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Travis Deyle

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·أول أمس·discuss
> A lot of it is effectively bribing and menacing trading partners

That's just a byproduct of propping up the military industrial complex; have to have conflicts to justify giving the primes sole-source cost+ contracts so they can meet their quarterly EPS targets.
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·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
UK cctv and China's system are probably the closest examples?
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·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
Test-taking may only roughly correlate to intelligence, and is just one dimension of a human... but they likely care less about false negatives (like you) than they do about false positives in alternative assessments.
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·قبل 30 يومًا·discuss
Google removed "Don't be evil" from its Code of Conduct in May 2018. Shocking that it took 8 years for the author to make their ethical stand -- during which time Google stock went up 600%...
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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You need to read about agrivoltaics. This is being used to huge effect elsewhere in the world to improve farming & soil. Here's an example from China:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Google is one of the few verticalized options in AI: Data, models, cloud services, low-level silicon (TPUs), internal use cases, retail use cases, B2B uses, distribution (browser & mobile), etc.

They rise with the tide of AI adoption. But they gain ground if people opt into Google solutions. And any token sent to a Google model (free or paid) actively punishes their competitors that are then required to spend vast sums to remain bleeding edge.
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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Google & Meta are illustrative of late-stage capitalism -- it's all about distribution, not innovation. Their job is (mostly) to just acquire the products that have passed the gauntlet, then scale up their monetization through their distribution-focused machine. The same dynamic plays out in virtually every industry (not just tech).

You'll find that most internal "innovation" teams are just lip service. In most cases, the "mothership" will be incapable of reproducing true innovation -- from a statistical perspective, culture perspective (mega corps are anti-scrappy; internal politics), and motivation perspective (startups aren't 9-to-5). It's much easier to have big M&A budgets, a VC arm, and some handwavvy internal innovation group.

Every now and again, you'll get real innovations (Waymo, transistors, GUIs), but even those have a spotty track record of commercialization when created internally.
beambot
·قبل شهرين·discuss
How does 's' compare to other languages' letters - e.g. arabic or chinese - in terms of difficulty?
beambot
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Or more specifically: One just did sue, but lost because he waited too long.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Andreessen-Horowitz, who most people (and they themselves) refer to as a16z and have the eponymous domain name (a16z.com). They're one of the top VC firms on the planet -- exceedingly relevant to HN audiences and commonly discussed here.
beambot
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Sounds like a solution to a problem already solved by DECT NR+ -- a 5G technology that is 'subscription free'.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Sayre's Law: Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small

Maybe universities, tenure committees, and funding sources should stop measuring academics by vanity metrics such as H-Index and publication counts. And don't get me started on the tendency toward "minimum publishable units."

That said, abusing power as an editor deserves a special place in hell...
beambot
·قبل شهرين·discuss
To be fair... I miss being able to access my location history data via the browser. So it's not a case of "google being evil", it's a case of "sane defaults", "shifting regulations", and "unintended consequences". Google should get the accolades they deserve in this case.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Best source of "open" financial data I've seen from this sector is Whiteclouds: https://www.whiteclouds.com/

They did crowdfunding via Wefunder, so their financial docs performance is available online: https://wefunder.com/whiteclouds

They seem to have found some high-margin value-add niches in doing large signs, tradeshow displays, topographical maps, etc. Seems like there can be some nice SMB opportunities in the space if you can carve out some specialty services & attract repeat customers.
beambot
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
They still just bought access to all the code you've ever fed into the model...
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Isn't this the equivalent of asking Google to delete your image off every Android phone (not just yours)?
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
No pilot has ever been a con artist...
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·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
So you're saying it's still at the discretion of a single magistrate?

I'm sure China could find some judges to rule in the name of national security if it would give everyone warm fuzzies.

Judicial checks and balances only function when they're independent of the executive and parliament
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·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
It's like opening copilot in a word doc and it telling you it can't see the document in its context