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by throwup238 5d ago
Finally a The Thick of It reference in HN. An AUS Utopia reference would probably be more fitting though.
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by throwup238 5d ago
> You said FAANG, so perhaps you're in California, a state that has laws regulating health insurance to an extent that make it unique in the USA That is definitely a confounding factor, although I’m curious how much of that is the
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by throwup238 5d ago
The universities I worked for (both public and private) provided the same level of PPO insurance, as did a random fitness startup, a clinical diagnostics company, and a construction company. I invite you to reread the part where I said “sev
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by throwup238 5d ago
> Just showing how RNA or amino acids arise, says nothing about any genetic system. They can not even answer whether RNA or DNA viruses existed first; and whether these existed before organisms/cells did. Actually, we have quite a
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by throwup238 5d ago
Some ~~people~~ corporations just want to see the world burn.
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by throwup238 5d ago
I don’t remember the last time I had to wait more than a few days to see a GP or more than a week for a specialist on an employer’s PPO insurance plan. I’ve had them at several employers ranging from university to FAANG so it’s not exactly
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by throwup238 9d ago
> I always wondered what held them back from building a meaningful networking business in the US. It was just timing. Their networking gear was built on some very impressive ASICs which became commodity chips a few years later before t
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by throwup238 9d ago
500kloc plus at least ten million lines of gastown logs. For a todo cli. That doesn’t work.
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by throwup238 9d ago
> Geopolitics is a complex subject I suppose, for a layman like me. It helps to be familiar with realism in international relations theory starting with Machiavelli and Hobbes, and postwar realism which developed over the Cold War. The
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by throwup238 10d ago
Microsoft took it as a challenge.
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by throwup238 10d ago
> Why did mom leave? Reinforcement learning by human feedback.
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by throwup238 11d ago
Just have AI agents play them for you and have Opus write a summary. AI to the rescue!
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by throwup238 11d ago
Which Skyrim is that? OG Skyrim (Oldrim), Skyrim Legendary edition, Skyrim Special edition, Skyrim VR, Skyrim Anniversary edition, or the Skyrim anniversary upgrade? Are they even the same base SKUs at this point? I don’t want to pull out m
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by throwup238 11d ago
There’s a whole cottage industry of vendors that have provided post training data, private evals, and professional datasets to most (if not all) of the frontier labs. The overlap between OpenAI and Anthropic includes at least Mercor, Surge
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by throwup238 11d ago
That would mean maximizing robotic dexterity, not just control, which means improved hardware. Roboticists would be ecstatic with a laundry-maxxed robot.
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by throwup238 11d ago
I took an anthropology class that focused heavily on the Papua New Guinea highlanders and they fight a ritualized tit-for-tat warfare where they rarely kill and when they do, it’s essentially tribal revenge for the last kill. Almost every m
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by throwup238 12d ago
Please point to the US central planning mechanism.
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by throwup238 12d ago
> Maybe Mullenweg killed the interim CEO in combat? There is a Thunderdome at Burning Man. https://journal.burningman.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Th...
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by throwup238 13d ago
> Given that we are on the heels of the worst warning shot ever, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are ramping up their cleanups of internal RL environments, it seems like both a useful and conservative test of alignment, to see whether the
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by throwup238 13d ago
The CCP publishes their primary central planning mechanism for all to see. They just adopted the new 15th Five Year Plan in March [1]. There’s a whole bureaucracy just to coordinate the implementation at the sector, provincial, and corporat
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by throwup238 13d ago
I also strongly hold this belief largely due to Moravec’s paradox, which is kind of approaching this issue from the side. Sort of like large language models work on top of what our language has encoded in our massive training datasets, I th
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by throwup238 14d ago
> A negative pressure enclosure, filtration, and UVC sterilization can't be built in a shed? Don’t even have to DIY anything, the equipment is often found in liquidation auctions for a few hundred bucks a piece. A decent lab can b
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by throwup238 15d ago
“Big data”!
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by throwup238 16d ago
The errors are correlated, not random. Lumps are usually benign cysts. If you start cutting people open for every cyst on a scan, you’d kill a lot more people than you’d save. This isn’t something you can solve with more scans because the t
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by throwup238 16d ago
> daily cancer scans instead of one every few years Silly nitpick: the reason we don’t do daily cancer scans isn’t the cost, it’s the false positive rate. Invasive procedures like biopsies come with complications like infections that h
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by throwup238 16d ago
> Andreessen Horowitz is being played like a fiddle. Andreessen Horowitz is not being played like a fiddle here. This might be their only investment in a decade that isn’t entirely predicated on being a scam.
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by throwup238 16d ago
Many Burning Man guides, including the original arctic monkey guide that I first read about 20 years ago, specifically warn against making any life altering decisions for weeks after Burning Man. Decompression is a bitch when coming down fr
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by throwup238 16d ago
I’ve never had a problem with the IRS or DMV, because unlike Visa or Mastercard they are government agencies with accountability to the people. Visa and Mastercard are a cancer.
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by throwup238 17d ago
> Or, you know, design trade-offs like every other hardware ever made. Or different SKUs. Just saying. Not that hard for the most profitable trillion dollar company on the planet.
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by throwup238 17d ago
If it’s anything like my San Francisco DMV driving test, they did a loop around Fell and Oak St (both one way streets with no opposing traffic). I passed because I didn’t kill anyone in the span of eight blocks.

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