the_mar

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by the_mar 20d ago
giving out unrestricted control that is. in the example of Waymo, a human can control some aspects of the car manually, but it can never override low level obstacle detection or say open the trunk/door when the car is moving.
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by the_mar 2mo ago
because we all can agree child porn is bad and just because a company donates to a charity doesn't mean they get to dictate their policies
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by the_mar 3mo ago
they banned energy shot drinks?!
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by the_mar 3mo ago
there is no cloud, it's always someone else's computer, so technically someone who is physically in google/apple datacenter at the exact moment your data is being operated on, hypothetically would have a chance to steal your
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by the_mar 3mo ago
pardon my ignorance, but why does compute hardware pose any security concerns?
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by the_mar 3mo ago
From the information presented, the privacy case is not that your data is only accessible to you (which arguably can have a backdoor) but that the data is NOT stored at all, so it's not possible to build a backdoor. I know there are pr
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by the_mar 6mo ago
well, name an example of a thing that can never change then. "research alternatives" meaning what exactly? You think open source is somehow not susceptible to the same issue, plus all of the malicious updates?
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by the_mar 6mo ago
I for the life of me could not solve the <18 example from wikipedia. but the number/color one is super easy
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by the_mar 7mo ago
by your definition, what is marketing then?
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by the_mar 7mo ago
it included flights, hotels, food and travel expenses for 9000 for multiple days, as well as the "party". US-based travel for 1 person for 5 days is easily 4K, on top of that some people were probably international so it would be
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by the_mar 7mo ago
it's a very simplistic take. the issue with ChatGPT is that it speaks with authority, vs webMD and such just provide information. to say that how the information is presented is irrelevant to the outcomes is reductionist at best
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by the_mar 7mo ago
a friend of mine was a creative director and a big tech co until recently, she was replaced by AI
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by the_mar 7mo ago
do you genuinely think that numerous meetups isn't a marketing push?
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by the_mar 7mo ago
I mean, do you think no one at OAI and every other lab has vibe-coded some agentic demo? The problem (?) is that when you work at a corporate job you have to think about security.
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by the_mar 7mo ago
It was killer compared to alternatives. All other "homepages" of the internet were the cluttered mess of ads. I feel like we are arguing semantics though. But IMO any UI that does the job that consumers want well is good UI. Just
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by the_mar 7mo ago
google search did have a killer UI though, you might be forgetting what search looked like before google
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by the_mar 7mo ago
he was worth 14B
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by the_mar 8mo ago
I am this person (not a genius or whatever) but work is absolutely life for me. I still absolutely resent the 996 culture and would never do that. I'd like to have agency when I want to abuse myself
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by the_mar 10mo ago
look if you don't care about privacy, just buy a google phone
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by the_mar 1y ago
why do you think this doesn't already exist?
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by the_mar 1y ago
scale does not own the data of most of it’s large customers.
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by the_mar 1y ago
scale is no better or worse than any other labeling vendor.
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by the_mar 2y ago
I mean your employment can't technically be terminated because you are taking sick days, unless it's whatever qualifies as long term illness (18 or 28 weeks I forget). Technically they are not obligated to continue to pay you and
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by the_mar 2y ago
"native English speaker" - is many different accents
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by the_mar 2y ago
I was there during the revolution in Ukraine. Life isn’t the movies. I’m not advocating for violence. On the contrary. But one has to wonder sometimes what percentage of the population has to work full time while not being able to afford ba
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by the_mar 2y ago
in the 1990s ~50% of women were in the workforce. in 1970 it was 40%, married women with children having to work is a recent phenomenon.
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by the_mar 2y ago
Anecdotally, my apartment building has 0% vacancy rate. And a newer building across the street has at least 10 apartments vacant for the most of the year. Anecdotally, i know quite a few boomers that own multiple properties (>3) in manh
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by the_mar 2y ago
I have no loyalty to my employer. I like my workplace, and the work I do, and I think that the company treats employees well. However the relationship is entirely transactional.
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by the_mar 2y ago
Most professional adults already know that. Statistically speaking some of my coworkers voted for trump. I ll never know. Some of my coworkers probably think abortion is murder. Some think that women should stay at home, or that being trans
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by the_mar 2y ago
Arms manufacturers do not actually start wars. While I understand why some people may find that line of work not aligning with your morals, there isn't you can really change within the company

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