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by paddw 3y ago
Have you considered reaching out to a local uni? An above average uni student could be better and cheaper than the average junior dev
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by paddw 3y ago
Because for the average user it is still significantly easier to download some app to use in combination with a password they have a mnemonic for rather than having to figure out their own system for storing and retrieving long tokens in a
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by paddw 3y ago
How are they being exploited? Assuming TikTok skims some revenue off the top, they are still being exploited far less than they would by any form of traditional employment. TikTok is a mirror to the suffering and depravity that occurs in th
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Ask HN: Amazon Coupons
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by paddw 3y ago
the idea that not paying for an author's book doesn't negatively affect the author is absurd. there are valid reasons to pirate books sometimes but at the end of the day, someone has to pay something into the system to keep books
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by paddw 3y ago
It seems plausible that this is just families going to the movies and then choosing to see different ones?
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by paddw 3y ago
x.ai/api/v1/answer "returns 42"
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by paddw 3y ago
I have no doubt English like syntax is a terrible idea but this seems like a surprisingly readable example.
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by paddw 3y ago
There are infinitely many hard things. It is hard to learn Japanese. We don't require that every high school student attain basic proficiency in it though. The reason we learn calculus in high school is because it is foundational for m
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by paddw 3y ago
The regulation will never change, but you get a huge advantage by working with smaller processors in terms of them being willing to work with you in a reasonable way. There are 3 stages: You are small: Stripe and the like work best because
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by paddw 3y ago
What are you expecting for any article about ~5000 years ago
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by paddw 3y ago
What legal loopholes? They are haggling over the government creating new laws specifically targeted at them.
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by paddw 3y ago
> and someone finally bothered to look at the proof and it was a blank page. I think I agree more than not with your worldview, but it seems like in this case this was the first time the person tried to improperly use the system... and h
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by paddw 3y ago
There should be a blanket ban for all jobs which are under ~100k.
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by paddw 3y ago
Well, I am arguing basically that basically AI APIs would be much more prone to commodification. There would still be companies, of course, but probably not with value on FAANG scale etc... Certainty it would be easier to set up an API for
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by paddw 3y ago
The timescale difference between the need for weights taking account of recent events and Google searches is huge.
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by paddw 3y ago
> a company can simply get the weights for free and sell them. This is the flaw in your logic. If the weights are freely available, they can not be sold for much value. That will in turn mean there is no "another OpenAI", becau
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by paddw 3y ago
Love to see an ad for "Learn the Future of Marketing and Unleash the Power of AI" as I read a piece on how Meta has supposedly forsaken the true gritty down to earth spirit of the internet.
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by paddw 3y ago
people love twitter. they want twitter run by "normals". zuck has said threads will be twitter run by "normals". this is what they want. this is what they will use.
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by paddw 3y ago
to a contract?
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by paddw 3y ago
Glassdoor's model suffers from intrinsic problems such that... it's hard to imagine a site as it could ever work well for a sustained period of time before becoming a target for abuse. It also seems inevitable that such sites, wil
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by paddw 3y ago
remember like 1/2 a year ago when they removed the sign in prompt entirely... lol we've come full circle
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by paddw 3y ago
I mean, one of the checkboxes under LLVM is literally "optimization passes", so... I don't know how close they are to the end goal in terms of progress actually
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by paddw 3y ago
I've heard a lot of people start from whitelabel Nord
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by paddw 3y ago
Well, clearly they must be selling something to someone to keep the lights on...
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by paddw 3y ago
Many people who would otherwise be appalled at laws like this seem to want to rationalize this because its specifically targeting Google and Meta. Sometimes taking the simple view is correct: It's a bad thing to prevent sites from link
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by paddw 3y ago
They're fishing.
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by paddw 3y ago
What are the large software companies in Canada, that aren't connected to something like a bank? Not many I could think of.
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by paddw 3y ago
I think you are right, but databases are complicated enough where people can have different interpretations of what the fundamentals means. For example, is being able to write the basic SQL query enough, or do you need to know what the diff
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by paddw 3y ago
I think there is a contextual difference between telling someone to "die" as a way of expressing contempt in a public forum and directly messaging them, with details about where they live etc...

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