popcorncowboy

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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. (Dear GP, congrats on eliciting the quintessential HN comment response).
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
The difference between your grandkids meeting you or not.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
No way that gets gamed
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
But picked up about 12B. Mojo. 12B. Mojo. 12B. 12B.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
On the other hand When you frame sales as helping to solve real problems it flips this toxic script and transforms the entire profession into something that can be amazing to be a part of.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
I'm less convinced. Are you saying it's unethical to automate browsing a site? Because if you save the pages you browse on some site, they're yours (authors don't own your cache). Perhaps you're arguing that if yo
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
> Developers can run inference on Llama 3.1 405B on their own infra at roughly 50% the cost of using closed models like GPT-4o Does anyone have details on exactly what this means or where/how this metric gets derived?
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
You look for your keys under the lamp post not because they're there.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Your position lays bare the new and industry-destroying economic problem introduced by opaque-data-source LLMs. The economic value provided by the originator is captured fully and completely behind rentier models. Beware the ease and conven
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Great idea. Have done the same.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
I can't speak to the latter, but the former was not sarcastic and there's nothing to defend. Muddying the independence of arms of government is page one of the autocrat's handbook which you seem smart enough to know. No makin
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Your entire argument is conflation. You literally say it's "deceptive to separate them". The whole POINT of modern governance is to separate them. Saying legislature is writing "bad laws" because the judiciary may o
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
> If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product. Or more fundamentally, don't open source your value prop. Open source your complement. So many OSS shops build a valuable core only to realise their actual busines
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
These people weren't scammed, they were defrauded. They were promised one thing and delivered another. The event organisers simply lied so as to inflate the price they could charge for a thing that was worth dramatically less (arguably
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
That's not how it works. "No one got hurt" is a facile exoneration, and untrue at that. He didn't break the law "less" because by twist of fortune money showed up in the account sometime down the line.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Depending on your context, if you are at the top of the foodchain as described here, minus the recognition for it, one option is to simply add grist to the mill. Creative problems you can leave for the team to sweat and for you to come and
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Not to take anything away from the angle (which is bang on), but the "we're X people valued at $YBILLIONS" is a weird way to open and detracts from the message. I suppose it's a proxy for.. seriousness? I dunno. Valuatio
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
So link them and be helpful rather than mouth off. The links you provided are to GH star-based lists, and all the sub-lists on those pages are also star-based lists. I'm sure you're right, so I'm keen to see what you're
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
> It is not only based on popularity. Except it literally is? [0] Doesn't mean it's not fun/useful though! Stars are a kind of handwave proxy for utility. And it's useful to see what's catching fire and what&#x27
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
This is a "Hot 100" style list, useful only for finding what's popular. There is no quality metric here.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Local from _their_ perspective, deep inside the beast.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
> Programming in this language is an adequate punishment for inventing it I was already laughing hard by this final punchline. Bravo.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Somewhere Mike Lazaridis is banging a table trying to explain to a room full of idiots that he invented all of this.
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
This is a sidebar shaking a fist at kids on the lawn, tired old man rant. I find it amusing/eye-twitch-y how much "git init && bootstrap <template>" is conflated with "startup" in the zeitgeist. All th
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Ah you mean Open Source^tm. If the source is on Github that's what open source de facto means _these days_ . not to the priesthood of course
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
This genuinely made me laugh thank you. But no, they're not refreshingly "willing to part ways", just that their extensive legal teams assessed every possible angle to force this through and the big chairs made a call that pr
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
It is if you expect to profit from it
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
> It is in terms of OS market share Sure, if by 10% you mean less than 3%, and we handwave Mozilla's market cap to several hundred billion dollars more than Google, and we skip over the fact that the "80%" share ignores
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
But this changes EVERYTHING. Right. I mean. Right?
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by popcorncowboy 3y ago
Market caps ($B) '01-now: MSFT: $358 -> $2,480 vs AAPL: $8 -> $2,790 Apple is no-one's Firefox.

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