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by ninth_ant 2y ago
You make this claim as if it’s entirely about how folks feel about nations. Might be for some people. But unless the CEO of BYD has been trying to actively undermine European elections… perhaps this is more about Telsa specifically and the
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Condominium complexes often have trouble pushing through new investments like this, as some residents will push back against any new expense. In my parents building the anti-EV expansion proposal was blocked in part by the people who alread
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Jellyfin+Infuse works really well for subtitles as well.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
From a different store? From a piracy site? From a friend or family member? From a different retailer? By breaking the encryption? Perhaps the other people didn't miss the point at all.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Perhaps I phrased it poorly but I was trying to separate out GPU workloads for AI and gaming. The apple ecosystem is very poor for gaming overall, but in their ML and LLM related abilities they have very good performance at a fraction of th
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
What was “wrong” is that enough people are willing to pay exorbitant prices for the highest-end gear that Nvidia can do most anything they want as long as their products have the best numbers. Other companies do make products with lower pow
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Because I don’t want to fight my distro. The Ubuntu maintainers have a cohesive vision for their product, and that vision doesn’t align with what I want. Yes, I absolutely could shoehorn what I want overtop of their vision, but I’d rather j
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I’m also ditching Ubuntu over snaps. Their Firefox snap is pitifully slow on my relatively high-end PC. It’s an embarrassment that it was shipped so broken as a default to end users. Distributions are mattering less and less these days, wit
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
The why not is because it potentially devalues the prestige of the individual work’s IP, and the brand in general. This is short-term optimization, par for the course with the new Disovery-owned Warner Bros.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
The list of things people who deserves more credit is endless, for all intents and purposes. People make kernels, drivers, file system, drivers, languages, compilers, container systems, security infrastructure, and the list goes on. It’s li
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Stick with Newton then. Unless you're a specialist, this model explains almost everything you'll ever need to explain, predict, or encounter.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Well said, that’s exactly what I meant.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
If the LLM is trained on accurate medical data and you provide accurate symptoms data, then the LLM can be a useful tool to output the information in a human-readable way. This is not a diagnosis. Any reasonably capable person can read webm
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Doesn’t dissuade me at all, that’s a really neat service. I’m not American though, and even if my own country had a similar service I still enjoying tuning the results to focus on what I’m interested in. And it was just an example of the ki
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I think a lot of the confusion is in how we approach LLMs. Perhaps stemming from the over-broad term “AI”. There are certain classes of problems that LLMs are good at. Accurately regurgitating all accumulated world knowledge ever is not one
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
The Network effect, and cultural mind share are two pretty effective moats. Meta and X proven surprisingly resilient in the face of pretty overwhelming negative sentiment. Google maintains monopoly status on Web Search and in Browsers despi
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I think this underestimates the degree to which the people on these companies legitimately believe what they’re saying. I’ve worked at one of these companies and absolutely would fall into your category of being a true believer at the time.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I mean you can read into it in all sorts of ways, but the simplest is that Apple likes getting $20b per year by having a default setting on a config that is trivially easy for users to change. That’s already so compelling, that I’m not sure
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
All changes to the status quo can have political repercussions. But there is a difference between a change that is a byproduct of someone trying to do what is right in a given situation vs a change that someone is making directly relating t
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I'm not aware of that personally, but I believe it. The revisionist history trying to paint Zuckerberg as being manipulated here is so just insulting to reality. Zuck deserves the credit for both driving the decisions between both the
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
You’re right about how this decline happened. But encouraging people to share to the widest audience was another aspect where short-term growth of metrics was prioritized over long-term health of the platform. There was a possible future wh
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I don't think what car he was driving was a factor at all. He had incredible wealth even before this, driving a cheap old car is effectively just a stunt to promote a specific kind of public image. Which is fine, but it's somewhat
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Oh my god, no. Zuck had — and I believe still has — complete control of the company. Demonizing Sandberg and lionizing Zuckerberg is a complete disservice to reality. It was the focus on growth and not money that ruined everything. Many c
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
I’m quite confident this would have been based on metadata collected by Facebook from its user activity. The company has been extremely analytical about its own growth, and id be surprised if this wasn’t a conclusion from an in-house data
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Of course YC backs multiple companies in the same spaces, they have for quite some time if not from the start. The controversy with pearai was not because it competed the market space of another YC company, but that it had the appearance of
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Yes, companies are legally obligated to disclose risks. But that’s not even what this is about. Facebook _did_ disclose those risks, but just not strongly worded enough in the hopes of the plaintiffs.
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
It doesn’t matter if no one buys it, or if it doesn’t even continue to exist as a standalone business. That’s preferable. The important part is ending the egregious conflict of interest where an advertising behemoth controls access to the i
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
This is interesting, but let's not have a takeaway that the problem is isolated to bad actors purchasing social networking sites. Even on supposedly neutral platforms like YouTube or Facebook you'll see bad actors successfully
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
Even with this objective, using the share prices and not the market cap of the companies involved creates enormous skew. For example UNH and especially GS take up the largest individual components despite not being being amongst the largest
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by ninth_ant 2y ago
> Also many players don't need to cheat all the time; just in that critical moment when it really matters. Didn't Magnus Carlsen say he only needs a single move from a chess computer in the right moment to be virtually guarante

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