sebastianz

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by sebastianz 7mo ago
Using your mind to "untangle" is the whole point and pleasure of reading. Using llms to expand your understanding of it makes sense, but "Outsourcing" the reading not so much.
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by sebastianz 10mo ago
> problem that had already been solved thousands of years ago If by this you refer to "Aristotle" in the parent post - it's not that Aristotle. This is "Aristotle AI" - the name of their product.
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by sebastianz 1y ago
It's the third link on that page, in the first sentence.
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by sebastianz 1y ago
People want to sync their data, work on and see the same thing on their phone, their laptop and their desktop. This certainly did not "just work" when "we used to have offline everything".
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by sebastianz 1y ago
> It just reads like thinly veiled racism. Thinly veiled? What veil - it's completely naked, one can clearly see all the constituent parts, including the repugnant bits.
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by sebastianz 1y ago
Your browser can translate the page automatically.
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by sebastianz 1y ago
> But once AIs become your lifetime companion that know everything there is to know about you and the lock-in is maximized Why? It's just a bunch of text. They are forced by law to allow you to export your data - so you just take yo
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by sebastianz 1y ago
> data modeling, to algos, backend integrations, frontend architecture, UI widgets, etc. All in TypeScript, which is perfectly suited to LLMs because we can fit the types and repo map into context without loading all code. Which framewor
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by sebastianz 1y ago
Highwaymen still have those fast horses, up on the lawless mountain passes... ;)
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by sebastianz 1y ago
Why would it be difficult to say what it would look like? Humans and markets exist for many thousands of years. Advertising in its current form for a couple of hundred. Just look back in time, there were markets then too :)
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by sebastianz 1y ago
> A market without advertising isn't a level playing field, but a near-unbreakable oligopoly. Why would it be an oligopoly any more than it is now? You go to a shop (in your city, or online), trust their curation, and buy something.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> If the people aren't there, wages will rise until they show up. [...] There is not, and never will be, a shortage of cleaners, for example, because anyone can do it, so as long as there are unemployed people and the wages are good
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> doesn't usually come around twice. There is a _2_ in WW2 :) Sadly looking at history these "opportunities" come around quite regularly.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
Many countries in the former soviet block would very much contradict this take. Entire economies were indeed planned and designed, and their shape was controlled and changed at will. Individuals and groups had control, and did do major chan
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> I don't feel like the average person born back then had a better life than me. This is true for (almost) anywhere in the world. Everybody has a better life _on average_ than 100 years ago. > It even was an empire, with an emp
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> I’m interested in creative breakthroughs, not maximizing any predictable or conceivable variable. Most jobs and tasks in life don't need any "creative breakthroughs". The article is discussing scheduling, task prioritiza
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> What’s the difference between what you describe and what’s needed for a fresh hire off the street, especially one just starting their career? The fresh hire has the potential that after training and working for a while to become a much
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> which is a win-win for everyone involved Well... not for everyone involved. It's definitely a "lose" for the countries they are leaving from, that educated them.
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by sebastianz 2y ago
I understand your point, but in reality we all know the world is full of mean and petty people. I am thankful for the moderation on the platforms I read for (at least some of the time) sparing me the frustration and sadness I would get from
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by sebastianz 2y ago
I still do not understand how it can be illegal for them to do this, if they do have the prerogative to cancel an election result. (In the sense that you can disagree with a judge's decision, he might even make an objectively wrong dec
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> Because it's legal. And what they did now is not legal. I am not an expert on this, so I'm not saying you are wrong, but why would they not have the prerogative to do this? Do you have any sources for that? I know at least
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by sebastianz 2y ago
But if you believe it is highly likely this would happen (which presumably the CCR do believe, along with various state-defense relevant institutions), how is this whole process you described better than just cancelling them now?
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by sebastianz 2y ago
OK, but what could they have done instead? There is a very surprising, out-of-nowhere win by an independent, that declared he spent 0eur on his campaign, as a result of what looks to be a large scale (presumably expensive to run) campaign o
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by sebastianz 2y ago
Well hopefully they cannot do that in the future, since TikTok is also being investigated in the scandal. They are the ones who pocketed the money for the ads after all, and are required to comply with the electoral laws of the country, whi
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by sebastianz 2y ago
The allegations and current trial (and what looks like an upcoming European Commission investigation) seem to show that someone purchased illegal electoral ads (i.e. they were not declared as such, and financed though unclear means, by uncl
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> a bunch of people are going to be motivated to hack the election to get it "annulled" in some way. There will be trials for this, and both the people who bought the ads (if they can be found), but more importantly the media p
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> You can't just tell every country in the world: please don't interfere with our opinions!!! We want our people to only be influenced by ourselves!!! You can indeed, and countries do indeed have laws governing this, as does Ro
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by sebastianz 2y ago
I have no idea, but if you illegally want to get someone elected as president in a foreign country, I suggest talking to a very smart lawyer, not to a rando on hacker news :)
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by sebastianz 2y ago
If a foreign state actor gets someone illegally elected in a separate country with dirty money, this is not an "accounting issue".
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by sebastianz 2y ago
> If i pay some money to google to run some ads for the 2 main parties, and don't report it, do they also get disqualified? If you pay money to run electoral ads, for someone's campaign, this money has to be declared, and the a

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