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by obblekk 3y ago
There’s gotta be some reason for the mental health crisis, along with all the other crises out there. It doesn’t make sense for every level of American to be meaningfully wealthier and higher income than 20 years ago and yet also be sufferi
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by obblekk 3y ago
Is there a fundamental reason that content that ranks high can’t also answer a user query crisply? Is it just that no one has found a good way to do it yet or is it fundamentally impossible because of some google ranking thing?
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by obblekk 3y ago
I wonder if there should be criminal liability for this... literally billions of dollars of misdirected research effort for what may be a fraud. Are amyloid plaques not an issue at all then, or coincidentally still an issue (but not justifi
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by obblekk 3y ago
Apple should create app extensions that plug in to their LLM. This way a user can teach the system default LLM new stuff and developers can run finetuned weights/layers at the edge (on device). Apple would instantly become the largest
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by obblekk 3y ago
The async thing means papers can be published without waiting for a gov agency to do its review. FDA takes the opposite approach. Generally, reading a paper is much less risky to a person's health than taking a drug so the differences
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by obblekk 3y ago
So junior scientists can be hired without them being concerned for future career prospects.
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by obblekk 3y ago
GPU constraints. Time spent serving an API is time not spent training new models (for publishing or R&D).
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by obblekk 3y ago
There should be Nutrition Facts but for scientific trials. Independent agency just publishing quality assessments of the trial. This should be an async non blocking evaluation. The statisticians who do it should be anonymous by default. The
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by obblekk 3y ago
The receiver which measures the voltage pattern and decides if the rest of the voltage is allowed or not becomes the weak point. Like the encrypted key system used today, this could be buried deep inside the engine, but unclear why this is
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by obblekk 3y ago
The purpose of the original "need 50k donors to get to the debate stage" rule is that it's a high hurdle for a normal person to achieve. A type of proof of work that tries to get debates between candidates that are actually b
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by obblekk 3y ago
Maybe they've solved the fingerprinting problem and can identify text generated from their model, and this is a way of discovering the market they can sell more advanced models to directly. B2B leadgen...
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by obblekk 3y ago
If I wanted to buy an atcc bacteria, what’s the easiest way to get access to a BSL1 lab that they’ll agree to ship to? Is BSL1 even certified or self attested?
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by obblekk 3y ago
Apple headcount has increased from 37k in 2010 to 164k in 2022. Are you saying they only hire managers externally, they have dozens of reports per manager, or they prefer to push median employees into management instead of the best?
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by obblekk 3y ago
Silicon valley has benefited from a doubling of workers every x years for decades as the importance of software in the economy kept increasing. In that environment, it's important to push smart people toward management to be able to ke
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by obblekk 3y ago
"As the sun set on a sleepy evening, all across town the washing machines waited to make their move." Loved this site. Gave me a really nostalgic feeling of the web from 2010 era. Early social media.
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by obblekk 3y ago
In fairness, they are using the decomposed soil to line streets (I'd guess medians which have grass) and people's lawns. Distributing to farmers would be terrible, but it seems like distributing near roadways is exactly the right
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by obblekk 3y ago
> 0.3% of the Iron-oxide becomes nanoparticles which cannot be converted back into Iron. At that rate, 50% of the initial iron will be gone in 333 cycles of iron -> iron oxide -> iron. This a hard type of energy source to reason ab
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by obblekk 3y ago
> VIP had conceded that it used "Bad Spaniels" as a trademark. > Cited a "Chick-Fil-Hate" t-shirt as an example of a parody product that could still receive First Amendment protection because it conveys a message a
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by obblekk 3y ago
Not blaming Reagan specifically, but the consensus that emerged in the early 80s was that all GDP growth was good, even if it skewed away from manufacturing toward finance, etc. This basic belief allowed us to write trade deals that reduced
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by obblekk 3y ago
> The US has added around 800,000 jobs in manufacturing employment over the last two years, employing around 13 million workers It's too early to know, but if it turns out the solution to decades of economic misery for middle class
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by obblekk 3y ago
It's totally unreasonable to expect you to make changes in 30 days. Consider app review time, that might not even be possible. After you shutdown, can you turn Apollo into a site-specific browser? Like request reddit html, write a cust
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by obblekk 3y ago
@dang was this comment deleted from the comments page for this article?
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by obblekk 3y ago
There's a line of critique that says it's unfair for the government to have allowed Coinbase to break the law for so long, and then change their mind. But in the American system, the burden of proof is on the government (SEC) to p
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by obblekk 3y ago
The act of physically immersing myself into something just leaves my brain with a stronger memory of the content, than only viewing the content. If some tech could close this gap, all sorts of learning rates would increase. Until then, it&#
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by obblekk 3y ago
Conservation of nature is something I care a lot about. But isn’t this the natural process playing out? A plant is evolutionarily fit to survive this desert. It is introduced randomly by an animal. It prospers and colonized the otherwise in
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by obblekk 3y ago
I think this is exactly the right profile for him to have hired. She led advertising (sales) at a top 3 media publisher. This is probably Elon's greatest area of weakness, and she's particularly good at it. I imagine this will be
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by obblekk 3y ago
Datadog was started in 2010. Even though the cloud existed, it was relatively immature in that it frequently required ssh into a box to fix something. Devops was big. This is why SaaS worked and was so valuable. I've started thinking S
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by obblekk 3y ago
Uh this is not the case... and also most of my comments on HN are not about my company. The only evidence I can point out: the OP is not concisely written and disputes $300... not the best selling points.
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You joke but we'd write you a letter for that.
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Healthcare is more complicated and it might be worth talking to an attorney (pay for an hour of time) to get advice on which party to pursue and how. This is unfortunately the biggest challenge with our service... how can we help people whe

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