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by JeremyNT 3y ago
pg can both respect Altman's abilities, while concluding that his presence could be detrimental to his own objectives. It's not in either man's interests to create drama, either. It all makes me wonder what really happened wi
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Yeah he played it very well. He's essentially getting off with a slap on the wrist, 50m is nothing given his wealth. The fines against the company are also a pittance compared to Binance's annual revenue. The moral for white colla
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Yeah, and a plausible explanation for everything is that the board realized that they were beholden to MS, and this was a last ditch effort to claw back some power before they were de facto just the MS AI division. Maybe the board thought t
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Consider that Altman was a founder of OpenAI and has been the only consistent member of the board for its entire run. The board as currently constituted isn't some random group of people - Altman was (or should have been) involved in t
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
There's no way to read any of this other than that the entire operation is a clown show. All respect to the engineers and their technical abilities, but this organization has demonstrated such a level of dysfunction that there can&#x27
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Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down(reuters.com)
151 points by JeremyNT 3y ago|74 comments
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I mean, the wording leaves much to the imagination. I'm trying to read the tea leaves and there seem to be quite a few reminders that OpenAI is a non-profit, it's supposed to further the goals of all humanity (despite its great fi
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
This is exactly what has always kept me bouncing off of these things. As a vim user I can reach a sort of uncanny valley where the core editing loop feels "right," but I end up having to fight against all that muscle memory when i
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Wegovy's heart benefits due to more than weight loss, Novo says(reuters.com)
37 points by JeremyNT 3y ago|16 comments
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> I think the best reaction would be shame. Just a big round of shame for a trillion dollar company being so greedy to cripple their top equipment. You're not going to shame a company into changing how it does market segmentation.
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> I also have kdeconnect installed on everything, but android will remove its permissions if I don't use it often enough. Kde connect is also great! You can prevent Android from revoking permissions under the app info menu. It'
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I not infrequently drive between Chicago and Nashville and I'm struck by how many turbines I pass if I take a route that goes through Indiana. For whatever reason I see far fewer on the route that stays in Illinois, which isn't ve
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Personally I don't partake - but they get a value in it, I guess. Who am I to judge? The thing about gambling is it's a zero sum game. It doesn't enable any "real" productivity, it's just passing money aro
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Note the negative tone about having our phones actually work longer, last longer and be usable longer without draining our money just to keep the threadmill rolling. Indeed, it's a really positive development. Finally this marke
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> In general, AI is data hungry and college kids in their dorm room will always be at a disadvantage in that regard compared to large companies (many of which locked down scraping on their properties, even if "their" content is
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I too am seeing a bunch of downloads listed here, none of which are known to me. Either I've got some unauthorized use of my network or this data is invalid. Clicking through on their site to the "IP List" for any of the entr
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
It's not loading for me, here's a nitter link: https://nitter.cz/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I personally doubt I could ever really tell a 1F difference. Other factors (sunlight, wind, humidity) make that level of precision kind of useless for a "how does it feel" situation, which IMO just further degrades the value of
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Fahrenheit is far superior of a system, where 0 to 100 roughly reflects the range of temperatures one might expect in the lower 48. When you are outside that range, you know you’re in for very uncomfortable weather. Celsius doesn’t giv
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
This software just saved my bacon! I dropped my phone and the screen broke. The touchscreen worked, but no backlight. Luckily I had enabled Android debugging. It took a bit of trial and error but I managed to unlock the phone and then accep
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
I would by a car like the ID.3 tomorrow, but they won't sell it in the US. The US market is so weird. Mostly dominated by very expensive, very large vehicles. Yet, it seems like the kind of consumer who might want a EV is also the ki
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Moving back to the US after living abroad I was used to month long holidays. I applied to a few companies and tried to negotiate 5 weeks PTO. They wouldn't budge. Then 4 weeks. Still no. I offered to drop my salary in exchange fo
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870437
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They also mention "equivalent experience" so I'd imagine that isn't a hard requirement. Up to 140k as a technical writer sounds pretty amazing, although I imagine LWN is the "major leagues" of tech writing so t
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
That's the point/trick of the status quo. It's impossible as a "consumer" to make choices that can meaningfully impact anybody's behavior in a system like this. The only way to achieve a change in behavior in c
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> That's an amazing cop out. Companies are run by people, people make the decisions, and ethics/morality can have an impact on the bottom line. Using "it's a company, ethics aren't real" is just an excuse pe
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Nitter link: https://nitter.cz/jason_kint/status/1718830641016414657
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> The paper he links to [1] broadly agrees with his statement, eg "An estimated 1 in 270 women who underwent a coronary angiography CT at age 40 will develop cancer from that CT (1 in 600 men), compared with an estimated 1 in 8,100
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Proxmox and a full rack of Supermicro gear would not be as sophisticated, but end result is pretty much the same, with I imagine far far better bang for buck. I think the question is how well they can do the management plane. Dealing w
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
> They mentioned it really quickly in their Oxide an Friends podcast but, IIRC, prices start at $500k. Some of the audience asked if they were going to do a smaller configuration like half or quarter rack. And they said they were looking

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