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> Campaigners say the law will cause a harmful loss of information I find this quote from the article amusing. If EU political ads are anything like USA political ads, the objective of the ad is rarely, if ever, to educate the audience.
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Didn't Mercedes-Benz begin assuming liability a couple years ago for accidents that happen while Level 3 self-driving is engaged? I wonder if that's still the case, and if so how many accidents they've become liable for.
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> money on fire forever just to jog in place. Why? I don't see why these companies can't just stop training at some point. Unless you're saying the cost of inference is unsustainable? I can envision a future where ChatGPT
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The majority of small businesses aren’t subscription based services. I was assuming we were talking about companies like your local coffee shop.
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The bigger cost of Google Workspace is the administrative overhead. The admin panel for Google Workspace is extremely powerful. Hundreds/thousands of settings. Great for medium/large businesses with a dedicated IT person. A huge h
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> because apparently, one of the demands of leftist extremists is conforming to sans-serif supremacy. I think we can unanimously agree that serif fonts are an existential threat to civilization. I really hope it was bots that drove the o
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Determining trustworthiness of LLM responses is like determining who's the most trustworthy person in a room full of sociopaths. I'd rather play "2 truths and a lie" with a human rather than a LLM any day of the week. So
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> For whom For people outside of the US.
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A basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile.
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I suspect if you shared more info about your mail infrastructure, it might reveal that what is working for you is too complicated for 99.9% of people to set up and maintain themselves.
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"GPUs per user" would be an interesting metric. (Quick, inaccurate googling) says there will be "well over 1 million GPUs" by end of the year. With ~800 million users, that's 1 NVIDIA GPU per 800 people. If you esti
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Valid point / not a bad idea. One flaw might be that (successful and high quality) content creators are accustomed outsized rewards for their work. Ads pay very, very well for people creating content viewed by a lot of people. Would AI
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You could theoretically overwrite the public functions of a module, inject some logging code, then execute the originally intended function when it's called with ".apply()" and passing the original arguments in. That might ge
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> How do you propose making a device that people wouldn't feel the need to put a case on? If the screen were reasonably scratch + shatter proof, I think most people wouldn't feel the need to wear a case.
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> functional without a case. (Which, again, every iPhone in the last decade has been. Agreed they're functional without a case. Whether it's functional after dropping it face down on the glass onto cement/marble is another
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Watching that video, the first thought I have is "So much engineering and I still need to buy a phone case with my new phone?" I'm guessing phone cases are still pretty much required if you drop your phone once or twice a mon
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The application process is a short form and a few clicks. They don't have a high bar for being accepted.
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If the community upvotes AI-genraated content to the front page, I don't see why it should automatically be penalized. (I respect your own opinion, which is why I suggest flagging the submission). But clearly there's a reason it w
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If you believe that, it’s best to flag the submission and move on rather than pollute the comments. This is the equivalent of posting “this is a badly written article”. It doesn’t add any value.
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It would be nice if you shared some supporting evidence rather than turning a guess into a definitive statement.
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Yes, there is an ordering physician. The parent commenter we're both responding to said "I can go to a lab, order this, and pay for it." -- the point I'm trying to make is that the system in the US is basically the same,
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Anyone can order labs via websites like https://directlabs.com/ If there is a doctor involved, it’s invisible to the consumer. I believe there are 2-3 states where the rules are different (one being New York) where you can’
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For those curious, a common method is to publish the job listing in the newspaper classifieds. This is what my old employer did to sponsor the visa for the company’s CTO. Newspapers are used for a surprising number of various public announc
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If that’s the case, we have an even bigger problem on our hands. How will these companies ever be profitable? If we’re already paying $20/mo and they’re operating at a loss, what’s the next move (assuming we’re only worth an extra $300
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> I don't know if they would or would not serve ads in the future There are 2 possible futures: 1) You are served ads based on your interactions 2) You pay a subscription fee equal to the amount they would have otherwise earned on a
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Compared to the past 12-24 months, 2.9% doesn't seem to be particularly worse than previous months. E.g. it was even higher at 3% at the beginning of the year and it has been at 2.7% for the past few months. Might not be at the 2% targ
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What is the target rate? Was under the impression that 2-3% is the target. Less than that is bad. More than that, also bad.
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I don't use claude and googled yolo mode out of curiosity. For others in the same boat: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...
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Isn’t the MacBook Air already pretty cheap at $999?
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> Something has to give... Is training compute interchangeable with inference compute or does training vs. inference have significantly different hardware requirements? If training and inference hardware is pooled together, I could imagi
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