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by gexla 3y ago
The only server functionality I'm aware of is syncing between devices. Zotero does offer hosting space for this, but you can host your own as well. It works with Webdav, so I have used my own hosted instance of Nextcloud for syncing.
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Same, and it took some months before the plugin ecosystem got to the point where I found it useful. I don't think I would go through that with another note taking app. And it would be difficult for another app to create such a big ecos
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by gexla 3y ago
Another issue here is not making a distinction between poverty, and people who are near unable function within the system due to drug abuse or mental issues. These are different issues to solve. If you are unable to work due to disability,
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by gexla 3y ago
Right. I think the bottom line is that nobody has solved this problem. Someone with no mental or drug issues can navigate the system such that they don't have to be on the streets. That problem has been taken care of pretty well. The o
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by gexla 3y ago
I have this habit (a bad one) of doing long joke sessions with women contacts who are in some spectrum of interest in dating or friends. Alcohol and phones don't mix, but some of these contacts really enjoy these sessions. It's ba
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by gexla 3y ago
> What would “moving” the homeless from, say, Portland look like? My guess is you don't. Maybe it's easier for the people with money to go elsewhere than it is for the homeless. So, you get WFH, area small businesses shutting d
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by gexla 3y ago
But these chickens (such as broilers) are "in the house" rather than "in the garden." It may be worth having free range chickens for pest control and other purposes.
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by gexla 3y ago
But the post links to Twitter (X.) That's the wrong place for argument or rigor. But do you really need that? Seems to me like his post is essentially saying "Pay attention to all this stuff which people have been working on for a
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by gexla 3y ago
It makes no sense because nobody but Sam and the board knows what actually happened. My guess is that they arrived to an inflection point. The company was on the cusp of taking an investment which would have valued it at 80 billion. One of
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by gexla 3y ago
One thing OpenAI has now that it didn't have 4 years ago is a lot more compute power at its disposal. Sam Altman has already said "I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant mode
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by gexla 3y ago
If the stories from media and elsewhere were correct, then current and future investors (Microsoft, Thrive Capital) were pressuring OpenAI to bring back Sam. They wouldn't be doing that if they were giving to charity?
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by gexla 3y ago
Sorry, should have linked to it. You can find it in a purple box on this page... https://openai.com/our-structure
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by gexla 3y ago
Be easy on me here, because I'm shooting from the hip on things mostly above my head. The less cynical frame on this may be that maybe part of the reason we have religion in the first place is to help understand the ineffable of our ow
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by gexla 3y ago
Seems like the board's mission went off the rails long ago and it acted late. Some snippets from the OpenAI website... "Investing in OpenAI Global, LLC is a high-risk investment" "Investors could lose their capital contr
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by gexla 3y ago
Isn't this how you gain power? You influence as many people as you can through suggestion that you can give them what they desire? Then grow that group to be large enough so that you're cemented within the org? Manipulation doesn&
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by gexla 3y ago
My understanding is that the non-profit created the for-profit so that they could offer compensation which would be typical for SV start-ups. Then the board essentially broke the for-profit by removing the SV CEO and putting the "payda
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by gexla 3y ago
Consider that Satya already landed a huge win by the stock price hitting ATH rather than taking a hit based on the news. Further consider that MS owns 49% of a company which could be valued at 80 billion on the condition that the company ma
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by gexla 3y ago
Imagine the huge change the company took. They went from negotiating on a deal which would turn OpenAI into an 80 billion dollar company to this deal may no longer going through. You would then be working under this huge change with a CEO w
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by gexla 3y ago
Thank you! I get the sense that none of this matters and it's all a massive distraction. News Company which does research and doesn't care about money makes a decision to do something which aligns with research and not caring abou
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by gexla 3y ago
Also on their site... "it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world" This company is very different.
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by gexla 3y ago
At the least, probably a good PR move for MS. It's a good move to counter whatever weight would be going against the MS stock price given they made a huge investment into OpenAI.
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by gexla 3y ago
My guess is that the immediate roadmap has already been locked in up to X months out. So, we'll likely never know what the "changes" will be. Short term changes are likely still Altman's work. Long term is the next decis
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by gexla 3y ago
Technically, Alaska is still part of the continental US as it's still part of North America. In Alaska, we would call the "contiguous US" as "the lower 48."
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Right, this would give me 100% of the functionality that I use on Twitter anyway.
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I was going to post something like this. I would even argue that you didn't fail. You did exactly what you actually desired This is an opportunity to introspect on why your actions didn't align with whatever goals you set. Maybe y
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by gexla 3y ago
He said the player was attempting to bluff. In a given set of community cards, you're calculating the possibilities in which you can get beat. You're also watching your opponents actions to see if their lies (bluffing) are plausib
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by gexla 3y ago
I would argue that it's about bringing out the rediculous of normal social things and then amplify that on the punchline. You take a social thing, deconstruct it, and then reconstruct it in such a way that the result is hilarious. The
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by gexla 3y ago
What better period than a revolution for dogs to practice free love of owners and open loyalty relationships?
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by gexla 3y ago
I only read HN comments on more than 90% of posts. Though I do always read the article if I'm commenting on content which is in the article (as opposed to content within a comment.) This last point brings up a good angle. If you'r
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by gexla 3y ago
Snake oil is about the thing being sold, it's about the sales pitch. It's the people selling the product. An important snake oil trait is making grand claims which have little basis as fact, particularly with things which are diff

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