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by sangnoir 2y ago
Academia
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I don't blame them for hyping their products - if only to fight the sentiment that Google is far behind OpenAI because they were not first to release a LLM.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
LineageOS has an elegant solution for OLED burn in: imperceptibly shift persistent UI elements my a few pixels over time
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Most iPads are vastly overpowered and last for a long time. Which is why it's a shame they have poor repairability
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Shades of that Twitter executive who shared a picture of herself in a sleeping bag at the office, presumably doing "hardcore engineering". She later got fired regardless.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Is the iPad Pro not yet on OLED? All of Samsung's flagship tablets have OLED screens for well over a decade now. It eliminates the need for backlighting, has superior contrast and pleasant to ise in low-light conditions.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
No, we are don't agree. I challenge the existence of a "correct" level of consumptions, and how it's derived is still ambiguous - all I have gathered so far is that it's below whatever it was when the shale oil comp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> ... except perhaps if we use the description ‘drives up prices beyond historic norms’. Which is why they put it in quotes. This makes little sense for oil - there are no "historic norms" for the price of oil; just a very wide
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This entire thread is interrogating whether consumer behavior (excessive consumption ) is to blame for business failures as suggested, but never explained by the original statement.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Thank you for your service in the culture wars.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Consumers are not responsible for macro-economic changes that make a subset of businesses unviable. I was likening Shale Oil companies that could only be profitable at >$95 a barrel to companies that were only viable when capital was che
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by sangnoir 2y ago
On what basis can the bankruptcies be blamed solely/mostly on consumer behavior, versus the viability of many fracking companies being staked on an impermanently high oil prices? The oil industry is notorious for boom-and-bust cycles.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A definition of Excessive consumption would be in order, because it suggests that there's a "right" level of consumption other than what the market settles on, gp did not quantify what counts as excessive, or why. This concep
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I'm not quite sure what you mean IMO, for the general public, current AI models are much closer to cars than they are to anti-personnel weapons, when plotted on risk/benefit axes. FWIW, vehicle regulations are not an all-or-n
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> How do think we should address security around AI The same way we address security around cars: we don't ban individuals from working on project cars, or driving them on public roads - instead, we have standards for OEMs and ind
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Austin and Miami were supposed to be the new tech start-up hotspots after the great COVID WFH migration. The zeitgeist was the SF Bay area was played out for a multitude of reasons the departees were only too happy to blog about. Austin and
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I think a company that makes diamonds from remains-based carbon already exist
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> You already live in one. Publishing house shareholders get most of the money, even for online books. Doesn't this apply to every mass-market creative endeavor - software engineering included? There a whole lot of machinery sitting
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by sangnoir 3y ago
If the law were stupid, I'd expect a more robust argument about how it's stupid in the IA's appeal. They are not arguing that. I have plenty of issues with copyright law as it's currently written and wholeheartedly suppo
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Just to be clear, it is your position that the IA's Wayback Machine and abandonware archives should also not exist, right? No, I fully support these missions. Both have defensible fair use protections and do not try to break new l
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> You are directing your ire at the wrong party. Hachette has nothing to gain from continuing to pursue this lawsuit, the only possible outcome (as you correctly state) is the world becomes a worse place. Hachette obviously benefits from
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> With all due respect, the people on HN are _weirdly_ in favor of a group whose unstated “zeroth” tenet is basically “be born into wealth I'm not sure if this was directed at my comment, but I'll clarify that my comment wasn&#
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I suspect the "EA" label is author having an ax to grind or throwing red meat at people who already hate EA. Sam Altman is on record lobbying for "AI safety laws" which would have a similar effect of raising the bar of e
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Scrape to earn money from" is not OK. This is exactly how search engines like Google and Bing work though. So I don't think "earning money" is the right place to draw the line. Reproducing websites wholesale is also
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> no, scraping data is bad because this is against owners wishes The broadcasters weren't happy about home cassette recording either, and the case went all the way up to the supreme court. If I can legally record cable, then it&#x27
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Brutalism IMO relies on imposing designs I disagree. Brutalism is based on dropping any pretense of the material used to construct the building. No shiny glass veneer or facade, just concrete buildings reveling their concreteness wit
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Not having any choice isn't great either. See Soviet grocery shops.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
FWIW, I avoid using and contributing to projects with revenue-based licenses on principle - I hate bait-and-switches and folk who pull up ladders behind themselves. They will have to coexist with the forks with standard licenses.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
SMEs spend a lot on advertising, in aggregate. These smaller businesses are more sensitive to lowered conversation rates and will bail early - Meta took a huge hit in earnings in the aftermath of Apple's privacy changes due to poor con
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I suspect WhatsApp has a better shot at being the "everything app" compared to Twitter.

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