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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Yes it's not advocacy for anything: It's up to everyone how they respond to their situation if they feel disenfranchised and I'm in no position to judge them one way or another. The point is just that it's a tale as old
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Laws are only as useful as the social contract they support.
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I'll do that!
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Show HN: I made Picle (a.k.a. Catchphrase x Wordle x AI)(picle.fi)
4 points by rthrfrd 2y ago|2 comments
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Sure, I think your characterisation of "people who are always bored are boring people" is much more credible! Thanks for the thoughts - I must return to doing the boring things I need to do today that I'm avoiding :)
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Ok, imagine the original assertion was “All square numbers are even”. I only need to introduce a specific example/constraint to disprove the original assertion: 1 My introduction of the example/constraint is directly relevant to d
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
> I don't think you've dispelled the original assertion at all. I did though. Otherwise what you're saying is that you've never known someone whose imagination and appetite for experiences was not constrained by their
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
All you're saying is that your imagination and appetite for experiences should not exceed the means already available to you. Sounds unimaginative and boring to me. What if I said the interesting person is the one that will tolerate be
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
"People can be boring or not regardless of wealth" is orthogonal to the original assertion of "Only boring people get bored": I raised the incredibly common situation where wealth does matter that dispels the original as
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Which completely fails to account for the fact that a boring person with great means may use those means to avoid boredom, while an imaginative person with little means may be trapped in boredom because they are forced to use their time to
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
China’s competitive advantage is cheap labour brought about by poor workers rights and a low quality of life. Innovation has nothing to do with it. It is hilarious that you think European economies want to compete with that. The tariffs eli
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
I see YC as doing what every successful mature business does, which is come to rely on its experience and market position (it’s hard to disrupt yourself), which for better or worse creates habits, which in YC’s case means very coarse invest
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by rthrfrd 2y ago
Very sad to hear. We’ll certainly miss having his perspective to ground us in this era of AI hyperbole, as thousands of engineers start confronting the ambiguities of consciousness with incongruent mental frameworks.
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
Fair, I post it as a starting point to establish ones own interpretation of self-awareness, so as not to wade into the philosophical rabbit hole of bringing my own definition. The reason I think it can be useful as that, is because I see co
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
I find Daniel Dennett's framing of competency vs comprehension a good place to start. He did a nice talk at the RI on it some time ago[1]. A previous one overlaps with similar ground[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
I think it's useful to distinguish between self-awareness as mutable or immutable. In which sense I agree that both your server and this LLM have an immutable self-awareness which is indeed not very interesting. I'll only start ta
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
> Ironically, this is evolution in action. The folks that "remember" how to have a family and raise kids have an uncontested claim to the future. The "it's too hard to have kids" crew is selecting against themsel
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
I believe I recently built something to do exactly what you're describing for HTML, though it's C++ (but maybe a useful basis for a rust version - I don't know). https://github.com/rthrfrd/webxx
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Show HN: webxx – Declarative HTML and CSS components for C++(github.com)
1 points by rthrfrd 3y ago|0 comments
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
> Please familiarize yourself with the definitions of market efficiency and market equilibrium. Yes I did that once during my economics degree. It’s a bastard science and can be debated no end, but those debates are a lot more valuable w
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
Thank you for articulating this. This is not just about monetary policy, but structural failures and regulatory capture that are creating unprecedented opportunities for rent-seeking. Personally I also believe that the pandemic only acceler
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by rthrfrd 3y ago
Innovation gives you a valuable competitive advantage - that doesn’t mean it lasts forever - that’s why companies have to constantly develop to stay competitive. Or, they gain enough power to create a failed market, in which it is practical
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by rthrfrd 4y ago
We can when we prescribe different meaning to the words we use, which is easy to do when we suddenly have many people grappling with complex and subjective concepts that AI is entangled with. Unfortunately this use and abuse of language der
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by rthrfrd 4y ago
I’m curious as to what “higher order emergent behaviours” you believe you are observing? Thanks.
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by rthrfrd 6y ago
Viewing your child as an optimisation problem centred around your subjective view of good and bad could be all the trauma you need to inflict. Of course that's anything but a new pattern, parenting is training and training is optimisin
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by rthrfrd 8y ago
Roxhill | London, UK | Senior Engineer | Onsite | Full-time We help the PR industry explore, analyse, monitor and engage the media. We've been growing successfully for 3 years now and need talented engineers to help realise our ambitio
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by rthrfrd 10y ago
In the case of ES the short answer is; we don't. We have fault tolerance in our replication system to guarantee eventual consistency instead. I would say using ES as a consistent source of data isn't really playing to its strength
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by rthrfrd 10y ago
FWIW we went through a very similar process to that documented here by Github (~3 months ago). It was entirely due to operational reasons and nothing to with shortcomings in Redis itself. MySQL was the master record for 99% of our data whil
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by rthrfrd 11y ago
Roxhill Media | London, UK | PHP Developer | Onsite We combine analysis of live media sources - from national papers to twitter - with a comprehensive graph of journalists, figures, organisations and topics, to provide valuable insight to o
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Backbone.aio – simple socket.io transport for backbone(github.com)
2 points by rthrfrd 12y ago|0 comments

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