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541.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Don't worry, most "protect the children" regulation casts a web so wide it includes plenty of pubic hair and sexually active teens
542.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Anecdotes obviously aren't data, but from my own experience going some time jobless after my last startup I was basically useless for the first three months. By month four I started looking for some things to do and excuses to regularl
543.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
But at least the experimental results disproving these incremental fixes should be exactly the kind of thing the next Einstein should need for coming up with an entirely new way of looking at things
544.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
That'd be easier to game than "will somebody run onto the field in the next $sports game". Just bet yes and bring a hair dryer. Make sure somebody posts evidence to X so you can cash out
545.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
This instance is what you could call a scam, maybe even fraud. But in the absence of manipulation or insider knowledge predicting the weather is pretty close to gambling. As is "does bitcoin go up or down in the next five minutes"
546.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
And fittingly SAP is successful despite horrible UX
547.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Different levels of damage to your wallet. Each time you cross a circle the fare goes up. So really the same idea, just that here you want to be in the epicenter
548.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Almost all of those words could be true if the beacon is disguised as an implanted medical device that creates some EM "interference" on each heartbeat, or every X heartbeats. From the outside it would look like sloppy design or a
549.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
How is a 20bn company going to issue 27bn worth of stock? Or are they just going to pretend the newly issued shares are valued the same per share as existing stock is right now?
550.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
He can argue that. But to me it seems more likely that culture and market demands are so different between the two companies that sharing any substantial resources would be to the detriment of at least one of the two halves. And more likely
551.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
No, I think ticketing is the right thing to do. You set a law. Any instance of breaking that law costs money, so the AV company has an incentive to reduce the number of violations. The won't be able to bring the number of violations do
552.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
In the US, 11 deaths per billion miles driven (or about 47k per year) is currently seen as an OK cost. More than twice as much per mile as places like Sweden and Switzerland, and still substantially more than places like Canada, Australia o
553.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Batteries tend to burn instead of explode. Same energy, but released over much more time. And while an uncontained battery fire is a huge issue in a private home or in a car park because of how difficult they are to control, in a dedicated
554.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
I think there were plenty of signs for the reader. My pet theory is that overly verbose llms have trained people to skim text instead of reading it. I've certainly noticed more cases than usual of people not reading HN comments thoroug
555.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
And yet hardware companies with good software are the exception, not the norm. Is it just the cultural mismatch between hardware and software development life cycles and planning philosophies, or is there more to it?
556.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Batteries are deployed quickly, but high-capacity grid connections can take a decade in the planning phase alone. Everyone wants one, and NIMBYs are quick to oppose them. Locating at a decommissioned nuclear plant is a great solution avoidi
557.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
I thought "when they made the decision to include human adult content in addition to fan-related content" in the first sentence was already pretty obvious
558.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Not to mention that "automatic target detection" was primarily enabled by the ~2016-2020 AI hype/boom around image recognition, not the 2022-current hype/boom around LLMs
559.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Skimming over the article, it's a lot about what the copyright office said and very little about what courts said. But the opinion of the copyright office doesn't have any legal force. Regulations passed by the copyright office wo
560.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
The catch-22 is that the fact that models aren't people is only relevant if you treat them similar to a person. Like the US Copyright Office's opinion which treats it similar to a freelancer. If you treat the LLM as a machine simi
561.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Hardware companies being terrible at software is the norm. Nvidia is one of the rare companies that can successfully execute both. Maybe Amazon is an example how this happens even to hardware divisions within software/logistics compani
562.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
It performs at a usable level across a wide range of tasks. I'm not sure about two years ago, but ten years ago we would have called it an AGI. As opposed to "regular AI" where you have to assemble a training set for your spe
563.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Someone who has hundreds or thousands of clients presumably couldn't remember every client's voice either, so no meaningful security is lost. They are approximately as secure or insecure as before
564.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And if I'm processing personal data, the threat profile of sending that to a US-based company for inference is very different than the threat profile of sending that data to the EU to run
565.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
There is nook which does it with unstable features [1] and nonany [2] which uses xor operations to map your custom niche value to 0 so it can use the NonZero* types to achieve the same in stable rust. Eventually rust will likely gain patter
566.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
$1B is life changing money. More than you can reasonably spend, unless you start an airline or something like that. $1m is like two Ferraris. If you buy the second one used. Of course it's also life-changing amounts of money to many.
567.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
If you had a steady investment opportunity with 10% return (about in line with long-terms stock market returns), $9000 per year indefinitely is worth the same as $99000 now (in an idealized finance world. In the real world you can't in
568.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Even their legal documents (terms of use, DPA, privacy agreement) just lists them as Eden AI France contact@edenai.co The terms of use start with the words "Eden AI is a French company" but as far as I can tell th
569.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
The drawback of physical tokens is that you can't use them online. I don't want to spend an hour waiting in queue at the city hall for something I can do online in 10 minutes. The ideal state is having both physical and digital ID
570.
by wongarsu 6mo ago
Until you hit a CSV exported by Excel

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