ds_opseeker (u/ds_opseeker)

ds_opseeker commented on Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf] texasattorneygeneral.gov/... · Posted by u/jonhohle

vel0city · a year ago

Sounds like we need better enforcement of insurance requirements. Driving a car uninsured should have some extremely stiff penalties. Once again, maybe if the penalties are high enough and the costs expensive enough for more people, there'd actually be more of a push to re-think overly car dependent life.

It will optimize society overall to have risky, uninsurable drivers not driving.

It's not like healthcare. There will always be healthcare costs. We don't have to have everyone drive all the time, we choose to.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

> Driving a car uninsured should have some extremely stiff penalties.

I want to agree with you, but wonder if you have ever been poor? When you need the car to get to work so you can feed your kids, but you can't afford all of

- feed kids - rent - insurance

because you got hit by a surprise medical bill (kid got sick, maybe?)

I'm strongly in favor of your end goal (less car-dependent life), I'm just cautious about using punishment as a way to get there.

Unless we made the fine proportional to income?

ds_opseeker commented on Repair and Remain (2022) comment.org/repair-and-re... · Posted by u/yarapavan

beaglesss · a year ago

I built my house from nothing, not even utilities, by myself working full time and with kids.

Sure kids activities have to go on a back burner, but sorry, they have food and shelter and after that their enjoyment has to take a backseat to the family building the house which benefits us far longer than the memories of the park or soccer practice.

I respect choices of others but ultimately I see no reason to place childrens non-needs above critical family infrastructure.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

Beaglesses, insofar as there are sides to take here, I like yours. I would hope only that you had the option to include your children in some of the building activity-- your comment suggests you did.

Building the family's house alongside Dad sounds much more valuable than anything they would have learned playing on the school's soccer team.

ds_opseeker commented on Repair and Remain (2022) comment.org/repair-and-re... · Posted by u/yarapavan

sokoloff · a year ago

Indeed. For me to end up with the same amount of money after paying a company $100 rather than doing something myself, I have to go out and make an extra $167. That company probably then pays the actual worker something between $25 and $50, so I have to have a quite high multiple (plus the opportunity to just go work a small amount extra for pay) to make the trade make economic sense.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

All of which is strong argument in favor of replacing all income tax with land tax.

The idea starts to make a lot of sense once you look at its framing. This includes the argument you make above (why can't you hire help out of pre-tax income, like any other business can?) and more on the legitimacy of taxation.

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/georgism-revisited/

ds_opseeker commented on The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020) thedrive.com/news/33416/t... · Posted by u/austinallegro

aleksiy123 · a year ago

If you like this sort of stuff this BERTONE video always inspires me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDCCXNg0Cc

Wonder if there are any css/ui kits for this sort of analog retro style?

ds_opseeker · a year ago

Bertone seems to still be offering cars https://bertone.it/

price point is a little higher than the cybertruck, but hey, probably worth it.

ds_opseeker commented on Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic (2020) generativist.falsifiable.... · Posted by u/Bluestein

cek · a year ago

Instead of viewing Dunbar's number as a law, I view it as a sometimes useful, mental model. This article is about how Dunbar's number, as a mental model, breaks down when applied to social media. It makes a strong case for that.

Like all mental models, Dunbar's number is not perfect. However, readers who stop after the introduction of this article may be left thinking it's not useful at all.

I find it very useful in helping leaders in early-stage organizations that are growing fast recognize why the tools & techniques they've used to get to 30-80 people are breaking down as they approach 100-150 people. It helps frame why new tools & techniques for organization and communication are required.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

Dunbar told me it grows by approximately tripling. And yes, when you cross a Dunbar bound the old tools and techniques fail in surprising ways.

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ds_opseeker commented on It's not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age knowablemagazine.org/cont... · Posted by u/Hooke

jhedwards · a year ago

Recently I was struck by the fact that some people have an internal monologue and others don't, and some people can see vivid images in their mind and some can't see anything at all. These seem like very dramatic differences to me.

I'm skeptical that we are less diverse than other species. In a herd in nature, exposed to the wild, exposed to predators and food scarcity, there is not much room for diversity: you must be able to survive. In human society, on the other hand, we live in an artificial environment insulated from those risks, and where any number of skills are sufficient for survival: you can be funny, musical, logical, artistic, patient and caring, mathematical, strong, good at fighting etc.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

Humanity went through a genetic bottleneck about 70K years ago. As a result, there is more genetic diversity in a troop of chimpanzees than in all of the employees of Google.

So it depends how you define "diversity". I can see how from your view (range of life choices) humans today are more diverse than most species. However, if you go back not so long ago, there are species of ants with more worker roles (40+)than your typical midieval village.

ds_opseeker commented on The Truth About Linear Regression (2015) stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/TA... · Posted by u/sebg

gotoeleven · a year ago

Are there some papers in particular that you're referring to? Does the second descent happen after the model becomes overparameterized, like with neural nets? What kind of regularization?

ds_opseeker · a year ago

[Submitted on 24 Mar 2023] Double Descent Demystified: Identifying, Interpreting & Ablating the Sources of a Deep Learning Puzzle Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Zachary Robertson, Akhilan Boopathy, Kateryna Pistunova, Jason W. Rocks, Ila Rani Fiete, Oluwasanmi Koyejo

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14151

Double descent is a surprising phenomenon in machine learning, in which as the number of model parameters grows relative to the number of data, test error drops as models grow ever larger into the highly overparameterized (data undersampled) regime. This drop in test error flies against classical learning theory on overfitting and has arguably underpinned the success of large models in machine learning. This non-monotonic behavior of test loss depends on the number of data, the dimensionality of the data and the number of model parameters. Here, we briefly describe double descent, then provide an explanation of why double descent occurs in an informal and approachable manner, requiring only familiarity with linear algebra and introductory probability. We provide visual intuition using polynomial regression, then mathematically analyze double descent with ordinary linear regression and identify three interpretable factors that, when simultaneously all present, together create double descent. We demonstrate that double descent occurs on real data when using ordinary linear regression, then demonstrate that double descent does not occur when any of the three factors are ablated. We use this understanding to shed light on recent observations in nonlinear models concerning superposition and double descent. Code is publicly available

ds_opseeker commented on CrowdStrike's impact on aviation heavymeta.org/2024/07/28/... · Posted by u/jjwiseman

dailykoder · a year ago

Okay this sounds all very reasonable, but how do you know when your washing machine is finished, when it's not connected to the cloud and you won't get notified in your app? It sure is not an easy thing and the cloud helps very much here

ds_opseeker · a year ago

I'm really hoping your comment is sarcastic.

If it is serious, you could always set a timer.

ds_opseeker commented on Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control jamesbvaughan.com/volume-... · Posted by u/jamesbvaughan

XlA5vEKsMISoIln · a year ago

Amazing. This is probably the correct way do make amp controls. I'd say the volume should be a multi turn trim potentiometer in the back of the device so you don't have to brief your guests on correct operation.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

Yes, a stepped attenuator.

ds_opseeker commented on The Objects of Our Life (1983) stevejobsarchive.com/exhi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

delusional · a year ago

He didn't as much predict it as made it. He obviously didn't do it alone, but he did spend a lot of his life making those predictions (really promises) come true.

ds_opseeker · a year ago

"computers getting cheaper to under $1000."

maybe not that one :)