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by mabbo 4y ago
If you want to understand why Elon Musk does anything that he does, you just have to ask yourself: what does he think will make him the most money at this moment? Why did he say he wanted a big free speech platform? Because he thought sayin
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by mabbo 4y ago
Many years ago, as an intern at Google, one of my mentors said to me "Google found a hose that money pours out of, and it's name is 'online advertising'. All we do now is improve that hose and desperately search for anot
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by mabbo 4y ago
They should look at Carleton University in Ottawa as an example. Big, wide, brightly lit tunnels with cameras on every square inch. No more dangerous than any other part of campus. Entirely open to everyone and often the fastest way to get
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by mabbo 4y ago
Those tunnels were one of my favorite parts of being there. I lived in residence during my fourth year and once went three weeks without setting foot outside. January is not a nice time in Ottawa.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Sure, but can you really say that a lot of people aren't doing just the same thing? (I only half joke)
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by mabbo 4y ago
We're all going to become philosophers of "Chinese Rooms"[0] at this rate. The plain fact is, ChatGPT is demonstrating a major step forward towards artificial general intelligence. It can't perfectly explain jokes, espec
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by mabbo 4y ago
> if you pay very close attention it's clear that ChatGPT doesn't fully understand some concepts > We have to carefully define the Turing test now when talking about it, because this system would obviously pass many versions
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is the downside of a more decentralized country. In many nations with more centralized control, the federal government would simply come up with a plan and each smaller jurisdiction would have to do what they were told. But the USA req
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think Suarez's "Delta-V" would make for exciting TV. And oh my god, while looking that up I discovered he's got a SEQUEL coming in a month? Well, thank you for reminding me that Daniel Suarez exists.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the problem we have with self-driving cars is more social than technological at this point. Consider the hypothetical: a million self-driving cars on the road that, collectively, will have 1/10th of the fatal accidents that hum
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel as though the article is leaving some critical details out in order to push a specific viewpoint/agenda. Testimonials from "victims" are only the side of said victims, with no details from Paypal or anyone else as to w
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by mabbo 4y ago
Tim Dodd made a lovely point in his stream of the event. People keep asking why this is a big deal- we did this fifty years ago, right? It should be a lot easier now with modern tech. Yes, but now we're doing it safely . The Apollo pr
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by mabbo 4y ago
To this day, I'm still unsure whether there was a misunderstanding or if I was being taken advantage of, but I presume good intent from the person.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Anyway, cosmology is a weird topic which not only HN reveals tons of arrogance over. Lots of misplaced skepticism. (Probably similar to the Covid topic.) It's the curse of being clever. People believe that since they're cleve
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by mabbo 4y ago
Damn, I would probably benefit from that. I've had a number of misunderstandings over the last decade where in hindsight, my communication was the root cause. My favourite: "I would". Meaning "in your situation, I would
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by mabbo 4y ago
> humanity could solve world hunger Humanity does not need any extra money to solve hunger. We have enough food. Food prices, despite recent inflation issues, are being made more cheaply than ever in human history, in quantities more tha
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by mabbo 4y ago
One of very few saved comments I have on HN is on this topic. > I don't know if it's safe. The actual quantity used is so incredibly tiny that it seems irrelevant. I'd sweeten my coffee with polonium-210 if it could be don
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by mabbo 4y ago
How fun. The MEP who loudly announces how great Qatar's labor rights are is found with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash, allegedly from "a gulf country". Presuming the allegations are true, all I can think is how basic
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by mabbo 4y ago
That increases the volume of each item- sometimes significantly. That impacts storage density, but it isn't the only issue. I know everyone loves to complain when Amazon sends a too-large box for one item, but sometimes you order seven
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by mabbo 4y ago
As I posted in another thread on this topic, the problem of robotics is not just about labor costs as much as space and shipping costs. Robots have always been able to do picking. But they needed items to be carefully laid out, easy to id
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by mabbo 4y ago
Especially true if the person/bot you're chatting with can't actually do anything they claim . My car needed it's winter tires put on (in Canada, you need different tires when it gets too cold because rubber compounds a
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by mabbo 4y ago
You buy it from Amazon often because they have low prices and fast delivery. Inspecting every item would go against both of those things. So they don't do that.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm reminded of the delightful opening scene of "Fight Club" where the narrator explains that his job is to apply "The Formula". https://youtu.be/SiB8GVMNJkE
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by mabbo 4y ago
Dwarf fortress should be in the UX hall of fame as an example of how an incredible product can be made completely inaccessible to 95% of it's target audience purely through bad UX. And I say that as one of the 5% who still played and l
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by mabbo 4y ago
Having spent many years in "Outbound" of Amazon Fulfillment, I'm skeptical that Amazon would ever know that they didn't send a fake item. Items aren't inspected deeply when they arrive. Fakes can get in. Items that
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by mabbo 4y ago
Why would they even care? The people who decide that everyone in their company must use SAP Concur are rarely the people who need to file expense reports- they either don't travel much, or they have people under them who take care of i
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yep, storage space but also multi item shipments. When Amazon puts two items into the same box, they massively reduce shipping costs. And shipping costs are the biggest cost they have.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Why don't they just embed an RFID chip in every box, give the robot sensors to triangulate the position of the RFID code matching the desired product, and grab that? Whenever you start a sentence with "why don't they jus
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by mabbo 4y ago
Expanding vertically? Nope. The storage part of the warehouse is typically 4 levels with ten foot ceilings. They have always been under these space constraints and have absolutely already optimized for space vertically. You could build a ta
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by mabbo 4y ago
I spent a number of years working on software at Amazon in the Picking and storage space. This truly is the Holy Grail in the sense that I'm not actually sure what they want is possible/real. There is a trade-off between storage d

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