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by baxtr 11mo ago
I do not. But I found a great comment on HN recently about Tinnitus. Was quite helpful for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37855888
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Now everyone including me wants to know your top 4!
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Revenues are up massively, across the board for the big companies but interestingly enough also for startups like ChatGPT, Loveable, Cursor etc. Which is again totally different than last time where mostly startups were driving the insane v
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by baxtr 11mo ago
No, it doesn’t. Go and actually read the crazy story about startups like Global Crossing. Crazy amount of funding, little to no revenue, no competitive moat, no demand. Compare that to today, and you see only the crazy amount of funding par
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Yes exactly, doing nothing or doing something is the same. We are part of the ecosystem. So any discussion we’re having is also part of being and operating in the ecosystem…
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by baxtr 11mo ago
I guess it’s a fair point. But then again, since as you argue (rightfully so!) that I’m also part of the ecosystem: me caring and expressing doubts is actually working as the ecosystem. That’s how I’m being (virtually) a part of it.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
I am no expert at all in this topic! So please take this with a grain of salt. I just have the feeling (maybe wrongly) that the love and focus for bees is having detrimental/ unwanted effects on the ecosystem. Here some more articles &
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Not that I want to curb your enthusiasm for bees, but… I recently read that honey bees in particular get the most attention from humans lately, so they are kept in high numbers. This has some adversarial effect on other pollinators, which h
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by baxtr 11mo ago
This outlines the problem with most regulation: There is no/litte discussion about the trade-offs. You have to see the other side, then weigh all pros and cons and then make a decision. In most cases regulation is sold as something tha
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by baxtr 11mo ago
The problems are in the details: why are news organizations exempt from this rule in Europe? You can’t read news websites unless you accept all cookies or pay to read. Who decides these things? How is such a rule in favor of privacy? Why is
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by baxtr 11mo ago
We have one clear rule at home for the kids: YouTube long format is ok. But: no shorts, no reels, no TikTok. Any short video platform is strictly forbidden. No exceptions.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
I was under the impression for this to work like that, training data needs to be plenty. One project is not enough since it’s too "sparse". But maybe this example was used by many other people and so it proliferated?
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Yes, exactly! Selfish VC becoming filthy rich through an IPO is exactly my point. Up to an IPO a private company will only make their owners rich - in your example "selfish vulture capitalists". After an IPO anyone can participate
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Yes I agree, we need more public companies in Europe. Private companies are inherently less social since they don’t allow ordinary people to participate in growth. In this sense, they’re selfish. PS: yes I know that there are also downsides
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Who cares if a couple of websites are down a day or even two? As long as HN is up and running, everything is going to be O.K.!
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by baxtr 11mo ago
There were also reports about widespread use of captagon during the attacks of October 7th 2023.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Games continue beyond the Games themselves...
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Agreed. The one thing I’d like them to improve are the precipitation maps though. They just feel awkward and unreliable.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
This phenomenon is called "Solomon’s Paradox" - People think more clearly about other people’s problems than their own. When facing their own issues, they reason less rationally. Yet, a study from 2014 showed that seeing your own
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by baxtr 11mo ago
How is your comment different than my comment? I was not talking about its initial state nor the gradual change, but about the end state (when LLMs started becoming a thing).
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by baxtr 11mo ago
This sounds as if this is some new development. But the internet was already a place where you couldn't simply look up how to hack the government. I guess this is more akin to the darknet?
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by baxtr 11mo ago
From the article: > Summary By my count, there are three successful types of language model product: - Chatbots like ChatGPT, which are used by hundreds of millions of people for a huge variety of tasks - Completions coding products lik
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Stronger Adaptive Attacks Bypass Defenses Against LLM Jailbreaks(arxiv.org)
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Yeah sorry, I should have said online retailer. I had amazons original business in my mind. Of course you’re right that it’s a complex business nowadays.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Thanks for that. So in other words: something like amazon is not a good business for Buffet since they have to finance the inventory for a couple of month at least?
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by baxtr 11mo ago
when you’ve worked long enough in any given industry you know that all companies "violate" standards to satisfy requirements of their product management.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Trying harder is not a strategy, which leads me to believe that guy knows nothing about the topic.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
I get that. But you have to acknowledge that this is different than McAfee. Someone used their tool to attack someone else. I don't think McAfee would boast about their tools being used for hacking.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Yes, but it’s usually cyber security companies doing this and not companies that were affected by a breach let’s say.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
Do you mind sharing a link of your linking for (a)? Thank you

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