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Comment · 5 months ago
They probably update these answers offline. I tried "how do you profit from options" and got:

> Call Options: You buy these when you believe a stock's price will go up. If the stock rises past your strike price, the option's value increases, allowing you to sell it for a profit or exercise it to buy the stock at a discount.

> Put Options: You buy these when you believe a stock's price will go down. If the stock falls below your strike price, you profit.

Which leaves me wondering if changing the search textually busts some cache that they update using a slower/smarter model.

Comment · 6 months ago
I don't know how much it has to do with the administration and the top-level comment here was flagged so I'm lacking context but American exceptionalism is instilled here from birth so it does not surprise me in the slightest that founders grow up with the idea that they are built different and destined to change the world. Acting out the fantasy via fraud takes a special kind of person. It's not clear to me whether the dishonesty is uniquely American but I somewhat doubt it. The color of the delusion is, however.
Comment · 1 year ago
If someone cared enough to spend money on this I think it would be an easy to medium difficulty project to use an FPGA and a CSI-2 IP to pretend to be the sensor. Good luck fixing that without baking a secure element into your sensor.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the summary of the document, but not quite what I asked for. Why would e.g. a VHDL engineer need to have read it to deserve the title senior?
Comment · 1 year ago
You're off base here for what may be a rather subtle reason. While I am not a marxist, I do think that the purchasing behavior of the wealthy makes much more sense when you think about things in terms of the labor theory of value.

The evidence for this is all around us. As automation of manufacturing has brought former luxuries into reach for middle-class families, those with means move on to consuming items that require more and more labor to produce. "Handmade" scented soaps. "Artisanal" cheeses. Nobody with money wants their wedding invitation to arrive at a destination with machine-canceled postage. It's tacky. Too automated, too efficient. In fact, I bet the ultra-wealthy don't even use postal mail for delivering their invitations, because it's not labor-intensive enough to be tasteful. Private couriers are probably the move. You can see this pattern over and over again once you know what to look for.

There will always be a demand for human labor, because value is a human construction. That said, the rate at which the economy will change because of AI (if the True Believers are to be believed) is probably too fast for most workers to adapt, so you may not be entirely wrong in your conclusion depending on how thing shake out, but the way you got there is bogus imo.

Comment · 1 year ago
Would you mind elaborating on why you believe people need to have that number memorized to deserve the title senior?
Comment · 1 year ago
> some measures

EROI for biodiesel is well above 1:1 from what I can tell. Please elaborate on your sources.

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There are a few piece of this that rely on proprietary data, especially the FastText training step, so that's a dead-end unfortunately (would love to be proven wrong). I'd consider subbing in a small bert model with a classifier head for something FOSS without access to tons of user data, but then you lose the ability to serve high qps.
Comment · 1 year ago
What's wrong with S2? H3 is so much more complex for very little gain from what I can tell.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sibling commenter covered most of what I have to say but the other reason this is wrong is because many bicycles can go 20-30mph, and I'm just going to leapfrog you anyway at the red light you're racing me to wait at.

Other times cars try to kill me to save themselves a few seconds:

1. turning right into a parking lot ahead of me

2. turning right out of the parking lot ahead of me

3. rushing to open their driver's side door right in front of me so they can get out and get to their destination faster

I've had a crash for #1 and #3, so this isn't theoretical. Watch for bicycles.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well there are two competing factors, one of which you pointed out--not every woman who experiences harassment reports it. The other which may be less obvious is that the people who behave this way tend to do so not only repeatedly but frequently. Eventually they may harass the wrong woman and get reported. Without knowing the numbers I can't speculate more about whether lyft knew about the driver who harassed me.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been treated to the the "you're so beautiful, do you have a boyfriend" act about 2% of the time[0] I get into a stranger's car pretty much across the board, which makes me a little bit skeptical about whether these companies do meaningful oversight. It's possible that these incidents go mostly unreported though. I didn't report mine.

As an aside, this is why I generally trust public transit more whenever it's an option. The worst case scenario is just so much less sinister when there are other people around than it is in a car alone with a stranger.

[0] once in a lyft in seattle, the other in a taxicab in barcelona. figuring I've taken about 100 lifetime solo car rides with strangers which is probably an overestimate.

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