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by ren_engineer 2y ago
if they are doing affiliate marketing than it's realistic
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
the EU is becoming a parody >we've got to save democracy by restricting free speech and enforcing laws and regulations created by unelected officials
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
>and Boeing was, until very recently, a prestigious aeronautical engineering company what do you define as "recently"? This Boeing/lockheed project has been a taxpayer funded disaster for over a decade and this is just the
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
30 under 30 is going to inherently attract the wrong sort of people because the people actually worthy of it don't care about it. It basically acts as social proof, which the most successful people already have from their own work. Sim
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
I'm talking more about them posting new product launches, I/O livestream, gmail pinned to the top, etc. Embedded stuff in search results is fine for the most part, although their intent their is primarily to prevent click throughs
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
I feel like the more blatant monopoly abuse by Google is how they use the Google search homepage to shill their other products. They effectively give themselves billions of dollars in free advertising
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
the fact NASA has been lying to the public for months makes it even worse. Going to be beautiful when they have to beg SpaceX to bail them out. Just shut Boeing down at this point, they are a failed organization
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
from an evolutionary perspective the current human lifespan seems almost perfect >long enough for grandparents to help with kids and pass on valuable knowledge >short enough that new generations are able to adapt as needed to changing
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
people really don't want to accept that beyond the most extreme cases(starvation, lead poisoning, complete neglect, no school access at all, etc.), environment really doesn't play that big of a role. Twin studies have shown this f
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
main question is what other things they've created bot armies to pysop people that they haven't admitted to or that are currently ongoing? You don't just spin up this type of thing for a one off. And whether the US military i
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US Military admits to misinformation campaign about Sinovac Covid vaccine(reuters.com)
10 points by ren_engineer 2y ago|1 comments
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
even "trump as..." returns no suggested searches which is insane, obviously a manual action
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
this, I feel like a lot of people are just so abstracted away from harsh reality in the modern world that many don't take things seriously. Massive normalcy bias and enhanced bystander effect. A lot of people's first instinct is t
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
for SpaceX it's a bet that if Trump wins they will get far more lobbying power for contracts and Boeing/Lockheed will be even more screwed. And while consumer opinion on Tesla and Starlink will be hurt, Elon is probably hoping to
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
how sidelined is HN that ETH getting an ETF doesn't get a single comment?
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
it's an attempt to keep the hype train going by implying they have internal models that make GPT-4 look bad. The question is if that's actually true, we'll find out soon because plenty of other companies are now approaching G
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
and I know a ton of people miserable and stressed because they are buried in college debt. The fact the government has created a system where 18 year old kids can rack up massive debts that can't be removed via bankruptcy is insane. Ch
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Tether stablecoin makes 4.5B in profit in Q1(tether.io)
3 points by ren_engineer 2y ago|0 comments
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Making recent value queries 100x faster in InfluxDB 3.0 via query optimization(influxdata.com)
3 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|0 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
the worst case scenario for being a YC founder is probably a 500K+ job at FAANG or another YC startup if you fail
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
This is SFO again, seems more like a maintenance issue for the last few incidents
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Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway(theguardian.com)
105 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|78 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>The problem is not the demand for housing, it’s the supply how do you build enough housing when the government of a country with a population of 30 million is bringing in 500K immigrants every year?
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
I've A/B tested this with webinars and the tools I've tried tend to miss some really valuable/interesting stuff even when I give it the full transcript. Same goes for when I try to use ChatGPT or other tools for full int
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
actually the opposite imo, this stuff is the ultimate bread and circus to distract poor people from worsening living conditions. Much cheaper to provide VR goggles with AI model access than housing and healthcare
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
seems like a significant chunk of the population may opt in to the Matrix voluntarily. on another note I find it funny they released this right after Google announced their new model. Bad luck for Google or did OpenAI just decide to move up
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
I'm not sure there would be much demand for purely custom/individualized episodes beyond the novelty and maybe for fun with a group of friends. Most of the reason people watch TV or movies is for the shared experience that you can
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
RAG would still be useful for cost savings assuming they charge per token, plus I'm guessing using the full-context length would be slower than using RAG to get what you need for a smaller prompt

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