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I'm Pedro Varangot. I live in San Francisco and work on embedded software, worked on an earth imaging space startup, information security research, phones, self driving car ECUs and ebikes.

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That's also not how pricing works, it's about perceived incremental increases in how useful it is (marginal utility), not about the actual more money you make.

It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock photos.

The Chinese supermarkets all had it, I moved out on 2018 and I think they had it in the Jumbo in Palermo in the section where they had some Peruvian stuff on the back of the store. I can't find it on the online Jumbo store, but Mercadolibre has it.

I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket. It's around on par of nicotine as an appetite suppressant for me, as a stimulant I feel caffeine and mate are better for the "stay awake" but coca tea is better for "zoning in", with less of anxiety driving but it's a more single tasked high where interruptions are harder to deal with than with caffeine. Like if I have a lot of meetings I prefer coffee and if I have to code for four hours I prefer coca tea. I used to rotate coffee, mate, and coca tea as a daily driver and having something else on the rotation may have been helping more than that something else being coca tea.

I think what they mean (not OP here so just chiming in to to try interpret and answer your question) is that you don't know what you are talking about.

Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you the alternate subs that are less astroturfed and the discussion is free from people telling you that there's evidence and reports that don't exist and insult you if you ask for links, or people that say that something says something and post you a link and then you go and it says something else (usually less favorable to Israel). The main subs have been pretty bad with Israel-related news since forever, it's not a new thing, it's that there's more of those news now.

Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.

Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically take a wafer end to end to cut, didn't come out.

Kant goes so extensively about this that it's not even funny to have to mention it on an HN thread. No the blogpost doesn't cover it in the same way it being like 3000% or more condensed than even a single one of his books and I don't think it's necessary considering metaphysics itself is "quite the religious notion".

Yeah think about it

"guaranteed to work for many years" if you don't need them calibrated I guess.

Also like I'm not sure? A lot of the discrete component and analog stuff on the old models is way more flimsy that the new system on a chip things on the signal path of the new instruments, specially for RF.

Plus if you need data logging it's not even worth to have the discussion on if older gear was better.

So first context: I'm not OP, and as a matter of record the Ghost Ship fire was not caused by a fridge compressor. Electrical appliance is the most likely cause but the ATF investigators ruled the fridge compressor out. That being said, sparking near relay blades is common enough and same for sketchy wire bonding. It's not a failure mode of the compressor as much as the relay or the wiring is true, but no other appliance is wired like that and turning on and off autonomously in the average household except maybe AC which are usually less modular and wired at the factory to higher standards than some old fridge or a repaired unit.

I think programming language standards committees are not an unlikely venue for hot conflict, quite the opposite if you talk just about conflict without the word "hot". I don't have the background on this one though.

Do you have any experience reaching to similar organizations? for example reporting compiler or linker bugs or trying to get support for new features or platform that are not well documented? If you don't and think it sounds fun go ahead and have fun if you can do that work without getting dragged into hot conflict.

How can someone validate the data if they can't query the original source? I understand the argument "an expert is made more efficient", but you are saying that the model enables someone that doesn't know what they are doing to suddenly be able to supervise the model doing it for them.

I have to log in to OpenAI to generate conversations but the conversations I can post on my own logged-out blog. It's the same thing OpenAI would probably say if they got sued because GPT spits copyrighted content it found on a logged-out webpage. They can't reasonably expect people to not use them for training.