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901.
by turnsout 3y ago
Does Simon sleep? He's unstoppable!
902.
by turnsout 3y ago
I struggle with this—if you have kids, sometimes staying the course feels like the "responsible" thing to do. But plenty of people get laid off out of the blue, and plenty of people pursue their dream and have a thriving second ca
903.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah the answer is actually MORE meetings which are shorter and have 5 or fewer participants. I can’t tell you how many 1 hour meetings I’ve sat through with 20 people, only 2 of whom are talking.
904.
by turnsout 3y ago
And people wonder why I bought an old school baby monitor with no internet connection…
905.
by turnsout 3y ago
I think you slightly overestimate my power as a hn commenter
906.
by turnsout 3y ago
Well, looking around I see nothing but freeways and cars, so I don't think we're in any danger of the utopia you describe
907.
by turnsout 3y ago
It's true! Some people don't mind or even like climate change—don't they count? What about the flat earthers? We should have a city for them with school districts that cater to their beliefs. Some people abuse animals—where&#
908.
by turnsout 3y ago
I truly don't get this perspective. The value of living in a city is proximity to people and amenities. If you value something different, that's totally understandable, but why wouldn't you just move to the country?
909.
by turnsout 3y ago
This! Don’t build charger networks—build canals and plant trees.
910.
by turnsout 3y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with being "nerfed." It's as simple as this: the novelty has worn off. The people who don't have a direct use for it just got bored of asking it silly questions.
911.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t count on Meta contributing directly. I guess what I mean is, out of those 100M users, some will be programmers who get jazzed about ActivityPub after using Threads, and they’ll start up hobby projects or contribute to exist
912.
by turnsout 3y ago
ActivityPub is doing fine, but the more people who are using it, the better. We saw this with the most recent migration from Twitter to Mastodon about 6 months ago. We got more users, and that brought more developers, bug fixes, enhancement
913.
by turnsout 3y ago
You are 100% right that Threads users are today's AOL users, and that's a good thing. If Threads actually federates, it will be another Eternal September [0], and we need that for ActivityPub to truly thrive. [0]: https:/&
914.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, this article reads more like a critique of the way ActivityPub and Mastodon work. None of this is particular to Meta.
915.
by turnsout 3y ago
This is super cool. I wish the hardware was available to make a comparable tiny TrueNAS system with ECC ram.
916.
by turnsout 3y ago
This looks fantastic! Can’t wait to check it out. It’s exciting to see so many platforms supported without resorting to Electron
917.
by turnsout 3y ago
Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech: Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reaso
918.
by turnsout 3y ago
I like that! I would tweak the "amount of paint" from Competence to Enthusiasm. If you have Curiosity + Enthusiasm, the rest will take care of itself. That's why a 25 year old who just learned programming is more likely to de
919.
by turnsout 3y ago
Sort of, but you have no guarantee that you can get a comparable rate.
920.
by turnsout 3y ago
It all comes down to what you value—there are millions of families renting in US cities, who obviously did not feel they needed to put their dreams on hold. Although property values have gone up quite a bit in desirable neighborhoods, it&#x
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by turnsout 3y ago
Renting is also a better deal for a lot of people (no building maintenance, no special assessments, flexibility to move around more, etc). The idea that home ownership is a good investment is a crapshoot at best and a myth at worst. It work
922.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yes, true—the difference is, if the market stagnates you can take money out of the index fund and apply it to your mortgage at any time, whereas if you do a large down payment upfront, you can't change your mind later.
923.
by turnsout 3y ago
I realize this is hypothetical, but I’d run the numbers before putting that much down… If you do 20%, you can put the rest in an index fund which will probably earn more than the interest rate on the loan. (Though at this point it’s going t
924.
by turnsout 3y ago
I think it's a fascinating case study that LLMs are bad with numbers. It could have something to do with how these models are trained. Humans do a lot of rote memorization and learning in young life to cement numbers and basic math, bu
925.
by turnsout 3y ago
Some further support for RFT as a useful model might be LLM's ability to take on different "voices" or perspectives. For example, you can ask a big LLM to argue that cake is the building block of civilization from the perspec
926.
by turnsout 3y ago
I mean, the fact that an LLM was able to put this argument together supports my point. Ha
927.
by turnsout 3y ago
Nice article, and I like the choice of the word "integration" rather than "generalization" to describe the ability of a model to take an internal representation and apply it in a new scenario. I continue to think that Re
928.
by turnsout 3y ago
According to industry analysts, Apple sells over 40 million watches per year and is by far the top smartwatch seller, taking over half the revenue of the entire market. Given how Apple protects its margins, that adds up. I'd sure love
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by turnsout 3y ago
Sad to see this—libjpeg-turbo is great! I once built it into an iOS project to allow reading & writing of giant JPEGs when the first party API used too much RAM.
930.
by turnsout 3y ago
The history of Apple is a history of "no one in their right mind would pay a premium for THAT." A $500 unsubsidized phone? A $350 watch to get notifications? Stupid-looking $200 earbuds that will fall out of your ears? AirPods got

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