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by smallnix 1y ago
> I guess I’d assumed this sort of thing would be allocated dynamically At the scale of a hyperscaler I think Alibaba is the one that would be doing that. AWS, Azure and I assume Alibaba do lease/rent data centers, but someone has t
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by smallnix 1y ago
And STOP having sleep disorders!
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by smallnix 1y ago
But then upper management becomes middle management. Or headcount is consolidated and still quantifies a mega-middlemanagers worth.
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by smallnix 1y ago
> bad behaviour isn’t caused by any single bad piece of data, but by the combined effects of significant fractions of the dataset Related opposing data point to this statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4552958
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by smallnix 1y ago
Alopecia Areata ≠ Androgenetic Alopecia
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by smallnix 1y ago
I think this ties very well into the advise of the article and is not orthogonal / different.
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by smallnix 1y ago
In case you can share an alternate strategy to make a career in a large tech company, please do, would be interested.
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by smallnix 1y ago
> ripped fetuses out of pregnant women This is insane brutality. A cursory search, I don't want to do more than that, tells me it's a misattribution of an older Mexican cartel murder.
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by smallnix 1y ago
I think they are not saying it's unprofitable, but rather that the current government should shape the market so the environment levels more over US vs the rest. (of course please in a laissez-faire change the market style not the bad
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by smallnix 1y ago
And these caching boxes can't talk back to Google?
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by smallnix 1y ago
Querying an LLM for 'facts' is dangerous. Using some IR technique and incorporating LLMs to gauge relevancy and semantic alignment is a viable approach.
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by smallnix 1y ago
Please post a link to a picture of your national ID. /s
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by smallnix 1y ago
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said: at least the handle is one of us.
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by smallnix 1y ago
Is this for ipv4 and ipv6?
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by smallnix 1y ago
Or perhaps ideas need not only be had, but also pass through more layer of filters to make it into the world proper. Ideas that were had more than once had more than one chance. Ideas that made it into the world but were only once, were luc
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by smallnix 1y ago
> Why do you think that this indicates a problem in identifying zombies? I understood a zombie to represent a client that is dead and will never come back to live again. Since they came back to live they were not actually zombies. So man
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by smallnix 1y ago
Mirror snapshot: https://archive.ph/hJHNM
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by smallnix 1y ago
Thanks for all the work that goes into this crucial service! 3% and "3,200 people manually unpaused issuance" does seem much higher than expected to me and no cause for celebration, especially at this scale. Are there no better pa
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by smallnix 1y ago
The frunk fell off
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by smallnix 1y ago
> these systems greatly improve some situations, but it’s not acceptable to do so at the expense of worsening others Can you elaborate please? E.g. do you mean that such tradeoffs are not acceptable, even if they result in a net benefit?
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by smallnix 1y ago
Corporate org level announcement mails
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by smallnix 1y ago
> humans likely are nothing more than that Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089156
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by smallnix 1y ago
Or survivorship bias: the major issues, that have been addressed, do not cause problems cause they were addressed. Some of the minor issues that are not addressed randomly do cause major issues.
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by smallnix 1y ago
I think it's about expectations, for me it's my favorite mobile game with a minor learning side effect.
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by smallnix 1y ago
To make it less ambiguous, you could let the user describe the diagram with what the software is supposed to do in some sort of more rigid unambiguous reduced English /s
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by smallnix 1y ago
> Celia Kirwan, a close friend of Orwell, who had just started working as Robert Conquest's assistant at the IRD, visited Orwell in March 1949, at a sanatorium where he was being treated for tuberculosis. Orwell wrote a list of name
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by smallnix 1y ago
I wish I could search on GitHub without logging in
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by smallnix 1y ago
I think we got very different reads here. I understand the comment on the author to be judgemental to be very gentle. Dillydog is a person who affords everyone a rich and deep hidden inner life, so much so, that assuming people are so shall
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by smallnix 1y ago
Are HackerNews Comments the Next Victim of this Crazy Trend?
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by smallnix 1y ago
> If he's acting under NK command, this wouldn't be insulting, it's just doing a hacker's work. I understand where you are coming from, I wanted to express my idea that their person cult shaped culture might be so ali

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