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by cyclecount 2y ago
Self-driving tech is really a bet auto manufacturers are making for the US market. Most of the developed world will move away from individual vehicles for anything besides the last mile in the next decades. Modern countries will have exte
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by cyclecount 2y ago
..according to Google. They have a track record of over-promising and then delivering something functionally worse than OpenAI.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Fascism won
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by cyclecount 2y ago
huh?
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by cyclecount 2y ago
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by cyclecount 2y ago
A great book on exactly that subject: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61108472-palo-alto
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Building tools for one side for everything from bomb targeting systems to “moderation” tools is not picking sides?
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Google and Amazon are actively involved in the largest man-made famine since WWII, and we’re not even allowed to discuss it on HN (you know the conflict I’m talking about, every post about the genocide gets flagged immediately).
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Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'(businessinsider.com)
68 points by cyclecount 2y ago|78 comments
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by cyclecount 2y ago
And the people of Nepal supply the raw labor used by many of the Gulf states
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Yes, it would be unethical to to force conscious beings to work for us, but why would we treat machines any better than we treat our fellow humans?
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by cyclecount 2y ago
This is corruption of the highest level. This is what the western leaders are doing with our carbon budget and the last few decades of high-energy society.
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Capitalism killing people, nothing new or out of the ordinary here. Companies are innovative when growing and competing, but if they win they’ll reach the final form for a successful firm: monopoly. From then on, the only innovation will
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by cyclecount 2y ago
Higher education in the US is hardly about learning the skills for a particular discipline or trade. The American university system is a class differentiation mechanism, and students are paying for access to the managerial professional cla
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Apple Researchers Reveal New AI System That Can Beat GPT-4(macrumors.com)
12 points by cyclecount 3y ago|14 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Has there been any update on the whistleblower who died under suspicious circumstances?
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by cyclecount 3y ago
The economy and where you live / are willing to work will play a much larger role in how easy or hard it will be for you to find a job. Right now, the job market for software engineers is shit. Maybe 8 years ago, when tons of money w
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by cyclecount 3y ago
the Emirates boss is Emirati, not Saudi
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Researchers find unfixable bug in Apple computers [video](youtube.com)
1 points by cyclecount 3y ago|0 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Or, both Apple and Google did see this coming years ago, have been smart about supporting politicians in both major US political parties, and calculated that the amount of money they could make by maintaining their monopoly positions — even
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Privatization in Ukraine: How to buy state assets(privatization.gov.ua)
3 points by cyclecount 3y ago|0 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
This is obviously Apple being stubborn because they can, but it does raise the question are you really an EU user if you no longer live in the EU?
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by cyclecount 3y ago
>> “.. we’ll go as weird as possible and input: AI, Taylor Swift, McDonald's, beach volleyball.” wow, the author has a pretty basic limited imagination
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by cyclecount 3y ago
iMessage can be disabled in Settings > Messages
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Apple has a very strong track record of building high-end hardware that is expensive at first targeting pro user early adopters, then iterating and reducing cost over 3-5 years, eventually becoming the dominant player in a hardware category
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Probably not because this product will be culturally relevant still 5 years after launch
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by cyclecount 3y ago
> Musk told me that the idea originated out of his hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system. … He insisted the Hyperloop would cost about $6 billion to $10 billion, go faster than a plane, and let people drive their cars
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by cyclecount 3y ago
> Google sells its own phones which could be configured to have a conversation UI by default (or with Google’s Pixel Buds). This removes the friction of opening an app and setting a mode. Google also has a fleet of home devices already
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Google admits AI viral video was edited to look better(bbc.com)
1 points by cyclecount 3y ago|0 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Google is number 1 at launching also-rans and marketing sites with feature lists that show how their unused products are better than the competition. Someday maybe they’ll learn why nobody uses their shit.

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