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by nojvek 3y ago
I liked that US govt approved the Chips ACT, but I'm skeptic whether that will actually meaningfully change the manufacturing ability in-house. The problem with US corporations is they are run by MBA management who are experts in stock
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by nojvek 3y ago
Google is an Ads company ad the end of the day. They are making 10% revenue from GCloud but still bulk of their profits are from Ads. If they were threatened, Google could have easily owned the cloud. They were the first to a million server
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by nojvek 3y ago
https://avidml.org/blog/llm-privacy-plaigarism/ https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/weird-properties-of-large-lan... https://www.sarus.tech/post/llms-have-become-excellent-at-
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by nojvek 3y ago
Poor Mayoshi Sun from Softbank. He held a $3.1B position in Nvidia in 2019. That would be 19x at $60B today. He was super bullish on AI and robotics. Just ahead of his time.
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by nojvek 3y ago
The issue with bigger LLM or even MMMs is that the bigger they are the more they are cramming and regurgitating the training data, and that opens up to lawsuits. Making NNs generalize the way humans do it is still a hard problem.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Wow’ that was neat.
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by nojvek 3y ago
They bought 30+ AI startups, all that for nought? Even Twitter got in the game and made Grok. Wow! So unambitious coming from Apple.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I agree with this move. Tax those who hold single family homes for renting to others and the problems will fix itself. Housing is seen as an investment. If a big portion of rent starts going into taxes, then it doesn’t become a speculative
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by nojvek 3y ago
I am very grateful that we had a web with standards, and browsers with extensions. I have adblockers and custom rules to block Twitter ads, YouTube comments, Reddit ads. I can’t do any of these on mobile apps. It’s an entirely closed platfo
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by nojvek 3y ago
US does a really shitty job at regulating tech companies - esp privacy and abuse of data. Perhaps because the big tech has captured the regulators with a lobby revolving door. Look at how big a tantrum Apple is throwing regarding 3rd party
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by nojvek 3y ago
Testing is wonderful- if one starts with the goal of delivering highest quality per unit time spent. If you start with a goal of coverage or every little thing having X unit test, it becomes a pain on everyone. Integration tests are the har
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by nojvek 3y ago
With all the layoffs, the big Tech still keep on filing for more H1Bs. How about Congress bans new H1Bs for tech companies for a few years until the market settles?
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s not odd behavior. Tesla misadvertises many features esp Autopilot.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Seller’s agent sure. Buyer’s agent no so much. So far I have yet to find a buyer’s agent that is worth the price they are charging. Happy to pay them a few $100 for offer writing. But most have little ideas about neighborhoods, builds etc.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Wonderful news. Real estate agent fees are ludicrous for the amount of work they do. Efficient markets are better markets.
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by nojvek 3y ago
That’s amazing that he was caught. AFAIK in most states, the police have say in their jurisdiction. So a lot of theft crime can’t be caught because the thief drives to another jurisdiction and the chase can’t go on. So they can get away. Th
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by nojvek 3y ago
And here we are saying AI won’t take jobs. It’s different than industrialization. The definition of AGI is - do what humans do, but better. This will only exacerbate over time.
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by nojvek 3y ago
You can now use the file api to work with terabyte sized files if your disk can handle it. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file... Browser is pretty powerful nowadays.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Playing devil’s advocate - even if this is related to a Boeing executive, it needs to be proved in court. Allegations and heresay is easy. Pricing in court with evidence is a much steeper climb. Don’t see much talk of evidence in the articl
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by nojvek 3y ago
In this age of cars I want dumb cars with an engine that I could optionally plug in my smart thing if I wanted. Even Toyota has gone too smart with their in tune crap. Give me a cockroach car that survives for 50 years. No other bells and w
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by nojvek 3y ago
Not sure why article is flagged. It’s well written. I have noticed the red/blue lines amplify along the gender lines. The dating market for young men is skewed in the age of Tinder. A few men get most of the dates, while the rest get n
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by nojvek 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/world/canada/canada-recor...
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by nojvek 3y ago
I use httpie from cli. It’s a much faster experience to call endpoints from a bash scripts. Never got the postman hype.
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by nojvek 3y ago
If you really have that much data and traffic, the $ costs start to add up to multiple engineer comp costs. At that point it’s cheaper to move to something you have good control over. I.e sharding at application layer and connecting to the
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by nojvek 3y ago
My previous employer was a GCP customer. Google did pull occasional shenanigans totally breaking us with random upgrades without notifying us. Their support wouldn’t acknowledge it was their fault until we were mad at them. My newer employe
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by nojvek 3y ago
Playing devil's advocate here. What causes housing shortage - more demand than supply. What causes more demand? - more people. IMO an ever increasing population isn't a good thing if the economy can't absorb them at an equili
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by nojvek 3y ago
It's either more sprawl or a new high density city from scratch.
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by nojvek 3y ago
App Store is as scammy as Google play store. Apple vets every app through their review team but it’s a shit show of inconsistency. Apple’s wall garden doesn’t do much other than rent seeking. I got scammed in an ethereum site back in the da
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by nojvek 3y ago
Apple’s management and lawyers trying every trick in the book to follow the law by the line but not by spirit. He! I’m sad that EU has to make big tech pay. US antitrust and lawmakers love those sweeeet lobby donations. Corporations run US.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Demand and supply. As long as there is a marketplace and people have a choice, the market will balance. I have friends in strip mall businesses and they have moved locations for better landlords.

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