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by jlaporte 2y ago
So, to respond to the snark seriously, the problem it is trying to solve assumes that we have encountered a particular economic failure case - that AI has outcompeted humans in cost and quality of work, such that most humans have zero econo
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Read the piece?
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by jlaporte 2y ago
> It could be “being a good producer” and “being a good judge” are different things Yes I agree with this in principle. Although in this case what "good" is, is ill-defined - or rather different to everyone. The scoring each pe
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Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank(roadtoartificia.com)
10 points by jlaporte 2y ago|35 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"A freedom-preserving proposal for distributing wealth in a post-AI society"
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by jlaporte 2y ago
It’s interesting to observe how detached the discussion here is from the issues created for Europe due to the DMA. A majority of the comments here make the implicit assumption that the DMA is good because it will penalize big tech companies
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by jlaporte 2y ago
OP's actions are super obnoxious of course. But I'm puzzled by the idea his actions make any sense as a _capitalist_ impulse (Of course neither of us know anything about OP except his story). Resentment over what somebody else has
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Although you got downvoted into the ground, parent, note that nobody actually refuted what you said. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Snowden's motivations, propriety, loyalty, etc, there's just no question that willing or unwi
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Yup. And aside from being NSA director he was Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, experience highly relevant to both OpenAI's security and safety posture, and to selling to government and defense buyers.
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by jlaporte 3y ago
The headline number of 96% (in the original new release) is very misleading. What matters is not the fraction of gaseous carbon that ends up in the fuel (the yield), it's the energetic efficiency of the process. ie: Nobody will spend
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by jlaporte 3y ago
MS Office has been available for iOS for just over a decade (June 2013).[1] So it will be on Vision Pro at launch. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Mobile_versio...
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by jlaporte 3y ago
Wow, I assumed he must have misspoke. But he actually said this twice and really underlined it the second time, saying "it's very malicious is the right word". What a terrible way to communicate about your company strategy, r
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TypeAI: An AI Engineering Framework for TypeScript(github.com)
1 points by jlaporte 3y ago|0 comments
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by jlaporte 4y ago
There are a lot of admirable things about the EU, and this is by no means intended as EU bashing. But could there be a more on the nose example of why the EU lags in tech innovation and entrepreneurship? An solo maker builds a cool little t
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by jlaporte 4y ago
> This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields
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by jlaporte 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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by jlaporte 5y ago
The photographer's (Simon Tang's) full-size images are available here: * https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M0EpmTs6iU97J05846UA... And his Instagram: * https://www.instagram.com/sim
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by jlaporte 6y ago
They exist, but Intel doesn't do contract manufacturing and GlobalFoundries is behind the other major contract manufacturers (TSMC and Samsung) by many process node generations.
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by jlaporte 6y ago
Hey HN Radar Widgets for Github helps developers and team leads watch their code for GitHub security vulnerability alerts and Actions Workflow status events, with beautiful widgets on right on their iOS home screen. I built this to scratch
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Show HN: RadarWidgets iOS – GitHub Dependabot Vulns and Actions Workflow Widgets(radarwidgets.sixcolors.co)
4 points by jlaporte 6y ago|1 comments
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by jlaporte 6y ago
The M1 GPU is 2.6 TFLOPS, M1 Neural engine is 11 TFLOPs - in a 10 watt power envelope. The RTX 3090 draws 350 watts.
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by jlaporte 6y ago
Yes. From the same Dish Network 10-K: "Subscriber Acquisition and Retention Costs We incur significant upfront costs to acquire subscribers, including advertising, independent third-party retailer incentives, payments made to third-par
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by jlaporte 6y ago
SpaceX/Starlink have done effectively no marketing spend to get those leads into their funnel. Subscriber acquisition costs (SAC) for home broadband and TV are very high, and due to churn doesn't necessarily even translate into ne
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by jlaporte 9y ago
You may be interested in intercooler.js ( http://intercoolerjs.org/ ). It allows you to perform a host of AJAX + DOM manipulation flows using only HTML attributes. intercooler also supports something similar to the server pus
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Clipping the Wings of a New Industry(medium.com)
1 points by jlaporte 9y ago|0 comments
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by jlaporte 10y ago
Canada's population is highly urbanized and concentrated in cities near our southern border. More urbanized than Switzerland (GP comment). Not an explanation for our uncompetitive mobile and broadband data markets. Canada urban populat
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The 1983 War Scare Declassified and for Real(nsarchive.gwu.edu)
1 points by jlaporte 11y ago|0 comments
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by jlaporte 11y ago
As many times as the world has come close to nuclear war and mutually assured destruction since the end of WW2, it's actually one of the most reassuring things about humanity that people refused orders to fire missiles every time If
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by jlaporte 12y ago
If you are certain that your billings for the year from all clients will be less than $30k, then you don't need to register for or collect GST. But if there's any chance you will exceed this amount you should register. This questi
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by jlaporte 12y ago
Agreed, just a start but with 3 popular language ecosystems. Thought I could get away with 3 because the actual Rosetta Stone only had 3: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian Demotic, and Ancient Greek. :-) Possible next additions: Clojure, Haske

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