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by wilde 2mo ago
HuggingFace was only able to defend themselves with open models. No need to project into the future. Look at the timeline of events for that incident.
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by wilde 5mo ago
Lmao this is what I get for not including the “/s” When we were transitioning away from card catalogs I heard similar complaints from my teachers. We all adapted.
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by wilde 5mo ago
Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.
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by wilde 9mo ago
If your friend keeps taking you out to lunch and you never return the favor, he’s probably going to stop.
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by wilde 1y ago
It’s rather saddening to watch the death of the global internet. China was really ahead of the game I suppose.
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by wilde 1y ago
I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself). I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “serve” asks you to set up sessions on a page that doesn’t exi
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by wilde 1y ago
This is nice but I really wish they’d just let me fork the damn thing already.
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by wilde 1y ago
> It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web. I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here. Perhaps this is the right tone for a letter to the FTC. I find it hard
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by wilde 2y ago
“We advise on technology” proceeds to overengineer a hello world example while providing no demonstration of advantage over curl
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by wilde 2y ago
The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter. To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had pr
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by wilde 2y ago
I’m very sad that this service is basically on life support and got moved into PHP with everything else.
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by wilde 2y ago
Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”. I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.
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by wilde 2y ago
TBF it looks like it’s intended as a “before” image but yes suspect the “after” isn’t much better
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by wilde 2y ago
From the full screen cookie dialog preventing me from reading this article: We and our 71 vendors process data for the following purposes: Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and&#x2F
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by wilde 2y ago
Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted to the billions they make selling your searches to Google.
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by wilde 2y ago
Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to connect to CarPlay and it’d be super distracting to have th
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by wilde 2y ago
Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.
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by wilde 3y ago
Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.
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by wilde 3y ago
Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron... . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App
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by wilde 3y ago
Ah yes. Why do I need government help managing my subscriptions when I can checks notes literally get the content from the government?
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by wilde 3y ago
Right before this they chose to exit Korea. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...
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by wilde 3y ago
Slow and steady won this race.
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by wilde 3y ago
You're about to have a lot more of them, since GM is ditching both. https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...
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by wilde 3y ago
Not if they automate it like in the OP?
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by wilde 3y ago
Do we know how GPT4V tokenizes? You’d probably need the blocks to match the token size?
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by wilde 3y ago
Nope. Those are permanently part of the internet now, even if the reason for their existence goes away.
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by wilde 3y ago
But “Sam Altman, Microsoft PM” would have been a much funnier outcome
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by wilde 3y ago
To minimize legal risk to their client, which is not always the most responsible thing to do.
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by wilde 3y ago
The irresponsible thing is to not explain yourself and assume everyone around you has no agency.
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by wilde 3y ago
If this is true why not say it though? They didn’t even have lawyers telling them to be quiet until Monday.

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