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erikaww

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email: erikaww@umich.edu
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erikaww··on Greece introduces the six day work week
You must have never worked a fast food job. Companies will do anything but raise wages, even if it allows them to have way more revenue and higher reliability.
erikaww··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
Yes! I want a cost benefit analysis and to ask every stakeholder imaginable for any sort of road repair or expansion. The fact that not every repair or expansion has a single improvement for non car users is pitiful.

We need to hold road infrastructure to the same consideration as we do transit and rail. If we didn’t give it unlimited funding, then it would already be doing this.

We are wasting trillions and losing so much economic growth by doubling down on a bad investment year after year for decades. Imagine if this money was put into education or healthcare or transit. We’d actually have a net benefit!

erikaww··on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
You can’t have negative revenue or if there is some obscure definition, just handle that edge case
erikaww··on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
They’ll learn to cover their tracks better
erikaww··on McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
Why is this grey? Does that mean people are reporting it? If you report it or want to, then why?

I haven’t verified these claims, nor do I have the background knowledge to form an opinion. I don’t care. Seems plausible and I think Irish were within the definition of “black” a century ago.

Is it because you don’t believe in this? Or do you think it is astroturfing with bad intentions similar to the anti women memes plastering social media (where it is some wrong committed by a woman with 100s of bot comments saying all women are bad)? Kinda like repeating long ago marginalizations of white people to stir up a feeling of wronghood among older more conservatives white men?

erikaww··on Jeff Bezos on Stress (2001) [video]
That example doesn’t apply. If you have to win the game, then it is stressful by any definition.

If not, lose or win you aren’t responsible for any but playing the game.

erikaww··on Gov Hochul Halts NYC Congestion Pricing in a 11th-Hour Shift
I’d hope between this, forcing all of the migrants to only be in NYC and being anti housing that would be the case
erikaww··on Cat as a Service
gotta be real careful what people upload
erikaww··on Stellantis CEO confirms $25k Jeep EV
We need to get rid of dealerships ASAP. They provide no value while adding extra costs on now super expensive vehicles all Americans are forced to buy to live normal lives
erikaww··on American AI data centres may use as much energy as new US solar farms produce
id imagine most traffic on american servers is american
erikaww··on Politicians fall sick after drinking raw milk to celebrate legalising raw milk (2016)
Why wouldn’t you? I surely wouldn’t drink it but I don’t mind if it’s legal. It’s America baby.

If someone consensually drinks raw milk and gets sick, that’s on them. If a parent makes their kid drink that and the kid gets sick, that is potentially child abuse.

I think the main concern here is some undereducated or easily buying into conspiracy theories/conservative individuals would feed their kids raw milk.

There are lots of things that are not good you that parents give their children and they are totally legal.

I think debating this or trying to fight against it is a waste of time rather than bigger issues.

erikaww··on American AI data centres may use as much energy as new US solar farms produce
is that the case? i'd imagine data center utilization drops significantly at night
erikaww··on Mutlimodal neural networks converge to a shared statistical model of reality
We humans model a ton of reality with language
erikaww··on NYC startup founder Sophia D'Antoine dies after being struck crossing street
Case in point, it’s normalized violence.

This is perhaps more tragic since it’s the fault of bad infrastructure and broken justice system empowering narcissists and criminals

erikaww··on Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
Mixing these would be pretty cool. Further reduced compute for MoE while keeping the performance.
erikaww··on Canada's maple syrup reserve almost empty
We can’t let those syrup producers get richer! No no we need everyone to only consume Uber pure syrup that has a 10x foot print and cost.
erikaww··on Cells from Pregnancy Fluid Used to Grow Mini Lungs, Organs
Mini lungs sound adorable
erikaww··on Show HN: A web developer job board for my audience
Why not make the on-site-ness filter “ordered” so if they select onsite all positions show up, hybrid makes hybrid and remote show up and remote show only remote jobs
erikaww··on Gpulist – Craigslist for GPUs
Should take it to the next level and make it automatic- AirBnB for gpus
erikaww··on Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’
Just needs a little abstraction- and not the leaky variety
erikaww··on [dead]
It’s about time. We need to stop subsidizing cars and give space back to people.
erikaww··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
On this impoverished statistic: does it account for more access to social services?

California is much more likely to have better social services and AFAIK it is less violent in poor neighborhoods than southern states

I would much rather be poor in NYC than Georgia

erikaww··on SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
Any hiccups?

Drop in S3 compatibility with much better performance would be insane

erikaww··on Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
I think you got it backwards. Cities now only build these subury sfh highway parking lot hellscapes and ban anything remotely dense

So everyone is pigeonholed into something you want

erikaww··on GPUI - UI framework for Rust from the creators of Zed
I don't want to come off as rude, but why would I ever use this vs something like Tauri? I could use familiar tools (html/css/js/react...) with Tauri and cut the verbosity that this would entail
erikaww··on The case for single-stair multifamily
A more realistic solution is just to remove restrictions that discourage MFH in the first place (zoning height limits parking requirements lot size requirements height requirements regressive fees/taxes)
erikaww··on Happy New Year HN!
why don't you start something where you live?
erikaww··on Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws
What is the utility for deciding is one party or another is liable first? Since self driving accidents are rare, we could just have shared liability and defer to courts. I’d imagine a lot of these accidents go to court now. National streamlined processes could be established as more motorists opt into self driving technology.
erikaww··on My kid sounds like ChatGPT, and soon yours might, too
Sort of like model collapse but with humans consuming the AI generated text
erikaww··on AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM
This has mixtral support! Can't wait to see the next wave of local MOE models. Perhaps cheap fast and local GPT-4 performance is not too far off.
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