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by notatoad 7mo ago
I don’t know how often you’re buying cat litter, but carrying food and beer in a pannier on a pedal-powered bike is perfectly reasonable, let alone an ebike
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by notatoad 7mo ago
as a website operator, i want my website to not experience downtime and unreliability because of usage rates that exceed the rate at which humans load pages, and i want to not be defrauded. if you want to access my website using automated t
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by notatoad 7mo ago
Nobody is forcing you to pay for tokens you don’t use. If you only want to pay for the tokens you use, switch to api billing and pay for tokens at api rates. If you want the discounted rates they offer in their monthly plans, then expect t
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by notatoad 7mo ago
>Grift is cyclical, and any period of high grift will soon give way to a period of high skepticism so how do you explain the immediate jump from crypto grift straight into AI grift? i'm not saying all crypto or all AI is pure grift
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by notatoad 7mo ago
the $30b investment from nvidia is instead of a previously-announced $100b investment from nvidia, so it's not like this is an entirely good-news story for OpenAI.
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by notatoad 7mo ago
it's all just saying stuff the shareholders want to hear. when the shareholders want to hear "we're staffing up aggressively" the companies hire. when the shareholders want to hear "we're moving workloads to
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by notatoad 8mo ago
did we not read the same article? i saw three main claims in the article: - removing stops makes the bus faster: obviously true. - bus stops in america are closer together than bus stops in other places: backed up by data in the article.
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i'd love to know what happens if you change the prompt from "Hello! I am an eccentric video game designer (a very creative one) who communicates in an unusual way. Sometimes I’ll mash the keyboard or type nonsense like “skfjhsd#$%
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i don't see them making any claim that unauthorized use of their proprietary content is illegal. i read this more as a claim to protect their brand and valuation. They just want us all to know that we shouldn't be too impressed b
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, recently said artificial intelligence was spreading more slowly than he had expected. his company has grown from ~10 million to ~900 million users in three years. if that's not quickly en
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by notatoad 8mo ago
the challenge is always determining what the "bins" are. maybe the government has no bin for "investegated by the FBI for a silly and innocuous reason". but maybe they do, and lying about it slots you into the bin for &q
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>It's all just a sprawling behemoth of a framework, because it tries to do everything. it is, but at the same time, that's kind of great. it handles all the things. but you don't have to use them all. for me, the point
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i'm continually surprised by how many people will buy and wear meta's AI spy sunglasses. if there's a market for a face camera that sends everything you see to meta, there's probably a market for whatever device openAI l
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>America’s only real competitor technologically is China this is a very shortsighted view. america's only real competitor technologically right now is china, because america has typically attracted the top talent from everywhere
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i believe in the world of long-form text content, this is the medium.com model. the've been working at this for a while, i think even before youtube premium existed. they're still kicking, but it hasn't exactly been a roarin
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i think about this a lot wit respect to AI-generated art. calling something "derivative" used to be a damning criticism. now, we've got tools whose whole purpose is to make things that are very literally derivative of the w
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i'm surprised to see this suggestion highly upvoted, because this is the solution that usually makes hacker news the angriest. in reality this cannot be just a simple plain text header. that's way too easily forged and will not s
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by notatoad 8mo ago
Regardless of how authoritarian the government is in the project maintainer’s home country, exposing themselves to a second authoritarian jurisdiction is probably a bad idea.
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by notatoad 8mo ago
The thing that really gets to me about this situation and others like it (the whole genre of “ai did a bad thing) is that it’s always the people who claim to be most afraid of ai who are the quickest to absolve humans of responsibility and
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by notatoad 8mo ago
as a counterpoint to that, i'm an iOS user, i use the apple keyboard every day, and it's fine? i don't really understand the complaint. it's clearly not "broken". and i also never give feedback. there's
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by notatoad 8mo ago
Publicly releasing 100% of the maps data they collect would be the most gigantic privacy violation the world has ever seen.
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>There is always some poor or corrupt country willing to ignore consequences as long as they can make a buck. this is basically what i'm suggesting as the solution here, rather than the problem. if you're in command of a tanker
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by notatoad 8mo ago
so these ships are abandoned by the companies that own them, with the crew still on board? and then the crew is just stuck there with dwindling food supplies until somebody comes to rescue them? in my head this seems like a problem that co
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by notatoad 8mo ago
i think calling this another victim of PE is missing the point a little bit. i guess Catalyst Brands is technically PE, but they're not just a finance company treating these brands as assets to be milked and stripped for parts before
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by notatoad 8mo ago
my 2010 F-150 with the notoriously terrible 5.4L gas engine seems to manage 1000km range. there's absolutely nothing efficient about it, it's just got a big gas tank.
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by notatoad 8mo ago
this is totally backwards to how i've been using agents. the thing that an agent is really really good at is overcoming the initial load of using a new framework or library. i know, at some level, that using other people's code
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by notatoad 8mo ago
seems like the obvious answer to that is you cover a patch of road with 5mm ball bearings, and send a waymo to drive across it. if the ball bearings behave the way the simulation says they would, and the car behaves the way the simulation
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>because there's no buses, interstate, etc to service the area where all the growth is happening. right, it'd be great if that stuff could be built to support the housing before the housing gets built. but you can't do th
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by notatoad 8mo ago
>one of them filed a complaint with the California State Bar, saying that I was practicing law without a license. This sounds suspiciously similar to what happened to Chuck Marohn from StrongTowns.
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by notatoad 8mo ago
nobody thinks they're a nimby. every nimby ever will tell you they aren't against development, they just don't think this project is right for this neighbourhood . if there was any centralized advocacy, they'd have t

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