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Meta (formerly Facebook) was forced to take their company public because of how many private investors they had. It’s the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and also the Jobs Act of 2012 which set these limits (currently 2000 shareholders is the limit). Companies use right of first refusal on their shares to keep the number of shareholders low.

Matrix has become invaluable for dozens of my hacker friends. We ditched Discord almost a year ago and we have no desire to go back. Besides having high quality e2ee voice/video/screensharing (thanks LiveKit), we collectively spend 10x less for the functionality and keep our data in Switzerland. No ads, no one getting their accounts hacked with QR codes, ultra-granular space/channel settings, multiple choices for client implementations, and end to end encryption enables sensitive discussions that would have previously been curtailed. The identity verification is greatly appreciated although our new users do have some issues getting set up with multiple devices, but it's no more complicated than multi-device WhatsApp. Matrix is ready for prime time.

It’s quite an uncanny alignment with Nvidia and other semiconductor companies that benefit from their customers to bloating software and buying as many of their chips with no real thought given to efficiency of the runtime.

They are destroying this country and I for one welcome it. I’m so tired of American hegemony and I don’t care if we all suffer. I want people to learn to do better next time/generation.

Every time you make someone switch modes of transportation to complete their commute, the suffering increases exponentially in my personal experience. I much prefer going door to door and getting the benefit of resting my mind and body.

Yeah, unless the model is evaluated with blind hold outs, the benchmarks are misleading.

RIP Premier Cherdenko

Yeah but you still have to hire attorneys so for some people they will just settle and take any offer

lmao you dumbass

> People only turn yellow if they have kidney or liver damage.

This is not true. Roughly 5% of people have Gilbert's Syndrome which is genetic, metabolic abnormality where the bilirubin from dead blood cells are conjugated slower than the baseline patient leading to yellowing of the skin. It is not due to liver damage or disease and is a benign condition. Not to mention there is carotenemia from eating too many carrots or squash -- again not kidney/liver damage related.

True because we have pay bands that everyone has to somehow be hired for and fit within.

those script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them

Amen, but lets get downvoted by these sheeple for pointing it out

That's because its satire, the tell was "not excluding targeted military strikes"

I’m talking back of house, you’ve sort of mistakenly missed my point and made a rebuttal to some completely different question and I agree with you.

Deficit spending the biggest ponzi ever invented. Thanks Keynes

"In reality, it’s juniors who stand to gain the most from AI – especially if they are good at using AI as a learning tool, not just an overeager sidekick who’s willing to do the menial work."

We have had interns come in and do 5x more work than their predecessors using GenAI. Senior devs spend most of their time planning and reviewing now and Junior devs can implement. Both with the help of GenAI.

Tools encode determinism, not trust

It's a moot point. In Mag7 companies internal code gets thrown away within 2 years on average because of contract negotiations, new opensource projects that obviate need for the internal codebase, license changes, layoffs, etc, etc. We don't need long term maintainability because its already on its way to the garbage bin. Frankly it's always been this way.

Nope, it’s just simple arbitrage. All of the subscription tiers offer 5-10x better prices than metered api fees. They use subscription to hook people and get them desperate enough to pay for ad-hoc generation outside of their subscription to make a profit. The economics of Claude do not work unless a significant % of subscribers convert to standard metered API use. They are trying any trick under the sun to make this happen.

Americans on IRC likely to be from a handful of cesspools that encourage racist worldviews or other “open-minded” discourse which ends up being a recurring hate-mongering episode.

And it’s an endlessly moving target, look at how many apps break every major release (and use it to justify regular, expensive paid upgrades)

I hope it gets bad enough people wake tf up and do something with me about it.

Welcome to the singularity where we all do Claude’s bidding and don’t even realize we’ve synchronized.

That’s why they are often armed, some with rifles

Way healthier, it’s not even a comparison. Cigarettes have particulates that are not bioavailable and create the black lung tissue. Here in California we have banned any flavors from nicotine vapes so it’s very straight forward. The best vapes anymore are THC, due to psychoactive effects and flavors, similar level of safety to nicotine.

It has no ability to ground output in causality. It does not understand what causes humans to learn. It’s a correlation and randomness engine.

I have had multiple friends sexually harassed or had a coworker talk about sexual exploitation in front of them and when they went to HR, they were fired and the offending person not held responsible. This is very common. Never tell HR anything or go to them for help ever.

If you work for HR, please kindly ____ yourself.

My religion uses hallucinogens in ceremony and if I got fired for speaking about my religious practice I would certainly sue the shit out of them.

Not as shocking when you realize you are wasting your downtime with work colleagues. I’d rather have control over my downtime regardless of who is paying.