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by bhelkey 1y ago
> Wind has down sides like ...Birds strikes Many birds die as a result of human activity. In the US, the leading cause of these deaths is cats [1]. Cats cause four times more bird deaths than the next anthropogenic cause of death, flying
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by bhelkey 1y ago
If September 2024 marks the date in your mind stagnation was obvious, surely the last improvement must have come before? Whatever the case, there are open platforms that give users a chance to compare two anonymous LLMs and rank the models
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by bhelkey 1y ago
> [LLMs] won't get any better. Can you pinpoint the date which LLMs stagnated? More broadly, it appears to me that LLMs have improved up to and including this year. If you consider LLMs to not have improved in the last year, I can s
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by bhelkey 1y ago
This article is dated 2022. Can you append (2022) to the title?
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> The US has started the trade war against EU already On March 12th the US imposed a tariff on steel/aluminum, the EU responded with an tariff of total equivalent value on US steel/aluminum/agricultural products [1]. This
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Mostly calibrated to decrease American dominance in the sector. If the EU takes actions specifically designed to hurt the US, do you think the US wouldn't respond in kind? This is ironically similar to Trump imposing tariffs on Ca
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The US Department of Justice is currently suing Apple for this exact reason [1]. They claim that Apple imposes restrictions on every non-Apple watch. Users then prefer the Apple Watch not because Apple made it better but because Apple made
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> I'm happy the people that want such a device are getting it That's the important bit. I personally don't see the value in a wifi/cellular watch when I already carry a phone that has wifi and cellular. I get a lot of
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Apple creates significant roadblocks for 3rd party accessories. Android does not. Is it really surprising that developers who love building third party accessories would choose Android?
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Two reasons: One, adding hardware to connect to WiFi and cellular increases size and power requirements. Notably, the new Pebble 's battery is projected to last 30 days. Two, people use phones. They want their watch to work with their
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by bhelkey 2y ago
~70% of the 8 billion people in this world use a smartphone [1]. It is the primary computer for a huge percentage of these people [2]. Comparing mobile phones to toasters, ovens and gaming consoles is disingenuous. [1] https://ww
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Apple sells keyboards with trackpads for the iPad [1]. [1] https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I don't particularly care for the limitations Apple puts on iPads. Instead, I have a Windows Surface that I use to mostly as a laptop and occasionally as a tablet. That being said, Apple has a 14 day return policy [1]. If you feel swin
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Two things to think about: One, as the article points out, supporting Maintainers is important. Two, many software engineers don't enjoy writing documentation. Even if it would make their lives easier. From that perspective, the majori
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Assuming I'm right, I'm not really looking forward to a point in 5 years when shareholders all suddenly decide they agree. Assuming everyone agrees Anthropic is worth very little, they still get to keep the 3.5 Billion invest
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Off the top of my head, I would count Google, Google Translate, Google Maps, Netflix, OpenAI, Uber, PayPal, Amazon, and SpaceX in the category of outsiders creating a massively influential product. You are free to pick apart the companies a
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by bhelkey 2y ago
In no particular order: * 3d Printing * Cloud Computing * The iPhone * Google * Google Translate * Google Maps * CRISPR * Netflix * SpaceX * Electric Vehicles * OpenAI * Drones You may not include Uber in that list, but I would. I vividly r
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I remember taxis before Uber/Lyft. They had a whole series of problems. Predicability - You wouldn't know how much the fare would be when getting into a taxi. In addition, driving indirect routes to charge more and claiming the ri
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Antitrust laws to prevent companies from abusing their market position. The US Department of Justice is currently suing Apple for violating those antitrust laws [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/24107581/doj-v-apple-anti
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Right, but this is largely to my point? I said in another thread that sandboxing often feels like being shadow banned on your own computer. > I get wanting "safe" computers. I'm not clear that we can technically defin
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Totally fair. I just don't know of that many (any?) "desktop calculator" applications that people download. Quite a few apps fall into this category: single player games, photo editors, word editors, video players, pdf e
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I don't particularly want my devices transmitting arbitrary packets from unknown parties.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> The apparent reduction in life expectancy for adults with diagnosed ADHD relative to the general population was 6.78 years (95% CI: 4.50 to 9.11) for males, and 8.64 years (95% CI: 6.55 to 10.91) for females. It's not clear to me
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> [bcachefs auhor's] side is that basically it doesn't make sense to package the tools for an experimental FS in an OS that's going to get very far behind If the bcachefs author's believe the tool is too unstable for
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Have you tried Ollama [1]? You should be able to run a 8b model in RAM and a 1b model in VRAM. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42069453
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by bhelkey 2y ago
It is valuable to make predictions about the world, evaluate those predictions, and reflect on the quality of the predictions and what biases skewed those predictions. The key is to refine how one looks at the world. I don't see that i
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by bhelkey 2y ago
What are you talking about? A pretty common interaction is: Me: Can I have a coke? Waiter: Is pepsi okay? Me: That's fine Waiter: brings a Pepsi It seems that the above commentor doesn't have this exchange but instead silently s
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The author specifically calls out that the taxi service needs not operate in all weather conditions or times of day. > First driverless "taxi" service in a major US city, with dedicated pick up and drop off points, and restrict
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The prediction is: > First driverless "taxi" service in a major US city, with dedicated pick up and drop off points, and restrictions on weather and time of day. Their 2025 analysis is: "This is unlikely to happen in the f
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> I owned a restaurant that gave Pepsi products to customers who explicitly ask for a Coke. Did you tell them they were drinking Pepsi or ask some variant of "Is Pepsi okay?"

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