never done. If it's not data centers then it will be something else: high-rise residences, bridges, spaceports, oil refineries, whatever. People always want more stuff and we'll never hit a limit in our lif
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by nradov 5mo ago
Do scores on proctored exams have any correlation with job performance? Employers mostly care about ability to complete projects on time and get along with colleagues. How do you put that on an exam?
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by nradov 5mo ago
Where are the safer places? Pretty much everywhere habitable in California is at high risk of wildfires and/or earthquakes (plus floods in the Delta region). Instead of placing certain areas off limits a better solution is defensible s
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by nradov 5mo ago
What exactly does it mean to be "against AI"? Like they don't want students to use AI in coursework? Or they don't want CSU administrators to spend money on commercial AI services? Or the Computer Science faculty don&#x2
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by nradov 5mo ago
Construction is never "done". New stuff is always being built. And eventually the old data centers will be demolished or remodeled, which also takes a huge amount of labor. I think a lot of HN users still somehow don't unders
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by nradov 5mo ago
There are lots of new jobs in building data centers, plus all the components that go into those. For example, worldwide employee count at Amphenol is way up over the past couple years. They make a lot of electrical connectors and similar it
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by nradov 5mo ago
Labor displacement is always coming. Every new technology eliminates some old occupations and creates new ones. LLMs aren't unique in that regard. We should have a safety net to support and retrain displaced workers regardless of the t
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by nradov 5mo ago
Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go
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by nradov 5mo ago
So what? No business has a legal right to sell their products to the government. The LLM vendors should probably find cheaper, more efficient ways to train their models rather than depending on government contracts. If your business lives o
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by nradov 5mo ago
What a weird comment. How many private business managers have ever been sent to prison for violating an EO? This particular EO doesn't even mention any criminal penalties.

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