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by paulluuk 1y ago
Unless startups with remote talent can't get funding, because investors look at big companies and thinking that if Uber, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google think having in-office employees is better, there must be a good reason for it. But I
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by paulluuk 1y ago
There's Financial Times, Forbes, tons of reddit posts, youtube videos.. I suppose it's possible that he's the only blogger doing this, but as far as I can see he is not the only one crunching profit numbers on the most "
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by paulluuk 1y ago
> I don't know why I'm the one writing what I'm writing, and I frequently feel weird that I, a part-time blogger and podcaster, am writing the things that I'm writing. I can't tell whether this man actually belie
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by paulluuk 1y ago
It depends; if you do that job or career for fun, then keep doing it! If you do that job because you like contributing to society and not because you like the job itself, then find another way to contribute to society. Even in a scenario wh
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Thanking of yourself as "redundant" limits your view of a human to that of a machine, and in doing so you are doing humanity a great disservice. I'd recommend reading the Culture series for a vision of a future where AI has e
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I think your astronomy skills are correct, but if we have to worry about actual travel then you would also have to consider things like fuel capacity, refuel opportunities, the fact that you probably don't want to actually fly through
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by paulluuk 2y ago
YouTube keeps recommending SpacetimeDB to me even though I have never made a videogame. Now I'm seeing it on HN too. Are there any game devs here who can comment on how useful this actually is? The pitch seems pretty cool but I can&#x2
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I don't think that's true at all. There might be (and probably are) tens of thousands of artists creating masterful artwork at home. But you're talking about PAID artwork, and yes: when it comes to paid art, money does matter
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by paulluuk 2y ago
There is a huge middle ground between "static image with another sliding static image" and "1 year of drawing per 4 second Ghibli masterpiece". From your comment is almost looks like you're suggesting that you have
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I'm also curious about this -- I'm pretty sure that I think actual words at about the speed at which I can speak them. I can not speak 3000 words per minute. I also have my doubts about the numbers put forward on reading, listenin
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe Amazon's business model was very simple: do everything as cheaply as possible, run at a loss until all competition is dead, and then raise prices once we dominate the market. I don't think OpenAI ha
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I won't go into whether this is "yet another old person complaining about young people", I do not know whether this is a valid complaint or not. Instead, I just want to comment on some of what is mentioned here. For context,
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I think that in almost all western countries, a life spent entirely on hoarding wealth for the sake of wealth, is considered a sad life. Especially if you don't even have any loved ones to share your wealth with. I think the same it tr
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by paulluuk 2y ago
Tiny nitpick: instead of using the nested circle diagram, I feel like a venn diagram would be more accurate. I don't think that all developers are blog readers.
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by paulluuk 2y ago
From the page linked: > First photographic records of already described (but obviously relatively uncommon or cryptic) species
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by paulluuk 2y ago
They're not exactly "relatively uncommon or cryptic"
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by paulluuk 2y ago
> just a contamination during the autopsy. How does sperm end up on her body during the autopsy? Are we talking necrophilia or are there multiple murdered bodies laying next to each other and the tools are re-used or something?
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I don't understand your comment -- are you implying the holocaust didn't happen or wasn't genocide? I want to steelman your argument but it's pretty hard. Your other point is that you wonder whether a paper review is goi
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I can't judge whether this is a good paper or not, and I think it's really cool that someone with only a bachelors degree (like myself) can get a paper published without first doing a PhD. However, the anti-"woke" part o
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I love reading and other intellectual activities, so I’m by no means anti-intellectual. But I do abhor elitism - whether cultural or intellectual. I reject the idea that 'high culture' defines intelligence or value, and by extensi
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I know right?! It's so good, but I don't know anyone who has read it, haha. I'll pick up your recommendation for sure.
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by paulluuk 2y ago
But why does that have to be reading? Why can't it be meditation, programming, working out, listening to music, fishing, mountain climbing, going for a walk, or something similar? Why the focus on reading in particular, as if it were s
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by paulluuk 2y ago
So, I listen to about 25 audiobooks per year (mostly fantasy and sci-fi, with a few political, popular science or popular economics book sprinkled between). I'm quite happy about that, because it's something that I can do in bed,
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by paulluuk 2y ago
Though is that causation or correlation? I can imagine that people with all kinds of illnesses would also retire sooner than people who are still in peak health.
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by paulluuk 2y ago
> they are not linking personal data between agencies > Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in with the review in agencies where he was a material conflict I'm not saying these are or aren't happening, but it seem
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by paulluuk 2y ago
"Pick Place Hotdog Sausage" is such a bizarre name, though. Is it meant to be human readable? AI-readable? Just a label for the researchers? Same with "Put Mushroom Place Pot". As far as I can see both labels are only us
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I'm curious, how does that perspective make the avoidance of recursion more compelling?
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by paulluuk 2y ago
I think their point is that you can not just say "children in china like math" or "children in france will drink wine", because those are stereotypes and there are many examples of children within those countries who do
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by paulluuk 2y ago
Cool project, can we submit models without writing an accompanying paper to go with it? Though I have to say, using RL to mean "Reinforcement Learning" but also talk about "Roguelike" games (also abbreviated "RL&quo
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by paulluuk 2y ago
Mostly unrelated, but I wish the field of math would step away from greek letter notatation and just make variable and function names readable as programmers do. I know there are historic reasons, and I'm sure that mathematicians'

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