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by rurp 2y ago
Lightning strikes and humans are probably the most common causes for fires in the desert. Most desert areas in the US are a lot more lush than the blank sand dunes many people think of as desert. Usually there are a lot of bushes and grasse
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by rurp 2y ago
Deserts absolutely have wildfires, and are even pretty common in California deserts. The second largest fire in the state for 2023 was the York Fire in the Mojave Desert[0]. There have been many other sizable desert fires in recent years as
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by rurp 2y ago
Perhaps economic issues at the scale of a modern country can be more complicated than would be covered by an econ 101 lesson.
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by rurp 2y ago
> Mobile internet & smartphones seem to be killing all forms of live in person interaction. Right, most types of social gatherings have decreased over the past 15 years. Events that haven't fallen off are the noteworthy ones.
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by rurp 2y ago
This is a good habit for any able bodied person to get into. Not only can it help out someone who needs a closer spot, it doesn't even cost you time on average since you're less likely to be held up by traffic getting in or out of
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OpenAI #10: Reflections(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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Thermometers Are Hot Garbage(theatlantic.com)
3 points by rurp 2y ago|2 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
How do you block ads if they are embedded in the training weights?
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by rurp 2y ago
I strongly disagree with this. Social media companies are incredibly valuable specifically because they are effective at getting people to spend their money on things they otherwise wouldn't have. Depression, suicide, and other serious
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by rurp 2y ago
Sure, but it could still be a deterrent for some applicants. They might not care enough about that distinction to apply to the company.
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by rurp 2y ago
As a counterpoint I've been involved with several companies in recent years that did not have a particularly difficult time hiring similar candidates. The only clear difference was that these jobs were remote friendly. It's imposs
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Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem(thefp.com)
12 points by rurp 2y ago|6 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
That's awesome and reminds me of a similar experience I had with Schwab some years ago. I contacted support with a question from an account with a paltry amount of money in it and got back a very detailed and helpful response. My accou
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by rurp 2y ago
> I struggle to imagine it will work well on the unsuspecting public. Right, that's because there's a 0% chance we end up in a world where everyone who uses the internet reliably carries a Yubikey or similar backup on their per
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by rurp 2y ago
> It's provably true that LLM's can produce working code. You've restated this point several times but the reason it's not more convincing to many people is that simply producing code that works is rarely an actual go
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by rurp 2y ago
A Nobel physicist that couldn't do basic arithmetic would definitely raise my eyebrows, but even taking your analogy at face value Gemini was not marketed as fast food slop. Google can't be trusted to hype products in a reliable
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by rurp 2y ago
Is that based on any evidence? I'm not familiar enough with the situation to know what the causes are, but I am aware of the long long history of scapegoating immigrants for any and all problems, so I'm inherintly a bit skeptical
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm not a fan of this law and expect it will end up being abused as much as civil forfeiture in the US. That said, it is interesting to see a stop and frisk law that actually targets wealthy people for once.
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by rurp 2y ago
There was a recent discussion in another HN thread that I think summed it up well. Good art rewards a careful viewer; the more you look at and think about good art, the more you get out of it. AI art does the opposite and punishes thoughtfu
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by rurp 2y ago
No, not at all. You're extremely unlikely to win a shootout in the event law enforcement catches you, and having a gun makes it much more likely you get arrested and convicted. But even if a gun seems worth it, it should absolutely not
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by rurp 2y ago
Well it works great, until is doesn't. We're perpetually a few bad decisions from a few possibly deranged actors away from obliterating all of those gains and then some.
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by rurp 2y ago
Western governments hardly operate on a shoestring budget, rather they've spent generations spending profligately with the assumption that massive sustained economic growth would bail them out without having to make any hard tradeoffs.
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by rurp 2y ago
I used Gitlab at a previous job maybe four years ago and really liked the UI. Switching to Github at the new gig felt like a huge step backwards. That said, the product and business news I have seen regarding Gitlab since then has almost al
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by rurp 2y ago
Literally the company selling FSD doesn't think that it's actually fully self driving. They strongly imply that it is in their consumer marketing, and have done so for many years, but any time Tesla interacts with regulators or th
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by rurp 2y ago
Sure, right, it should be operational by 2017 at the latest, according to the Tesla CEO.
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by rurp 2y ago
> the people within the US most likely to regard race as an all important immutable inherited characteristic are also largely those least likely to accept self-identity of gender. I'm pretty surprised to hear that. Nearly every prog
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by rurp 2y ago
Leaving money to your kids isn't a bad inclination or anything but I don't see why it's the be-all end-all. Maybe my parents will leave me some money when they pass, or maybe not, I'm certainly not expecting or planning
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by rurp 2y ago
If you mean that retail trading volume and opportunities to make money from it have a healthy future then I agree. But if you mean that retail traders themselves have a good outlook, in the sense that they will end up with more money overal
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by rurp 2y ago
Yes, exactly. There's no reason for the burden to be on every single user of every product to disable this crap. The law should require companies to behave more ethically with real consequences if they do not.
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by rurp 2y ago
Based on what I've empirically seen out in the world most people posting AI art are not using the same filtering as the author of this test. Plus the human choices used probably skew more towards what people think of as classic AI art

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