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by awongh 10mo ago
> The love for diesel engines in many European countries was always confusing to me. And turns out the whole thing was a lie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal It's unfortunate that so much
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by awongh 10mo ago
Paramount is dead?
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by awongh 10mo ago
To be fair people used to have their tv (or even radio) on all the time. I’m not sure this is that much different. If anything the quality has gone up in the sense that maybe you have a bit more choice about what you put on in the backgroun
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by awongh 10mo ago
In terms of people who actually like movies and music it’s not a great time. Unfortunately it’s pretty clear that the true business model of music and content streamers is about “putting something on in the background” and not actually abou
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by awongh 10mo ago
This seems to be for chips put in phones in 2026? I thought these orders were booked further in advance, or is that only for processors?
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by awongh 10mo ago
> Automatic creation of an initial billboard: Upon starting the program, a predefined list of movies currently showing must be automatically generated, including their details (title, genre, duration, and showtimes). I would say that the
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by awongh 10mo ago
It's too bad, because AI could be a new way of buying things. It will probably still be a new way of buying things- I hope an AI assisted shopping experience continues to exist on some platform, because I want to use it. I already use
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by awongh 11mo ago
I always thought it was interesting that, I guess due to Arab racism, it's also not very represented in the community of Islam. Like, Indonesia (and together with Malaysia) makes up a really significant portion of all muslims. As an ou
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by awongh 11mo ago
To add some more detail regarding the new capital, Jakarta has some structural governance problems in the sense that it's very hard to improve infrastructure improve / stop the sinking of the city (mostly caused from over reliance
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by awongh 11mo ago
From what I understand chemicals were analogous to computer internet technology at that time. A lot of rapid development of new things that went on to fundamentally change society- the modern world relies on synthetic chemicals and no one r
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by awongh 1y ago
Now that Nvidia is the most valuable company, all this talk of actual AGI will be washed away by the huge amount of dollars driving the hype train. Most of these companies value is built on the idea of AGI being achievable in the near futur
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by awongh 1y ago
As I said above, I think it's likely they don't do that much about fake adsense clicks. Fraudulently creating traffic and charging you for it is a whole other level of scam, though.
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by awongh 1y ago
The distinction is between Google looking the other way if AdSense publishers are making them money, and Google generating their own fake traffic on their own search intent inventory. I'd say it's unlikely they are generating fake
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by awongh 1y ago
I don't really believe the main thesis of this article- it reads like much of the fake cliff-hanger pseudo-insight endemic to marketing and business influencers. Mainly, it avoids the main point- 73% of your traffic is "faked&quot
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by awongh 1y ago
In the supercollider forum there is talk about a wasm port of supercollider: https://scsynth.org/t/webassembly-support/3037 I wonder if that could be used at some point.
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by awongh 1y ago
This is cool because a lot of the current tools are a bit old and I feel a bit like they suffer from NIH (not invented here) syndrome, where what is actually needed is for things to just be in javascript. This wasn’t possible as much when t
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by awongh 1y ago
11k daily users is very good even without this so-called "product mindset"!
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by awongh 1y ago
What I mean is that they'll be banned because people are dying / some viral incident causes public sentiment to turn against the technology.
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by awongh 1y ago
I think it's very possible that we won't get self-driving cars because, similar to nuclear energy, we'll decide that the risks aren't worth it. But it'll be based on risks introduced by preventable human error- hubr
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by awongh 1y ago
I thought this was a good take: https://youtu.be/rslcr774JXM?si=KzjiSwC3hBE14zLZ Basically the economies of scale and different route topography (hub & spoke vs. distributed) that powered low cost airlines in the past d
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by awongh 1y ago
> Why would it be enough? It worked out just fine? Are you saying that post-2003 internet access should have had more regulation to allow open access? I've never heard anyone complain about that before- is there a specific issue tha
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by awongh 1y ago
You're implying only 4 years of regulation was enough to shift the balance of power between telecoms and smaller ISPs." If it's true that this regulation was what helped jumpstart the internet it's an interesting counter
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by awongh 1y ago
True! I just know that model optimization gains are much less guaranteed than say, FLOP density, even though model optimization has so far provided way more gains than hardware advancements. Part of me is optimistic that when the AI bubble
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by awongh 1y ago
The 2nd order effect that not a lot of people talk about is price: the fact that model scaling at this pace also correlates with price is amazing. I think this is just as important to distribution of AI as model intelligence is. AFAIK there
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by awongh 1y ago
This is the classic urbanist anti-bike tragedy of the commons that is referenced often. People use cars because they are (rightly) concerned about safety. People avoid using bikes because there are so many cars. It’s very hard to ban cars o
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by awongh 1y ago
From an outsider perspective these kinds of insights make me think: Is it just a coincidence that a lot of the recent innovations in the space look very common sense in hindsight: - if we train the model to "think" through the ans
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by awongh 1y ago
> All the innovation is coming "top-down" from very well funded companies - many of them tech incumbents What I always thought was exceptional is that it turns out it wasn't the incumbents who have the obvious advantage. T
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by awongh 1y ago
Yeah it's crazy that everyone in america is like, "I need a place to live" and at the same time is also like, "I get a subsidized loan to make a huge real estate investment, let me balance my decision about where to live
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by awongh 1y ago
It also mentions that during covid there were co-ops that went bankrupt. But they don't mention what the mechanism for that was- mismanagement?
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by awongh 1y ago
> end the various implicit and explicit subsidies on mortgages and homeownership, keep speculators, investors, and big developers out of the market, and focus on owner occupied dwellings Yes, totally agree. I think my impression of TIC

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