sangnoir

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by sangnoir 2y ago
> if nothing is perpetual, then how long can it last supposing both sides do get ongoing consideration from it? the answer is, the judge will figure it out. Isn't that the reason more competent lawyers put in the royal lives[1] clau
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Estimation is counting with error bars. Frankly, most of what you consider counting in your comment needs error bars - ask anyone who operated an all-cash cash-register how frequently end-of-day reconciliation didn't match the actual
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> "Channel" implies something being done secretively. No, it does not. channel: direct toward a particular end or object[1] 1. The Oxford-dictionary-based Google searchbox "define" feature
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Most tax-advantaged retirement savings schemes channel retirement money to listed companies and/or Wall Street investment funds by default - pension funds included.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Besides I made observation about people in community[...] Can you link any specific HN user who holds any 3 of those specific beliefs, or was this hypocritical strawman purpose-built to bolster your argument?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The US has definitely got something right with incentivising investment. Vacuuming retirement savings of tens of millions of workers and piping the funds directly to Wall Street? I think that captured investor-class who pony up billion
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Wait: are you talking aboubt harvesting organs (from the dead) for transplanting vs teaching medical students, or harvesting them from cadavers vs living people? We may be having different conversations here.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Jevons paradox tells us that further massive amounts of training will occur in multi-modality and grounding models to reality I was thinking along the lines of how Sun Microsystems and big-iron were dethroned by good-enough commodity
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Biological waste that was going to be disposed of isn’t as scary. Why is this excuse fine for one practice and not the other?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting” trope that’s alarmingly a live issue in other carceral systems to this day What's the functional difference between the two to the bereaved? I don't
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Perhaps not in general, but if the barrier of entry is radically lowered - such as if a new technique that drastically lowers the compute required for training is discovered - then Nvidia and a whole host of startups will lose lot of value.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don’t think I’ve seen serious criticism of Google’s abilities Serious or not, that criticism existed on HN - and still does. I've seen many comments claiming Google has "fallen behind" on AI, sometimes with the insinua
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> not making bullshit when you don't know LLMs today have no concept of epistemology, they don't ever "know" and are always making up bullshit, which usually is more-or-less correct as a side effect of minimizing perp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Perhaps parent finds the physical manifestation of virtual girlfriends gross - i.e. sexbots. The confusion may be some people reading "a body" as referring to a human being vs a smart sex doll controlled by an AI.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What possibly could go wrong with a snitching AI girlfriend remembers everything you say and when? If OpenAI doesn't have a Law Enforcement lliason who charges a "modest amount", then they dont want to earn the billions on in
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> My point is about autonomous software that can figure out how to run itself including registering its own API key and paying for its own service. Here is a thought experiment: if you developed such an AI, would you sell it for any amou
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Which fits into your world view better? For some people, the answer may rest on whether the child is younger or older than 18. That said, I don't think people from collectivist and individualist cultures can ever agree on what the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not discounting what you do, but having to support a household as a child is materially different to what you do for your parents. It sounds like if you don't chip in - no one will go to bed hungry, and bills will still be pai
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> That might work for small businesses, but no real mid-sized or bigger company is going to be using Whatsapp or any other consumer messaging service for their critical or non-critical business communications ...and yet WhatsApp Business
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Most of HN who've been around know what Bootstrap is (rip, old Twitter). The same rules apply whether your package dependencies are .css, .js or .so
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> My software is a victim of Debian maintainers as well: they chose to remove the default theme from our static site generator, because it was built on top of Bootstrap 3, but Debian only shipped Bootstrap 2 at the time in a global packa
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Their job is building a working .deb with working software If that were was all there is to packaging - upstream developers could do the same job & have their CI/CD pipeline shoot out a .deb file. However, it's not unhear
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not so sure about that; the emoji with the eyeballs squeezed out of their sockets didn't exactly scream "compression" to me. It felt like they were aiming for over the top cartoonish destruction - but destruction no
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Another person on social media noted that no Apple ad has ever depicted older generation iPads or MacBook Pros being crushed by a hydraulic press to signify them being made thinner - I suspect Apple wouldn't even greenlight that ad pit
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Sounds a bit illegal. Can be fixed by an EULA update that adds a clause stating "Response may contain paid product placement" to be im compliance with laws written for television 20 years ago. Legislation is consistently behi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> There's some similarity to the search business model There's a reason why Google's best years were when search was firewalled from ads and revenue.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
They are also salting the ground behind themselves so no competitors can grow or thrive. Their "brand partners" won't let LLM upstarts use or scrape the same data OpenAI has licensed, OpenAI is leveraging its first-mover adva
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Brands that get it on the earliest training in large volume will have benefits accrued over the long term. That's the sales pitch - the truth is if a competitor pays more down the line - they can be fine-tuned in to replace earlie
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I interview best when I'm relaxed and it doesn't feel like there's a lot riding on the interview. What has worked for me is to interview early (when I feel "maybe I should leave my current job", rather than "I
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Why? Do compilers which can't bootstrap themselves also make you uncomfortable due to dependencies on pre-built artifacts? I'm not saying you're unjustified to feel that way, but someti

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