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by w4 2y ago
There are two basic versions of “safety” which are related, but distinct: One version of “safety” is a pernicious censorship impulse shared by many modern intellectuals, some of whom are in tech. They believe that they alone are capable of
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by w4 2y ago
Interesting to note, as an outside observer only keeping track of this stuff as a hobby, that it seems like most of OpenAI’s efforts to drive down compute costs per token and scale up context windows is likely being done in service of enabl
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by w4 2y ago
In addition to what everyone has already said, property taxes paid are also very explicitly deductible from income taxes. They’re more like an indirect transfer from the Federal government to municipalities, and don’t necessarily result in
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by w4 2y ago
> 1. Allow unrealized losses to be deducted. This seemed really reasonable to me until I started thinking about how it might work in practice. The sequence of returns can make this proposal ineffective in practice, even if it makes sen
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by w4 2y ago
> Hell, while we are at it, why not get them to do the teaching as well? They already do. They’re called TAs and grad students.
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by w4 2y ago
On a 7 day old Reddit account, no less. It’s very odd.
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by w4 2y ago
Sure. But you can do that more effectively by also being paid a salary (which you can then use to buy more stuff!).
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by w4 2y ago
This actually has more to do with the vast majority of CEO compensation being structured as stock option grants, and very little if anything to do with “Buy, Borrow, Die.” It’s largely meant to communicate skin in the game to shareholders (
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by w4 2y ago
How odd. This is a rather interesting catch, especially in light of the upcoming tax fight in 2025 with the TCJA and Expanded Child Tax Credit expirations, and the unrealized capitals gains tax proposals. Given the other comments pointing t
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by w4 2y ago
> The loan is paid back after the step-up in basis. That's the loophole. Presuming you can continue to service your debt payments as interest rates and your income varies over time, and are never subject to a margin call due to a
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by w4 2y ago
If you're serious about it, there is an entire cottage industry dedicated to precisely this (especially popular amongst new MBAs): https://hbr.org/2017/02/you-should-consider-buying-a-small-b...
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by w4 2y ago
> Why are (some) Europeans surprised when they are not included in tech product débuts? We had a brief, abnormal, and special moment in time after the crypto wars ended in the mid-2000s where software products were truly global, and th
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by w4 2y ago
Exactly this. Unchecked administrative power in the Executive has left very dangerous tools laying about for would be autocrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory This will certainly make life hard
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by w4 2y ago
> Still, it is weird. Where is sense of pleasure in other people's ( perceived ) misfortune coming from? It’s gross, but an inherent part of human nature, particularly among the insecure. If you don’t already know the word for it
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by w4 2y ago
I had a similar experience when LangChain first came out. I spent a good amount of time trying to use it - including making some contributions to add functionality I needed - but ultimately dropped it. It made my head hurt. Most LLM applica
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by w4 2y ago
Not really. We were lucky that we used a hybrid multi-page architecture that makes the transition easy to manage. HTMX and VueJS are being used on different views with different routes/endpoints, so we can re-write any VueJS-based view
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by w4 2y ago
Not a question, but I just wanted to say that HTMX is a joy to work. I’m using it in production to slowly replace VueJS wherever full SPA interactions aren’t needed, and it has made development so much simpler. HTMX is such a breath of fres
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by w4 2y ago
This just strikes me as sharp elbowed negotiation by the Saudis. I bet good odds that this particular story about the Saudi treaty expiring will have proven to be a nothingburger a year from now (even if de-dollarization and multi-polarity
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by w4 2y ago
It certainly would not be a free society. Though as with all things human, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again: "Charles II had re-turned to the English throne in 1660 and was appalled at the state of pri
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by w4 2y ago
> How do you defend against that? I'm not sure you do... A tool is a tool. I wouldn't want my CAD software saying, "I think you're trying to CAD a pipe bomb so I'm going to shut down now." The core of the
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by w4 2y ago
> The fact that you value a, b and c differently from the person does not mean it was not forced from their perspective. I basically agree with you about the phenomenon you’re pointing out, so please don’t take this as overly salty, bu
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by w4 2y ago
Sure. Nature also forces me to eat. There are forcing functions everywhere, and if you ignore them, you will die. You have to participate in your own survival on some level. How you do so is up to you. If you want to start a commune, go for
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by w4 2y ago
No one is being forced to do anything. You are free to change jobs whenever you want. Or you can start a company of your own which embodies your ideals whenever you want. No one is stopping you. Furthermore, the fact that you are not free t
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by w4 2y ago
It does. They also have filters you can apply to your query to further restrict the results for things like small web (blogs and niche forums, using the Marginalia index AFAIK) and forums (Reddit and so forth), so that you don’t have to res
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by w4 3y ago
> If companies insist on always taking the easy way out, they continue to introduce a significant amount of risk. Since it’s currently possible to make huge buckets of money, by writing crap, we’re not incentivizing high-Quality enginee
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by w4 3y ago
> You can: increase the price for patenting something. Google will think twice before spending 100K for hello world. This is a terrible idea. Google will not think twice before spending 100k for a patent on hello world, but startups an
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by w4 3y ago
Other posters have covered the gist of the events, but what creates the impression of flailing for me is Apple taking a hard stance in one direction, underestimating the backlash, and promptly recanting and changing course in exchange for (
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by w4 3y ago
Between this and the PWA decision, Apple seems to be flailing. What is leadership doing?
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by w4 3y ago
Parameter counts notwithstanding, it’s an objectively funny outcome that Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all releasing cutting edge open models, while OpenAI keeps theirs closed source.
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by w4 3y ago
> Synthesizers are instruments. They allow for the same level of subtle input as strings or woodwinds. Synthesizer instruments, yes. Sequencers, trackers, and modern DAWs like Ableton, absolutely not. They’re entirely different animals

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