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by zucker42 6y ago
Facebook destroyed Myspace's business model overnight.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Isn't HIP+ROCm a serious "competitor" to CUDA? You can convert your code automatic from CUDA to HIP. At least that's why the advertising says; I haven't used it myself. Plus, PyTorch and Tensorflow have AMD support,
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by zucker42 6y ago
I would prefer that to banning anonymity. I don't disagree that you should be extra suspicious of anonymous sources.
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by zucker42 6y ago
I disagree that training and customizing have zero marginal costs necessarily. I think for a larger scale astroturfing campaign to be effective, you're going to have to put more money and effort in customization/network-training i
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by zucker42 6y ago
I know what marginal cost means. Yeah, there are a good portion of GPT-3 costs that are fixed costs. But also I would wager there's a large portion of costs that are roughly proportional to the scope of your astroturfing campaign. It&#
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by zucker42 6y ago
> the marginal cost of distributing astroturfed propaganda online has firmly hit zero. This is just not true. GPT-3 costs money to train, use, customize, and maintain. I would guess that paying people is still the more cost effective way
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by zucker42 6y ago
There's a browser extension called "Leechblock" that I use and is good for this purpose.
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by zucker42 6y ago
The Harper's letter was hardly from the political center as most people conceive; Noam Chomsky signed that letter.
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by zucker42 6y ago
> If you don't like his writing and his world view (the brave startup founder is the hero), then why come to HN? Why support someone's website and accelerator/fund if you think they are so wrong? Simple. I'm trying to
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by zucker42 6y ago
The thing about a complex sociological phenomenon like systemic racial bias is that for each individual instance it is hard create a causal link. Yes, you can propose a lot alternate explanations for why this could have happened. The thing
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by zucker42 6y ago
It's certainly an interesting framework for thinking about things, and some of the thoughts seem aligned with my ideas on this issues. The problem is that I think everybody, including and especially people who view themselves as indepe
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by zucker42 6y ago
But, you know, they could have treated NC A&T students with respect, just in case, especially given the general problems with the U.S. news rankings as a heuristic for hirability.
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by zucker42 6y ago
> i find it very hard to believe that Krebs would just randomly blame some person without credible evidence I do not find this hard to believe. He could have simply made a mistake. He could have evidently credible evidence which ends up
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by zucker42 6y ago
That seems like a perverse incentive.
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by zucker42 6y ago
This article read like a puff piece that I got little more out of than "value your users and build good software". It didn't seem like it offered much substantial or specific advice.
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by zucker42 6y ago
If you knew that a past civilization or even non-human intelligent species had been wiped out by war or climate change, would it change your actions? I don't know there's much we could say that future civilizations would care to l
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by zucker42 6y ago
The actual answer to your question is probably that it's better for Google if it's difficult to reach a human without sufficient effort, since it lowers their support costs. Providing a escape hatch in their support process might
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by zucker42 6y ago
Like what?
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by zucker42 6y ago
At the very least, they face up to 10 years for violating the CFAA.
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by zucker42 6y ago
The usefulness of studies like this is they can be used to "update your priors" so to speak. Personally, I am slightly more confident in the efficacy of masks than I was before.
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by zucker42 6y ago
That's possible only if your public health system is equipped to force large numbers of people to undergo certain medical procedures. In the U.S. there exists significant opposition to that sort of capability.
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by zucker42 6y ago
> You'll get 99+% of the possible wins Can you provide hard evidence for the 99% number? It agrees with my intuition, but I don't think we have a very complete view of the effectiveness of different measures, and in the absen
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by zucker42 6y ago
Not saying there aren't big problems with Bitcoin, but I think that's it something more than an expensive fantasy. I recently bought a service with Bitcoin for a 10% discount, which seems to suggest it helps that company process p
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by zucker42 6y ago
The Internet archive...or just individuals sharing the cost.
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by zucker42 6y ago
You are correct. I don't know how I fabricated that idea. In response to your second point, there seems to be strong opposition to open core from some key players in the community.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Maybe the people doing the lauding are different from those doing the criticizing? I'm inherently suspicious of statements which treat a discussion forum as monolithic.
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by zucker42 6y ago
In particular, software freedom is more important on average to technical users probably because they see the more of the direct effects of having control over software.
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by zucker42 6y ago
The person who wrote the linked email is not part of the same organization (TDF) who controls the LibreOffice brand and is offering a free download. He's part of a company (Collabora) which provides commercial support for LibreOffice a
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by zucker42 6y ago
This isn't really changing anything. LibreOffice is under the GPL. It's just a marketing attempt to get large organizations to realize that they should contribute back to the ecosystem if they rely on LibreOffice.
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by zucker42 6y ago
Someone from TDF responded to a similar comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ho0n51/update_on_lib...

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