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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Yeah I see what you mean, I just think these regulatory frameworks are themselves somewhat draconian, indirect, and lead to obnoxious and bad user experiences despite their good intentions, like cookie consent popups. Obviously my opinion d
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
That’s kinda my point though, by having such generic and wide ranging laws, it opens up room for loopholes and confusion. They should just say specifically what the desired impact of the law is.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
This might sound like a dumb question - but why do lawmakers write such roundabout legislation in the first place? They could have passed a law that says “In the EU, app stores including Apple’s App Store on iOS will not be allowed to charg
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Seems likely that they would move into the voice generation platform arena like elevenlabs before competing with Siri/Alexa, but they’d likely add this functionality to ChatGPT at the same time as a demonstration.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Yeah we should stop calling it dark matter and call it “missing matter” or “the unexplained matter issue” or something that is more obviously a placeholder.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Why not? The device has a very similar form factor and the use case is the same, except they’re missing the partnerships with Netflix and YouTube. The Walkman was also an incredibly popular device for years. Not to undersell the iPod, eithe
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Interesting - isn't this just a matter of indexing/caching the file names, though? Surely S3 must store the files somewhere and index them. There's a Unix command called `locate` that does the same thing by maintaining a loca
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
What is it about S3 that enables this speed, and why can’t traditional Unix file systems do the same?
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
This is exactly what the article is saying - low interest rates set by the fed and corporate tax rates in the last decade led to higher corporate profits, and higher multiples, which was also probably fueled by investors with more cash and
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
There’s a lot of businesses like this that rely on “complexity” or “fragmentation” of existing systems, particularly in the US where laws and standards differ across all states. Another example is a business like Segment—-they profit off of
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Is this actually true though? KFC is able to trademark their name and acronym (I believe their trademark is for the acronym officially), even though they’re selling Kentucky-style fried chicken?
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
This is a compelling perspective. But putting sales or import restrictions in place right now would be damaging in the short term both for the manufacturing partners and the US. They’ve already put some export restrictions in place (ie prev
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
I thought OpenAI was the first to develop and use the term GPT[1]. So maybe a more apt comparison than RNA would be PCR, which was a technique developed in a private lab and patented, even though it was published in scientific journals etc.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
My understanding is that the US factory is underway and going to start producing chips next year and that they have plans to construct a second factory already. I’ve been seeing this negative narrative a lot around the US factory, but I’m c
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
And apparently breast cancer and several others. I also drink regularly but I just finished reading Drink [1] and it goes pretty in depth on the health effects. 1. https://www.amazon.com/Drink-New-Science-Alcohol-Health&#x2
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Yeah true, but a player piano requires inventing the piano ;) It’s definitely possible to make a recording without electricity, it just requires steady source of rotation for engraving, so maybe a spring or motor was a necessary precursor t
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
It’s a funny comment because I think you could also argue that the government misappropriated a huge amount of public money to put a man on the moon in the 1960s, when it should have invested that into medical research or better transportat
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
I think patents are better overall for society as it encourages rapid disclosure of new ideas and applications, instead of people withholding information because they are worried of being copied after they go to market. As an aside, there a
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
I wonder if that is part of the story here - seems like that company has come along and shown it’s possible to bring a solution to market faster.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Very relevant thanks!
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
This might sound like nonsense to someone who actually understands neural networks, but I had a similar idea recently that perhaps we could use LLMs or diffusion models to generate the weights for a new network, e.g. if you think of a layer
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Believe it or not - it was actually meant to be an exclusive for Mac before Microsoft acquired it. Here’s Steve Jobs kicking off the demo in 1999: https://youtu.be/6eZ2yvWl9nQ?feature=shared
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Curious what other people think but I’d bet it has more to do with the prices that the market will bear rather than competition between products, and there’s a huge difference between consumer and business prices generally for this reason.
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Hah actually yeah didn’t realize the full history here, it’s actually tied back to x.com in a full circle way: > In March 2000, Confinity merged with x.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk, Harris
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
It’s remarkable to me that this would not only lead to competition with PayPal (founded by Musk) but also with Cash App, founded by Dorsey. The article does not even mention this second point, which in my opinion represents a huge lost oppo
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
You might find this book interesting! This is essentially the theory put forward. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Consciousness_and_the_S...
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
This is a profound question but I also wonder if this non-thinking “awareness” you’re referring to is largely defined by quieting the thinking mind and listening to the senses more directly. A lot of meditation is about tuning out thoughts
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Yeah maybe it's a grass-is-greener situation, but from a quick look at SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, they both seem to have a lot more in common with React than HTML/CSS itself. They seem to encourage functional UI that combines st
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by jacobsimon 3y ago
Not OP but at the end of the day, custom components like this still have to be rendered down to primitive HTML and CSS, and are plagued by all sorts of browser-specific issues and conventions that make higher level abstraction way more diff
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There are certainly lots of great component libraries out there for various frameworks that help with this, but I agree with the parent comment that it's still not the kind of progress we should have had by this point. I think it'

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