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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Great. I hope they bring charges against Tesla for causing deaths that were completely avoidable. In fact we keep talking about AI ethics and so on. But we seem to have missed this very basic key ethical point: when Silicon Valley VC funded
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I would not use Silicon Valley technology to A/B test death rates by 'trying' arbitrary 'cool' things inside a fast moving metal torpedo. He can play with toys as he pleases but using real cars seems absolutely bonk
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This person seems to generate a lot of noise disproportional to his talent/skills. He has a pinned tweet that is absurdly positioning himself to the likes of Berkshire Hathaway: sort of a megalomaniac complex. Reading his Annual Letter
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Honestly, in a sea of internet cesspool, HN consistently shines. Importantly, I have changed my opinions on certain aspects of technology or politics based on rational civilized discourse that happens here. Disagreement is actually an activ
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
That is indeed the scariest part. Given the number of vehicular fatalities this guy is personally responsible for at Tesla, I don't think this is a smart or important approach. The callous nature in which people apply Silicon Valley mi
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
These industries are spurned by growth-hacking companies that receive a lot of VC funding to do just that: prove out "user value" which is code for "get as many users as possible". Twitter, Reddit, FB, Instagram all thri
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This seems like the largest misconception of what FB is about. Your feed doesn't matter. We can all pretend to mass #deletefb, but you have already given enough data that they can carry it through all these "properties" witho
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Two major advantages: transparency and optional lossless. JPEG blocky artifacts are very hard to remove for high resolution images unless you hand tune them.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I have no idea what this company does but her account of it is genuine, honest and makes me appreciate the true difficulty of being a female leader. It's a bit unfortunate there isn't a government support for women in power to tak
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Obviously the people who work in your company should then quit and create their own stable businesses.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I like this honest explanation. Thank you.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
A dumb but serious question: what powers does a board of directors have? In terms of day to day operations, engineering, product, marketing and so on?
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
You are missing "cryptomining lidar focus" .. might add more legitimacy.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I don't think deleting a Facebook account really matters in this day and age. The FB Ads SDK has infiltrated every nook and corner of your life. From websites to your phone to TV's to iot. I am scared by the prospects of that leve
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
The level of respect that someone like Andrej Karpathy is jarring: he should publicly apologize instead of being all saintly (oh look ma, I built a toy with 6 cameras, I am so proud of myself) while talking about deep learning or whatever c
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This is getting a bit ridiculous. Silicon Valley mindset being applied to critical safety focused products is really bad. I hope they regulate the crap out of Tesla and God I hope comma.ai whose founder seems even more batshit crazy.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
That sort of puts things in perspective. I didn't realize all of that amazing stuff happened in the course of a few minutes... Incredible. For all the silly things Elon Musk does on Twitter, he rightfully takes the credit for building
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Quote: "Being a VC is fing hard". But what he won't tell you is much much harder to be a founder/engineer who actually does stuff. It's not clear how different this is from say hedge fund? I would imagine it's
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I see your point. I think there is an angle there. However, still feels like a rich person's game here: not sure if the average or below average conditions will improve (childhood mortality, adult mortality) in developing countries bec
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
The most dangerous type of technology: putting silicon valley mindset to a critical, deadly torpedo is not just risky but callous. Falling to these (hotz/musk) people's perceived intellect as somehow determining the success of sel
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
One thing that's not clear to me is the advantage of living longer. Why do some people feel the need to live longer? When I hear of blood transfusion and such, it also feels like a lot of these technologies are being developed by snake
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
As usual a beautiful, beautiful language. As expected, they start with something simple and build layers upon layers all connected via simple concepts. Add init to a property, make its class a data class, and boom you have immutable beautif
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
This is really fascinating. Continuing along the comparison with airplane stocks: On one hand you have companies that keep flying chairs in the sky filled with people, feeding them every few hours migrating them across continents. On the ot
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
If Lamborghini wanted to boost their sales, there couldn't be a better product placement than this. " Our cars are so amazing, even a five year old would drive by himself on a highway to buy it."
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
There used to be a time when products and innovation made in America were deemed high-quality and highly desired for. I am talking non-software. Here we are talking about people who make a living out of cheap potentially slave labor and to
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Ah got it. I hope there is some level of scrutiny on what gets posted. But agreed on not offthread comments.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Am glad I have to scroll this far to find a crypto company. In this day and age, given how much money has already been swindled by Bitcoin crapto folks why should anyone want to risk/work in this dangerous snake oil peddling area?
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
Missing the excellent "The War stories" from Ars Technica. e.g. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ... Their PAX West/East reviews and thoughts are also excellent.
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I am a little out of date on this topic but what effect does Spectre/Meltdown and other mitigations have on newer processors? Is it fundamentally just a software fix going forward? Seems like we are willing to sacrifice in the order of
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by mindfulplay 6y ago
I see what you are saying. But to me it's uninspiring. It cannot be replicated. It's a simple tool that's overblown. There isn't a technology behind it. I just saw a piece of news saying it took their engineering and des

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