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somebodythere··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
California benefits from a dominant market position. If you have the choice to found where the investors and the talent are, why would you pick Canada when the tax is the same?
somebodythere··on How Couples Meet
Here's an alternative perspective: the low activation energy and addictive design has resulted in people crowding into the dating app strategy (to their own detriment).

If this is true, real-world approaches might be a better strategy than they historically have been.

There's a poll that indicated most young women want to be approached more: https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/

somebodythere··on Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
I figure not every restaurant has the money/motivation to invest in the mobile POS and so it's still not super common.
somebodythere··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
No one is literally spitting, but Apple intentionally creates enough friction that Android users really do regularly get excluded from group chats in the US where iMessage is the convention for group chats.
somebodythere··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Bi-gram aka pairs of words
somebodythere··on Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code
I'm interested in a direction like this but along the lines of allowing adept programmers to write real programs on a mobile device. Using touchscreen keyboards to write real code is pretty unwieldy.
somebodythere··on Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
First two problems are easily solved with money
somebodythere··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
50% of SPY constituents are going to beat SPY. That in itself doesn't imply the CEO is a meaningful factor in company performance.
somebodythere··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
That's a bit offputting at a glance but I was quickly confident I could find the street name of any street I was in within a second.
somebodythere··on What does authorized_fetch actually do?
It's funny how Mastodon keeps crawling in the direction of more balkanization.
somebodythere··on Concord bank offers a 100-year CD
Loans against a retirement account are treated as distributions under the tax code.
somebodythere··on More people are getting away with murder
I thought we already had a word for it: "perjury"
somebodythere··on AMD releases a new flagship CPU for consumer market with 128M of L3 Cache
I don't think the average Factorio gamer is going to know that they should do this or how. They will just know that their new CPU which was supposed to have better gaming performance is doing very, very poorly.
somebodythere··on Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA
The golden age of open-source AI is ahead of us. Open-source AI companies are being launched and funded. High quality, large, labeled data sets have never been more accessible, and scaling law plateaus means there is going to be a lot more momentum on data- and compute-optimization, meaning current SOTA models will start fitting on smaller and smaller hardware, down to commodity hardware.
somebodythere··on Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
You could argue it, but I doubt the argument would withstand an encounter with a judge.
somebodythere··on Salesforce, but for Dating
Exactly, dating apps are just one tool in the toolbox, and one that doesn't work well for a lot of people at that (in my experience, the types of people that I would be interested in dating generally aren't on dating apps, so I stopped using them.)

The trick is to find out where you're likely to meet the types of people you are interested in: interest groups, college campus, gaming Discords, climbing gym, etc. I think in dating, diversification is key, because the types of people you will find in any given environment can be highly autocorrelated in terms of preferences and personality.

The other trick is to actually flirt with people when you like someone. A minority of people might not take it well, but it actually brightens a lot of people's days when done respectfully and it's the only way to have a chance at getting somewhere.

somebodythere··on Apple Reportedly Working on Touchscreen Macs, Including MacBook Pro
Touchscreen on a laptop is probably used more often than LIDAR on an iPhone.
somebodythere··on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away
Japan is pretty difficult to integrate into. Aside from the language issue, it is also difficult to integrate socially if you are a foreigner. It's also not the most attractive destination for skilled foreigners to immigrate to given that wages are much better elsewhere. Fixing these issues is more complex than simply increasing visa quotas.
somebodythere··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
This will not be the case in 2-3 years.
somebodythere··on Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
Compensated by whom?
somebodythere··on Scaling Mastodon is impossible
If you post on your own anything-goes instance, you will probably be defederated from your friends who are posting on normie instances. You don't have a choice but to go to a normie instance yourself and adjust your content and following to suit the instance's rules.
somebodythere··on FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
The smart contract has an array of frozen addresses that will not be permitted to move funds, which can be edited by Centre and Tether respectively.
somebodythere··on Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
The main issue with this I find is a stray keystroke before you redo wiping your redo stack .
somebodythere··on We've hit 1M monthly active users
People attach different levels of importance to different parts of their identity. While some trans people may wish to only state their gender, or not even their gender, when introducing themselves to find community, for some other people being trans is an important part of their experience, and they would like to share it in order to make it easier for other trans or queer people to connect with them.
somebodythere··on Ask HN: How to show a not “so perfect” MVP to potential customers?
As a general rule, smoke and mirrors anywhere there are rough edges. In your case, if your demo does not work under less-than-ideal speech recognition conditions, I would not let them speak to the prototype. You could ask the audience for queries and speak them yourself.
somebodythere··on Evidence-based conclusions about ADHD
Is RSD as a common trait of ADHD actually backed by evidence, or is it just one doctor's theory?
somebodythere··on Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes
I don't think this has materialized in the EU.
somebodythere··on Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
Same with products that are designed to come into contact with food or skin
somebodythere··on Pollen’s Collapse: “$200M Raised” but Staff Unpaid
Sure, except:

* They claimed to have raised 150 million when they in fact raised around 1 million

* They repeatedly claimed there was no risk of missing payroll when in fact, there was a very tangible risk of missing payroll

* They made promises of deal updates and town halls which they repeatedly reneged on

* They made important changes like dropping health insurance coverage without informing employees, which has real tax and legal (not to mention medical) consequences for the employees.

somebodythere··on South Korean prosecutors say Do Kwon 'obviously on the run', asks Interpol help
I am not sure you can be sent to jail simply for creating something that turns out to be a bad investment. (goes to 0) This is true even in the arguably more regulated stock market.

That being said it seems like there is more to his story than buggy code.

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