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by sjducb 3y ago
If you're small then I agree. If you've got 100,000 concurrent users then this isn't going to work. 1,000,000 actions per minute means that all of the actions need a 99.9999% success rate to generate 1 error per minute. Lots
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forg... Graphic history of the ads they run, showing a change in message over the last 60 years.
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The article doesn't mention phylogenetic evidence at all. That makes me think that this issue may be completely resolved/rendered irrelevant by more recent phylogenies.
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The oil companies are putting out propaganda to make you believe that climate change can't be stopped. The message has changed as follows: 1) Climate change isn't happening 2) Climate change is happening, but we didn't cause
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I just visited a tea plantation where the average salary was about $2.50/day and people were raising kids on that. The average per person is less than $2/day. Those people know about the outside world, send their kids to school an
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Population decline happens much faster than you intuitively expect. Each generation is slightly smaller than the one before it. Current fertility rate in Korea is 0.78/woman Gen1 = 100 Gen2 = 78 Gen3 = 60 Gen3 = 46
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Use of advertising cookies to estimate the users age is missing. Using advertising cookies is probably the most like real life. You look at a user and guess their age. If they might be under 18 you check ID
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Obviously this is pure speculation, but I suspect it'll be a lot like cloning someone's voice. The first systems required the participant to read thousands of lines of text. Now you can do it over a phone call without the particip
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I always change a few words in the seed phase manually. To protect against this exact type of attack.
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I'm amazed by the negativity in the replies to this post. I transitioned into programming as an older worker and it was really easy. It's much easier to be a successful programmer than a successful scientist. Also I don't thi
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That's a great reason to do the take home test. You learn a huge amount about the team by how they react to your code.
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If you're a climate sceptic scientist then the oil companies will give you a lot of money to do research.
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I think he's talking about the struggle to be authentic, and why it's hard to be authentic.
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I grew up on a farm and I always thought that modern "off-road" viechles like pickup trucks wouldn't actually be good off-road. These are the reasons: 1) They are too wide. Real farm tracks are often narrow and overgrown. You
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This is true until they need something from the outside world. Having no money is a problem if you need a doctor.
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I think you misunderstand capitalism. The market value of their skills is amlost $0 There are other ways of valuing those people, but you have to break out of a capitalist framework if you want to value them at more than a few dollars a day
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by sjducb 4y ago
I've seen that too.
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I would question if the serialisation code speed actually matters. RAM and CPU are much much faster than an SSD so almost all (98%) of the time will be spent writing to disk. To speed it up you have to reduce the file size so that it can be
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by sjducb 4y ago
I thought that too The list of dictionary words isn't that big, so you can just have a long hash to reduce your conflicts to almost 0. Also words aren't that long. The longest English word is probably less than 100 characters, whe
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Can someone explain this bit to me please? I then push them on this until they realize that any implementation of the dictionary lookup function of a string would be o(n) at best, and as such the total runtime of the solution is O(n²). Sure
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If a candidate is able to memorize and explain all of that then they are a good candidate.
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I would have fitted a dashboard mounted solar trickle charger and left it at that.
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I suspected it would do better with good prompt engineering
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Ask HN: How to survive and thrive in the coming AI transition
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Ive had this chat with engineers too many times. They're used to systems where we know 99% of everything that matters. They don't believe that we only know 0.001% of biology.
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If we "pause" then only the good guys will stop developing Giant AI. The bad actors will keep going.
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Do submarines swim? No, but they are faster underwater than all swimmers. Therefore they are the best swimmers despite being unable to swim.... LLMs are producing human level reasoning in many domains, therefore they are the best at reasoni
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Easiest fix for that is show the prompt you gave and the output you want. Force the people who tell you it's easy to actually do it. You'll get one of 3 outcomes. -They try then fail (you were right) -They try then succeed (you le
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> Go outside and it's more or less the same as it has always been. What you see with your eyes and what you see with your phone is shockingly difficult to reconcile. Agreed. All of the bad things in the world get amplified and sent
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You're right that race often has a small (but statistically significant) affect, because of all of the confounding variables. Imagine that you're a hospital who takes predominantly black patients, if you could modify the standard

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