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Re:Meta's open AI hardware vision on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:28PM (#41852759)
Don't they charge cloud vendors who sell LLAMA models on their platform? My understanding is that is part of the licensing agreement. Its more like:

1. Spend billions on a product.

2. Make it free to work with and charge to commercialize it.

3. Profit

Data is the wrong approach to develop reasoning. You we don't want LLM's to simply memorize 3x3 = 9 we want them to understand that 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 therefore 3x3 = 9 (obviously a trivial example). If they have developed reasoning very few examples should be needed.

The way I see it reasoning is actually the ability of the model to design and train smaller models that can learn with very few examples.

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Why does anyone pay google to advertise? Most people don't have adblocker they get a paid for link often.

There are also a range of topics google will not return the best ranked information. There are a ton of political issues (due to advertiser pressure) where the different results are huge when you search in duckduckgo vs google. This is monopoly power to decide what gets seen and what doesn't get seen.

Let them make profit. We probably should have to pay for traffic and advertisement on the web. But regulate it so that there cannot be price gouging. For instance there are maximum interest chargeable on loans. You should be able to loan money at interest but there is a point where you are just using your power to economically exploit others. Especially if there is no option.
If the app is free they still have to maintain the app store. I have a free app apple checks it. Running an app store is part of the cost of the phone. No one would buy the phone if they couldn't download apps.

If they must charge 20% why don't they also let apps take credit cards? 20% is for the payment, its a tax. Why should Spotify have to pay 20% and Apple music effectively doesn't.

To exist on the internet you need to pay Google. Google is essentially the government of the open web. The problem is that government like monopolies do arise especially when there are network effects.

We need to regulate search and app stores like it is a public utility. Pricing should be dutch auction or something provably fair. 20-30% for in-app purchases is obviously insane when credit cards do 1.5-3.5%.

I worry that the government will not do sensible regulations and instead play investment banker and try to create spin off companies.

Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:41PM (#41052540)
Ironically, this benefits Apple so much.
Re:Ask HN: Building Great Embedded Web Apps? on Sunday January 07, 2024 @07:00AM (#38900519)
Thanks for the tip!

Ask HN: Building Great Embedded Web Apps?

I’m building a web app that will primarily be embedded on my clients websites in an iframe or by other means. I am looking for articles, guides, or talks on best practices for building embedded web apps. Does anyone have any suggestions?Some issues I’m encountering: - Building UI's with no scrolling - Responsive design within iframes - Testing different scenarios my iframe might be inI really...

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Re:Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read? on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:23AM (#37248463)
Good code "is isolated enough that rewriting it won’t cost absurd hours." This is the hard part.
Re:Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:50AM (#29647682)
Tuple is great! It would be crazy cool if we could share multiple screens at the same time. What could be cool as well is if I can share a viewable only screen to the person I'm pairing with while they share with me their regular tuple screen.

Also, Tuple is waaay better than what we use when interviewing people with. Maybe some sort of hot seat feature where we could get people to download Tuple and interview/pair with them there.

Re:Opposition to High Density Development on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:37PM (#29476423)
Automobiles are the main factor. Cars made it possible for single family home culture -> cities were designed around cars -> now this culture is the ideal as it is what cities are explicitly designed for.

Self driving will be an interesting addition to the mix. We will probably come up with new cultures around that technology.

Re:An inside look into the illicit ad industry on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:33PM (#29131618)
To track from impression to purchase you would probably be using one 3rd party service. Google has the best capabilities but you are still relying on them to not have any vulnerabilities and their incentives of selling adds and verifying them for you aligned.
Re:An inside look into the illicit ad industry on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:10PM (#29122803)
The only way to really solve this is to follow the money. There will always be vulnerabilities but whether it's profitable to exploit them is another story. Ads move fast but money moves slow.

The victims are good publishers ( miss out on ad dollars that would have gone their way) and advertisers (who have generally moved their money to walled gardens where there isn't an agency incentive problem).

Re:An inside look into the illicit ad industry on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:04PM (#29122726)
Most of the ad industry believes that because they use a 3rd party impression or click tracking they are safe from these attacks. This article outlines how ad fraud operations find vulnerabilities in those technologies that the ad industry trusts. 3rd party verification does not mean you have avoided fraud.
Re:Is failed startup experience valuable? on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:04PM (#25260174)
Thanks!
Re:Is failed startup experience valuable? on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:53PM (#25258114)
Definitely, got to make sure I actually come out with something that looks good even if it doesn't take off.

Is failed startup experience valuable?

I have a side project I am really passionate about. I want to quit my current job and work on it full time. My technical/engineering/code skills are mostly focused on data science/analytics and to complete this project I will need to learn a lot about web development and product management. There is a high probability I will fail but I think I am at a good time in my career for that.I have...

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