nerdponx

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by nerdponx 9mo ago
The flipside is that some corporation is getting a massive handout for a technology contract like that, and the actual utility benefit to most people is low. You could spend the same exact amount of money directly on UBI cash and be much mo
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but the answer is that the same mechanism that incentivizes all of this innovation prevents the gains from being distributed evenly. You can get fabulously wealthy if you can be an early mov
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
As if we needed more incentives to suppress wages
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I've had problems like this before, but I always attributed it to auto white balance. That great ruiner of sunset photos the world over.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Which is precisely part of the strategy to keep everyone distracted and confused.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
People like AI created slop because they already like human created slop. AI slop is the way it is because it was trained on human slop.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
I believe some Linux distributions patch Firefox to change default settings including disabling telemetry. Probably not a big factor, but still something to think about.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Remember when the whole reason people liked Firefox is that it was super customizable? There was a time when it was THE power user browser. Things only went sideways after Chrome came out. Firefox literally was a mainstream browser at one p
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Conspiracy theory: Mozilla leadership is bad on purpose as a form of sabotage. Erode the fan base until it just wears away and dies on its own. Then there will be no one to challenge the Microsoft Google Apple hegemony.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
I understood the point of the article to be exploring the extent to which p-values can be interpreted as strength of evidence in favor of the alternative hypothesis. I don't think anyone is spending all this energy on p-values because
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Different kind of apocalypse Actually if it was "just" cheap and junky that would probably be fine with a lot of people here. Yes shrinkinflation is a problem but technology doesn't seem to have that problem, prices genuinely
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Sure, that works for TVs. Less so for things like refrigerators and cars. Getting fixated on one particular market obfuscates the big picture.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
It doesn't matter if consumers don't like it if everyone does it. The only choice remaining then is to put up with it or not have a TV at all.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
If they weren't, then why would enterprise level subscriptions include specific terms stating that they don't train on user provided data? There's no reason to believe that they don't, and if they don't now then the
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
As someone with enough math background to be comfortable with one letter variable lanes and terse notation, this is still needlessly annoying to me because of the removal of almost all non-essential whitespace and grouping related definiti
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Most Scheme implementations don't have generics, and you have to deal with a different map function for every data structure. Gauche has a generic sequence interface which is great, and it's one of the reasons as a Python user I l
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
This data is extremely extremely valuable, so my guess is that they were sitting on it until they were sure this was the best business decision. Also they already have their own ads so they have certainly been using this data internally all
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
A lot of other companies are in the business of selling data, too. It's not like Uber is uniquely evil for doing this. I'd argue that selling aggregated metrics is comparatively innocuous compared to what Meta does with fingerprin
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
I'm surprised they weren't already doing this. Maybe they wanted to give it some time to see if there were other ways to monetize it before opening up the aggregates for sale.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
In Massachusetts it's policed and enforced but the maximum fine per inspection is $5000 so it doesn't actually do anything (and it only applies to food anyway and stores are also allowed to exempt a fairly large number of items).
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Hanlon's Razor is not relevant with large amounts of money at stake. in fact the complete opposite is the best approach: The more money that's involved, the more you should suspect malice until it has been conclusively ruled out.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
The article you linked to makes a different claim.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
> The main reason for US success on the GDP front is that the median administrator chooses to make people fail and the US does the best job of resisting that tendency. Every component here is ill-defined and doubtful, especially the clai
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
I didn't know about this history. Looks like it actually worked out great for them.
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
It's hard to tell from the news but it sounds like they've negotiated contracts for a recurring stream of DRAM rather than just trying to buy a ton of it on an open market. Wouldn't we be stuck with high prices until manufac
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
Oops I forgot the link to the FTC document https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/speeches/vertical-issue... and here's a followup from the same commissioner https://www.ftc.gov/news-events
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
You need a minimal base OS to have the flexibility to build your own stuff on top of it, and you don't want to be at the behest of another corporation. That rules out Fedora, Suse, and Ubuntu. You also need it to be popular and have go
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
I think this is a misinterpretation of the document. The claim is: > 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged with or convicted of crimes in the U.S. I believe the claim here is that 70% of the people ICE arrests have be
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
It's interesting that this isn't actually illegal to do except in the specific context of an exchange market. I did a very cursory search of the US Code and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and yeah, unless there's some
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by nerdponx 10mo ago
The article even says that they don't have an obvious plan for how to use the wafers they bought, and very clearly suggests that this is purely an anticompetitive tactic to force everyone else to eat a price increase that OpenAI doesn&

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