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bilekas
1y ago
> The issue appears to be that 50% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and have no savings? I can't imagine how this could be anything other than them just spending money on shit they don't need. Or that there's no stan
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bilekas
1y ago
> Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. With my tinfoil hat on, I feel like that is by design.
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bilekas
1y ago
The argument is that learning assembly is useful, it gives some insights into what happens under the hood. That seems like a no brainer to me. Would I use it for production iOS app, no, I don't hate myself that much.
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bilekas
1y ago
It's not bit when your IPO starts at 1 Trillion the number is starting at an extraordinary high bar. And I actually already do have a problem with OpenAI transitioning to a for profit company. But let's see how it plays out, out o
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bilekas
1y ago
> With an annualized revenue run rate expected to reach about $20 billion by year-end, losses are also mounting inside the $500 billion company, the people said. There is a time limit for shareholders to make return on that investment an
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bilekas
1y ago
> oAI is going to be one of the enduring tech consumer brands built in this half of the 21st century I am curious why you think that, they're early to market but that by no means guarantees them a long term place at the table.
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bilekas
1y ago
Pretty much wherever shareholders think they could get a better deal. At the end of the day that's all that matters to OpenAI. Even calling it open anymore leaves such a sour taste.
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bilekas
1y ago
Converting from a non-profit open source organisation to a for profit private company, and to be shareholder public company, is, in my humble opinion, extremely harmful for potentially the most impactful technology humans have created befor
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bilekas
1y ago
> Forget? You have to hire people for that. We are a software organization. We build software. You don't need to hire dedicated people full time. It could even be outsourced and then a small contract for maintenance. It's the s
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bilekas
1y ago
Did you read the article ? The main point of this and the prior article is that YES colocation/baremetal IS a better option for this company (and I would argue the majority of AWS users) reference : https://news.ycombinator.
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1y ago
I'm so surprised there is so much pushback against this.. AWS is extremely expensive. The use cases for setting up your system or service entirely in AWS are more rare than people seem to realise. Maybe I'm just the old man scream
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bilekas
1y ago
> Hospitals may sue you, depending on the state, but that carriers reputational risk I'm sorry but if I need a hospital, my first thought isnt, "well how is their reputation". I don't understand why people defend the
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bilekas
1y ago
This seems very un-American. The government dictating how you run your business ? > “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideo
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bilekas
1y ago
Ideally kids wouldn't be participating in real world transactions at all, and I'd love to see the numbers of how many were actually kids who directly went to gamble I stead of being pushed into it by streamers which is where I see
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bilekas
1y ago
> Doesn’t gaben have enough money for his super yachts and sword collections? Steam is still a business, but of all the gaming industry, Gaben is one of the highlights, steam try hard to be extremely pro consumer. Refunds with no questio
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bilekas
1y ago
It wasn't rewritten in rust yet. Therefore it wasn't complete. /s
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bilekas
1y ago
I don't know exactly which support level you mean but https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker would paint a different picture. That said, who knows how valid even these numbers are.
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bilekas
1y ago
It doesn't really matter, but if you ask it the exact same prompt it will give different results everytime. And if you don't know how to write one properly yourself, you really shouldn't be blindly trusting Ai to produce some
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bilekas
1y ago
Interesting project in the sense of why not see how it works, I'm just still struggling to see the useful usecases of generative audiovisual content. At the moment it just seems to be a nuisance rather than any benefit.
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bilekas
1y ago
XSS isn't related to https/ssl, ssl is the secure conncetion between you and the server, but xss is the injection of data into the site which will be executed in your browser in this case. The connection isnt relevant. https:
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bilekas
1y ago
> “In space, you get almost unlimited, low-cost renewable energy,” Wouldn't you know, you COULD get the same energy here too.
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bilekas
1y ago
> And everybody starting a hosting company is definitely a profit driven activity. Absolutely, nobody was doing it out of charity, but there is more diversity in the market and thus more innovation and then the market decides. Right now
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bilekas
1y ago
It may come to that, where the federal power is less influential and there to mainly manage overall services of the nation etc, and then the local states let's say manage themselves, if I'm not wrong that was kind of the original
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1y ago
I got the feeling when this was released that it was just another metric to justify further investment, they were guaranteed to have a lot of users, they can turn around and say "well we have 2 huge applications and were just getting s
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1y ago
Yeah I'm just as annoyed with the AI slop that's coming out as anyone, but the next generation of voters won't believe a thing and so they will be pushed towards believing what they see in real life like campaigners who go do
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bilekas
1y ago
Robots can't unionize so of course they hope to replace everyone in the US. None of it will matter anyway, they're shoveling enough money to the right people to have any regulations or oversight squashed, nevermind the sheer numbe
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bilekas
1y ago
These things happen when profits are the measure everything. Change your provider, but if their number doesn't go up, they wont be reliable. So your complaints matter nothing because "number go up". I remember the good old da
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bilekas
1y ago
> This is a brilliant piece of satire. "A Modest Proposal" for the AI age. There's some truth in all satire though. I'm just shocked YC hasn't nuked the link from the front page.
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1y ago
I'd just like to say, I'm somewhat diagnosed for anxiety and some adhd in Europe so it's a bit more loose, I never consider it or even medicate much. But this has made me think about the tiny things that throw me. And just no
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1y ago
> I personally don't think YC the company has much to do with the dynamics of this site at all Why do you think they're not at least tied to help eachother? The board of Ycombinator may not be here moderating but do you think t
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