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by mlsu 1y ago
The tech looks cool. But it does seem that your platform ingests video content without the permission of the person who creates these videos? The value of your platform is driven by the people creating the videos. You say that you do revenu
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by mlsu 1y ago
God forbid we allow other browser vendors and email providers to compete! Look outside. Competitors to _all_ of those product segments exist, there is a huge amount of untapped value waiting to be provided to consumers! They’re limping alon
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by mlsu 1y ago
Keep your own house. I like working, I’m not quite sure what I would do otherwise. It is perfectly acceptable to have genuine relationships with your coworkers, employees, and customers, but “genuine” is the key. What’s bad for you is not w
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by mlsu 1y ago
It’s much deeper than that, I think. The constant sharing actually prevents edges from forming in the first place. People are simply less unique nowadays, full stop.
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by mlsu 1y ago
I did this too, a little before you (started around 27ish) The B.S. changed my life. I graduated, you will too.
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by mlsu 1y ago
slamtec RPlidar points come in on UART. They are 2D, not 3D. You won't be able to do much with the raw data on something with the compute power of an arduino. SLAM takes a lot of compute and memory and compute scales with resolution qu
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by mlsu 1y ago
The point of education isn't to actually learn though. It's to receive the credential. This is much larger than a cultural problem with the students of today. They believe, rightfully and accurately, that the university degree is
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by mlsu 1y ago
It seems that with this technique you could not possibly do "chain of thought." That technique seems unique to auto-regressive architecture. Right?
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by mlsu 1y ago
Oh that is fascinating. So if you have a smarter solar panel, or a smart battery, you can stabilize the grid. I’m assuming that all of the traditional software complexity things in distributed systems apply here: you want something a little
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by mlsu 1y ago
The information needs to propagate through the network either forward (when the model has the codebase in context) or backward (when it updates its weights). You can have the models pseudo “learn” by putting things in something like a syste
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by mlsu 1y ago
Does solar power make this process easier or harder? I know that with thermal plants you have a spinning mass that you have to synchronize, and phase shift is used to assess how hard the plant is working (and whether to trip a disconnect as
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by mlsu 1y ago
Why would you trust these statistics? I am very skeptical. The state said that they have solved the gang problem by putting “gangsters” in prisons like this (frequently, without due process as we have seen). I think it’s far more likely tha
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by mlsu 1y ago
Lots of everyday people have a tremendous amount of power. C-suite executives for example. The concrete example of this is Harvard and some of the big law firms (Jenner & Block and WilmerHale). That is what resistance looks like now. Pa
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by mlsu 1y ago
Insightful comment. > And I agree that yes, the self improving machine actually exists. It's the living cell. What I mean to say about this is that, while life is a self-improving machine, it is only self improving in the presence o
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by mlsu 1y ago
This thing where AI can improve itself seems to me in violation of the second law. I'm not a physicist by training merely an engineer but my argument is as follows: - I think the reason humans are clever is because nature spent 6 billi
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by mlsu 1y ago
I’ve been jokingly calling my electronics hobby of the past few years “getting my EE degree.” Putting together PCBs, reading and replicating schematics, designing my own hardware. It’s been really fun and has paid dividends for my career (f
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by mlsu 2y ago
None of those places have manufacturing prowess in EVs, batteries, electronics, and solar, which is largely where China has comparative advantage over the US. But yes in general, if we want to re-industrialize, we need to move the collabora
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yes, China. The policy should be collaboration with China. 50/50 state subsidized joint ventures with Chinese corporations on EVs, raw materials refining, solar panels and batteries, etc. At the same time, a gradual and predictable tar
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by mlsu 2y ago
I can give an enthusiastic recommendation for this museum. This sounds uncultured, but for a long time I thought of Dali as just like — “le random funny guy” who had the thin mustache and painted the clocks. But this museum totally changed
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by mlsu 2y ago
I think that’s just an artifact of twitter’s history. It was “normal” (increasingly algorithm slop driven) website until roughly 1-2 years ago when it was bought out and became maga slop. Remember twitter came out in like 2007 when only tec
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by mlsu 2y ago
Why will a factory job will pay enough for one person to raise a family and buy a house on a single income? Like what is unique about factory work that allows for this? I’ve heard stuff like this so much and I just do not believe it. Is any
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yes, it would. A missed paycheck brings you to the front of the debtor line, ahead of any bank or equity holder, when the company liquidates. The startup's owners would have been personally liable for paying out the employee in such
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by mlsu 2y ago
For anyone listening, if you live in CA absolutely do not do this, especially if you are tight on money. Employee can take 30 days of pay + attorneys fees if they are not paid out within 72 hours of their last paycheck and it's quite e
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by mlsu 2y ago
In tech specifically: is it the same mechanism? I mean, does commercial advertising and political propaganda flow through the same channel? I would love your input as someone on the inside. My understanding, broadly, is that when there’s co
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by mlsu 2y ago
That note about comedy and melancholy being tied together is really salient. The best sad stories are also the most funny. The arc of a sad story is the same as the arc of a funny one: there’s the tension, often like some introspective tens
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by mlsu 2y ago
I would be ready and prepared to sacrifice a fair amount of my quality of life for the greater good (of being more self-reliant, more secure, bringing some manufacturing back on shore, etc, etc). But these guys have basically said "we&
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by mlsu 2y ago
And not only that. People who do make a living producing creative stuff have to constantly monitor themselves for any hint of copyright infringement, because a copyright strike on their channel is existential. Even if the majority of the ti
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by mlsu 2y ago
The hypocrisy is obviously disgusting. It also shows how, at the end of the day, none of the justifications for this intellectual property crap are about creativity, preserving the rights of creators, or any lofty notion that intellectual p
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by mlsu 2y ago
I was really hoping that the conversation around AI art would at least be partially centered on the perhaps now dated "2008 pirate party" idea that intellectual property, the royalty system, the draconian copyright laws that we ha
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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