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by benzible 1y ago
I'm sure that's true, but your personal experience as [presumably] rank-and-file wouldn't have given you visibility into C-suite machinations. The ruling in the App Store case this year documented that Cook personally overrul
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by benzible 1y ago
This isn't 'business as usual' on multiple levels. First, I never claimed Cook "supports" Trump - as I said, I suspect he personally loathes him. The point is that corporations are making unprecedented concessions t
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by benzible 1y ago
I'm sure the people you worked with still care about privacy, but these decisions get made at the top regardless of what rank-and-file employees think. Apple employees donated nearly 20:1 for Harris over Trump, so we can safely assume
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by benzible 1y ago
If we didn't already know this, Apple's previous positioning as the privacy company was just branding with zero actual conviction behind it. Now, just as ICE contracts with Paragon for zero-click spyware that bypasses encrypted ap
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by benzible 1y ago
It's not just about capacity (80% is still a lot), it's that degraded batteries lose their ability to deliver high current under load—so acceleration suffers and voltage sags under hard pulls. For grid storage, you're doing s
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by benzible 1y ago
Agree for the most part but at the SaaS company I'm at, we've built a feature using LLMs to extract structured data from large unstructured documents. Not something that's been done well in this domain and this solution works
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by benzible 1y ago
Every attempt to formally define "general intelligence" for humans has been a shitshow. IQ tests were literally designed to justify excluding immigrants and sterilizing the "feeble-minded." Modern psychometrics can'
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by benzible 1y ago
What's his estimate of how far we are from a definition of AGI?
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by benzible 1y ago
They both ultimately produce BEAM bytecode, but Gleam compiles to Erlang source first (then through the Erlang compiler), while Elixir compiles to Erlang's abstract format. Gleam doesn't prevent OTP use - it has type-safe OTP bind
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by benzible 1y ago
"Building a business is a great qualification for any management position." So the guy who owns a bunch of McDonald's franchises is qualified to manage a team of surgeons? Someone who built a successful plumbing business shou
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by benzible 1y ago
Chris McCord directly addresses this in his recent ElixirConf talk. There's a threshold amount of training data needed for LLMs to work well, and Elixir more than clears it. Beyond that threshold, having more data doesn't make a t
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by benzible 1y ago
Way to answer a comment pointing out substance-free ad hominem with... substance-free ad hominem.
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by benzible 1y ago
You're doing the thing where you ignore all the substance to concern-troll about the source. The Oliver piece walks through extensively documented failures in Weiss's work - from Times colleagues contradicting her "civil war&
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by benzible 1y ago
The Free Press makes $15M in annual revenue and sold for $150M - that's a 10x revenue multiple. That's not a business outcome, that's an ideological bailout. Ellison didn't buy this as a media investment, he bought it to
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by benzible 1y ago
https://archive.is/y2VPb
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by benzible 1y ago
If you buy her framing, sure. But the New Republic's analysis at the time called it "auto-cancellation: quitting, then blaming her peers for driving her out" - noting her resignation letter was "long on invective and jus
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by benzible 1y ago
Highly recommend John Oliver on Bari Weiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ
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by benzible 1y ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348
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by benzible 1y ago
Because tremendous rewards will spur a huge increase in research?
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by benzible 1y ago
100% agree. I'm a CTO for a vertical SaaS, working with a first-time founder with deep domain expertise. He came in with a thesis as to why our target customer was still using Excel, even though it was completely unsuited to their need
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by benzible 1y ago
Not sure but this was covered in a Slate podcast a few days ago as well: https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/09/how-teslas-...
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by benzible 1y ago
Came here to say this myself. Would like to unsee that.
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by benzible 1y ago
Are you familiar with https://github.com/elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir ?
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by benzible 1y ago
Elixir is gradually typed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914407 ...and is gradually getting more gradually typed: https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-19-0-rc-0-released/71190...
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by benzible 1y ago
I'd love to see elixir support.
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by benzible 1y ago
These guys, for one: https://www.amplified.ai See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlZHkc4Mq4
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by benzible 1y ago
Python's ecosystem is hard to beat, but Elixir/Nx already does a lot of what Mojo promises. EXLA gives you GPU/TPU compilation through XLA with similar performance to Mojo's demos, Explorer handles dataframes via Polars,
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by benzible 1y ago
"Confused" or they're incentivized to meet a quota to hang on to their jobs, and in many cases are themselves explicitly motivated by racial animus, and are fine with trampling over the law? https://newrepublic.com
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by benzible 1y ago
There's the usual issue of a CEO "talking their book" but there's also the fact that Sam has a rich, documented history of lying. That was the central issue of his firing. "Empire of AI" has a detailed account
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by benzible 1y ago
That'll pay for 50% of an AI researcher!

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