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by tomp 3y ago
There's large parts of the food world that are completely inaccessible to humans. Most plant material (i.e. "fiber", digestible by e.g. cows), carion, most raw meat (if we ate what dogs ate, we'd have constant stomach is
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by tomp 3y ago
IME I can get about 0.2s to get the first chunk from Mistral (i.e. Mistral API, using Mixtral model (`mistral-small`), not Mixtral on Groq) (and note the Mistral sends larger chunks, unlike ChatGPT which sends individual tokens) and another
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by tomp 3y ago
Genuine question: For liquidation preference >= 1x, why even call it equity instead of debt ? The point of equity is that you own a part of it, and you get a proportional share. The point of debt is that the money owed to you is prefe
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by tomp 3y ago
What happens when 1/0 though? Or socket disconnects?
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by tomp 3y ago
Those $20m are literally to keep the lights on (base salary, law firm, prime brokers, data feeds, exchange connectivity). Nobody in the hedge fund world works for salary. They work for bonuses. Which for $1bn fund should be another $20m or
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by tomp 3y ago
I hate it that so many programming languages lie to users. > We don’t support exceptions, all errors must be declared and manually propagated > however, `panic` Like, just admit you support a poor man’s version of exceptions. Similar
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by tomp 3y ago
Listen to Aella’s podcast with Steve Hsu. Her research indicates that it’s actually women who are more interested in violent sex, and men consistently underestimate the chances. It’s something like 60% vs 40% IIRC.
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by tomp 3y ago
> (mostly correctly) You mean mostly as a politically-motivated anti-tech propaganda? Tech is probably the most diverse high-earning industry. Definitely more diverse than NYTimes or most other media that promote such propaganda. Which
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by tomp 3y ago
Their definition of "open" is "not open", i.e. you're only allowed to use Gemma in "non-harmful" way. We all know that Google thinks that saying that 1800s English kings were white is "harmful"
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by tomp 3y ago
very likely the majority of them have to work for a living, hence "working class" many are probably immigrants as well edit: according to Wikipedia, some people use "middle class" for white-collar workers
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by tomp 3y ago
This is probably a deconcentration event. Rich people with a lot of money giving said money to smart working class nerds that happened to be hired by OpenAI.
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by tomp 3y ago
Noone has released a GPT-4 competitor after a year. I'd say that's quite a lead. Maybe this has changed now with new Gemini model, but still that means one year ahead of everyone.
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by tomp 3y ago
Why not just take cocaine to fake good feelings, instead of seeking real-life experiences that generate good feelings? (I mean, a lot of people do do that!)
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by tomp 3y ago
There is nothing stopping Wolkswagen from creating a product similar to Tesla. There is nothing stoping Microsoft from creating a search engine as good as Google’s. There is nothing stopping Facebook from creating an iPhone alternative, aft
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by tomp 3y ago
Sounds like a few European countries. But! Turns out it doesn't work. At all.
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by tomp 3y ago
Yeah I also find it hard to argue with such dishonesty, inability/unwillingness to look at statistics, and intellectual retardation. Deforestation isn't an issue in advanced economies, e.g. in Europe. See OurWorldInData Soil deple
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by tomp 3y ago
children dying because you don't produce enough food to feed them. people dying because your economy cannot support high technology required to make advanced drugs. old people freezing to death because you don't produce enough ene
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by tomp 3y ago
read the article I linked to > The fall in CO2 emissions in advanced economies is also seen while considering consumption-based metrics, meaning that the fall in emissions in these regions is not merely a result of offshoring of manufact
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by tomp 3y ago
I have used objective reasoning to conclude that degrowth is murder. Now I'm passionately opposing it. Same with Nazism, Communism, Decolonization, Hamas, etc.
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by tomp 3y ago
You're so wrong that you could hardly be any more wrong. Economic growth is possible without consuming more resources. That's literally what technology is - producing more output with less input. Rich countries have grown over the
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by tomp 3y ago
I didn't suggest no compensation. Obviously I would want to be paid some base salary, comparable with whatever I could earn elsewhere ($1m / year? $1m / month? etc.) But instead of a $80m golden parachute (failure reward), I&
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by tomp 3y ago
> misinformation and conspiracy theories Do people still fall for this FUD? If you have actual arguments, please list them. Otherwise don't insinuate with far-left dog whistles.
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by tomp 3y ago
No I don't buy this. The shareholders would be better off if they promised a $800m incentives-based / performance-based package (e.g. stock options etc.) than promising $80m if the CEO performance sucks . And any CEO rejectin
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by tomp 3y ago
Can ELI5 why do investors (owners of the company) accept CEO's pay packages that involve golden parachutes? It doesn't make sense to me (I mean, it might in case of offensive takeovers, but who's gonna take over Boeing?!)
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by tomp 3y ago
Yeah once you have kids, you realize this isn't the truth but actually just FUD.
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by tomp 3y ago
Yeah one wishes it would actually work like that. Unfortunately there’s many drivers that drive below the (already low) speed limits. Add to that curvy road and it becomes much worse (you can drive much closer to the limit by accelerating a
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by tomp 3y ago
How weird. Putting all responsibility on the seller. Why not "car owners should consider climate effects of pumping the car with gas" "shoppers should consider climate effects of buying food in a grocery store"
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by tomp 3y ago
It's important to note here that leetcode questions doesn't mean "LeetCode Hard" where the only solution is an obscure algorithm that is on average never used in production code (except deep in libraries you didn&#x
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by tomp 3y ago
so like 10x less funding than OpenAI and 100x less than MSFT, AAPL, Google, Facebook, ...
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by tomp 3y ago
I always envisionen myself having a (large) family in the future. The future came, sooner that I thought I guess (it creeps up behind you without you noticing!) I have a 2 year old son now. His laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds i

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