levanten

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by levanten 3mo ago
It depends on your task. In analytics where you need to scan lots of data points within few columns, then columnar storage is very much the best. But for transactional workloads where you have to deal with specific entities, row based would
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by levanten 3mo ago
What a fine story you tell! Let’s ignore all the political and socio economic dynamics driving the current trends. Squeeze people’s livelihood by rent seeking; pillage public resources while externalizing as much of the risks and cost of do
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by levanten 4mo ago
They also care about networking and connections.
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by levanten 6mo ago
There is no guarantee that the asi would care about human beings at all. Personally, I can’t see why it would.
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by levanten 7mo ago
After all that has been revealed to us over the past 15 years, it is really disheartening to see people still thinking that setting a few toggles will prevent these companies from abusing them. Just continues to prove that if you solve a bi
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by levanten 7mo ago
Funny that these are the same people that have been blasting the alarm on dangers of AI singularity. Now they cannot wait to put their tools in weapons.
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by levanten 7mo ago
La Bete (The Beast) by Bertrand Bonello was also quite on point I thought.
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by levanten 9mo ago
None of this prevents them from providing proper customer service that can resolve cases of false positives.
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by levanten 10mo ago
I think that is the wrong lesson to take away from the video. As the video emphasizes, DoF is a tool that can be used to achieve an intended effect in story telling. Main thrust of the video is that these days these tools are predominantly
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by levanten 1y ago
Being part of the team that achieved AGI first would be to write your name in history forever. That could mean more to people than money. Also 10m would be a drop in the bucket compared to being a shareholder of a company that has achieved
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by levanten 1y ago
He is asking a valid question. Experts on the issue also warn that there is no guarantee that what replaces the current regime would be any more amenable.
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by levanten 1y ago
They are very similar; with various similar solutions at differing stages of maturity.
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by levanten 1y ago
> At least my experience is that if you confront them with harsh enough reality, they basically fail to provide anything useful. When I started therapy, I felt the same way. But now I realize that there can be no easy solutions offered i
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by levanten 2y ago
I admire that you put yourself in dangers way for what you think was right. However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of personal responsibility. Your prescription is in the same vein as
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by levanten 2y ago
You are advocating for giving in to the bully in the hopes that they will stop bothering you. The reality is that the bully will never stop, Russia’s aim is total annexation of Ukraine. Making peace without proper guarantees would be to ens
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by levanten 2y ago
I dont know which scenario is worse for a president, an experienced economist like him not understanding what he was endorsing or being part of the scam.
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by levanten 2y ago
he didnt just retweet. even if he did, president of the country should be held to higher standards than your average influencer.
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by levanten 2y ago
I guess you can look into Framework for laptops. Many appear to be satisfied with them on HN.
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by levanten 2y ago
it used to be so that in order for a product to be called "dondurma" (ice cream) it had to have salep in it. all other regular ice cream had to be sold under the name "buz" (ice). i wonder if this is still the case.
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by levanten 2y ago
it has a thick texture but it is not as chewy as mochi. on the other hand it is very pliable and has a distinct taste both due to use of salep.
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by levanten 2y ago
As most things it is a balancing act. Children also need to socialize and learn to operate in a social setting independently from their parents. Day cares have an important role in this aspect in our nuclear family based societies. Confinin
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by levanten 3y ago
Unless you come from a very religious background, many Turks don't care if their meat is halal or not.