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by sangnoir 2y ago
Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and HCL. i.e. "large tech consulting companies" if you're feeling generous, "body shops" if you're not.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But don't expect Meta's largess to persist much beyond wiping out the competition I don't quite follow your argument - what exactly is Meta competing for? It doesn't sell access to a hosted models and shows no inter
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Can someone explain to me what is the Palantir's business model AFAICT, it is government & government-adjacent contracting using techniques borrowed from big tech and WITCH, since big tech won't directly court government
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I think your request was tainted by the dig at the longevity of their self-hosted mirror. Your suggestion not only requires time on mirror operator's part, but puts their GitHub account at risk (no matter how low you consider that ri
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If possible and willing to risk deletion, try to upload it on Github as well; You could have easily done this yourself, under your GitHub account in the time it took you to compose your reply (with fewer keystrokes at least). GP seems
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Eventually assholes are going to join, that's simply unavoidable. To repurpose an old aphorism: Moderation is key to avoiding assholes running rampant on your platform.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Meta and Google are the companies most able to monetize AI-generated or AI-enhanced[1] content on their respective properties. 1. Meta showed off automatic audio translation that preserves speaker's voices. Content creators can now exp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Tough to tell, given nobody is turning a net profit on LLMs yet Perhaps, but Meta is definitely getting some money back from ad impressions supported by AI-generated content.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> More practically. What will it take to create a world where humanity can align to help ourselves We can only do this if humanity disincentivize getting stuck at local maxima. Another confounding factor is how humans make decisions: the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Creating an open registry would be nice, or even for developers to be able to host their own repos for others to install plugins from (à la Linux package managers), to avoid such centralisation. The security trade offs for this would n
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> While not illegal, it shows the way they think, a sort of manipulative pettiness Search engine chaff has been in the toolbag of "reputation management" PR firms for a while. Boris Johnson (former UK PM) deployed it many years
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's not inherently abusive, consider NPM resurrecting an earlier version of leftpad against author's wish. Who should provide security updates to an open source package when author no longer has access to the repository - volunta
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Put $25M into it...then he’ll realize his bluff has been called I don't think Matt will be too displeased with WPEngine investing $25 million into a fork. He may even feel vindicated.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Forum 101: someone who posted flamebait cannot blame those who got baited for flamebaiting. Both are problematic, but the baiter is responsible for raising the temperature.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
They'd also have multi-camera high definition video and a LIDAR point cloud of the rider not closing the door and walking away.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The H100 was a terrible example to support that point because it has a much better (rent vs buy) value proposition.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I think you also know that your example is tangential and hardly comparable. The Homestead Act, and all other related land grant acts, have no relation to the modern beneficiary system that only came into existence in the US in the ea
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This is such a left-field comparison. One H100 costs $25,000, whereas one Macbook Pro/iMac/iOS device costs roughly a tenth of that. It's not at all surprising that it's cheaper to rent something that has CapEx costs 2
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> but essentially a person or entity who receives a monetary benefit from the government, which is likely what is being referred to. This is what did not exist in the US till the early 20th century Are you seriously suggesting the voter
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> He was referring specifically to how beneficiaries of the government are incentivized to vote for policies which provide government benefits to themselves I can believe that, but one has to be willfully ignorant to believe that such vo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
ML =/= AI. Machine learning was widely considered to be a subset of AI, until it got a big resurgence almost 2 decades ago. Now some people use the terms interchangeably.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Your presumption is correct - the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, amd its passing allowed women to vote in the US
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by sangnoir 2y ago
As everyone knows, this is in sharp contrast with serious engineering operations like Amazon or Google, where there are no disagreements on technical designs. Ever.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxym
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If VCs disappear overnight most tech would not change ideologically. It hasn't changed too much ideologically for the past few decades. What has changed is that the proportion of people who wind up in tech primarily due to passi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This is not new: read articles of transcripts of speeches from 10+ years ago by Thiel or pg that lionize young, inexperienced founders and the benefits of working at startups pitched to the youth.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> it gave people a nice cognitive boost, Does nicotine give a cognitive boost, or does it return one to their pre-addiction baseline?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
...Because someone scraping from a Bytedance IP range is not necessarily Bytedance, just like requests from an AWS IP do not imply Amazon authored the spider
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by sangnoir 2y ago
None of my prior work contracts stipulated not to microwave fish in the break room, or how often I ought to shower; yet "Don't stink up the office" is rule most folk innately know, recognize and respect as part of being a dec
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Warranty, charging rate (they pioneered the 800V architecture IIRC), bang-for-buck; Kia features are generous for the trim-levels compared to the competition.

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