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by ryanobjc 2y ago
It’s also important to recognize that the Chinese government is known to walk into internet service companies and demand they censor, alter data, delete things. No court order or search warrant required. China considers industry to be compl
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
That's why open research (which "open" ai has never really contributed to!) and foundational models that everyone can contribute to are essential. This stuff is a pretty neat magical evolution and it should not be the domain
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
It's also available in emacs with packages like gptel which let you send the content of any buffer to your LLM of choice. I think emacs + LLM is a killer feature: the integration is super deep, deeper than any IDE I've seen, and i
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
"Continuously sending proprietary code and related IP to a third party" Isn't this... github? Companies and people are doing this all day every day. LLM APIs are really no different. Only when you magic it up as "the A
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
Pretty much this. OpenAI poisoned the well badly with their "we train off your chats" nonsense. If you are using any API service, or any enterprise ChatGPT plan, your tokens are not being logged and recycled into new training data
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
I have been getting more value out of LLMs recently, and the great irony is it is because of a few different packages in emacs and the wonderful CLI LLM chat programming tool 'aider'. My workflow puts LLM chat at my fingertips, an
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
I came here to basically say this. People who tout the dangers of glp1 - and there ARE risks! - are also ignoring the "what did you do instead of a glp1" and the answer is.... remain overweight, which has many risks! Yes glp1 migh
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
In every single press release Masimo complains apple hired away staff. Um, you are in California. There are no non-competes. You just are confessing every single time you can’t retain talented staff.
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
It’s not that, it’s .NET is weird tech on Linux. You have to install a new and different runtime. Config files are xml and stored in different places? All sorts of crap. Vs just running a binary. So simple. People put up with Java for a whi
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
This is exactly how the JVM CMS works, then what happens is the old gen becomes too fragmented to allocate, you end up with a GC failure and the JVM will rewrite the entire old heap. When hadoop depended on a single namenode, a 64gb+ heap w
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
One thing to note is the barrier to IPO is much higher now, so the comparison doesn’t exactly hold. Companies are taking on massive investment larger than any IPO take, with zero revenues! OpenAI’s investment predated its revenue push. I’ve
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by ryanobjc 2y ago
As a long time Linux user, a long time Mac and iPhone user.... In terms of "capabilities that could exist" - I honestly have no idea what you are talking about! I use iOS and Mac because it has _more capabilities_ than anything f
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by ryanobjc 3y ago
I think this depends heavily on where you are and if you are just at a preschool or a 'coop-preschool'. We do the latter, and I was parent teacher. Not a volunteer position: our preschool dues are lower because I worked in the cl
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by ryanobjc 3y ago
The gap between the clojure libs and the java libs and actually calling java is a jarring experience and really isn't a plus. While in theory the java interop is a selling point, if you don't need that it ends up being extra synt
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by ryanobjc 3y ago
The o2 sensor on the apple watch is a net win for the wider society. And never forget: patents exist to benefit society as a whole. Not particular companies.
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by ryanobjc 3y ago
"I understand Apple broke the law" This is not actually the case whatsoever. There has been 0 ruling on the merits of the patent case. There has been a report from the US ITC that the courts have used as the basis of the bans. B
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by ryanobjc 3y ago
Re: Walgreens, never forget they lost like a cool billion into theranos! I feel like the anti theft is performance art to scare voters into voting for tax dollars to replace Walgreens store security.
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
Once I had commercial insurance from out of state. A doctor visit was covered as in-network and all was well. But they did a lab. The lab was in a hospital 100 miles away. The insurance said "ok you have to pay the deductible for th
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
This type of experience heavily depends on which state one is in!
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
Psychology today covered this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-state-our-unions... "Dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing as relationship standards rise." "Men need t
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
This was historically described as "When google was going to hire it's first MBA, an engineer coined the phrase 'dont be evil' and went around spreading inside the company" So I don't know how to square it with
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
"kids these days aren't independent" Oh look its literally illegal to be independent. If you have kids this is both a relief and the source of the problem isn't exactly a shock.
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
ISO standards for programming languages have been essentially totally obsoleted for new languages. Open source is the reason: previously you'd only have proprietary implementations, so you'd need a standard to ensure they were co
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
So, did you know there are no manufacturers in the US that can produce N95 at scale? Even now many masks still come from china and Asia. There was an article about one company in the US that has ceased manufacturing because the hospitals w
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
Which btw in the early days, think early march 2020, a 10% ifr was still on the table. Italy and wuhan (incomplete) data was … not encouraging. And remember that SARS-cov-1 had an ifr of 40%. And was spread by fomites. So in early 2020, wit
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
Whats the value of human creativity in the era of DALL-E etc? None, right? Also we can definitively say that the point of the current AI startups is to make their founders as much money as possible. We are well past the era of Steve Jobs
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
Professional artists create way more than they sell - in fact they don't sell like 90%+ what they make.
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
This is the purpose of HN imo lol
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
> 2. You are probably not a parent since a child's 'first bath' is not a thing. They are bathed as infants starting immediately. If you are referring to a child's first independent bath, then no one should be taking p
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by ryanobjc 4y ago
How do you take a photo on android to only store it locally? The whole photos experience on Android has been simplified to break that distinction and there is no way to even really know or realize what is happening - BY DESIGN. The real ans

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