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by oa335 26d ago
what a horrible attitude, especially for a forum dedicated to "hackers". the code is open source, why dont you show us what a quality test suite looks like?
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by oa335 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by oa335 2mo ago
that websites estimates are definitely too low - e.g. there are definitely more than 40 Uzbek people in Chicago... I've been to 3 uzbek restaurants in Chicago proper myself.
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by oa335 2mo ago
"There's apparently only ~2000 Uzbek-Americans in all of northern IL" where did you get this number? does that include chicago, because i live in Chicago area ... seems low.
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by oa335 2mo ago
> "A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent" Could you expand on this?
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by oa335 3mo ago
Agree 100%. Costco exemplifies american dream... recent immigrants perusing well-stocked aisles, friendly employees, ample parking, cheap tasty hot dogs, etc.
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by oa335 3mo ago
> it costs >1000% to run inference do you have a source for this claim? i thought LLM providers earn high margins from inference (charged by token). is this no longer the case?
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by oa335 3mo ago
"Our most likely estimate is that replacement costs are approximately $91 billion. Military and strategic assets — nuclear facilities, missile and drone production infrastructure, air bases, naval vessels, and air defense systems — mak
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by oa335 3mo ago
as a math major i had the same confusion; for such that i use "s.t.". but apparently peano used ∋ to mean such that: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15455/backwards-eps...
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by oa335 3mo ago
> 8 queries implies 8 tables, which is well under the limit for both Postgres and MySQL where the planner may give up and choose a suboptimal plan. I'm not sure thats true for Postgres. optimal join ordering is np-hard, and finding
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by oa335 3mo ago
why doesnt hackernews count as social media?
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by oa335 3mo ago
compare list of conflicts in europe to those in middle east over past from 1000 AD - 1900AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe in particular state formation in late medieval and early modern eur
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by oa335 3mo ago
Can anyone explain why I would want to use this over an orchestration tool that lives outside the DB? Read through the Readme and some of the examples, I still don't get it.
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by oa335 4mo ago
> Those numbers also show why the “wealth transfer from India” is mostly fake. India and China were both at a subsistence level. There was no meaningful wealth to transfer. Can you expand? What was the EIC doing in India?
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by oa335 4mo ago
Not an Elon fan, but markets dictate the value, not analyst reports or "fundamentals". The stock is simply worth whatever people will pay for it. The fact that people are paying an implied valuation of 2T for it currently is a s
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by oa335 4mo ago
nice work! we have handrolled something similar at work. do you have any perf metrics? throughput, end-to-end latency, etc?
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by oa335 4mo ago
only when rhetorically convenient i suspect
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by oa335 4mo ago
> Just because Bangladeshis have the right of self determination doesn't mean we have to or want to live in a country with them. why do you believe you and and your family (parents and sibling) belong in the USA?
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by oa335 4mo ago
it depends greatly on the majority though. e.g. he believes democracy should be suppressed ("crushed") in Muslim- majority nations, etc.
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by oa335 4mo ago
> People really need to read their history. agreed. but i bet i can make a bunch of confounding factors appear. from 1800 to 1870 gdp per capita growth rate was about 1.1 percent. from 1870 to right before great depression growth rate wa
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by oa335 4mo ago
> same progressives that gave us eugenics ray, why are you now cosplaying as someone who doesn't believe in racial hierarchies?
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by oa335 4mo ago
excellent article. > The key correctness insight is this: any two majorities of nodes must overlap in at least one node. So between any two consecutive global state changes — whether two commits, two leader elections, or one of each — at
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by oa335 4mo ago
yes, there is counterparty risk with both etfs and mutual funds. in general, stick to the well regarded issuers or fund managers. vanguard is the best imo, they do a lot to protect their shareholders.
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by oa335 4mo ago
100%. i ran a trading desk predicated on this strategy, and know a couple of others who are still successfully running similar strats.
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by oa335 4mo ago
The number of ETFs isn't as relevant as the total % of funds invested in passive funds as opposed to single stocks or active funds. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5259427 > Passive capitali
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by oa335 4mo ago
> I’m not. I have a Bangladeshi sense of the flow of time, I have basically traditional beliefs about family structure, raising children, social obligations to elders, etc. Why don't you live by your principles and return to Banglad
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by oa335 4mo ago
> we'll house the data, enrich it, maintain it, provide fine-grained API access over it tailored to model usage, and you bring the model isnt this just mcp servers hosted by the saas provider?
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by oa335 4mo ago
i understand the purpose of the senate and believe that bicameralism is a good idea and populism is generally bad. you seem to not understand my point so ill give it one more try: senate was indeed formed as a bulwark against populism, but
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by oa335 4mo ago
> It was explicitly created as a way to balance sovereignty of the states against populism, such as that enacted by MAGA or leftists. that only works if the smaller states are not representative of the larger majority of the population.
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by oa335 4mo ago
Yeah, in general the principle is that zakat isn't due on fixed assets, but on any inventory or cash you hold. So its a lot less onerous than a blanket wealth tax.

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