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by petralithic 1y ago
Which American companies manufacture chips on the latest node? Certainly not Texas Instruments, Global Foundries and one might even argue Intel, compared to Samsung and TSMC. It is a matter of national security that Intel not fail.
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There are so many garbage apps on the App Store that Apple's claim of vetting them must be a farce to justify the store's existence and supremacy over any potential third party ones.
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Their point was that no amount of statistical mitigation is enough, the only way to win the game is to not play, ie not build the thing you're trying to build. But of course, I imagine Brave has invested to some significant extent in t
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> It’s interesting that in Brave’s post describing this exploit, they didn’t reach the fundamental conclusion this is a bad idea "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi
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by petralithic 1y ago
I'm not sure about Anduril in particular, but private investments exist for accredited investors for many companies.
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They're being sarcastic, they're parodying common objections people have about AI, it's not about the technology at all but about their feeling of obsolescence which impacts their pride.
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If I were to invest in a company named after a feared token from Tolkien, I'd rather invest in Anduril, at least they have scaling advantages due to primarily being a hardware company with good software to guide it.
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by petralithic 1y ago
To the first point, could there not be an algorithm that nevertheless still works without followers, likes or ads? TikTok seems kind of similar, at least when it initially started. It seems its core algorithm doesn't need likes, it can
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by petralithic 1y ago
Yes, however Her is a bit more optimistic and doesn't really delve into the data collection and usage aspects, it's more similar to a romance with some sci-fi aspects at the end.
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You should read the story The Perfect Match from the book Paper Menagerie and other stories by Ken Liu, it goes into what you mentioned about Google.
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But I don't know why you'd guess such a thing. People have companies that they deliver value with and do not have an intention to sell yet nevertheless they don't use self hosted tools (in fact, doing so might a net negative
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The US hasn't been a real democracy since the beginning, due to first past the post. It has nothing to do with Trump, there have been much worse conditions in the past such as the Civil War. Many Americans do believe it of course, othe
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If you don't vote, don't complain about the outcome. It is de facto approval with the result regardless of how one spins it.
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You can say that about any country though, of course the leader doesn't represent all of the population, just a majority, if they're a democracy, which is rare these day.
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Not everywhere is a democracy though. I'd hesitate to call even the US a democracy and therefore the government is independent of the will of the people.
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I don't have to imagine
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We can make noise about both things, and how they're ruining the internet.
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That stalker might itself be a bot though, so there's no solution.
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HN does not want people to do that, as stated in the guidelines
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> deliver something you promised to deliver (not necessarily promised to others), you may want to use a set of self-hosted tools. I don't see how one follows from the other, the vast majority of people use tools to deliver value w
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by petralithic 1y ago
Someone else who knows "An Oak Tree"! It is one of my favorite pieces because it wants not reality itself to be the primary way to see the world, but the belief of what reality could be.
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AI imagery users are all enthusiasts, there aren't yet casual users in a "wide" general capacity.
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I don't know, those all still look like AI, as in, too clean.
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by petralithic 1y ago
Sure they're harder to build but my question is mainly why build them (for web in particular)? I don't see the benefits for a web app where I'll usually be online versus a mobile app where I may frequently have internet short
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That approach is precisely what the new TanStack DB does, which if you don't know already has the same creator as React Query. The former extends the latter's principles to syncing, via ElectricSQL, both organizations have a partn
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by petralithic 1y ago
ElectricSQL and TanStack DB are great, but I wonder why they focus so much on local first for the web over other platforms, as in, I see mobile being the primary local first use case since you may not always have internet. In contrast, ty
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Yes, a horizontal asymptote, which is what I said as implied by S-curve
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This has been my experience. The greenfield approach works up to a point, then it just breaks.
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It's the classic S-curve. A few years ago when we saw ChatGPT come out, we got started on the ramping up part of the curve but now we're on the slowing down part. That's just how technology goes in general.