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by pksebben 3y ago
I think we're approaching a situation where UBI will become essential not because "it's a public good" (although, IMO it ought to be), but because it will actually be healthy for businesses at scale. Factor 1: Very rich
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by pksebben 3y ago
This tracks. It occurs to me that the Ds in AD(H)D and other diagnoses are predicated on a common assumption; that of environment. It's not a 'disorder' or 'deficit' if it's adaptive - it's just that for
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by pksebben 3y ago
> We need a well-funded startup to pull an Uber and indiscriminately sidestep regulation to disrupt the real estate market. Whether or not this would be to the public benefit in terms of automation, this is exactly what's happening
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by pksebben 3y ago
dangit, I've got things I should be doing. Posting interesting stories during business hours continues grumbling incoherently
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by pksebben 3y ago
Was bartender, always liked computers and wanted to work with 'em. Self-taught my way into the field (which is a gross simplification but broadly gets at the meat of it). Disconnecting from social media was part of a larger effort to
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by pksebben 3y ago
I'm all about most of this. I disconnected from facestagramitter a while ago, and it was the best thing I've ever done for myself bar none. Got a change of career out of it and a vast improvement in my personal life. But... >
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by pksebben 3y ago
did the same for facebook circa 2020, and even in lockdown it was a godsend. Obliterated my reading list and actually managed to make headway on the massive list of mothballed projects.
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by pksebben 3y ago
you mean, someone's broken regetwitter
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by pksebben 3y ago
You got me, it isn’t. There are other confounding factors; no driving, for instance. An actual comparison would be pretty difficult for all kinds of reasons. But that’s part of what’s difficult about assessing something as vague as “whether
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by pksebben 3y ago
Don't like it. There are systemic problems with nanny-state thinking - you either solve all cases of danger at once, or you make the problem worse. I was close to a story recently about a kid in a climbing gym who mistied their harn
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by pksebben 3y ago
... this can get a little goofy even with do_sample=False and no temp: | [{'generated_text': "DAUGHTER: tell me a story FATHER: but it's late DAUGHTER: please? FATHER: okay, once upon a time there was a little girl who
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by pksebben 3y ago
It's odd. Running inference on this (and other models in its class) and I keep running into a "repeating token" situation with moderate-to-long context windows. It feels almost as if, during inference, the model hits some fo
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by pksebben 3y ago
There are vanishingly fewer 'low cost of living' areas. I'm in the central valley and the prices here (traditionally low enough for working class to own) have been going nuts. The problem is that we've opened up real es
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Ask HN: How do we coordinate open source initiatives?
4 points by pksebben 3y ago|4 comments
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by pksebben 3y ago
not really. There's a difference in how much one needs to keep up with tech trends, because there's a difference in how reliant one is in getting and maintaining a job. Despite being paid fairly well, it's unlikely that I&#x
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by pksebben 3y ago
easy to live just fine when you bought your house prior to 2008. Just sayin'.
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by pksebben 3y ago
"Powerful technologies, when placed in the hands of bad actors with ugly motives in an incentive structure that encourages usury, are bad". Sure. But how about we do something about all the rest of that instead? Open source all t
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by pksebben 3y ago
okay, yeah. Not many. That is patently poor opsec.
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by pksebben 3y ago
For sure, but throw me a rope here, it doesn't help the more immediate concern of this bog I'm stuck in.
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by pksebben 3y ago
I believe the revelation is that this particular Brigadier General is leading specifically unit 8200. I'm sure that the line > n expert analyst, commander of an elite intelligence unit and technology manager with 20 years of experi
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by pksebben 3y ago
Or if you just use the terraform cli properly and actually glance at the report it gives you before the “hey guy are you really, really sure about this?” Safety prompt. You not paying attention is not terraforms fault.
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by pksebben 3y ago
Gameplay and narrative don't hook into that acquisitive gambler's streak nearly as well as "all the unlockable things". I do agree with you, generally, that this is a bit of a cheap trick and far too ubiquitous. However
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Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation W NextScale Prediction(huggingface.co)
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by pksebben 3y ago
I'm with you - it would be better with more data (and the creator has stated he wants to expand to 500 companies, apparently that used to be the number prior to the most recent update which was a while ago). It's the writeup he ha
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by pksebben 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but could you expound a little on what makes these institutions important? Like, why do you consider them trustworthy and what specific good do they provide?
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by pksebben 3y ago
holy cow. This is one of the best writeups[1] of "the mess" I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing. 1 - https://theyrule.net/so_what
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by pksebben 3y ago
I see. I suppose I'm sort of partially blind to that given that I've been really lucky to mostly have interviews where the code portions were more "build this whole thing" rather than "whiteboard this function&qu
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by pksebben 3y ago
Not sure I follow you. Do you mean that the existence of AI will undermine trust that applicants know what they're doing? It hasn't really been around long enough for an empirical analysis of effects. It's also incredibly h
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by pksebben 3y ago
Everyone seems to be asking how AI is going to fit in the current paradigm - creating or destroying jobs and so forth - but I don't see a ton of folks talking about something I feel is patently obvious; that the most relevant applicati
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by pksebben 3y ago
If I'm getting your meaning, that is - we don't have a fix for "we can but we ought not to", then yeah I see what you mean. Even that is not straightforward, unfortunately. There's this thing where the tech is goi

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