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by demosthanos 1y ago
Why not both? Why do people on the internet always act like we can only have one active morality front at a time? If you're working on or using AI, then consider the ethics of AI. If you're working on or using global supply chains
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> Its actually a big change, as swiping up just opens the Google Maps bottom menu. On my phone there are two swipe zones at the bottom. The one that's actually on the screen opens the Google Maps menu. But if I swipe from off scre
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by demosthanos 1y ago
The number of distinct entities in your supply chain and whether those developers are on your payroll. As a business, each additional human or company you add to your supply chain represents additional risk that you're taking on. You c
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by demosthanos 1y ago
This is never how the marketing around the big UI overhauls that OP is worried about works. A sneaky UI overhaul that's launched with no fanfare doesn't get anyone promoted, so why bother? > like when I upgraded to 15 my home
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> AIs trained on public scraped data that predates 2022 don't noticeably outperform those trained on scraped data from 2022 onwards. Hell, in some cases, newer scrapes perform slightly better, token for token, for unknown reasons. T
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by demosthanos 1y ago
This knee-jerk reaction is correct more often than not (see the terrible iOS redesign announced earlier), but in this case it seems like it might be incorrect? I looked through the highlights linked here and the full "What's New&q
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Are we looking at the same account? There's not a lot of data there, as is the nature of a new account, but from where I'm sitting I'd guess they're based in Portugal or if not there specifically then at least on mainlan
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by demosthanos 1y ago
It gets pretty tiresome when people automatically take something as pro-US jingoism without stopping to think for a second about what they're saying. The model they're comparing to is Chinese , not American. How can you possibly
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Can you elaborate? As one tool among many it seems to me to be a perfectly serviceable tool in the toolbox, with a sufficiently high rate limit to account for shared IPs.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
It's that it doesn't reflect the reality that the value of software is not remotely correlated with the salaries that were spent building it. It could be valued much higher or much lower, spanning a huge range. Using salaries as a
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by demosthanos 1y ago
If you're ripping off a competitor, sure, the salaries of your engineers roughly translates to the value of the resulting capital asset. But the most valuable work that software engineers do is the stuff that has never been done before
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I posted a short explanation here [0] on the thread the other day, but the even shorter explanation is that "software development shouldn't be taxed" is not an accurate description of what repealing the change to Section 174
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Note that despite the small number, Kagi is profitable (or at least they were as of a year ago): > We are also thrilled to report that we have achieved profitability. This significant milestone is a testament to our sustainable growth an
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by demosthanos 1y ago
My understanding is that remote tower ATC is something that had to happen at that airport due to geographic constraints rather than some kind of next step for ATC in general. Given a choice between being able to physically look out the wind
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by demosthanos 1y ago
To be fair, once it does generalize the pattern then the benchmark is actually measuring something useful for deciding if the model will be able to product a subject-verb-object SVG.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I'd say definitely do not do that. That would make the benchmark look more serious while still being problematic for knowledge cutoff reasons. Your prompt has become popular even outside your blog, so the odds of some SVG pelicans on
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I see this the opposite way: kudos to the FAA for sticking it out so long on legacy hardware and software as long as they have! ATC is a safety-critical function that has what amounts to a 100% uptime requirement. Whatever system they'
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> O wait obviously that’s not what code is a liability means. Code is a liability in the same way roads or buildings are a liability, they incur an ongoing cost, but removing the US highway system would be just as idiotic as a startup de
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Historically, Section 174 allowed everyone to opt in or out of R&D amortization. That amortization is required from anyone for R&D is new. Further, software is the only type of R&D explicitly called out as required to count as
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> Because generating an asset IE software isn’t a pure loss that’s why you’re doing it in the first place. Tell me you're not an experienced software engineer without telling me you're not an experienced software engineer. Code
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Those things help, yes. I say that it's impossible to fully block first party tracking because you must interact with the server in order to accomplish anything and those interactions can be tracked. But a third party can be cut entire
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Just to be clear, "special group" here means "any small business that wants to do any R&D of any kind", right? Because software was not a special group before, all R&D was opt-in for this kind of accounting. No
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by demosthanos 1y ago
A full-featured ad blocker (uBlock Origin original, not the neutered Lite version that runs on Chrome now) will intercept requests at the network level and prevent your browser from requesting the advertisers' JavaScript code. Your bro
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Eventually, as long as you survive that long. As has been said repeatedly in this thread, this change is purely a boon for existing big tech companies that now have even less to worry about from startups. It takes a startup 5 years before t
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I'm not sure why TFA makes it sound like almost no one has heard of it, but it was extensively discussed on HN in early 2023 as being a primary cause of layoffs, before it was cool to blame AI. Software firms across US facing tax bill
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Agreed. I think the article's text was responsible for the confusion in the comments prior to me posting this. They could have been much more clear and straightforward.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Exactly. Also, OP pointedly avoided addressing the fact that the existing Somali institutions are responsible for the fact that their "democracy" devolved into warlords brutally shooting each other. OP is saying that the old sys
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by demosthanos 1y ago
This is what I said: > Which depending on one's perspective on Somalia's current state could make it deeply problematic It's pretty hard to look at Somalia's current state and say that their current social structures
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> clans are small states Nope, clans are definitionally not states for several reasons. A state has definite territory, whereas clan-type structures have tended to overlap with each other geographically because they're usually embed
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by demosthanos 1y ago
No. It went into effect in 2022 [0], which means the timeline absolutely does track with OP's theory. That gives a hypothetical Trump term 2 a full year to fix it but also imposes enough of a time crunch that they could plan on sabot

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