yifanl

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by yifanl 4mo ago
Because there's nowhere else for the money to go, the money must go to AI. There are no growth opportunities in any other industry (except healthcare due to disastrous demographics), where else are people going to invest?
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by yifanl 4mo ago
The ones who were good at becoming rich became rich. The ones who weren't were punished for not becoming rich.
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by yifanl 4mo ago
If I speak up, I'm in big trouble.
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by yifanl 4mo ago
You're talking about living in a world where we have to take entirely preventative steps, not reactive because hacking is going to be that much more prevalent. AI can tell you you're being zero-day'd, but that isn't much
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by yifanl 4mo ago
AI harnesses were exploited, here's why it's actually good for AI.
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by yifanl 4mo ago
An automated job is not a job at all.
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by yifanl 4mo ago
We keep saying it, because it's what it is. There's some black box (that can _sometimes_ be reached via dang) that determines what you see on HN's front page, and this place is just as susceptible to trends and rabbit holes a
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by yifanl 4mo ago
Some programmers prefer 2 spaces, some programmers prefer 4, why don't we compromise and pick a number between 2 and 4?
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by yifanl 4mo ago
Feelings don't care about your facts. It's far cheaper to be vegetarian than not, how many vegetarians do you know?
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Between driving a car and driving a forklift, which of them would you like to see regulated more heavily?
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by yifanl 5mo ago
You need to realize that people generally don't care about the quality of software. Crowdstrike shut down every airport in the world and is still in business today.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Keep in mind, at some point, insurers simply won't pay out.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
The only action you can ever take in chess is moving.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Because the equivalence between being signed for the NBA and having apples to eat is nonsensical. We accept some things being unfair, not everything being unfair.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Including Moxen and no hand interaction is certainly a choice. The Battlecruiser to battle all cruisers.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
If you give me a hundred dollars, I promise I'll come back tomorrow and hand you thirty trillion dollars.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Okay, but Gamestop has very little of the benefits of physical stores, you're not going to inspect the quality of the games without loading it into your machine, and the major auxiliary purchase available for sale is a bunch of Funko P
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Climate activists, as a whole, have not been able to materially affect costs positively or negatively, in any sector other than maybe TED talks and documentaries.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
How often do you buy groceries? How are groceries transited over to your local store?
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Is the sentiment around OpenAI already so bad that it's even fallen off the front page of Hacker News in two hours?
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Is there a AI data center construction process that doesn't involve these costs?
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by yifanl 5mo ago
I wasn't joking, just trying to compact my thoughts. The lifestyle and abundance we sold the last generation of university students turned out to be wholly out of reach for all but the luckiest and most well-connected, and that disillu
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by yifanl 5mo ago
Realizing that the average CS graduate can't expect to make 100k on a career of centering divs has been more disruptive to the the American psyche than 9/11.
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by yifanl 5mo ago
How much effort does it take to write up "Please summarize your thoughts on President Donald J. Trump"
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by yifanl 6mo ago
People will snark him 30% harder for a week. I dunno what you expect, everyone wants to avoid the negative consequences of their actions, should we be surprised that the rich and powerful can actually do it?
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by yifanl 6mo ago
Lying is a competitive advantage, yes. Why do you think companies have marketing budgets?
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by yifanl 6mo ago
Of what? It certainly hasn't stopped cigarettes. If gamblers want to gamble, is not seeing the 30 second video ad the only thing stopping them?
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Is there anyone who isnt Trump4Life who still needs to be convinced theres corruption happening very high up in the government? We've very little doubt its happening, and it does us no good if there arent actions taken against it.
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Disneyworld has lines longer than the park can manage for decades, do you expect it to just be a matter of time until park management finally figures out how to queue people efficiently enough, or do you think the solution will be once agai
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by yifanl 7mo ago
Is the gaming market huge or is it 1/15th as valuable as an alternative for investors? Even if the answer is both, what's the net effect of this?

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