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The censorship levels are off the charts; I am at a basketball game with my wife who is ethnically Chinese. I asked for an image of a Chinese woman dunking a basketball. I was told not only is this inappropriate, but also unrealistic and objectifying.

For me it is almost exactly this. I was not a heavy indulger, but that’s what I came away with. It has stuck with me for nearly 20 years since.

And it will also never share code.

We know that particulate matter in the atmosphere such as volcanic ash can help reduce warming, or even induce cooling, but man made this hasn’t been proven safe.

I am not sure what else you are referring to as far as reducing warming ahead of emissions?

Have those been substantiated in any manner? I was interested in the details, and all I discovered were a few articles from non mainstream outlets (may still be valid) and a message from the larger family that the sister was having severe mental health issues.

I am not saying this didn’t happen, but I would like to understand if there has been follow up confirmation one way or another.

I would also add from a founders standpoint - the infrastructure Delaware has supporting their business incorporations division has been miles above any other state I have worked with. They pick up the phone when you call! The files and forms are (relatively) easy to find. Supporting firms like registration agents are plentiful and straightforward for Delaware.

Already lots of groups doing solar panel cleanings. I imagine the venn diagram between people who invest in solar and in these roofs may have some overlap.

If I remember correctly, your eyes don’t adjust to black light the same it would as full spectrum, and will stay mostly dilated as if it were in the dark. This can increase the chances of photokeratitis, or basically sunburn on the eyes with high powered shows like this.

I am obviously not a dr

I wonder if it would be cheaper if there were more competitors to google in the market than there are currently.

There are many things that I could outsource that would be cheaper than doing myself (build/buy a car. Buy a cheeseburger as opposed to producing all the ingredients myself.) I am equally interested in what that 32% fee would look like in a more open market and then say if it is cheap or expensive.

That’s a cheap rate for sure. Southern California is $.36/.59/.74 peak. Super expensive.

This is a pretty tried and true process historically as well, just… “ask your developer.”

California bill SB 58 just passed out of the “suspense file,” and actually has a path to pass.

Summary An act to amend Sections 11054, 11350, 11364, 11364.7, 11365, 11377, 11379, 11382, and 11550 of, to add Sections 11350.1 and 11377.1 to, to add and repeal Section 11214 of, to repeal Section 11999 of, and to repeal Article 7 (commencing with Section 11390) of Chapter 6 of Division 10 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

Would move forward access to a subset of these substances in California.

Full text of latest version here: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB58/2023

I am personally strongly in favor of this bill, and more broadly decriminalizing a wider variety of drugs, and focusing more resources on research, medical uses, addiction prevention, treatment and prosecuting related secondary crimes like robbery etc…

I do worry about folks who perhaps have experienced the legal weed phenomenon stepping up to DMT or large mushroom doses and not being prepared. I know this is just decriminalizing, but access follows. Ultimately I believe it is the individual choice and the benefits outweigh the damages, but I am not certain how it all plays out when the real numbers are in.

I am no longer a Twitter user, but if I remember correctly, a recent musk tweet was talking about how bad LinkedIn was and that the new X app should go after that market.

Maybe that?

Did you work there and know this as a fact?

I think there is a difference between ignoring someone’s advice because it would “hurt his ego,” and believing that a fail in the past doesn’t mean a fail in the future. (- false fail if you will)

Ahh yes, the “must be marketing’s fault” cry for bad usability, not internal disfunction and turf wars between engineering and product, or incompetence, or inattention, or…

I bring this up only because I find when I do this blaming of <other non-build people>, I often miss the problem that is actually in front of my face and can actually impact.

We already used this feature set today in a cross-team/cross-company collaboration and it was very helpful. We are doing design work for another firm that is doing the build and being able to communicate more easily what work is ready to move to what stage etc… improved our workflow, at least from the first glance. I am not sure how much long term efficiency there is to gain, but I suspect for us there will be a meaningful amount.

I believe this is at least one solution, and one that the folks at stability themselves were pushing hard as a next step forward in the development of LLMs.

This comment resonates with me and reminds me of T-Mobile making international roaming free; they didn’t really have a ton of business coming from that service, but knew how important it was for their competitors. They made theirs free and forced the industry down that path. (Have since added some fees back but the point is similar to your thoughts)

What’s the solution you propose?

What is a “good reason” in your classification?

Out of my depth, but ca the SAM outputs be mapped for 6DOF models of the objects directly?or would you still need to use the resultant dataset to train 6DOF or key points for that matter?

Or, thank you for not having the willpower to raise taxes. /s

It is easier certainly to call out the IRA (even though it is doing a lot to drive a transition to a cleaner economy) because it happened, as opposed to “what ifs,” but not touching taxes as far as slowing the economy should be called out imho.

Yes. But those both impact the economy directly, correct?

The federal government can also spend which impacts it as well.

I appreciate they are separate, but they are intertwined and one has become politically untenable.

Not an economist*

Also a problem is that the primary lever we seemingly have to impact the economy is the feds manipulation of interest rates, but what happened to taxes? The have been so politicized that all is left is the wide scatter shotgun effect of rate changes.

Anecdotally about SVB and crypto; I really wanted to put my funding round assets into Silicon Valley Bank for my last start up. However, when I was speaking to their bankers, I mentioned that there was a possible element of the platform that would be Web3 based. The SVB team immediately paused my application and insisted that they do a deep dive into all of my investors, my bank accounts, and my pitch decks. My pitch deck did not include materials about web3 since it was so tertiary to our core strategy, and this discrepancy between what I had told them and the paper materials was such that it raised enough of an alarm at SVB that the refused to take my deposit.

They were really concerned about anything web3 so I wonder if they limited their exposure. Or maybe it was just us they didn’t like.

This is amazing. Thank you to all the contributors!

I am working on a project in the old media space and we were planning to build several of these elements ourselves if something like this didn’t come along. Love the open source nature and would love to contribute.

I sometimes wonder if companies should/could be forced to publish a “lifetime cost” of all of their products, much like we do energy ratings for appliances. Something that would show all of the expenses over the lifetime of the products, including estimated maintenance and lifespan before replacement so people have a better idea of the true cost of the purchase.

I am confident the reporting would likely be captured by the manufacturers anyway and there would be a lot of arbitrary inputs into the reports, but something to fight the short term profit taking you describe.

This is a really solid reply - I would emphasize “know your buyer.”

We thought we had a solution to a problem. We were told from the end users we had a solution to the problem. We thought we knew the value to those people as far as pricing for the product. But the actual buyer didn’t at all value our product the way the end user did, especially when factoring switching costs etc and it was crippling.

I have experimented with the platform and am a huge fan. Thanks for all you are doing - have you thought about or are you integrated with tools like Synthesis AI or Sundial.ai? They don’t cover all of the wide range of data I want to gather, but make it so easy for fixed objects.