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by teiferer 1y ago
Down in the recursion example, the model outputs: > it feels like an external activation rather than an emergent property of my usual comprehention process. Isn't that highly sus? It uses exactly the terminology used in the article,
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by teiferer 1y ago
Unless you have evidence that this measure of yours is a reliable predictor of how big a bubble is, it's on par with my gut feeling.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> we've got one side saying we're in a speculative bubble, and the other side saying no this technology is the real deal. Um I think nobody is really denying that we are in a bubble. It's normal for new tech and the hype a
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by teiferer 1y ago
> It seems very bubbly to me, but not dotcom level bubbly. Not? Money is thrown after people without really looking at the details, just trying to get in on the hype train? That's exactly how the dotcom bubble felt like.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Sorry if I got you on the wrong foot. I was merely generally rambling, not critcizing you personally or your point. Of course it's fine to discuss this, just like it's fine that people discuss pokemon or cool jazz (who am I to jud
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by teiferer 1y ago
I was so afraid that this is another "look I built sth that uses AI!" post, slopped together in an afternoon. I'm glad it's not, such a relief! This reaction tells me a lot about the state of our industry. (Or just the
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Even if we did have a better idea about this probability, we still couldn't rule out that intelligent life had by chance formed relatively nearby, relatively long ago, thereby allowing them to reach us by now. What is "now&qu
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by teiferer 1y ago
Though isn't progress inherent in that knowledge tends to increase over time? What's useful tends to get passed on to future generations, so there is an inherent advantage compared to earlier generations. Of course it's not p
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by teiferer 1y ago
> how desolate the world was even a few hundred years ago Well, those were the Dark Ages which objectively represented a decline of society relative to what came before them. Besides that, agreed to all you wrote.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> But then I remember that Python is dog slow compared to other languages with comparable ergonomics and first-class support for static typing, and...idk it's a tough sell. Case in point: uv itself is not written in Python. It'
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by teiferer 1y ago
That's cool and all but ... what's the point? What do you do with these rocks afterwords?
732.
by teiferer 1y ago
What does a verified ID have to do with values? The context was: "decided by people in other states that don't share the same values."
733.
by teiferer 1y ago
Sure. I was asking about you personally, in your particular situation. Whether you don't agree with majority votes overall, or whether your are fine with them but want a minority protection for this specific case.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> There's no logical reason If you study the U.S. history in detail the you see the reasons and the main ones are quite "logical". You might not agree with them (I don't necessarily), but that doesn't make them i
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by teiferer 1y ago
And now ask the 3.2 million Puertoricans how they feel about that.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> For the other half the country, we really don't want to Federal laws to be decided by people in other states that don't share the same values. Do you reject majority votes in general or do you merely propose explicit minority
737.
by teiferer 1y ago
> The effective history of computing spans a lifetime or three. That argument actually strengthens the original point: Even though it's been that short, youngsters often still don't have a clue.
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by teiferer 1y ago
You mean "special prosecutor". Judges don't try to find things, they only decide which of the parties before them claiming different things is right.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Explainer? There is little explanation. It's mostly a show off. (A quite impressive one nonetheless.)
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by teiferer 1y ago
> let A = (x) => (y) => (z) => x(z)(y((w) => z)) What is w?
741.
by teiferer 1y ago
Nobody is forced to go to the expensive one. If they are still in business then enough people apparently consider it a reasonable deal. You might not, but others do. Whether I'm being downvoted or not.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Is it? Was this, your HN comment, marketing? Mine isn't, unless you make the meaning of that term so broad that it essentially lost any meaningful meaning. (Intentionally meta.)
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by teiferer 1y ago
It's insane how much my local shop charges for an oil change, I can do it much cheaper myself! It's insane how much a restaurant charges for a decent steak, I can do it much cheaper myself! ...!
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by teiferer 1y ago
> I think crypto is full on BS but I have many very smart, self aware friends who are into blockchain. Smarts have little to do with this. You can be smart and still not see that it's BS. Or you are smart, see it's BS and still
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by teiferer 1y ago
Doing this in the context of blockchain is probably a filter. Only folks who don't think his is all a scam anyway would apply there. So you filter for getting the more gullible folks. That are more likely to have a wallet somewhere. Ju
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by teiferer 1y ago
> A fake coding interview from a "legitimate" blockchain company. You seriously expect serious actors in that space? No more questions.
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by teiferer 1y ago
It's possible to feel empathy and at the same time pointing out the consequences of somebody's choices. If my kid places his hands on a hot stovetop then I feel a lot of empathy and will obviously comfort him. But I won't run
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Add in the expenses of a family, which have risen dramatically the last few years, and it's easy to find examples of people who are starting to get stretched paycheck to paycheck If you maxed out your lifestyle relative to your in
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by teiferer 1y ago
Even married people with kids can switch companies. Sometimes that implies a pay cut, but not always. And if they really tied their livelihood to working at the same company for next decade because they maxed out their lifestyle relative to
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by teiferer 1y ago
CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgery From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Attack... In a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, an attacker tricks the user or the browser into making

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