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The allegation is that OpenAI explicitly requested that people bring and explain actual prototypes ("show and tell"), and downloading files from iCloud Drive after quitting Apple t…

Man sets out to write article on DK Effect, comes across one skeptical study, confidently writes article refuting DK Effect. It writes itself.

If there was ever a time to sell all your stocks and buy gold, this is it. NVIDIA to zero. This will make COVID look like a market hiccup.

Having worked at Apple and similarly giant companies, the idea that "they have enough money to do it" is incredibly naive. Rewriting all the basic software primitives of the iPhone…

Releasing the model to bad actors at the same time as the major OS, browser, and security companies would be one idea. But some might consider that "messed up" too, whatever you me…

The FTC article links to the federal complaint[0] which names the third-party data recipient as Clarifai, Inc. "In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid…

Former Apple employee here. This is a deeper quirk of Apple culture than one would guess. Each and every Radar (Apple's internal issue tracker is called Radar, and each issue is ca…

> Am I missing something? You are indeed missing a TON. A lot of Open Claw users don't give it everything. We give it specific access to a group of things it needs to do the things…

I have given the “never trust the judgment of someone who says it should be a one-line fix” so many times I am basically doxxing myself with this comment.

PV is fairly unique in that land is not required. It can be installed over existing land uses such as rooftops, canals, parking.

> You cannot build a good AI phone without first building a good phone. You cannot build a self-driving car without starting with a good car, etc. More like you cannot build a self…

Comedy requires deep thinking, powers of observation, and self-reflection.

So among Harris voters, the assassination was about as popular as a Trump policy. And yet here we have people trying to say it's popular among lefties. We do not deserve nice thing…

Put simply: It is in the national interest to have the world's most talented technologists here. It is yet more in the national interest that they work here, for us, and not for ou…

The average L5 SWE salary at Google in the SF Bay Area is $215,000 [1]. 1. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

Why would tribal land management be "natural" but not more recent land management? It seems more like we just need to decide how we want the land to be and burn or not burn to achi…

> And immigration on top to plug the gaps. And there it is. This narrative that immigration hasn't been a constant and deciding factor in the development of the West (and pretty mu…

Corporations are people, so no, we don't have the state.

In the U.S., around 86% of kids graduate high school[1], around 63% of high school graduates go to 4-year colleges[2], and around 64% of them graduate within 6 years[3]. By that lo…

Do you fail at driving if you touch your brakes? I don't think so. The best drivers in the world certainly don't seem to think so. It's just one of the control inputs to driving yo…

You should lose your driver license if you ever have to touch the brakes.

The true outrage isn't that the 0.01% of recipe seekers who like to read a story and get served 77 ads as they scroll through and laugh/cry before the recipe get these recipes high…

Paying less for labor increases productivity. Anyone in the construction industry will point to the code books for their explanations.

"User Engagement" is now indeed code for "Addiction," but not because user engagement has changed in any meaningful way. It's because society has been transforming terms that used …