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by Uehreka 3y ago
I knew it was capital tables, but I do think we’re the only people in this thread who have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Sure sounds scandalous though.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> I don't need 12 different implementations for sorting on Vue/React/[insert spa framework of the month]. This feels like a bit of a strawman, since sorting is already in the standard library and there aren’t in fact popul
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Moreover, in the next sentence GP confesses that they “think the biggest danger from AI is that these models will be used by those who control the models to control and censor what people are allowed to write”, revealing that they too harbo
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> despite WebRTC mostly being about client/client communication This is actually kind of a misconception, though it’s an understandable one given that WebRTC is almost always pitched as a peer-to-peer protocol. In practice, most peo
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> Everyone seems to be chasing the network-accessible API approach because lock-in is easy This feels like a lazy critique. Sure companies may like the lock-in, but people are chasing the network-accessible API approach because it is way
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Bad Apple but it's a Fluid Simulation [video](youtube.com)
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> adapt or die I guess, sympathies for the dead. I dunno dog, you don’t sound super sympathetic. I’m really tired of these takes where people look at a community they aren’t a part of that’s struggling with AI-based issues, hand-wave som
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by Uehreka 3y ago
By zero bugs do you mean zero GitHub issues? Because zero GitHub issues could mean that there are security vulnerabilities but no one is reporting them because the project is marked as abandoned.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Probably because, since Masimo has Apple over a barrel, they want a large percentage of the watch.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> Rpi4s are nice, in a sense, because you can only rarely honestly claim that the speed of the system is holding you back. As someone who uses them for a variety of purposes, I gotta note that they have pretty huge limitations. Like, the
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> "The great summit of declinism" according to Adam Gopnick, "was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian Oswald Spengler's best-selling, thousand-page work
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by Uehreka 3y ago
That’s not a thing most people have set up (even if they should).
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Generally speaking, if you non-cooperate with the police that’s one class of offense, but if you lie to the police (that’s what this would be seen as) and they catch you it’s a whole ‘nother level of offense. In general, if you’re thinking
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> He can buy his own drives, with redundancy, for less than 2 months of that. He did do that. The FBI raided his house and took all the drives. In the middle of trying to get them back (it’s unclear if he’ll be able to), Google terminate
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> Why such an emphasis on what language stuff is written in? Because people are interested in the way that languages affect your ability to think and solve problems? Because different languages have different tradeoffs and the tradeoffs
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by Uehreka 3y ago
(Edit: nvm, I read TFA)
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I was looking into this recently, because I recalled seeing the video of this on Twitter a few years back and wanted to see if I could reproduce it. But the WiFi signal strength tools they used appear to be abandonware, and according to thi
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by Uehreka 3y ago
My honest advice: Get out of the Hacker News hivemind. The folks on this site act like every programming job is either at a FAANG/MAGMA company, a startup, or not in tech. They are wrong. If you are willing to look outside the valley (
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I think the concern is that if “fast takeoff” happens and “meh”-level AIs are able to create better AIs that can create better AIs, at that point it will be too late to put any sort of safety controls in place. And given how bad people have
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by Uehreka 3y ago
In that Atlantic article last night it said that ChatGPT was turned around in a matter of weeks to match a competitors offering. I don’t think Anthropic would’ve had the lead time to deliberately time this. I think it’s either serendipitous
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> An employer does not owe you an explanation. If the entire workforce of the company is credibly threatening to quit, and a competitor is publicly and credibly offering them jobs, then what the employer “owes” them in some cosmic sense
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> i'm saying something closer to: if microsoft merges with facebook, then they really are both trying to get bought by google's parent entity So you said “literal alphabet”, because you weren’t talking about Alphabet, you were
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by Uehreka 3y ago
It was, and that’s true. Until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is resigning and Sam is coming back to OpenAI. Or until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is selling to Microsoft because all of their employees are le
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by Uehreka 3y ago
People need to lay off the coffee and just chill. Yes, something big and weird is happening in the corporate structure of some of the largest companies in the world. No, it actually probably doesn't matter much to most of us. If you we
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by Uehreka 3y ago
There is also a possibility, however remote, that Aliens are involved somehow. But until we have evidence for any of these remote theories, I’d argue they’re all equally uninteresting.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> The interesting question is that now that things are a little bit settled what should we expect. I know you said “a little bit”, but I really don’t think things are settled at all. If the outcome of this is that Sam goes back to OpenAI
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by Uehreka 3y ago
You’re saying that Meta and Microsoft want to be acquired by Alphabet/Google? That doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I don’t think it’s “film purists”. I remember seeing the Hobbit at a time where I knew basically nothing about common film framerates and thinking it looked really weird. I also remember the first time my family got a motion-smoothing TV an
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I think it’s fine as long as the user can opt-out and have the opt-out stick[0]. My problem with YouTube is that I can’t tell them “when I’m not on a metered connection, blast my face with as many pixels, frames and bits of color as possibl
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Wow. Skimming through that article, the articles linked at the bottom and some of Jeff’s comments and replies to the articles, he comes across way more hardcore and intense than the chill, wholesome guy I’m used to seeing. The stuff I just

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