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901.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Eh, here's a downvote too. Say a point or say nothing, there's nothing about corruption you can't say on HN, particularly if you care to link sources.
902.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Having worked at a lot of companies, I think this advice is hit-or-miss. I'd say as often as not, a good engineer is more knowledgeable than their manager in most respects, including the people dynamics. Ask your manager for help is of
903.
by zug_zug 3y ago
It’s hard to leave, but very feasible to cut cardinality, add sampling, and reduce costs once they cross the line
904.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Well I think this is a bit reductionistic. Every business is a business, but just about every business also won't cross certainly highly-profitable morally-dubious or long-term damaging paths. A car company could maximize short-term pr
905.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I don't know enough about the internal architecture of threads to know if they are necessary for this, but one of the very few things about postgres that always struck me as nuts is that any one query (you could easily write one yourse
906.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I disagree, I just heard this phrase from you the first time just now, and I don't think it's self-explanatory. It's unclear to me in what respect the opinions are "strong" if not one's conviction in them. To m
907.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I think as a starting point maybe a good thing to agree on is that we want more transparency around alleged threats. Iirc this all started around 9/11 and there was this shroud of secrecy mentality that revealing anything , even wheth
908.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Well, except in the real world whatever amount of nanoplastics we're consuming we consume for decades, starting from in utero. It's obviously not possible to give a mouse a smaller dose of microplastics over 30 years and measure t
909.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Interesting that this refers to "Enhanced intestinal permeability (leaky gut)", which wikipedia insists is very different than "leaky gut syndrome" which it describes as "a hypothetical, medically unrecognized condi
910.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I think it's a branding thing. Basically the cargo cult (which copies what's new/hype/difficult) latched on it. Most of these hype things die in a few years with no lasting legacy or resume value though (mongo, serverles
911.
by zug_zug 3y ago
"Some people are dead" sounds bad, but if you think about it some "people are dead" from lack of vaccine mandates too. So you really have to do the math, and the math is actually pretty clear on the whole. Then you can g
912.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Eh, if you seriously believe this you can ask it the same question but change "vaccine" to something else and see if that changes the math.
913.
by zug_zug 3y ago
It’s weird to read an article like this. The concept of the AI apocalypse long predates big tech: terminator, Turing, the Wikipedia article, and my personal philosophy since childhood. I’m sure there are some bad actors, but seems dismissiv
914.
by zug_zug 3y ago
They should be held criminally liable as individuals since it's in writing that they knew what they were doing was malfeasant.
915.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I'm pretty sure if they were held with a life sentence that could be mitigated if they gave back 8 billion dollars that they'd get more money back.
916.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Hard disagree. I think we primarily make progress as engineers (and a species) by making better abstractions. Yes there are some leaky abstractions, SQL is a great example. But there are plenty of systems that don't leak (e.g. harddriv
917.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Well I've seen a huge number of r/antiwork posts and in my opinion they pretty much are all healthy. They all tell stories of workers putting up with an unreasonable boss. I never see posts about workers criticizing all bosses or
918.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I mean, if foreign actors are motivated to improve US working conditions then I'm not concerned, grateful really. If these allegations are entirely false JPMorgan is welcome to share what information they do collect in a legally bindin
919.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Even if the two you offer theories for are correct, it doesn't really apply to my overall point which is: Big health shifts have happened in unforeseeable ways before and we have no reason to think there won't be any more of them.
920.
by zug_zug 3y ago
I looked into this a while back, and I believe there are a number of different autoimmune conditions that are definitely going up with no cause known (corroborated by multiple studies). One is linked I also am a bit troubled by how quick pe
921.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Just a nit, of course "Write" advice is always going to show up in written form, because everybody who gives written advice is a writer. I bet public speakers give advice to speak-publicly.
922.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Good summary. Just not clear what the point is -- I mean aren't all these points obvious to everybody? Nobody actually thought IBM was doing layoffs because AI, or that politicians have any understanding of AI. Just seems like venting.
923.
by zug_zug 3y ago
Anything owned by Meta has a whole internal platform for serving government requests for many countries based on select criteria
924.
by zug_zug 3y ago
My 30-years vision would be, I walk into whole foods, I scan a QR code on the back of smoothie and I see all of the following: - list of ingredients - processing summary (was it reduced to a powder or liquid concentrate at some point frozen
925.
by zug_zug 4y ago
This is awesome. I'd love to see this at scale. I keep hearing about problems in food authenticity (e.g. fake olive-oil). I want the quality of my food to be auditable (is it really organic? Was it really grown in country X? Are these
926.
by zug_zug 4y ago
What are the privacy implications for this? Are companies that see my passkey going to be able to link it to all my other accounts, or will each passkey be completely anonymous?
927.
by zug_zug 4y ago
There are actually a number of different pesticides that are linked to parkinson's. It's especially strong for farmers who get a much larger dose than the people consuming the food - simply type "parkinson's farmer pesti
928.
by zug_zug 4y ago
I mean if you really weren't profitable, and you wanted to try to be, why not freeze feature development and run the company with ~500 employees, <100 engineers? I learned Uber takes as much as a 50% cut of taxi rides. The margin fo
929.
by zug_zug 4y ago
No it's not. The title of the article is "existential risks ..." meaning risks that could end mankind's existence.
930.
by zug_zug 4y ago
Define canonical, but the encyclopedia is a great start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici... Fascinating that even Turing had considered the possibility.

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