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I've often thought to spook legislators by crowd-sourcing this and scaling it. Any member if of the public can upload dashcam footage, and can search any number plate captured by the network: including legislators, town councilors and
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7mo ago
> I think Meta "turned things around" by bypassing privacy controls Why would Apple be complicit on this for years?
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> I can see street-view using it to perfect the 3D analysing of the photo-video they catch with there google-car. Waymo recently announced[1] a World Model that does exactly this: using footage from a single-camera dashcam, it can predic
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7mo ago
> Creating a startup has to be about a product. When you raise 1B, investors are expecting returns, not papers. Speaking of returns - Apple absolutely fucked Meta ads with the privacy controls, which trashed ad performance, revenue and s
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7mo ago
> At some point you're not reviewing diffs at all, just watching deploys and hoping something doesn't break. To everyone who plan on automating themselves out of a job by taking the human element out- this is the endgame that m
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7mo ago
Over the years, Meta has bought a lot of "talent" based on a single hit, and they continue to be one-hit wonders despite being embedded at Meta, with ungodly amounts of resources at their disposal. e.g. none of the game studios th
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7mo ago
I am aware; "barely" is exclusively used to describe items that surpass the threshold. I don't even know thr point you're arguing as the intro to the listicle concurs with my main argument: >> It is very rare for a
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7mo ago
On the list: people who were convicted of crimes[1], and were barely billionaires (not worth tens or hundreds of billions). 1. Against rich/powerful people
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7mo ago
Who was the last billionaire that went bankrupt, involuntarily?
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7mo ago
> Being able to coat efficiently run frontier models is i think, not a high priced endeavor for an org Running proprietary model would make you subject to whatever ToS the LLM companies choose on a particular day, and what you can produc
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7mo ago
Private companies also have shareholders and shares - they just don't trade publicly.
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7mo ago
> Just giving them hostnames is easier Bitwarden annoyingly ignores subdomains by default. Enabling per-sudomain credential matching is a global toggle, which breaks autocomplete on other online service that allow you to login across mu
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7mo ago
> why would you do that unless you have no morality? Since company leadership has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, profit-maxxing for shareholders is the only moral thing to do /s.
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8mo ago
If "both sides" are equally bad, then both sides equally represent the people, no? > I could probably go on but I feel the point has been made that election outcomes are not the proxy you think The purpose of a system is what i
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8mo ago
> On the hiring side, at least in tech: interviewing really sucks. I know it sucks, I've sat on the other side if the interviewing desk many times, and the charade wastes everyone's time - the candidates most of all because no
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8mo ago
Usually junior engineers accidentally drop dbs. Lacking backups and staging/test environments is organizational failure: everyone who is between senior and the CTO is to blame for not fixing it post-haste.
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> When I was doing a lot of hiring we wouldn't take the job posting down until we were done hiring people with that title It's a small engineering org, allegedly head-hunting one principal engineer for the whole org, so it'
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> [...]even if it doesn’t accurately represent our people I beg to differ, seeing that the US had free and fair elections - media bias aside.
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> I'm not even looking very hard but have had 4 interviews in the last month. How many offers did you receive? Companies have also adopted your strategy: interviewing candidates "to see what's out there" - there'
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8mo ago
Tooth regrowth therapy will not be available to them, because the avaerage American id says "If minimum-wage earners don't get healthcare, criminals don't deserve teeth"
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8mo ago
> The code comparison in this demonstrates a relatively strong case that the expression of the idea is significantly different from that of the original code. Can I use one AI agent to write detailed tests based on disassembled Windows,
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8mo ago
AI Research orgs voluntarily do their own "leaking" via the publication of research papers, and involuntarily via employee/post-doc churn. The guilty-until-proven innocent mindset is what kickstarted China's nuclear prog
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Mark Zuckerberg, also at the White House in 2025, as caught by a hot mic: "Sorry, I wasn't ready... I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with." The pledge is meaningless political theater meant to placate voters in
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> everyone is frantic to make their tools as usable and well-documented as possible Eh, enjoy it while it lasts. Companies are still trying to figure out how to get value by letting a thousand flowers blossom. The walled-garden gates wil
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> But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit Step back further and see the incredible shareholder value that may be unlocked - potentially trillions of dollars /s Capitalism has b
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8mo ago
Is there a leading American AI research organization - big tech or academia - that isn't "full of Chinese Nationals"? If the DoD want an all-American SoTA model, they may have to wait for a while.
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> Thinking no one leaves their house to work is some serious projection dude >> I don't get why prosumers would marry themselves 24/7 to a single portable device... I quite clearly was talking about personal devices; ar
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8mo ago
My Yocto build times on a 32-core AMD are negligible, <2 minutes for a full distro, IIRC. I suspect higher core counts have diminishing returns, especially since most dev builds are heavily cached.
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Absolutely! I wasn't arguing for the elimination of choice.
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> I’m really happy with bringing my local workstation with me to a cafe, a coworking space, or on a trip You can, with Tailscale! I had edited my original comment to remove how I occasionally[1] remote to the workstation, but I found out
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