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by bonoboTP 1y ago
It's part of the wider credential inflation trend and increased grind-competition overall.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
This has truth but is not the full story. It gets your foot in the door, but I think junior researcher overinflate the importance of numbers. At the end of the day when you interview, your future boss will ask about your research, and it do
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
ICLR managed it quite fast.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
If the software is actually good, it can start from an enthusiastic core of students, PhD students and later niche conference organizers and niche journal editors and if they gossip about their experience, it can spread through word of mout
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> I'm not sure what this means. I'm trying to imagine how a situation analogous to Gab vs Mastodon may arise and play out here, or if the setup is different. Like would they just live side by side, with various frontend aggrega
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
How does blacklisting / moderation etc. work here. How does blocking work? How do people make sure to distance themselves from political enemies? Do the aggregator cache servers block certain user domains? How do you ensure that the ag
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Mentour Pilot is quite good, especially their older videos, tho recently they are moving to stronger engagement farming since they sold to private equity ( https://www.electrify.video/post/electrify-video-partners-ex...
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Everything is oversold, even the useful things. Nuclear, space, genetic engineering, x rays, vaccines, the internet itself, personal computers, phones and apps, etc. etc. If something is of value X, the hype will be X+Y. That's why thi
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I expect that soon enough it will also have a personalized image feed entirely made of generated images (and at some point videos). Edit: ah Meta already did that today ( https://about.fb.com/news/2025/09/intro
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
This seems right. The classic recipe of enshittification. You start with the a core of tech-adjacent power users, then expand to more regular but curious and creative people, but then to grow further you need to capture the attention and ey
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Imagine a ransomware that makes your household robot put you in a chokehold physically until you pay.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Kungfu demos are easier than fine hand eye coordination and manipulation of nonrigid objects. There is progress on folding too, but it's harder and impresses normal people less even if it's technically harder.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
So what remains from your argument? It's been shown that Mozilla Corporation is for-profit, donations to the Mozilla Foundation do not go into the pot that pays for Firefox development, and Mozilla Corporation is 85% funded by Google.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Nobody knows how far scale goes. People have been calling the top of the S-curve for many years now, and the models keep getting better, and multimodal. In a few years, multimodal, long-term agentic models will be everywhere including in ph
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Obviously a lot of grifters and influencers shifted from NFTs to AI, but the comparison ends there. AI is being used by normal people and professionals every day. In comparison, the number of people who ever interacted with blockchain is ba
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Yeah, I mean it's analogous to car insurance for self driving cars. People, including lawyers, insurers and courts are just averse to it intuitively. I'm not saying they are wrong or right, but it's how it is. I believe medic
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Doctors have malpractice insurance and other kinds of insurance for that. They won't go bankrupt in reality.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
And they have a constant barrage of notifications, and they tap "Allow" on everything. It can be mind boggling if you spend your life in a developer-minded bubble. They watch ads. They sometimes like the ads and smile at them and
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> so much worse that we'll turn to Google instead Did you know that ~85% of Mozilla Corp's revenue comes from Google?
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> If that were true, San Francisco developers wouldn’t already be competing with contractors in Bangalore and Bucharest. They are - yet the jobs remain, because employers value capability, not postcode. Well, it's not just capabilit
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
It bears repeating that if you're a tech worker in the US, your greatest asset is your physical location. You might think you like remote jobs, but you will have competition from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, etc. as well
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> It also intentionally alienates its users. Only the tinkerer-type techies. Most people don't understand why right click doesn't work, they don't have a mental model of what is responsible for what and things are often br
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Disabling right click was one of the most common requests from site owners to webmasters back around 2000. They mostly wanted to prevent "Save as..." on the images, but copying article text out was also part of it.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
There has to be some KPI tied to how often the AI model is used in production for providing translations on YouTube etc. Someone's promotion hangs on the translation feature being used as often as possible on YouTube.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Obviously they meant monetary value for the software company . How much more revenue will they make if they implement it?
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Only price pressure. No measurable number of consumers will choose a different airline due to their boarding pass app policy.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
No, sending a pdf by email is no extra cost. They already have an email output interface for tickets and recipts and confirmations. It's all about better tracking. I'm not quite sure what additional info they get exactly, but tons
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The likely future is where you'll be given a USB-C charger to charge your phone. If you have no phone or is broken, it will be the equivalent to having a strongly damaged passport. No fly that day, get a new phone, fly on another date,
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Without endorsement of the behavior, here's a guy getting arrested for being argumentative about not having a boarding pass in the app, and being told he can't pay their 5 dollar boarding pass print fee with cash. https:/&#x
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
We'd do well with taking an honest stock of what allowed the formation of democracies and civil liberties, because likely it wasn't that average people longed for it so much that it happened. It's out of my weight class to pi

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