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by sangnoir 2y ago
It is officially "Google Deepmind" now, according to their website - https://deepmind.google
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> To recapture the spirit of open source as being about freedom for actual users (as opposed to free labor for jailed SaaS) That spirit was never there; "Open Source" was created to be corporate -friendly as it was predated by
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A lot of people got lots of money or high-value gifts. Also curiously his advisor (handler?) worked for the US government - was he 100% moonlighting, or performing government-sanctioned activities? They are throwing the book at Pras because
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> At work all our products do not eat children by default and it would require legal review to add any such feature. I bet the people at Peloton thought that too until they made that treadmill[1]. I know you meant your critique to be a
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Typically the internal processes to verify what is/is not collected are mandated by launch region, not whether or not the initial version of the software does data collection.
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> ...they will gladly make it look like it's more complicated and insurmountable than it really is There are non-malicious explanations for the same pattern of behavior at large organizations - the motivation (malice or not-malice)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The same reason I said "DEA agent" and not "an adult of working age" - the specificity of the role matters. I used a metonym for the animal as the police departments that work with dogs are called "K9 units"
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> any prior suspicion of wrongdoing That's still an incredibly low bar: the DEA agent may "smell marijuana on the person" or get a "hit" from a K9
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You're speculating that a US president has a relatively average intelligence - why are you assuming that I am not assuming that: any range that has studying nuclear engineering as its floor is above average intelligence. I thoug
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> Cruise had an accident where another vehicle knocked a pedestrian into a Cruise car, and the pedestrian was dragged. Cruise lost their California DMV autonomous license for that Cruise didn't lose the license because the car and&#
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My question was specifically about the outliers: has any research been done if outlying achievements go hand in hand with outlier IQs? Without any research or evidence, it's an area prone to a Just World fallacy where extraordinary ach
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by sangnoir 2y ago
There are so many confounding factors are at play that you're ignoring and attributing the achievement to high IQ (and that only). The Guinea Worm is on the verge if eradication, mostly on the back of the multi-decade efforts of Jimmy
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The inventor of a vaccine or a microchip or a sculpture doesn't hoard the invention for themself The built-in assumption is that those outlier high achievers & inventors were gifted students. Is there any evidence for this pri
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by sangnoir 2y ago
If you're going to disagree, can you do us all a favor by not misrepresenting my words? > Asking why we don't have a high speed cross country railroad I asked where the high speed rail is, because parent claimed China is buil
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The absolute numbers are hard to accurately calculate for every employee, and change all the time, so at best, the limits are fuzzy. That said, do you care to guess where in this floor-to-ceiling range the employers' ideal would fall?
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Japan was different in that it never became the world's factory, and then, manufacturing skills hadn't atrophied in the west, so it's a little different now. Even so, past performance is no guarantee for future results. >
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Thank you for further buttressing my point: granting a foreign company with military links access to your telecoms infrastructure is a bad idea, for tangible reasons. Worse if there's no local oversight.
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Where can one find examples of such a well-functioning capitalistic system? Or is it a thought-experiment
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> Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced Do you suppose Yeltsin didn't have access to the uncensored information before his visit? Or that Soviet spies who sent in hyper-accurate maps of US city infrastru
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm being descriptive, bot prescriptive: I'm stating what the priorities are under a capitalist system without the rose-colored glasses offered by the Just-world fallacy.
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Sound like you're expecting employers to strive for fairness. Instead, they are striving for profits for the capital class. The labor class gets the minimum possible amount to reach the shareholders primary goal.
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> Performance management, as practiced in many large corporations in 2024, is an outdated technology that is in need of an update Author made a couple of fundamental mistakes: the first is they assume employees are (or should be) paid ac
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> There's a type of Western mind that gets distracted by their scale, and getting to build things we built a century ago Where in the US can one find the secret, cross-country high-speed rail built in the roaring twenties?! There&#x
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by sangnoir 2y ago
HN is a court of law: some things may fail to meet some legal test, but not that in no way means it automatically becomes subjectively "right". I am adding a datapoint on what's arguable and leaving the judgement of cogency t
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Wasn't there a shareholder suite that alleged the directors aren't independent because of the above-standard Tesla options they receive? Robyn Denholm excecised and sold $35M worth of TSLA in the past month.
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> All nation's governments will absolutely ensure, overtly or covertly, that their national regulators limit any space-based supra-national system from being able to threaten their national telephony and data carriers The ITU is pre
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> At that point the only thing at risk is fraudulent use of said POA, and whatever funds are held outside of actual accounts Which exactly the reason why the FDIC didn't intervene in the article: the Fintech startup didn't depo
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Nobody talks about why Google defederated GTalk. At first, Google was very idealistic in its mission, perhaps even doe-eyed in the manner expressed in the article: no defensive patent portfolio to match their level of innovation (until Ap
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There wouldn't be an LLM startup ecosystem without big tech. Notable contributions: Nvidia for, well, (gestures at everything), Google for discovering (inventing?) transformers, being early advocates of ML, authoring tensorflow, Meta f
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Well if you can propel something forward you can propel it backwards as well Not necessarily - at least with currently known science. Light sails work ok transferring momentum from photons, allowing positive acceleration from a giant l

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