capitalsigma

12 ms·

61.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
It's physicist notation for inner products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation
62.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I was ready to grab my pitchfork after that first comment, but farther down: >>Some time ago you federated with CyanogenMod. What has changed since then? >What changed was going through that experience. It seriously degraded the UX
63.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
My understanding is that trade secrets are distinct from patents. For patents, you tell everyone how to do it but they're not allowed to for 20 years. For trade secrets, you don't tell anyone how to do it, but if someone else figu
64.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
See January 6th for examples of recent political violence
65.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
HN is pretty pro-Copilot in most threads I've seen. Honestly I think I have seen this comment -- "you programmers sure like generative models when it impacts other industries but you get awfully defensive when it comes to your own
66.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Drunk driving is correctly banned, yes. I think the significance of the fact that it was a politician's relative is that it suggests that this is part of a larger pattern. I think it would be similar if you had a politician calling for
67.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
"Justice" is not the same thing as "constitutionality." The latter is a legal construct.
68.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
The author seems to think that all self driving companies are basically the same, so Ford must just be facing the harsh truth that everyone else is ignoring, vs Ford being outcompeted by companies with much stronger ML chops
69.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
TPUs?
70.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Margin is much smaller on physical goods, they employ a lot more people doing manualish labor, etc
71.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
It is particularly informative to suffer because of a dumb decision you made 2 years ago
72.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I don't think that Moore's law is what's driving down ML compute costs in particular, where there seems to be a lot of innovation going on in terms of hardware architecture and compilers (much of which is proprietary). Even
73.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
It seems most likely that there is some static analysis being done to the binary here, or maybe some instrumented JVM that "poisons" bytes that come from the contact list and traces them to see if they ever land on disk or sent on
74.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
It probably means that their DDoS protection needs to use JS to get some trust signals
75.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
> having the US tell them to sell a product they acquired similarly. Has the US actually tried to block a corporate merger between two non-American companies before?
76.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Monopoly power over gifs
77.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Not disagreeing that self study is valuable, but it's unclear to me how writing a bitonic sorting network in a bespoke assembler is going to get me promoted to staff
78.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Social harms caused by tobacco are much less visible than things like "someone stole my catalytic converter for drug money." Also, yeah, cigarettes are bad, but we're talking about something that kills you in the span of 4-5
79.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I think this is a tough issue, I'm not sure what to think On the one hand: yeah, people dying from tainted/misdosed drugs is 100% preventable, and it's really unforgivable that we lose so many people something like that. Coca
80.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Software has a tendency to centralize more than plumbing because 1 plumber can only plumb 1 building, but 1 SWE can write code used by billions. Then you account for efficiencies of scale that generally make it easier for a big business to
81.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Excited for squishy logic to calculate the balance of my PayPal account and enforce GDPR compliance
82.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
That is definitely one opinion that you can hold about Facebook but it's unclear to me how it relates to this post about Google's new generative model
83.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
So you would say that if FB fails to censor a video titled "vaccines cause autism" that drives engagement, they are more morally culpable for the content than if Google spends TPU cycles rendering the Imagen prompt input: "de
84.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I think it's a hard problem and I'm not sure what the right solution is; clearly extremism is a problem but I can't say I'm 100% happy with Facebook being the final judge of Truth. Regardless, though, it is unambiguous t
85.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
Wrongfully or not, people blame Facebook for inflammatory content posted by humans on their platform. How much worse would it be if that content was generated with FB-trained models?
86.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
How many of these jobs will be left in 50 years due to automation? 100? The capital required to automate a lot of these jobs is declining and wages are rising, at some point they're going to intersect. It seems disingenuous to say, on
87.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I think this phrase actually means "I don't want to seem like a Luddite, but now that AI is disrupting something that I personally care about, I'm no longer enthusiastic about progress"
88.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
I don't know why everyone assumes that ML researchers have some big map of the future where they can make decisions like "yeah, let's choose this branch over here, where AI gets good at generating art first, rather than that
89.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
If a minor version number is bumped in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it break your build?
90.
by capitalsigma 4y ago
It's not the algorithm here, it's viewer behavior

More ›