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by weeksie 4y ago
This was mostly political guff about environmentalism and bias, but one thing I didn't know was that apparently larger models make it easier to extract training data. > Finally, we note that there are risks associated with the fact
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by weeksie 4y ago
Similar but for the emacs users https://github.com/dakra/speed-type
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by weeksie 4y ago
I'm in NY and this was happening for me. I'd be 10-15 characters down and get a stream of red. One thing that was sort of annoying is that because it's using a custom text box (or something) when I control-w to kill the previ
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by weeksie 4y ago
The act of aspiration necessarily includes being willing to be a different person by the time you accomplish the goal you are aspiring to.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Typical is 60-90k but 100k is pretty standard for SFF
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by weeksie 4y ago
If you think being a parent is as physically grueling as combat then I'd suggest you either meet some parents or get into some fights because you have a serious misunderstanding of one or the other. In any case, outside of the extremes
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by weeksie 4y ago
How old do you think 40 is? My god. Have you ever met someone in their 40s? Are you a child?
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by weeksie 4y ago
Yup, that's pretty much exactly it. As for our regulations, Fish and Game determines when to open a region for a specific fishery, in the example we're using, it's purse seining, as you've correctly gathered. The decisio
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by weeksie 4y ago
there are a lot more marine mammals than there used to be. They're eating a ton of hatchery fish according to (many) anecdotal accounts. I also overheard a few Fish and Game guys putting forward that theory regarding the very bad retur
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by weeksie 4y ago
I was back home in Alaska recently after a very long time (10 years, before that 15) hadn't been back much. the amount of marine mammals back in PWS is bonkers. I do know that they've been scooping up hatchery fry like crazy. I me
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by weeksie 4y ago
I had been focused on work through my 20s and had always wanted to write. Shifted gears in my 30s and have developed myself as a writer. It wasn't without cost, of course. If you want to give more time to developing yourself as a write
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by weeksie 4y ago
Generally I agree with you, but Nate Silver has yet to perform poorly.
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by weeksie 4y ago
This is the "it's easy to steal so it's okay" argument, which I addressed up thread in a sibling comment about the dynamics of IP on the internet. Yes, the conditions are as they are. Literature by dint of being pure tex
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by weeksie 4y ago
If it's not possible to make a living at a vocation, all you will get is amateur participants. Even the most talented will have to find other things to do with their time in order to support themselves. Contrary to the above sibling co
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by weeksie 4y ago
You've proven my point for me, thanks.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I'm being pretty good faith about this, I just don't appreciate people who can't read. The theoretical benefits to society from distributing people's IP for free is that people who otherwise couldn't afford the mone
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by weeksie 4y ago
lol
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by weeksie 4y ago
I stand by my statement. Your entire argument boils down to the idea that musicians shouldn't own distribution rights to their work and that sass software licenses should be free. It's a stupid position to hold that falls apart im
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by weeksie 4y ago
Ah, then you’re a moron or a child.
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by weeksie 4y ago
"Taking food off the table" was a metaphor. Your statement makes even less sense if you weren't referencing that. You're saying, in effect, that zero marginal cost items are not property. That's a radical position t
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by weeksie 4y ago
1. Taking food off someone's table was a metaphor. 2. If you're making the argument that theft is limited to tangible things, well, you're entitled to that belief, but generally the consensus is that intangible property is st
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by weeksie 4y ago
begging the metaphor is one approach when attempting to defend an indefensible position
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by weeksie 4y ago
Exactly. The form of the novel is tied to text and text is fundamentally east to distribute because it is information. The problem is structurally tough.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Just like Spotify solved it good and hard for musicians?
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by weeksie 4y ago
Of course the author is losing something, someone stole his intellectual property and distributed it for free. It's not your responsibility to put food onto someone's table, but it is your responsibility not to steal it. Immoral a
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by weeksie 4y ago
Memories of being 10 and writing a C64 program to generate D&D character stats and generally dumb stuff like handling dice roles and random encounters. Felt like magic.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I've read a few of Gary Marcus' posts and I like him. My position is much more that the capabilities of current models are good enough for a lot uses. I certainly don't think language models are "real intelligence"
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by weeksie 4y ago
The conspicuously missing tech in the rundown he gave is ML, which actually seems to be meeting up to a lot of the hype and I think will be pretty revolutionary, though not as revolutionary as a lot of the enthusiasts believe. Even if ML mo
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Ask HN: How did you move from hourly to flat project rate?
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by weeksie 4y ago
I bet you could raise your rate quite a bit. I'm 20y exp mostly typescript and front ends these days but very much a polyglot background and I run up and down the stack all the time. I charge $225, which tbh I feel is low for my level

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