palmotea

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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Within weeks, CEOs across industries posted their own versions. The AI-first memo became a genre. Here they all are. That may be all the publicly-posted ones, but I'm skeptical. They have 11. There were a lot more internal memos.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> The method takes advantage of normal network communication between connected devices and the router. These devices regularly send feedback signals within the network, known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which are transmitt
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Even as a software developer affected by it, I don't think it should be banned. Productivity improvements are how we get richer in aggregate over the long term, even if those impacted (like you & me) might feel the brunt of tr
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> We really need a rule in politics which bans you (if you're an elected representative) from stating anything about the beliefs of the electorate without reference to a poll of the population of adequate size and quality. Except th
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I seem to have a few flagged comments, but I'm not yet fully hellbanned I think you're as fully banned as I've seen anyone be, and I don't think anything will change for your account if you're "little less
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> the relevant facts would be, whether this guy has a criminal record. the rest is (legal) bullshit. That's just your opinion, and a controversial one. > after all there are laws about detention too. if I were DHS I'd be ver
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> There is no obligation to provide the public with his life story. There is an obligation that a reputable newspaper will publish all relevant facts. The initial version of this article was misleading and appeared to omit relevant conte
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> If you can maintain a work permit for 20 years, why not? But did he? The OP is mum on the matter about what kind of work permit he had for the 19 years before applying for a green card last year. If he did have some kind of work permit
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Originally from County Kilkenny, Culleton has lived in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. > ... > Culleton said that when he was arrested he was carrying a
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Using "capitalism" as a pejorative is itself a thought-terminating cliche. Left unsaid is the proposed alternative which, given the historical record, is probably worse. I actually think you just engaged in thought-terminatin
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by palmotea 9mo ago
>> Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you? > I don't know. Maybe because of my creativity? How would you keep that up? I thi
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I mean, not to descend too deeply into the stereotype of nerds and comic books, but you'd probably be a lot more distraught and critical of Professor X making terrible, self-interested and decidedly unfriendly choices than you wou
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by palmotea 9mo ago
The examples in the article are pretty poor: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A... Most of them are like "So what? What effect does my action have?" and "It is what it is&q
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I'll add one that's very common in HN: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." > Instantly closes the door to any thoughtful discussion. No, because it's very common here for people use lack of perf
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> In my experience, a very significant proportion of self-reported "anti-fascists" and "anti-imperialists" turn out, upon closer scrutiny, to actually be anti-US-fascism and anti-US-imperialism. They ignore, downplay,
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by palmotea 9mo ago
FYI, you're shadowbanned. Your comments by default show up as hidden for most users.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job? Or why do you think your small AI-driv
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> It seems at least comparable to what you would have to pay a suitably competent developer to code up something similar. No. You could have someone of fiverr do it for $5. Download gcc, done.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
Yeah, it kind of strikes me how a lot of the LLM use cases would actually be better served by existing techniques, like more/better libraries. And if that's not possible, it'd be way better to find the closest match, fork it,
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Pro-LLM coding agents: look! a working compiler built in a few hours by an agent! this is amazing! > Anti-LLM coding agents: it's not a working compiler, though. And it doesn't matter how few hours it took, because it does
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> The AI can spit out the solution with no license and no attribution and somehow its legal. Has that been properly adjudicated? That's what the AI companies and their fans wish, but wishing for something doesn't make it true.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> They were already excellent at survival, and they migrated, and many of them died young. Sure, _humanity_ will survive, but a large part of the population won't. Hence the egregious exaggeration of the title. Even large fractions
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff. > Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer. Or they pivot to businesses that don't depend on consumers buying stuff. Or pivot away from busine
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse The title is egregiously exaggerated. It implies humanity will go extinct if this happens, when it obviously won't. The actual article doesn't even come anywhere close to making
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I only have a meme to describe what we are facing https://imgur.com/a/xYbhzTj I don't recognize that cartoon and there's no audio. I'm going to need help with that one.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I think you're trying to shutdown someone who has a different opinion from yours by delegitimizing their position. I'm trying to delegimimize the delegitimization that was being directed at me.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> That’s a bit too cynical for me. After all, yes, your boss is not paying you for sipping lattes, but for producing value for the company. If there is a tool that maximises your output, why wouldn’t he want you to use that to great effi
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by palmotea 9mo ago
>> I suppose that wouldn't be so much of an issue if there was a lot more of these shops, but then they might not be economically viable. > This is "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded". You would get as
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I think you have every right to doubt those telling us that they run 5 agents to generate a new SAAS-product while they are sipping latté in a bar. To work like that I believe you'll have to let go of really digging into the code,
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Governments should be working on multi-generational scales. Not "fads" of what people want because they saw it in a movie or they grew up with it. If the people disagree with you, then you're not talking about democracy,

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