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by smt88 2y ago
Assuming you're tolerant of downtime, why would it be a huge undertaking? You could write the code to do it in 10 minutes.
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by smt88 2y ago
Postgres is the only RDBMS that is not backing companies into corners because so many products are forks of it or "speak" Postgres. You can completely swap out your database without changing any of your code. There is no other d
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by smt88 2y ago
I have multiple relatives on the spectrum. None of them baselessly accuse strangers of being pedophiles. It's not Musk's lack of filter that makes him unhinged and dangerous. It's that he's deeply stupid, insecure, racis
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by smt88 2y ago
My understanding is that there were two corporate entities, one of which was always for-profit.
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by smt88 2y ago
How about a combo of laws passed and also laws revoked? Either way, the world is changing more rapidly than it ever has before and Congress is reacting slower than it ever has before. There's no way to spin that as a good thing. We are
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by smt88 2y ago
Is a 6-point difference substantial in a statistical sense? To me it seems small enough to be noise.
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by smt88 2y ago
Look at Sam Altman's career and tweets. He's a clown at best, and at worst he's a manipulative crook who only cares about his own enrichment and uses pro-social ideas to give himself a veneer of trustworthiness.
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by smt88 2y ago
You can't just "develop" a strong tech economy. You have to give tech workers a reason to want to move there. Americans in general are migrating to warmer areas. Michigan is starting from behind in that regard. What would you
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by smt88 2y ago
It's better than AI porn friends in the way a screwdriver is better than a hammer for driving screws.
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by smt88 2y ago
He's willing to buy it without the algorithm, which seems a little insane to me. If it were easy to replicate the algorithm, Meta wouldn't have an algorithm that is so stunningly bad that it seems like their team never uses it.
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by smt88 2y ago
"Works on my machine" for therapists is not a bug or a problem. People's needs are highly individual, and the best therapist will be, too.
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by smt88 2y ago
> just trying to make a product that people want to use? Sure, but you can do that ethically or unethically. If you make a product that's harmful, disincentivizes healthy behavior (like getting therapy), or becomes addictive, then
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by smt88 2y ago
Therapists are educated and trained to help alleviate mental-health issues, and their licenses can be revoked for malpractice. Their livelihood partially depends on ethics and honest effort. None of those safeguards are in place for AI comp
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by smt88 2y ago
Search isn't profitable. Their ad business is, and both of those together are their original product. What big successes have they built since? Gmail is widely used, but is it profitable? Last I checked, their office suite and cloud bu
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by smt88 2y ago
I still find it incredible that innovation at Meta and Alphabet is so bad that they haven't built a highly profitable product at either company in their entire histories. They've only ever hit home runs with ad businesses.
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by smt88 2y ago
My 2022 car has a built in tracker. These will likely become standard.
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by smt88 2y ago
The best signal to remove TSLA from your portfolio was that it was propped by up low interest rates, meme traders, Musk's over-promises, lack of competition, and US govt subsidies. If I'd ever bought it, I would've sold it as
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by smt88 2y ago
> I'm never talking to anyone over insecure channels again. You can and should do this. No one will punish you for it in court unless you refuse to give them evidence that they have legally obtained . I'm not sure why this i
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by smt88 2y ago
So you believe our legal system should not punish executives of a company that is: - publicly traded - more powerful than many entire countries - committing crimes ...when those executives explicitly switched to disappearing messaging in
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by smt88 2y ago
The argument being made is that Google execs switched over to Signal when they wanted to discuss the crimes they were committing. They weren't always using Signal. They had many thousands of emails and other communications that were
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by smt88 2y ago
The government doesn't ignore illegal immigrants. There was recently a massive fight to keep them in the census, for example. Democrats and career govt officials wanted to keep them.
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by smt88 2y ago
1) The guidelines are against changing the title at all. 2) "Just asking questions, bro" is a form of editorial. And you can make statements in a leading way, as you did in this title.
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by smt88 2y ago
It's against HN guidelines to editorialize titles. The real title of the article is: "U.S. government in hot seat for response to growing cow flu outbreak"
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by smt88 2y ago
They literally have a bird-flu task force. They're doing everything you would expect and want them to do. I have a friend who was on the task force and quit because the White House kept calling them in on weekends to discuss news like
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by smt88 2y ago
Why?
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by smt88 2y ago
How are those countries' collapsing economies harming the environment? Also why would I want to fix an economy using unwanted children?
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by smt88 3y ago
I'm happier to see these CPU-hours go to a boondoggle climate project than to ChatGPT writing people's emails for them.
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by smt88 3y ago
By this logic, a far better thing to do for the environment is to increase access to birth control and abortions. Raising a child costs hundreds of thousands or millions. Preventing an accidental pregnancy can cost under a dollar.
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by smt88 3y ago
So valued at a billion dollars and less than 200 total employees. Also not really an AI company, at least not yet.
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by smt88 3y ago
It's also not an issue of morality. If you are too afraid of whatever consequences there are to be honest with someone and then violate your agreement with them, you made a selfish decision based on fear, which is the definition of c

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