zzzzzzzza

discrimination does not fix discrimination. discrimination is a forcing function in a damped oscillator.

and it's not even like your new discrimination is symmetric to the old one.

just bad ethics.

> Can you see how you've possibly and probably just reinforced existing sexism?

yea nope you are right I agree you are sexist for insisting on doing the tie breaker on the basis of gender rather than experience. this is exactly what I am talking about. And people that will feel it the most are the newcomers.

yea see I run my own business and I don't consider the gender or race of people applying (aka not racist/sexist)

> It's hard to even find women to interview, let alone hire.

from my perspective this is a subtle admission of active positive discrimination on your part, frankly if i was a woman maybe i would find it a little off putting that a bunch of old guys were real keen to get me under their supervision

if there is a movement to get men into nursing, it's not nearly as vocal (and why would there be?)

i agree tech when considered as an abstract entity is sexist (against men) and racist (against whites/asians)

sincerely, someone that doesn't work in the industry (directly) but has college education in it and who does it as a hobby but doesn't feel wanted or welcome by big tech

(also don't have the karma to downvote you and between our two comments which do you think will actually get downvotes)

people getting into the industry may feel very differently from you. not sure if you are aware but colleges are like 66% female now lol.

i'm just sad I can't talk to him about anything more interesting than a marvel movie anymore

there's plenty of venues where you can find people advocating for those lifestyles, hn shouldn't be. the replies to this should be something more like "wrote my own emacs extension" or maybe like "took venture capital from some specific vc" or something...

this kind of ironic self hatred stuff is a big part of why leaving reddit is on my list...

leaving religion

leaving reddit

avoiding marriage&kids (okay actually i only bring it up cuz the default replies seemed incredibly un hacker news to me, more like boomer news "religion, marriage, kids" lol, bruh one of my college buddies is big into religion and now he is married and has a kid and he used to be almost as smart as me now he probly couldn't program his way out of paper bag)

keeping a productivity computer where I have youtube&hacker news banned via host file

sounds similar to semantic kernel

raised independent bible church/southern baptist, probably 80% fundamentalist.

Now I guess you could consider me a deist, since I think if we are going to define God as some kind of infinite extension of some aspect of humanity then God would have to be a hyper turing machine then in my estimation.

Seems like such a thing could not exist in this universe, but I do actually choose to, loosely, believe something along that line exists, but we couldn't actually interact with or understand an entity like that... on like a mathematical level we couldn't.

So I explicitly disbelieve in a personal god of any kind. There could be a demiurge but I see no reason why it would have moral authority or anything, maybe it could torture you endlessly I guess XD.

eastwind or twin oaks intentional communities

"Protecting Americans’ Privacy"

is the second top level bullet point out of 8 top level bullet points

peter norvig agrees with you

for any given dollar a middle class/poor household would be more likely to spend it on housing or additional square footage than a richer household

my suspicion would be that more equitable wealth distribution would make housing even more expensive

in some scenarious even taxing third homes could ultimately reduce the supply of housing

a land value tax on the other hand...

wish this had a better title relating to "her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium"

"The biggest problem I have with this manifesto is that there's nothing actionable in it. What are we, the little people who aren't techno-elite billionaires, supposed to do now? Just wait for techno-Jesus to save us?"

maybe politics is a support vector machine and the division is the hyperplane XD

i have some spiritual practice suggestions:

1. maintain and improve your emacs&nixos configurations,

2. create a personal database and add new capabilities to it (for example you could start by making a database to track github stars that could for instance store hashes of specific commits)

3. with your newfound data model and programmable/configurable environment, slowly integrate AI into your life

humans in a nutshell

i had been thinking something similar to this

would different users have different schemas in their vcs db? would every pull request be a db migration XD?

supabase model of open source + saas might be better?

the ddl that creates the views/tables/triggers that replace the "idempotent code" should also be idempotent so you should be able to roll it back without rolling back any data

actually i wrote a couple tables/stored procedures that (should probably mostly) do this for postgres after looking at some other patch management libraries by depesz and steve purcell a couple weeks ago

https://github.com/NotBrianZach/postgres-sql-migrate

could be something like prompt rewriting or chain of thought or reflexion going on in the background as well

abstinence for a long enough period having an effective mechanism of forgetting is actually a pretty interesting concept, do you have any paper recommendations on that line?

i am suggesting the two strategies might have similar trade offs/benefits though I am not familiar enough with attention mechanisms to say for sure.

it's a comparison/analogy?

can't speak for others but I have two accounts

1. chat subscription only

2. i have paid for api calls but don't have a subscription

and only #2 currently has gpt4 available in the playground

this sounds to me like a dollar cost averaging strategy - only buy in when the current price falls below an n-day moving average.

I doubt there is any risk adjusted alpha to the strategy - in practice it's my, newbie, understanding that the only thing that differentiates such strategies in the broader scheme of things is tax efficiency.

however I am also not a ML expert

* * *

* * *

honestly not a bad idea either, a universal laptop program could probably almost recoup it's cost just be obsoleting a bunch of badly negotiated or thought out school hardware/ipad programs lol.

something modular like framework laptop would work well

Saudi buys a lot of US weaponry and sells like 70% of their oil to Asia. If anything they conspire with the United States against India/China to keep oil prices high in exchange for supporting US military industrial complex - or something along that line

I think the government should provide every citizen with their own cloud compute instance. universal basic compute allowance.