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by pradn 3y ago
What’s between the lines is that iMessage is critical as a way to lock in users to iOS. People care about security somewhat but they care way more about being ostracized for having green bubbles. I bet few common users could tell you the se
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> It’ll be several months till Gemini Pro is even available. Pro is available now - Ultra will take a few months to arrive.
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No, Google is on a more level playing field than you think. It certainly can't train on enterprise data, and of course not on private user data like emails. Cross-division data sharing is tough as well, because regulators don't li
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I don’t see why it would take more than one PSF board meeting to approve funding for an event. Even if the board had questions, the follow-up is supposed to happen quickly. Several months to approve $9000 is silly. That’s probably just the
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There's a bunch of S3-compatible bucket stores. I suppose one could ask their user for their S3 bucket key. It should be possible for an S3-like service to provide one-bucket-only keys w/ rate limits. The users knows where their d
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Well, sure, there's infinite room for scope-creep. That doesn't take away from a minimal solution that works well from the user's point of view - "I don't want to see this, make it go away".
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New bots follow me on Twitter every day, spamming my notifications. They're very obviously a bot bc their name and lack of posts. I rarely had that problem before the downsizing. I think my follow count went up 20% in the past year, ne
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For something as simple as a dismiss button for a particular promotion, it's reasonable to store the bit on device. This will work for mobile and desktop apps, which I assume are the vast majority of Spotify usage. Or they could invest
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From what I hear, he directly expedited an office move just to bring Gemini folks together in NYC. So that is true to some degree. Not sure about the whole picture.
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I wonder if people fall into a "happy valley of ignorance", where users don't actually see how an LLM can be wrong, rarely actually are met with hallucinations, and their use of LLM output is rarely a big enough problem. Wher
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I’ve taught this game to 3 year olds and college students - everyone has fun with it!
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I don't think users understand how LLMs are different are different from search engines, especially for information retrieval. Someone I know well has been using ChatGPT and Bard for months, and was surprised that they don't just
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> I communicate with openai German and English how ever I see fit. I did not foresee that you could mix input languages. That’s fascinating. Multilingual people use languages for different purposes, often in the same sentence. Ie: techni
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Volume 2 ("The Desolate One") of the 2015 Portuguese film trilogy "Arabian Nights" has a 40-min story about bird trainers, as well. They love their birds, they love their songs, and they love to compete. https:/&#x
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Ok wow, I didn't know the name comes from American Psycho!
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There's an app called Dorsia, which lets you purchase seats at sought-after restaurants. The purchase is usually in the form of a per-seat minimum spend. They start at $75 per seat, but some go into the hundreds. This app solves a few
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I worked from the Buenos Aires office, as part of my week long trip there. I was new so I didn’t have a million PTO days. The office space was beautiful, centrally located, with incredible food, and genial colleagues. We watched a World Cup
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Engineers at these companies are like little startups. Senior engineers are expected to take a general problem, nail down the ambiguity / get consensus, and own the project til launch and after. That includes writing docs, running meet
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From the WHOIS for the NE ccTLD: domain: NE organisation: SONITEL address: Rue de l'Uranium address: Niamey 208 address: Niger (the) Quite an address!
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It looks like the biggest problem with nuclear is not the safety or whatnot, it's just that as a civilization, we just can't build them without cost overruns and massive delays. And this is a loss, because we need non-variable ene
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There's also the Principal Agent problem here. If the seller's agent gets the home sold for an extra $50,000, the agent only makes an extra $1500. If this takes an extra month of work, it may not be worth it. And what guarantee do
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A good realtor can guide you through the market, inspections, and negotiation - all of which hugely affect the largest investment most people make. But that's no reason for them to demand a PERCENTAGE off the sale of the home! Closing
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I don't want to be limited by the little CPU on my phone. Maybe one day it'll be powerful enough for all these tasks. But until then, I want a big H100 computing for me. And I want to pay for it! I don't want to be in a posit
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People keep saying the Internet is going to be flooded by AI-generated content. Is it going to be any different than the million Wikipedia/StackOverflow re-skins? A bunch of trash sites we learn to ignore in our search results? Generat
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It does make it a somewhat intellectual exercise, precisely because it is so complex. A few years of C# and I felt like I knew the whole language quite well. Double the time with C++ and I'm fluent, but no where near an expert. So that
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ChatGPT remixes info from beyond the first page of Google search. That’s the value. If you ask it for a list of nice nature spaces in Tokyo, like I just did, it returns 12 spots that all seem appealing. Already, that’s more information dens
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The idea of the 10x programmer can mean 1) someone who produces a ton of code quickly 2) someone who can solve seemingly-intractable problems 3) someone who’s presence on a team improves everyone’s productivity quite a bit 4) someone who c
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Will the world be a better place if Google is banned from paying for default-privilege? Most users will probably switch to Google anyway, at least in the short term. Google will probably lose some market share. This means less revenue. Howe
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Please share, I’m interested!
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Communities that form around a website or service are living things - they need nourishment to thrive, and can certainly be killed. The only sustainable way forward is to form artist-driven, bottom-up, non-profit organizations to nurture co

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