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by zamfi 2y ago
I am not suggesting anything of the sort. The family should absolutely sue the driver for everything he's got, an avenue available beyond the paltry criminal penalties applied here. Of course, that will not make the family whole. Addit
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by zamfi 2y ago
I find this post super confusing, like I can’t tell if it’s satire or just super strawmanning. The problem clearly isn’t that “you can delete prod” — the problem is that you can “fat finger a command line and accidentally delete prod”. You
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by zamfi 2y ago
In the sense that the outcome was not maliciously intentional, yes. Doesn’t mean they bear no responsibility, of course, or that their egregious actions didn’t cause it—just means they didn’t set out to do it.
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by zamfi 2y ago
I don't disagree with you -- I'd only add that I think a major factor here is premeditation. The law already treats harms from negligence or even from "heat of the moment" actions differently than harms from premeditated
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by zamfi 2y ago
As the article mentions, the driver will have to deal with the knowledge that they killed an entire family by accident, which can’t be easy. Of course, it is nothing compared to what the killed family’s fiends and loved ones feel, but “NO c
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by zamfi 2y ago
> Maybe someone with a lot of hard braking should drive differently, but if they haven't had any collisions and have a long history, it smells of 'pre-crime' to charge them more for something they didn't do. I agree t
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by zamfi 2y ago
I'm super glad that Anthropic has put this up -- having a set of examples is super critical for folks who are writing prompts. (In fact my collaborators and I wrote a paper about these challenges last year [1].) But I also wish they ha
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by zamfi 2y ago
That’s totally true, though there’s a difference between “founders of $100M startups” that already have that valuation, and working on a company in a market where $100M is the max you could expect. If you aim for $10B and hit $100M that’s g
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by zamfi 2y ago
> This is one of those tradeoffs we all make in a society. ...ooookay? Not sure how to process this defensive take, but at least you make it clear what demographic you belong to. My point was entirely financial: on the (heavily regulated
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by zamfi 2y ago
> I would have to quit if my company wasnt providing a reasonable medical coverage because these costs can otherwise bankrupt a person in this country Your insurance would be functionally quite similar if you purchased it in the private
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by zamfi 2y ago
And, critically, once you have one serotype of dengue, your chances of severe dengue from infection by another serotype are substantially higher. First dengue is often not that bad. Second dengue is often quite bad. This vaccine makes secon
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by zamfi 3y ago
Yes, though this photo was immediately recognizable to me as "almost eclipse time" and I haven't seen an eclipse since 1999. It is like being on a planet with a different (distant?) sun. Literally otherworldly.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> benefits nobody That would be the point. Why bother at all?
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by zamfi 3y ago
> is on a flood plane. You mean like this one? https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-flight-diverted-t... …I’ll see myself out.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Speaking of visualization...that last figure in this post is super interesting in part because you can actually see some of the redundancy in the base64 encoding on the left, in the patterns of vertical lines. In general, better compressi
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by zamfi 3y ago
Ah, except it does not tell you that. Consider this extreme example: if Honda drivers on average drive 200 miles a week and 10% of them get into an accident each year, while Lamborghini drivers on average only take their cars out for a sing
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by zamfi 3y ago
Jet fuel is less than 25% of the cost of running an airline. Flying will cost more, but not necessarily 2x more. Plus that's only if we can't synthesize jet fuel from all that CO2 we're extracting from the air.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Gasoline and other oil-derived products are fantastic storage of energy. They're liquid, shockingly easily transportable for the amount of energy contained, etc. For things like long-distance flights, jet fuel is way more fantastic ene
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by zamfi 3y ago
“Accident rates per 1000 drivers” is not a particularly meaningful metric, though. If you look at the per-state breakdown, or the incident rates, the states with the most Teslas (CA, e.g.) don’t have Tesla in first place. More interesting w
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by zamfi 3y ago
The balance of the impact across weight and driving style isn’t necessarily clear…
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by zamfi 3y ago
Agree. It’s been 30 years but that manual definitely triggered something!
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by zamfi 3y ago
Can’t speak for OP, but one might reasonably expect later stages to only start execution once at least some data is available—rather than immediately, before any data is available for them to consume. Of course, there many reasons you wou
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by zamfi 3y ago
Stop using Internet forums to force your views/way of life on others. /s The issue isn’t the barber who’s asking for Swish. It’s Swish. This is one of those tricky cases where the service is quasi-governmental, a state-sanctioned
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by zamfi 3y ago
Yeah, all this is the stated argument here. But in the US, at least, the underlying argument is about class, and race. If you haven't already, it might be worth reading about redlining, the historical practice of outlining which neig
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by zamfi 3y ago
> Los Angeles, San Francisco/San Jose, Dallas, Phoenix -- could be (and should be) a global metropolises Yes! > with a populations and cultural relevance rivaling Tokyo or Hong Kong. YES! > They would be, if not for the car. .
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by zamfi 3y ago
Is this more, or less, concerning than the growing trend to outsource software to $0.03 / 1000 token AIs?
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by zamfi 3y ago
To be clear this is a software setting now, on all (I think?) Teslas.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> it's basically equivalent to trying to understand a human brain's internal world model by analysing its neurons and how they fire A major challenge here is that it's very hard/expensive to analyze these neurons, esp
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by zamfi 3y ago
…isn’t that 95% for the Prius also shifting emissions, though? That doesn’t seem like a point in favor of the hybrid. One can’t say that a particular energetic electron was energized by a solar plant, sure. But one can look at new power d
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by zamfi 3y ago
Yes, this is all true -- and it is also undeniable that AirBnB caused a dramatic reduction in hotel pricing in NYC. In 2008 it was close to impossible to find a hotel in useful parts of Manhattan for under $500/night (in 2008 dollars!)

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