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by jfoster 2y ago
"Odeo up for sale" Became (or spun out) Twitter, by the way. https://dailyfly.com/on-this-day-in-2006-twitter-launches/
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by jfoster 2y ago
I wonder if there's some price at which Boeing could buy a license to fork the current SpaceX technology. From there they could take it in different directions if they wanted, or pay some ongoing license fee for updates & training
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by jfoster 2y ago
Yeah, this is why I think browsers need to start bundling some foundational models for websites to use. It's too unscalable if many websites start trying to store a significantly sized model each. Google has started addressing this. I
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by jfoster 2y ago
50 MB might be fine for desktops on effectively unlimited & high speed connections, but consider the case of a mobile user with a few GB of data per month. Might be unacceptable for them. Not sure how common that case is in the US, but
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by jfoster 2y ago
Anyone can easily do a online/offline binary check for web apps like these: 1. Load the page 2. Disconnect from the internet 3. Try to use the app without reconnecting
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by jfoster 2y ago
Yeah, that one seems to be the closest so far. Not sure if it would be easier to create a background removal model from scratch (since that's a more simple operation than segmentation) or distill it.
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by jfoster 2y ago
A lot of these AI licenses are a lot more restrictive than old school open source licenses were. My company runs a bunch of similar web-based services and plan to do a background remover at some stage, but as far as I know there's no c
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by jfoster 2y ago
How could that even work? In some areas, surely the Pacific Ocean is deeper than any humans or deep ocean vehicles have ever been to? So would the cable be hanging across undersea chasms, or do they need to find a depth where it can be plac
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by jfoster 2y ago
Really? They're both about 60. Since they're both fit enough to be astronauts, I think we can say their life expectancy should be at least 85. Perhaps substantially longer with some medical advancements or age reversal. Look at wh
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by jfoster 2y ago
Imagine the alternate reality where the media is getting excited about new ventures and celebrating successes. Wish we lived in that world.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Seems like it would be best to test approaching an imaginary or decoy space station when proving a new vehicle.
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by jfoster 2y ago
It would mean that if all current & prospective customers abandon them for it.
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by jfoster 2y ago
So, to summarize: defaults are powerful, but advertising is more powerful.
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Yes, I can believe that some people will get sucked into this. It's sad, and Meta seems to be evolving into a Black Mirror-esque predator. I still hope it backfires, though. Are awkward teenagers really a lucrative segment? Perhaps the
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by jfoster 2y ago
At first perhaps. Eventually, hopefully not.
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by jfoster 2y ago
OK, but my impression of Meta is even lower than it was before. Until now, I didn't trust Meta, but I trusted the people & creators I connected with. Now I don't feel like I will trust anything at all on a Meta platform. That
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by jfoster 2y ago
Does this backfire? I don't want to have a fake relationship with a computer, and if "creators" on Meta's platforms are more likely to be fake than real, then I think I'm going to be not bothering too much with FB&#
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by jfoster 2y ago
> If you pay $3 for something and get ripped off, the ability to do a chargeback isn't that relevant to your life and you're just not going to patronize them anymore. That's true. How about if you're paying $3000? Wou
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by jfoster 2y ago
Billboards tend to be used by larger companies. I wonder what they do with the newly freed up ad budget. I'm guessing it goes to online ads rather than a reduced ad spend.
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by jfoster 2y ago
From having tried out Google Glass back in the day, I found the display on Google Glass uncomfortably bright. I'm guessing they did that to make it more visible outdoors, but it didn't feel nice.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Is Google not able to predict the likelihood of a name collision as you just did? Is your solution to just continue showing incorrect information?
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by jfoster 2y ago
Interesting announcement. Feels like some of it is just copy-pasted from a PRD. Not necessarily a bad thing (it's clearer than press release style), just the first time I've noticed it in a "bigtech" announcement.
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by jfoster 2y ago
But what you're missing is that he's not talking about the "desires" of an AGI. He's talking about a purely logical subgoal in what humans might ask a very capable AI to do.
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by jfoster 2y ago
The "different goals than us" part is redundant. Across humanity there is already vastly oppositional goals. That's why we have prisons, war, and counter-terrorist organizations. As Geoffrey Hinton points out, a generally use
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by jfoster 2y ago
Articles like this one make me think we are more likely doomed than previously thought. If others who are skeptical about doom-like scenarios are making similar fundamental errors whilst acting as though they know for certain that the conce
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by jfoster 2y ago
NextJS on Vercel would suggest that you're wrong. That said, perhaps anyone using NextJS is inclined toward convenience rather than deriving joy from self-hosting.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Does it even make sense to scrape ChatGPT as a paying customer? From what I've heard, you would get a much more economical result (and greater programmability) by using the API.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Is that a fact? If true, not sure whether it would have bearing on the legal questions, but certainly would make it seem like their actions are not in very good faith. Would love to hear their explanation if it did get raised in court.
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by jfoster 2y ago
What makes it expensive if the solar capacity is in excess?
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by jfoster 2y ago
> And ads are annoying, to the extent that a user might not visit again. Disagree. Users who can't tolerate ads are already using an ad blocker.

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