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They don't always release weights and often the code and weights are delayed from the paper.

But more often than not they release a lot of their weights and/or research code.

Yea. This could be nice for small demos and toy apps.

But if you want to drive a canvas based render context. You're going to want to control the render loop for your own application.

Performance there is domain specific.

Or the other reams of world class machine learning research and model weights they've released freely.

Stop being a coward today.

10 years at a FAANG take your money, quit

Study rocket science, photovoltaic cells.

Do something and do it now.

A scarey thing about cultural movements is how they take the law with them. A system of law is only as just as its layers judges and juries.

A sense of awe throughout the whole series. Really captured the sense of wonder that comes from stumbling into a latent space and the story telling is just fantastic. It carries me through a world I don't understand, introduces characters and places.

What a wonderful journey this art piece is.

This is pretty drab. I can be up and started in about two minutes with React, typescript and parcel.

> neither the Communist Party of China nor any other Communist Party has influence on how we operate Hacker News

> Second, if you're going to draw dramatic conclusions about sinister operations

This isn't about drawing dramatic conclusions. I have no delusion that Hacker News is colluding with the CCP. This is simply a question about a trend of disappearing posts.

My original statement about

> growing reach of control in American discourse

is purposefully broad because the mechanisms of control are broad themselves. There is plenty of valid concerns around different types of cyber warfare or the growing self-censorship and desire among individuals to avoid challenging topics related to China. Hacker News is a collection of individuals and doesn't need to be a part of grand conspiracy to be susceptible to pressures that have exerted control over other media organizations.

Explaining the process of hacker news moderation and how you mitigate real threats to free speech would be a better approach than claiming your critics are sensationalizing.

To be clear I fall on the side of HN generally handling things well, my post was squarely at your dismissive response to valid criticism.

We were told the same thing about the lab leak theory from: Social media companies, Mainstream media, and the government.

The reason for distrust is valid. We live in an age of rapidly increasing censorship and the CCPs growing reach of control in American discourse. Skepticism is becoming the default for very real reasons.

ETH is up 10x BTC is up 3x

There is so many people claiming a bubble on Tesla comparing it to a car company and pointing to fundamentals. Tesla is a high growth technology company. Their valuation is all about what they could become.

The most talented young people all want to work for Tesla. They have made tons of progress and they have the culture and plans to continue to innovate. None of the old car companies can attract the talent the way Tesla does. They only need to capture the market on one of their big bets to be a runaway tech stock like FAANG.

They've got electric cars, batteries(Powerwall), Solar roofs, cross country supercharger stations, and full self driving. Any one of these things could fuel a company by itself.

Agreed. Our companies are driven to increase profit at all cost. Even cost to their function and utility.

Our over financialization is squeezing everyone and everything.

I’d lay the blame on the increasingly narrow and industrialized education system.

Elons estimates aren't about being accurate.

This is why its hard to start a restaurant. You need to be rich enough to own the land.

This stuff is on the rise. I used to be able to resolve issues with customer service And they would admit fault. It’s becoming a liability shield where no one accepts fault.

I'm so tired of these endless orthogonal attacks on technology that is aiming to help the environment. Of course things are perfect. This could reduce the usage of tons of dangerous herbicide.

Go start your own thing instead of lazily smashing others.

Whatever problem your describing, the answer isn't to control people

I'm so happy to see strong towns growing. We need a serious change of direction in America. It's going to take a lot of work to move the social momentum.

That's a big leap for me. I spent 1 hour twice a week commuting to get allergy shots.

This is how I feel about JavaScript. I used to let the HN expert problem solving crowd show me all the problems and think of how bad it sucked. Now I’m happy it just worked most of the time.

Because people are having emotional discussion doesn’t mean we should stop trying to have rational ones.

In fact it’s the opposite we need to have the hard conversations as early as possible.

You think we should wait one-two more years to figure out the biggest pandemic in 100 years?

Since the dawn of time.

> will toss their political agenda around the office while other employees, intimidated by cancel-culture, shy away from calling out the obvious BS

This is why it spreads so fast. You have one person who is loud, assertive and aggressive. And most people just want to avoid politics so they nod their heads.

> that simply doesn't make any sense.

It does you just don't understand yet. Let me try and explain.

Inflation measured by the government in CPI is a bad metric. It doesn't include ownership in assets which is the ability to retire.

We already had inflation if you measure the cost of retirement in USD. With the spending package we drove a bull run.

The SP500 going up in price is equivalent to the value of USD going down for anyone who doesn't own part of the market. They have to buy in at higher and higher cost.

Younger generations have been priced out of an ability to own and in turn retire. While those who owned assets experienced a nice boost this year.

When the cost of retirement goes up the value of USD goes down just like anything else.

And then you have a monetary system that runs a blockchain instead of this paper system the US has.

Not everyone wants to take down banks or destroy fiat.

> and topple authoritarian dictators and fascists.

This makes the violence worse every time the Americans stumble in and think they know how to fix a country by instilling new leadership.

Inflation is a problem when there is no way to beat it and it's hidden in stimulus bills that the majority of the country is too busy working to pay bills to spend time understanding.

Most of my friends can't afford investment in the market. So when the stock market goes up that's them losing value on their dollar and wages.

Inflation is fine for those who are part of the asset class.

Anyone who dismisses crypto as useless hasn't used the software.

Here's some use cases I've used in the last month:

I secured an instant loan based off collateral with faxing or calling my bank. Doing this at schwabb took weeks.

Another one, "thegraph" a distributed super computer to make public blockchain data indexed and queryable.

Another, Bitclout, a social network build on the blockchain.

Now the data of my social network is trustless distributed, verified and forkable.

I can build a business on top of it and I don't have to worry about getting the firehouse shut down like I did with Twitter.

Bitcoin was horse that drove the consensus making technical progress of distributed computing. The coins are less interesting than the distributed computing revolution.