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by xyzzyz 2y ago
He is talking about median. Median is as close as the definition of representative as you can get.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> How do you know that the "overwhelming majority" are "bad people who prey on others" without a functional judicial system to prove it? You think the murder rate went down by two orders of magnitude by locking up goo
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Sorry, who is saying that this will make things cheaper? I haven’t seen Trump or Vance argue this.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> I don't think they should be able to do so for behavior that would be legally be protected in the jurisdiction a person is trying to enter This is very much not the current practice. The DS-160 form asks you a bunch of questions a
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
That’s extradition, it’s a completely different process, unrelated to deporting illegal aliens. Moreover, I specifically gave Britain as an example target, and these concerns are not relevant for extraditing to Britain.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
You missed the point. Imagine we want to deport a British citizen to Britain for felony fraud committed in US, and it just so happens that the same person is wanted in Britain for a completely different crime, say burglary. We know that if
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Let’s say I apply for a tourist visa to US, and I get denied. Am I entitled to a jury trial in US to decide whether I get the visa or not? Let’s say I do get a tourist visa, get admitted at the border, and the second I cross it, I begin ope
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
By this metric, United States is doing very well. Over 50% of Americans aged 25-34 have completed tertiary education, putting us at the 5th position within OECD, well ahead of countries like Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Denmark, or Polan
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
What do you mean by “provided”, exactly? Just because something can be accessed via HTTP GET request doesn’t mean it’s legal to fetch it, and does not give you an implicit license to do with it whatever you want. Google, in fact, will happi
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Sorry, do you have actual point, or are just trying to be pedantic? Strictly speaking, it’s not exact same, because no two different things are exact same, by definition. However, my point is that the same principle should apply to both.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Exact same way OpenAI does: by scraping data, ingesting it, processing it, incorporating it into its proprietary system, and using it to serve responses to queries. This is not to say that I thing that any of this is wrong. I think that if
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I have no idea, and I'm not even able to tell whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, and to whom.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
To import the same German car into France the cost is (cough) 20%. No, the cost to import is 0%. The 20% VAT you are talking about here applies equally, regardless of whether the car is imported, or (cough) French. Again, VAT is just a ki
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Germany doesn't protect its production with tariffs any more than, say, North Carolina does. There are no German tariffs, because Germany is part of European Union, which sets up common, shared tariff regime, and tariff-free goods move
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Sorry, but why exactly should we care about what some random score that some people invented and named Democracy Index says? It’s not like there is some universal agreement that maximizing the score in these people’s quiz is good or proper.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
20 years after that poem was affixed to the Statue of Liberty, a new immigration law was passed that practically banned almost all immigration. It was passed, because the American population rejected the immigration policy that that poem re
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
If you are curious about what use case there is of it: imagine that instead of JPEG compression, we are running an LLM. You send your prompt encrypted, server homomorphically executes the model and sends the encrypted output, which you then
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Reformation was an extremely important historical event, with very high spiritual, practical and political stakes. This might seem strange to people living in today’s post-religious world, but back then, things were much different.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
These IRS safeguards will not be of the “security clearance required” form. IRS data, while private, is not classified.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Yeah, if we are talking about humans, then this is definitely a big win: big table lookup is for a human faster than multiplication (not really true for computers), and slide rules make all the difference.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I am in complete agreement with you. Fortunately, there is a good way to make solid incremental improvement here, which would be easy to sell to the American public on both sides of the political spectrum: increase supply of medical service
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Yes, the free market medicine solves some of the socialized medicine problems.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Just for context, here is what it would have looked like in socialized medicine system, the UK’s NHS: so we went to an ophthalmologist's office, to get it looked at In UK, you can’t just go to ophthalmologist’s office. You’d first ne
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
When HN was an entrepreneurship oriented community, the overwhelming attitude had been that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. That’s because even if you’re doing something clearly good and morally unimpeachable, having to
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
When the numbers are represented as two logarithms the operation is reduced to adding two numbers again, so O(log(d) + [whatever the log/inverse log conversion cost is]). This is pretty confused. First, if the d is the number of digi
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Not sure what your analogy is here; private pilots typically don’t need to file any flight plans except in specific circumstances.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Indeed, and a person with a medical license is able to do much, much more damage than the people who need to ask IRB for permission to do research. If your point is that we could replace IRBs with some sort of a researcher license, that you
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
By the way, you can already have a boiling water tap today, you just buy a device that uses hot water tank to store the energy you rather than the battery. Insinkerator sells these. It might not be as energy efficient as the hypothetical ta
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
It would cost less than $50 to equip a kettle with appropriately sized battery. You only need something like 0.2 kWh of capacity.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
This was a reasonable argument to make in, say, 2012, but not in 2022, when the company grew to something like 100k+ engineers. The hiring standards have definitely deteriorated, because you can’t hit these numbers with very high hiring bar

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