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by bbor 2y ago
Over now, and pretty short/light on info AFAICT. That said, knowing what we know now about Altman made me physically unable to watch while he engages in sustained eye contact with the camera, so maybe missed something while skimming! O
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by bbor 2y ago
I... can you explain, or point to some competitors...? To me this looks leagues ahead of everything else. But maybe I'm behind the game? AFAIK based on HuggingFace trending[1], the competitors are: - bytedance/animatediff-lightn
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, 2400y at least… I guess you mean quantitative logical calculus notation? - the local Russell hater
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by bbor 2y ago
Any regime change that involves freeing many thousands of women and children from prisons notorious for torture and mass-executions seems like a decent one! The future is uncertain, but it's not like "everyone chills out and gets
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by bbor 2y ago
He started the company - I’m no Elon fan myself, but that’s the case. Also, you’re disagreeing with him anyway; he’s saying that starting a company who’s defining purpose was to avoid a for-profit race to AGI and then immediately pivot to r
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by bbor 2y ago
It’s the so called “economic” definition. You’re absolutely right to call out that it’s not very philosophically valuable, but they were trying to be pragmatic — and it was kinda hard to imagine, anyway. Of course it’s being thrown out the
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by bbor 2y ago
I really didn't expect such a response from HN! I guess the Elon energy is still going strong. Thanks for staying polite though :) probably the only place on the internet where polite convos about such a divisive topic/figure&#x2F
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, they're Google -- I'm guessing they're pulling out their "pointcloud of the entire world" for this one. The first point is a great one, tho; rideshare companies exist by offloading as much cost as possible o
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by bbor 2y ago
I imagine it's hard to quantify "profit" with such a research-driven org. It's like penciling out the profitability of the metaverse after years of $XX billion dollar losses. In general I get the sense that Waymo is more
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by bbor 2y ago
Good point! Though also worth mentioning that they're already in Atlanta, which gets ~50in (and 59in so far this year, despite the mind-bending "first October without rain in recorded history")
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by bbor 2y ago
Ahh thanks! I was gonna say it's broken, but I now see that you're supposed to notice the sidebar changed and select one of the child pages. Would def recommend changing the sidebar link to that path instead of the index -- I woul
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by bbor 2y ago
Followup: is this a protocol yet, or just a set of libraries? This page is empty: https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/
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by bbor 2y ago
I've been implementing a lot of this exact stuff over the past month, and couldn't agree more. And they even typed the python SDK -- with pydantic !! An exciting day to be an LLM dev, that's for sure. Will be immediately swi
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by bbor 2y ago
Hard agree -- this one is especially bad because it's gendered. We'll see what happens, but I'd put my money on "post" winning out. There's some people on Bluesky who feel absurdly strong about this because of
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah I’m also worried about profitability, tho not particularly concerned about that particular investor, personally; all VCs are inherently amoral profit generators. They are a “benefit corporation” like anthropic, which gives them some le
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by bbor 2y ago
Pretty awesome! Convenience link to the fascinating github issue linked at the bottom, featuring Bluesky celebrity pfrazee: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/523 I have a lot of hope for AT. I&
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by bbor 2y ago
SavedYouAClick: no
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20 Fun Facts about Bluesky to celebrate 20M users (from their CEO)(bsky.app)
5 points by bbor 2y ago|2 comments
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by bbor 2y ago
A) incredible article, one of the few where I didn’t feel compelled to give up and find the underlying paper. Well written, beautiful diagrams, appreciably concise. Thanks for posting! B) The image of ~starlings hanging out with dinosaurs b
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating. IDK how exactly I'd accomplish their goals without federal/state funds or building some housing (can you imagine??), but I feel like "AI in city hall" is not likely to be helpful. Also, isn't Sam suppos
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MathML: The Math Markup Language (proposed 2004 baseline in 2023)(developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by bbor 2y ago|0 comments
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by bbor 2y ago
I don’t think I can argue the full thing myself, but FWIW, they don’t see AT as a less-free counterpart. The general idea is that they’re offering OSS data that any host can consume, rather than a network of decentralized hosts. Kinda cleve
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by bbor 2y ago
What if we took these micro services and grouped them into a single block so they can talk to each other faster? Call it… a macroservice!
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by bbor 2y ago
“You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications” is false, which would make that title clickbait, specifically of the “ragebait” family. You obviously shouldn't build interactive pure-HTML apps, but that
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, it’s evidence that a) must be verified on a mathematical and empirical level, and b) (arguably) fits better with a currently unpopular theory than the dominant one. There’s so many unknowns in physics that opponents can easily reply
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by bbor 2y ago
Well put, thanks for sharing! Never saw it phrased in such a clear narrative. As a novice, it seems like there's one big difference between those anecdotes and the current situation, though: sample size. Sure, if we were observing Andr
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, there were literal white supremacists back then; not in a pejorative sense, but, like, in the “white people are genetically superior” sense. There were absolutely people voting for a non-Irish, Italian, catholic, Jewish, or god-forb
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by bbor 2y ago
Very true! But I’d still argue the idea that (partially) relying on commentary is what causes bias is hubristic; in practice, it usually just means that you’re relying on commentary without realizing it. Like, take the instance mentioned in
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by bbor 2y ago
A) love to see some serious philosophy on hacker news! Well argued, and impressively interdisciplinary. Of course, this also means I’ve just gotta nitpick. B) The analytic mindset (worldview, even) rears its head yet again, with the same ol
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by bbor 2y ago
Looks awesome! Been doing a lot of OCR recently, and love the addition to the space. The reigning champion in the PDF -> Markdown space (AFAIK) is Facebook's Nougat[1], and I'm excited to hook this up to DSPy and see which work

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