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by epups 3y ago
Oh, I see. So the market is effectively local, like a neighborhood or small community, which means a single entity can more easily dominate it.
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by epups 3y ago
I have been reading a lot of criticism of PE here at HN, with similar arguments as TFA. In the case of small companies - vet offices, medical practices, etc - it is usually claimed that a PE acquisition enforces a bunch of changes that are
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by epups 3y ago
The EU regulation is here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202... It is also very open ended, but the US text reads like some compliance will start immediately, like sharing the
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by epups 3y ago
This looks even more heavy-handed than the regulation from the EU so far.
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by epups 3y ago
Thank you for these resources! The map in particular is very illustrative, I was having a hard time forming a mental image of the area in question without one.
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by epups 3y ago
Sounds interesting, but without more details I'm not sure whether it would be so hard to detect and even correct for. Might be defeated even by some pixel averaging.
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by epups 3y ago
Looks very thorough, definitely a step up from that paper that got a lot of publicity, and was based on a single convoluted task. I think an approach like this is the future for benchmarking LLM's, in general. A minor nitpick here is t
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by epups 3y ago
I find these results extremely promising. If I understand the numbers correctly, about 450,000 children die of malaria alone every year. That means a 13% reduction in deaths would save over 50,000 children per year. This is a lower bound es
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by epups 3y ago
I really like your formulation of the issue. I am currently in a tough spot where I'm not recognised and rewarded, and after some reflection I had two choices: either I slow down to the level of everyone else, or I find somewhere else
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by epups 3y ago
There is a neglected aspect here, which is internal expertise. By choosing to build, even if ultimately you end up choosing another tool from a vendor, your team picked up many important skills to be able to evaluate costs, architecture and
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by epups 3y ago
I find it baffling that this is so hard to understand. TFA talks as if there is a secret conspiracy to produce bad software, or as if everyone else is an intellectual midget that cannot produce any work competently.
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by epups 3y ago
The brain might need only 12W, but I guarantee you that their setup maintaining 10 orders of magnitude fewer neurons in a dish is already using far more than that. I get that brains are far more efficient than computers. What I'm wonde
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by epups 3y ago
While this is a good point, evidence suggests that the tycoons did pay much more than they currently do on taxes, about 45% in the 50s and 60s: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nocera-tax-avoidance-... . If we aim
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by epups 3y ago
It's clear that you can get some actual neurons in a dish to behave as an artifical neuron network. It is a fascinating concept as a research question. What's not clear is what is the business value here - do they expect these nat
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by epups 3y ago
I think it does, actually. Every time I see a comment about "money printing", it makes me think of the author holding the opinion that the government literally created money, as in wealth, out of thin air.
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by epups 3y ago
I disagree. Amazon Prime has an obnoxious UI, HBO until recently at least was even worse. Those other providers feel like these airplane interfaces for media, there is some flimsiness to it.
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by epups 3y ago
Honestly, this story is just unsatisfying with the level of details provided, and ends up with action that is opposite to its title - don't work with asshole, but pay them off when they make ridiculous demands? Seems to me like the aut
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by epups 3y ago
It's great for lawyers if everyone thinks like that.
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by epups 3y ago
Very impressive stuff. Seems like a huge improvement over Dreamfusion, released only a year ago.
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by epups 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand - is AMD merely refreshing frames in a faster way than usual (something that players with better equipment already are doing), or are they also interfering with the game process in some way (ie actively adjust
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by epups 3y ago
This is a great resource, thank you very much! I have friends who opened small tech companies in Germany, and the prevalent feeling is fear. Fear of doing something wrong, not declaring the correct taxes, misunderstanding profitability, etc
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by epups 3y ago
This is definitely part of the problem, and another issue is quality decrease. Sure, maybe a given item has only increased 80% in price, but perhaps now the quality has decreased so that ultimately you are comparing apples to oranges.
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by epups 3y ago
Antitrust legislation will only be waived in front of big tech until they agree to cooperate with the government's interests. At the moment, this means content censorship and backdoors, both of which they are complying with as far as w
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by epups 3y ago
Yes, of course there is a trade-off. The specialists are likely much better at executing their particular functions. However, they still compete for the same market, sometimes surprisingly well. AAA games constantly feel like an art gallery
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by epups 3y ago
Yeah, I'm starting to think this is the case. They are prepared for a legal fight and likely want one sooner rather than later.
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by epups 3y ago
> I assume the answer to that will be that there is no need to differentiate between them. And honestly, I agree with that argument. Why do you believe that?
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by epups 3y ago
This approach is really interesting as it connects to function, since the mapping is done molecularly (ie, which genes are activated in any given cell). Previous methods to categorise cells by morphology and electrical activity patterns als
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by epups 3y ago
This article doesn't really explain why a set of competitors in a given industry would agree to collude and keep prices high. Sure, I agree that Amazon or other very large companies may decide to increase their margins, because they ar
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by epups 3y ago
This is really excellent work. The fact that it is seemingly easy to deprogram LLM's makes me hopeful. I wonder whether that will lead to more barriers in the future though, like eliminating "harmful" content already at the d
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by epups 3y ago
Let me ask you something honestly, where do you find your people? Is there really such a place that operates differently? I find myself in a very similar situation as the GP, but I agree with your sentiment, so I would prefer to taks your a

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