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by novia 2y ago
I read the book Chip War. The US Government has been the chip industry's faithful customer. They are also allowed to step in when they have national security concerns. The pandemic chip shortage brought our reliance on overseas produce
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by novia 2y ago
Is there any job out there where you can go without lying? Lying leads to burnout for me. Stretching tasks out makes me feel bad and maybe also leads to burnout. I just want to do an honest day's work without someone pressuring me to b
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by novia 2y ago
The article ended on a cliff-hanger too. > Even so, as I burrowed deeper into Silicon Valley and what I came to think of as the “microcosmos”, I did find a hidden wrinkle in the way we compute, something intrinsic to the code itself, whi
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by novia 2y ago
This part seems to imply that facial recognition is on by default: <claude_image_specific_info> Claude always responds as if it is completely face blind. If the shared image happens to contain a human face, Claude never identifies or
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by novia 2y ago
Letting each franchise choose their meat supplier sounds like a nightmare for things like allergen menus. You do want things standardized across the entire country for a chain.
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by novia 2y ago
I went into a Subway sometime within the last month to get a soda. Not only was the store completely devoid of customers, it also had no staff. It took 10+ min for an employee to appear. I considered just walking out with the drink during t
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by novia 2y ago
They could take the search team, flip a coin for each employee, and split it, maintaining rank. The team that's forced to leave to start their own search company will be able to leave with the full Google search codebase and dependenci
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by novia 2y ago
Google has the closest thing we have to the Bell Labs of the past that invented the transistor. If the DOJ breaks them up, we will lose another valuable industry research facility.
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by novia 2y ago
https://archive.is/PWnVH
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Has the mystery of life's 'handedness' been cracked?(newscientist.com)
3 points by novia 2y ago|1 comments
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by novia 2y ago
People at age 12, maybe even age 10, are ready to use the internet. This might be an unpopular take, but I remember being that age and having to jump through so many hoops to access the sites I wanted to access, and I swore to myself I woul
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by novia 2y ago
> Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics? Yes. There's overlap between transit nerds and software devs. I'm one example.
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by novia 2y ago
Cypronomicon is a pretty fun read
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by novia 2y ago
McDonald's is a real estate company. [1] https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burg...
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by novia 2y ago
> What the superior performance of his machine mainly due to the Western components he was using? No. The genius was in the design and how the components were used. > It seems entirely legitimate to me for the Communists to have favo
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by novia 2y ago
I wish he had chosen to go with the Americans who recognized his genius. Having loyalty to his home country set him back. He could have returned to Poland after the fall of communism, potentially with millions of dollars to invest locally.
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by novia 2y ago
Crowdstrike issues false positives allll the time. They'll fix them and then they'll come back in a future update. One such false positive is an empty file. Crowdstike hates empty files.
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by novia 2y ago
And now the model that we've all been following for years for free is paywalled..
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by novia 2y ago
https://research.google/pubs/?& Go look at the breakdown of the number of research papers coming out of Google. In 2023 there were 744, in 2017 there were 637. Two decades ago, there were half as many.
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by novia 2y ago
The paper on transformers come out in 2017. Less than a decade ago.
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Flying is better with an open window shade(slate.com)
5 points by novia 2y ago|0 comments
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by novia 2y ago
I just read the article, and it seems like the ice cream effect was not limited by the amount you consumed. As in, "as little as half a cup a day can reduce your risk of diabetes."
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by novia 2y ago
I love to see it. Thank you for building this. This is a problem that's been solved many times over by private companies, and they charge other institutions exorbitant fees for the privilege of using their software. I hope you can get
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by novia 2y ago
Every day we get a little closer to an Oryx and Crake reality.
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by novia 2y ago
I viewed this on my RoundRect
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by novia 2y ago
To me this is a good indication that the announcement was written by a human and not an LLM
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by novia 2y ago
The people who advocate censorship of AGIs annoy the hell out of the AI safety people who actually care about existential risk.
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Berkeley's pier is still closed and at least 5 more years from reopening (2021)(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by novia 2y ago|0 comments
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by novia 2y ago
Is there any way to incorporate as a telecom before deploying to be in adherence with the regulations?
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by novia 2y ago
Hey, can you go into this more? When I search Adderall bravado online, your post is the top result. I have a friend whose behavior changed wildly after being prescribed Adderall, so I am interested in learning more.

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