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Re:Governance of Superintelligence on Monday May 22, 2023 @02:52PM (#36035238)
To clarify, everyone will see this as self-serving? But I don't think most people will do anything concrete about it. At most -- even the hardcore haters will just complain loudly on Twitter. How many people would purposely choose to not use an OpenAI product? Very few IMO.
Re:Governance of Superintelligence on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:55PM (#36034509)
Is there any downside whatsoever for OpenAI/Sam to be the one proposing/leading the calls for regulation? Cynics will say they are trying to pull the ladder up from underneath them, so this is massively beneficial for them. What's the downside (if any)? Getting a small subset of the community mad doesn't seem like a lot of downside.
Isn't there more and more research coming out that at a certain point (200B~), parameters have significantly decreasing returns and it's better to just then do some supervised learning ontop of the base model?

Ask HN: What prevents health insurance companies from innovating more?

Hi HN,I'm an engineer building a product in the health insurance space that in theory will allow more accurate pricing of premiums based off of individual data from wearables. My question is why haven't health insurance companies built this already? It seems like many companies already went in this direction with their 10,000 step program, but they stoped right there. Why not go further?Does...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @02:26PM (#27702582)
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What is the evidence that Marc Andreessen is a NIMBY other than he lives close to his office?
Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods on Saturday March 07, 2020 @03:54PM (#22513964)
Is there a study showing how much business they lost from the backlash when they didn't let people use the bathroom? This may be the better business decision.
Re:Inside Bill’s Brain on Saturday September 21, 2019 @12:57PM (#21036442)
It's supposed to be an honest raw look at his life. And frankly, it makes a lot of sense that he had poor work life balance. It's to be expected that extraordinary effort is required to build extraordinary things.
Re:Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:10PM (#20665571)
Moviepass lol
Apple needs new sources of revenue. Anything marginal like cheaper iphone models won't cut it.

I like the recent wave of acquisitions. Smart cars? Smart homes? Iterations of Apple Watch - deeper connection to the body itself?

What's next for them?

Re:Beijing Presses Hong Kong Government to Quell Unrest on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:00PM (#20557408)
China does not value the status/wellbeing of their millionaires/billionaires over the control of the CCP in people's minds, which is always the top priority.
Re:How Much Water Do You Need to Drink? on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:20PM (#20527374)
Body weight (lb) divide by 2 seems to be the consensus general number of ounces I've seen from people like Dr Rhonda Patrick. And the more physically active you are, the more you should drink.

Eg: A 200lb person should drink 100oz+ of water a day.

Thinking of this in a proportional sense is the wrong comparison. It's a settlement - therefore it needs to be compared to how much damage a non-settlement was going to cause FB.
More and more people are going to flee to Singapore.

Anyone know what the tech scene there is like?

Re:The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:59PM (#20011718)
I've only donated and voted for liberal candidates. Also, my comment explicitly said 'leftists' which is different than liberals. Argument was also in direct response to a comment. Good day to you~
Re:The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:10PM (#20010677)
Absolutely some policies went too far.

But the current status quo of not enforcing laws isn't working either.

Re:The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:09PM (#20010666)
Agreed. But it's not like the current policies, some of which include blatantly not enforcing laws, are working.

Giuliani was also a prolific mayor when it come to building housing.

I don't think any right leaning or even centrist political candidate in SF could withstand the inevitable smear campaign that far leftist groups would organize against them.

Re:The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:56PM (#20010589)
I've wondered if what San Francisco needs is a Rudy Giuliani type mayor. Someone to come in a shake up the status quo with valid right leaning polices when it comes to crime.
What are the downsides?
What are the downsides of this?
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:10PM (#19820797)
How is Messenger Bloated?
Can't all of this be done via Stripe Atlas for $500?
Does this functionally change anything though? Both countries are so massive businesses will already be targeting each location. Furthermore, the respective countries are both planning for scale.
How does taxes factor in with Lambda school? Are they taking pre or post tax income?
Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Buy a Car? on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:02AM (#19205648)
Buy a showroom car, and they'll usually give you anywhere from a 10-20% discount, depending on brand.
Does anyone have recommendations on good documentaries in this space?