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givemeethekeys

3,652 karma · joined October 21, 2021

Please take everything I say with a giant grain of salt.
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givemeethekeys··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
I bet the same analogy can be applied to cooking a cucumber.
givemeethekeys··on DoD says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
Are there economic reasons that support the decision making?

Are recruiting numbers really strong over the past year? Are they projected to remain that way? Is the military going to be using AI to reduce headcount?

Are they going to force a lot of older soldiers into retirement to make for a new younger cadre of loyalists?

givemeethekeys··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
In much of the US, internet companies run a racket. While there are often multiple providers to choose from, if you want reliable service at good speeds, you end up with two, or if you're really lucky, three options. One of those options is Starlink.
givemeethekeys··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
They don't have any real skin in the game.

Who cares if they're right about something? Are they putting money on the line? What is their P/L for being "right"?

givemeethekeys··on Democrats Pick Up the Global Digital ID Agenda in Project 2029
"Bi-partisan issue" /s
givemeethekeys··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Okay, let's flip it: why would Apple, Microsoft, etc.. agree with such a law? What would the trickle down be for browser makers and website creators?
givemeethekeys··on America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
Fear sells. Everyone is afraid of getting sued and being denied insurance. The answer is cameras!

Dividing people to vilify each other over race, religion, gender, ethnicity and even politics is incredibly profitable. Once they're afraid of their neighbors, they'll happily pay someone to protect them at every turn.

givemeethekeys··on City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
All Flock footage should be subject to FOIA requests.
givemeethekeys··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Department stores often play covers. I'm guessing it's cheaper than playing the originals. And now, with AI, they could play original AI creations for even less!
givemeethekeys··on Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
I meant to point out that, for the use-cases where functional languages are used - production performance seems very acceptable, compared to having to micromanage memory allocation.
givemeethekeys··on Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
Is it any louder than driving on the highway with the windows down? I imagine when air hits ears at a high speed, it's going to be loud.
givemeethekeys··on Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
Isn't the whole point of abstraction to not care about whats underneath unless you really have to? But ideally, you don't because the abstraction is "good enough"?

I haven't heard anyone writing code in Elixir complain about performance issues.

givemeethekeys··on California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate
We need a proposition to cancel the project.
givemeethekeys··on Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
Might've gotten lost during a Canada Post strike.
givemeethekeys··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Figures. I can't think of any Yahoo acquisitions that thrived after they bought them.
givemeethekeys··on Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
Yes, considering everyone else was either utterly incompetent, didn't want the job, or screwed the pooch under pressure.
givemeethekeys··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Was this before or after Yahoo! purchased! them?!
givemeethekeys··on What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role
I think you'd trust someone with the keys when they've consistently shown that they can be trusted with less critical work. If you're having to constantly monitor someone's output, then promoting them is a liability.

The same applies to an AI model.

And, since the same model would be deployed by many teams, unexpected behavior from that model even for a small subset of those teams means that it can't be promoted.

givemeethekeys··on What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role
A very talented junior employee that you can't trust with the keys.
givemeethekeys··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Where did all the extra employees come from? Did this result in shortages in other industries that the employees supposedly transitioned from?
givemeethekeys··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
> spouses of fallen service

What if they get remarried?

givemeethekeys··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
With the way people get added and removed from big tech, why is having worked at these companies still considered a badge of honor?
givemeethekeys··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
It's just so ugly. Why did they make it so ugly? :(
givemeethekeys··on Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
After so many years of EU countries talking, how much has Microsoft's top and bottom line been affected?
givemeethekeys··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Blame a litigious culture where agencies have far too much power to "fix" other people. People in many places in America live with a fear of losing their children or getting sued and losing everything.
givemeethekeys··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
I think this is application dependent. LLM's are quite good for brainstorming, even if they are not arguably creative, at least they draw from a lot of information that is already out there, which saves me time in researching and learning.
givemeethekeys··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
"You better be doing something in AI" applies to Startups - businesses that are expected to spend every penny as quickly as possible, to meet the metrics needed to raise the next (bigger) round of funding.

It is also not the same as, "If you want to be a profitable company...". For that you need to somehow make more money than you are spending.

givemeethekeys··on Servo is now available on crates.io
Thank you!
givemeethekeys··on Servo is now available on crates.io
So, since this is the top post on Hacker News, and the website's description is a bit too high level for me, what does Servo let me do? By "web technologies", does it mean "put a web browser inside your desktop app"?
givemeethekeys··on Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File
We should repost this every week until they stop the diddling.
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