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by somesortofthing 4y ago
I think this article makes a key mistake that I see almost all commentators make of visions of free speech less radical than, say, the first amendment: They consider only the direct effects of speech on those who hear it. If you accept this
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What is the actual ruling here? Is it that the work can't be protected by copyright at all "because no human was involved in its creation" or just that copyright can't be assigned to the model itself? The headline implie
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Loyalty in general can be thought of as a line of credit for employers and employees to informally "borrow" from each other to smooth things over. Explicitly enumerating all of a given job's duties in an employment agreemen
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Maybe they're capturing a rising share of a shrinking market? A 50% increase under these conditions still does sound suspicious though.
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These things are all possible in iMessage. Is iMessage social media?
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> A recognizance bond is a written commitment from the accused to appear in court when ordered. In return, Bankman-Fried’s camp would not be required to meet the full collateral requirements on the bail. Doesn't look like that'
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by somesortofthing 4y ago
This is what decades of two parties trying to outdo each other on being "tough on crime" looks like. These punishments do act as a deterrent to whistleblowing but that's not really why they were instituted in the first place.
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> If Healthcare.gov bombed... whose head rolled? Is your claim here that corporations are able to correctly assign responsibility for major failures? Why do you think this? There are so many ways to deflect blame for your failures onto
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> Suffering, even pain, are like the opposite side of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other, so when facing struggles, try to view it as such; the necessary component in a fulfilling life. This is true to some limited exten
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And dozens of people have been spared serious injuries or mysterious "deaths in custody" as a result. Maybe you'd prefer some deodorant to that, but I don't.
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If you want law enforcement to deal with petty crimes, you're going to have to contend with the externalities of cops operating anywhere. How many bystanders and innocent people reported by paranoid suburbanites are you willing to see
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I read the article, and my main takeaway was that the author massively downplays what "survival mode" practically means for the company/product. It doesn't just mean that engineers have to work harder or that you can&#
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This might be slightly true for a small subset of companies, but given that this is clearly about Twitter, you absolutely can't "survive" in any meaningful way. What is possible without 80% of the engineers is keeping the c
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> We fail to acknowledge that sometimes the reaction can be just as bad, and lead to the same pathology, as the problem that initially provoked it. I think it's interesting that you speak in such abstract terms about this. What has
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This sounds like it'd stop working really fast as the org grows. Low-performing/average employees will start to feel like their contribution to the pool is too small to justify additional effort while top performers will feel re
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by somesortofthing 4y ago
The author makes a convincing argument against doing this workload on on-demand instances, but what about spot instances? AWS explicitly calls out scientific computing as a major use case for scientific computing in its training/promot
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> What's the difference between retelling someone's story orally, and using a printing press to make an exact replica? But that's not what's happening. You can't "crack open" a model to find the bitmap
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The issue with debt for training is the same issue as the one with all exploitative working conditions: The choice of whether or not to work somewhere is often illusory. Real people inhabit a specific area with a specific set of employers.
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Yeah this is less true than it used to be but it's a big part of how SaaS initially came to be the only game in town.
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One reason is that SaaS pricing is an easy way for people to "hack" corporate spending restrictions. You need accounting approval for that perpetual $10000 software license, but a $500 monthly subscription payment is totally at yo
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> Think of them like a landlord (hosting) vs fire department (ddos) situation This is kind of a ridiculous comparison. A real-world landlord is a private individual extracting rent from their tenants while a real-world fire department is
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It's hardly surprising that given breathing room, people who live in miserable poverty will spend on things they couldn't previously afford. "Man cannot live on bread alone" is a pretty old concept. As for the people who
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> Depression and anxiety are medical diagnoses. The other are normal emotions everyone can, should, and does experience. Why? In what sense are they "normal"? They're unpleasant and they leave you worse off than you were b
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> People (mostly) don't change - they (have to) die for change to happen. How much of that is a consequence of the fact that our brains physiologically lose the ability to change over time though?
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This article seems like a major failure of both imagination and empathy. Paying homeless people $20 a day to be wifi hotspots or paying people's bills on the condition that they become vegan helps in the moment , but these solutions a
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Yeah, that's for sure a possibility. The purchase might even end up as a marginal improvement since he actively uses Twitter and might request some QoL features once in a while.
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I honestly don't think it'll change that much. Musk's statements thus far suggest that he lacks a basic understanding of the problems inherent to running a platform like Twitter, so he'll probably just get frustrated and
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You don’t. Upon receiving a destruction order, a company can delete the trained model or not. If they do delete it, it’s all good. If they don’t delete it, they (hopefully)can’t get caught using it again without company-destroying fines. Th
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Genuine question: Has this strategy ever worked? When has economic stress imposed by a competing power turned a populace from being supportive or apathetic to their government waging a military campaign(against an external target or even ag
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
The EU and US have made serious mistakes in the process but it's hard to disagree with that conclusion. Either you have a fairly short(By necessity, since Ukraine is going to remain crossable with armor for maybe a couple more weeks be

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