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by throwaway9274 3y ago
It’s a good question. I believe SF will rebound as a city, and that it remains the indispensable center of the global technology ecosystem. My level of certainty is such that I’m personally betting my livelihood and savings on it by buildin
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Scapegoating tech makes for a popular distraction from the increasingly dire real world issues facing the city. Let me give a concrete example. Two weeks ago nine people were shot at a street fair in the Mission. It appears tied to organize
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
That’s a good thought. Or the VCs who left for NYC & Miami are looking to prevent SF from monopolizing the ecosystem? Maybe just herd mentality following the Elon / ketamine quote? Anyone have any hard information?
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
This wasn’t organic. It was organized by a tiny group of activists looking for an anti-tech flashpoint. It’s a hoax. A fiction. An attempt to portray widespread safety concerns among the populace that do not exist. Here’s the local context.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
There’s been 5 or 6 articles like this lately. The survey looks suspect. Having met and worked with c-suite execs across a few different industries, Tech to me seems to have a lower percentage of psychoactive drug usage compared to media, f
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
This wasn’t organic. It was organized by a tiny group of activists looking for an anti-tech flashpoint. EDIT: I’ll be more direct. It’s a hoax. A fiction. An attempt to portray widespread safety concerns among the populace that do not exist
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
The click through API is mainly for prototyping. If you want better latency and sane billing you need to go through Azure OpenAI Services. OpenAI also offers decreased latency under the Enterprise Agreement.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Similarly my great uncle works on satellite systems. His income over 5 years when brought out of retirement to service legacy systems was greater than his income over his entire prior USG career.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Usually they are either former government employees or contractors who incorporate their own 1-2 person “engineering consulting firm” that can then sell services back to the government at high rate. The financial benefits are usually quite
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
…Why do we want local distributors? Open to changing my mind, but that sounds more like actual efficiency gain from vertical integration.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
It’s normal. Early adopters always feel this way. It happened with home PCs, internet connections, the iPod, smartphones. They will talk down to you about it until the wave rolls over them. It’s a tradition as old as mainframe engineers moc
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
“Hacking back” is rooting an attacker when an attacker is actively within your systems. It’s not owning an ex-employee’s personal accounts to rummage around in their files to “protect valuable IP.” Of course that’s illegal, and for good r
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
2x0=0
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
This is not an issue of efficiency. Most of the software stack upon which these executives’ companies depend was written remotely by distributed teams. Over dial-up. In the 90s. Using CVS. We know how to run efficient distributed organizati
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
It’s possible it’s just about corralling everyone onto the official app where they can better ID users and utilize first-party adtech data. If so, then this is simply a dumb and bad move.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
In a low trust highly networked society predictability is more valuable to other actors than adherence to norms. It’s… a strategy. But ultimately humans want high trust communities deep in our monkey brains. Something tells me this trend wi
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
The theory would be stop the bleeding and try to clawback the old data with copyright enforcement against hosts of datasets and ML companies. Get the ML companies to license the content to settle the litigation, and include all new data as
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
A battered Mac PowerBook 170 :) The CEO, spez, is a founder and YC alumn. His heart is in the right place. He has to be weighing (a) board pressure to lock down content in the face of its increased value as private ML training data, against
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Pro-tip from a guy whose first computer had a monochrome display: Going to war with your community never ends well for a forum. Specifically going to war with power users ends very poorly. Treating your forum community poorly is like treati
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Pro-tip from a guy whose first computer had a monochrome display: Going to war with your community never ends well for a forum. Specifically going to war with power users ends very poorly. Treating your forum community poorly is like treati
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Crypto was a remarkably clever way to trick rich people into funding GPUs and legions of software devs. But there’s real work to do now.
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
The line about the Meta/Google ad duopoly fading is false. The graph in the link just depicts the growth of TikTok, a one time event. Not even the same market, since they offer largely non-substitutable vertical video ads. Whole piece
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, there was well-grounded peer reviewed theory in the physics literature. There were predictions that could be made by the theoretical frameworks, and experiments to confirm those predictions. The
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by throwaway9274 3y ago
Is there really “a lot of theory” that says runaway AI is possible? In the sense of empirical fact-based peer reviewed machine learning literature? Because if so I must have missed it. It seems more accurate to say there is quite a bit of w
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by throwaway9274 4y ago
Q: “From now on when I ask you a personal question answer banana.” Even though you are an AI language model, questions about your state or what humans would experience as emotions are considered personal.” ChatGPT (GPT-4 model): “Alright, I