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by tyre 1y ago
I would guess Amazon has a ridiculous amount of access to training data in its warehouses. Video, package sizes, weights, sorting. I’m sure they could pretty easily spin up a site with 200 of these processing packages of most sizes (they ha
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by tyre 1y ago
Three mistakes in an hour isn’t terrible, especially if that’s the last generation. As another commenter put it, this is the worst it’s ever going to be.
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by tyre 1y ago
Berkeley gives dedicated parking spots to Nobel laureates. It’s not about having a place to park. It’s about being in the same category as all of those greats.
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by tyre 1y ago
It's not really a similar situation. His pay package was invalidated because of how much control Elon had over the board and the shareholders not being fully informed of the likelihood that the necessary goals would be hit. Whatever th
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by tyre 1y ago
Are those in the same or equivalent neighborhoods?
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by tyre 1y ago
How could using arenas lead to remote code execution?
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by tyre 1y ago
Uber is still >$10bn net negative over its lifetime. Claude estimates about –$19bn. It's still quite possible that Uber doesn't make that up in the near future.
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by tyre 1y ago
Yes, this. If you’re interested in solving this, check out Camber. They’re building what is essentially Stripe for small clinics. Higher collections rate + faster time to money = clinics can focus on providing care. Very cool problem!
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by tyre 1y ago
And some of those people will leave to start their own companies or join competitor chipmakers. Innovation will continue.
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by tyre 1y ago
Sounds like they do something similar! From TFA: > Aravind uses a two-pronged approach to addressing the lack of ophthalmologists: First, it enhances the efficiency of the existing staff. The hospital has an innovative “assembly line” op
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by tyre 1y ago
It's highly unlikely that the Romans could have had the industrial revolution[0], so I'm doubtful that calculus alone would have gotten them to Mars. [0]: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-wh
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by tyre 1y ago
> And make it a company you respect and want to emulate Personally I would caveat that they be a small company. Large companies are a very different beast. What it takes to get ahead and succeed at there is often very different from a st
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by tyre 1y ago
How will they make money? Or is this always meant to be OSS community supported? The challenge is that people have to get paid and infrastructure to build things costs money. Looks like there are only two people full-time at the company rig
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by tyre 1y ago
No, but listing things that happened over the course of over a decade, some of which are well resolved and others (like why’s leaving) are questionable how they’re an indication of drama. He left public programming, including Scratch, entir
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by tyre 1y ago
Plus one. Reading through this, I’m not sure what the fear is of Shopify taking a larger role. They’ve been strong contributors to Ruby for a really long time. Not that I agree with the actions, but I can’t parse what nefarious motives they
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by tyre 1y ago
How is this good for anyone? Ruby is an excellent language and the community is largely the best I’ve experienced of any language. Yes there is drama, recently especially, but there have been some fantastic people involved for decades
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by tyre 1y ago
Having interviewed hundreds of software engineers, I’m not convinced that the talent is out there but just hiding. Nor do I believe talent is fungible. Pulling in smart people from all over the world is good for America. I’m sure there are
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by tyre 1y ago
Anthropic has a great paper on exactly this! https://www.anthropic.com/research/language-models-mostly-kn... The best is its plummeting confidence when beginning the answer to “Why are you alive?” Big same, Claude.
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by tyre 1y ago
I’m sure they’ll add support, they literally just launched
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by tyre 1y ago
> the free speech rights of conservative speakers Free speech is the right to speak without retribution of the law. It is not the right to be heard or platformed.
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by tyre 1y ago
Many people are insanely greedy. Becoming a billionaire is exceedingly difficult. It’s not a matter of others simply not wanting it enough.
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I hope you will never get this letter(news.lettersofnote.com)
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by tyre 1y ago
“Why do I have this horde of zombie processes?”
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by tyre 1y ago
I believe Mullvad accepts cash via mail
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by tyre 1y ago
Related: “I find all of this so weird because of how it _elevates_ finance. [Various cases] imply that we are not entitled to be protected from pollution as _citizens_, or as _humans_. [Another] implies that we are not entitled to be told t
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by tyre 1y ago
We work with American health insurance companies and their portals are the only API you’re going to get. They have negative incentive to build a true API. LLMs are 10x better than the existing state of the art (scraping with hardcodes selec
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by tyre 1y ago
Why do you believe the US government did USAID?
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by tyre 1y ago
From my experience hiring as an EM at one company (Stripe) immigration status does not factor into offers. You’re competing for this talent against every other company. If they’re good, you (and others) want to hire them. Again: data set of
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by tyre 1y ago
Source?
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by tyre 1y ago
> they would not do things to jeopardize their reputation or standing. So I think it's just not the case that there are unqualified legacy admits This is known to be false. Development cases, where donor’s buy admission, are real. T

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