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by tqi 2y ago
> most privacy intrusions are carefully combined with some reward or convenience ...ie people are making a conscious choice based on what they value?
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by tqi 2y ago
> I immediately glommed onto this list as a more useful formulation than Goodhart’s Law. Joiner’s list suggests a number of solutions: > Make it difficult to distort the system. > Make it difficult to distort the data, and If compa
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by tqi 2y ago
Do you expect that a year from now (or two, or however long you think is a fair amount of time to pass), online reviews will be noticeably better/more useful than they are today? I think the underlying thread here is that most people d
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by tqi 2y ago
> Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass. Can you blame students for optimizing for grades rather than "learning"? My first two years of undergrad, the smal
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Any policy is going to have instances of people who are harmed that otherwise would not have been. Focusing on those cases is not insightful.
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Without further documentation (beyond a descriptive test name), I fear that unit tests inevitably become a kind of Chesterton's Fence...
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No one has the storage capacity necessary to store that much audio content, let alone video. Furthermore, the incremental benefit over traditional ad targeting via search or web history is probably pretty marginal, and not nearly worth the
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by tqi 2y ago
> In fact, of all the screens and displays in my house, my Vision Pro is hands down the highest quality display that I own, so I very much look forward to watching visually compelling movies in it. How does a vision pro compare to a say
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by tqi 2y ago
This is complete science fiction / FUD. Amazon can't even stop showing you ads for vacuum cleaners after you buy a vacuum cleaner, you think they have the compute for something that sophisticated?
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> There should be a right to opt out of ads. What does that even look like, practically speaking? Is sponsored segment an ad? Is wearing branded apparel an ad? Is doing a press junket for a new movie an ad?
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by tqi 2y ago
Right, my point is that "paying a million dollars instantaneously" isn't something that Meta would face the way a company with a public cloud infra would, and as a result their motivations / concerns are probably more al
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by tqi 2y ago
A lot of folks in this thread have mentioned that the problem with the current generation of models is that only 1 in (?) prompts returns something useful. Isn't that exactly what a reward model is supposed to help improve? I'm no
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by tqi 2y ago
Meta owns their data centers, so I don't think that framing is quite right. Increased traffic might cost marginally more in terms of electricity usage, but I think mostly what would happen is the service would degrade.
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by tqi 2y ago
I think later rounds generally have lower return expectations - if you assume the stock market will return ~10%/year, you probably only need it to 2X by IPO time (depending on how long that takes) for your overall fund's IRR to be
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by tqi 2y ago
The people will demand a new bubble to invest in: https://theonion.com/recession-plagued-nation-demands-new-bu...
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by tqi 2y ago
Lol that sounds good to me, but I'm not the one making those decisions. To be clear, my comment was a prediction based on what I see as the primary motivations of the people with the money. I'm definitely not endorsing this model.
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by tqi 2y ago
Personally, I think the more interesting question is: if not AI then what? I doubt we will go back to Metaverse (lol) or Crypto, B2B SaaS seems safe but stagnant (and competing over a largely fixed pie of IT spend). It feels like it doesn&#
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by tqi 2y ago
> The only solution will be to raise compensation for teachers and bring labor into the industry and, well, the failure to raise teaching salaries is maybe the single greatest of example of the divergence between what people publicly sup
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"Sure, there was spam in the wordfreq data sources, but it was manageable and often identifiable." How sure can we be about that?
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Makes sense, this is just my personal experience so it's always interesting to hear what others have seen. I recently learned about Mechanical Orchard[1], which seems to have the same thesis (better to update legacy custom software wit
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> If you're big enough you will have unique requirements that nobody else has. Definitely agree, and that is very interesting to hear. I only mean to speak to my experience, and what I saw in a lot of cases was unique requirements t
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by tqi 2y ago
Well CS departments are rarely staffed by people who are interested in building actual software (if they were, they could just work in industry making significantly more money), and HR software is probably the worst vertical for a bunch of
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> CUNY Central was so eager to have a centralized MIS tool to use for its own centralizing, corporatizing agenda, that it totally ignored the implications of the Oracle "configure-only" limitation: business processes would have
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by tqi 2y ago
Facebook actually doesn't use git, they use mercurial ( https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git ). That decision is also illustrative of why they end up forking most things - Facebook's usage patt
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I think thats because it's based on an open source project
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TBH the value of bento over other notebook offerings was almost entirely how well it plays with the rest of the data and infra stack within facebook. It was super easy to go from raw data (entire DE and DI orgs responsible for ETL and clust
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by tqi 2y ago
I think it's worth reflecting on why you feel that way. I don't see how other people are spending their time is something I need to push back on...
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Ah that makes sense, thanks for clarifying!
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My question wasn't about the day rate it was about the number of days, ie is it variable or fixed for each type of offense.
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> The court can impose a fine of daily rates between 30 and 3,000 francs, or roughly $35 to $3,500, in cases like these, but settled on fining the lawyer 50 daily rates of 1,970 CHF. How is the number of days determined - is it fixed by

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