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by stymaar 2mo ago
But by that standard Betamax was popular too…
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by stymaar 2mo ago
And I stand with that phrase. I'm pretty sure that are more VHS users than RSS these days. It's not strictly zero, but it's a negligible fraction of internet users.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
And you're also on HN, you're not exactly the average human being. Do you use “RSS” as a protol specifically, or do you use “RSS” as in “any feed no matter the protocol”?
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> and the early popularity and widespread adoption of RSS, the better format (atom) isn't used nearly as much. That may have been true 20 years ago, but now that pretty much no-one uses either of them , I'd be surprised if RSS
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by stymaar 2mo ago
It's not invulnerable, I think gp just means that reducing your amount of dependencies reduces the attack surface.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
This is symptomatic of a trend that Simon Willison called the “relentless productivity” of US frontier lab. Instead of being just “smarter”, like previous models were, the current generation is being trained through RL to have this kind of
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> Western Europe was much more integrated with the US during the Cold War than it was at any time after 1990 Not quite. For instance no European countries got involved in Vietnam like they did in Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan, and France
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Basically, losing any sense of autonomy and becoming US's hinterland. It has moved a lot in this direction from an economic and geopolitical PoV over the past 40 years, now we're seeing the electoral process being subverted by Ame
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by stymaar 3mo ago
That's the sane way of using services, but micro -services used in the wild are often used without any organizational consideration at all: as a consultant I witnessed countless of small companies and start-ups who had multiple times
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> The point that the major labs don’t seem to get is that the vast majority of use cases simply don’t need models that have 50 PhDs and can speak 12 languages I think they understand it but they think they can get away with it because th
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by stymaar 3mo ago
License for LLMs already have very little strength (it's not clear at all that they have any legal basis whatsoever) an AI lab is very, very unlikely to sue you for violating this kind of license clause for the reason you mentioned. It
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by stymaar 3mo ago
All of the answers to your questions above are in gp's comment already: > A company of the size that this is worthwhile for, probably has dedicated devops on staff already
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> A text editor or music player is hardly "mini". If it's a sub-function of a bigger ensemble that mostly dies something else then it's fine to call them “mini apps”. For instance a bank app may contain a text editor
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by stymaar 3mo ago
What does it has to do with the topic? And saying “governments do not build” is a crazy antihistorical take: many things, from the space industry to the telco one were built by governments, as well as the energy and transport sectors in man
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> So you become.. Ebay A former tech giant that has seen its dominance being swallowed by competitors and now cornered into numismatist and other collectible. Sure it's a very profitable company for its inveators, but a friend of mi
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by stymaar 3mo ago
The European Commission is way too pro-business for that, even when the said businesses are parasitic actors who don't even pay taxes in the EU.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Like it or not every, non-failed-state, modern economy is a centrally-planned one. The economy never lives in a vacuum, it's always a product of the institutions that govern them (regulations, subsidies, taxes, etc.) Something is alway
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by stymaar 3mo ago
I'm not totally convinced by OP's whole point, but I want to point out an issue with this argument of yours: > lot of talented lead engineers I know are terrible people managers, or ineffective project managers. A lot of peopl
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> He repeatedly implicaties that only sex offenders need a security-hardened phone. On he doesn't! You trying to read implicit things when there's an explicit rebuttal of your interpretation just a few seconds later in littet
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by stymaar 3mo ago
HN title mangling strikes again.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
The miners don't need “node runners” to get access to other miners mined block. That's not how the bitcoin protocol works at all. In an ideal world the best non-miners can do is prevent some transactions by preventing them to reac
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by stymaar 3mo ago
When someone says “features that are clearly valuable for executives and others” you can't claim he said it's “ just for pedo and spies”, even he also said it'd also be useful for pedo and spies. That's just plain bad
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by stymaar 3mo ago
TIL, thank you!
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by stymaar 3mo ago
The “only for pedo and spies” quote is still wrong no matter how you twist it, as illustrated above.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> The same institutions that caused the 2008 crash You rightly call that a “crash” that is nowhere near the scale of the regular bitcoin price fluctuations! > that in the last 5 years have printed 50% more of the total US dollar suppl
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by stymaar 3mo ago
As much as some amount of defiance towards contemporary governments is warranted, believing that the crypto world is more trustworthy is an insane take. Especially post MtGox and all what followed… The Epstein class and the Bankman-Fried cl
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by stymaar 3mo ago
“I trust my midwit brain rather than the institutions that makes the modern world work” really isn't the flex you think it is.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> except it's not controlled by a banking cartel but by all it's userbase. Bitcoin is absolutely not controlled by its user base, but by another cartel (made of mining pools and exchanges). You, as a user have literally no say
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by stymaar 3mo ago
> if you read a paragraph of even semi technical software text you will feel like an over stuffed turkey. That's me when I try reading a trendy computer graphics paper.
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by stymaar 3mo ago
Meanwhile with cryptocurrencies you have the choice between getting blocked by your exchange or losing your wallet (from your own negligence or a hack)

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