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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for the correction! I was mixing up "Public Benefit Corporation", which is a legal offering by state governments, and "B-Corp", which is a non-profit that certifies wholesome for-profit firms like the Tillamook Da
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by bbor 2y ago
You're absolutely correct that they're a for-profit firm, but you're missing that they were founded specifically over safety concerns. Basically it's not just "commercial motive" in general, it's the sense
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by bbor 2y ago
Always trippy for us apocalyptic optimists to read coverage about safety concerns and consolidating power in AI firms that reads exactly like these companies have been reporting for 20 years for smart phone apps, B2B SASS battles, and hospi
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by bbor 2y ago
Throwback to that post from this weekend about “too much efficiency is always bad”…
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by bbor 2y ago
Heh that’s a tricky one, I thought you were hyperbolic but there are indeed at least 6, many of which are in AI! This posters history has https://eigen.net in it, so I’m gonna put my money on that one ;)
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! I’ve gotta buy this book one day. The interview got a little goofy towards the end — I think we can all sorta guess what professional photographers think of digital cameras and Instagram filters, and it kind
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for the correction and expertise! Sometimes I think I've got a handle on companies, and then I see one with a director and a president and they're both on the board but the director fills two seats somehow, even though they
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by bbor 2y ago
Just read this fascinating article on HN from 2019: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... Long story short, HN is run by two people whose ethos is "change as little as possible"
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by bbor 2y ago
That is weird. They have a list of the results ( https://www.python.org/nominations/elections/ ), lists of boards going back a few years ( https://www.python.org/psf/board/ ), but no details
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok I wrote a long thing but answered all my questions myself. There's a whole chorus of people backing Mr. Peters up in these comments, so I thought it would be interesting to share the other side from Ms. Wages, the current Python Cza
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by bbor 2y ago
Well this is just delightful. I get why they’re trying to replicate two-letter codes, but IMO three-letter ones scan so much better, giving you, what, 26 times more options? For one thing, interplanetary caravans / stations can just us
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, the applicable standard in this case would be “Web Development” writ large. Responsiveness is a start, but consistency is one of the most important design principles, and this site seems to disrespect user expectations about layout, m
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by bbor 2y ago
I know the aesthetic is part of the “simple” appeal, but it’s just inexcusable to not have a responsive (aka “mobile friendly”) site in 2024. It’s also a great example of why I don’t trust hand-rolled guis like this, if I can avoid it: the
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by bbor 2y ago
Also, AFAICT both of those offer icons , not emojis — though at least lsd is open to manual configuration. Cute, either way! This is a way more fun way to waste time than comparing IDE fonts, thanks for sharing. Will have to try out all th
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by bbor 2y ago
I encourage you to try to move past it, you’re missing out! Of all the arbitrary cultural norms, “computers should only use icons, not emojis” is the most arbitrary. No offense ofc, and I believe you that the psychological effect is real —
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by bbor 2y ago
If you find the time, could you clarify what you mean by the "thetan" comment? Isn't that the Scientology demon analogue? If you Kagi "penrose thetan" the only real result is this thread (the internet is amazing..
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by bbor 2y ago
I clicked because "collect threatened plants" sounds like a humorously ironic undertaking, but wow, I was not at all prepared to be this impressed. I've been behind the times! This company promotes it pretty convincingly (&#x
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting! I tried it with a (famous, tbf) philosophers book and it did pretty well. Absolutely not optimized for speed, but that’s on purpose. Could you share what field/type of paper you tried? I’m not doubting you at all — I’m sur
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by bbor 2y ago
In what way can you consider a point of view without considering it to have merit? He’s not discussing relativism (everyone is right about everything), just social evaluation of epistemological credentials. Aka “merit”. Re: the broader ques
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by bbor 2y ago
Why would “my decisions are determined by sub-nuclear divine dice rolls” be any closer to free will than “my decisions are determined by algorithms operating on my sensory inputs and memories”? What’s more “free” about introducing that fact
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by bbor 2y ago
"Since we don't know of another (i.e,. classical) way that anesthetic binding to microtubules would generally reduce brain activity and cause unconsciousness," Wiest says, "this finding supports the quantum model of
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by bbor 2y ago
We accidentally invented general models that can coherently muse about the philosophical beliefs of Gilles Deleuze at length, and accurately, based on two full books that they summarized. You can be cynical until your dying day, that’s your
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah I totally get people’s criticisms that the podcasts aren’t quite human-expert-level in terms of symbolic reasoning, but this still blows my mind. The intuitive skill these show, not to mention the ability to accurately (again, if shall
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm. Assuming I’m on board with apocalypse, this kinda seems like a hat on a hat. Couldn’t we destroy the magnetosphere and vent the atmosphere with less energy than it would take to get all that carbon out? Or, hell, deorbit the moon one m
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, just had to comment because this one is hilarious. Everyone else has the typical "I built my own accounting CLI" or "I'm thinking about maybe publishing my devtool", and you're over here casually describin
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by bbor 2y ago
Oh crud, I never check the usernames posting when I should. Thanks for the polite response to a somewhat aggressive comment! I will admit, I stopped reading at "bollocks" thinking the rest would be about your disfavored news sites
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by bbor 2y ago
Ahh, the anti-AI vitriol strikes again. I think it crops up because there’s such an overwhelming emotional undercurrent of futility, like how I feel when I consider capitalism; it seems like a natural reaction to scream back, to make yourse
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by bbor 2y ago
I wonder: is there anything more predictive of success than being clever, brave, and persistent? Yes: wealth. That’s just an empirical fact, even if it’s an uncomfortable one that doesn’t help with individual ambition. If you think
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by bbor 2y ago
Great article, from a technical perspective! I would say it’s more a “nomenclature” than a “taxonomy” because it’s neither exhaustive nor discrete (by design), but I might be mistaken there. I loved the physical examples for each especially
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by bbor 2y ago
Woah that’s an unexpected and very hot take! What application of PCA are you familiar with that’s flawed? I learned it in the context of data science, where a) parameter normalization is a very important setup step, and b) it has directly o

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