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by non_sequitur 1y ago
Honest q - do you think these things will make a big difference if these videos can be made in 15 minutes for $20 or whatever? Won’t the industry change to adopt that massive price cut/productivity gain?
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Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit(obsolete.pub)
3 points by non_sequitur 1y ago|0 comments
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Ads on websites are now unusably intrusive – what happened and how do we fix it?
3 points by non_sequitur 2y ago|2 comments
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by non_sequitur 2y ago
this is a good article but very outdated - none of the examples he cites are relevant anymore
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General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit recalls cars after dragging a pedestrian(apnews.com)
5 points by non_sequitur 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business?
134 points by non_sequitur 3y ago|44 comments
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I Gambled in MGM's Hacked Casinos(404media.co)
5 points by non_sequitur 3y ago|0 comments
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by non_sequitur 3y ago
This was really interesting, thank you. I found myself playing "would i really ignore this color or would i ignore any color given the contrasting castles etc that are drawing your attention" in all the pictures
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Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top(fastcompany.com)
50 points by non_sequitur 3y ago|39 comments
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by non_sequitur 3y ago
Well if we don’t have Data several months after ChatGPT, clearly we should shut it all down. It’s been months! Give it a few years :)
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by non_sequitur 3y ago
This was his Tweet from several weeks ago, which I thought was insightful, both from a technical as well as socieconomic perspective when you think about data usage etc in these models - "Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then c
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Henry Kissinger Says “ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution”(wsj.com)
3 points by non_sequitur 4y ago|5 comments
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Their Children Are Their Retirement Plans(nytimes.com)
17 points by non_sequitur 4y ago|12 comments
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Is Google Getting Worse?(freakonomics.com)
4 points by non_sequitur 4y ago|0 comments
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You can earn Overwatch 2 skins faster by playing World of Warcraft instead(polygon.com)
1 points by non_sequitur 4y ago|0 comments
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by non_sequitur 4y ago
So the real complaint is dynamic pricing, which is essentially raising prices to what the market will bear, instead of having (what was formerly artificially) low prices that get scalped. Now the extra money that used to go to scalpers goes
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by non_sequitur 4y ago
Random observation as this quote stood out: "Snowflake is worth $70 billion, even after its stock’s brutal five-month slide" The article was written April 8, so ~6 weeks ago. As of May 26, Snowflake is worth $39B. Crazy how fast t
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by non_sequitur 4y ago
More accurately, “DALLE2 made me realize no one cares about or looks closely at your vacation photos”
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by non_sequitur 5y ago
Yes, it's real. IMO it's the following - 1. tech has flourished during the pandemic, and that plus money printing means there is a ton of demand and money floating around to attract talent. 2. after 18 months of working from home
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Money, mimicry and mind control: Big Tech slams ethics brakes on AI(reuters.com)
2 points by non_sequitur 5y ago|0 comments
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FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot(fsf.org)
283 points by non_sequitur 5y ago|198 comments
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
This is fairly cynical but i think it's one consequence of the economic boom. During recessions and recovery aftermath there are rarely issues like this, people are generally grateful for their jobs, not looking to pick fights over it.
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
GDPR?
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
Interesting how quickly this fell off the front page (saw it earlier, then came back to find the link and it was already off the first 3 pages). Is that due to a large number of up/downvotes in the same time?
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
"apparatus of ubiquitous cameras" Serious q - why not stop the surveillance and the cameras?
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
Probably not that hard to build a fecal recognition model, it's what comes after that's more difficult. "It's like Uber for scooping"
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
Nope - from the article "The facial recognition fight in San Francisco is largely theoretical — the police department does not currently deploy facial recognition technology, except in its airport and ports that are under federal juris
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The Billionaire Next Door (2007)(dmagazine.com)
89 points by non_sequitur 7y ago|58 comments
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by non_sequitur 7y ago
As a former startup and FANG employee, I absolutely agree that working at a startup AS AN EMPLOYEE is not financially beneficial. The only ways to really make money as a non-founder employee at a startup is by being lucky enough to be at a
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by non_sequitur 8y ago
Maybe "base that stores data"?

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