shawn-butler

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by shawn-butler 22d ago
Software has long relied on a lack of culpability for defects to keep its margins. Why should “AI” companies face a higher standard?
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by shawn-butler 5mo ago
The law also goes after payment providers and network providers (vpn) etc if they "knowingly" provide service to anyone who engages in prediction market betting. The law[0] as written is a mess. You could in theory shut down the
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by shawn-butler 11mo ago
Then it isn't a thing you can do.
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by shawn-butler 11mo ago
Your definition of heavy gamer I think differs from the norm if your main plays were Mario kart, et al.
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by shawn-butler 11mo ago
I doubt they are querying 1 TB of data in the browser. DuckDB-WASM issues http range requests on behalf of client to request only the bytes required, especially handy with parquet files (columnar format) that will exclude columns you don&#
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
Due to a lapse in appropriations, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is closed. Complaints may still be filed, but most will not be addressed until OSC reopens. [0] They are the "independent" body that enforces Hatch act regulatio
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
here you go. https://mycity.houstontx.gov/MYCITYDOCS/documents/map-LandUs...
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
VS Code package in my applications folder is 600+ MB. The Electron Framework.framework it contains is 400+ MB alone. I don't understand where you come up with your 90 MB figure?
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
He made his money, he doesn't care who starves now
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
I dunno, with row-level security and proper internal role definition.. why do I need a REST layer?
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
This is absurd. The data shows maybe a 1-4% gain. I know that legitimizes a bunch of activist talking points but come on. This is HN
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
It's also as I recall when tuition and student costs started to spike in the US which is probably more directly related than some "philosophical" change in the zeitgeist[0]. When students and parents start racking up debt li
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
This really isn’t true in principle. The current LLM ecosystems can’t do “meaning tasks” but there are all kinds of “legacy” AI expert systems that do exactly what is required. My experience is that middle manager gatekeepers are the most
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
No, the humanities won't survive. The problem with humanities is that the "state of the art" is about only saying something "new". For example, the author thinks that discussing Kantian theories of the sublime and
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by shawn-butler 1y ago
It’s well-known/textbook that there is an indirect correlation between animal stress levels and both milk quality and yield. https://extension.umn.edu/dairy-handling-and-best-practices/...
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
Most universities have sliding scale (down to zero fee)law services available for students. Things like tenant rights, criminal cases, immigration, consumer, employment, wills, health care directives, power of attorney, name change, etc. Yo
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
the full report[0] is a good read don't just read the summary.. >>> But these findings should not be viewed in isolation. They stem from a business model that varies little across these nine firms – harvesting data for targete
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
I have seen many notices like this in the past few months. My guess is anbody of signficant size whose reason for existing includes curating user-generated content is trying to ensure that gen-AI ingestors don’t swallow up their data throu
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
Might have been true 20 years ago. There are very few toxicities in newsprint that rise above natural levels in soil within a very short half life. https://www.alliumfields.org/2015/05/is-newspaper-in-compost...
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
Investigate the biochar process as an alternative. You can also buy biochar for your houseplant needs [0]. Creating that much artifical peat in a small area would be a massive fire hazard but probably could be managed. "Vertical&quot
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by shawn-butler 2y ago
When you look at the actual history of science, this path of “tangible progress” you rely on is shown mostly to be a constructed narrative.
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
There are actual mass timber projects to look at. The article mentions one in Milwaukee. I am familiar with the T3 project [0]. It was delivered ahead of schedule and below cost relative to a traditional steel/concrete plan. No huge
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
What if it's all the same electron[0]? [0]: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/lectu...
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
Most crypto companies and investors are now AI investors / pivots. Don't think many are left to answer your question.
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
Serious problem if true
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
Seeing as Slack was born as a tool inside Glitch which existed only because of a side project called Flickr… I don’t really think it’s the size or layers of a company that prevent; it’s the culture. This culture of creation permeates everyt
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
You knew it was defective and sold it to someone else? Not sure about the ethics on that one
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
Provide a specific example of what you have in mind to further the conversation not just more opining on “dangerous” is my suggestion.
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by shawn-butler 3y ago
Virtue signaling is hardly a “mean-nothing” phrase. But most people confuse virtue signaling (attempting to fit in by saying the right things) with moral grandstanding (garnering attention)[0]. Which behavior Cameron is engaging here is for

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