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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Oh, that started well before the internet was open to the public. I pretty much blame it on CNN. CNN proved that news can be a profit center. Before that, news was not expected to make much money, it was considered more of a public ser
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> "We need a much more sophisticated debate about crypto-currency" or the other article on the front page of HN right now: "We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, crypto-powered internet". Or maybe we need
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Covid fearporn and Ukraine outrageporn are essentially old and boring news now There will always be a "thing" in the news cycle. I'm uncomfortable with "fearporn" in this sense because, well, Covid was and stil
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by nkozyra 4y ago
It's extremely uncommon that everything changes suddenly and forever. Most technological progress is a continuum, with little step functions of "this is it." The AI/ML progress in the last ten years is a big local maximu
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Well these are riskier businesses to start for this reason. I did cage it by saying make sure your whole company doesn't collapse if one API gets shut down.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most impor
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by nkozyra 4y ago
If there's an extended meltdown I think it has larger ramifications, since this isn't about solvency but instead about people fundamentally not understanding and/or trusting how banks do business.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
It was probably the #1 topic over the last 3 days. What else is there really to do but shake our heads and figure out how things work now?
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Look, I get that in hindsight the " of course you should do this thing that historically you would never think of" thing makes sense, but my bigger point was the blame shifting. Sub-20 person startup CEOs didn't cause this p
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by nkozyra 4y ago
This is a very weird blame shift. At 250k/account insured suddenly it's a CEOs fiduciary incompetence that a seed round isn't distributed amongst 16 banks?
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by nkozyra 4y ago
But the stakes are much higher here. You can fix those things if you forget. You're in trouble if you forget to renew your domain. And you're in much bigger trouble if your identity is tied to ownership of that domain.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY I don't spend enough time on Reddit for that to really resonate, but the badges and icons flying all over the place and talk of Twitter Gold (or whatever they're calling it) do feel ve
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Maybe you're trying to do something more advanced than me, or are using a less reliable platform somehow, but generally I find all the "Twitter is so dead" talk being confirmation bias from folks that really want it to f
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I don't think I could have predicted - even given the wanton layoffs - that the service would deteriorate so quickly across the board. I barely use the app anymore and half the time stuff isn't loading at all or is broken in obvio
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I can't remember a major service nosediving so monumentally in such a short period of time. Just a steady degradation of service.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Pretty much all the backlash against him fizzled out Because people have stopped using it as much. Look at his comments now, it's just crypto grifters and boomers who bought a blue check. It's really fascinating to me how qui
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by nkozyra 4y ago
To be fair, he's not suggesting an alternative to git.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I'm assuming the point was power tools versus very basic and more approachable ones, and I think there's a place for both. To use this example, I use vim most of the time but sometimes I jump into nano to do a quick edit on someth
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Then the software isn't a subscription, the updates are. This is also kind of how the Jetbrains stuff works and it's far less user-hostile than making someone pay in perpetuity to simply use the software.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
In the sense that it's a thin wrapper around a basic web app, yeah. Although Cordova is/was aimed more at mobile developers specifically and things like Electron and Tauri generally sell themselves as desktop first. The support
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by nkozyra 4y ago
How do you define "uselessness?" What's the purpose of life if not striving for joy? When the dust of war has cleared and the labor of humans has been made obsolete, shouldn't we be free to do the things that we enjoy?
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> A technology like this means that the vehicle still belongs to Ford, which means if something goes wrong with it, or if you get sciatica from their shitty seats, you can class action sue them into oblivion. Nothing prevents that from h
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> I'm not sure the connotation is desirable. You'd think not, and yet ...
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by nkozyra 4y ago
That's what they say, but how much autofocusing is actually happening? In the example video the scene is mostly in focus. My guess is it actually messes with the exposure rather than focus.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Their business relies on the whims of fickle consumers not changing, which seems to happen frequently. Facebook hasn't been cool for a decade+ and usage has dropped a lot in the last few years[1], so all of their eggs are going into ba
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> How does a model like that know how to speak English Mimicry.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I have to assume that targeted/curated LLM training sets will have a tendency to be less accurate than very general, just by the very nature of how they work. (edited for clarity)
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Google has enough homegrown AI tech that they don't really need partnerships or acquisitions. I don't doubt this, but there was a HUGE marketing/news angle MS+OpenAI and big name recognition in the space for Hugging Face
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by nkozyra 4y ago
That's how it starts, isn't it?
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I'm not even a late sleeper but as soon as I got to make my own schedule the idea of learning went from painful at best to actual fun. Like a lot of people I hated high school but I attribute 75% of that or more to the fact that it sta

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