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by typon 3y ago
Made ~$10,000 from that bet last year. I was pretty pleased with myself.
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by typon 3y ago
The board of directors, rich shareholders and the C-Suite team. Incidentally they also employ powerless servants who are interchangeable and disposable.
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by typon 3y ago
It's interesting to hear the contrast between Meta and my experience talking with ex-Googlers who complain that open-source or industry standard infrastructure is far inferior to what they were used to at Google. Why such a big chasm b
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by typon 3y ago
Sounds like a really wild assertion. If I were to guess, the number of employees doing this would be well under 1%. If you have evidence to the contrary, please share it.
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by typon 3y ago
Disappointed by the discussion so far. The response seems to be "Trust Apple". The OP's claims are more theoretical and apply to any headset - is there a decent rebuttal of this article? (I am not an expert, I just want good
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by typon 3y ago
2D vs 3D navigation is a categorical difference.
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by typon 3y ago
I don't think he thinks its trivial - just that its not some revolutionary new architecture. It's an immense engineering effort rather than a fundamental breakthrough.
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by typon 3y ago
This looks like a cobot (Collaborative robot). They are meant to work alongside humans - chance of injury is low because their speed/maximum force exerted is limited.
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by typon 3y ago
The labour was free - the tools required were not. That's a miniscule cost compared to the labour if they _actually_ had to pay for it.
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by typon 3y ago
Reddit found the one real solution for dealing with spam (human workers) for FREE and pissed it down the drain.
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by typon 3y ago
This is my use for ChatGPT around 90% of the time. The other 10% is trying to get it do something more complicated, getting frustrated and giving up.
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by typon 3y ago
I am actually working in a tech company - the hours are better than our US (SF) office... I am super jealous.
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by typon 3y ago
yes, lunch time.
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by typon 3y ago
Working in China, the whole office shuts down after work and everyone pulls out their foldable beds and naps for 30 minutes. I'm sitting here commenting on HN like a dummy.
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by typon 3y ago
Chomsky regards Hume as his personal intellectual hero - people really should read Hume more.
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by typon 3y ago
> We just want reddit without the bullshit. And who's going to pay for it?
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by typon 3y ago
Is this going to be Apple's first big bust in a while?
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by typon 3y ago
That very well may be true, but I would rather the workers still get paid concomitant to the profits the corporation is raking in rather than even more wealth being accumulated by the capital class running these corporations.
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by typon 3y ago
I know this is supposed to be a "self-awareness jab" at HN commenters, but you should really take a look at the stock market. 7 of the top 10 companies by market value are American tech companies. If anything, American IT workers
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by typon 3y ago
Am I the online who uses Firefox and old.reddit.com to browse reddit on my phone? It works pretty well.
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by typon 3y ago
This is what people at OpenAI believe but say it in a much more palatable way.
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by typon 3y ago
As a SW person who's worked at AI chip company, this is 100% true.
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by typon 3y ago
The corporate workers were okay with hearing about the warehouse workers peeing in bottles because they were getting their fat paychecks on time. Remember, capitalists will come for you no matter how comfortable you feel.
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by typon 3y ago
Two uncontroversially useful C++ features (nullptr, typed enums) entering C is a great thing. I really wish C++ had Rust style enums. Having to implement them with flags in C++ is a bit of a chore.
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by typon 3y ago
Is that in the US or worldwide? What is the definition of black and white?
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by typon 3y ago
> global censorship-obsessed WEF Can you elaborate on this? How is the WEF tied to global censorship?
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by typon 3y ago
No comparisons against GPT-4 except on three benchmarks where PaLM 2 does better on two. Not sure why, but I expected better from Google.
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by typon 3y ago
Seems relevant: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by typon 3y ago
It came from Kenyan annotators for ChatGPT. The next dataset can come from ChatGPT users.
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by typon 3y ago
Why did the US vote Trump in for President?

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