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by ible 9mo ago
People are not simple machines or animals. Unless AI becomes strictly better than humans and humans + AI, from the perspective of other humans, at all activities, there will still be lots of things for humans to do to provide value for each
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by ible 1y ago
It may not be obvious if you are in the US but the reaction of Canadians to Trump’s 51st state garbage is extremely strong in Canada. The tariffs are one thing, and pissed people off, but the rhetoric is what has really done the damage. It’
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by ible 2y ago
That product name sucks for Veo the AI sports video camera company who literally makes a product called the Veo 2. ( https://www.veo.co )
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by ible 2y ago
I tried it and it was laughably bad. The auto park was worse than it was years ago, leaving me a foot out from the curb in an easy spot. Trying to use the self driving on city streets resulted in it stuttering and stopping immediately. The
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by ible 2y ago
Even on a law and implementation effort like this with such large impact there are maybe 10,000 people in the world involved who actually understand it in any significant sense, and they all have a strong reason not to post about it on a pu
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by ible 3y ago
> I found it quite frustrating how teams would be legitimately actively pursuing ideas that would be good for the world, without prioritizing short-term Google interests, only to be met with cynicism in the court of public opinion. This
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by ible 5y ago
Automation and/or higher pay tends to make that not a problem.
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by ible 5y ago
This is actually a great argument for a strong social democracy/welfare state.
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by ible 5y ago
Though based on dasickis comment, it seems there may not have been bad behaviour in the first place.
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by ible 5y ago
I don't think that analogy applies. Both parties in this story did things in a 'work' context. If I go on a work forum and describe my bad behaviour, behaviour that is harmful to others, and advocate for others to do it, I&#x
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by ible 5y ago
What an excellent demonstration of what values/norms a group really cares about. Biggar violated the all time favourite in-group rule: Don't talk out of school. Don't talk about fight club. Don't snitch. The other founde
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by ible 5y ago
Other issues aside, "A is just a complicated B, so apply the same rules to A as B" is not a formula for good decision making. It's a common way to make bad mistakes though.
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Ask HN: Fundamental changes in CS in the last 15 years?
2 points by ible 6y ago|0 comments
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by ible 6y ago
Trying to design for many unknown futures is expensive. Changing in the future costs something. Designing for future changes up front makes sense if cost(future change) > cost(future proofing) SAAS? Do virtually no future proofing. IOT,
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by ible 6y ago
It must be uncomfortable being a google engineer on these products. Having your work cancelled and thrown away is one of the most disheartening things as a developer. It has to be back of mind for them when they are building. When it gets r
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by ible 6y ago
I'm in the Yaletown office, as are the positions I posted. There are definitely open positions in the off Burrard office as well. The yaletown office has maybe 60 or 70 engineers? The other location is larger I believe (and has a bette
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by ible 6y ago
Apple | Vancouver BC, Cupertino CA, | ONSITE (well, WFH at the moment) | Full time | We're still actively interviewing, all interviews over video at the moment. Positions below are in my org, there are more active openings in Vancouver
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by ible 7y ago
I don't know what 'cortical representations' are exactly, but it seems generally true that experts in a domain build up gradually higher level pattern recognition in their area of expertise. Whether it is driving a car, playi
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by ible 7y ago
The Shanghai subway system is a good example. Construction started in 1986, first 28 stations opened in 1993. It now has 413 stations and is the largest subways system by length (676 km) in the world.
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by ible 7y ago
I'm still not sure I made the right decision turning them down. On the one hand spending $5000 per month on rent feels crazy in Vancouver. On the other hand it is an incredible deal. In the end what kept me from renting it is the likel
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by ible 7y ago
As far as I can tell most mansions are being rented out to high income locals, not to groups of college kids. I toured a few of these in the last couple months and the nice ones had a parade of high income couples going through who would be
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by ible 8y ago
Talk about shipping the org chart.
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by ible 8y ago
Apple | Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer | Vancouver, BC | Onsite Come help protect Apple and its customers from fraud at our Yaletown office in Vancouver. Scala/Java. Spark and other big data experience useful. https:&
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by ible 10y ago
I'm not clear on why you would use redis to get transactions. Wouldn't sending a single message to kafka that represents the whole transaction with acks=all have the same effect? Then instead of pulling from redis like it is a que
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by ible 10y ago
My (second hand) understanding is that if you get put on a PIP at Amazon it blocks you from doing an internal transfer. So if you have a manager who doesn't like you and you try to transfer out they can put you on a PIP and effectively
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How I'm fixing the 401(k)(blog.guideline.com)
243 points by ible 10y ago|233 comments
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by ible 10y ago
Cops and robbers really means something different these days.
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by ible 12y ago
The plan has been similar for years, and translink has been trying to get funding for it. The referendum is the last ditch attempt to actually get funding. In the event of a no vote it is unlikely that anything but road expansion will occur
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by ible 12y ago
I recently went on a trip to Paris (~250BC). Finding commercial flights (1969) and good hotels took minutes and I didn't need to talk to anyone (hipmunk(2010)/tripadvisor(2001)). I checked out the area around the hotel (1950) on G
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Giving less advice(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by ible 13y ago|1 comments

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