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by shermantanktop 14d ago
Funeral services in the US got aggressively consolidated already, decades ago. Look up SCI - owns over 1,500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries.
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by shermantanktop 14d ago
Improving efficiency and optimizing profit are two overlapping segments on the road to crap. It’s not easy to stop the car once you put the bean counters in the driver's seat. If a company is able to do so, it’s usually because there’
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by shermantanktop 15d ago
Is a programming language a language? I think it probably exercises some of the same cognitive skills, but the vocabulary of a typical programming language is tiny.
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by shermantanktop 15d ago
I guess people are reading a lot into what I said. If the shoe fits, yadda yadda. Others pointed out the meta, which is that if you want -ism to hate some people, a good way to do that is to say that their -ism hates you. I suppose that cou
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by shermantanktop 16d ago
-isms of all kind are powerful. But the most powerful are those that give the believer a distant group of people for them to blame for all their troubles, which are often self-inflicted.
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by shermantanktop 16d ago
Agree. Harnesses are effective because they interact with the underlying model effectively. If the latest models were fundamentally different, excluding them would be a miss. But I don’t think they are, at least not in ways that would aff
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by shermantanktop 18d ago
Each room is lived in by a few people, each building has an exterior which is looked at by thousands or millions. I live in a hundred-year old house (old for the region I’m in), with rabbit warren hallways. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
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by shermantanktop 20d ago
> robots.txt is a service to crawlers to help them avoid wasting time I doubt anyone edits robots.txt with a warm fuzzy feeling about how much they are helping crawlers be efficient.
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by shermantanktop 22d ago
Watches? Jewelry? Monogrammed clothes? Custom-printed shoes and t-shirts? Lots of examples, and of course it affects resale. Apple was clearly thinking outside the category of “consumer electronics.”
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by shermantanktop 23d ago
Take a hard look at the people who are super into this stuff. Ignore the people who have a direct financial interest in it. Look at the people who are left, who are truly enthusiastic about AI-generated music as users. In my experience th
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by shermantanktop 23d ago
Peak so far . Maybe there’s a hype singularity where the hype is so strong that nothing can escape.
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by shermantanktop 23d ago
Do it twice to be sure
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by shermantanktop 24d ago
I suppose a 1 key piano can have unlimited notes, at least until the key wears out.
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by shermantanktop 24d ago
Some subjects are hard. Music notation is mathematical notation that is optimized for ease of consumption by notation experts. It is not optimized for learning. Same with many activities. Pedagogy and real-world use are different goals.
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by shermantanktop 24d ago
Insurance and HMO CEOs salaries come from somewhere, and it’s not malpractice judgments.
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by shermantanktop 25d ago
Funny, my opinion is the opposite. Excel is a much better spreadsheet than Word is a word processor or than PowerPoint is a presentation tool. Of course it’s got quirks and unfortunate relics of its long history, but I reach for it willing
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by shermantanktop 26d ago
Are you sure? I mean, yes of course tiny sample windows have this effect. But it seems at least possible that LLM is more prone to this effect when making estimates of human performance or behavior than when doing it for other topics. In an
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by shermantanktop 26d ago
There is such a thing as lack of bias in statistical outcomes, right? E.g. fair dice? Measuring it may be probabilistic, but it exists. What I'd like to see is if the LLM would exhibit the same behavior wrt other types of predictive s
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by shermantanktop 26d ago
“It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.”
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by shermantanktop 26d ago
I knew before I opened this comment section that it would trigger a bunch of reactions, all because of the word “bias.” Please just go read the abstract; your first reactions to the headline may not be relevant.
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by shermantanktop 26d ago
I think the paper is about bias formation, not reflecting existing bias. If the formed bias was against HN usernames that started with “r,” would it still seem daft?
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
I was baffled by this because the rightmost square didn’t seem to have any pieces where the letter would fit vertically — the unplaced pieces had a border which made it impossible to see which might.
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
The gents loo at a non-posh UK pub is about the lowest you can go in the western hemisphere.
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
At home? 100%. Out in the world? Very much depends. I was just in a stall where the inside of door had a pictogram forbidding users from standing on the edge of the bowl and squatting. I assume this might be for visitors from countries wher
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
I read through those links (ha) and I agree, they knew the overall story was interesting to players, but intentionally elevated story over continuity. That was my original point. The same debates happen about early games made with far less
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
Here’s how I think it makes sense: accountability for unethical behavior arrives via more or less direct routes depending on who you are. The more you look like a high-status leader, the longer it will take, and the more likely it arrives a
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
Being in favor of right-to-repair is generally popular on HN, for obvious reasons.
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by shermantanktop 27d ago
I don’t seem much point to intentionally curating a set of skills, and specifically invoking them by name, only to watch the ai skip them all and do better by just reading code and internal/external websites.
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by shermantanktop 28d ago
Sometimes? I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure these games were generally not built with a hefty bible full of inviolable lore. Plot and continuity errors are common enough to show that. Some people are very invested in making sense of thin
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by shermantanktop 1mo ago
Alas, mine is far too visible. But I will spare you the associated downvote.

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