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I think it's great they're doing this, but GPT-3 is the bellwether not the end state. Open models will function a lot like Open Source does today, where there are hobby projects, c…

Wild-Ass Guess (Ass-Guess) incoming: OpenAI was built to influence the eventual value chain of AI in directions that would give the funding parties more confidence that their AI be…

It gives cover to those who dismissed the concern pre-covid. It's common for a pragmatic 'Cassandra' to point to the newest evidence as permission for people to finally wake up to …

It's the 'movie' version of negotiating that plays to a populist crowd. It intersects with other 'tough guy' identity tropes that are being (successfully) used in domestic politica…

I agree, we invented this stuff, and we should be able to fix it when it 'breaks.' However, we see this constantly in any manmade system (system as defined by Systemics), where we …

Funny enough, in the UK/islands I've found it to be much more common for the 'door close' button to work. As the other replies have said, the button isn't for you, but it does have…

They specified Municipal and/or State governments which cannot monetize a deficit.

"X need not apply" is a well-known trope that has historically been used in a discriminatory sense, e.g., "Irish need not apply." "Humans not invited," isn't super derivative of ei…

No, $2/month is the introductory rate for 3 months, then it goes back up to $34 or $39 a month, so if you're subscribing long-term, it still makes sense to go for the yearly packag…

IANAL, but Promissory Estoppel might apply here?

Funny enough my non-fintech failed (shuttered) company is listed here, but my more-or-less fintech company that's actually profitable and raised a bunch of money isn't listed. Prob…

I'm a pretty frequent PrimeNow customer in London, and tonight I had an odd request from Amazon in the name of security. They (presumably they...) called me from a number with a di…

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The name was donated by the company that bought Hyperledger last year, and one of the codebases being donated also descends from the original Hyperledger codebase.

Saw a calculation that estimated it at $0.25 / day at current hashrates.

I remember King's Quest 3 had a bunch of spells and/or potions you needed to use to win the game that required precisely worded commands, and they were only included in the physica…

Don't try that with an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle or if you have a heart condition. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-show...

Check out https://www.deckbound.com (project of a friend and business partner). The initial concept is focused on Trading Card Games and built on the Bitcoin blockchain, but there …

Yes: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com [0]. Obviously very tongue-in-cheek. [0] https://github.com/ConceptPending/hn4hn4x

Even ignoring that $300k isn't that much for most companies, there's insurance for big prize payouts where you'd pay the expected % time you'd have to pay out times the prize amoun…

You don't appear to need an account to launch instances.

It's probably more likely to be technically legal in the US than Australia.

Well, I think that theoretical guy would just be succeeding in a different industry than the one I happened to succeed in so far. It's not like I didn't apply myself to anything, j…