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by opportune 3y ago
What is your exact question? To me it makes sense that you’d not want to use NoSQL if you’re dealing with data that’s already relational, and heavily leveraging features common in relational DBs that may not come out of the box with NoSQL D
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by opportune 3y ago
My perspective from working both inside and outside of Google: The external spanner documentation doesn’t seem as good as the internal documentation, in my opinion. Because it’s not generally well known outside of G, they ought to do a bett
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by opportune 3y ago
This is the lump of labor fallacy in reverse isn't it? Those people would eventually be employed by other industries - both the labor and $ formerly going to yachts would be used somewhere else.
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by opportune 3y ago
I think this is a fair approach when things work well enough that a typical user doesn’t need to worry about whether they’ll trigger some kind of special content/moderation logic. If you shadowban spammers and real users almost never g
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by opportune 3y ago
I think you are using energy drinks in your example for effect, only because people overrate their caffeine content relative to coffee. Coffee drinkers who have a full tumbler/togo cup in the morning and a sbux or continual refills fro
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by opportune 3y ago
For people with high daily intake it’s not so much that they want to get “high” on coffee to enjoy the conversation, as it is that their brain is in acute caffeine withdrawal and they will feel so shitty with coffee that they won’t be able
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by opportune 3y ago
What does me telling LLMs to write articles for "best vacuum cleaners 2024" and putting it on the Internet have to do with the ability of LLMs to improve themselves? Humans write those kinds of articles for the Internet as it is,
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by opportune 3y ago
The Internet is a pull model. I can go to Gwern's website directly and not care that most other websites have crap on them. People choose to use push models for content through meta properties, tiktok, and aggregators like reddit and H
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by opportune 3y ago
The internet is already mostly filled with low quality bullshit though, and GPT-4/Gemini are much better writers than whoever is churning out SEO as we know it now. It's a lazy argument to imply this 1. invalidates the technologic
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by opportune 3y ago
I've seen this exact same fallacy happen several times throughout my career, which isn't even very long. I think in many cases it boils down to some subtype not being identified and evaluated on its own. As in your case it's
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by opportune 3y ago
Not everybody wants to sell their startup though. Accessing that liquidity without selling can be very very risky. Also, small companies like this can’t command big premiums because too much operational/institutional knowledge is held
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by opportune 3y ago
A lot of this is because of news media though. News media is in direct competition with big tech companies for advertising. The more eyeballs go towards big tech and not news companies, the less market share and relevancy they have. Even wo
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by opportune 3y ago
I think there are a few different but related concepts bundled in “law enforcement” here. A low-trust authoritarian state that restricts personal freedoms has to use heavy handed policing/secret policing with severe punishments to main
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by opportune 3y ago
I mean, that was the case even moreso in the Soviet Union right? They are the inventors of the phrase “Trust, but verify” after all, as well as the term “politically correct” (before it turned into a slightly different culture war term). I
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by opportune 3y ago
The level of trust in society is game theoretical and unstable at the extremes. I don’t really consider it technology either, you can easily envision hunter gatherers having high or low trust perspectives towards other bands based on eg pri
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by opportune 3y ago
Microsoft is one of the few companies that seems to do a good job allowing employees to rise through the ranks from top to bottom. Most of the Partners I have met were cultivated internally. Facebook is also like this, with the added bonus
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by opportune 3y ago
How convenient for all the OpenAI employees trying to make millions of dollars by commercializing their technology. Surely this technology won’t be well-understood and easily replicable in a few years as FOSS
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by opportune 3y ago
I think you are being unfairly downvoted. Campuses have the ability to do things like expel their residents and physically remove trespassers, which is only possible in the most draconian gated communities in the “real world.” They filter f
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by opportune 3y ago
Is it true that the quarks themselves, in isolation, have that charge? Or is it that combining quarks into a baryon or meson gives the resultant particle a charge according to a fixed ratio of the constituent quarks? Gemini advanced says it
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by opportune 3y ago
And on top of that, your social peers are very nearby. Whereas even in walkable cities like NYC or SF, the cities are big enough that your peers may also be in a walkable area but far enough away to require public transit/careful plann
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by opportune 3y ago
Worse traffic everywhere except Manhattan is the point. Whether it’s so bad that the policy is net-negative is an open question. Over a long period of time I think traffic patterns will shift as society structures itself away from NJ-LI com
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by opportune 3y ago
Agreed but in my opinion the problem is more fundamental than just hallucinations, it involves plain inaccuracy and inability to reason. Try asking chatgpt or Gemini about something complex that you know all about. You’ll likely notice some
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by opportune 3y ago
This is a garbage opinion piece demonstrating the archetypical boomer mentality of caring about your pay being passe. Trying to market an “innovative” workplace to save money on employee pay is just a cheap trick. Yawn Also, this should hav
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by opportune 3y ago
Having children still fuels consumption though. The difference is what is being consumed vs if that consumption spending were not spent on children. I think you are mixing up the colloquial definition of consumption of ie random plastic cra
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by opportune 3y ago
Capitalism does not tell us we should live our best life. I think there are strong arguments that capitalism (particularly concentrated private investment in housing) causes low birth rates, but I don’t think capitalism itself causes some k
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by opportune 3y ago
You probably grew up in a very wealthy and highly educated part of a major city. Not the case for 35 year olds in broad swathes of the country
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by opportune 3y ago
Just buy enough shares in public companies, or apartment units, to get the capital-share-of-income of 2.5 of someone else’s children. Let the parents figure out how to get something out of the wage-share-of-income
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by opportune 3y ago
As I've said, I cannot excuse the swatters or police for this behavior. It's clearly unacceptable. I'm merely trying to explain why someone would be targeted like this to begin with - because they provide a consistent source
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by opportune 3y ago
Not exactly sure what you mean, but most startups operate at losses for a long time before becoming profitable. I explicitly noted that bootstrapped startups with passive income and profitable small engineering-led companies are not constra
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by opportune 3y ago
Even a startup cannot do manifesto-agile most of the time IMO, at least not if they have a strong desire to succeed, because they are constrained by the possibility of running out of money in the near-future. I am dabbling with bootstrappin

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