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beambot

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Travis Deyle

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beambot
·一昨日·議論
> 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.
beambot
·13 日前·議論
UK cctv and China's system are probably the closest examples?
beambot
·19 日前·議論
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.
beambot
·30 日前·議論
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%...
beambot
·先月·議論
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...
beambot
·先月·議論
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.
beambot
·先月·議論
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
·2 か月前·議論
How does 's' compare to other languages' letters - e.g. arabic or chinese - in terms of difficulty?
beambot
·2 か月前·議論
Or more specifically: One just did sue, but lost because he waited too long.
beambot
·2 か月前·議論
Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...
beambot
·2 か月前·議論
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
·2 か月前·議論
Sounds like a solution to a problem already solved by DECT NR+ -- a 5G technology that is 'subscription free'.
beambot
·2 か月前·議論
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
·2 か月前·議論
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.
beambot
·3 か月前·議論
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
·3 か月前·議論
They still just bought access to all the code you've ever fed into the model...
beambot
·3 か月前·議論
Isn't this the equivalent of asking Google to delete your image off every Android phone (not just yours)?
beambot
·3 か月前·議論
No pilot has ever been a con artist...
beambot
·4 か月前·議論
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
beambot
·4 か月前·議論
It's like opening copilot in a word doc and it telling you it can't see the document in its context