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by phphphphp 3y ago
There's probably some examples, but the US has such an outsized per-capita murder rate that it's not particularly comparable even when trying to select the best examples. If you stretch the definition of "major" and &quo
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by phphphphp 3y ago
If I have the math right, their revenue of $130m is made up of $110m in COGS. If they’re losing $1m/month that means they’re spending roughly $30m/year on running the business. My educated guess is most of that $30m is marketing s
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by phphphphp 3y ago
So why didn’t he hand himself in? He’s been on the run since last year, he has had numerous opportunities to hand himself in before being arrested in Montenegro.
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by phphphphp 3y ago
He’ll be watching his back in prison, he’s got access to billions of dollars — or, at least, is perceived to. He has wronged a lot of people, too. Also, prison is a one way street: if he stays on the run, and some day things do get to the p
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by phphphphp 3y ago
If verifying people is hard and so a company chooses to take the easy route of not bothering and therefore attract lots of customers who do illegal things, surely in any world that's at the very least knowingly facilitating illegal c
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by phphphphp 3y ago
bonuses are to banks what stock is to tech startups. A bonus is a part of total compensation.
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by phphphphp 3y ago
Posting about your company when relevant is one thing, advertising it another’s launch thread is another, and it’s pretty gauche… especially when, in this very thread, one of your testimonials is saying he doesn’t actually use your product:
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by phphphphp 3y ago
That’ll be a lot of people who are streamers on twitch with it listed on their LinkedIn profile. I’d ballpark closer to 2,000 actual employees — maybe 1,500 as a conservative estimate.
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by phphphphp 3y ago
I disagree with your characterisation, there was a lot of criticism of Collateral Murder from young white liberals! Assange and wikileaks, at the time, were presented as apolitical truth-seekers, not as journalists. Journalism is very diffe
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by phphphphp 3y ago
I make no claim that collateral murder did not represent a war crime, I make no claim that the release of collateral murder was a bad thing, rather, I am claiming that Julian Assange was never a noble person releasing leaked footage to expo
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by phphphphp 3y ago
From the start, wikileaks was a partisan project masquerading as a righteous cause. Those of us old enough to remember their original releases (like “Collateral Murder”) remember that wikileaks was always about building a narrative rather t
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most finance rules are quite reasonable and problems can be fixed retroactively. A serious company should absolutely approach their financial controls with the rigor it deserves but the cost implication of making mistakes early on is overbl
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Health issues aren’t addressed with accurate information, they’re addressed by understanding the needs of the individual. Even if GPT-4 could guarantee accuracy when discussing self-harm, that would not necessarily be the right answer from
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The majority of work we do now, even in skilled professions, is busy work. How much of the work you do each day is unique and novel? How much of your work could have either been automated or made unnecessary long before ChatGPT? Probably mo
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The 2% they’re referring to are businesses that are using Docker’s hosted services for free. The majority of the outrage was from people thinking about the non-business users, that is, open source projects, which Docker unintentionally impl
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most React codebases benefit from the simplicity of functional components, because they fit into the model most people have of websites + web apps. If you’re doing anything complex, you’re in a very small group.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
https://fly.io/about/
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Pretty much nobody has enough cash held in a bank account for this to be a concern. People were worried about SVB because it was so overrepresented with accounts of more than the insured limit because it was used by cash-rich technology
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The original comment I replied to is scared for the future because GPT-4 passed the LSAT and other standardised tests — they described it as “terrifying”. The point I am making is that standardised tests are an invention to measure how peo
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If a person with zero legal training was to sit down in front of the LSAT, with all of the prep material and no time limit, are you saying that they wouldn’t pass?
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The comment I replied to suggested that the author was fearful of what LLMs meant for the future because they can pass standardised tests. The point I’m making is that standardised tests are literally standardised for a reason: to test info
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I know what an LLM is. My point is that “doesn’t have the data in memory” is a completely meaningless and arbitrary constraint when considering the ability to use technology to pass a standardised test. If you can explain why weights in a n
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Send me the answer key and I’ll write you the necessary =VLOOKUP().
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by phphphphp 4y ago
You’ve added a technical constraint. I didn’t say arbitrary. Standardised tests are standard. The point is that a simple lookup is all you need. There’s lots of interesting aspects to LLMs but their ability to pass standardised tests means
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Passing the LSAT with no time limit and a copy of the training material in front of you is not an achievement. Anybody here could have written code to pass the LSAT. Standardised tests are only hard to solve with technology if you add a bun
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If you sincerely believe that you’re a shining star being dragged down by your co-workers, get a new job. A software engineer who sincerely cares about the impact of their work on the customer is very valuable and you’ll find happy, positiv
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The cashier would rather you leave them in peace than hit them with the same tiresome self-congratulatory remark they hear day in day out. Please use the self checkouts instead.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’d normally agree — if you ignore an important email, the consequences are on you — but the Google verification process is very hostile and Google do constantly send emails about “important” but actually innocuous things which trains users
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The reason employees are anxious about their next pay checks is because of the VC-induced panic which is entirely self-serving and has not one iota to do with making payroll — that’s just a palatable hand-wavey justification for demanding g
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’ll start out by making my position clear: I have a strong aversion to software engineers like you, and I consider software engineers like you to be toxic people who are a drain on organisations. Anyway… If you approach work as a zero sum

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