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by lacker 3y ago
Yeah, the Mazda physical interface is great. More car manufacturers seem to be adopting the wheel to control CarPlay which is a lot nicer than reaching over to use the touch screen. I just wish the Mazda software was similarly well-designed
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by lacker 3y ago
It's always annoying to have something that was free taken away from you, but this seems pretty fair. There's no way to handle push notifications without a centralized server. You can complain that $8/user/month is too e
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by lacker 3y ago
This is especially tough for RedMonk's rankings because they typically evaluate languages on "lifetime summary" metrics like total number of tags on Stack Overflow, or total number of projects on GitHub. e.g.: https:/&#
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by lacker 3y ago
The funny thing to me is that so much of the "AI software ecosystem" is just PyTorch. You don't need to develop some new framework and make it popular. You don't need to support a zillion end libraries. Just literally su
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by lacker 3y ago
Okay, well, hurry up and do it already then. I don't need CUDA. Just make PyTorch run nicely on an Intel GPU that outperforms an Nvidia GPU of the same cost and I'll happily buy an Intel GPU.
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by lacker 3y ago
Whenever you cite papers just because you're "politically supposed to", even though you don't think it's really intellectually useful for anyone to be aware of the cited paper, you're making the citations less
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by lacker 3y ago
AI systems are trained against private, PII, copyrighted data all the time without explicit consent. For example, consider the spellcheck in Google search. Every query you make will go into the training for that system, along with your pref
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by lacker 3y ago
It's too bad this didn't catch on. I would be entertained to message a colleague, "Hey, could you take a look at this pile of Grap?"
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by lacker 3y ago
Or it could click "hide" on cookie banners for me!
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by lacker 3y ago
Yes, exactly, I want a search interface that's an LLM instead of a bunch of menus.
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by lacker 3y ago
The best case outcome is to get publicity leading to US and EU antitrust regulators to file a lawsuit against Apple, both of which Apple loses. The conclusion of this lawsuit is that not only must Apple allow access to iMessage, they also m
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by lacker 3y ago
Here in the SF bay area there have recently been a lot of power outages due to fire danger where it's just for a day or so. Nobody's evacuating, nobody has to go out for supplies, you really just want to turn the lights on, cook d
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by lacker 3y ago
I would like general purpose open source AI models to be legal, even if it is possible to use them for harmful purposes. Just like open source cryptography, open source operating systems, et cetera. If a product's primary purpose is cr
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by lacker 3y ago
Some practices, such as the indiscriminate scraping of images from the internet to create a facial recognition database, would be banned outright. Sounds like the devil is in the details. What if you scrape a large quantity of images and
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by lacker 3y ago
The biggest problem with EVs in winter is if I'm traveling somewhere with poor charger access, like an AirBNB in Tahoe. Especially during extreme weather conditions, I'm not sure how easy it would be to get my vehicle charged. Whe
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by lacker 3y ago
Okay, I'll take a shot. I think the legal structure is very important, but the important part is not the vague wording of the charter. "Violating the charter" is always fuzzy and debatable. "Getting the votes of most b
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by lacker 3y ago
> how did she get a board seat on OpenAI? She replaced Holden Karnofsky as a representative of the "effective altruist" group, Open Philanthropy, who donated money early on to OpenAI. From the article: "She succeeded her f
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by lacker 3y ago
The most embarassing thing about this isn't that the board decided to fire the CEO. That happens all the time. Many startups replace their CEO, it isn't always clear whether it's the right decision, but that's the respon
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by lacker 3y ago
I don't think it's dumb to read this and think, I would pay that price, I would volunteer. The piece does its best to make it sound terrible, but still, it only takes one person to agree to make this system totally consensual. The
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by lacker 3y ago
Ironically, the people who really are experts on startup board politics and governance are the VCs who are often pretending to be experts on other things.
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by lacker 3y ago
The danger that OpenAI blew up in some way, either by firing Sam and having the company fizzle under some new bad CEO, or by having the company quasi acquired by Microsoft and thus leading to typical acquisition badness, or some other sort
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by lacker 3y ago
It is annoying because I am a curious person, but I can't say that this silence is a mistake on the part of OpenAI. Perhaps one day all the facts will come out when someone writes a book about this saga. I would be interested to read a
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by lacker 3y ago
Bah, kids these days. It's not revisionism. I worked on search quality during the hand-coded heuristic era, 2005-2009. I spent some of that time working on the "navboost" team which used click data to alter the search results
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by lacker 3y ago
The author has a curious background. He left his role as a cabinet secretary after a report found that his department misspent 250 million dollars. The governor issued a press release that said he was leaving but didn't say why. And th
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by lacker 3y ago
This reminds me of people saying that search engines were doomed as a business in the late 90's. They have no real moat. All you need is to gather all the text on the internet, make an index, and build it on well-known information retr
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by lacker 3y ago
If there's one thing C++ needs, it's more slightly-different varieties of smart pointers in the standard. ;-) What exactly would you use these for? I find that usually I can get away with unique_ptr for the sort of object that I h
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by lacker 3y ago
For a sensitive issue like child protection, Google and Meta are going to get attacked no matter what they do. Too much protection and they are harming LBGT youth, too little protection and they are putting children at risk. From the tech c
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by lacker 3y ago
Meson or CMake. Neither one is really all that great, I would say personally that Meson is better in theory but CMake is more widely supported so I prefer Meson but it's pretty even. Either one is better than just an enormous makefile.
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by lacker 3y ago
I think nowadays smart pointers should not be considered an "advanced topic" in C++. Smart pointers are usually the best way to handle memory management. It's definitely useful to learn about "new" and "delete&
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by lacker 3y ago
The demo video looks amazing. Of course, every AI demo looks like it's the most amazing thing that's ever happened. I eagerly await getting off the waitlist so that I can try it out myself.

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