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by screye 4y ago
Speaking of Audiophile superstitions, I do wonder what the point of fully-diminished returns is. I don't mean the flat-earth level stuff. I mean standard audiophile discourse. Can humans tell the difference between a laptop DAC & a
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by screye 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't know those specifics about Israel.
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The problem is labor exploitation & work culture. SK & Taiwan have working hours that would be considered hellish in West. At the top level & for immigrants, US working hours are similarly hellish. The British may be just as pro
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by screye 4y ago
oof, getting scolded is rough. Got it.
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by screye 4y ago
Time and again Indians prove themselves to be the most self-hating community of them all. Not everything has an agenda. > Hindus were subjugated by Muslims and English Which is historically true. All of North India has zero temples or st
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by screye 4y ago
> These were religious schools In an era where all philosophy, sociology & science was Religion, it sounds fairly comprehensive. All universities were religious. The west simply like to treat universities by and for Christian denomin
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by screye 4y ago
Selective memory loss. The dawn of infinite power was heralded in with the annihilation of 2 cities in Japan, and the death of many innocents exposed to open radiation in the development process. The industrial revolution began with polluti
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by screye 4y ago
The answer is obvious isn't it. If gene editing can make a human smarter & better looking, then you're dooming your own children to a lifetime of inferiority if you have them naturally. Unlike tech or drug enhanced people, the
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by screye 4y ago
Wall-E humans are going to be reality. That last century has already proven that humans cannot be expected to responsibly indulge in Gluttony, Sloth or Lust. Now these models can skip the material desires and trigger permanent hormone relea
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by screye 4y ago
It's insane how the 3 countries with the most space per human & least historic infrastructure: USA, Canada & Australia also have the worst housing crunch in the world right now. Housing is not an investment. It is a depreciatin
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by screye 4y ago
What a coincidence! I had no idea there was an existing phrase for this. I merely eyeballed it from google maps. I guess all people deal in the same tired cliches. I am not exception.
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by screye 4y ago
At approximately 5x5 miles, SF is one of the smallest American cities while having among the worst housing crunch in the world. SF doesn't need high speed metro. Cheap options like BRT, trams & separated bike/scooter lanes sol
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by screye 4y ago
I have begun appreciating not having an espresso setup at home. Cortado is my drink of choice, and it is mighty-hard to make it for cheap at home. Aero press is a good backup for lazy days. But, there is something about the ritual out going
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by screye 4y ago
> Ephemeral, weakly bonding, "childish." > ever any value in long term monogamous relationships rhetorical question ? I wonder if a large group of young people just do not know what true 'contentment' feels like. T
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I try my best. I have given long spiels to friends who I could convince to sit down for a 60 minute lecture. But, It is difficult talk about such a complex issue in a 5 minute conversation without being grossly misunderstood. I usually leav
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by screye 4y ago
[1] As an Indian who does not come from an upper caste and has worked in Seattle, I have yet to experience any instance of caste even being mentioned in Indian circles, let alone experience any semblance of discrimination or see it happen n
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As a non-veg Indian who does not come from an upper caste and has worked in Seattle, I have yet to experience any instance of caste even being mentioned in Indian circles, let alone experience any semblance of discrimination or see it happe
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by screye 4y ago
It's well known at this point. When the model S was at its sales peak from 2013-2020, Lidar was still pretty expensive. So he put cameras in the original Teslas. When Karpathy took over in 2018-ish, Tesla realized that all their advant
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by screye 4y ago
In fact, there is a huge disconnect between people who design similar systems (Vision, safety, self driving, robotics, simulations) and those who use them. The criticism of Tesla is coming from experts, not jealous competitors. The problem
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by screye 4y ago
How is every HN thread about India/Modi such a crapshoot ? Is no one willing to entertain the idea that maybe, just maybe, Modi is par-for-the-course among leaders in the sub-continent ? Modi seems to be called an authoritarian more of
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by screye 4y ago
Here are a couple of reference documents [1][2] tl;dr : the ACLU used to be a free speech absolutist organization to the point of self-sabotage. (eg: Jewish ACLU lawyers defending Neo-Nazis). In that sense, it went from a libertarian organi
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by screye 4y ago
My cynical take is that someone who cannot figure out what career to be in themselves ends up a guidance counselor. The job isn't well paid. And anyone who can do large scale talent identification will likely be paid a lot more in the
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Hilariously, this has already happened with music composition. Especially drumming. Since the advent of drum machines, a lot of younger players have started playing with the sort of precision that drum machines enable. eg: The complete abse
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No worries, it is still great. I am loving these little tools coming out based on LLMs.
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It is funny to see this be posted in 2023. ELI5 & tl;dr were GPT-3's 2 big claims to fame at release in 2020. That was our whole intuition when we started. GPT-3 does well at tasks where scraping reddit will give you clean training
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There is just something oppressive about them. It makes you feel insignificant and the whole thing feels inhospitable. The concrete also gets too hot when sunny & too windy due to the long-flat alleyways it creates. UMass Amherst's
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I would be all for moving off gas-stoves, but can we acknowledge that the alternatives really suck if you like cooking ? I want to be part of the solution, so here are few things that alternatives need to figure out before I mo
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by screye 4y ago
This post and the comments remind me of this old mocking tweet [1] equating techy rationalists to quokka > The quokka is a meme animal that lives on Bald Island on the SW coast of Australia, where it has no natural predators. If you vis
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by screye 4y ago
OpenAI has 3 unique advantages that others don't. Namely : Sam Altman, Microsoft and self-fulfilling prophecies. 1. Sam Altman - OpenAI does relationships like no other company. They are getting doors opened to data that others (even b
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by screye 4y ago
That's in stark contrast to my opinion about YouTube. I have a huge list of highly trust worthy subscriptions / reference channels and no other social media platform comes close. If you live on your subscriptions channel, you neve

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