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by bcherny 2y ago
That’s fair — Apple might be in violation of CAN-SPAM, but not the proposed law.
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by bcherny 2y ago
Unless you’re an iPhone user and it’s a promotional email from Apple, in which case there is no way to unsubscribe (“3 free months of Apple Arcade!”)..
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by bcherny 2y ago
Luckily, the same person bringing this tech to market (Sam Altman) sells the solution to the trust problems his tech will create (WorldCoin).
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by bcherny 2y ago
Looks cool! Unclear from the docs, but does it support non-English languages? How about mixed-language interviews?
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by bcherny 2y ago
This collection of short stories was my first introduction to Egan, and my first real experience with hard sci-fi. Egan’s stories don’t have the best story lines or character development, but they are uniquely realistic and based in science
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by bcherny 2y ago
A lot of people in this thread are criticizing GraphQL. The reality is that GraphQL is a great tool for one job: building APIs that scale across thousands of engineers, billions of users, and many megawatts of machines. This is what we use
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by bcherny 2y ago
That’s true for AI, but it is not the right way to think about AGI. For AGI, the bet is that someone will build an AI capable enough to automate AI development. Once we get there it will pay for itself. The question is what the cost-speed t
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by bcherny 2y ago
Maybe it’s the fact they’re air conditioned, and an easy respite from 100 degree/100% humidity summer heat? At least that’s what it was for me as a tourist.
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by bcherny 2y ago
There’s many ways to style things on the web and in apps, but every framework has to grapple with a number of constraints: - Usability (if a design system is too unfamiliar, people won’t use your product) - Ability to compose components - A
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by bcherny 2y ago
Scott Aaronson’s Quantum Computing Since Democritus is a clear, entertaining explanation of computational complexity theory as applied to both classical and quantum computers. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and have recommended it to a numb
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by bcherny 2y ago
This ex-OpenAI engineer’s recent essay makes the case that LLMs are progressing at 5x the rate of Moore’s Law across a number of dimensions: compute, efficiency, and capability: https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to
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by bcherny 2y ago
Claude 3.5 is not bad… Ellie sells shells. Bob, slob hobo, sees Ellie. Bob begs Ellie, "Sell shells." Ellie giggles, "Gosh, hello!" Bob loses. Bob sobs. Ellie sees Bill. Bill sells bibles. Ellie lies, "Bill, sell bi
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by bcherny 2y ago
Awesome!! Seems like the API docs haven't been updated yet: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models
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by bcherny 2y ago
Cute, when they aren't trying to eat my phone.
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NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use(borischerny.com)
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ES Modules Are a Mess(borischerny.com)
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by bcherny 2y ago
Cool writeup! This has got to be one of the biggest security bounties ever paid out, right?
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Poll: Do you use Anthropic or OpenAI APIs?
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by bcherny 2y ago
Anthropic (Claude Opus)
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Anthropic (Claude Sonnet)
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OpenAI (GPT 4o)
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OpenAI (GPT 3.5 Turbo)
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Google (Gemini 1.5 Flash)
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Other
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by bcherny 2y ago
Also see Greg Egan’s Clockwork Rocket, where this is a key plot point.
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by bcherny 2y ago
I am confused where the word “portal” comes from. Researchers used ground-penetrating radar to find a potential structure underground. What does that have to do with a portal?
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by bcherny 2y ago
(American that has been living in Japan for a number of years here.) There are a few factors that make Japanese people skinnier on average: 1. Genetics (compared to westerners, not to Hawaiians like the article said) 2. A culture of fat sha
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by bcherny 2y ago
Also see Greg Egan’s Diaspora, really great sci-fi that explores this idea.
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by bcherny 2y ago
Yes, I agree. That's a less loaded way of explaining it.
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by bcherny 2y ago
The wealth transfer hypothesis I didn’t really get, but their other hypothesis that it’s a way to nudge non-employees out of the fund is probably right.

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