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by eloisant 7mo ago
That really reminds me of the "mashup" bubble in the late 2000's, when all services started to provide API and people were calling themselves "entrepreneurs" for combining 2 sources of data, like putting craigslist
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by eloisant 7mo ago
It's not the chance of winning that matters, it's the mean expected value. If you have a 50% chance of losing $2 or gaining $1, you have a negative expected value and that's bad. If you have a 10% chance of gaining 100$ and 9
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Unless you do insider trading, which can be pretty easy on prediction markets depending on your job...
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by eloisant 7mo ago
I live in France and I still have to write a check here and there. Very minor, but still present. Receiving a check however is even rarer.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
That wasn't true before smartphones, everyone had a computer so they could access the Internet. Except maybe in developing countries - but the article is about the US.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
No, the article is wrong about the iPhone. It's the Internet that killed bank tellers.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Add to that the AI fad where somehow they find it cool to have AI do something they (or their employees) used to do.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
You can't give everyone a fair chance, but at least don't waste their time with a stupid AI interview. Also, at the end of the day, in your 1,300 applicants maybe you have 200 who are a perfect fit and as equally good. But you jus
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by eloisant 7mo ago
HR have always had dumb ways to filter resumes, which can unfairly reject good candidates but might not be an issue for the company as long as they find enough good candidates. Also, at least they don't waste candidates' time. Wit
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by eloisant 8mo ago
They already cannibalized a lot of Linux users, developers mainly when they released MacOS X around year 2000. Suddenly you could have a Unix, with pretty much the same CLI as Linux but without all the supported hardware/driver issues.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Did you read the article? First line: "Nearly a year ago, we shared that Wiz would be joining Google."
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by eloisant 8mo ago
They can write to files then refer to them in a next session. A bit like the main character played by Guy Pierce in the movie Memento (which doesn't work great for him to be honest).
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by eloisant 8mo ago
LeCun is a researcher. From his point of view, there are not much research left on LLM. Sure we can still improve them a bit with engineering around, but he's more interested in basic research.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Still, at some point you do have to give some privacy to your kids. I know the trend is helicopter parenting but it's not helping the kid to be overprotecting.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Enforce parental control (with a verified adult account for the parent) for all child accounts. The parent will input the real birthdate of their child, or it's their responsibility if the child encounters anything not age appropriate.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
It's because of the rules of the European Energy Market where all electricity has to be as expensive as the most expensive source. So as soon as Germany lights up their gas powerplants, that follow gas prices (wars, etc), French nuclea
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by eloisant 8mo ago
It's not just about motivation and self discipline, but your body needs recovery days.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
I think that even if the models were to plateau today, there are still a lot of room for improvement in all the tooling around them, people finding ideas of applications, and users getting used of them. So we're not done with the disru
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by eloisant 8mo ago
I feel like AI is actually helping us getting a better understanding of what "human intelligence" really is. I remember when computers became better than humans at chess, many people were shocked and saw that as machines becoming
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by eloisant 8mo ago
A company relying only on AI doesn't have any added value. What's stopping their customers from using AI directly instead of that company services?
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by eloisant 8mo ago
I agree, and I believe too many geeks who are now parents (including the author of the blog post) do not realize that the computers they grew up with, and in particular the Internet they grew up with, is nothing like computers (phones) and
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Honestly I'm tired with every app trying to become the everything app. Now TikTok wants to be a messaging app. Snapchat has a short video feed just like TikTok. WhatsApp only has a text feed, how long until they also add a video feed?
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Not sure how well that works in China, but I like that when I travel I can have a similar schedule compared to home. I wouldn't want to have to learn a different schedule such as getting up at midnight, having lunch at 04:00 then going
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by eloisant 8mo ago
It also improves the rush hours by enlarging the time range. Most jobs start at 9am or later, so if kids also started at 9am or later the morning rush hour (for traffic but also public transportation) would be even worse.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
It's not a moral argument, it's about having a short term vision or a long term vision. Most US companies typically just have a short term vision, but that's not the case of all companies. Japanese companies for example usual
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Alright, a moped requires a plate. That's not a bike. And I don't need to ask AI, I used an e-bike (without a licence plate) last week in Tokyo.
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by eloisant 8mo ago
> /e/OS is Android So is GrapheneOS
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by eloisant 8mo ago
Then you shouldn't say "A junior developer just isn’t worth the investment" but "my company decided not to invest in people". That might not be YOUR choice, it's still a choice being made at the company you wor
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by eloisant 8mo ago
The discussion really depends on which country we're talking about, but basically speed bikes are not illegal. They're just considered as moped, meaning a 50cc motorbike and have to respect all the rules mopeds are subject to, suc
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by eloisant 8mo ago
They don't have license plates, they have mandatory registration stickers. You can't read it unless you look closely at the sticker while the bike is stopped. It's to identify owners of stolen bikes, not identifying running b

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