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by axg11 4y ago
I agree - misguided attempts to make everything "web3" shouldn't take away from the huge amount of value that future web3 services can bring, even if they are vastly outnumbered by web2 services forever.
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> But successful internet communities do everything in their power to remain walled gardens. What could they possibly have to gain by doing this? Like what would Reddit gain by moving Reddit Gold to the blockchain? We have to reimagine e
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I'm not sure I understand your question, genuinely. There are of course costs for the benefits that come with web3: protocols are slow to evolve, and infrastructure is less efficient when we require a distributed consensus. Anyone that
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It's strange that people lump these four together. There's a marked difference between Facebook/Instagram (friends first, sharing encouraged by all users) vs. Twitter/TikTok (mainly acting as a broadcast medium with a lo
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Some benefits that I think web3 can bring to the user: - Universal login: An alternative to "Sign in with Google/Apple/XYZ" that can't be denied by a corporation. There are countless examples of these companies deac
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Is there a list of equivalent excellent resources for other languages? I'm familiar with JS and Python - I'd love to get up to speed with other languages this way.
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If you’re interested in questions about effective science funding, single cell transcriptomics is an interesting field to study. Quick primer for those unfamiliar with single cell transcriptomics (ELI18 level): it’s a technique where you ta
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Do you know which website you’re on?
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I think AI will largely remain an input-output tool. We still need to prepare ourselves for the scenario where for most input-output tasks, AI will be preferable to humans. Science is an interesting field to focus on. There is so much scien
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You're right. I didn't word that very well. Human intelligence vs. AI will always have different qualities as long as one is biological vs. silicon based. I still think we'll be surprised how quickly AI can catches up to huma
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Slowly but surely we're moving towards general AI. There is a marked split across general society and even ML/AI specialists between those who think that we can achieve AGI using current methods and those who dismiss the possibili
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I don't understand what you mean by unusable. I just went to Airbnb.ca, typed in a postal code in the very big entry form at the top, chose the next two nights and immediately received relevant results.
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Layoffs? Maybe. Paycut? Not at their existing companies. There's a case to be made that too many tech companies scaled too quickly. Fundamentally, Coinbase is still a solid company, they may have overextended hiring but their core busi
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They are trying to do everything: - Professional trading platform (Coinbase Pro) - On-ramp for the masses (Coinbase) - NFT marketplace (Coinbase NFT) - web3 infrastructure (Coinbase Cloud) - Debit card w/ crypto rewards (Coinbase Card)
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Apple Maps becoming good is a testament to Apple’s engineering culture and relentlessness. They made the decision, 9 years ago, to provide an alternative to Google Maps. They kept iterating on the product despite being inferior during the e
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I get that - but why was this not priced in? Interest rate rises and tapering of QE has been on the cards for a while. The economic impact of COVID is inevitably transient. Why has this suddenly dawned on the market?
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Ask HN: Why is the market favouring companies with FCF?
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Congrats to the Huggingface team! They closed this round at a great time. I except there will be much stronger pressure over the next 18-24 months for them to show revenue growth.
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We were promised the roaring ‘20s. Instead the party’s over, every tech company is pulling back plans and preparing for a multi-year recession. The tone of these emails is odd to me. Dara is not stupid, he must know that Uber is bloated and
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by axg11 4y ago
Other replies have focused on cost of living. I believe that's one factor but everybody underestimates the reluctance to relocate and willingness to relocate factors. After accounting for cost of living, you're still _far_ better
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I have had this same thought in the past. I came to the conclusions that it’s a psychological trick we’re playing on ourselves. The mitigation against such a low risk event is not worth the price we’re paying. - sent from my iPhone
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I am working for Amazon, fully from home. Zero expectation to ever step into the office. Each organization within Amazon is taking a different approach, leading to a lot of variability. Throwing this information out there in case anyone is
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Have you ever read stories written by young children? Kids learning to write have similar issues albeit with a much smaller vocabulary.
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You're already doing it for free. Language models are trained on general internet corpora.
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It's a testament to the progress in AI/ML in the last 5 years that we're now at the point where we're having to examine what human intelligence is. Every time AI surpasses a previously set benchmark, we raise the bar for
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You are not wrong, although I don't believe this will be the death of Plaid. Their growth is certainly limited. Plaid should focus on improving their product. They made a mistake by not expanding into related product segments. Now they
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Thought provoking write up. I think with GPT-3/Co-pilot and DALL-E 2 we're seeing the advent of a new computing interface and information paradigm. We're very early. The old/existing way is: humans produce content (writi
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Higher rates are coming, that's certain. Is there any work on estimating what the optimal interest rate is to combat the high inflation that we're seeing? I'm not an economist so perhaps the question doesn't make sense.
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Great acquisition in the short-medium term for Shopify. I do wonder how Shopify will differentiate itself in the long term. From the outside it looks like Shopify’s plan to compete with Amazon is to handle more of the logistics, create an a
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This is bad. Stripe doesn't have to provide the best service here. A lot of companies already use Stripe making the barrier to trying this out very low. Likewise for startups, if you're already trying out Stripe billing for your M

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