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New comment by itsumoiru in "Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill"

itsumoiru — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:21:45 +0000

I think most people equate "bicycles are dangerous" with "cycling is dangerous", which seems perfectly reasonable to me. What matters is whether you'll get hurt using a bicycle, not the pedantry of whether the bicycle itself is the problem.

New comment by itsumoiru in "'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid"

itsumoiru — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:39:10 +0000

This isn't quite dumping. It was more about achieving the scale necessary to make it usable. If there are no drivers, there are no customers. With no customers, who would drive?

The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley

itsumoiru — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:20:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/c5e7bf0b-cadc-4673-b2d8-daa9d89f2230

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526673

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by itsumoiru in "The data that powers AI is disappearing fast"

itsumoiru — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:29:56 +0000

As you mentioned, the data processing inequality[1] applies here, but I imagine synthetic data could help training squeeze out more from the existing data.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_processing_inequality

New comment by itsumoiru in "The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy"

itsumoiru — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:29:47 +0000

"The people" are not one. It's entirely possible to have an oppressive democracy.

Patdiff – colored patience diffs with word-level refinement

itsumoiru — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/patdiff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130472

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by itsumoiru in "Why America can’t build"

itsumoiru — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:22:35 +0000

> I've seen people say that apartments that are being provided to the homeless for free should have granite countertops or GTFO

This is a common problem in American policy. You're going to have the thing and it's going to be nice, or you're going to be priced out of having it at all.

See minimum floor space regulations, (non-fire related) residential occupancy limits, regulations requiring certain coverage in medical insurance plans, etc. There is a reason that short term insurance plans (STLDIs) that are not subject to as many regulations are much cheaper.

New comment by itsumoiru in "Why America can’t build"

itsumoiru — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:07:56 +0000

> those paying in to the system today acquiesced to the plan...

No, they didn't acquiesce to anything. They were required to pay whether they wanted to or not.

New comment by itsumoiru in "Why America can’t build"

itsumoiru — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:00:29 +0000

I read the parent "except" as "the above is true, but..." not as "in all Englishes except American English"

New comment by itsumoiru in "100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company"

itsumoiru — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:10:01 +0000

There's a culture of forced retirement there too, so it's not at all surprising. Pay generally increases with age so Japanese companies want people to retire.

New comment by itsumoiru in "In Argentina, inflation is a way of life"

itsumoiru — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:40:12 +0000

Whoever has the most USD cash. (In proportion to their total wealth) most certainly not the "rich".

New comment by itsumoiru in "Why is U.S. labor supply so low?"

itsumoiru — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:42:35 +0000

Not original poster, but I presume that the answer would be "of course not".

New comment by itsumoiru in "Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome"

itsumoiru — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 04:29:23 +0000

> My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them)

I see you've rediscovered Rothbard's law: "People tend to specialise in what they're worst at." (Because anything too easy seems like it's not worth doing)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/27/change-...

New comment by itsumoiru in "Muboard: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support"

itsumoiru — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:32:39 +0000

Doesn't seem very different from https://artofproblemsolving.com/texer which has been around for quite a while.

New comment by itsumoiru in "Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes"

itsumoiru — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:08:29 +0000

The most enthusiastic lockdown supporters are unlikely to be the ones that can't afford food now. Much more likely to be people reading HN or writing for the NYT.

New comment by itsumoiru in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

itsumoiru — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 07:44:12 +0000

I am currently in this class and can confirm that navigating the codebase is a nightmare. The specifications we are given in the relevant assignments are vague or wrong and the code itself is pretty questionable. I spend more time trying to understand the assignment and current code than actually writing anything myself. If that's what he's going for, I guess he succeeded.

New comment by itsumoiru in "The Rise of the “Liberaltarian”"

itsumoiru — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:25:02 +0000

The law that applies/ought to apply is the one against fraud in the beef example.

New comment by itsumoiru in "“We already store data. In a database. It works well”"

itsumoiru — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:02:36 +0000

If you still put your money down for the stock, the value isn't $0 anymore. It's whatever you value it.

New comment by itsumoiru in "America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign"

itsumoiru — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:38:51 +0000

I just read a related article the other day, claiming the same thing, but with a different analysis: https://mises.org/wire/world-looks-abandon-dollar-us-sanctio...

New comment by itsumoiru in "Japanese Company Charges Its Staff $100 an Hour to Use Conference Rooms"

itsumoiru — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 05:49:36 +0000

That's less than a tenth of the 4,161 employees in the company.