samvher

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by samvher 5y ago
There's an interesting HBR article about Morning Star, a company like that: https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers
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by samvher 5y ago
I've tried playing DF a couple of times but gave up because I couldn't figure out the install/launch process. One day I will persevere.
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by samvher 5y ago
Care to share more?
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by samvher 5y ago
The latter does not follow from the former (even if it might be true). The mining block only affects the latest batches of a few models, but profitability of mining also affects demand for the other models, for AMD GPUs, and in the second-h
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by samvher 5y ago
Interesting - is performance comparable to Windows or is there a significant hit?
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Swarm intelligence in humans: diversity can trump ability [pdf](haysworld.de)
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by samvher 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, what kind of work requires thousands of ML tasks? (Assuming you're talking about training and not inference?)
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by samvher 5y ago
I guess we have different social circles, but I know many people who have done this and none of them are "trust fund crowd". Have done it myself for multiple half-year-or-so periods as well. Maybe it's more of a European thin
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by samvher 5y ago
What do you use it for? The syntax looks simple, and the results are clearly formatted - just trying to understand what kind of workflow makes this favorable to something like curl or python-requests.
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by samvher 5y ago
> but often forget that they need to add an OS update step. Is this standard practice? I've never done this but it makes a lot of sense. Is this basically just adding `RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade` at the top of
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by samvher 5y ago
Huh - I know these numbers from a Counting Crows song (“A Murder of One”, one of my favorites). Never knew this came from cultural heritage.
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by samvher 5y ago
Huh, I totally thought transaction fees were set in Ether and that’s why the costs are so high (in fiat of course). If that’s not it, what makes the transactions so expensive? Lot of competition for limited throughout?
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by samvher 5y ago
Where is a place to get a broader perspective on this? I've tried subreddits for some of the projects, the cryptocurrency subreddit, and google and youtube. I have a lot of difficulty cutting through the noise. (My sense is that projec
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by samvher 5y ago
Actually many people believe it does not. Living off the land might have caused stress occasionally due to e.g. natural hazard but on average people may have been able to get by with relatively little effort: https://en.wikipedia
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by samvher 5y ago
This is why there is a down-vote arrow and a reply button, right? What I like about HN is that very often misunderstandings that initially seem believable get corrected with sources and explanation.
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by samvher 5y ago
A lot of this seems like pretty typical consulting/business wisdom - be a mastermind of people, build carefully designed teams where all the personalities complement each other, ask people hard and somewhat unexpected questions during
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by samvher 5y ago
I think a lot of this boils down to power and bias, and a lot of the discussion around race/gender/sexuality seems overly simplified (they are correlated with certain patterns of power and bias, but not perfectly so). I think the
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by samvher 5y ago
To some extent I think these are things that should be discussed and addressed internally rather than externally so I'll try to be generic. Key things are (1) I'm a strong believer that anyone with a job should be easily able to g
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by samvher 5y ago
Objections and disagreements are pretty common (many of the things that I would like to change are not easily compatible with neoliberalism/the modern corporation). I try to use them as learning opportunities to understand other people
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by samvher 5y ago
It sounds like you're saying "I only see these leftists using extremely shallow reasoning, and they don't understand that they're wrong because they don't look at my/our reasoning beyond a shallow level."
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by samvher 5y ago
I might be one of these progressive activists, and this is interesting to read and reflect on. I am quite vocal about culture, hiring, compensation etc, though I would definitely not say that I feel "confident being vocal" - it ac
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by samvher 5y ago
Interesting - I didn't realize this had improved so much. A large part of my library is definitely 10 or more years old so that might explain it.
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by samvher 5y ago
I think there are some diminishing returns and you need multiple components to line up. I have decent (€250 or so) headphones, the M3K and high quality MP3s and then I definitely hear a world of difference compared to e.g. stock iPhone buds
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by samvher 5y ago
Maybe I'm being pedantic but it seems to me that inflation properties are separate from (though related to) total supply/printing. If prices denominated in bitcoin go up (e.g. because bitcoin crashes), isn't that still inflat
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by samvher 5y ago
I feel like in some ways cryptocurrencies might also present a sort of credible threat towards central banks to make sure they keep inflation in check. I'm skeptical about cryptocurrencies (though I'm quite positive about blockcha
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by samvher 5y ago
It depends a little bit on the contract with the provider, but the idea is that we are an NGO/charity and we don't want the farmers to have to incur costs for this. If we answer the phone they pay, if we hang up and call back we p
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by samvher 5y ago
I work on a system like this. We provide agricultural advice to farmers (mainly in India and Kenya but also in some other countries). They can leave a missed call on our system, and will receive a call back where they can navigate a menu wi
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by samvher 5y ago
Interesting! As a Dutch person I've never heard of this before. I'm not quite sure what numbers I'm looking at though, is it just because the Netherlands mostly exports cucumbers and watery tomatoes?
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by samvher 5y ago
The numbers I’ve seen range more from 40-60% (haven’t gotten involved with this though so not sure how accurate these are). That would cause lots of issues on a 40% pullback.
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by samvher 5y ago
To be honest this trend of borrowing against your crypto is specifically something that makes me very suspicious about the current state of the cryptocurrency world. If crypto crashes 30-50% again all these loans for which collateral is goi

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