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by repeekad 1y ago
Stereotyping white students as already fine and thus undeserving of any attention contributed this cultural mess in the first place, JD Vance wrote a book about white American struggles and now he’s VP. The school district might be primaril
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by repeekad 1y ago
Did you remember to factor in well over 30% inflation in America in the past 5 years plus Uber Lyft initially losing money on rides to capture market share before they eventually had to actually breakeven?
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by repeekad 1y ago
I hope AI fuels a re-independence of many industries by making business software discovery and integration cheap and easy, every plumber with more than 10 years experience should own their company with low cost software running it, the effi
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by repeekad 1y ago
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury comes to mind
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by repeekad 1y ago
aka what happens when you promote based on metrics rather than actual product sense
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by repeekad 1y ago
I think the issue is the compute power needed for good voice models is far from free just in hardware and electricity, so any good text to audio solution likely needs to cost some money. Wiring up Google vertex AI text to speech or the aws
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by repeekad 1y ago
In San Francisco a friend ran an event for an LGBT policy non-profit, tons of private security yet no actual members of LGBT, only rich white hetero couples and the discussion was about finances and donations, nothing to do with LGBT policy
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by repeekad 1y ago
That’s not basic safety, if you walk into a crane not in use that’s on you not the contractors. It’s paternalism, not safety, and the American in me groans at the idea of at midnight the cops showing up and causing a ruckus over that. A big
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by repeekad 1y ago
Haha, wait until you hear how long and how many people it takes to change the text for a single button at a company like Google
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Refactoring to Rust: integrate Rust performance surgically into other languages(manning.com)
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by repeekad 1y ago
A must watch for anyone interested in pilots and mental health Many of her videos were about her dream of being a pilot, and a few trolls on the internet reporting her grounded them
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by repeekad 1y ago
I don’t think the country of Israel is explicitly doing the manipulating, I think one country’s allies are just statistically richer and more influential than the other
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by repeekad 1y ago
I’ve never seen evidence that US agents attempted to infiltrate Chinese companies to steal their secrets, meanwhile just one recent example is the FBI catching Chinese espionage on camera trying to steal glass trade secrets from Corning, al
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by repeekad 1y ago
USPS will happily exchange your cash for a money order without an ID as long as it’s under a certain amount, if you’re willing to take the risk you can mail the money order and transfer reasonably sized checks fully anonymously, there are g
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by repeekad 1y ago
same with immunocompromised folks, though all that only applies to raw honey; pasteurized honey is more common in grocery stores and totally safe
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by repeekad 1y ago
> I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead Like the US dollar and Postgres? For like $200 anyone can start a business entity in the US with a tax ID and a bank, I’m still yet
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by repeekad 1y ago
I don’t think it’s self congratulatory to get an “I was right” in about an article where meta is covertly asking to train their AI models on your entire private camera roll
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by repeekad 1y ago
Today I learned: table stakes is borrowed from poker referring to the minimum size bet needed to participate in a hand, I’ve heard it so many times
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by repeekad 1y ago
I think the servers can’t handle the high traffic from HN, you can clone the repo and run your own
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by repeekad 1y ago
So… someone in the industry bought it hoping to stop a free alternative from getting popular? Wonder what will happen to this one
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by repeekad 1y ago
I’ve personally experienced the password change require that “more than X characters be different than the old password”
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by repeekad 1y ago
Or you’re clever and lazy but haven’t found the right general to promote you to high leadership yet. I think of Sir Ken Robinson whenever I hear anyone say ADHD is synonymous with “stupid” https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY
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by repeekad 1y ago
functions that an LLM can use in its reasoning are called "tools", so the prior is probably more correct in the sense that an API can be used to provide the LLM tools
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by repeekad 1y ago
Thanks, this may be the name they used it’s been a little while
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by repeekad 1y ago
You likely went to a nice school, Trump supporters’ kids didn’t and my story is the kind of stuff they’re responding to, results may vary
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by repeekad 1y ago
The phrase thrown around was “collaboration headwind”, the idea was if project success depends on 1 person with a 95% chance of success, project success also had a 95% chance. But if 10 people each need to succeed at a 95% chance, suddenly
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by repeekad 1y ago
In the words of Coffeezilla, crime is legal now, fraudsters who donated to Trump are getting pardons [0] https://youtu.be/xUBCX7AV5PY
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by repeekad 1y ago
Not complaining about it, just throwing some noise out there and I completely agree, being exposed to different viewpoints and learning to adjust your perspective is what makes well rounded humyns ;)
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by repeekad 1y ago
For what it’s worth, my intro to psychology gen ed professor told us to spell “humyn” with a y to “remove woman being dependent on man” and let us skip the final if we recorded ourselves protesting the controversial state house bill at the
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by repeekad 1y ago
Googlers are well known for speaking up when they disagree with something the company is doing, but yeah I mostly wanted to call out how big the ping pong culture is at Google at least in Mountain View

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