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by xienze 2y ago
> Are you seriously asking how to "fight back" on Indians going to restaurants and joking with each other? Yes? Or is it just a problem when white people choose to associate with one another at work?
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by xienze 2y ago
> because they’re definitely going to have enough value for the $100MM threshold to apply to them. Tax cutoffs have this habit of drifting downward over time (the whole, "eventually you run out of other people's money" thi
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by xienze 2y ago
That’s a transaction that occurs after the sale. The paying of agents is something that happens as part of the sale, so yes the buyer is very much paying the agent fees.
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by xienze 2y ago
> The 6% fee was paid by the sellers, not the buyers. Buyers didn't pay anything to the agents. It’s the buyer’s money, which becomes the seller’s money, which gets paid to the agents. Realtors need to stop lying about who pays the
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by xienze 2y ago
> Is sick leave paid in US by law (till certain extent of course) from some employer's mandatory insurance, or some sort of corporate perk like extra paid holidays? And what about when having sick child? For the kinds of jobs we’re
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by xienze 2y ago
> If you just want a place to live, rather than expecting insane home appreciation You're focusing on the wrong thing here. What motivates someone to not one day unexpectedly become neighbors with a Section 8 building is not primari
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by xienze 2y ago
> I don't understand how progressives took up the mantle of "no more housing thanks we're good, let's just apply rent control" Because everyone is a YIMBY until until they own a SFH house in a nice neighborhood a
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by xienze 2y ago
> Probably for the best that users see the words "Sorry, I hallucinated" every now and then. Wouldn’t “sorry, I don’t know how to answer the question” be better?
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by xienze 2y ago
> And the "right" has closer ties to the fossil fuel industry and has always had a vested interest in torpedoing nuclear. Do they really? You might want to check out just how concentrated US nuclear plants are in southern, deep
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by xienze 2y ago
> you'll find there's actual demand from people that want to pay taxes on their crypto. I think that’s more of a “need to” thing rather than “want to”, yes even for the people that aren’t using crypto for criminal activity.
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by xienze 2y ago
You would need LLM output to be deterministic first (i.e., given the same set of English instructions, you get the exact same output every time). And that’s not even getting into the inherent problems with the nuances of natural language. F
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by xienze 2y ago
And yet in the same breath we have people seriously claiming that the US government was >this< close to being overthrown by a bunch of unarmed boomers on January 6th.
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by xienze 2y ago
So deliberately bork the output in such a way that users lose all confidence in the product?
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by xienze 2y ago
> Force all companies training LLMs to add some method of watermarking with a mean error rate below a set value. How do you watermark plain text?
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by xienze 2y ago
> We used to regulate air travel. It was a lot more expensive then. I'm not sure this is the gotcha you think it is. Air travel, even in coach, was downright luxury compared to where it is today, and I'm not even talking about
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by xienze 2y ago
> Importing fascist or fascist adjacent people who ultimately became voters has changed US politics where Florida is now a safely red state. And on the flip side, importing Central and South Americans who are socialist or socialist adjac
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by xienze 2y ago
> 4-5 hours for an entry level role does seem excessive yes (if you're not a top tier tech company). Not really? Between a half hour with the recruiter, an hour with the manager, an hour or 90 minutes with the broader team, a little
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by xienze 2y ago
Ah and so begins the “it was all staged” conspiracy theories. Trump is repeatedly called the second coming of Hitler and news personalities and politicians are without irony claiming that if he wins the next election the US will become a di
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by xienze 2y ago
I think you're ignoring several realities: First, cops can't be everywhere at all times. Cars are going to be stolen wherever the cops currently aren't. Second, cops can't possibly follow up on every single car theft. Wh
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by xienze 2y ago
That’s clever and all, but how can you actually be sure the message was completely unchanged over 7000 years without an original written record? I get that special recitation tricks can make it harder to mess up, but I don’t think you can d
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by xienze 2y ago
You can likewise encode proprietary information in Markdown, in the sense that it can be readable but not necessarily understandable by another application that understands Markdown. Like say for example my application allows for tables th
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by xienze 2y ago
> It’s basically universally the wrong tool for any given job but that really doesn’t stop people. I find mocks useful for testing conditions that are on the periphery and would be a decent amount of trouble to set up. For instance, if I
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by xienze 2y ago
Nah I think the parent is talking about something different. I have decent karma, my account is old, and I can post as much as I like, except when I’m having a lot of back-and-forth in the same thread/comment section and discussing co
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by xienze 2y ago
Does it get the answer right every single time you ask the question the same way? If not, who cares how it’s coming to an answer, it’s not consistently correct and therefore not dependable. That’s what the article was exploring.
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by xienze 2y ago
> Mouser has the Zero for 15$ With $8 shipping that will take ??? days. Meanwhile they have one for $19 on Amazon with two day shipping and no need to register on some other site for a one-off purchase.
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by xienze 3y ago
> Don't pretend like the Democrats wouldn't be just as obstructionist if it suited their political objectives. And this is exactly what they did when Trump was in office! Their motto was “#resist” for crying out loud. Sheesh, r
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by xienze 3y ago
There’s a history of this sort of faked annotation thing in Go. The most notable example being comments used to denote how a struct’s fields are mapped to/from JSON.
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by xienze 3y ago
> but is there anything important about Austria shifting towards this end of the political spectrum? Because the media's favorite go-to about ANYTHING right of center is "Nazis! Nazis! Nazis!" and well, Hitler was born in
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by xienze 3y ago
Ships are hundreds of thousands of tons in weight and the momentum acts as a force multiplier. Plus it hit the pylon dead center, which is the worst case scenario. It’s not terribly surprising. I think there’s also an underlying expectati
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by xienze 3y ago
Why isn't anyone suggesting S3 glacier deep archive? Looks like about $6 per month for 6TB. Sure it'll cost $540 to pull it out, but that should be a one time thing...

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