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Too bad somehow the face that ends up out there as the face of surveillance isn’t the CEO of Flock, not their coders, not the YC people who gave them money to do exactly what they’re doing. It’s the lowest of the low in the chain, the guy s
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The advantage of the gym is that machines usually (but not always) force or at least guide the correct form. Free weights and free exercise leave so much room for a wrong form and building up to injuries.
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I can't say whether it was or wasn't true for you. But I can say your certainty is misplaced. Most of your memories and everything you think of now about early childhood were formed long after it. They were created from bits and p
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I said that on the assumption that they want control and guarantees that Google's needs get serviced. Otherwise they can partner with any manufacturer to incorporate the tech, like they do on the software side. But they could be droppe
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> because they know it is wrong Or they know they'll be told it was wrong. Children start knowing nothing then they slowly absorb what they're told again and again, and what they see around them until they feel it. They go from
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> Waymo FSD is obviously more advanced than Tesla, but they will lose out to both Tesla and Rivian when it comes to manufacturing Maybe I misunderstand what you mean but the car itself (chassis, bodywork, drivetrain) is a commodity today
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> Will they still find it entertaining? Only one way to find out.
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About Excel, that’s not what I meant, in my head at least. For any 1 excel user the software looks over engineered. So many complex features not being used... by them. But from the product perspective it probably does exactly what all the u
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> I'm just pointing out that "it's in the [my own] requirements" in this case does not really make something "not over engineered". You point that out without providing any context or criteria. So you'r
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> Excel is famously complex because, despite most users only using 20% of the features, no one uses the same 20% I think you're comparing 2 very different scenarios here. Excel is solution engineered to meet every requirement under
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> "it was in the requirements" is not a "get out of jail card" How do you define objectively as an engineer if "play MP3" is too much? A doorbell is a sound outputting device only, being able to select the s
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And then the exception will evaporate overnight.
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Companies have never been “democracies”. Most companies are more like dictatorships internally (for employees) and past a certain size also externally (for customers). Everything is dictated by a small group of leaders and shareholders not
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That iOS toggle isn’t about privacy but about mobile data usage. Users with data caps can limit the usage for non-essential or high data volume apps (streaming or cloud storage apps come to mind).
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I think the “killer app” is doing inference without sending the data to China or the US. At home it’s overkill but imagine you are an EU consultancy with a lot of client data to work on, or a company/institution with a lot of sensitive
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> Normaly if you build a computer, there will not be any OS on a random SSD you buy for it. That's why so many people go with pre-built and don't even care about wiping and reinstalling the OS to get rid of the bloat. They want
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Capitalism is great as long as it works just for you. When others learn to play the game and even outrun you, it’s time to put the finger on the scales. Essence of the free market.
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> Isn't that what most people in democracies think though? They do think that, yes. But they're not shaping anything as they see fit, at best they're shaping as millions of other together see fit. They're giving som
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Why do you need to be in his head? Something that applies to many powerful billionaires is that they believe their money and power make the superior human beings, entitled to shape the world as they see fit. Without that, they're nothi
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I'm not very familiar with how they work. Don't prediction markets give the individual gambler a boolean choice and this results in a picture of the split over the population ? There's no granular option for the individual t
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> How could anyone thing a single letter is good choice for an company/service name In this case, Musk is stuck being his 12 year old self and carrying a 30 year old obsession to use this very cool naming for his "everything co
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I'm not saying they're useless, they're an educated guess, a valuable means of communicating an expert opinion. It can be replaced with "I have high confidence of success". The assessment is subjective, includes per
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Probabilities might be more intuitive, statistics are intuitive only for the most straight forward topics. That's why it's so easy to present entirely correct but very misleading statistics.
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A probability that isn't computed (or reasonably computable) is just a personal feeling. Your 40% or 70% aren't probabilities if you didn't compute the probability of at least the key events involved to arrive at the number
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Modern technology is great, don't get me wrong. But it does increase complexity and fragility, and pushes things closer to the limits. I didn't say the technology was better but that it was simpler . Simpler components, simpler
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That Athlon die did stick out in terms of assembly "danger level". But for me the rest of the assembly was so much easier back then. 25 years ago I never had to wonder if my GPU or CPU cooler will fit the case, clear the RAM, or t
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This is why I talked about their speech doing a disservice to all Israelis, not their ability to act with authority. If you need an LLM to interpret 2 short sentences, here is what it thinks: > No. That sentence does not suggest the pe
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The scan and destroy method is what a judge allowed to do in order to have a copy of the book in the training dataset. With the physical copy destroyed there's still only 1 copy in circulation. Once "inside" an LLM I don&#x27
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Good point but the scale and success rate of the way China does it compared to any other democracy, or any country, in the past puts them in a different league entirely. They are on their 15th 5 year plan and look at the results. A successf
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> Or you get That "or" is described one paragraph down. It's the most common type of autocracy actually because it's the easiest to pull off. Incompetent and corrupt leader, access to an army, biggest temptation is fo

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