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Trump orders investigations into 2 DHS officials from his first term(axios.com)
11 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
I think the risk isn't just that LLMs won't exist, but that they will fail at certain tasks that need to get done. Someone who is highly dependent on prompt engineering and doesn't understand any of the underlying concepts is
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by rurp 2y ago
We've all been learning just how much of the US system runs on assumption of there being some baseline level of competence and good faith. It hasn't been a pretty lesson. I'm honestly not sure there is another way since laws
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by rurp 2y ago
This is like shooting yourself in the foot to splatter blood on your opponent. It "works" in a sense, but is about the stupidest approach possible. There's a reason the dollar weakened in this crisis instead of strengthening
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by rurp 2y ago
I am extremely skeptical that a president and a party that massively increase the national debt every time they hold unified control, and whose single legislative goal this year is to do exactly that once again, is engaging in a sophisticat
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As Social Security services are cut back, seniors face long drives(axios.com)
12 points by rurp 2y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
You're painting with an awfully broad brush here. Hedge funds make large directional bets all of the time. Clearly they don't all carefully hedge given how many funds have blown up in past downturns.
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by rurp 2y ago
Saying that sanctions helped the Russian economy is an absolutely wild claim to make, and not one I have seen made from a single credible source. Double digit inflation despite a central bank baseline rate of over 20% is absolutely terrib
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by rurp 2y ago
>> they do what you tell them and what they are taught, and if 99% of their learning set associates Mario with prompts for Italian plumbers, that's what you'll get. I thought that a lot of the issues were the opposite of thi
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by rurp 2y ago
The key difference is that the google example is clearly copying someone elses work and there are plenty of laws and norms that non-billionaires need to follow. If you made a business reselling the image you copied you would expect to get i
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by rurp 2y ago
One sort-of exception are the mormon tea plants that grow readily in the region. They don't have caffeine, but they do contain several other strong compounds that likely evolved to combat pests. Those plants love hot dry conditions and
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by rurp 2y ago
Welcome Tom! I want to add to the chorus saying how excellent HN has been for so many years, in large part thanks to the excellent moderation. I dove into forums early on and they have always been one of the favorite and most treasured part
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by rurp 2y ago
Exactly, and there are plenty of examples within the tech industry. Apple/Android app store fees didn't end up at 30% because of ruthless competition that drove margins down to almost nothing. If a market is controlled by a duopol
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by rurp 2y ago
An empirical example would be Amazon's utter failure at making voice shopping a thing with the Echo. There were always a number of obvious flaws with the idea. There's no way to compare purchase options, check reviews, view images
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by rurp 2y ago
A good place to start would be to not abruptly fire hundreds of deportation judges and staff. It's absurd to claim that this administration is actually trying to solve a problem, their actions clearly show that they are not. These de
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by rurp 2y ago
One minor but very nice aspect of the UX is that I was able to click the link and immediately try it out. I wasn't even planning to really use it but ended up completing a round. My only complaint is that the drag and drop is kind of a
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by rurp 2y ago
Care to elaborate? Sounds potentially interesting but I doubt many people are going to do a deep research dive based on a vague single sentence post.
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by rurp 2y ago
Projects are being killed across the government for exactly this reason. If anything it's even dumber than it sounds. If any word in a project or department title string matches a list of common terms it can get killed with zero invest
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by rurp 2y ago
This makes no sense. The debt payments are larger than the company's entire revenue! The Twitter purchase was a financial boondoggle that Elon is attempting to hide with this latest deal. If I borrow $4 million to buy a house worth $1
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by rurp 2y ago
It's almost like his stated reasons for DOGE are a thin pretense... Elon should never be given the benefit of the doubt on anything at this point given how blatantly and frequently he lies. Anything he says should be ignored and assume
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't really agree with framing it as lazy. Adding more tools and steps to your workflow isn't free, and the cost/benefit of each tool will be different for everyone. I've lost count of how many times someone has evang
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by rurp 2y ago
I think this points to much of the disagreement over LLMs. They can be great at one-off scripts and other similar tasks like prototypes. Some folks who do a lot of that kind of work find the tools genuinely amazing. Other software engineers
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by rurp 2y ago
I know a few civil engineers and have been surprised at how many similarities that work has to software engineering. Some of the poor practices that people gripe about in tech are similar in that world, and the same goes for many good pract
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm skeptical of this. Used sales are a thing, plus I've gotten "new" products that had definitely been previously opened. Throwing away returned products seems to go against the ethos of squeezing every drop of profit o
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by rurp 2y ago
That $3/month figure actually makes me more concerned. Sure it's low for a business with revenue but donation funded services rarely get donations from more than a few percent of their users. So Signal probably needs something lik
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by rurp 2y ago
I think a simpler theory for this or any site not ranking high is that a small group of users consistently flag the posts, and flags carry a lot of weight. We've seen this more blatantly with Elon articles. Almost any submission that p
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by rurp 2y ago
Someone on HN had a great summation in one of the art discussions that was essentially "Great human art rewards an interested viewer, AI art punishes them". Great art is full of interesting details, connections, and themes that th
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by rurp 2y ago
How long does it take to manually dry a normal load with that thing? My dryer takes at least an hour to dry a modest sized load of normal clothes so I would expect a non-powered one to take many hours, but maybe my modern dryer is really so
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing appliances getting worse across the board. I don't buy enough of them to really know if the trend holds overall but the correlation is pretty much perfect between how new an appliance is
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by rurp 2y ago
This isn't like trying to start a new workout routine where the worst case scenario is some mild discomfort. The downside of contact with aliens is the obliteration of unique life forms and/or humanity.

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