skt5 · HackerTrans

há 16 diasdiscuss

Wealth could be invested (impacts those borrowing), used on consumables (impacts businesses), or hidden under the mattress or equivalent (reduces the supply of money so acts deflationary).

I would argue that those 3 are the main downstream effects of having wealth -- and they all impact people at large enough values.

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há 22 diasdiscuss

This approach does work when there's a clear answer but what about tasks where the correct answer is multi-modal? Incentivizing agreement works only for tasks where there's clear answers.

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há 22 diasdiscuss

This likely means those consuming the outputs of Mechanical Turk don't have a good way to measure the value (aka quality) of the outputs.

If they did - then they shouldn't care whether it's a human or a LLM. And if it's a LLM - then the cost will roughly correlate to the MIN(cost of the LLM, cost of a human) to do the task.

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Any advice for a senior/staff level FAANG dev working in ML tooling but not in the health space interested in this kinda stuff?

What are good things to read, etc?

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Fascinating. I feel like smart person + data (context such as health records, labs, insurance docs, etc.) + LLM -> some helpful tips for navigating the process. However, evaluating the tips on whether they are helpful or not would be hard for a smart person without the expertise.

Or put another way - how does a smart lay person evaluate the independent advocates? Do incentives align?

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> If you're a software engineer who cares about health, and have been sitting on the sidelines till now, I think the next few years are a really interesting time to make a contribution.

do you have thoughts on what that looks like? what does the hiring landscape look like?

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

I'm in a similar boat too! I found verbalizing it with anyone who will listen helps the anxiety.

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

> I participate in some management-focused online communities.

I know - slightly off topic - but would you be willing to share this list?

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há 9 mesesdiscuss

I used to use the docker + homebridge route but it became tedious to maintain. Instead, I connected it via the Google Home integration (requires an Insights plan) and then use my existing Starling Home hub to access it via HomeKit. This seems to be more reliable and less work than before.

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The HHI [0] attempts to quantify that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl–Hirschman_index

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isn’t that just an estate tax?

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há 2 anosdiscuss

59/60 - SDE 61/62 - SDE II 63/64 - Senior SDE 65/66/67 - Principle SDE (aka Staff) 68/69 - Partner SDE (aka Senior Staff)

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há 2 anosdiscuss

> the rest tried every trick in the book to get me to the dealership before they'd give me a price

would you be able to list those tricks? I'm currently car shopping myself. how did you get them to give you a price without showing up?

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há 3 anosdiscuss

> contractors can write off the expense

there's an opportunity cost for that expense. it reminds of this episode of Schitt's Creek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1Uk60rBsc.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

both

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há 3 anosdiscuss

I wonder if for those who it was very obvious for "put their money where their mouths were" and bought a set of securities that would make them a ton of money on what was obvious when the obvious materializes in real life.

then, with that ton of money, they could buy enough shares to influence the board to implement their agenda.

in theory, this would quantify the definition of "obvious".

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há 3 anosdiscuss

> create a management committee, possibly with a rotating chairship, and in general give the employees more say over the direction of the company they work for".

this sounds very similar to a government where politicians are elected (un)fairly. likely, this just presents another set of trade-offs.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

Income is evidence of a person's ability to pay. Credit history is evidence of a person's willingness to pay. I would expect a positive correlation between the two but relying on that correlation seems risky.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

This is what economists call the Laffer curve. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

I don't live in MN but there are also adult baseball leagues here but teams tend to consist of former minor league players, college, or high school baseball players who couldn't or didn't want to make a career out of playing baseball.

I've played adult slow pitch softball at the C, D, & E levels. A-C levels are essentially former (usually older) minor leaguers. Even D league is quite competitive if you haven't played organized baseball or softball at some point.

EDIT: Showing up, which is how I got to play in a C league, is usually enough but it can get personally demoralizing if you're in the wrong league for your level.

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