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by benzible 3y ago
Substack has plenty of stigma [1], esp. among the type of people who left Twitter because they don't appreciate Elon's right wing extremism, including endorsement of actual Nazis [2] [1] https://cybernews.com/news&
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by benzible 3y ago
Agree with a lot of this but Dorsey doesn't run Bluesky. The project was initiated at Twitter while he was CEO and he's on the board of the company, but he's not the day to day operator.
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by benzible 3y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39196390
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by benzible 3y ago
I would check this out: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-... ( https://archive.li/KDdls ) It links to some deeper dives into issues with his other books.
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by benzible 3y ago
Perhaps another hit single lurks within the presets! https://www.musicradar.com/news/damon-albarn-gorillaz-clint-...
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by benzible 3y ago
Look at the long list of massive fines levied on the US tech giants for GDPR violations [1]. Every one of them consulted lawyers (and likely substantially ignored their advice). [1] https://www.enzuzo.com/blog/biggest-g
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by benzible 3y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35857463
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by benzible 3y ago
I'm not an expert on their product but there's an FAQ: https://www.impulselabs.com/faqs BTW for a much more detailed answer to your original question of what's new, and of why this is important: https:/
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by benzible 3y ago
The "actually new" thing here is that you won't have to rewire your kitchen for 240 as you would with most induction stoves. In the SF Bay Area, the electrical work could cost you $15K. Also, with tax credits and state /
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by benzible 3y ago
There’s also Channing Street Copper which has an oven as well: https://www.channingcopper.com/ - same concept with built-in battery. I’d love to see this idea applied to a tankless electric hot water heater.
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by benzible 3y ago
Her relationship with Ackman is more recent (Google her and you’ll see that she dated Brad Pitt a few years ago). The MIT Media Lab operates quite differently from other MIT departments. Its emphasis is pretty explicitly on sexy demos above
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by benzible 3y ago
Cool, so we've established that you're somewhere on the spectrum from indifferent to supportive of the agenda of a man who is pretty explicitly trying to bring Orban-style authoritarianism to the US [1]. Personally, I'm far m
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by benzible 3y ago
Great, so we're on the same page that investigating Oxman's academic output was an effective tactic for BI. Now if we're just going to focus on the social impact, I guess it depends on what it is that you'd like to see &
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by benzible 3y ago
Wife of guy moralizing about plagiarism and making sweeping racialized claims is quite relevant, not to mention that it's belittling to Oxman to reduce her solely to "wife of Ackman". She was a very high profile academic prio
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by benzible 3y ago
First, she didn't cop to the wholesale Wikipedia copying that BI later found. A truly "gracious" response would be to fully come clean. Second, presumably she signed off on Ackman's response, which was to launch an inves
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by benzible 3y ago
Do you have a reason to doubt their methodology? Pollsters working for news organizations with an editorial point of view still produce accurate poll. In the US, Fox News, which I think can be fairly characterized as an arm of the Republica
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by benzible 3y ago
In the mid-80s I learned Apple II hi-res assembly language graphics from a series of articles in Creative Computing. Based on this, I wrote a tool in BASIC to spit out pre-shifted shape tables for use in games. As a high school kid without
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by benzible 3y ago
The idea that "Q*" represents a fundamental breakthrough toward the goal of "AGI" seems overblown to me, as the supposed breakthrough is limited to closed-domain reasoning problems. Defining a reward function that can be
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by benzible 3y ago
The video hints at why achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) is so difficult. As an example, it points out that AlphaGo was able to surpass human Go players by playing against itself, which worked because winning Go games provides
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by benzible 3y ago
Types are coming... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36311875 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35766126 Re: "You use both <%= %> and {} to interpolate in phoenix templates, depending
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by benzible 3y ago
"Moving to Kotlin first" is a long way from "doesn't use anymore". I suspect that they're still running a lot of Elixir code in production. This was the case more than a year after this announcement, per a conv
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by benzible 3y ago
Maybe consider just using Elixir / Phoenix? To the extent that there's any traction around web development with BEAM-based languages, it's around this stack and even then, market share is very small. Given what's perceiv
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by benzible 3y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/openai-ne... ( https://archive.vn/hLl2l ) A group of OpenAI executives and investors racing to get Sam Altman reinstated to his role as chief
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by benzible 3y ago
New developments faster than you can read the stories about them... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/ousted-openai-... ( https://archive.vn/4U6tu )
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by benzible 3y ago
First, I didn't say that Google "wanted to reward abusers". I was simply countering the parent commenter's use of Rubin's payout as an example of what typically happens when an executive is fired for sexual miscondu
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by benzible 3y ago
"Shenanigans" would not be a remotely accurate way to characterize sexual assault on a minor. Not meant as a comment on the truth of these allegations, just on the accuracy of this way of characterizing them. As far as whether thi
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by benzible 3y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114798
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by benzible 3y ago
See: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:... Capital Raise 4,281 days since Elon Musk said Tesla will never need to raise capital again. (2/12/2012) "Tesla does not need to ever raise
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by benzible 3y ago
Do you actually limit your opinions to people you've met, based on your personal interactions with them? Do you consider your personal impressions of someone to be a better way of evaluating their truthfulness than the public record of
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by benzible 3y ago
AI / ML has been integrated into applicant tracking systems for a lot longer than two years.

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