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by tdb7893 8mo ago
So researchers are going to be irrational and also often value other things more highly than prosociality but that doesn't really refute my point that they value it more highly than the average population. Also your example of a bad te
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
My experience with researchers (though not in AI) is that it's a bunch of very opinionated nerds who are mostly motivated by loving a subject. My experience is that most people who think really deeply and care about what they do also c
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
The ERoEI numbers seem to be under some dispute. This study estimates it at 9-10 in Switzerland. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151... Also you mention albino and I can't find w
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
You don't sign an EULA saying you can't do those things because scanning then distributing is already prohibited by copyright. The way to start a license war is to keep the status quo of these companies being able to ingest and es
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
I remember a couple years ago my family was worried about the Amazon burning and I was like "well, you could eat less beef as that's driving a lot of that in Brazil". Turns out they didn't care that much. With how gene
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
Idk, it might've been used on stuff in the past. My point was that it wasn't a thing that normal people (even normal people in the military) would say. The person I'm responding to described it as "common use" for t
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
I went to a military high school up until 2011 and never remember hearing it. My dad and grandpa were military for 20 years each and I've never heard either say it. It definitely hasn't been used broadly in the US for very long (m
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
My experience with grad school is that they are shockingly stuck in their ways when it comes to organizational practices. They make even large tech companies look nimble. Though at least in my field part of that is budgets are so tight it s
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
I think most people found StackOverflow to be pretty easy and useful since it's a pretty small minority of people that ever asked questions on it so many people didn't interact at all with the more annoying parts.
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
I ended up taking an 87% pay cut to get out of advertising specifically and tech in general (eventually it will only be a 60% pay cut once I gave enough experience in the new field). It is too bad that high pay is done by capturing value fo
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
My experience is that the higher paid someone is generally the less they actually code. I'm sure some places have very difficult code but in my experience there's a reason that engineers fresh out of college mostly code and the hi
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
You say "we" knew but the vast majority of people don't. It's not exactly common knowledge among people I know so it's unsurprising a title for general audiences uses it as a hook.
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by tdb7893 8mo ago
There's a decent amount of non-profit news. I read NPR a lot and donate to them and Propublica. I think one of the big issues is advertising so news you actually pay for is a lot less likely to clickbait you.
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
The issue with quibbling over impact is my experience is that people end up doing neither. I recently started a Master's in ecology so I don't have a good idea of what's cost effective right now but I know the field is pretty
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I'm always surprised that papers don't include some "chat" apps as social media. I don't see Discord mentioned in this paper but I use it almost identically to how I used Facebook in like 2010 and at least among peo
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Yeah, it's too bad. Apparently it only performs well in certain languages: "The model is natively multilingual, achieving strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I think I've seen sites trying to track outbound clicks recently, has prefetching made that impossible? I don't know the implementation but I've seen the browser sending requests that track clicks while investigating other st
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Are you talking about that people could just click on the link then not actually read it? The thing is that clicking on the link then closing is serves as both a slight barrier to entry targeted at the people who comment without reading and
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
So HN can't do this because I don't think it tracks all clicks but I've been of the opinion for a while that most social media should have the option for posts to not allow people to comment unless they've actually click
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
There's sadly forced labor within the 'western bubble', too. My experience from working in tech is the bubble is mostly a small set upper middle class people. As a human it's not like you meet that many people so I think
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I'm not an expert but I know that new electric capacity takes a while and often a lot of investment (both in generation but also people forget all the other infrastructure necessary to get it to the right place, new transmission lines
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
You talk about how solar is getting really cheap but electricity costs are actually rising significantly for most people I know (I've had to help friends pay electricity bills recently). I don't know how much of this is data cen
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Haha, my experience is people making those sorts of pronouncements will argue literally anything so I definitely wouldn't assume they are uninterested in arguing facts. Though I agree though that arguing with some people is obtuse and
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Is there a reason you seem to view conscience and confronting facts as seemingly opposed things? Also it seems to me like morality and conscience seem important to argue about, with facts just being part of that argument.
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
The fact it was released a month later and only after large internal and external pressure (including a Canadian station just airing it anyway since it was already complete and ready to air) is the problem. These large fights are the sign
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Larry and David Ellison have been buying media outlets and those media outlets have started spiking (or delaying, editing, etc) stories that look bad for Trump. It's not that you don't have access at all, it's that these spec
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
My experience with large police departments in the US is that they either don’t have the time or the inclination to deal with small property claims. Some people tried to steal cars (including mine) in my neighborhood in Chicago, we had them
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
Woah woah woah, let's not encourage domestic terrorism here! Because they'll bring criminal charges and that's also what they'll call you so you better not get caught.
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I think calling someone a "bad person" (which is itself a horribly vague term) for one situation where you don't have all the context is something most people should be loath to do. People are complicated and in general norma
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by tdb7893 9mo ago
I'm expecting shenanigans at the state level. I'm not saying there won't be malfeasance, it's just that the "no election happening" is not really a possibility at this point without a full coup. People keep sa

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