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aaron695

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Friends (9)

gwern 14d ago
A "yes" would have sufficed.
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joshmn 3mo ago
I was in federal prison with Sebastien Raoult, one of the ShinyHunters guys. We were in the same unit and talked regularly.I was about mid-way through my bid when another inmate told me "new guy in B3 is a another hacker." I got really excited—I'd have someone to talk shop with, at the very least.My takeaway from him was that they're a bunch of contemporary "script kiddies" with a lot of time on their hands.This tracks.
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lich_king 4mo ago
This is an LLM-written article. It also doesn't say anything. I get it that it's a cue for us to reminisce about childhood and say that LEGO isn't what it used to be, but we're being played for clicks. Open the article and look for a single statement that actually tells us something meaningful. It's just a sequence of impressively-sounding factoids like this:> A 2x2 brick can withstand over 4,000 Newtons of force, which lets children build tall structures.> But in an assembly system like LEGO's,
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the_mitsuhiko 4mo ago
Maybe, but the LLM did not recite the chardet source code so that argument does not appear to apply here.
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charcircuit 4mo ago
M4 and M5 are literally general purpose computing parts. Apple literally owns the most profitable general purpose computing platform with the iPhone.
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I've got to be honest: my complete skepticism that the maker movement is somehow past tense makes it extremely difficult for me to take this tenuous comparison to LLM coding particularly seriously.The author talks about lowered barriers to prototyping as though they represent a failure state; that's absurd, and it has absolutely nothing to do with whether most people have membership-based maker spaces nearby.Meanwhile, we're in a golden era of tool access. It's now possible for people to buy aff
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jama211 5mo ago
Very specific complaint that has nothing to do with the amount of ram you have, that’s a software choice in iOS. Kinda a tangent for a top comment.
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hilliardfarmer 5mo ago
That is not what we are talking about.Also, amazing article, haven't laughed that hard all day!
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conesus [profile] 5mo ago
Thanks to the HN moderators for re-posting this after I posted this a few days ago. I only notice now that it's on the front page.Happy to answer any questions. Let me tell you, I've really enjoyed having those writers that I like highlighted on this comment thread because it makes it very easy to scan it.I think it's important to remember that this is not about hiding writers you disagree with. It's simply about making it so that you can read more Hacker News threads and quickly scanning the co
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Foes (19)

stavros [profile] 26d ago
I guess this explains how I could play tennis for two hours in the sun in 35 degree heat (35 C in shade). I guess I'd better not try it again now that I haven't done it for a while.
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embedding-shape 1mo ago
> Why downvotes?Probably because some missing mention of some specific thing you care deeply about doesn't imply "lack of basic world knowledge" for an entire political office, really strange thing to say and most likely why people are downvoting. It's neither kind, curious and definitively a snark/swipe that doesn't really add anything to the point you were trying to make.
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Quarrelsome 2mo ago
is this just slander or are you basing this on something?I feel like the only way to make an AI slop universe worse is to accuse people of using AI when they're not. So I worry we might be doing that is all...
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tristanj 3mo ago
This question has multiple layers of thinking:1. People who can't read pick randomly.2. People who can read, but are too dumb to model or care about other people pick red.3. People with enough intelligence for basic cognitive empathy pick blue.4. People a little smarter and think through game theory overall pick red, and think they are smart for doing so.5. People smarter than #4 and capable of seeing the big picture realize they don't want to leave people who choose #1 and #3 dead, so they pick
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jbxntuehineoh 3mo ago
> then wait, sometimes for hoursthat just sounds pointless, won't they be dead by that point anyways?
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shiroiuma 3mo ago
Why is anyone still using this site? If you're not a far right-wing neo-Nazi, "X" is not the site for you.
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kubb 3mo ago
Human appetite for more knows no bounds. Imagine what we’d have to do for everyone to have a zettaflop. We won’t have the resources for it. So guys like this one are in competition with normal people who just need a little bit of compute, so that he can feel powerful with a million Claudes. Sad.
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davidw 3mo ago
My grandparents were pretty WASPy, conservative people who lived in northern Idaho. And they hated the white supremacist/neonazi groups up there with a burning passion. They were of an age to remember people going off to fight in Germany and Asia against that kind of ideology.They would have been absolutely appalled and ashamed to see a business leader throwing those salutes and backing it up with talk of a "white homeland" and similar comments.I find it deeply dismaying that people consider tha
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minimaxir 4mo ago
You received a response from HN moderator tomhow in the thread you are subreferencing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404267> Mainstream world news has a place on HN if it contains "significant new information", and as much as this site is primarily for curious conversation and gratifying intellectual curiosity, we don't want to pretend that horrific events like this aren't happening.That thread is just 1 out of 30 on the front page. Far from "so political."
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waffletower 4mo ago
I sense a large number of Polymarket apologists in the comments. Polymarket's existence is a symptom of the ubiquity of Adam Smith's libertine, some would even label satanic ("Do what you wilt"), "free" market thinking. We ought to take it to its natural extreme -- where Polymarket encourages gambling on when specific celebrities, politicians, or even random individuals might die (there is already a name for this: "death pools"). I am sure if they followed through on this openly there would
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havenbarnes 4mo ago
Oh so only dozens of innocents were slaughtered. Thanks for the good news.
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weregiraffe 4mo ago
Iran is practically begging to be destroyed.
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polotics 4mo ago
Indeed just heard that "Epic Fury" is an anagram of "Epstein Files" (FBI-redacted I guess)
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jacquesm 4mo ago
You don't need more speed, you need better planning.
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breppp 4mo ago
That's incorrect, there have been multiple hotels being attacked and recently oil facilities in SA
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LtWorf 4mo ago
Those who do are generally deranged zionists so i'm not sure that would be better than LLMs
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veryemartguy 5mo ago
I am Israelis and this is my attempt at whitewashing genocide
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