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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Discovery/curation, monetization, and hosting all being separate would do a lot of good.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
People have these ideas because “most dangerous city” lists usually mean most dangerous big cities, and leave implicit that more-rural areas are far safer. If you start analyzing and carving things up other ways, it quickly becomes clear
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
YouTube was built on piracy. Live by the sword et c. et c.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
We’ve had a flex spending account (HSA wasn’t an option) that we were only putting as much in as we were sure we’d spend, rejecting a very high rate of payments this year, even from doctor’s offices (WTF do you think that’s for?!) and dem
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Yep. The actual risk of “AI” in the medium term is that these things are gonna mostly be used for optimizing the shit out of extracting money from normal people (i.e. pushing down the standard of living) while all normal folks will get out
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Yeah stuff this went from “oh shit!” to “meh” in a hurry once I actually started using these things rather than just reading reports about them.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Whatever else folks may think of them, what I’ve seen of strong unions makes them look very effective at, specifically, making people feel safe speaking up about breaches of policy (including things like discrimination or hostile workplaces
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Everyone contracts those out now.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
It’s fairly unusual that a CEO getting fired would put a company’s ability to continue to operate at such high risk. I’d take it less as a signal of approval in the ordinary sense (though some of it’s probably that!) and more one of perceiv
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Yeah, I’d say they expected it to actually work. They misjudged just how far to the sidelines they’d already been pushed. The body nominally held all the power (any four of them voting together, that is) but in fact one member held that pow
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
If it was to try to prevent the board becoming a useless vestigial organ incapable of meaningfully affecting the direction of the organization, it sure looks like they were right to be worried about that and acting on such concern wouldn’t
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Exactly. And, to be clear, this is a pretty minor violation of that principle of favoring re-use of elements, and it’s also not the case that violating it’s always a mistake. I just think it’s (along with some other cues) why a lot of peopl
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I guess I should rephrase that as if they did it because they perceived that Altman was maneuvering to be untouchable within the company and moving against the interests of the nonprofit, they did the right thing. Just, again, way too lat
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I think the board did the right thing, just waaaay too late for it to be effective. They’d been cut out long ago and just hadn’t realized it yet. … but I’d probably sign for exactly those good-career-move reasons, at this point. Going down
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
“You mean they lied when I asked them why they wanted to work here? Like 99.9% of all times that question has been asked in history? I’m shocked!”
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
There’s a real chance that one thing AI will make better—not just cheaper—is original scores for movies. Get us out of this “just match the shitty generic placeholder music we already edited the movie to” norm we’ve been in for almost two d
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Scale’s remarkably consistent in Star Wars. There exist crazy-comprehensive analyses on the Web that check relative sizes of ships and elements of ships (and even things like blaster bolts) against one another in different scenes/shots
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
The planet’s a gas giant. Not clear what the superlaser does to such a body. Maybe not enough to harm the moon before the rebels have time to evacuate. Maybe it’d be dangerous to the Death Star, as well.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
> They sort of did this by ruining Luke’s character, only to reverse it at the end and have him save the day anyway. Really, Luke’s characterization really follows the same pattern. He was strongly characterized in all the other Star War
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
It also follows ordinary narrative convention more closely. We can tell from distant shots of the Death Star that there’s an equatorial trench, but not other trenches. If you’ve already introduced a trench, conventionally you’d just use tha
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38338096 What do I win? Hahaha.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
In most companies, when 3% represents an in-fact huge number because you have a very successful product, you absolutely do test for that 3%. It’s tiny companies that may ignore 3% as too expensive to worry about.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
633 isn’t as based-on-true-events as Dambusters . AFAIK there was no actual collapse-a-cliff mission, though various sub pen destruction bombing attacks were carried out. It’s true that the action in 633 is closer to Star Wars , thoug
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Both are too complicated. All a true AI has to do to get control of everything is promise 10% annual returns and guaranteed victory in battle. Limited-time offer, sign up today. Done. Any actual AI takeover will be boring and largely volunt
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Yep, if this goes through, looks like his take-over was already complete. They waited (way) too long.
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Isn’t it amazing how companies worry about lowly, ordinary employees moonlighting, but C-suiters and board members being involved in several ventures is totally normal?
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
If he wins in this, it’ll mean he’d maneuvered himself into a position of controlling the whole thing—in fact, if not on paper—some time back. The “coup” people’ve been writing about will have been his actions over the last year or so, not
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
I’ve played with eliminating nighttime lighting (aside from candles) and after-dark screens period , and can confirm, it puts one’s “clock” closer to where it should be. Which shouldn’t be surprising. It is hard to keep up. If I were dicta
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
Purely outside perspective, but people’ve been complaining for quite a while that OpenAI seems to have bailed on their original mission. Sure looks like Altman was capitalism’ing the whole thing—maybe not on purpose, but because it’s just t
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by hotnfresh 3y ago
TFA is about desktop computers.

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