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What you’re saying applied as far back as Vietnam, mainstream television allowed us to watch the war on video in mostly realtime, and we saw widespread protest

I don’t think access or visibility of the information is what’s changed, but how that information is being delivered today vs back then

“The medium is the message”

Query expansion happens before the retrieval query, reranking is applied after the ranked results are returned, both are important

What about re-ranking? In my limited experience, adding fast+cheap re-ranking with something like Cohere to the query results took an okay vector based search and made top 1-5 results much stronger

Too bad Mr. Lai was not

> pseudo-enlightenment one gets from psychedelics

I like that, I’ve also heard it referred to as “unearned wisdom”

> cultural

I think you misspelled marketing

“Burnout isn’t a sign of commitment, it’s a sign of organizational failure.”

Exactly, if you need more bandwidth hire more people, otherwise you’re burning the candle at both ends and everything suffers for it

It’s just click bait, no clue why it’s on hn

Temporal plus idempotency keys solves probably the majority of infrastructure normally needed for production systems

I think that’s the crux of the issue is rebble isn’t under any obligation distribute them open source, unless say the original app had a “copyleft” policy?

In case you didn’t know America’s music industry is run by cartels… I mean “unregulated monopolies”

Teams of the smartest people on earth make these kind of big vendor decisions, vendor lock-in is top of mind, I tell anyone who will listen to avoid databricks live tables and their sleezy sales reps pushing it over cheaper less locked in solutions

What you’re describing is called utilitarian ethics, the exact tradeoff is called the trolly problem. Ethics is much more complicated than a single comment thread

“it’s worth it” is a horrible argument when people’s health is on the line.

What specifically do you disagree with? I’ve explained it three different times now and can’t delete my original comment so please let me know

This research shows physicians harmed kids recommending they avoid allergens like peanuts, is that something we should ignore because all the benefits of science are “worth it”?

Science is amazing not because it’s always right, but because it (should) strive to always do better next time

That is likely an artifact of local journalism being hard and them needing to entice the user past as many ad slots as possible

I clearly misspoke and people are misunderstanding my point, which is only that “hurting people is worth it” is a horrible argument and shouldn’t be a valuable thing, we can and should save the 20 kids without causing harm to the 2

doing nothing is better than something if that something might hurt people without understanding how and why

I’d prefer to live in a world where the same technology developed in such a way that they didn’t have to die, yes.

They’re not mutually exclusive options, we can save the 20 kids safely while having a mindset that values doing no harm.

Telling anxious parents to have their kids avoid peanuts caused harm that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. I guess it’s valuable to better understand allergies, but learning at others’ expense isn’t worth it.

It’s not just save as many lives as possible at all costs, saving 20 kids but 2 will develop debilitating peanut allergies isn’t worth it. Progress must be done slowly ensuring no harm is done along the way.

Science failed here.

If we end up with inflation rather than a market crash, this could be quite costly? Gold is up 50% this year, which hype is more correct than the other?

Reminds me of when someone at the company didn’t like the branch master so they unilaterally directed their team to start working on “main”, resulting in a massive merge conflict that took over two weeks of dedicated effort to resolve, ugh…

Cults usually recruit new members and extract profits or push some motive, wanting to be left alone is hardly a cult

Amish communities have rejected “modern” technology convenience in exchange for good hard work for centuries and never looked back

Wait until you have a coworker refer to what “he” wrote when talking about LLM output

Much less countless kids right now talking to these things for hours a day on their parent’s credit card

“By the early 1990s, combined federal, provincial, and local spending had peaked at more than 50% of GDP.”

You mean those spending levels?

Is what you’re describing something that latex handles well? I’m no expert, but that problem seems solvable by rendering previews with say sampling of large or complex objects vs full builds that maybe take a minute if high fidelity animations or very large graphs are desired as a supported use case in something fully open source

There are plenty of remote schools, always have been, they’re just lower quality and solve a different problem than traditional in person university

Keep in mind the site doesn’t track officers in real time, it reports the last location and timestamp of a ticket.

Realtime police officer location data would interfere with arrests and investigation, but realtime reporting of incidents is critical public data that shouldn’t be fear mongered away.

If officers giving tickets are in fear of their life, taking down a tracking website isn’t the change that keeps them safe...

I get multiple news notifications within minutes of all these things, that’s pretty different than unfettered authoritarianism where people don’t even know it’s happening.

If everyone is aware of what’s going on and we still elect these people, that’s more on us than them no?

Yes but with the intent that they generate revenue, if ad blocked users had distinct behavior different from ad watching users it was mostly ignored while I was there