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by timmg 1y ago
Am I just too old school? Like I don't think it makes sense to do these protests at work. I get there are cases where your employer is doing something immoral. But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it?
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by timmg 1y ago
I remember the first post by the Neon team here on HN. I think I commented at the time that I thought it was a great idea. I’ve never had a need to use them yet, but thought I always would. Cynically, am I the only one who takes pause becau
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by timmg 1y ago
> So you just ask a supercomputer to find the lowest cost solution for 99.99% electrical coverage without using any carbon sources. Sure... but my expectation is that that 90% solution would include an unreasonable amount of storage (ass
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by timmg 1y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding how we can move the bulk of our energy to renewables without some kind of massive storage system. The wind can die for long periods. It can get abnormally cloudy for long periods. There's ni
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by timmg 1y ago
I wonder how automation will affect things. Just recently, Uber (with some partner) started testing delivery robots in my (city) neighborhood. And I love Waymo, as much as I've been able to use them. Maybe automation will change the
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by timmg 2y ago
> I don't know about everyone else but I just started looking into how to move money and investments outside the US. Based on tweets I've seen, you are not the only one engaging in "capital flight". Not great for the
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by timmg 2y ago
Finally: a good use for LLMs ;)
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by timmg 2y ago
Just bought a new house in the burbs. Want to get solar. I assumed Tesla was a good company to get them through. Does anyone have (a non-political) opinion on Tesla Solar? And/or how I should think about getting panels (and battery)
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by timmg 2y ago
As I understand: Congress gave the president the power to add tariffs in some "exceptional" cases. Trump claims this is an exceptional case. We'll see if Congress or the courts do something about it.
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by timmg 2y ago
I'm sure that happens a lot. In my experience, people tend to be bad at estimating things. As a long-time SWE who eventually (also) managed teams: I found estimates particularly difficult. Some SWEs would give very optimistic estimat
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by timmg 2y ago
> What? I don’t get it. So almost 3 years and “growing profile” to reach the same valuation? What was the growth for? In fairness, that was a frothy time for stocks. Twitter stock price was at an unsustainable price (IMHO) when he bough
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by timmg 2y ago
> We're already there. If you running a Mistral-Large-2411 and Mistral-Small-2409 locally, you'll find the larger model is able to recall more specific details about works of fiction. Oh, for sure. I guess what I'm wonder
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by timmg 2y ago
I'm wondering how small of a model can be "generally intelligent" (as in LLM intelligent, not AGI). Like there must be a size too small to hold "all the information" in. And I also wonder at what point we'll s
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by timmg 2y ago
> I've gone back to pirating everything. I can afford to pay for all the services, it's just the service and content quality has gotten so bad that it's just not worth it. If the content is so bad, then why the need to pir
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by timmg 2y ago
Your GF is essentially in the "control group" for ads. Her behavior can be compared to the behavior of people who see ads to better understand how ads affect those other users.
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by timmg 2y ago
I didn't say it was top-heavy. I answered the question, "Why does everyone think it is top heavy?"
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by timmg 2y ago
> Why do people keep thinking this thing is top heavy just because its taller than wide? Because it keeps falling over?
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by timmg 2y ago
If you wanted to start a cult, would you say you wanted to start a cult? "I just want to share my learnings with the good people of Ohio..."
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by timmg 2y ago
Interesting. This stood out to me: > In the latter example, I feel the ad exists entirely to sell something that is completely unneeded rather than to inform about something the person genuinely could find valuable. Ironically, this is
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by timmg 2y ago
I was just trying to understand your POV. IMHO, something like "Show HN" is not much different than an ad. In some sense, neither is your resume. They are all about letting people know about options. But I can understand that t
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by timmg 2y ago
Does anyone know what the api/interface between these models and the actual arms looks like? Like: how would I make use of one of these models?
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by timmg 2y ago
But do you object to ads in general? If so: how do you think people will find out about new things? Even, like, a new movie or productivity product?
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by timmg 2y ago
> Do you think ads are ethical? Generally, yes. Ads are an important function of commerce, tbh. False ads, of course, are not ethical. But we do have laws in that area (not that people don't break them.)
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by timmg 2y ago
Because websites make their money from ads. There is an implicit agreement that using those websites (for free) means you watch ads. I think: if you don't agree with that, then you shouldn't go to those sites. We complain about &
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by timmg 2y ago
Does the mean the future toolset will be less reliant on NPM (etc)? Maybe I'm unique, but I prefer to not have the compiler tied up with a paryicular dependency-management/library system.
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by timmg 2y ago
> We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests. Ironically (or not) this is the Apple side of the Android/iOS debate. And most people are happier with iOS. (And use Macs over Linux, FWIW.) [I probably
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by timmg 2y ago
It's kinda like saying: people who are on chemotherapy are more likely to die from cancer than people who aren't. Of course: that's why they are on chemotherapy!
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by timmg 2y ago
I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks!
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by timmg 2y ago
Is there a missing "product" for [easy] "self-hosting" in the cloud? (Or does it exist? Or will it only apply to a narrow kind of user?) Like I think there should be some way to "one-button-click" install &qu
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by timmg 2y ago
I assume they get "monetization" from Youtube and they don't need to worry about hosting or discovery. Probably better than doing nothing with these films.

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