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by quonn 2y ago
Correct, and even then it may be possible to just return some functions, capturing the state via closures.
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by quonn 2y ago
That‘s my understanding.
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by quonn 2y ago
Free trade != free domestic market and capitalism. Furthermore even free trade (which the US doesn‘t exactly practice) does not mean allowing foreign adversaries (which China arguably is) to undermine the political system which is democrati
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by quonn 2y ago
As a EU citizen I don‘t care about any collective outrage on HN. It‘s not even a question of standards, it‘s a question of power and I‘m happy to see that the EU has enough power to pass these kind of laws.
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by quonn 2y ago
They can keep the company, just not in the US. Furthermore it really depends on the price. If I make an annual profit x that is expected to grow to y eventually, then I would certainly sell you that company for 100 * y. Maybe even 10 * y.
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by quonn 2y ago
That doesn‘t really make sense financially. It would be more reasonable to sell.
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by quonn 2y ago
How would TikTok collect ad revenue if it‘s illegal in the US? Furthermore, a US judge could presumably just order to take down their DNS globally. Furthermore they can presumably compel Apple and Google to remove the app from the store.
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by quonn 3y ago
> but then there's nothing on the linked page that claims that The video does.
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by quonn 3y ago
> nuclear power Any kind of thermal plant will not save us. Renewable energy can do it.
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by quonn 3y ago
But macOS is a free update and compatibility within X was just as likely to break. So other than marketing nothing changed.
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by quonn 3y ago
It‘s not a third, it will probably be 1/6 in practice. And what should it be? 3 years? 5? If it‘s just than it will incentivize others to try the same. In fact many do, I know plenty of crypto guys running a bunch of dodgy offshore com
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by quonn 3y ago
> I realise that I as a developer have put a lot of people out of a job. For most developers this will not be true. Most apps, websites, compilers, desktop software etc. will not have put anyone out of a job. I certainly never ever put s
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by quonn 3y ago
The technologies you mentioned are merely the framework in which the work is done. 25 years ago none of that was even needed to create software. Now they are needed to manage the complexity of the stack, but the actual content is the same a
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by quonn 3y ago
What you call crippling is what makes JSON easy to work with and universally adopted.
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by quonn 3y ago
> metal smith (silver gold etc), welder, carpentry, plumber, mechanic, fine artist, sculptor, textile Industrial production has had a huge impact on many of those and will continue doing so. It‘s wrong to romanticize these jobs, they are
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by quonn 3y ago
What about shareholders and the competition?
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by quonn 3y ago
So it‘s merely a conflict between two areas in California? Good to hear that Europe and the rest of the world is safe then. Phew!
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by quonn 3y ago
What‘s the point of making a biologically good decision? That would be a really stupid thing to do. Maybe it‘s a good decision in terms of subjective well being (don‘t know, but pit‘s possible) or for society (quite the opposite I think, bu
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by quonn 3y ago
What do you mean?
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by quonn 3y ago
As a career, I think it‘s difficult. While I believe most jobs will remain longer than we are thinking right now, many will feel threatened. I think for now it would be good to develop physical skills in addition to pretending nothing is ha
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by quonn 3y ago
Oh, there is a lot of choice. If you take on a lot of responsibilities (kids) and have a need for material wealth, then yes. I could have worked just 50% or even 25%% and would have been fine. I would not be able to own much, but I would be
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by quonn 3y ago
I understand - but isn‘t it a mistake to think of it as getting through? Soon it will be over and then merely having gotten through seems like such a waste.
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by quonn 3y ago
It‘s not undocumented, it‘s implicit in the structure of existing projects.
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by quonn 3y ago
No matter which side of the debate you fall on, it would be interesting to discuss the practical impact and timeframe of any AI software engineer. I think a realistic timeframe is about 15 years from the time someone releases a viable tool
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by quonn 3y ago
I don‘t quite see why the high level architecture couldn‘t be done by AI either, once it get‘s good enough to build the low level one (which is what software development really is). Half of architecture is best practices anyway, which are e
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by quonn 3y ago
This is really unlikely, because the operations are pretty basic math and the GPUs do these about as efficiently as possible. Surely those GPUs will be improved further, but a custom ASIC probably won‘t help much with training. And NVIDIA h
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by quonn 3y ago
> into a commercial product which they sell access to Within a few mon the or years there will be open source implementations anyway, running locally or in a data center. Most of the technology is published.
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by quonn 3y ago
This book is great: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730887/understandin... It's comparatively easy to understand and it does cover everything from basic networks to LLMs and Diffusion models.
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by quonn 3y ago
> Sora serves as a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world, a capability we believe will be an important milestone for achieving AGI. Why would it?
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by quonn 3y ago
Having these kind of roles with a strong technical background is typical for Microsoft. They have a parallel management and technical hierarchy all the way to the top. Everyone should copy this, so much talent is lost by good people going i

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