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poopypoopington··on Mark Zuckerberg: Labs should self-regulate
No one trusts this guy, he lies and cheats at every possible chance.
poopypoopington··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
Is there an updated version of these license(s) that explicitly excludes projects from being used for training of AIs?
poopypoopington··on The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
Honestly did you even read the article? "Yes, there are cases of Southeast Asian nations slapping their labels on Chinese goods and then sending them to America to allow Chinese manufacturers to get around tariffs. But look at the graph of U.S. import shares above, and you’ll see that if 7% of imports from Asia ex-China are due to re-exporting, that would only shave 1.7 percentage points off of Asia ex-China’s share — only a fraction of the 4 percentage point increase in U.S. imports from that region since 2019." It refutes this point like 2 minutes in.
poopypoopington··on The Contradictions of Sam Altman
I've heard Altman (on the Lex Friedman podcast) and Sundar Pichai (on the Hard Fork podcast) say things to this degree. The thing that OpenAI really managed to crack was building a great product in ChatGPT and finding a good product market fit for LLMs.
poopypoopington··on The Contradictions of Sam Altman
ChatGPT
poopypoopington··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
"Financial death spiral"

$120B in revenue, $20B in profit last year

poopypoopington··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
I think it's just the current stage of capitalism. A lot of the products that meaningfully improve people's lives have been created so now it's more profitable for companies to just start rent seeking in every place they can.
poopypoopington··on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
you should add apple keychain
poopypoopington··on Ask HN: Would you want to buy direct, fractional ownership of a solar farm?
yes
poopypoopington··on Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
the real story here is that a coffee and a bagel costs $10 \s
poopypoopington··on Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets
WhatsApp is becoming a super app through the buildout of business messaging. You can now do your shopping in India using the JioMart store on WhatsApp.[1]

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2022/08/shop-on-whatsapp-with-jiom...

poopypoopington··on How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
Eventually we can have grid scale carbon removal systems that can soak up all of the extra electrify on the grid. Probably the same when large industrial processes are electrified, like generating fertilizer.
poopypoopington··on How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
How is Russia bombing a nuclear power plant any different from Russia using nuclear weapons. The issue is not the nuclear power plant, it's the mad man willing to cause the end of the world to win his war in Ukraine.
poopypoopington··on Coal miners help push tourists’ dead electric car in West Virginia
EVs can be powered by coal. ICE cars cannot. This is a dumb article.
poopypoopington··on Nobody wants to teach anymore
Why don't you find out and share with us rather than just asking questions and having others do the work for you. If Finland is really significant to this debate then share some data.
poopypoopington··on Google’s in-house desktop Linux
Software Engineers are worth more to the company when they're writing code, not when they're debugging issues with the OS. It's much more worthwhile to standardize the machines people have and let people focus on doing their actual work more effortlessly.
poopypoopington··on What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out
Each team has their own incentive:

The analytics team - get the best data possible The page speed team - get an objective analysis of the speed of a page

Even if it's in Google's interest to give their own stuff preference that would probably require some director or VP to coordinate that collusion and it's hard to say whether it would be worth the liability of having done that.

poopypoopington··on Tropy: An Open-Source App to Organize Your Research Photos
Who is the intended use case? History PhDs for example?
poopypoopington··on UK Goverment keen on 50-year mortgages
The US also has a severe housing affordability crisis :-)
poopypoopington··on Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash
Anyone includes George Soros
poopypoopington··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
Why was April the month to buy them?
poopypoopington··on We can do better than “same, but electric”
No it doesn't, you can build big well insulated apartments.
poopypoopington··on Modern PHP
Isn't modern PHP just Hack?
poopypoopington··on Facebook Pay
they've been processing payments for over a decade
poopypoopington··on On Leaving Facebook
I assume you live in the United States. By your logic, you are complicit with the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of peoples from Africa then.

How do you live with yourself?

poopypoopington··on On Leaving Facebook
This is a monumentally stupid take. I would never want to work for you if your judgement is this poor and politically reactionary.
poopypoopington··on Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
Read on hacker news that Ivermectin is correlated with helping covid because often people with covid in developing countries also have parasites, so the covid + parasite can kill them. So if you give everyone in a developing country ivermectin the ivermectin will kill the parasite and they won't have to fight two things at once.

Turns out giving ivermectin (parasite killer) in a country where a lot of people have parasites is good public health policy. It's just butt stupid to use in a developed country like the US where ivermectin probably won't help people, but that doesn't stop people from taking horse dewormer in Florida :/.

poopypoopington··on Ask HN: Why are there so few single-letter command line utilities / tools?
Lol, I think it stands for "move" because you can do something like "mv foo bar/foo", but you can also use it to rename with mv foo bar.
poopypoopington··on HashiCorp IPO today
Damn Google makes Fiance now??
poopypoopington··on Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
Say you're laying rail track. It will be used for 50+ years. Better to lay it once, relatively slowly, and well than to do a shoddy quick job and have to repair it every 5 years.

Perhaps another argument for the plodding, methodical 55 year-old union guy's way of working?

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