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by setgree 7mo ago
Putting aside the specifics for a second, I'm sorry to hear about your injury and glad you've found workarounds. I also think high-quality voice transcription might end up being a big thing for my health (there's no way typin
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by setgree 7mo ago
> Something that surprised us early on: only a tiny fraction of farmed fish species have been through genetic improvement programs. Chickens grow 4x faster than they did in 1950 because of decades of selective breeding. I agree that ther
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by setgree 8mo ago
I'd say from this author's POV, his commitments cost him in terms of headaches, costs, and time not spent optimizing for meeting customers' needs: > The parts that were extra hard > Transactional email with competitive
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by setgree 8mo ago
Per "Choose Boring Technology" [0]: > Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while... If you choose to write your website in NodeJS,
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by setgree 8mo ago
I once worked at a crypto company that outsourced some of its marketing work to a content marketing firm. A piece that firm submitted to us contained a link to an "academic" article about global poverty with a totally garbled abst
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by setgree 8mo ago
claude said "I want to be straight with you: after extensive searching, I don't think the exact thing you're describing — a single paper that is obviously garbled/badly translated nonsense with no actual content, yet has
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by setgree 8mo ago
alas, 4.5 often hallucinates academic papers or creates false quotes. I think it's better at knowing that coding answers have deterministic output and being firm there.
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by setgree 8mo ago
this is via the chat, but it did provide this > The user wants a real, sincere academic paper that looks legitimate — proper journal, real authors with real affiliations, many citations — but is obviously nonsense or garbled. Not a hoax
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by setgree 8mo ago
I asked > Can you find an academic article that _looks_ legitimate -- looks like a real journal, by researchers with what look like real academic affiliations, has been cited hundreds or thousands of times -- but is obviously nonsense, e
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by setgree 8mo ago
I’m glad to hear that. Another frame is that your depression turned out to be “math hard” rather than bodybuilding hard [0]. Your disciplined, methodical approaches were steady applications of effort, whereas what you actually needed was ea
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by setgree 9mo ago
We are indeed living in more comfortable homes. Americans are migrating to the sunbelt because of ample AC in the summer and the winters are pleasant. that’s a big part of why we have many fewer heat deaths per capita than Europe: https:&#
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by setgree 10mo ago
well if the expected value of developing AGI is 100 quadrillion dollars -- 1000X bigger than the entire global economy -- and you think this person has a .01% chance of getting there in any given year, you should pay him 10 trillion dollars
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by setgree 10mo ago
I'm as ready to hate on Meta as anyone but this article is a bit of a nothingburger. So there are disagreements about resource allocation among staff. That's normal and healthy. The CEO's job is to resolve those disagreements
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by setgree 10mo ago
I'll just stick to Baldur's Gate II, thanks -- my favorite inventory management simulation
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by setgree 10mo ago
The other possible future is you rent the car for exactly when you need it and don’t pay a monthly bill— or your monthly bill pays for a certain number of rides/minutes/miles per month. In which case the subscription costs are man
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by setgree 10mo ago
He has many other cool visualizations! Space Elevator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226 Deep Sea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850527
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by setgree 1y ago
Neal Stephenson's _Seveneves_ covers these dynamics in detail :)
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by setgree 1y ago
"That feeling of being ignored despite having given this company your everything for many years" is a strong argument against giving a company your "everything." They'll cut you loose in a minute.
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by setgree 1y ago
I wonder if Bumble/Hinge/etc. set profiles to be non-searchable as a kind of minimum barrier to doxxing. I have many objections to modern dating apps [0], but there's an actual tradeoff/problem here that they're tr
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by setgree 1y ago
> While it is still an emerging technology being used only on a modest scale as yet, it does have an advantage over some other renewable energies in that it is available around the clock. I notice the 'some' here, and the absen
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by setgree 1y ago
Great! and if enforcement were consistent, rule-breaking behavior would probably decline: > Quick, clear and consistent also works in controlling crime. It’s not a coincidence that the same approach works for parenting and crime control
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by setgree 1y ago
You've got me: I believe that people respond to financial incentives. I don't think this is a radical position.
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by setgree 1y ago
Semi-related, but just once in my life, I want to hear a mayoral candidate say: “I endorse broken windows theory, but for drivers. You honk when there’s no emergency, block the box, roll through a stop sign — buddy that’s a ticket. Do it en
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by setgree 1y ago
It seems to be a Yudkowsky coinage: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XqmjdBKa4ZaXJtNmf/raising-th...
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by setgree 1y ago
Well said. This is a subject where I’ve become radicalized as an adult (veganism is the other). Even Brooklyn, where I live, has a million little choices which prioritize cars over pedestrians, and any effort to reclaim space — maybe the av
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by setgree 1y ago
Such advice is mainly useful politically; e.g., suppose you are having a dispute in your company about the overuse of presentations. Point to Jeff Bezos and say: he hates them too! if your adversary is an MBA type, he might find it challeng
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by setgree 1y ago
This article is explicitly about how J.D. Vance (age 40) & others at the White House are forcefully advocating for preserving E2E encryption. Arguably not for the right reasons, but still. I'm not sure what you mean by "more&
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by setgree 1y ago
If you were a chicken behind the veil of ignorance choosing your fate, would you choose immediate death (male) or a short, difficult, confined life (female)? To many advocates, it’s self-evident that the hen’s life is better than immediate
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by setgree 1y ago
On the Ethan Allen Express (Amtrak) I took this week, the boarding steps to the cars had to be manually deployed by train staff, along with a little step stool. When I got on, there were two people doing this, so only two train cars were bo
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by setgree 1y ago
YMMV, but I found it useful for drafting a pull request on GitHub, where it basically just did all the boring work, including finding the particular line in a large codebase that was throwing the error. It wasn't a hard problem, but

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