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Open models are a good thing. OpenAI was open until it became obvious that being open was not going to pay for training costs and wouldn't help them get a competitive edge. I'd bet…

I've tried this before and I think this constraint is something that has to be kept top of mind for a designer not just the engineer. Most designs these days assume a single page a…

Once again there seems to be this deep misunderstanding by engineers that all lawyers do is draft docs like an engineer writes code. And if you can automate the doc creation proces…

The reason Facebook is where it is now is that when it was novel there was a lot of engagement. But as the novelty wore off, it became clear that your friends were not going to be …

I think Tim Cook took Steve Job's vision and really took it to the moon. If you think about the last 15 years, Apple has really become the biggest possible version of itself withou…

Articles like this amount to a straw man. People seem to think that just because it produces a bunch of code you therefore don’t need to read it or be responsible for the output. S…

It certainly looks like an Apple device. Ive's aesthetic is Apple's aesthetic, so if you hire Ive, that is what you are going to get. I can see a car company who doesn't care about…

This is no surprise. We are all learning together here. There are any number of ways to foot gun yourself with programming languages. SQL injection attacks used to be a common gotc…

I think this is a genuine concern for prominent people. Like if you are Mark Zuckerberg, there is material interest in a bad actor installing malware on his laptop. But for a rando…

People seem to ignore the cost and accuracy aspects of a phone listening to you 24/7. At least with today’s constraints, it is highly unlikely to be happening. First, the cost to t…

Maybe it’s because the movies aren’t good and the plot lines are stale. Just a thought.

San Francisco uses RCV, and it’s not much better, maybe worse. Yes you get run off elections and more candidates. But now voters have to use strategy in how they vote and it’s comp…

This reminds me of when I went in to a Patagonia store to repair a jacket with a “lifetime” warranty. Turns out they define lifetime as the “useful” lifetime of the product, which …

Yes, it seems cruel to push young doctors to the limit like this. But I’ll offer a counterpoint: In an emergency, you want doctors who are used to making decisions under stress and…

For models of this size, the code used to train them is going to be very custom to the architecture/cluster they are built on. It would be almost useless to anybody outside of Meta…

People take these kinds of things way too literally. There is no golden solution here. What gets repeated over and over continues to be true: teams should choose a system that work…

> IMO, the solution is apprenticeships/probationary offers Most companies would love this, especially startups. The problem is that desirable candidates do not love this arrangemen…

I’m not saying I would trust getting into a Waymo now in those conditions, but I also wouldn’t assume the same things that are difficult for humans will be difficult for self drivi…

Your quote omits the qualifying part of that sentence, which is important. :-) What does it mean to "last longer" when it comes to your own codebase? And why would web components h…

It seems like Web Components are ideal for libraries shipping pre-built components, which is probably why Mux finds it compelling. From Mux's point of view, they want the highest l…

It's ridiculous. I'm curious what the way out of this clown show will be - governments aren't typically known for being good at cutting back bureaucracy and red tape.

I'd love to be corrected here, but my understanding is that the enterprise support and pro features model can be a pretty good business. Big deployments generally need really good …

That's because this is an org chart, not a cohesive product.

Yeah it's a total double dip, similar to ISPs trying to extort internet companies for access to their own customers.

Yes! There is a Staples near my house with a print center. Their prices for a job I needed done were so exorbitant that I bought a printer/scanner from the same store and broke eve…