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somsak2 commented on Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success   economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/edward
jgalt212 · 2 months ago
It remains amazing to me, time and time again, how relatively small fees can encourage large changes in behavior. At the aggregate level, people overvalue their time and undervalue their money.
somsak2 · 2 months ago
i think it's the opposite right? people that didn't mind spending an hour in traffic are now unwilling to pay $9.
somsak2 commented on Estrogen: A Trip Report   smoothbrains.net/posts/20... · Posted by u/sebg
somsak2 · 2 months ago
> At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body

appreciate seeing this. I've long identified as someone that's much more muscular than I have been in the past. it's interesting how steroid use for this subset is seen as so different from that same use in the gender dysphoria subset.

somsak2 commented on Estrogen: A Trip Report   smoothbrains.net/posts/20... · Posted by u/sebg
karcass · 2 months ago
I lost interest in psychedelics after transitioning.
somsak2 · 2 months ago
trading one drug for another?
somsak2 commented on Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job   mensurdurakovic.com/hard-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
somsak2 · 2 years ago
#10 should be near the top. hugely important
somsak2 commented on Major outages across ChatGPT and API   status.openai.com/inciden... · Posted by u/d99kris
michaelteter · 2 years ago
Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.

It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.

somsak2 · 2 years ago
I don't think it's so dire. I've gone through this at multiple companies and a startup that's selling B2B only needs one or two of these big outages and then enterprises start demanding SLA guarantees in their contracts. it's a self correcting problem
somsak2 commented on Seeing like a bank   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/arkadiyt
yboris · 2 years ago
The book Seeing Like a State referenced in the article is an amazing read:

https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d...

Highly recommend, though glance at summary to confirm you'll enjoy / benefit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

somsak2 · 2 years ago
I've heard alot of great reviews of this book but personally found it pretty disappointing.
somsak2 commented on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss   404media.co/bored-ape-yac... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
pavlov · 2 years ago
The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers:

“About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.”

Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do I know — maybe Beanie Baby meet-ups also pull crowds of thousands.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/fe9a3fa3-edfc-41df-a333-1f91e6248...

somsak2 commented on New models and developer products   openai.com/blog/new-model... · Posted by u/kevin_hu
anoy8888 · 2 years ago
The new announcement just wiped out a bunch of startups
somsak2 · 2 years ago
Any examples?
somsak2 commented on New models and developer products   openai.com/blog/new-model... · Posted by u/kevin_hu
doctoboggan · 2 years ago
In the keynote @sama claimed GPT-4-turbo was superior to the older GPT-4. Have any benchmarks or other examples been shown? I am curious to see how much better it is, if it all. I remember when 3.5 got its turbo version there was some controversy on whether it was really better or not.
somsak2 · 2 years ago
It seems like the "Turbo" models are more about being faster/cheaper, not so much about being better. Kinda similar to the iPhone "S" models or Intel's "tick-tock"
somsak2 commented on New models and developer products   openai.com/blog/new-model... · Posted by u/kevin_hu
kridsdale3 · 2 years ago
Yes, nowhere in the text today was there any assertion that Turbo produces (eg) source code at the same level of coherence and consistently high quality as GPT4.
somsak2 · 2 years ago
Was there an assertion that it doesn't?

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