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...isn't this just a techbro restatement of how many art dealers operate? full article is paywalled but gagosian seems to have grown big enough people ignore the primary market and how it promotes artist discovery.

this is not necessarily to say it's a bad idea or that modernization is unwarranted but it's not quite as revolutionary as they think

there might be privileged financing somewhere i'm not aware of but it's a tough space rn. had breakfast with someone who's been in financing and constructing these for a long time and he's still working on it but much tougher.

if you want a public markets proxy, look at invesco's solar etf; down by around half. sedg is down 75%

existing infrastructure is more maintenance than construction

it's in rather poor taste to link to your own paywalled article and provide almost nothing in the comment

Jesus right for the throat

i didn't say they were directed at me

it will remain green, which means the signaling effect will also remain. the funny thing is everyone claims it's down to quality but guessing it won't matter, plus no 8ball/facetime will still push people towards iphones.

especially w young ppl, where i think like 90% have iphones. if i had a nickel for every time a gal mentioned green bubbles give her the ick, i wouldn't be rich but could probably buy a solid steak dinner off it.

hahahaha i actually prototyped this during the summer. boss and i came up with a plan to create a friendly chatbot that, when applicable, would suggest portco products to the user.

deadpool and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...

i think these are just edgy kids being edgy. twenty-first century hanoi janes, the lot of them

they invested heavily in coreweave and gave them H100 allocation

huggingface supports multi-node training?? https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/habana/usage_guides/mult...

am i missing something here? just like you'd want to scale an h100 cluster out beyond one box of 8, you'd do the same for gaudi2?

Maybe you can provide some perspective here: it seems almost universal that people who start these medications never find a dose that provides durable benefit over the long term. Makes sense; we acclimate to a new dopamine baseline, right? Almost everyone I know ends up on a significantly higher dose than they started with.

And the stories of feeling like a zombie when off meds are very real and pretty freaky.

What about tolerance? Is it sustainable? Everyone seems to end up on a higher dose and with anhedonia when not on them.

The biggest reason isn't even sides, it's longevity. Tolerance builds pretty quickly and it seems like everyone I know on them is taking a solidly higher dose than at the outset. Almost smacks of the "pseudo-addiction" rhetoric out of purdue.

regulators allowed them to purchase competitors. bumble is a widely used alternative. they also don't really use cross-app synergies so it's difficult to call them anticompetitive.

also probably a filter of values and stability against hot, which does not match the preferences of its userbase

no, the same public health "experts" say cigarettes should be outright banned for people under a certain age. new zealand recently banned ever selling them to anyone born after 2009, at any age

okay now let's look at "per capita" stats. how many more cars are running? the fact that sf chronicle is even running this without actual info is kinda silly. maybe they're not safe but hard to assess without knowing that.

honestly the biggest annoying thing is it seems too restricted. like it will nitpick my use of the word "think" when i ask what it thinks because "hurr durr as a LLM i don't have thoughts" yeah idc, just answer. it's also way more restricted in terms of refusing to say anything that's less than 100% anodyne. which i get the need for a clean version, just gets frustrating if e.g. i want it to add humor and the best it can do is the comedic equivalent of a knock knock joke

nope, if we create an easy mechanism to force someone to prove he's one real government-identified person then sites will gradually require it.

suspended from twitter? can't create another account cause you only have one id!

want to share something anonymously to avoid getting fired or investigated by feds? tough, you're required to sign in with your MyID to keep everyone safe!

the only way to prevent this is to not build it and vote out anyone who tries to create it.

government ruins and abuses everything it touches, we have a consistent pattern of behavior to go off here

we should actually be moving in the opposite direction.

i shouldn't have to prove i'm anyone basically ever, except for taxes and census.

not for planes or trains or buying liquor.

driving can be licensed but should be an "anonymous license", like "i'm driver #9238" not "i'm fred the licensed driver".

and those numbers ("driver number", ssn) should be barred from use as identification for any other purpose with massive penalties.

here's the moral reason why: forcing ID creates tools for administering punishment/"accountability", but it does this in advance of something being judged as wrongdoing. basically prior restraint on a mass scale. and when the government promulgates ID technologies it promulgates tools for this abuse of liberty.

funny, i see it as the opposite. why are we helping the europeans enforce european stuff? their rules ought to carry no force whatsoever here. we should be pushing back against foreigners legislating over American companies especially when some nation's laws attempt to govern our companies' behavior outside that nation.

as far as i know there have been improvements? not sure what kind of "revolution" the author wanted but having a medium-form-factor portable computer with the power to do stuff like writing recognition (well) and speech synthesis is pretty helpful

then again, the hard truth is there's no percentage in accessibility software. not to say no one can make money doing it, but it's basically a bounded market. the driver of improvements will probably be as boomers start aging more: they'll live longer, but at a lower quality of life, so need stuff to help them get by. and it'll be a big enough market to justify serious attention.

i think this quote from the guy illustrates his misunderstanding pretty well: "It’s hard to think that non-disabled consumers would be expected to accept the same slow pace of incremental improvement for as essential a human function as speech." see of course it's reasonable to expect that tech for normal people improves faster, it's a massively larger market.

"To compensate for the small market size, developers backed into a convoluted business model that required a physician or licensed speech pathologist to formally “prescribe” the device, strategically (and astronomically) priced to subsidize the cost of its development." case in point. stuff made for a small group of people is gonna run pricey, that's to be expected. feels like this guy is mad no one's built a 99 cent app for an ipad so his daughter has that tech easily. i get the frustration, but it's a pretty tiny market so if i'm fred the app builder i'm not about to go out and address that as my first choice.

new tech starts off pareto optimal: putting in 20% of the effort to capture 80% of the market. that's also how we iterate faster. i think it's one of those cases where insisting accessibility software be given equal attention at every stage of the technology life cycle would long-term slow things down for everyone, all in the name of some fuzzy principle of equality of outcome.

"To cancel Prime, consumers had to... locate the "manage membership" page and press a button labeled "End Membership"... then move through multiple steps."

the horror! pressing an "end membership button"? moving through multiple steps??

i've cancelled a prime membership before. it's not that bad. why are we making consumer protection into a joke with this nonsense. feels like FTC is looking for any chance to go after a bigcorp that plays well in news headlines.

synthetic: something resulting from synthesis rather than occurring naturally

seems like the ideal word. the meat is synthesized from cells rather than being grown

i am anti the current chicago status quo and agree the policies are dumb. but all this does is prohibit surveillance and weapons via drone. which i both support.

the answer is some amount of improved traditional policing (necessary evil) and arming all the non-gang people to the teeth bc the gang ones are already armed

right, you're describing a gan-like system/positional arms race. which is how adversarial tech always develops. doesn't mean we won't get better AI out of it.

how would you prove what stuff was trained on? it's computationally infeasible to do so

"experiment shows people building power tools are using power tools"

yeah you don't actually have to get that many right when the winners return 750x

why would top talent risk their jobs and get less for the sake of supporting underperformers? thats how unions work in this case. they make a lot more sense where there's stuff like blatant safety issues in factory settings than when e1s are Mad Online that they have to go into office and it's Literally 1984

i got "warsh" which is the spelling of how some old west virginia says "wash"

bc this is probably more effective at giving a bunch of occupy wall street kiddos satisfaction than actually changing things. also, if we're gonna go down that road then start holding ppl at the fed liable too