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811.
by rurp 2y ago
We are so incredibly far from being able to build a sustainable colony on Mars, especially at a realistic cost, that it makes no sense as a product goal. It is a fun thought experiment and an inspiring goal for many though, which I think
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GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says(arstechnica.com)
65 points by rurp 2y ago|88 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Lol, yeah sure. I also hear Tesla is a lock to have actual full self driving by 2016 at the latest. I'm holding my breath!
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by rurp 2y ago
I think in most cases it's wrong to treat HN opinion as a monolith, including in this case. There certainly are a lot of people here who think that LLMs are overhyped, but there are also many who find the current tools useful and expec
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by rurp 2y ago
Right, and many of those deregulation moves turned out poorly in hindsight. Governments have ratcheted up control in some cases, but stating that it is a universal law is patently false, although it sounds good as a quip. Regulations are ki
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I had a surprisingly positive reaction to this piece. It will be hard to avoid, but I think that preventing GenAI from turning into yet another tech oligopoly is hugely important. For one, it abso
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by rurp 2y ago
I remember when Googlewhacks[0] used to be a thing. Zero result search queries weren't interesting enough because they were too easy to find. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack
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by rurp 2y ago
I wonder if the neglect of basic efficiency practices is largely a function of cheap money and unlimited cloud budgets. Now that the new tech shine is fading from the cloud and companies are grappling with higher interest and operating cost
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by rurp 2y ago
Man the techno-utopianism is awfully strong for some people when it comes to LLMs. There are a wide range of opinions about these models on HN, many positive and many point out the very real flaws the current models have. If you find this m
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Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund(axios.com)
28 points by rurp 2y ago|10 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
They have been dumbing down Firefox and making it more Chrome-like for years now. I would argue that is the strategy which is clearly not working.
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by rurp 2y ago
Yes, exactly. Google and Microsoft have huge anti-competitive advantages that they have been able to use to target casual users. As long as that continues Firefox will be facing an uphill battle to get casual downloads, but neither of those
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by rurp 2y ago
The amount of regressions Mozilla has inflicted on Firefox in recent years blows my mind. One of their few big advantages over Chrome is better user control, but they have been working continuously to destroy that. Getting rid of most exten
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by rurp 2y ago
It might help against casual checks, but a large web of invented social accounts will be uncoverable by any serious actor. If there's no corroborating trail outside of social media for any of those accounts it will be very possible to
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by rurp 2y ago
Maybe in some cases but certainly not for systemically important platforms, as OpenAI aspires to be. Google and Microsoft don't just throw up their hands at the threat of nation-state actors; doing so would be hugely irresponsible.
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by rurp 2y ago
This will work for some people in some sports, but it's hardly a universal solution. Many activities like rock climbing or backcountry hiking/skiing, will never have good public transport access. Renting gear is fine for casual us
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by rurp 2y ago
Wait, you think that accurately classifying a driving system as level 3 is a marketing gimmick? Your mind is going to be blown when you hear about Tesla and the name they give their assisted cruise control.
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by rurp 2y ago
No but novel UX gimmicks can be appealing to some customers. Tesla cars have a number of unusual features that are functionally bad but get attention.
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by rurp 2y ago
Destroying the company rather than selling it for billions of dollars is a crazy stance for a supposedly independent business, and should be taken with a huge grain of salt. There is a good chance they are bluffing, which would be a reasona
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by rurp 2y ago
Google exchanges advertisement placement for money. Ads are their business by any normal definition of that term.
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by rurp 2y ago
Not only is the current internet 80% spam, it's rapidly approaching 99% thanks in large part to LLMs. At this point I would be shocked if Google had a solid plan for how to handle this going forward as the problem space gets more diffi
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by rurp 2y ago
Right, the domain itself is a huge signal. Information can have a very different meaning and trustworthiness if appears on the blog of a known expert vs the NYT vs some spam site like Quora. Google wants the only context to be Google. Even
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by rurp 2y ago
Is Sundar going to adopt the pay package of a "small and scrappy" company, or are his patronizing words only for people 8+ rungs beneath him on the org chart?
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Google's AI summaries cause headaches and spawn memes(axios.com)
2 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Hah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days. DDG showed the correct color fwiw.
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by rurp 2y ago
Wow, that happened faster than expected. I thought they would just focus on trying to make the AI search useful for at least a few months before trying to squeeze every dollar out of it. I guess modern Google is at least consistent.
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by rurp 2y ago
I can't believe this kind of take is still bouncing around given the sentence SBF got. After FTX collapsed there were a lot of people claiming that he wouldn't do any time at all, based on nothing more than a cartoonish understand
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by rurp 2y ago
Sort of, everything is based on the dollar value of what they had at the time of bankruptcy. Anyone who had assests that have increased in value since then, like bitcoin, are getting back quite a bit less than they otherwise would have had.
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by rurp 2y ago
Right, even when FSD plows right into a solid object Tesla will try to pin 100% of the blame on the human driver. On top of all of the other reasons to not take Tesla's marketing BS seriously, their total lack of ownership of their own
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by rurp 2y ago
The fact that this letter is signed by a number of institutional investors is notable, since those are the ones who usually bother to vote.

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