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by sackfield 3y ago
How does it survive? Is it that there hasn't been a big enough legal challenge against it?
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by sackfield 3y ago
At the start of the article there is this statement: "There were at least nine drug-related deaths" I can't wrap my head around this, I know that smuggling drugs into jails is relatively common practice in the US but it seems
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by sackfield 3y ago
Do you happen to know if those low intelligence wealthy people are slowly losing their wealth? Or is there a structure (like a trust) that administers this so they can't lose too much of it by their own action.
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by sackfield 3y ago
I've used BankID, I think its a fantastic system.
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by sackfield 3y ago
I am looking forward to the stressors this places upon identity in the online world so we can develop something better than showing a picture of an ID card. Some sort of public/private key repository kept by licensing authorities would
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by sackfield 3y ago
Whenever people talk about how much wealth is comfortable (or ethical) to have, its usually just a notch above their own (well within their social class status). To be fair I don't know your wealth at all but its just an observation I&
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by sackfield 3y ago
I think its usually when the project becomes a burden (the author notes as such in the conclusion), this is a bit simplistic as sometimes you just have to push past this to get somewhere, but if its a hobby project it should bring you some
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by sackfield 3y ago
OpenAI famously used to hire strong generalists over specialists (save for research positions). They don't do that so much anymore but I'm convinced it was instrumental in building such a good team there, strong generalists can ge
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by sackfield 3y ago
It's refreshing to hear this, I've always been a bit confused that people look down on Meta with disdain. They are doing stellar open source work, I use their frameworks/libraries all the time, there is lots to be thankful fo
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by sackfield 3y ago
This is a good point, most of Go's crypto library seems to be written in go: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/crypto/crypt... Go can link to C but the process is a bit horrible.
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by sackfield 3y ago
It's very strange how many Luddites inhabit the tech world. I would expect to find this diatribe in many places but not on a developers blog.
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by sackfield 3y ago
Is there any research out there that tracks how well companies are doing in customer service? I can't tell whether I'm getting old or whether the state of play has always been like this, but like the author I run into the followin
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by sackfield 3y ago
I'm glad the article posts about visa sponsorship changes, as an immigrant to the US/EU this is the biggest falloff I've seen. Over the years I've seen relocation as a perk slide: 2013: Was flown to EU country for an int
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by sackfield 3y ago
They really need a rebranding.
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by sackfield 3y ago
I think a big difference between ML and regular programming is how the components at scale make the systems viable. When I was learning computer science, it seemed quite intuitive to me that you would start out with assembly, then go to a C
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P(doom) and the interesting case of the finance sector(sackfield.substack.com)
1 points by sackfield 3y ago|0 comments
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by sackfield 3y ago
They won’t for optics reasons, it looks incredibly foolish to shareholders to pluck any random MBA and call them a CEO. You have financial due diligence to uphold and this protects you, it shows you are conforming to industry practices.
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by sackfield 3y ago
What usually happens here is the board of a company say to themselves "Let's hire a professional CEO", the next answer then is how, you don't see these jobs advertised on LinkedIn, so they get a talent recruitment agency
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by sackfield 3y ago
Something I have wondered about LLMs and training data is the idea that the biggest content producers on the internet now have their world view and tone echoed disproportionately as part of the next big wave of technology. This is incredibl
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Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to?
13 points by sackfield 3y ago|20 comments
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by sackfield 3y ago
Anecdotally at the beginning of the year I got it to come up with references for a citizenship application I am undergoing. The idea not being to commit fraud but to give the reference a template that they can edit and check for accuracy ra
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by sackfield 3y ago
The employees are sold shares in the business that they expect to accrue a certain amount of value and with scale get very serious multiples in a liquidity event. With that promise broken the value proposition they originally signed up for
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by sackfield 3y ago
"The amount of electricity needed to power these technologies would be greater than the entire world’s electricity demand today" This is where the argument falls off. For what its worth I think they are right in the sense that rel
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by sackfield 3y ago
Ask the labour class at OpenAI. They are not in the privileged position the capital class on the board find themselves in.
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by sackfield 3y ago
This charter doesn't have a sole interpretation, and shame on Helen for strong arming her view and ruining the lives of so many people. If there is something completely clear, its that OpenAI cannot uphold its charter without labour. S
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by sackfield 3y ago
You can either act like a professional and control the messaging or let others fill the vacuum with idle speculation. I'm quite frankly in shock as to the level of responsibility displayed by people whose position should demand high fu
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by sackfield 3y ago
I suppose I don't see the case where large numbers of OpenAI employees follow these two to Microsoft. Microsoft can't possibly cover the value of the OpenAI employees equity as it was (and imminently to be), let alone what could h
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by sackfield 3y ago
I wonder how big the difference would be if the politicians close associates had to report their asset portfolios. I'm willing to bet there is a lot of "tips" being spread and favours repayed as a form of laundering.
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by sackfield 3y ago
I've never really understood the opposition to this besides non-competes et al. Ultimately I think work should be about delivery of a product or service not time spent, and if an enterprising person can deliver a business a product or
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by sackfield 3y ago
Email obfuscation was already obsolete, if you were relying on these techniques to prevent scrapers from finding your email you have been doing it wrong for close to a decade and annoying your customers at the same time. Spam filters are re

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