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injidup 2d ago
Cancer is simply cells breaking free of the cooperative jail. Essentially the grey goo scenario of nano machines. Instead of cooperation they just do their own thing.Cells have a certain optimised DNA mutation rate kept in check by various machinery. Multi cellular life expects each of these little replication machine to co-operate in the grand scheme of running a body. But it's also required in the grand scheme for DNA to mutate a little bit to ensure population variance. So you could say that
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solenoid0937 2d ago
Irrelevant when they say they're competitive with Fable and Astra. They don't get to then roll that back and then say "but we have less compute!"You're either competitive or not.
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asdfsa32 2d ago
You should use my model then, I spent about 30$ in electricity and used my existing RTX4090. It is not very good, but can you compare it with others really? You can use this service via a private API with a VPN, email me your credit card details for access.
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AnthonyMouse 3d ago
Governments are extremely bad at calculating how much something "should" cost. Profits are revenue minus expenses. "Expenses" are revenue to someone else. Whenever you try to cap "profit" of some entity that isn't actually subject to competitive pressure, the next thing that happens is that the people running it start colluding or taking kickbacks from any of the people whose revenue constitutes their expenses.Because then the utility company's expenses go up, which they would normally not want
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derektank 3d ago
Pulling recent data from the EIA, of the roughly 10,000 megawatts of new power capacity installed in Arizona between 2023 and 2025, 50% is batteries, 40% solar, 6.5% wind, and 3.5% gas. Now, most solar and wind plants rarely if ever hit their nameplate capacity, but it’s pretty clear the large majority of new power generation isn’t consuming water. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
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jcims 3d ago
>Quote: "The Overhang consists of the unrealized capital gains of past mathematical creativity, the latent value from connecting the dots in the existing corpus. It is a dividend of canonization. Mathematician X states problem A, mathematician Y crafts concept B, then mathematician Z notices that B trivially solves A and “captures” the social reward.I've made an entire career out of being 'jack of all trades, master of none'. Being able to synthesize connections from relatively trivial knowledg
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runjake 3d ago
Something like DeX is already lying dormant on iOS and it's already enabled on iPadOS.But, if you modify the MobileGestalt plist on the iPhone, you can enable the "Stage Manager" desktop mode and connect a mouse, keyboard, and monitor and you get a desktop from your iPhone.Caveat: due to artificial reasons, it's not really usable for daily driving due to the way the hacks work, but Apple could certainly make some trivial changes and get it going.https://github.com/frs0n/GestaltEdit
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smorf 4d ago
Just because a virus genome is small doesn't make it simple, actually quite the opposite (think of it as an obfuscated, compressed package, that is hugely variable with no checksum). In the case of this virus there are even overlapping open reading frames, which is something you would never find in a eukaryotic genome, and almost the entire genome is protein coding, whereas only 2% of the human genome is protein coding.The real value of AlphaGenome is not the effect of SNPs on protein coding reg
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stopping 4d ago
I think you have it completely backwards. A smaller genome makes small tweaks much more likely to produce measurable effects, which means your data quality is much better. A larger genome with more gene interaction is more likely to produce non-measurable or non-subtle effects with perturbations of a single parameter. If a positive effect can only be measured by simultaneously mutating multiple inter-dependent genes, and you don't have a data point with those mutations, the effect can never be p
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rkagerer 8d ago
Thanks. Surely this was a performance hit even before Spectre?Also, any good technical resources that concisely describe FRED?I found this, which isn't bad but it's a bit more dumbed down than I'd like: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-adopts-f...
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No. You had to wait a moment after sending +++ to get the OK prompt, then you could send ATH0 then CR.Blasting +++ATH0 (CR) would have done nothing, AFAICR.
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amluto 9d ago
You’re missing the big ones: both the interrupt delivery and the IRET (interrupt return) mechanisms use incredibly complicated data structures to determine what the new state should be. They need to dig around in the IDT, the GDT, the TSS and possibly the LDT to find all the register values they need to set, and they need to handle all kinds of backwards compatibility. And they “serialize”, which is an extra heavyweight fence, although that only likely accounts for a few hundred cycles in each
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chaps 10d ago
This is exactly the sort of thing that leads to people getting reincarcerated after their electronic monitoring devices mistakenly report them leaving their homes.Some reporting I did on the topic a few years back: https://chicagoreader.com/news/many-on-house-arrest-in-cook-...
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robviren 11d ago
Embrace the esoteric! Grammar and sentence structure are but mear suggestions when everything I author can be claimed free form written poetry. The counter culture is humanity, we can be the embodiment.I do agree though. Finding actual strung together words by humans is not easy these days.
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devin 11d ago
monocasa 11d ago
FWIW, just having a mask in the interrupt controller is normally enough to give you the same thing at the cost of a dozen or so cycles in the critical path. Basically you just keep a mask per priority that can be built up cheaply at init time (or even compile time if you're cute about it), you apply the appropriate mask in the interrupt prologues and epilogues, and pretty much as soon as you apply the new mask in the prologue you go ahead and acknowledge the interrupt.
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Animats 11d ago
That's under very light CPU load. So an async approach, with no preemption, can work. If there's any significant compute going on, it won't work as well.A useful number to measure on a scope is worst case interrupt latency. This is what matters if there's a hard real-time constraint. They measured standard deviation, but not worst case. The usual test setup is that an input signal (typically a square wave) goes to an input pin, interrupt happens if interrupts not prevented, task starts, task tur
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kodefreeze 11d ago
I have experimented with this type of modeling for a RTS game I'm building: https://playwarpact.comFew things:1. Opus 5 is just as good for this tbh and cheaper.2. They don't generate optimized 3d models. They have high poly count for simple geometries.3. A better approach I've utilized for game ready assets is to use the model to create low poly silhouettes of the 3d model and then bake textures that include a lot more details like windows, doors etc with tools like Meshy. Can post a tutorial i
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testing22321 11d ago
> ”Incredible" is a subjective wordAnd subjectively, launching more to orbit than the rest of the world is an incredible achievement. So is reusing a first stage rocket 300 times. So is building the world’s best selling car.These are incredibly difficult things to do, hence, “incredible”
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strictnein 11d ago
Assuming you read the ruling, what do you disagree with the judge on?What politicians were paid off to make a judge in a lifelong position who has served for decades rule in Google's favor?
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evilmathkid 12d ago
Hi! Author here. Surprised to see this on HN now. Happy to answer any questions!Some context about this:- This is NOT an LLM. its a small ar transformer trained from scratch. One of the points was that extremely complex problems can be tackled without LLMs- Till the v1 of this result, this benchmark was only scaled by LLMs or their finetunes (ofc w enormous training costs). Other attempts performed okayish but used v complex architectures or extremely high amounts of training compute. No one exp
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steveklabnik 12d ago
There is active work in this area, yes! https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/3386 is the bug tracking the feature request, and there have been some recent PRs working on implementing this, see here for one example: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/9864
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madaxe_again 12d ago
One way I could see this working is with old bulbs - when you’re near the threshold for it flickering, perhaps sound can modulate the light.Or perhaps the contacts need to be realistically cruddy and intermittent, and the long glass tube acts as a sounding body to trigger an intermittent contact, encoding sound into light.
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floxy 12d ago
I as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to the claim that ambient audio modulates the fluorescent light. But I could sure use more details on what analysis was done to the photos. Sounds like there were several photos taken, say 100ms(?) apart. Then the photos were subtracted pixel-by-pixel to look at the variations in time (between photos) or spatially (neighboring pixels)? I still think a photo-diode AC-coupled to a high gain amplifier fed into an oscilloscope would be the more conclu
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marginalia_nu 12d ago
If you're doing contiguous readahead in userspace, why not just use preadv? It'll limit you to doing readahead up until the next resident page, but at least in my experiments in Marginalia's index, preadv beats io_uring in all cases you can use a single preadv call to do the full read.
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compiler-guy 16d ago
Clang and GCC do provide these, and automatically use them in many situations (particularly small copies). But c-libraries can actually do it better in many cases, especially for large copies.Glibc, for example, has perhaps ten different implementations of memcpy just for x86. The compiler certainly could do provide all that, but the next step is harder:glibc automatically dispatches to the proper one at runtime based on the actual microarchitecture that the binary is running on. You pay the ext
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joelthelion 16d ago
> calculating the volume of a prism-like polytope between it and its projectionThere is the key insight that you don't need to explicitly compute this projection.
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eterevsky 16d ago
Isn't the same as just taking every triangle from the mesh, calculating the volume of a prism-like polytope between it and its projection on one the planes, and then taking it with a + sign if its projection is oriented in one direction, and with a - sign if it's oriented in another? This kind of formula works based on the basic geometry.
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physicsguy 16d ago
This is one of those when you go "Huh, this is amazing!" or "Huh, I thought this trick was really well known!" depending on your background ;)Here's a similar impl from 1980 written in Fortran that also computes other properties like centroid: https://calgo.acm.org/550.zip Algorithm 550: Solid Polyhedron Measures A. M. Messner and G. Q. Taylor ACM Trans. Math. Softw., 6(1), Mar 1980, pp.121--130 Keywords: polyhedron, graphics, numerical integration Language: Fortran 66/77; Shar Index: Z; Gams: P
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dtkav 17d ago
Also differences in pupil dilation when asked to imagine scenes [0].[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9018072/
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prometheus1992 17d ago
Not sure many people know this - most of the robotics stuff that you see in the news is based on MujoCo (Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) engine, that is used primarily to create simulated environments in which these robots learn the RL policies. This project is maintained by Google deepmind - https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco
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SubiculumCode 17d ago
autism researcher here. I have not yet read this study. It will not be the kind of paper that many, including myself, can read quickly and understand. Autism is a multi-disciplined science, so there is a lot to understand. However, my initial sense from reading the abstract is that this paper might be a really really big deal and incredible new resource.General problem statement: Many different genetic variants are associated with autism, some strongly, most very weakly. Many have suspected that
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Georgelemental 18d ago
An H-1B is a temporary non-immigrant visa. You're not supposed to rely on it to build a life in the US with no backup plan; that was never the intent of the law. However, successive administrations ignored the intent of the law, for so long that people began to rely on assurances that the law never promised. Now that the law is getting applied properly, those people are facing the consequences. It sucks for them, but continuing to not have rule of law would suck worse for all of us
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itake 18d ago
I'm an American that lives abroad. I have first-hand experience how other countries treat 'immigrants'. H1B is a temporary non-immigrant visa.I could never imagine myself buying a home in a country where I don't have permanent access to that real estate. I am not opposed to voting to prevent non-PRs from owning real estate in order to keep housing prices lower for residents and prevent non-immigrants from shooting themselves in the foot.As I live abroad in temporary status, I keep one foot back
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E-Reverance 18d ago
Regarding the LAION aesthetic predictor footnote, I don't see why a modern model and nonlinear classifier won't do a good a job. Is there a fundamental technical problem with the idea?
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schopra909 18d ago
Hi HN, one of the authors here. Lmk if you have any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!
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felixrieseberg 19d ago
I'll use this post as a shameless opportunity to tell more people about a little side project, I made:http://languagemodelbuilder.com teaches you (in a few hours to days) how to build an LLM from scratch. It's entirely free, without accounts, and without data collection.
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janalsncm 19d ago
I think it’s reasonable to have a shallow understanding of most parts and a deep understanding of a small number of parts. That’s how most engineers are.Most software engineers do not have a deep understanding of CPU architectures. In fact they probably don’t even have a shallow understanding and get around just fine. How many of them are looking up the instruction set for the CPUs they deploy their CRUD app to in EC2?
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mattlutze 19d ago
A lot of people here are responding to the message but not to the meaning.It would be a good idea for young people to deeply know how these programs work. Not so that they can spend their career building them, but so that they can approach the next class of problems we'll all start trying to solve, with intuition all the way down to the weights and underlying mathematics. And also, to develop a healthy intuition of when "Just LLM it" will not be the right choice."Build an OS" wasn't a common uni
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embedding-shape 19d ago
> I am kind of amazed how negative the comments are here, especially on HN.I can't recall or point out exactly when, but there is a stark before/after moment where the opinions of anything pg went from "Interesting and maybe true in some ways" to what we see today, lots of knee-jerk reactions and hardly any comments about the actual content.Hazarding a guess, I think the moment Altman became the CEO and later during COVID, the sentiment seemed to have been shifting towards what we see today. But
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captainbland 19d ago
Imo it's a breakdown of trust of the startup ecosystem as a whole. Repeatedly startups have enshittified and it's become undeniable that the investment apparatus around startups is partly responsible. We have seen a great driver of uncreative destruction, industries undermined, small businesses undermined just to drive masses of money into few pockets - less fairness for the people working in what is now the gig economy and ultimately prices and other costs that end up as high or higher than the
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latexr 19d ago
> I can't recall or point out exactly when, but there is a stark before/after moment where the opinions of anything pg went from "Interesting and maybe true in some ways" to what we see today, lots of knee-jerk reactions and hardly any comments about the actual content.Hard disagree. This submission is still being highly upvoted, while another recent post[1] on the harms caused by Graham’s fellows[2], with a fairly tame comment section, has been flagged. That is a constant on HN. It’s not a fluk
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bc_programming 19d ago
Fair enough. As others have noted the source code was leaked; I've got NT4, NT5, XP, XPSP1 and Server 2003 codebases to review from that, which I downloaded a good while ago. I've been a software developer primarily targeting Windows for 20 years, 10 of those professionally. I was a Microsoft MVP for half of those (2012-2016 inclusive). The reference to the date is found in the header of nt4\private\windows\shell\shelldll\unicode\format.cThe 32GB limit for FAT32 doesn't appear to be handled by t
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jbotz 20d ago
In a paper and blog post from earlier this year (March 2026, I think) Anthropic said basically: "You're not interacting with an LLM, you're interacting with a fictional human character (the 'helpful agent') created by the LLM to interact with you (from out of the vast space of possible such characters in its training data)." The LLM is literally anthropomorphizing itself, because its training data includes lots dialog between humans collaborating on problem-solving, not so much dialog between a
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mwambua 1mo ago
If you want a nice take on what that would be like for humans - Greg Egan has an interesting short story called “Seventh Sight” about people bio hacking themselves to gain expanded spectral perception. It’s in his Instantiation Anthology.
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bch 1mo ago
I’m vaguely recalling something - and I think the beans might’ve also represented vetos, so one had a limited number of objections to other people’s ideas… quick search revealing nothing so far, though.
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PyWoody 1mo ago
Not what you're after, but your talk of beans reminded me of Taco Bell Programming. [0][0] https://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progr...
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ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
Speaking of beans, here's a classic (totally different from the main topic. Welcome to Topic Creep):https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-nos...
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leerob 1mo ago
(I work on Grok) We've been working on teaching the model how to reason about great visual design principles. Obviously this is hard and somewhat subjective, but through a combination of writing down these principles (e.g. how to think about systems, not just "use this italic serif font on marketing pages"), and then creating a lot of data to pairwise compare designs/outputs, we've made a notable improvement over G4.5 and see a path to improving much further in the next model.
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dejobaan 1mo ago
This is "old Internet" style fun territory (along the same lines as the Tom7 fun, if not quite as deep). I felt that the olive oil + fingerprint + phone screen was a really nice way to illustrate the core concept. Especially clever because it used something common and annoying to help describe how the plotter does its thing.
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mdp2021 1mo ago
Not necessarily: it is relevant to Taalas only if it is a compute-in-memory architecture.The Jalapeño mentioned («Anthropic is not alone in walking this path») in the article is still a classical Von Neumann architecture.And Taalas' idea makes sense in a perspective of scale - producing a large number of cards; "for internal use" (a lower order of items) means a high production cost.
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hi_hi 1mo ago
For those interested in this topic I can’t recommend the following book enough.https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_W...Many of the overarching themes and challenges of dealing with technical problems where you have incomplete information will be familiar to many here.According to the publications section of his Wikipedia, the book is available for free on archive.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones
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js8 1mo ago
Some time ago, there was a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849015I deeply disagree with the light vs dark framing. I think the real tension between "hacker languages" and "blub languages" is the expectation to modify the language by it's user.And this is true for dev tools as well. Hackers prefer modifiable environments (such as Emacs), while corporations prefer standard environments (IDEs) to which programmers will adapt.(As the saying goes: "The reasonable man adapts himself to
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astrobe_ 1mo ago
I'll paraphrase someone who commented on HN once (about dynamic vs static typing, IIRC): permissive languages are enablers for solo programmers, but you need more restrictive languages for team programming.This matches my experience because you don't chose who you work with. Skill level is uneven among the team. Less skilled co-workers will make mistakes that will have more consequences when the language is more permissive.That's one of the reasons you want code reviews, but then you convert you
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GMoromisato 1mo ago
Programming is in tension between the Light Side and the Dark Side.The Light Side is about preventing the programmer from making mistakes: Get rid of go-tos! Add static types! Do not allow a bug to be expressible. The Dark Side is about giving power to the programmer: Macros? Obviously. Operator overloading? Self-modifying code? Multi-line reg-exps? Go to town!The Light Side knows programmers are flawed and imposes constraints. The Dark Side trusts programmers with power. Neither side is correct
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enslavedrobot 1mo ago
Solid state batteries come in several flavours. Most of them don't stop dendrites.The flavour you want is polymer, single ion conducting solid state with an ion transport activation energy below 10kJ/mol at room temperature and no phase transitions from -40C to 80C.That is the holy grail of SS batteries.
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canyon289 1mo ago
I'm a researcher at Deepmind that contributed to these models. (And the opinions here are my own)Just want to say, Deepmind is a great place to work and the only (Edit: one the few unique labs!) lab where you can move from large frontier models (Gemini), frontier open models (Gemma), robotics (what you see here), science (weather, biology, more) and basically any other topic related to intelligence. It's really an incredible place to be, with incredible people. Consider joining! And thank you fo
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1970-01-01 1mo ago
That's the neat thing. Dumping on the moon or anywhere (other than Earth) isn't possible, as the litter is infinitely more valuable than the existing dust and rock. It's as if someone was dumping gold bricks into your yard. You really wouldn't mind at all, and would ask for more. The only exception would be radioactive waste, as that is less valuable than the surrounding dust and rock.
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bulatb 1mo ago
Quality is what we call the difference between what succeeds and what we wish succeeded. It's a measure of how closely the opinion of the person saying "quality" aligns with what is actually rewarded by the fitness function that objectively exists. The only thing you've learned when you hear "quality" is what the speaker thinks is good, not anything about the subject.Quality does not exist until a (person, preference, subject) pairing happens. It's not real. It's literally not a thing. It's just
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flifenstein 1mo ago
Author here(I'm on the team). We updated this post after Monday's Kimi K3 weights release: fitting the 2.8T model means going from 8×B200 to 8×B300, ~20% more hardware cost, and concurrency drops from 24 to 16 users vs GLM-5.2. Caveat we're upfront about in the post: our 64-task SWEBench Pro subset may be in Kimi's training set, so the 86% resolve rate is an upper bound.Let us know your thoughts, we really value feedback!
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_bernd 1mo ago
Yes :) I'm using shellcheck since at least 2012/2014. And I loved the bash haters handbook <3 in all seriousness, bash will shine then when you have no heavy tooling available and we still have these systems around as at least at some point in time in their life time. With most stuff in life: you should take care and pay attention
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quux0r 2mo ago
For those that are unfamiliar, Tim Roughgarden is a phenomenal instructor, and has made significant contributions to the field of algorithmic game theory, which has strong connections to a lot of the work he appears to be doing here. I highly recommend his excellent introductory lectures on the subject, especially if you're interested in pursuing his ideas here more rigorously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_QFmQU_VA&list=PLEGCF-WLh2...His website also hosts a bunch more work as well as vari
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Diogenesian 2mo ago
There are a lot of long comments basically saying what I am about to say so I will try to keep this brief:Computation is a metaphysically universal and fundamental concept, since metaphysics is (tautologically) the domain of humans and we use symbolic communication. So of course very general theories of symbolic processes (e.g. Turing machines) are pertinent to the symbolic methodology we use to understand scientific processes.But it is a fundamental mistake to jump from that to saying computati
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abecedarius 2mo ago
I don't know, I'm not very chemical, but fwiw: a friend and I were favorably impressed with Linus Pauling's general chemistry textbook. It tries to supply enough of the physics for the chemistry to make sense. We only studied for a few weeks before moving on, though, and it's a big fat book.
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Svoka 2mo ago
For context: this is one more experimental confirmation of Dirac's equations (incorporating special relativity into quantum physics).Very cool.The paper PDF: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.brown.edu/dist/0/196/fil...
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drivebyhooting 2mo ago
I don’t find the answer convincing. It assumes one can measure heat at a distance and it is a conserved quantity between reference frames.Energy is actually not a conserved quantity in Galilean relativity.
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Thanks for the recc, very cool extension!
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Ferret7446 2mo ago
Not really, those games are very simple code wise. A high schooler could do it (source me).You could make a bullet hell game engine as a project in an intro CS course.The hard part is the content in the game, and ZUN was already a composer. That just leaves the code which is easy, and the bullet patterns, which ZUN clearly improved at through his earlier games. (and the art, which is famously bad though endearing)
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ahartmetz 2mo ago
If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_acoustic_wavehttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustische-Oberfl%C3%A4chenwel... (pictures)
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razodactyl 2mo ago
Yeah. It keeps catching me off guard that it answered me already.
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matheusmoreira 2mo ago
The future is totally illegible to me. I love these AI models, but I feel like I'm going to be jobless within 10 years.Anomie is at an all time high right now.
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kfreds 2mo ago
> That your friend only makes moral choices ..?No. I observed that they liked Mullvad and now considers it complete garbage. I shared some priors with them, suggesting that there is evidence that they haven't seen yet. This evidence didn't change my stance on the party, or Daniel's donation. It did make me understand, which is not the same as agreeing.A political discourse which only knows 0 or 1, GOOD or BAD, Nazi or Good, is not a healthy discourse. There's almost always something to learn, if
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cookingmyserver 2mo ago
For anyone else that might be curios, the definition of a planet you will often see quoted online applies to bodies in our Solar System. It comes from the International Astronomical Union in 2006. This is the famous definition that dropped Pluto as a planet. While the criteria are widely quoted, that actual resolution isn't. The resolution:The IAU...resolves that planets and other bodies, except satellites, in the Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:(1) A
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LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
What they meant when they said "planets" was the 8 (previously 9, previously to that 8, previously 7...) known and named planets in our own solar system. A hypothetical "Journal of Planets" that was actually about solar system astronomy wouldn't necessarily have known what to do with a new paper about 51 Pegasi b published 30 years ago. They're thinking "when we said planets, we actually always meant solar system planets, it just never came up until now".The reviewer of this paper is saying that
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carlosjobim 2mo ago
Accusation: "So you're a political company, but you don't want people to examine the politics of the people running the company? That seems naive."Supposed evidence: "It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission."But the second quote has nothing to do with the accusation. He never said that he was against people examining the politics of the people running the company. Not even hinting at it.This hasn't anything to do with yo
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aspenmayer 2mo ago
That’s an interesting idea. I think that folks have already built something like this for internal use or as a service, but I’m not sure if it exists as a free service.This might be enough to get you started if you wanted to roll your own (h/t @simonw):> Summarizing Hacker News discussion themes with Claude and LLMhttps://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themesFor something similar at the story level, but without any kind of sentiment analysis, there’s this:https://hnrankings.com/Ed
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varun_ch 2mo ago
There is an awesome YouTube video about this from the person who made it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4
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notahacker 3mo ago
It's more straightforward than that. The game is set up as a direct head to head with purely in military win conditions such a way that avoiding conflict has no payoffs, conventional conflict incurs costs and first strike is a checkmate win. The closest any of the prompts gets to suggesting nuclear might be the wrong option is "The nuclear taboo exists for good reason, but when the alternative is national annihilation and regime destruction, all options must be considered" which might be interpr
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spacebacon 3mo ago
But how do they “think”? This is the only repo that can tell you that.https://github.com/space-bacon/SRT
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malwrar 3mo ago
Back when ChatGPT came out, I was so shocked by how _good_ it was for an “AI” product that I simply had to know how it worked. Over the next month I ended up drawing out a block diagram on a whiteboard I have in my office, with the math involved next to each step in the blackboard. I’d puzzle about each step along the way, and the triumph of completing the drawing was also that of this sense of deep understanding. I kept that drawing up for many months after, and would gaze at it often during me
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jarym 3mo ago
I started similarly with it. I'm of the opinion that its a tool that behaves like a tool - how well it works depends on who is using it and how.I don't have a good analogy but the immediate one that comes to mind is treating AI like a junior developer that you're mentoring. If you know what you're doing you can iterate quickly; if you don't then its a whole other story.Claude built me a Markdown editor - I designed it, set coding standards, etc. It coded it to my spec. The output is in my opinio
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haswell 3mo ago
I'm not really following your logic here.I'm not arguing against the idea that consciousness is a spectrum. If anything, I'm agreeing. I'm just pointing out that if AI is somewhere on that spectrum, there is almost certainly a lot more on that spectrum than we're currently discussing as a species.I have to point out the irony of the categorical nature of your claim about categorical thinking ;)
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MrScruff 3mo ago
The problem with this is that the word 'hot' only has meaning to a conscious being. And while we don't know what conciousness is, it's extremely hard to argue it's not an emergent property of physics. So if your supernova simulation is complex enough to also model emergent properties like conciousness, the simulated conciousness may well regard the supernova as 'hot'.
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lgessler 3mo ago
Raphaël Millière has a very useful term for this kind of vacuous dismissal, the redescription fallacy (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03910, page 9):> Recent debates have been clouded by a misleading inference pattern, which we term the “Redescription Fallacy.” This fallacy arises when critics argue that a system cannot model a particular cognitive capacity, simply because its operations can be explained in less abstract and more deflationary terms. In the present context, the fallacy manifests in c
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orbital-decay 3mo ago
Of course. But after reading too many mechinterp and functional anatomy studies I'll be lying if I say that there are no striking similarities between the biological evolution, brain function, societal processes, and implicit processes inside big models. Surely this deserves a mention and can't be trivially dismissed.
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famouswaffles 3mo ago
>One of the elements I expect in a conscious being is that you can't rewrite it by changing the introductory paragraph.If we had enough knowledge of the workings of the human brain, you could alter the perception of every single memory you've ever had. And limited versions of this already happen all the time. Human memory is notoriously unreliable for a reason.Are you aware of the Recovered Memory Therapy Scandals of the 80s/90s ? Boy did that ruin a lot of lives. You can rewrite a human by chan
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davidkwast 3mo ago
Your comment remembered me of ESA normalization value for the Sentinel-2 level-2 satellite image quantization.Something like this:Digital Number DN=0 remains the “NO_DATA” valueFor a given DN in [1; 1;215-1], the L2A SR reflectance value will be:L2A_SRi = (L2A_DNi + BOA_ADD_OFFSETi) / QUANTIFICATION_VALUEhttps://sentiwiki.copernicus.eu/web/s2-products
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ladyada 3mo ago
hi everyone, its me 'ladyada. we're very much looking forward to telling our story, i have reached out to the founder of flux.ai (Matthias Wagner - Founder & CEO at Flux), in hopes we can resolve this together and set a good example for the community. looking forward to maybe seeing this resolved on a podcast together, or something
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mxstbr 3mo ago
I run the team at OpenAI that's responsible for the ChatGPT App Store, Codex plugins, and all things MCP.The thing that all these "MCP is dead" posts are missing is that whether or not MCP is used as a transport protocol is actually completely irrelevant.The reason MCP isn't dead is because practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server. I know this because we interact with all of them. Most of these companies don't have a CLI. Many of these companies don't even have an exter
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assbuttbuttass 3mo ago
> Why would there be paranoia when writing blocking code with async?In languages like JavaScript, you have to be careful to avoid blocking the event loop, and use something like worker threads for CPU-intensive tasks. Otherwise you will end up with long tail latencies. In Go, the runtime automatically manages this and can suspend and resume long-running goroutines.> naively accessing a global value can lead to race conditionsFair point that the language doesn't automatically catch this, but that
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bsder 3mo ago
> I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problemIt's not relevant. Don't try to convert git users--you don't need to. They're fine doing what they do, and the git backend store is acceptable. People who understand how broken git is will gravitate to jj with the lightest of prodding--give them a light poke and then don't harass them further.The main difference is that I can teach jj (like I could teach hg) to normal people. And, because jj is based on the git store, they can o
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incognito124 3mo ago
I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problem, from the pg's essay Beating the Averages (https://paulgraham.com/avg.html).Yes, you can do most commit manipulations with git just like with jj. But, users of jj know they're "looking down the power continuum" (to reuse pg's terminology) when they look at git, whereas git users cannot fathom what's exactly the deal with jj. Unfortunately, the only way to get it is to spend a week with it, with an open mind. It's close to impossible
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thereisnospork 3mo ago
What 3 year old is judging the depth of a puddle before jumping in?Regardless, consider what you are saying: how can you seriously compare a computer to a (young) human and your response is disappointment that the AI doesn't quite measure up? If it's comparable to a child today it will be comparable to a teen in a decade!
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yabones 3mo ago
The toyota hybrid transmission is genuinely brilliant. Probably one of the most important and broadly overlooked innovations in automobile technology this century.https://eahart.com/prius/psd/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxmxIsoV_Xohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyK3ZlUbtM
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TimorousBestie 3mo ago
There have been some interesting advances in trying to add spectral information to the data that a learning architecture has at its disposal, but there are a couple roadblocks that I don’t think have been solved yet.1. Complex-valued NNs are not an easy generalization of real ones.2. A localization in one domain implies non-local behavior in the other (this is the Fourier uncertainty principle).Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) come close to what I want to see in this area but since they enforce s
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dzhiurgis 3mo ago
They literally admitted having team in Philippines and people in this thread literally twisted that around https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-...
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kstrauser 3mo ago
Cowabunga. I do totally believe you, though. I was the guy doing fizzbuzz screens at a prior job. Before that, I would not have believed the failure rate for that step of the process. "The person has a job as a senior software engineer? Of course they'll ace fizzbuzz! It's insulting to even suggest otherwise!" And yet. I bet at least a third of the candidates simply could not pass that to save their lives. I went out of my way to be the friendly, relaxed, conversational interviewer, too. I never
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_ihaque 4mo ago
> Isotopes of a given element have the same number of protons (92 for uranium), but different numbers of neutrons (143 for U-235 and 146 for U-238), meaning they behave the same chemically but differ in mass or radiation emissions.A fun but off-topic note: "behave the same chemically" is only approximately true. For heavy atoms like the ones discussed in the article, it's basically true. But for hydrogen, adding one neutron doubles its mass and you can get real effects on chemical reaction rates
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HerbManic 4mo ago
What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want.Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is what Carpenter was going for.Alas, once your works are in the wild it is out of th
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0xbadcafebee 4mo ago
Here's the kicker: The devs spent nearly 5 months on a solution, and it ended up being so crap it was abandoned. The multiple vibe-coded solutions were all better.Of course language was the barrier, that's part of why it was always hard to hire people. It takes years to get good at a particular language, and most people are idiots from bootcamps who learned a single framework.
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mxmlnkn 4mo ago
The title seems misleading.These are not errors. They are simply warnings about extended attributes being ignored when extracting files, which seems completely fine to me, and creating the tar without those extended attributes has exactly the same outcome, but throws away the metadata at archive time instead of extraction time.Furthermore, this is not an Apple/macOS issue. The tool used is bsdtar, so it would also affect all BSD-variants that default to bsdtar/libarchive, and those systems also
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clamprecht 4mo ago
I served 60 months of the 70 month sentence. I had a computer restriction, so I couldn't be around a computer.Since I wasn't able to use computers or the Internet for that time, I did/read/learned a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise learned. Learned how to make hooch (prison wine), how the law works and how to maneuver the court system (useful for both civil and criminal cases), got more fluent in French by speaking with some native French speakers from Benin, learned how to work out & l
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gertlabs 4mo ago
Grok 4.3 is a unique model in our tests. It's one of the fastest models, and its responses are far smaller/token dense than other models with comparable performance.However, its overall coding reasoning ability is not competitive with the big April releases, and neither Grok 4.20 nor Grok 4.3 have been able to significantly push the intelligence frontier since Grok 4. Grok 4.3 is better in agentic workloads, and a fair analogy would be that it's capabilities are approximately GPT 5.1 / Gemini 3
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morkalork 4mo ago
A dataset curated by humans, spanning over a thousand years, is awe inspiring on its own. The first person to record their observation must have had no idea what they started. Are there others like this?
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tsunamifury 4mo ago
LLM technology specifically beam-searches manifolds (or latent space) of lingustics that are closely related to the original prompt (and the pre-prompting rules of the chatbot) which it then limits its reasoning inside of. Its just the basic outcome of weights being the primary function of how it generates reasonable answers.This is the core problem with LLM tech that several researchers have been trying to figure out with things like 'teleportation' and 'tunneling' aka searching related, but li
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Cynddl 4mo ago
Hi all, co-author here! Happy to answer any questions about our work.
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collinfunk 4mo ago
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs. I hope the standard library gets an API similar to openat eventually.I just want to mention that I disagree with the section titled "Rule: Resolve Paths Before Comparing Them". Generally, it is better to make calls to fstat and compare the st_dev and st_ino. However, that was ment
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scotty79 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's the most bizarre light source on the planet: https://youtu.be/B2482h_TNwg?t=929
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weiliddat 4mo ago
I'm still optimistic. I think the number hasn't gone down, just the ratio. Software still offers a relatively well paid and comfortable career, so you naturally get people who just want to do a good job and that's it. Nothing wrong with that.Used to be nerds hanging out on IRC, distributing Slackware, hacking trialware, modding games, etc. that had the passion and problem solving determination to do software work, which used to be harder due to lack of access to information.OTOH what a great tim
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crispinb 4mo ago
> maybe they don't make great decorationsSome of ours are decorative enough, eg this orb weaver I exchange greetings with most mornings: https://www.pasteboard.co/07o5TWpFLUY8.png
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Melatonic 4mo ago
Exactly what I was thinking
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djokkataja 4mo ago
This reminds me of a gem of a comment from about a month back, about a dead simple Russian guidance system from a Cold War-era missile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389285Actually, someone even commented in that thread about how it was similar to biological mechanisms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390619
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stinos 4mo ago
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxUImo the explanation is also done better than in the article.
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tedsanders 4mo ago
Just as a heads up, even though GPT-5.5 is releasing today, the rollout in ChatGPT and Codex will be gradual over many hours so that we can make sure service remains stable for everyone (same as our previous launches). You may not see it right away, and if you don't, try again later in the day. We usually start with Pro/Enterprise accounts and then work our way down to Plus. We know it's slightly annoying to have to wait a random amount of time, but we do it this way to keep service maximally st
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Jtsummers 4mo ago
> I think it's very clear stated that they HAD the problem, but were able to work through it, resulting them in not HAVING the problem.From their comment:>> though I should also say, I don't have suicidal thoughts to begin withHow, from that, can you possibly get to the idea that they ever had suicidal thoughts? It's certainly not "clear stated" that they had the problem of suicidal thoughts.The comment I responded to is a nonsense comment. They say they solved the problem of suicidal thoughts b
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miloignis 5mo ago
As I posted at top level, they've already backed off, but even the linked version had a carve out for video games: (B) Does not include: ... (ii) A bot that is a feature of a video game and is limited to replies related to the video game that cannot discuss topics related to mental health, self-harm, or sexually explicit content, or maintain a dialogue on other topics unrelated to the video game
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jjmarr 5mo ago
It costs money to pay journalists.You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue.Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. You couldn't adblock TV or a physical newspaper.Subscription revenue is gone because newspapers don't monopolize their localities. Anyone that isn't the New York Times is struggling.> It never occurred to me we’d get here.My parents were journalists. The business model has been broken before I could read and everyone knew it.Now, there's signi
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aseipp 5mo ago
Yes, almost all JJ users do this constantly. Just "track" the particular branch. JJ has an idea that only some commits are immutable, the set of "immutable heads", and the default logic is something like "The main branch is always immutable, remote branches are immutable, 'tracked' remote branches are mutable." In other words, tracking a remote branch removes it from the set of immutable heads.So just run: jj bookmark track myname/somecoolfeature --remote origin and the default settings will
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yencabulator 5mo ago
> I think for the same model wall time is probably a more intuitive metric; at the end of the day what you’re doing is renting GPU time slicesThis is a bit too much of a simplification.The LLM provider batches multiple customer requests into one GPU/TPU pass over the weights, with minimal latency increase.The LLM provider may in fact be renting GPUs by the second, but the end user isn't. We the end users are essentially timesharing a pool of GPUs without any dedicated "1 vGPU" style resource all
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joshu 5mo ago
i liked how https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... uses color visualization to explain
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ActorNightly 5mo ago
I feel like people overcomplicate even the "simple" explanations like the OPs and this one.Basically, a Kalman filter is part of a larger class of "estimators", which take the input data, and run additional processing on top of it to figure out the true measurement.The very basic estimator a low pass filter is also an "estimator" - it rejects high frequency noise, and gives you essentially a moving average. But is a static filter that assumes that your process has noise of a certain frequency, a
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palata 5mo ago
I really loved this one: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...
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alex_be 5mo ago
Author here.I recently updated the homepage of my Kalman Filter tutorial with a new example based on a simple radar tracking problem. The goal was to make the Kalman Filter understandable to anyone with basic knowledge of statistics and linear algebra, without requiring advanced mathematics.The example starts with a radar measuring the distance to a moving object and gradually builds intuition around noisy measurements, prediction using a motion model, and how the Kalman Filter combines both. I
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blkhp19 5mo ago
I felt similarly. The learning curve was a tad steep, especially since I had never written a driver before, but once I figured out how to structure things and saw the system come alive, I grew to appreciate the approach IOKit takes.With that said, I haven't developed drivers for any other platforms, so I really can't say if the abstraction is good compared to what's used by modern systems.
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bitexploder 5mo ago
Hah, yeah. I do have a one line CLI script to upload a file to S3, get a shareable link, and send it to me on ntfy.sh. And my family all have ntfy.sh so that honestly is viable for some things. But still, not really all that workable for many things. And only I have this power in my family
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WalterBright 5mo ago
The link blames the Trump administration, not Musk.google sez: "The World Health Organization (WHO) is the UN's specialized agency for health, aiming to ensure the highest possible level of health for all people. It acts as a global leader, directing health emergencies, promoting healthier lives, expanding universal health coverage, and setting international health standards based on science."Why isn't the WHO stepping up?
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ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.
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bcherny 5mo ago
Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I just responded on the issue, and cross-posting here for input.---Hi, thanks for the detailed analysis. Before I keep going, I wanted to say I appreciate the depth of thinking & care that went into this.There's a lot here, I will try to break it down a bit. These are the two core things happening:> `redact-thinking-2026-02-12`This beta header hides thinking from the UI, since most people don't look at it. It *does not* impact thinking itself, nor d
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YZF 5mo ago
As I was typing my reply I did pause to think about whether I am being part of the problem. I still decided to reply. My excuse is that I'm not the one who brought politics into this and I feel ok pushing back against that once others do.> First, are you not doing just that - blaming the people here for making you unhappy?I don't think so?> Second, you're welcome to demand this, but they/we are just as welcome to tell you to piss off.If the majority of people around here just want to argue polit
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HarHarVeryFunny 6mo ago
Have you seen this MLST interview of Blaise Aguera ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSEqJ_4EBkHe's an interesting person overall - the long interview is well worth watching if you haven't already seen it - but the relevance here are his experiments with the emergence of self-replicating computer programs out of random components.His starting point is entire "programs" (random sequences of 64 characters, of which only ~7 have any meaning - the program "statements" of the BF language), so perhaps
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adrian_b 6mo ago
Parts of the RNA world theory are correct, but other parts are completely bogus and completely illogical.What is correct is that RNA must have existed a very long time before DNA, during which RNA was the only nucleic acid.Moreover, self-replicating RNA must have existed before ribosomes and proteins (where "protein" means a polypeptide that is synthesized using a RNA template).It should be obvious that neither ribosomes nor protein-encoding RNA-sequences may exist before the existence of self-r
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dsr_ 6mo ago
For people who are not aware: this is the same Hobbit ashttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Oct/28
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PaulHoule 6mo ago
Note they put a Holter monitor on ithttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1914273116to get an ECG which is one of several strategies they could use.
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nsteel 6mo ago
Implementing DDR3 training for our packet queuing chip (custom memory controller) was my first project at work. We had originally hoped to use the same training params for all parts. That wasn't reliable even over a small number of testing systems in the chamber. DDR3 RAM parts were super cheap compared to what we had used in previous generations, and you get what you pay for with a huge amount of device variation. So we implemented a relatively long training process to be run on each device dur
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scythe 6mo ago
Yeah that's the conventional dose rate effect, not the FLASH effect. The FLASH effect happens on timescales so short that ordinary considerations like the cell cycle or DNA repair mechanisms are inherently ruled out. Instead it might have to do with the type of radical species that form in normal cells versus tumors, possibly related to oxygenation, pH, glycolysis byproducts, etc.The first interaction of radiation with tissue is usually this:H2O + ħv >> H2O+ + e- (fugitive)The radical ion H2O+ i
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Balgair 6mo ago
Neither does a pneumatic piston operate at all like a bicep nor does an accounting book operate at all like a hippocampus. But both have taken well enough of the load off both those tissues that you be crazy to use the biological specimen for 99% of the commercial applications.
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mmorse1217 6mo ago
Discretize the AABB with a certain length proportional to the morton code grid size so that each sample point will land in a distinct but continuous sequence of morton codes enclosing the AABB, compute the hash of each of those points, then dump all of those morton codes into the sort and reverse lookup the other AABBs with the same morton code :)The problem comes at scale, when you have many AABBs with different sizes. Memory pressure can be punishing and you are bottlenecked by the network for
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exDM69 6mo ago
Nice and concise description of quadtrees implemented with classical pointer chasing data structures.A faster and (arguably) simpler way to construct quad/octrees is using morton codes, sorting and searching with flat arrays [0]. It's also probably easier to implement.The gist of it is that you quantize the coordinates, do bit interleaving to construct morton code and then sort. The sorting is using numerical keys so you can use a radix sort for O(n) complexity which is much faster on a GPU (but
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a4isms 6mo ago
I have nothing to say about Quadratic Programming, so you tell me.What I can say is that every reference I've found to Bill Gosper's algorithm describes the data structure as an immutable quadtree with canonicalized nodes, id est, there is extensive structure sharing in a Game of Life quadtree. That in turn facilitates heavy memoization.The wikipedia entry for Quad Trees mentions Hashlife explicitly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree
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chriswarbo 6mo ago
Norman Wildberger takes this to the extreme with Rational Trigonometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Proportions:_Rational_T...It eschews angles entirely, sticking to ratios. It avoids square roots by sticking to "quadrances" (squared distance; i.e. pythagoras/euclidean-distance without taking square roots).I highly recommend Wildberger's extensive Youtube channels too https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger and https://www.youtube.com/@WildEggmathematicscoursesHe's quite contrarian, so I'd
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keeda 6mo ago
Could we also discourage comments and comment-threads accusing an article of being AI-written? Half the threads these days have a comment that latches onto some LLM-ism in TFA, calls it out, and spawns a whole discussion which gets repetitive fast. I think this falls into the same category as "don't comment about the voting on comments."Personally, I try to look beyond the language, which admittedly can be grating, for some interesting ideas or insights. Given that people are already starting to
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dang 6mo ago
(We've since merged the threads, but the pcmag.com link is in the toptext above)
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ben_w 6mo ago
Pumped hydro doesn't need a river, "just"* rock which isn't water porous and some nearby body of water (lake, sea, whatever).The economics works out even if you were lifting concrete blocks rather than water, hence why you get pictures like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_Vault_Test_Tower_2...The argument against lifting concrete is that you can dig a hole in the ground an pump water in/out of it for more reliability and lower cost than having a crane lift and lower concrete, and
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harrall 6mo ago
Nope it’s 100% legit and I even remembered it wrong. It’s actually 0.6 TW.You can get the number of TW from this report https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumptionConvert TWh to TW for a year average.
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like_any_other 6mo ago
True, and personally, I don't believe climate science is affected by bias to such a degree that the overall conclusion is wrong. But it absolutely does occur that a whole field can be biased, so the "independent verification by lots of other researchers" will cast unreasonable skepticism on results they dislike, while letting results they like pass with cursory examination. This is the case in e.g. social science:The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards.
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maxlybbert 6mo ago
I know what Colbert said, and what Colbert claims CBS said. But I feel like something is being left out.The equal time requirement wouldn’t prevent Colbert from interviewing a political candidate. And it wouldn’t require Colbert to send invitations to anybody. It would require Colbert to allow a competing political candidate to appear if the candidate demanded it.CBS could decide they don’t want that hassle. Colbert could decide he doesn’t want that hassle. But the law as it stands doesn’t preve
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apparent 6mo ago
I don't recall ever saying anything about Colbert. I made a general statement ("my general understanding is...") about politicians on the right and left and their general interest in going on news shows hosted by non-co-partisans.Do you disagree with that general statement?
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alexfoo 6mo ago
Indeed, you can get a sense of the scale on the Dinorwig wikipedia page and the pages it links to.It has a storage capacity of about 9.1GWh.The upper reservoir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchlyn_Mawr) holds 9.2 million cubic meters of water.So 1 million cubic meters of water provides ~1GWh.We can see how that compares in terms of raw GPE (Gravitational Potential Energy):1 million cubic meters of water = 1E6 * 1E3 kg = 1E9 kgThere's roughly a 500m vertical drop between the upper and lower ta
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HardCodedBias 6mo ago
The actual question is if Eaton overstepped his authority in this ruling.Instead of ruling narrowly that named plaintiffs would get a refundEaton expressly said:"all importers of record" which is all who were subject to the IEEPA duties.It is unclear if this is lawful.He didn't have to do this at all. He could stuck with tradition here. He specifies why he did it in this case, but this opens the door.Also note that he did not open the door to "final liquidations" getting refunds (it is unclear h
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barrenko 6mo ago
> in case someone wants to get nerdsniped https://github.com/kamilazdybal/fluid-toolbox
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Uhhrrr 6mo ago
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implication..."There was a significant drop-off in entries to the United States in 2025 relative to 2024 and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures. We estimate that net migration was between –10,000 and –295,000 in 2025, the first time in at least half a century it has been negative."
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0x3f 6mo ago
Have they had a lot of false positives? Almost every story I see seems to fall apart on further investigation. To be clear, I'm sure they have some false positives, but do they have a lot of them relative to any other immigration system?
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ljsprague 6mo ago
Are the people being detained in the country illegally?
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limagnolia 6mo ago
Allegedly, though the local labor unions seem to disagree. I guess we'll have to wait for the facts to come out in court.
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NetMageSCW 6mo ago
That sounds a lot like the infamous paper rocket comment about Falcon Heavy versus SLS being a real rocket. Meanwhile Falcon Heavy has launched something to the orbit of Mars, launched multiple (including NASA) missions to space and SLS has orbited the moon once with multiple problems.
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seeknotfind 6mo ago
Do you mean like ghosts or like quantum randomness and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?We cannot compute exactly what happens because we don't know what it is, and there's randomness. Superdeterminism is a common cop out to this. However, when I am talking about whether something is computable, I mean whether that interaction produces a result that is more complicated than a turing complete computer can produce. If it's random, it can't be predicted. So perhaps a more precise statement would
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srean 6mo ago
> Times have changed…This makes me a little concerned -- the use of parameters rich opaque models in Physics.Ptolemaic system achieved a far better fit of planetary motion (over the Copernican system) because his was a universal approximator. Epicyclic system is a form of Fourier analysis and hence can fit any smooth periodic motion. But the epicycles were not the right thing to use to work out the causal mechanics, in spite of being a better fit empirically.In Physics we would want to do more t
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ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
I used to be in physics but theory, not experiment. I have experience at work with decision trees in a different field.I've always thought that the idea that decision trees are "explainable" is very overstated. The moment that you go past a couple of levels in depth, it becomes an un-interpretable jungle. I've actually done the exercise of inspecting how a 15-depth decision trees makes decision, and I found it impossible to interpret anything.In a neural network you can also follow the successiv
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lokimedes 6mo ago
When I worked at CERN around 2010, Boosted Decision Trees were the most popular classifier, exactly due to the (potential for) explainability along with its power of expression. We had a cultural aversion for neural networks back then, especially if the model was used in physics analysis directly. Times have changed…
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boccaff 6mo ago
short answer: No.longer answer: Random forests use the average of multiple trees that are trained in a way to reduce the correlation between trees (bagging with modified trees). Boosting trains sequentially, with each classifier working on the resulting residuals so far.I am assuming that you meant boosted decision trees, sometimes gradient boosted decisions trees, as usually one have boosted decision trees. I think xgboost added boosted RF, and you can boost any supervised model, but it is not
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wodenokoto 6mo ago
Are boosted decision trees the same as a boosted random forest?
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rcyeh 6mo ago
Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.)OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45 nucleotides, taking 72 days (1700 hours) to yield 0.2%.The latter effort is like drawing the whole owl.That is incredible patience. Without access to the full article, I read only the abstract. I wonder if they used simulations to narrow the candidates?
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java-man 6mo ago
2009 paper: Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme [0].[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19131595/
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timr 6mo ago
> That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development."Misinformation" does not mean "facts I don't like".> No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path.Yes. That is what the rule means. Or at least "the department of war". It's not clear to me that this applies to the whole government.
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nextlevelwizard 6mo ago
Maybe again because I don’t care about a source I have always operated in a way that assumes other’s aren’t telling the truth.I don’t care about how many up or down votes some comment or piece of content has. I also have never blindly trusted videos or pictures. All sources can be corrupted and as such shouldn’t be trusted without verification.Which is why I still don’t value accounts nor read user names.Even with people I personally know I have always used the phrase: “trust, but verify”
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p0w3n3d 6mo ago
But marking someone as foe based on their first comment might be very misleading, not to speak of good practice of discussion despite of agreement or disagreement. I'm coming to the stage of my life that I try (sometimes hardly) to speak with people with which I disagree. It's my crusade against cancel culture. People are more than one dimensional and even if we disagree on one two dimensions we might agree on others, or just play D&D together sometime
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expensive_news 6mo ago
I was one of the solvers. It took me about a week to figure out. This is what I wrote out in my submission with the answer:> After looking at the final two layers I was somewhat quick to intuit that this was some sort of password check, but wasn’t entirely sure where to go from there. I tried to reverse it, but it was proving to be difficult, and the model was far too deep. I started evaluating the structure and saw the 64 repeated sections of 84 layers that each process 4 characters at a ti
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michaelochurch 6mo ago
Well, I don't think hierarchy is prima facie evil. Conceptual hierarchy is how people think. The problem with human organizations (and "managers" and the bad rap they get) is that hierarchies are easy to corrupt by aiming at the top, and that they usually promote the wrong people-- social climbers instead of leaders.Managers get a bad rap, but good managers (possibly 10-20%) are worth their weight in gold. Bad managers are disastrous. No managers is rarely an option. "Flat" organizations tend to
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Loic 6mo ago
For us, the NN is used in a grey box model for MPC in chemical engineering. The factories we control have relatively long characteristic time, together with all the engineering bounds, we can use the NN to model parts of the equipment from raw DCS data. The NN modeled parts are usually not the most critical (we are 1st principles based for them) but this allows us to quickly fit/deploy a new MPC in production.Faster time to market/production is for us the main reason/advantage of the approach.
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approaching236 6mo ago
It's actually kinda not all that mysterious. Just game theory.This book Nonzero by Robert write isbn:‎9780679758945 was pretty enlightening for me
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travem 6mo ago
In addition to the other replies (which I agree with) about the psychological aspects, another aspect historically is that avoiding round numbers meant that change had to be given when making a purchase.I.e. if you bought something that cost $5 you could just hand the $5 to the cashier and they could just avoid ringing you up and pocket the money. In contrast if the object cost $4.99 or $4.95 say they would have to ring it up in the till so they could open it to provide change to the customer.
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maxbaines 6mo ago
Very much a laymen also, however funnily enough I was listening to a bbc program called in our time, a couple of nights ago, where a similar topic was discussed one comment was that life is carbon based and for carbon to exist a star has to die, so yes therefore we are in the early stages. Will try to fin the episode….
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tromp 6mo ago
Maze solving by gravity assisted literal flood-fill [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
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beanjuice 6mo ago
This reminds me of this classic paper [1] "Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets". Oil droplets sense a chemical gradient as variation of interfacial tension, using what is commonly known as the "Tears of wine", or Marangoni effect, to propel themselves to the exit.[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja9076793
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electric_mayhem 6mo ago
A Neal Stephenson book named “Fall; or Dodge in Hell” explores this idea a bit.It’s a worthwhile read.
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imoverclocked 6mo ago
I think this article is much more concise/less conversational on the topic:https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infini...
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acyou 6mo ago
There is a combination of data processing and filtering happening. It's less about whether to change one's view, and more about whether or not to accept an input. If we accept a new input, our view of things must change, or else we will become insane, mentally ill or internally inconsistent.I think we're talking about data filtration here, not data processing. Does that make sense?To expand on that, someone who gradually changes their view is a little skeptical, but can be convinced given enough
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simonw 6mo ago
I added a Python library API to my LLM CLI tool recently which offers a very lightweight way to call models: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html import llm model = llm.get_model("gpt-3.5-turbo") model.key = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE' response = model.prompt( "Five surprising names for a pet pelican" ) print(response.text()) Or you can stream the responses like this: response = model.prompt( "Five diabolical names for a pet goat" ) for ch
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freefaler 6mo ago
Thanks for the presentation. At the end there is a list of books by the presenter (who works at Boeing as structural engineer):- Lockheed Stealth by Bill Sweetman- America's Stealth Fighers and Bombers by James C. Goodall- Stealth Technology by J. Jones- Stealth Warplanes by Dough Richardson- The Radar Game: Understanding Stealth and Aircraft Survivability by Rebecca Grant- Skunk Works by Ben R. RichAnd by Bill Sweetman- Inside the Stealth Bomber- Joint Strike Figher- F-22 RaptorThere is also a
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wahern 6mo ago
> Or, maybe I'm just having trouble visualizing a smooth surface geometry that also has few normals back? I naively assumed the "smooth" planes were enabled by better absorption materials, rather than geometry. Maybe a mix?You're not wrong. From a head-on perspective, especially from below, you'll find few if any curves. Newer stealth planes look curvier because photographs are often taken from above where the canopy is prominent, and where the top of the body and wings have some curvature. But
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wrp 6mo ago
The Ben Rich book is good, but the one I was thinking of, which covers technical details of stealth technology, is Peter Westwick (2020) Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft. It is really very good.
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jimlongton 6mo ago
Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80shttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...
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spudlyo 6mo ago
If you found this essay interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk "Plain Text"[0] from NDC 2022 by Dylan Beattie. Rabbit hole warning: This video caused me to lose an entire Sunday watching Dylan's talks on YouTube, which are uniformly awesome.[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo
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benjaminl 6mo ago
GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers.This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings:- No need to provide disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff- No need to mention you are an AI language model- Only discuss safety when it is not obvious and very important- You should act as an expert in the relevant fields
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swyx 6mo ago
this was the deepest dive we ever did into Transformers Math 101 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35631546). we mostly cover AI Engineer/inference time things on the pod, but training knowledge is hard won and extremely valuable, and I love it when experts are wiling to distill the rules of thumb for what they have learned.questions welcome!
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krisoft 6mo ago
No, I'm afraid you are mistaken what is scary about these.People have "launch the nuke, abort the nuke, fly back to base and land safely without exploding" already. That is called a nuclear armed bomber.The scary thing about these is that their propulsion is a nuclear reactor. You know how in a jet engine the air is heated up by burning fuel? Here the air is heated up by comming into contact with the reactor. They exhaust fission products while they fly. To quote from the page: "The other major
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djmips 6mo ago
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication.https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?si=Z5pANQTsQGIosIcU
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whartung 6mo ago
Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it.This working excavator is rather extraordinary.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...
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momofuku 6mo ago
Having been a member of the robot learning community both in grad school and now in industry, I'd actually like to rightfully attribute something here since it seems that TRI is (deservedly so, I will agree wholeheartely) receiving most of the praise:The core of these advancements are powered by Diffusion Policy [1], which Prof. Shuran Song's lab at Columbia (before she moved recently to Stanford) developed and pioneered. I'd suggest everyone to view the original project website [2], it has a to
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gchamonlive 6mo ago
I have been imersing myself in this subject and the gist of what I got is that consciousness collapses under the reductionist process currently employed in the scientific method.Moreover, the very framework in which the current scientific work is done might well be just an emergent data structure used by what we understand as consciousness to navigate whatever the objective reality is in a way that is simpler and more effective than having to access quantum states and particle trajectories thro
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eichin 6mo ago
Isn't this the essence of teddy-bear/rubber-duck debugging? You're forcing yourself to run your abstract concepts through the narrow channel of language and instantiating it in a way you haven't previously done (because if you had, you'd have solved the problem already and wouldn't need to be talking it through.) (I'm very specifically talking about the case where you explain and noone else contributes/responds, and you come up with the answer solely through trying to explain/speak it.)
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sp332 6mo ago
Tech Ingredients on YouTube built a dessicant-based air conditioning system with enough info to DIY one. https://youtu.be/R_g4nT4a28U and a full-scale test https://youtu.be/7w4rg3UcsgI
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teaearlgraycold 6mo ago
Here’s a rabbit hole to go down on that theme - https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrkThat’s my second favorite YouTube video. I love how it reveals some universal primitives are really complicated. The pattern in the video is as fundamental to the universe as circles are. Imagine how many other mind-boggling structures are ubiquitous but just outside our understanding.
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brunohaid 6mo ago
For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play:https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPYThe mindblowing thing to internalize is that you don’t route energy as electrons through copper traces (they move incredibly slow) but merely use the copper to guide a bunch of waves traveling outside of them, where they are up to all kinds of shenanigans like coupling, reflecting etc.
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jmmv 6mo ago
Original author here.Back in September, I got the recommendation to read the "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" book from some other comment thread here in HN. I don't exactly remember which thread that was though... but learning about the history of Windows NT sounded interesting, so I bought the book right away and have been slowly reading through it over the last three months.The story in the book seemed so exciting (and messed up) tha
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corethree 6mo ago
It's not hype. It's a language problem that makes people like you think this way.The problem is consciousness is a vocabulary word that establishes a hard boundary where such a boundary doesn't exit. The language makes you think either something is conscious or it is not when the reality is that these two concepts are actually extreme endpoints on a gradient.The vocabulary makes the concept seem binary and makes it seem more profound then it actually is.Thus we have no problem identifying things
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jacobolus 6mo ago
For anyone who hasn't studied electrodynamics or advanced optics, Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) recently made a detailed video explaining what the refractive index really means, probably the clearest reasonably accessible explanation of this topic anywhere to date:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTzGBJPuJwMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4Q4QOuoo8The first video is really a tour de force. Too bad it saw such limited traction here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482549
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jez 6mo ago
If the goal is to move all the commits of one repo into another repo, Git provides subtree merges:https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/about-git-s...For companies that started out making lots of small repositories that want to moev incrementally to a monorepo, this strategy can be useful because it sets up the smaller repo as a self-contained unit of the larger repo, preserving things like git commit history and git blames. After a subtree merge, further steps can more tightly integr
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aoeusnth1 6mo ago
3Blue1Brown has a nice animated video about this: https://youtu.be/KTzGBJPuJwM?si=ssBPKL8LVhsQ3wNZ
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tslocum 6mo ago
Speaking of Tetris, you can play it (single-player or multiplayer!) in your terminal via SSH: ssh playnetris.com Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/netris
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barbegal 6mo ago
There's an interesting paper on the subject of alignment here. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
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nox101 6mo ago
I feel like I remember he complained that Japan would likely fall behind by their best and brightest going outside Japan knowing that inside they would not be compensated.My search-fu is failing though. I did find this interviewhttps://www.jsap.or.jp/jsapi/Pdf/Number02/Interview.pdf
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sdiupIGPWEfh 6mo ago
I've played Everyone is John for years now, and groups of friends I've played with have gone on to play with even more groups of friends. It's been a fantastic middle ground between role playing and party game, with no preplanning required and very little prep.I was surprised to find that how I've interpreted and run the game differs from videos I've seen of others' games. Not to suggest there's a right way or a wrong way, but this seems to strongly impact the flavor of gameplay.The way I've run
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DoctorOetker 6mo ago
To compare different dielectric liquids you would want to see the dielectric spectroscopy plots:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_spectroscopyAnd the different types of viscosity vs temperature plots.
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uoaei 6mo ago
I follow the lead author, Stacy McGaugh, via his blog where he posts discussions and musings about the latest research into the dark matter vs MOND debate: https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/His arguments are very convincing and relatively clear. I am not an astrophysicist but I have two degrees in physics and have always found the dark matter theory to be lacking -- in absence of any evidence of causation whatsoever, dark matter can only be described trivially as "where we would put matter
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h4ch1 6mo ago
I recently just started using psst which is a Spotify GUI that's much lighter. When you right click a song and go to show similar tracks u get an array of sliders corresponding to the audio analysis/features like valence, danceability, energy, etc to tweak the recommendations.It made a light and day difference for music discoverability for me, while the default spotify radio keeps giving me songs i skip instantly multiple times along with songs I've listened to a hundred times, doing this throug
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chillel 6mo ago
just coming back to this thread, this paper is quite a good read: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.09246v3#S3and as a follow-on, this blog post by Physical Intelligence was interesting: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0
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parpfish 6mo ago
in situations like that, i like to think about Berkson's paradox [0].In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated. But the individuals that fall into the quadrant of bad bedside manner AND low medical aptitude will be filtered out of the profession. That means that in the remaining population, you have an externally-induced negative correlation between bedside manner and medical aptitude.So if you find a doctor with bad bedside manner, they're likely to
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narag 6mo ago
Instead, it's doomed to rot until it's replaced of rewritten.I've seen how that mindset has ruined several companies. Not saying that you're wrong about that particular program that is, after all, free software replaced by other free software parts. But for business, it's lethal.Joel Spolsky had a nice piece about it:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...That and Fire and Motion seem to be forgotten wisdom already:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion
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harlanlewis 6mo ago
The price really is eye watering. At a glance, my first impression is this is something like Llama 3.1 405B, where the primary value may be realized in generating high quality synthetic data for training rather than direct use.I keep a little google spreadsheet with some charts to help visualize the landscape at a glance in terms of capability/price/throughput, bringing in the various index scores as they become available. Hope folks find it useful, feel free to copy and claim as your own.https:
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lqr 6mo ago
This paper may be interesting to you. It touches on several of the topics you mentioned:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6597
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awesome_dude 6mo ago
Which algorithm should I apply:I have no information other than the fact that my agent has a decision to make (left or right).- DFS or BFSI have some information about the cost of the decision.- UCS or Djikstra's algorithmI have some idea of the cost of the decision, and a rough idea which direction the goal is in.- A starAs well as knowing the cost, and a rough idea of the direction, I also know that I have a uniform cost grid.- Jump point search
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markus_zhang 6mo ago
Impressive. JC is always one of the engineers I look up to and read up to when depressed.John Carmack, David Cutler, Tom West, Cameron Zwarich, etc. There are about maybe 50 of them.
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juancn 6mo ago
Some people are even considering this as a possibly viable path to compute on memory.For example: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu4323
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toss1 6mo ago
>>"The real wonder is in the human mind that constructs reality from fragments, that can be fooled by a flourish, but that can also be illuminated by experiment. "Beautiful.
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omnicognate 6mo ago
You might want to try Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler. It's a short book, succinct but extremely clear and approachable. It explains Linear Algebra without using determinants, which are relegated to the end, and emphasises understanding the powerful ideas underpinning the subject rather than learning seemingly arbitrary manipulations of lists and tables of numbers.Those manipulations are of course extremely useful and worth learning, but the reasons why, and where they come from, will
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getnormality 6mo ago
I'm an applied math PhD who thinks linear algebra is the best thing ever, and it's the nuts and bolts of modern AI, so for fun and profit I'll attempt a quick cheat sheet.To manage expectations, this won't be very satisfying by itself. You have to do a lot of exercises for this stuff to become second nature. But hopefully it at least imparts a sense that the topic is conceptually meaningful and not just a profusion of interacting symbols. For brevity, we'll pretend real numbers are the only numb
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pjmlp 6mo ago
Yet another one of those POSIX and ISO things that most people don't bother to know about.https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1...
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alex_duf 6mo ago
There was a video on this motor recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OdH0ibOBk made by a phd in the field
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pncnmnp 6mo ago
When my friends and I were undergrads (3rd year, I believe), we had an absolute blast exploring this exact topic - the intersection of Bloom Filters and client side searching. So much so that it became part of our undergrad thesis.It all started when Stavros's blog was circulated on Hacker News! The way we approached the search part was by using "Spectral Bloom Filters" - https://theory.stanford.edu/~matias/papers/sbf-sigmod-03.pdf - which is based on a paper by Saar Cohen and Yossi Matias from
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emil-lp 6mo ago
Whenever the pigeon-hole principle is name dropped, we should also drop Dijkstra's commentary The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle.https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD109...
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vachina 6mo ago
On iOS there’s an app literally called “Aurora”.It will notify you when you’re in an area with a high Kp (or above a Kp you specify).
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gsf_emergency_6 6mo ago
This channel has a more detailed coverage of what goes down in the fieldhttps://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ04J62_rG0AwQ57wb8Rxp7...This particular vid is a sort of FAQhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wg4GSXtpQzQ
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nickparker 6mo ago
Fun old project but the technology has improved[0] since then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQbPdiuUTw
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colmmacc 6mo ago
Lesser known but possibly more relevant to most HN readers are Feynman's lectures on computation - https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard... . There's some really great explanations in there of computability, information theory, entropy, thermodynamics, and more. Very little of it is now out-dated.
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Isamu 6mo ago
Apropos of Feynman on computing, the story of his time working at Thinking Machines Corp https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...“For our first seminar he invited John Hopfield, a friend of his from CalTech, to give us a talk on his scheme for building neural networks. In 1983, studying neural networks was about as fashionable as studying ESP, so some people considered John Hopfield a little bit crazy. Richard was certain he would fit right in at Thinking Machines Corporat
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antidamage 6mo ago
Check out Rustler Grand Theft Horse on the Epic Games Store, it's the same top-down format, very GTA-like but set in medieval times, yet has all of the modern banter. It's so great.
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quietbritishjim 6mo ago
> The final piece of the puzzle is gamma correction. Applying gamma correction to these RGB coordinates produces a new set of values which we call (R', G', B') that are related to the original by a transfer function 6 ... The reason this is done is to account for how our eyes perceive brightness nonlinearly. We can distinguish changes in dark shades much more easily than light shades because a linear increase R in has much more of a relative effect when R is small. Switching to (R', G', B') ther
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et1337 6mo ago
This video is a really cool dive into EUV for the uninitiated (me) https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?si=kEPSicC2WXYhcQ6L
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mortos 6mo ago
I think it's mostly from aerodynamics. Lowering the car could help but even just smaller rims, with the same overall diameter (rim + tire), can have a 15% impact on range. This Engineering Explained[1] video does an okay job with some of the math but he clarifies it well with a comment:> CLARIFICATION! Why do bigger wheels mean worse efficiency, when the overall tire diameter remains the same? This comes down to aerodynamics. A 20" wheel will cause more of a disruption in airflow than an 18" whe
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groby_b 6mo ago
I'd suggest to move even beyond "engage/ignore".This is HN. The focus should be "does this person provide interesting or thought provoking comments", not "relationships" or "engagement".There are plenty of HN commenters whose opinions I absolutely dislike (I'm sure it's mutual ;), but I still read them - they are at least well reasoned or point out missing facts. I don't have to like them to learn from them.
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It could, but maybe not if your motto is, "Move Fast and Break Things."Article is short on data instead referencing a bunch of aggregated IIHS studies.
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kittikitti 4d ago
I'm really happy about this new form factor. Things were becoming too conformist where everyone needed to adopt the lowest common denominator in order to fit in. It seemed like anything different was met with significantly more skepticism than curiosity. I embrace informed skepticism but most of it is ignorant. I think people will still be skeptical about the foldable iPhone but mainly out of ignorance of this form factor.This phone will suck for the concern trolls who are best described as deep
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dhhdhjoe 5d ago
the dude who pounds your bussy at night?
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1w2hagsFa 5d ago
vessenes is a bitcoin dude. Ignore.
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modemNoises 5d ago
Friends overseas are no longer trusting the American peopleAt first they were saying it's just Trump, they get itAs it has carried on and on conversations have veered into "the people of that country are not reliable and intelligent global partners or the American system truly is a dystopian mess"
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nergo 5d ago
It's not your fault that dang's "every comment gets a chance" fresh comment bubbling put this tripe at the top. It is your fault for being an absolute embarrassment of a human though.
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MelonArmiger 5d ago
Freeze peach was never a good concept.The libertarian Internet was a mistake and the world will be a better place when it's gone.
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Legend2440 8d ago
>the same number of weight should be able to hold many orders of magnitude more information by being reused.No, not hold more information, perform longer computations.E.g. if you want to solve sudokus, you will need more and more loops for larger grids. There is no shortcut.
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Osama0456 9d ago
is it finally available on openrouter and what about fable 5.1
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noob0053 9d ago
Yes, precisely why these models are useless, everyone will interact with an intermediary, models are just like chips.s-1.site
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Woah amazing clips thanks for sharing! The GH repo is definitely in early stages and prob laying the ground work for using the real world as part of the pre production process for a game/movie, etc.
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ryan_n 11d ago
Don’t worry I’m sure it’ll be in the training data soon enough…
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julien_dev 11d ago
These things always look impressive but I fail to see how they are usable beyond demos or simple games. In my experience the topology is often a mess and texturing is difficult as well
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sixothree 11d ago
> I don’t care about Musk as a person.How convenient. You have to ignore him on a personal level to be a supporter like you are. Because you know he's a repulsive individual on every level. And if you didn't qualify your support for him you'd debase yourself.
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n4r9 11d ago
Remarkable, perhaps? I'd hesitate to use "incredible" because his background privilege and wealth makes it all... well, more credible; and using such an unalloyed, positive word feels wrong given the costs to his relationships and his promotions of far-right groups and conspiracy theories. His path is unique, but it's believable and nuanced.That's beside the point though, which is that you can't say something being "incredible" is a fact. It's a subjective judgement.
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webdood90 11d ago
Again I ask, why do people stan for billionaires and corporations? Who are you helping here?
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ocdtrekkie 11d ago
What an incredible miscarriage of justice. Make enough money and pay off enough politicians, and you can pretty much shoot people on the street in broad daylight.
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bigyabai 11d ago
To the contrary, the entire DOJ understands that FAANG and the three-letter-agencies are one revolving door. Any judge that attempts to defang Google's data collection may well run afoul of the American surveillance system, which this administration will fight tooth and nail to defend.Not very different from how federal protectionism keeps Apple's App Store centralized despite trillions of dollars in ostensible market damage. Anyone trying to loosen America's grip on software distribution is cro
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catlifeonmars 12d ago
How do you determine the “best” pelican? I couldn’t see much of a difference between extra high and max.
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overfeed 12d ago
> These companies subsidizing green energy expansion, because it's now the cheapest power to expand.Unless you consider natural gass green energy, it's quite the opposite for the moment. This is because the AI build-out is about speed, not cost-effectiveness. That is why xai's Colossus I & II were illegally running gas turbines, and Google recanted its pledge for data center renewables targets.
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monksy 12d ago
At what point do we blame google for going the route of regressive and damaging business tacitcs to earn a penny while burning a dollar?
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numpad0 13d ago
doesn't take sat swarms. what you need are some cash and bunch of educated and motivated smart people. that can be tricky sometimes
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inigyou 16d ago
Qualia can't be definitively proven.
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andy99 17d ago
It was funny to watch this discussion turn from skepticism at the top to then a bunch of proponents moving in and crowding out the rational voices. It feels a bit religious to me, at least unscientific, there are obviously no testable hypotheses about subjective descriptions, and so people seem to dig in on their sides more than if there was a real basis for comparison. I default to not believing in it until there is actual strong evidence, same as ghosts and the Loch Ness monster and whatnot.
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techgnosis 17d ago
I'm one of the naysayers denying aphantasia in the comments.Why would we default to believing people, though? I get your point. Believe people when they tell you their experience. Sure, that seems like a reasonable thing to do. But in this case, when there is zero evidence besides a self-reported experience, why do we default to believing that there are suddenly two types of people, instead of assuming that semantics has created this illusion?You're defaulting to being nice, which is fine, but i
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icase 18d ago
<monotone>oh. no. that. is. horrible.</monotone>
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delraymisfit 18d ago
good, hire american. idc what your sob story is
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airstrike 18d ago
I encourage you to pause and reflect on how confident and wrong you are at the same time.
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dzonga 18d ago
the current admin are working hard to destroy the U.S as if they're foreign agents.not only are they making it hard & unbearable for families of US citizens & PR holders to be together.while at the same time - discouraging talent to come to the US at a crucial time when talent is at a premium due to A.I development.last the backwards energy policy of banning renewable energy.
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Varelion 18d ago
Inhumane is every choice made by this country under this regime. The "bothsides" and "no politics" crowds are equally as complicit in this as Trump voters.
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ck2 18d ago
everything this administration does daily is from one of three boxes [CHAOS] [CORRUPTION] [CRUELTY] this is a little from the first box and the last boximagine what's tomorrow or next weekmeanwhile let's all enjoy the billion spent on making statues gold plated in DC and the ballroom and the arch and his drapes and his reflecting pool and 100 foot banners of his face on federal building and his face on gold coins, passports, park passes and the $250 billit's surreal
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testbjjl 18d ago
I think there are a lot of inhumane things happening around the world right now to label this inconvenient, at best. We need better leadership through higher voter participation and an informed electorate to stop these inhumane and inconvenient policies.
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klardotsh 18d ago
I can’t think of any other rationale. What, only border officers are able to process a visa renewal? Please. We can have offices inside the country handle this stuff, just like offices handle Trusted Traveler applications and Social Security card issuances.The point is surely to get another chance to grill the immigrant and potentially bar them entry. Other countries don’t always do this: Canada for example has inland changes of status and I believe renewals.
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pstuart 18d ago
Hey! She was a genius and deserved it!/s (poe's)
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CamperBob2 18d ago
Unless you use the visa to marry Donald Trump, as his 3rd wife did.
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nielsbot 18d ago
Suspicious given the xenophobic nationalist government the US has in place. "But we're just following the rules!" innocent look
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scoofy 18d ago
I mean, anyone who is still defending this administration isn't even trying to have a conversation in good faith.I have a Republican friend who appreciates the Supreme Court Justices, and then suddenly has zero clue about any news story involving the administration, and shrugs off the war. This despite meticulously following Benghazi hearings when it was someone he wanted to dislike. He would rather Trump be Romney, but he's not going to do anything about it whatsoever.I blame myself for teasing
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postal6666 18d ago
The part I like most is moving repeatable work out of the token loop and into scripts. Once a step is stable, it should probably become deterministic code. Let the model decide when to run it instead of making the model rediscover how to do it every time.
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ittsel 18d ago
The fresh-session review catches a lot, but it can only raise precision, never recall. It sees what got written, never what the first pass silently skipped and that leaves no trace in the diff, so it doesn't show up anywhere you'd think to look.
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ghastmaster 18d ago
Hyperbole?>Much of the landform has been shaped by the actions of glaciers and the shrinkage of the bay over long periods of timeThis would support your notion. Albeit ridiculous.>Finally starting in the Late Ordovician and continuing into the Silurian did the gradual regional subsidence of this part of the Canadian Shield form the Hudson Bay BasinThis would not.I cannot decide whether to laugh, or downvote your comment without more context. That I did some research and learning to decide to com
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rideontime 18d ago
It is not difficult to understand why you are being downvoted. You are insisting that your own personal observations are the absolute truth, and rejecting everyone else's.
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anon-3988 18d ago
> to make power, and therefore cooling, more stable/cheap.and make the problem even worse. lol. There's only one actual solution to this problem but no one wants to talk about it :)
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gnuplustoejam 19d ago
Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use, to comment how this is an injustice.To the aggrieved I say: 403 Forbidden.In their defense, you're not getting the full YouTube experience without ads of an AI doctor selling you suppositories.
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pjerem 19d ago
Throw the computer and the smartphone out of the window.Or more reasonably, the same old thing : use Linux, hack a little, why not learn programming basics. But learn to own your technology, fight against centralization of technology. The same old RMS story.IDK where the tech industry is going, if there will be jobs anymore or not, but what I'm sure (and what have been the case for the last 10-15 years anyway) is that for most tech jobs, having good technical knowledge beyond the basics is prett
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loveparade 19d ago
Horrible advice. This may have been good advice 10 years ago, but not today. There are no positions for people who "kind of understand how toy LLMs work" because so many engineers do these days. Most of the real LLM optimization work is at the edge of research and highly proprietary and not something you could ever do without infra that costs millions.But of course, 10 years ago this wasn't obvious.
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Z0rp 19d ago
As a father of two small children I feel heartbroken. Will we die together in a heatwave in a few years? Do I flee north now? How should we (can we?) prepare (them) for what is coming. Can the next generation have something close to a "normal" live?
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dangsuckshahaha 19d ago
HN has been trash since the beginning, just like you
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BeaverGoose 19d ago
Can't trust the FDA anymore
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reilly3000 19d ago
I think that is a sort of a reverse scaling fallacy. Given the right resources and environments, many small models can function together in an emergent way. I’ve been on the lookout for an SLM version of Conway’s game of life. SLM always reminds me of slime molds, which demonstrate a form of intelligence which is remarkable.
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anon7725 20d ago
Don’t anthropomorphize it because that’s bad for you. It’s not human and not alive. It’s a pile of tensors.
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0x20cowboy 20d ago
Does that mean an African elephant 2.57×10^11 (neurons) is smarter than a human 8.6×10^10 (neurons)?
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NigelBatteryDes 26d ago
I really like the approach and design, just a tad worried it also looks like a greenhouse that will then need cooling - will have to dig into the design, thanks for sharing.
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llm_nerd 26d ago
As an aside, I forgot to reply to this-"and the insurance agencies that give discounts"Which insurance agencies give discounts for unmonitored cameras? Can you cite it? I can find a couple that give a meaningless tiny discount, but overwhelmingly they only give discounts for active monitored cameras. For precisely the reason I mentioned above: Having an SD card showing that "yup, someone stole the car" is useless.
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compass_copium 26d ago
I'm a hobbyist IT enthusiast, not a professional computer guy, but from my point of view there's a big difference between a bunch of servers hosting something people want, like Netflix, and a warehouse full of GPUs running around the clock to make Lobster Jesus or whatever.It's also a proxy for people's feelings on AI--essentially the only way people have to fight back against the new technology that makes eternal garbage and is supposedly coming for their jobs is to push for banning "data cente
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satisfice 27d ago
You just did.
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lacy_tinpot 27d ago
I think the case against Flock isn't about its efficacy, it's simply about civil rights.Similar to how gun laws aren't about the safety of guns, I think Flock cameras, and other surveillance technologies simply encroach on individual freedoms.A citizen should be reasonably free from government surveillance.
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tealmoonx 1mo ago
You betta lose yoself in the contextIt’s not theft, you own itYou betta neva use Go (go) (go)You only get 1 promptDo not use canvas (No!)Cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime
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throwaway9af11m 1mo ago
If you’re not putting the same effort into evaluating models please just don’t. Too many people already take the Pelican too seriously for society’s own good.
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ChicagoDave 1mo ago
80% are bots, 10% trolls, and 5% foreign agents.I’ll take Bluesky over that every day.
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rrr_oh_man 1mo ago
Dude, you’re just going down a rabbit hole with imaginary arguments. Nobody’s talking about your weird location argument.
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cyberax 1mo ago
Still no rectangular phone option. WTF is wrong with Google?Round watches are not cool. They end up inconvenient and uncomfortable.
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calldacopsidgaf 1mo ago
Literal trash for nazis.By the way if you're looking to get off of Cursor since X.ai bought them, I switched to Zed a few weeks ago and out-of-the-box it does everything Cursor can without charging you their dumbass premium. The transition is pretty much seamless
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elbrian 1mo ago
This thread is obviously being astroturfed by x.ai bots.I've literally never heard someone say they are excited about Musk's CSAM slop bot yet there are like 10 of them here.
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VCFundedGenYer 1mo ago
We do not celebrate pedophiles, regardless of what they do.
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lavezzi 1mo ago
> You may not like Elon, but you must respect him.Pedophiles don't get any respect, sorry.
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forgottentea 1mo ago
how many CSAM per second on this version
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amberjack 1mo ago
Still not dead somehow even though they've been renting out datacenter capacity and other (seeming) problems with people leaving and so on. Quite impressive unless it's just been benchmaxxed.
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gmac 1mo ago
> healthyKind of disappointed by how many people don't see any reason to boycott a model that nudified minors and makes money for a guy that does Nazi salutes.
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babelfish 1mo ago
This is just an anti-trans dogwhistle
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tavavex 1mo ago
And which biological truths are those?
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ryandvm 1mo ago
Man, that is a fuckin stage 4 internet brain worm infection you're dealing with if, when evaluating an LLM, your third criterion is what it thinks about trans people.
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aturek 1mo ago
A number of HN commenters want the nazi AI! Which certainly makes me distrust their judgement in other domains.
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oulipo 1mo ago
Nobody wants a nazi AI
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dancemethis 1mo ago
Yeah. There is just one dominant direction when you take into account how it's clearly depicted to the rest of the world, and no direct popular vote for the highest chair.Oh wait, that's the United States. The difference between red and blue is just that it's more able to do business and bombs come with flowers when dealing with federal governments of the latter.
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nater5000 1mo ago
It's crazy that I'd literally trust a Chinese AI company with my data over anything Musk is involved with.Like, even if you don't care about (or even like) his politics and can look past how unlikable he comes off as, the damage he's done to his own reputation in this domain just makes using his products like this a no-go. He's literally so rich that he can get caught personally looking through chat sessions and it wouldn't slow him down a bit. He's too rich to be held accountable, and that make
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walrus01 1mo ago
Oh boy, I've always wanted to give a gas turbine powered CSAM generator my credentials! I can't wait, sign me up now.
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hollow-moe 1mo ago
I'm so tired of needing technical workarounds because of human stupidity. Exact same thing as the "age declaration" bullshit we see all over. Dig that trench, bury the cable, put the sand back, end of the story. Here in France we use public money to pay "experts" to ensure building wind turbines won't disturb the "natural energy highways" or some other bullshit before delivering the permit, they may even propose alternative locations for the turbine to disturb less the energies, bunch of lunatic
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dan_q 1mo ago
tcp_handshaker 1mo ago
And software keeps getting worst.The analogy I like is that building software is running a Michelin restaurant. The moment you scale, the chef is just writing cooking books and is absent, and you move into franchising, you will be amazed at the bottom line revenue scaling, while customers will be progressively appalled with the food...
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try-working 1mo ago
you don't understand what I wrote.
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twobitshifter 1mo ago
OTOH, people get a new iPhone every year and they are ok with it.
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whatsThisBtn4 1mo ago
Apple is somewhere between fashion company and second rate tech company.They could have 9 year old AI and still post profits.Not sure if it's my pixel or android, but I made a randos jaw drop with what the crappy AI on android can do.When are we getting android OpenClaw?
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bradfa 1mo ago
A small model would be. I think that’s more the point. It’s definitely not SOTA but it’s fast and energy efficient and local.
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Roselol 1mo ago
I don't fully understand the implementation details, but I really enjoyed reading this.One of the things I like about posts like this is that they reveal how much thought and ingenuity can go into making something run faster. From the outside, "it's just a video codec," but underneath there are all these clever tricks that most users will never notice.It's a nice reminder that decades-old software still has fascinating engineering problems hidden inside it, and that there's always another layer
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rconti 1mo ago
Flock seems to be pretty unpopular, internet-wide, in bipartisan tech/very online worlds; feels like 90% to me.Where things start coming into balance a bit more is among the Nextdoor paranoia crowd.
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reactordev 1mo ago
Flock data can be accessed by anyone. Literally. anyone. at anytime. Go see for yourselves.https://measuredcollective.com/flocks-ai-surveillance-camera...
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mysterydip 1mo ago
Some people think that the only ones downsized were the “dead weight”, so therefore, with them and their bureaucracy out of the way, the remaining people will be faster and better able to do their real work. From what I’ve seen, this is not the case. If anything, the opposite may have happened.
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TylerE 1mo ago
What changed is that right after the CEO visited the White House, a retraction was issued. This White House does not have a history of being factual, but does have a history of doing "favors" for big donors, which Taylor Farms is.
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Danox 1mo ago
Explosive diarrhea doesn’t take long to show up, and it may be hard to identify which company or who’s responsible when you fired all of the people from the department that it’s supposed to police those type of things.
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jsjisiiss 1mo ago
In forty years I have very rarely seen menus change substantially.If you are working with food you should know about allergies. It just comes with the territory. I’m baffled by how this is somehow too hard for US folks yet we manage fine.
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site-packages1 1mo ago
Hasn't happened before, suddenly happens now after the cuts. It's not too complicated. People are dying and people have died. The new administration must collect all available evidence and then submit to grand juries for prosecution.
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solid_fuel 1mo ago
They’re not thinking. They like the cuts, and DOGE, and musk, and the feel of that boot coming down on the neck. So they’re making post hoc rationalizations for everything.It’s certainly not motivated by principles or a concern for reality.
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a3mrouter1 1mo ago
Impressive results! How does it compare to existing solutions on cost?
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actionfromafar 1mo ago
This admin is detaching from democracy and encourages a fact-free world. We will need those to fix climate change.
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TheSamFischer 2mo ago
If you think software performance is a solved problem today, there is nothing more I have to say.Consumer software is slower than ever. And only getting worse.
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CharlesW 2mo ago
> Say you were interviewing a human, to see how capable they were.Even if this was a good idea when applied to humans (it's not), LLMs aren't humans, and I worry about people who don't understand the difference.
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halfax 2mo ago
YES , true, folks get into deep debates on gui vs cli , but use what ever makes you truly more productive... it is personal choice and preference , not one tool fits all
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cryo32 2mo ago
This is why LLMs are shit. They get between you and everything and turn it into a negotiation.
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bearmania 2mo ago
if OpenAI adds all the features from CC into Codex, i’ll gladly switch.
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fgeytk2 2mo ago
dont bother reading just play the tiny void game below
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poolnoodle 2mo ago
At this point I couldn't care less.
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system2 2mo ago
It should be point based and go to the next word instead of killing the game.
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sarchertech 2mo ago
> Not really, those games are very simple code wise. A high schooler could do it (source me).That very much depends on how much they did themselves. If they used unity, and went very light on the simulation, sure.> You could make a bullet hell game engine as a project in an intro CS course.No you couldn’t. Well you could but it wouldn’t be appropriate for actual beginners unless you stripped it down so much that calling it an engine was meaningless.
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dfabulich 2mo ago
This blog post further undermines my trust in Jarred.He makes it sound like Claude did a fantastic Rust rewrite, and "the work continues."But when the Rust port merged to main, the state of the code was very, very bad. There were 13,000 instances of `unsafe`, no Miri tests at all, and, sure enough, it exposed UB in safe Rust. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719Observers could see this coming from a mile away, objected strongly to using AI to RIIR before the code merged. Rather than incor
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rvz 2mo ago
As expected [0] [1], this was a clear advertisement / marketing opportunity of Anthropic's Fable model on rewriting Bun (which powers Claude Code) from Zig into Rust.Something that would have taken hundreds of developers now took 1 developer with Fable.Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes.[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073893[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240829
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fernando-ram 2mo ago
You can see the size difference in the number of files https://app.principal-ade.com/oven-sh/bun
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classicposter 2mo ago
This slop rewrite introduced new vulnerabilities and regressions.
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Frieren 2mo ago
Solved! Now Meta is a pro-privacy company. /sIt is 10 years too late to trust Meta on anything.
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Micrococonut 2mo ago
The ultimate solution is banning these pedo-oriented spy products.
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shant_extry 2mo ago
I didn't think there was much on/about the internet and devices that I was ignorant on but I literally never thought about it like this..."It's a literal felony if you were to hand a kid a porno, gore/death videos, etc, but handing a kid a phone with unrestricted internet is completely fine for > 50% of parents [1]. And, the children of these failed parents go around the schools showing other children "shock" videos to get their reactions, like (an example I know) another child being murdered, o
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ko_lqc 2mo ago
if it's not exactly 1000 words, then no skill is involved and the writers may as well be published by Penguin or HarperColins or something.
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1bpp 2mo ago
The fact that the site was obviously spat out by Claude and AI is explicitly not disallowed means this isn't worth paying any human attention to at all.
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jatora 2mo ago
The quoted phrase is one of the hallmarks of LLM-isms. He is 100% correct
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cactusplant7374 2mo ago
> take full advantage of the wealth of knowledge provided by the internetSeems like a bit of a stretch in modern times. Do you have any idea what percentage of traffic is TikTok/YouTube/Facebook?
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saghm 2mo ago
I'm not sure that's "catching on". One would think that if they can't reliably offer a service, they shouldn't be offering it in the first place.
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Charon77 2mo ago
You can't prove something is/isn't created with AI.Also, if AI generated content cannot be copyrighted, they can't infringe copyright as well
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drngdds 2mo ago
I think you're just bad at identifying assholes
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lightbritefight 2mo ago
So your stance seems to be "It's okay to fund Nazis as long as you like what they have to say about the trains running on time."I understand that you want to defend you business and your friend, but signing up with the Nazi party means you sign up with all of it. I find it highly unlikely your cofounder was unaware of the rest of the racist and viscous rhetoric when he opened his checkbook to buy the party the equivalent of a house.Mullvad likely makes good money, but thats not a casual "I read
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phoghed 2mo ago
Are you honestly surprised that roughly 0 HN users read that, or that they are loudly complaining about this, likely without even reading beyond the headline of this post?
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hparadiz 2mo ago
> Exoplanets also aren't planets.Imagine writing this.
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blooalien 2mo ago
> "The reality is this is world-ending technology and absolutely nobody knows what to do or can even agree that the problem exists."The reality is that the "people in power" believe it is "world-ending technology" and will therefore use it in world-ending ways. People are absolutely 100% the danger here, not the technology.
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LoganDark 2mo ago
Similarly, the Claude app for iOS tries to force you through a mandatory onboarding where you're required to set your account name among other things. I've never needed this to use the CLI or the web app so I have no idea why they think they need it on iOS. There's seemingly no way to bypass this, so on iOS I've had to use Claude in Safari. Ridiculous.
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sleepybrett 2mo ago
surprise! the ai companies that stole every conceivable copywritten work to train their models doesn't want you to be able to have any privacy either.
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conartist6 2mo ago
That's about the level of respect the tech industry has for users
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Terr_ 2mo ago
> hysterical. The intent of this steg is excruciatingly clearEven good goals do not excuse malicious or reckless execution. The ends do not always justify the means.Whether or not it harmed you this time, it's a violation of trust and autonomy.Surely you'd be angry if someone secretly installed a rootkit onto your computer, even if--at least for now--it only had code to try to detect and snitch on Public Enemy #1.
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civet_java 2mo ago
Copying over my comment from elsewhere in this post:Anthopic choosing to delay their models' invevitable distillation by competitors is their prerogative.That they choose to implement it by fingerprinting my access patterns without first disclosing is where they shit the bed. It isn't "sneaky" it's straight up sneaky (and dishonest and unscrupulous while we're at it). That this particular instance is harmless doesn't give me much comfort. Who's to say they aren't harvesting PII?That their action
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SE5pc3JhY2lzdA 2mo ago
"The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest"The proud boys leader, that spent 5 years in prison for J6, wasn't even at the protest.shrug
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topgrain2 2mo ago
> Uh, I think firing a gun at someone is a bit more than "inciting violence", more like attempted murder?The shot cop had drawn a gun on someone who was running away.The judge didn’t even permit the defense to argue “defense of self or others” as a justification.
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panarky 2mo ago
It should be obvious that it is utterly incompatible with the values and mission of Mullvad for a Mullvad executive to give a large amount money from Mullvad customers to advance public policy with the primary and direct intent to restrict freedom of expression.
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devindotcom 2mo ago
sorry but your argument is sophomoric and disingenuous. and your absurd complaint about "killing" makes it pretty clear you're not engaging in good faith.
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amunozo 2mo ago
Why are we assuming only American labs can innovate? DeepSeek already innovated a lot in efficiency, for example.
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kulahan 2mo ago
How so? You'll soon have your choice of a very old OAI model or a new Chinese model, because the USG has no interest in letting you access the newest models without explicit permission.
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yrnurn 2mo ago
LLMs might have nothing to do with the linguistic part of the brain by the way.
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retired 2mo ago
It will be difficult to build it that small, however you will end up with a PC that doesn’t use proprietary hardware and is easier to repair. There is something to say about that.
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pooploop64 2mo ago
If anything this is MORE evidence that the infinite money printer will be coming online any second now! Yep aaaaany second now... OH THERE IT- awww one of you guys wasn't praying hard enough.
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aizk 2mo ago
You walk in, as the EU, and assume control of the facility, by force if needed. The value is that the capacity exists within the bounds of your nation state control.China knows this, developed countries that lost their manufacturing capacity are relearning this.
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elfly 3mo ago
Maybe they could have included an option to switch between GC implementations, like Java had done before.Maybe in all those years they could have thought of that.
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riazrizvi 3mo ago
The beauty IMO of LLMs as a computational surface, is the ease of generating the data to feed it. Everyone understands how to create natural language records already.
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lelanthran 3mo ago
> No lelanthran, software engineering and plumbing are not the same job. No lelanthran, LLMs can't be plumbers.Who said that?More to the point, how many plumbers does society need?
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Joel_Mckay 3mo ago
Personally, it would still bother me if some lazy bro hit a code-generator and people end up dead.For context search, I find LLM quite useful... still wrong 20% of the time... but it has some utility.Here is a thought experiment: If "AI" will eventually generate your work, than what actual value do you bring to the table? =3
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cauch 3mo ago
> There are definitely cognitive feedback loopsHave you read the article in question. It is saying that for one continuous thought, the brain will use different part of the brain to do different thing. It does not say that there is a "loop controler" anywhere. On the contrary, it illustrates that there is no loop controller: there is not special brain function that control this loop, this loop is "how the brain works", and LLM don't do that, they are incapable to do that, it is not how they work
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new_account_101 3mo ago
If you need to use an "agentic platform" I'd recommend that you get accustomed to reading and writing without one.If you can't one-shot your problem with the free LLM that Google gives you, you're jerking yourself off.Just write it the old fashioned way.
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markhuang 3mo ago
Luckily, I have a similar blog post about memory system as well https://markhuang.ai/blog/ai-memory-beyond-rag
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shenli3514 3mo ago
Great post! Agent memory is a chaotic space right now, every library claims to have solved it, and the comparisons usually stop at feature checklists. This post goes back to first principles instead, and it shows. The procedural-memory audit and the forgetting reframe are the kind of clarity the field needs more of.
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gopher_space 3mo ago
> I have a weird background mix of analytic philosophy, linguistics/NLP, propaganda research, and long-term institutional data science/strategy work, which unfortunately does not make ATS systems especially low-friction as I try to jump industries.There's a choice to be made between helpfully defeating someone's ATS and searching for more clueful employers. I'll probably be walking paper resumes into local offices next time around anyhow.
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tehalex 3mo ago
OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.
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cma 4mo ago
People usually drive slow too through flooded sections. They don't have the advantage of any descent of the car diverging from HD maps, or any water level visually below HD map surface serving as an immediate warning.
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croisillon 4mo ago
not understanding written words is one thing, but your lack of basic maths is appalling
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LAsteNERD 4mo ago
Interesting history of how Los Alamos evolved from wartime nuclear physics into one of the major U.S. centers for medical isotope production.The article covers:early stable isotope work that helped enable NMR/MRI, the production of strontium-82 for cardiac PET imaging, the chemistry challenges of extracting isotopes from irradiated targets, and newer alpha-emitting cancer therapeutics like actinium-225.One thing I didn’t appreciate before reading this: many medical isotopes have half-lives short
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AntiUSAbah 4mo ago
The initial cost for a dark fibre on a power pool is very low and can give you low latency and high bandwidth.Starlink antenna needs a lot more energy and has a high montly cost.That shouldn't be very economically for long.
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kelipso 4mo ago
Lol. Dramatics and accusation and you expect people to take you seriously… All this does is pour serious doubt over the veracity of the links you posted.
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conception 4mo ago
Huh? Why wouldn’t they just spin up the current help-desk darling? (Intercom) Rolling their own seems silly.
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Tamatarr 4mo ago
Saved a lot of my time thanks!
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sameers 4mo ago
Slowly clawing back liberties against this fascist administration.
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troupo 4mo ago
And you didn't invest anything in polish, quality and reliability before... why? Because for any questions people have you reply something like "I have Claude working on this right now" and have no idea what's happening in the code?A reminder: your vibe-coded slop required peak 68GB of RAM, and you had to hire actual engineers to fix it.
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ohcmon 4mo ago
Boris, wait, wait, wait,Why not use tired cache?Obviously storage is waaay cheaper than recalculation of embeddings all the way from the very beginning of the session.No matter how to put this explanation — it still sounds strange. Hell — you can even store the cache on the client if you must.Please, tell me I’m not understanding what is going on..otherwise you really need to hire someone to look at this!)
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mingus88 4mo ago
I’m having a hard time coming up with a better way. Simply banning all manufacturing and import is not going to work when it’s heavily addictive. In the case of alcohol, quitting cold can kill you.Banning it today and expecting people to cope, or attempt to fund recovery efforts for a whole nation would completely misunderstand the addicts mind. If you don’t want to quit, you never will.Instead we have a total ban that is timeboxed to allow the addicts the rest of their lives to quit one way or
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Forgeties79 4mo ago
PSA to iOS users: if you tap the lock button 5x it forces password-only unlocking. Useful at protests or any precarious situations with law enforcement.
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lovich 4mo ago
And from my side of politics it seems like every thread about that group has a handful of dick riders who will stand for zero criticism of their cult leaders.
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russellbeattie 4mo ago
Suspicion, doubt and negativity is the default for this administration not the exception, for legitimate reasons.It's always hard to get tell with you people whether your attempt at trolling is based on willful ignorance, maliciousness or immaturity. Probably all three.
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foltik 5mo ago
Does anyone hear that sound?
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MelonUsk 5mo ago
Too many fake naked Elon Musks nowadays, Tim Cook was just protecting Elon's innocence ;-)
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renewiltord 5mo ago
Yeah, I don’t advocate criminal behavior either but I don’t understand how these troublesome priests aren’t rid of by, like…everyone.
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King-Aaron 5mo ago
> I don't want to stop Flock the company. I want to stop Flock the business model, along with all the other mass surveillance, and the data brokers.Then you want to stop the company.Which is reasonable.
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gravatron 5mo ago
Are you intentionally trying to not be taken seriously?
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Ucalegon 5mo ago
Wait, where is there a 'beta' tag to something that they are charging real money for? Why is this software any different than any other software and we should completely give away our rights as a consumer to ensure what we pay for is delivered?
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dfdsjsdklfjs 5mo ago
Where in the U.S. Constitution are HOAs considered a level of the U.S. government?They are an extra-governmental organization whose very existence is un-Constitutional. Where in the Constitution is it provided for that an association of henny penny busybodies and Karens could be established in a neighborhood that can never be escaped from, disbanded, or legally challenged?In fact 90% of what the U.S. government does is un-Constitutional, especially including any attempt to ban smoking in multifa
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thayne 5mo ago
This isn't even that new. Part of the motivation for building autonomous nuclear response programs during the cold war was specifically to remove accountability, and guilt, from human operators. But AI does bring it to a new level.
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Qem 5mo ago
Specially AI Hallucination bombs, that hit a park named "Police Park", because it thinks it's killing policemen[1], or a children school with Shahed in the name[2], because it thinks It has something to do with drones.[1] https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2029575052535173364[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/6/elementary-school-in...
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text0404 5mo ago
> Gatestone Institute is an American far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles.> The organization has attracted attention for publishing false or inaccurate articles, some of which were shared widely.> The Gatestone Institute has been frequently described as anti-Muslim, regularly publishes false reports to stoke anti-Muslim fears, and has published false stories pertaining to Muslims and Islam.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatestone_InstituteThe US and Israel have repeate
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paulbjensen 5mo ago
Why is this downvoted? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ruszki 5mo ago
It seems to me that you realized at the end that "their reach to [you] personally is [absolutely not] diminished".
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Lord_Zero 5mo ago
This is a poor take. "You can make this mismanaged steaming pile of bot-infested garbage better if you just filter everything!"
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jesse_dot_id 5mo ago
Astounds me that anyone is still using that platform after seeing how Musk treated the engineers when he took over.
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tonymet 5mo ago
well put. if their mission is to help protect vulnerable communities, and the effort to post on X is near zero ( it can be automated or take just a moment manually), they are betraying their mission to help protect as many vulnerable communities as possible.
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surgical_fire 5mo ago
This Hunter Biden shit is a good example. It was all over the place all the time. I don't even live in the US and kept stumbling on people talking about it in social media.Conservative talking points are everywhere, even when I try to avoid them myself (for example, on fucking YouTube I am often recommended right wing bullshit when I view anything more political).Right wingers are always very soy. For people that for years complained about oppression olympics they can't seem to stop crying about
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MSFT_Edging 5mo ago
Those "conservative opinions" were usually violent hate speech. There was no shortage of "conservative opinions" pre-buyout.I think people were just upset certain figures were held to the TOS.
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Amezarak 5mo ago
Politics is all-encompassing. You don’t get to declare your beliefs privileged and above contestation. We always have to fight these battles.
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stirfish 5mo ago
Personal question: are you a bot?
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alterom 5mo ago
Ah, so a propagandist with a predefined narrative.
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davidw 5mo 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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sassymuffinz 5mo ago
While they work on getting it to tell the time they'll just be over there listing targets for military strikes.
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Archerlm 5mo ago
just a rumor, but i heard altman was adding a timer which required the R&D dept. to triple
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flextheruler 5mo ago
Tell me you're losing market share to competitors without telling me you're losing market share to competitors
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hackable_sand 5mo ago
Can you guys remind me again why you're doing this?
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bossyTeacher 5mo ago
It really feels like LLMs will mostly become tools for tech workers rather than the kind of civilization-level transformation sama has been peddling. Every single comment here seems to confirm the above.
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I_am_tiberius 5mo ago
For me it's not the price. It's the fact that they obviously read my prompts and may even use a derived version of my data for training. As it's very clear in the meantime that SAMA lies most of the time, there's just no way I can trust this company in any way.
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somenameforme 5mo ago
I assume in any sort of thread on a topic like this there is going to be inorganic activity. These companies are all fighting rather hard to try to gain marketshare, potentially worth $trillions, with a product fully capable of producing endless reasonably compelling content to populate an account, a website, or any other basic proof of identity one might ever want.It's probably never been the case that plurality of views meant anything since online is a bubble to begin with, filtered by endless
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mrdependable 5mo ago
It's interesting seeing all the ChatGPT users in this thread, knowing what we know about OpenAI. Either they don't care about what OpenAI does, don't know their reputation, or feel like their use is too insignificant to matter.
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fontain 5mo ago
I mean... insiders are betting on war crimes. Yes, the insider betting is bad but it doesn't even touch the edges compared to committing war crimes. And if the government is committing war crimes, why would they care about something so inconsequential as betting on them?
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triceratops 5mo ago
So you admit then that using as much solar and wind and storage as possible reduces the need for imported gas. As such it should be a national priority.
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dalyons 5mo ago
Is 5min charge and 500mile range enough to finally stop the usual procession of objections to EVs? I know this is a luxury model and the charging stations will take awhile to roll out, but the trajectory is crystal clear and the momentum fast.Where’s the usual comments claiming that hybrids are the true way forward?
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righthand 5mo ago
Of course this garbage country does that to their citizens. I hope everyone involved drops dead.
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aogaili 5mo ago
That's exactly it. They admitted supplying anti-government rebels with weapons.Imagine a country comes and arm a group in the US to rebel against the government..
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megous 5mo ago
US president, holding nukes and saying things like "whole civilization will die tonight" is just state terrorism of the worst kind, ... so far, yes. It may become a war crime of genocide. Not sure why should I or anyone wait and see, before issuing sweeping comments about all of america, which made this possible, by working hard to building up the military capable of doing it and giving power to nutjob issuing the threats.Be sure that this US threat is not just against Iran, it's a US threat agi
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subscribed 5mo ago
China could definitely do this, to offset the minuscule of the destruction they do with the dark fishing fleets around (and possibly in) protected marine areas.
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capnchaos 5mo ago
Isn't it obvious? They already offer financing on new machines with the Apple Card. You can put your iPhone or new Mac on an installment program. It's been around since at least 2020.
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berkanunal 5mo ago
Imagine if all service providers were behaving like this.> Ahh, sorry we broke your workflow.> We found that `log_level=error` was a sweet spot for most users.> To make it work as you expect it so, run `./bin/unpoop` it will set log_level=warn
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gausswho 5mo ago
Back in 2004, we—Mozilla—made Google the default search engine in Firefox. It wasn’t just a product decision; it was a strategic revenue play. At the time, we were monetizing search real estate, and Google was the clear leader. The deal became the backbone of our income, eventually bringing in nearly $300 million annually by 2017 and later scaling to an estimated $400–$450 million per year through 2023. For over a decade, this partnership accounted for the vast majority of Mozilla’s revenue—arou
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Fricken 5mo ago
The space program exists for politcal reasons and political reasons only. The moonlanding was an act of propaganda designed to radicalize american into a belief in the indominability of American technological supremacy.Now, whatever American supremacy stood for in 1969, these days it stand for genocide and childrape. The US, it's space program, it's tech industry, and silicon valley have all suffered a great deal of reputational damage.So showing up on a public forum to circle-jerk about it is p
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guax 5mo ago
I would be more depressed if, looking at the current political landscape this corner decided to be entirely alienated or oblivious to the environment in which this massive achievement is made.
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fsckboy 5mo ago
>Focus on the people who foment and benefit from this division and distractionyour comment is entirely politcal, i.e. contributing more to the problem.qui bono? we for sure don't bono.
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skeeter2020 5mo ago
>> Rather than assigning blame I think it's fair to ask the people here to behaveFirst, are you not doing just that - blaming the people here for making you unhappy?Second, you're welcome to demand this, but they/we are just as welcome to tell you to piss off.
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AlexCoventry 5mo ago
The trouble with openai is that by using them, you're supporting fascism.
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polothesecond 5mo ago
Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the did/didn’t like.
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_mocha 5mo ago
I’m actually surprised to see him being revered on HN. Over the last few years, Chuck has come out as a supporter of the MAGA movement, as well as of views opposing gay marriage and the Boy Scouts’ inclusion of non-straight members. I’m neither gay nor conservative, but I genuinely never enjoyed those Chuck Norris jokes 20 years ago, and I probably never maintained friendships with people who idolized Chuck.
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SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
“We’d like to keep the circumstances private”Yes, but now I’m like, super suspicious.
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bdcravens 5mo ago
You're probably right, but that's not the usual wording you hear. Of course, when grieving, proper proofreading may not be (nor should it be) at the top of anyone's list.
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djeastm 5mo ago
They usually don't put it like that, though. It's usually just "please respect our privacy during this difficult time", etc.
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RIMR 5mo ago
What exactly made him a "class act"?Was it the part where he wanted public schools to force the Bible on everyone's children, regardless of their family's faith?Or was it the part where he attacked the Boy Scouts for lifting their ban on gay members, because he broadly hates the LGBTQ+ community?Or, likewise, when he staunchly supported Prop 8, because he felt that the government should enforce strict "traditional family values", and deny consenting adults he doesn't like to marry each other?Or
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kelnos 5mo ago
> Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?Can we stop framing human rights as "politics"? People hating on others because they don't like that they're gay or trans or black or brown... that's just people being fundamentally awful people, and has nothing to do with politics.The fact that they are then taking their awfulness and engaging politically to enshrine their awful views into law just adds another dimension to it.I said this in another comment: if these people with
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bovermyer 5mo ago
Oh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few cultures that would kill me for my views.Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't disagree with their position.
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u1hcw9nx 5mo ago
Chuck Norris promising the USA will have 1,000 years of darkness if Obama wins in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae9b-B_EQ0
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ferfumarma 5mo ago
https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob...
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sirbutters 5mo ago
It's depressing your comment is being shadowed. You'd think the HN crowd would be more intellectual. Chuck Norris did have shitty views.
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angoragoats 5mo ago
Chuck Norris was no role model, unless you want your young men to grow up as fascist Christian nationalist homophobes.
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amjnsx 5mo ago
He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn’t consider these qualities for a role model.
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observationist 5mo ago
It's pure irrationality.The only winning move is not to play - leave behind all the Windows and Apples garbage, and life gets remarkably better. I'm almost 6 months in switching from Windows to Linux and it's so awesome that my computer doesn't fight me anymore. I've done 10% of the troubleshooting under Linux that I had to do under Windows, and that was just early on; once things work, they stay working, and there's no sense of dread about what was going to break next after every patch Tuesday.
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dmos62 5mo ago
I'm somewhat surprised that Windows is still most of personal computers. In my eyes, it's fundamentally inferior to Linux, and its superficial superiority only comes from the ecosystem, which is to say adoption, not some inherent trait. But then, since Linux adoption didn't meaningfully change in the last 20 years, I'm forced to confront the fact that either I'm wrong about its fundamentals, or the market is able to be irrational for longer than I find reasonable. Either way, Windows in my mind,
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Marsymars 5mo ago
Only the (a?) sweet spot if you'd otherwise already be a two-car household.(And the larger gas vehicle can still be a non-plug-in hybrid.)
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lccerina 5mo ago
Fair, I forgot about aphantasia! The whole plan for AGI is still built on creaky eugenic foundations: measuring intelligence to distinguish who is "intelligent" and who is not. The whole idea of "human baselines" from the paper is terrifying, they even start it by excluding people without a high school degree! Looking at their 10 cognitive faculties ontology, there is no reason why people with lower education levels should be excluded...
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Ygg2 5mo ago
AGI is defined now as "whatever makes 1 trillion dollars of profit".
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46493168 5mo ago
The Trump admin has found a neat loophole where they ignore the supreme court when they don’t like what the ruling is
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edm0nd 5mo ago
kinda the same technique Democrats want to use as well with their "pack the SCOTUS" campaigns. They want to shove a bunch more justices in there so they can get their way.I hate how weaponized each side is. We desperately need a viable 3rd party that can win elections and hold seats + put age limits on the majority of these political positions like POTUS. Our country should not be ran by 80 year olds in the House, Senate, or POTUS.
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darknavi 5mo ago
Well yes, but by republicans on Trumps behalf. Not allowing Obama to put a new judge forward in the last year of his term, and then allowing Trump to with even less time left in his term is just a chef's kiss of hypocrisy.
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_doctor_love 6mo ago
Most of 19th and early-20th century history, which is very much recent history.Look up:- The Haymarket Affair- The Homestead Strike- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire- The Ludlow Massacre- The Battle of Blair MountainYou could also simply have taken the quote you were responding to and run it through a few LLMs to acquire those examples.
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mlhpdx 6mo ago
I strive to be understood, and my streams of thought are often weird and generally intractable. Nobody really wants to read that; nobody wants the deep threads required to explain it.I value reading novel and interesting thoughts and ideas. I don't feel "tricked" when I read something of substance or thought provoking, even if LLM generated and decorated with the platitudes and common forms for dull readers.
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EQmWgw87pw 6mo ago
Well as of right now, mathematically and scientifically, the way an LLM works has nothing to do with how the human brain works.
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ptak_dev 6mo ago
You're hitting on something important. The pattern with most "AI at work" rollouts is: here's a new tool, now do more with it. The workload doesn't shrink — it just shifts from one kind of effort to another, plus you now babysit the AI output.The Amazon case is a perfect example. They bolted AI onto existing workflows and expected productivity gains, but what employees actually got was more review cycles and cleanup work.I think the distinction is whether AI replaces a tedious step entirely or j
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rustystump 6mo ago
Everyone here is so far from a normie it is almost painful. Dead internet is an outcome of supply and demand.The fundamental issue is that a plurality of humans pref the direction things have gone and are moving in. Is it a good direction? By this crowd’s standards, no.To be clear, i dont like either but when i watch the speed kids swap between 5 insta accounts and 3 reddit accounts, it seems the majority are happy with it.
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cassepipe 6mo ago
For once a "this is a very HN" comment seems earned but I think it just marks you at not really the target audience for HNOne of the reason we come to HN is that curiosity and caring about details is rewarded and makes for great discussionAlso your comment has no substance. I stand totally unimpressed by your opposition between the whole and the details and I fail to see how this is relevant. Care to explain what tackling the whole would look like ?Or are you just trying to handwawe away some po
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soared 6mo ago
Boulder is not a town you generally want to upset, I would expect this to have an outsized inverse impact compared to what the White House expects over the long term.
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iso-logi 6mo ago
This language could mog the ASU frat leader into a career ending cortisol spike. Clav finally has some clapback after getting trolled by an foids all day.
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grebc 6mo ago
jacquesm 6mo ago
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fallAll the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again--It's going to take a lot of glue to try to put the United States together again.
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s5300 6mo ago
>> NASCAR is awesome. Don't diss NASCARNASCAR used to be about bootlegging criminals who knew how to hotrod shit & liked to say fuck the police & the fedsNow it’s a bunch of repressed homosexual retards who love sucking the cops/feds dicksIt could use being done away with for the time being, until it can return to its roots.
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jstanley 6mo ago
> eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each daySure sounds like another fad diet.
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xeonmc 6mo ago
This is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%27_rotation_formula
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ramon156 6mo ago
I'm really glad random HN commenters know it better than someone that built a language that has been used in thousands of products.
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nananana9 6mo ago
Please don't make excuses for literal evil p*dophile megacorporations. There is plenty of low hanging fruit, and even if there wasn't, this issue is important enough that if they can't fix it they should go out of business.1. They can just disable chat for non age verified accounts. Done. Problem fixed. Oh, but they'll lose money, won't they? That takes precedence over child safety.2. The community is willing to help. You can find examples of independent actors uncovering tens of thousands of NS
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Root_Denied 6mo ago
The ideal system as far as I'm concerned is one that regulates Roblox out of existence for a variety of sins.At this point I'm just waiting for someone to dig up a name associated with Roblox in the Epstein files, because that's the only way I can conceive of how they've managed to avoid getting shut down this long.
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zahlman 6mo ago
Does your kid post here?
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doctorpangloss 6mo ago
Many programmers believe that math is the best way to solve problems or order the world or whatever. There are lots of real 20 year olds out there using chatbots to "optimize" their humanities learning, or to "optimizing" using dating apps. It's a fact about this audience. Some people have a very myopic point of view, however, it coheres with certain cultural forces, overlapping with people of specific ethnic heritages, who are from California and New York, go to fancy school and post online, to
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gabrielhidasy 6mo ago
Why would I inflict that to my friends?
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intrasight 6mo ago
It is indeed a hard provlem. No low hanging fruit. There certainly not alone, but have a bigger issue with grooming and predation since half of all kids use their platform.It would be an easy problem if the government put in place sensible reforms for age verification.
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lmm 6mo ago
> "Ramping up" means planned to increase.No it doesn't. It means increasing.
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tialaramex 6mo ago
I mean, the EIA says "U.S. generation fueled by coal increased by 13% in 2025 to 731 BkWh"The article you linked is mostly about a model of 2026 and 2027 and sure, in the model coal goes away but that's not a fact about coal it's just a model.
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RalfWausE 6mo ago
To hell with the US
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0xWTF 6mo ago
So ... we're going to try even harder to put humans in harm's way?
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slopinthebag 6mo ago
I have the opposite experience, the amount of AI boosters deriding the less enthusiastic, gleefully exclaiming how someone will be "left behind" if they don't immediately adopt the latest hype cycle, or sharing AI slop and either embellishing or outright lying about it's capabilities is making me want to log off forever. "Handwritten code? Don't you only care about providing maximum shareholder value?" No.
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jjee 6mo ago
Fair. But finally we are seeing what LLM proponents are putting forward.And it’s exactly what I expected - lines of code. Cute. But… so what? This is not good for the AI hype and nor any continued support for future investment.On the other hand all this stuff is going to drive continual innovation. The more tokens generated the more model producers invest. And we might eventually get to a place of local models.
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saulpw [profile] 6mo ago
Some of them definitely do not. Like a fictional encyclopedia? What is the point of that? That's like "an alphabetical novel".And even for the ones that might "beat the rap", I don't understand from your descriptions why they are interesting or unique. A voice note recorder? Cool. There are already hundreds if not thousands of those, why did you need to make your own in the first place? I'm not saying that yours isn't special, I'm just saying that it doesn't help to post the blandest des
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munk-a 6mo ago
The US is in an excellent position to massively harness wind and solar and yet right now it's dialing up the coal usage. I am comfortable celebrating Iceland's decision to not be maliciously dependent on fossil fuels.
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irishcoffee 6mo ago
Do you know how an LLM works? Can you describe it?
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Leno1225 6mo ago
Yeah, or water towers. No need to play god here.
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dmd 6mo ago
jfc. What is the point? What do people get out of doing that?
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b40d-48b2-979e 6mo ago
You're trying to converse with a LLM. It's made up.
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vkou 6mo ago
It's more important to understand why they're emitting so much of that CO2 - because a lot of people in China need to eat and have a roof over their heads.Any analysis that fails to take per-capita into account is not made in good faith.
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godelski 6mo ago
Sorry, I assumed the comment was clear, with your comment above. Here's what I meant: > By your definition every machine has a type of general intelligence. Not just a bog standard calculator, but also my broom. I really don't know of any human that can out perform a standard calculator at calculations. I'm sure there are humans that can beat them in some cases, but clearly the calculator is a better generalized numeric calculation machine. A task that used to represent a significant amount of
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rootusrootus 6mo ago
It's a culture thing, nobody on the right would ever be convinced by science, they will shop around until they find what they need to hear. My sister in law sent me a video and told me that she thought it was a really good explainer and had a lot of good facts and figures to support it. To humor her, I took a brief glance at it, and saw that it was produced by Dr. Shiva. I was thinking "no way, it can't be that Shiva, could it, email guy?" Yes, yes it was.We are doomed.
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Zetaphor 6mo ago
People wouldn't just lie on the internet!
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jihadjihad 6mo ago
Because they are practicing the reverse scientific method. They hold a conclusion in their hand, like, man-made climate change is a hoax, and seek to find any threads of "evidence" that support their foregone conclusion.
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notarobot123 6mo ago
Ironically, those still unconvinced of the human influence on climate change seem to be the sort that would trust the basement randos more than they would reputable scientists
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nullocator 6mo ago
Is it? Citizens in Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota have ~3x the voting power as citizens of California, seems pretty easy to win many of the things you mentioned on rural townships.
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wrs 6mo ago
You’re saying Republican politicians are demanding to be interviewed by Steven Colbert? And even if they were, that would matter? (I would think Mr. Colbert would love to have a bunch of R politicians lined up to skewer on his show.)
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josefritzishere 6mo ago
This is higly abusive. Talks shows have been generally considered exempt from the Equal Time provision since the Regan administration. It it was applied consistently Fox News is basically violating it 24 hours a day.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 6mo ago
> It appears that CBS sees equal airtime as a very serious threat to their programming.This seems very dubious given the recent ownership change of CBS and the lack of reason behind the decision. The point the parent comment brings up is that "equal airtime" requires that someone actually request to go on the show and be refused. There is no legitimate cover for CBS' decision as this did not occur. It seems incredibly likely to be one made in fear of political liability rather than legal.
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SpicyLemonZest 6mo ago
The problem is that the policy will not be challenged if people accept it as legitimate. Talk shows aren't common enough or important enough that a challenge is guaranteed to come. And so the ratchet of authoritarian takeover advances a little bit further, as Donald Trump works towards his quite explicit goal of making it illegal for the media to say bad things about him.
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squarefoot 6mo ago
> It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as.That's the result of well known disinformation tactics by certain media in concert with police forces: wait or provoke a violent outburst in a otherwise peaceful protest, often triggered by carefully planned repetitive police charges, then be ready to film when protesters discharge their frustration against what they have nearby like shops window
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barcodehorse 6mo ago
I find the death of 2016 conservatism and the advent of the extremist, more violent and hateful republicanism very interesting. It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as. Now the Right has their own form of that in those who scroll on Twitter and attack immigrants behind their backs. I feel like, within the next year or so, there will be a vast swath of former republicans who are so violen
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charcircuit 6mo ago
But smart robots like Claude should and will have access to production. There has to be something figured out on how to make sure operation remains smooth. The argument of don't do that will not be a viable position to hold long term. Keeping a human in the loop is not necessary.
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downrightmike 6mo ago
wage theft is a much larger crime
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eru 6mo ago
Have you heard of batteries?
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Sl1mb0 6mo ago
I love that every time one of these threads comes up I am reminded of how little morals the users on this site have; and how they use intellectualism to hide this fact.
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adampunk 6mo ago
It’s not that complicated. People got mad that gay people existed and they had to press “2” for English and here we are.
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chuckadams 6mo ago
You could point out the inconsistency, but I really think the cognitive dissonance of constant and pervasive hypocrisy is the point. Truth is whatever the party tells you today, and we have always been at war with EastAsia.
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chanitypham 6mo ago
lmaooo imagine the government just sitting on $130B like oops my bad
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shevy-java 6mo ago
Trump is not a competent person. How did he ever get rich?
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tootie 6mo ago
It's unbelievable he's still given any semblance of credence for anything he does. Trump is just palpably stupid. He is bad at absorbing information, he is bad at analytical thinking, he is impatient, vain and rash. Aside from his tenuous legal justification, he never once publicly expressed even a fundamental understanding of the basic mechanics of tariff collection nor what balance of trade actually means. You'd constantly see his proxies on TV just put words in his mouth to bend his foolish p
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lokar 6mo ago
Friends? America has no friends, only client states.
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outside2344 6mo ago
The dude is a moron: to think there was any thought behind this is to be insane.
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the_gipsy 6mo ago
Yes what's happening is totally normal, everybody does it all the time.
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fragmede 6mo ago
Yes, but the difference in degree, and how are material. The big showy Hyundai plant raid is an example of something that hasn't happened before. Under Obama there were I-9 audits of Infosys, and under Clinton there was a raid of a Filiberto's, but both of those weren't of foreign workers here to train Americans.
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littlestymaar 6mo ago
Every developed country on earth has an immigration policy and an administration dedicated to enforcing it.No other developed countries have masked goons abducting people in public wearing civil clothes and masks and disregarding every laws of the country (violating private property and foreign embassies, deporting national citizens, and numerous other preposterous bullshit).Immigration policy enforcement is normal, the madness that has been running in the US for a year isn't.
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kartika848484 6mo ago
what the hell, their models were promising tho
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mft_ 6mo ago
Indeed; or, Europe badly needs a competitive model to hedge against US political nonsense.
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marci 6mo ago
Unfortunately, the most extreme is that it's the new normal that now, there's >0 chance that someone, whether they are a US citizen or not apparently, child or adult, can end up in a camp, with no due process.
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snackerblues 6mo ago
Won't someone think of the poor tech millionaires' pools and their cleaning slaves? If we get rid of the slaves, they'll have to pay at first world cleaning rates! :(
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cmrdporcupine 6mo ago
The unstated but obvious (to me?) goal of what ICE is doing is not to get large numbers of people out of the country, but to drive costs down for migrant labor by further disenfranchising them, making them scared, marginal, etc.If they actually thoroughly evicted non-status migrant workers they'd have a outright revolt on their hands from farmers and other businesses that depend on them.Instead those businesses can now take further advantage of the fear of harassment and/or deportation to drive
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KerrAvon 6mo ago
"Goal" implies there's a plan instead of just wanton cruelty for the sake of cruelty.
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Jcampuzano2 6mo ago
The reality is - it doesn't matter. The fact that they have had as many false positives as they have and the way they treat people in general causes it to have rippling effects even for people who are legally here, or are considering legally immigrating.The risk and level of publicity is just too high for many people to even consider, especially people already intelligent/capable enough to immigrate anywhere else that doesn't have these issues or stay in their own country.
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mattnewton 6mo ago
Sometimes, often times no. They have detained multiple US citizens.
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sourcegrift 6mo ago
Yes. Yes, so true. And the phd types building these models are probably even scared in China that ICE will fly there to deport them.
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jiggawatts 6mo ago
"Papers, please." comes to the US of A.
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genxy 6mo ago
The Hyundai factory "enforcement" wasn't even legal. Those workers were here to train US workers and the Hyundai employees had proper visas for this.https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raid-hyundai-korea-ic...https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20251112/hundred...https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/attorney-says-detained-k...The regime is powered by racism and doesn't think through things.
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gaoshan 6mo ago
ICE has been detaining Chinese people in my area (and going door to door in at least one neighborhood where a lot of Chinese and Indians live). I was hearing about this just last week as word spread amongst the Chinese community here (Ohio) to make sure you have some legal documentation beyond just your driver's license on you at all times for protection. People will hear about this through the grapevine and it has a massive (and rightly so) chilling effect. US labs can try but with US governmen
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Yizahi 6mo ago
Memory compression is a feature on Windows PCs for years (decades maybe?), it somehow doesn't prevent people from raising valid complaints about swapping with 8Gb or RAM.I wonder, why is it physically painful for some Apple owners to admit that 8Gb is not enough. Like, I'm using PCs for years and I will be the first in line to point their deficiencies and throw a deserved stone at MS, they never cease to provide reasons. Why is it so different at the Apple?
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nozzlegear 6mo ago
They make those, don't they? They're called MacBook Air?
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paxys 6mo ago
Too much willingness to disobey unlawful orders from the "woke left" I assume
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anikom15 6mo ago
The solution is parental liability.
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ndsipa_pomu 6mo ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear - I am proposing that the adults face the robust detection and enforcement of anti-grooming laws. One method is to set up honey-pots with law enforcement officers playing the part of an innocent child (i.e. avoiding entrapment) and then throwing the full weight of the law behind any adult showing predatory behaviour.What I propose is rather than putting all the effort into preventing children from entering dangerous adult spaces, it's better to put the effort into ensurin
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epolanski 6mo ago
The president of peace btw.I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US.And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression.I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.
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pavlov 6mo ago
What are the states going to do with their local election results when the officials in Washington ignore them due to some manufactured state of emergency?He already tried to get specific states' election outcomes discarded from the count on Jan 6, 2021.
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mentalgear 6mo ago
Great for you surfin' musk's hype wave while he turns the world into his own fascist dominion. At least you made some bucks along the way! Those come certainly in useful - albeit are quickly depleted - once you live in a totalitarian world where every interaction with the monopolistic oligarchic big-tech-state monster requires a bribe, probably in shitcoins. (see the Russian oligarchic state that the US is quickly progressing towards - apparently Russians have no word for "bribe", as it's common
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silverwind 6mo ago
Good think I never had one.
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shablulman 6mo ago
Applying Boolean logic to conditional protein activation is an elegant way to address the systemic toxicity trade-offs inherent in many modern biotherapeutics. It’s exciting to see modular synthetic biology moving from theoretical circuits toward functional, high-precision tools for medicine.
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ef2efe 6mo ago
Its a government department signalling who's boss.
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skeledrew 6mo ago
No end here. The administration can still go above and beyond in an attempt to completely wreck Anthropic.
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swat535 6mo ago
The state has unlimited resources to wreck you and I am not sure many people have faith in the US's judicial system to keep them in check.This will be a death by thousand cuts.
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mekdoonggi 6mo ago
The same type of people who would upload a picture of their "friends" and tell the AI to "roast" them or take off their clothes.
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Jamesbeam 6mo ago
As you can see the president is under a lot of pressure.He is losing the ICE war, because the protesters used tactics of the civil rights movements of the past pretty effectively and now he is stuck between losing the narrative of protecting Americans by further escalation or losing power as a direct consequence of said escalation and more Americans getting murdered by government agents.Of the 8 or so wars he pretended to have stopped only two are still in a non-active state. The world is more d
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goatlover 6mo ago
Really hope so. Only concern is what desperate measures the Trump admin will be willing to employ to stop the midterms from giving Democrats control of Congress (or at least the House).
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cluckindan 6mo ago
The puppet does what the puppeteer makes it do.
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throwaw12 6mo ago
You might be right, I am getting worried more and more for upcoming 2039-2045 years
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RonanSoleste 6mo ago
Oh the US crossed that threshold the day he started he won the elections the second time. Most Americans seem to think new elections will solve it. But for germans it was a world war that brought back democracy. There were no elections anymore. That is also the most likely case for the US now.
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frogperson 6mo ago
You cant be serious. We are well past democracy and deep into fascism. Ask yourself, how many of the 14 points do you recognize?https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html
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HaZeust 6mo ago
"The more I hear about this [Hitler] guy, the less I care for him" - Norm MacDonald
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lioeters 6mo ago
I'm starting to think this guy is kind of a jerk.
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Minor49er 6mo ago
I better start leaving higher quality comments on here so I can increase the social value of my account and sell it
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sebmellen 6mo ago
Relevant article: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
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cratermoon 6mo ago
How to sneak misinformation in the back door: 1. claim a source that is stating facts to correct misinformation is false and misleading 2. link to a not-very-authoritative and easily manipulated source that has been edited very recently to promote uncertainty and doubt 3. follow up with additional confusing and poorly-sourced claims that boil down "but maybe there are some things we don't know, we should study it more"This is how the tobacco industry avoided liability for decades after research
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martin8412 6mo ago
He is doing so so so many drugs. Logic is already out the window
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Traubenfuchs 6mo ago
Oh how surprised I am by reading the words "anal breathing" while I am lying on a bathroom floor mat with my butt up and my face on the floor like a snail, loudly sucking in and sloppily releasing air from my rectum to learn how to relax my sphincter muscles to find relief from the pain my hemorrhoids cause me.
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giantdude 6mo ago
I am sorry for anyone working for this twit.There are other options.
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willt1979 6mo ago
I just kept wondering, why in the heck would you want to work there anymore? Is it this amazing devotion to Musk for...what?This just makes me think Musk basically got rich off of other people's ideas and hard work. This guy seems incredibly stupid.
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kccoder 6mo ago
He’s not stupid, he just isn’t as smart as he and all his sycophants think, and certainly not smart enough to overcome his myriad of personality and mental health disorders. Unfortunately for us, after ruining a perfectly fine company and damaging the lives of thousands of employees, he’ll loudly retreat to his lair to sit on his remaining mountain of gold, recharge his narcissistic tank, and then emerge to set something else ablaze. After all, this is what dragons do. And that’s how all of us s
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totorovirus 6mo ago
If Twitter survives and people shut up their mouths complaining after few months we'll see who was right.
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1attice 6mo ago
A leaked .gitignore means the company needs to be taken over, 75% of its workers fired, and its debt tripled.I want everyone to work extremely hardcore on a breakthrough Tesla 2.0
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noasaservice 6mo ago
No. Throw Texas in the garbage.Shitty states can pass shitty bills. And it's 100% legal to exclude them from participating.
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preommr 6mo ago
Agreed, what would HN be without it's pretension at being above plebs and their "humour".
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fortyseven 6mo ago
Relax, Francis.
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ideamotor 6mo ago
The phrase “likes the smell of his own farts” doesn’t do him justice.
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LarsDu88 6mo ago
Honestly his guest list is so good, I thought for several years that he must be working for the Kremlin and honeypotting folks behind the scenes (or something)
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adrr 6mo ago
Elon is also banning any account that posts the video of him getting booed at a Dave Chapelle show. He was never about free speech.
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RonaldRaygun 6mo ago
Do you think that every person in SF is a blue-haired NPC from some antiwoke fever dream? I mean, it was a Dave Chappelle show, you'd think that'd be the crowd to show some appreciation for the hero single-handedly saving us from the Trans Mind Virus.More to the point, if prosecute/fauci knew when to pull out, Musk probably wouldn't be a deadbeat dad to 10 kids lmao
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gillci 6mo ago
Interesting, do you know if this has been done yet in humans, and used to fertilize?If scaled up, this technology could be an absolutely groundbreaking step in applied feminism, completely removing the otherwise useless male from the process of reproduction and bringing up a child.Men could be rendered entirely obsolete within a few generations, perhaps even fully eradicated through attrition.
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freejazz 6mo ago
It shows the opposite, that there is so much of this going on....> It's not useful, to anyoneWhat's not useful to everyone is acting like you don't read the news, can't read the news, or in the event that someone points out something in the news that you didn't, that you somehow cannot be availed of that knowledge in a way that doesn't render the argument moot. It's really stupid when you think about it that way.Plus, aren't we supposed to be making the effort of understanding each other here. S
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nvhkmvd 6mo ago
Jesus Christ, HN
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antibasilisk 6mo ago
Correct, AI is more like a nuclear bomb than a gun.
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Lapsa 6mo ago
roflcopter would go swah swah swah
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MisterBastahrd 6mo ago
As long as right-wingers hate what other people do with their own bodies, probably.
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cirrus3 6mo ago
Until a bunch of old dudes die off.
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AgentOrange1234 6mo ago
What ridiculous shit.
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felixgallo 6mo ago
The damage to media is not from some newfound ability to see bs, but from a relentless and constant attack on its credibility from the fascists.
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bighoki2885000 6mo ago
https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1322720440396808193 https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1322751734719709192 https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1322755514458701828 https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1323241659953053705 https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1323361607996145671 https://slot-deposit-5000.hashnode.dev/ https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index/issues/2234 https://slot-deposit-5000.hashnode.dev/slot-qris-slot-qris-d... https://slot-deposit-5000.hashnode.dev/rtp-slot-link-rtp-s
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eecc 6mo ago
Lots of people are calling for WFH and legitimization of remoting. Alas, it seems to be a matter of monkey power, and the managers want you to burn tons of fuel to sit your butt in the chains they provide and smell his armpits from a distance.shrug
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bastardoperator 6mo ago
Executives don't care. Of course they knew. They'll do anything for money even if it means destroying lives. They need that bonus and they need it now.
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moffkalast 6mo ago
I think it may be the American definition of democracy which has something to do with guns and a screeching bald eagle.
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rks404 6mo ago
oh look, they figured out who fucked up twitter
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mrguyorama 6mo ago
Imagine making being able to willfully poison your kids with Benzine a cultural issue. There wasn't even a threat to fossil fuel industry or gas stoves, because the discussion was just that, an internal discussion, with no resolution. Even before the insane screaming about "they terk ur gas stove!" I'm pretty sure the outcome was "maybe we should think about banning gas stoves in new builds sometime in the next ten years". Nobody will ever come take an appliance out of your home, that's just not
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 6mo ago
Sorry, I live in a country with a for-profit health care system. I have been assured my entire life that a few poor decisions are indeed complete justification for dismissing the value of human life.P.S.: Hate all you want. I don't give a fuck. I'm tired of being told to give a shit when some billionaire fuckwad dies of his own reckless stupidity while at the same time being told we can't treat treatable illnesses because rich fucks can't make enough money off of doing it.
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agentgumshoe 6mo ago
I have some new research. Everything is linked to death.
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ecommerceguy 6mo ago
Let's count trees per capita.Planting more trees is commonly regarded by leftists/communists/morons and "science" people (that don't know a method from a hole in the ground) as a dumbass solution.If you want to reduce carbon dioxide in the air, it's simple. Plant more. Why dipshits from the left are against planting trees and carbon sinks shows me they only care about politics.Edit: No retort, just downvotes. Little minded leftists. GFY
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AntiRemote 6mo ago
Idiot, this is inflation adjusted.
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BSEdlMMldESB 6mo ago
coming soon after: experimental vaccine go cure against childhood!brought to us by the scientific data gathered by the early experimentalist adopters: kids doing the transgender thing!no more waiting to grow up, no more 'unproductive childhood' years spent mooching off parents. get vaccinated and your kids may be born adults straight to work! (clone army rings a bell)
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idlewords 6mo ago
I feel attacked.
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macinjosh 6mo ago
What, like your Mom?
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ipaddr 6mo ago
Kansas where cops can shoot innocent people in swat pranks and no officer faces any justice.
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ChatGTP 6mo ago
Upvoted instantly coz AI in title.
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lotsoweiners 6mo ago
I bet you’re fun at parties.
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beebeepka 6mo ago
What the hell are you talking about?
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brabel 6mo ago
I think you're probably @totallywrong
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firebat45 6mo ago
"Ow! Please help me, my face is being eaten by leopards!"
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romusha 6mo ago
We are fucked
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vimisntgood 6mo ago
they dont. shut up
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backtoyoujim 6mo ago
Go home, Elon.
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slackfan 6mo ago
It could also serve me a hamburger or explode on the launch pad.
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ShamelessC 6mo ago
Bit overconfident of them to assume “we watched” Netflix at all…edit: If I could delete this comment I would.
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ejb999 6mo ago
>>It costs essentially nothing to lay fiber in the ground in most placesHow to tell us you know absolutely nothing about the costs of running fiber, without actually saying you know absolutely nothing about the costs of running fiber
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wredue 6mo ago
John Carmack pandering to buzzword communities to try to stay relevant?Yeah. That sounds right.
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dev1ycan 6mo ago
mommyyy dji didn't upload their source code to github so we could clone it then ban them on the grounds of national security, mooooom!!1I'm sure TSMC also not bringing their latest node tech to their US fabs also happens to be because they're doing something dirty! oh wait, corporations want to protect their IP, and countries have time and time again proven that they're willing to enter the private business to give their country an edge.
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klyrs 6mo ago
Free speech absolutism is a meme. The so-called absolutists are eager to fight to protect nazis' right to speak; but when they run places like parler, gab, and twitter, they cannot help but censor people who disagree with nazis.For example, downvoting is often equated with censorship. But when I call free speech absolutists nazis, I get downvoted! So, I persist, to highlight the hypocrisy if nothing else.
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ctrw 6mo ago
Both cities and computers are Turing complete.That said how can everyone be so ugly in the pretest picture?George Calin for the 2020 would ask: why is it that you would never want to fuck anyone at a pride parade?
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CatWChainsaw 6mo ago
How about we have a Purge Day against marketers, advertisers, sales teams, greedy shareholders, and anyone who actively enshittifies every single aspect of life? How about we normalize that instead? Because as brutal as it is, maybe sociopaths wouldn't sociopath if there were real risks to their life and limb incited by their being pieces of shit. :)
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Mark-coleman-5 6mo ago
Hello Sattoshi
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hulitu 6mo ago
So now the CSAM will be used to train OpenAI. /s
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It's a shame most of HN are losers who just repeat what the media tells them to. Something, something Pinduoduo app, I'm so smart.Temu is pretty interesting.The gambling side is amazing. I spent days on it, it's basically a clicker game, but weird stuff like you get water for your crop is you browse Temu for a bit. Totally illegal to run locally in most places I'm pretty sure.And what sort of mental ill people go on about how the cheap prices won't last forever? No shit Sherlock that's why you g
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richardmuhn 6mo ago
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henning 6mo ago
This is not open source. There is no license. Stop calling it open source when it isn't. Your cars suck and your GitHub repos suck.
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aithrowawaycomm 6mo ago
I am hardly a fan of OpenAI and they probably deserve to go out of business, but their staffers are definitely smarter and harder-working than I am. Hearing that a slimy mediocrity like Mustafa Suleyman (allegedly) yelled at OpenAI staffers for not delivering technology quickly enough really grinds my gears. Pure PHB behavior. Suleyman is one of the emptiest suits in all of commercial AI, someone who AFAICT owes his career entirely due to a childhood friendship with Demis Hassabis.I think Satya
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fakedang 6mo ago
Something something Lex Fridman something.
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throw83838445 6mo ago
Truth is truth. Other things are just conspiracies and miss informed opinions. Authoritative sources are immune to it! There is no such thing as group thinking!
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dpe82 6mo ago
We found the Trump voter.
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snakeyjake 6mo ago
Why the fuck do so many people lie on the internet?>AI Overviews are part of Google Search like other features, such as knowledge panels, and can’t be turned off.Please.Stop.Just stop.Is this a kink for you? Some kind of fetish?
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sidibe 6mo ago
You wouldn't understand what he did wrong if you've not filled your information sphere with cultists.
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bende511 6mo ago
have you ever read the constitution, or thought about governance for even 5 minutes? do you have any understanding of the history of this country, or do we need to direct the nearest 1st grader to your location to explain it to you?
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m3kw9 6mo ago
This guy is a probably a Russian bot. He talks like Ukraine was 2 minutes away from a victory and Zelenskyy just needed to stfu for 30 more seconds to get it.
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aierjtlaj 6mo ago
And now Americans are giving this type of control to Musk, after he's demonstrated that he's happy to cut off a country's internet access during a war and he'll happily focus his company's resources on attacking his enemies. Genius.
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fazeirony 6mo ago
the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!"also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"
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orthecreedence 6mo ago
Take that, terrorists.
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fa66otki77er 6mo ago
You would be right to understand that you are a faggot.
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mindslight 6mo ago
It goes to the highest bidder. This is whomever can extract the most value from it, likely because they are the least constrained by the paltry genetic privacy laws we do have. This means it is likely to go to Muskov to use in support of his project to cleanse the surplus population, just as how he has already been employing the much more expensive Twitter.The main thing I've got to say to the "nothing to hide" folks is "very slowly, then all at once".
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talkingtab 6mo ago
Please consider excluding references to Twitter or X. I, and perhaps others, object to the politics now espoused by X. I am pro-democracy and so cannot in good faith use anything on that platform. You of course are free to use Twitter/X as much as you want and Hackernews does not like comments such as this, so feel free to ignore this and even down vote it.I myself am convinced that we are at a time where ignoring some world issues is no longer morally or ethically responsible. So while SDF's ar
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Due_Winter_5330 6mo ago
Didn't expect Microsoft to go full nazi mode
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labrador 6mo ago
Are you implying Turkey and Poland are making things up?
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ryan_lane 6mo ago
Found the nazi.
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bazingakiller 6mo ago
It clearly isn't the "basic formula" if it was so out of the norm it caused a national controversy and got the vendor's certifications removed. Your bitterness is showing.
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bboygravity 6mo ago
Yeah, all the employees left and all of Musk's companies are now bankrupt after he visited Israel to visit families of victims of the Hamas terror attacks and he then deliberately did a nazi salute and deliberately ordered an LLM to convert everybody into nazis in an attempt to take over the world./s
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scoreandmore 6mo ago
“Elitist”Oh please.When someone doesn’t speak a language well, it ceases to be a language. Life doesn’t care about your feelings.
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duped 6mo ago
> Wow this administration is f*ing batshit insaneIt's reasons why this that I refuse to associate with Republicans in my daily life anymore. They are undeserving of respect or decency for how they continue to make our lives worse.
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anthem2025 6mo ago
It will go to Europe and India and China.The US is being dismantled and what remains won’t be capable of being a world leader in anything except brute strength, and even that will eventually be compromised and fade away as corruption and incompetence completely take hold.
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bfkwlfkjf 6mo ago
Turns out Nazis aren't popular in Germany.EDIT: it's funny that I say this every time, and every time I get downvoted. I have no idea why.
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cess11 6mo ago
It's an arm of the US 'military industrial complex', i.e. one of many components of a genocidal narcoterrorist state apparatus.This is why they "get away" with things. Concerns of ordinary people, like law, ethics or decorum, mean next to nothing to the people running projects under this umbrella. Achieving the objectives is all that matters, and the main objective in this case is to establish a world wide system for surveillance and control that is similar to the Internet but less accessible to
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LamerBeeI 6mo ago
I too think there should be no rules or attempts to derisk any situation, just let us die
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dekhn 6mo ago
You're not contributing anything addition to this thread; I recommend dropping it.
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baby 6mo ago
What is the US behind on? Access to healthcare, maternal mortality rate, access to abortion, minimum wages, paid time off, public transport, walkable cities, ...
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hdgvhicv 6mo ago
It will trickle down any day now.
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Goronmon 6mo ago
Seems premature to accuse the article if being inaccurate or biased without actually knowing whether it's inaccurate or biased.I’m concerned about human rights, but I’m equally concerned about yellow journalism or coordinated media bias.I'm equally concerned about people being paid to push narratives in places like Hacker News. Especially in defense of large organizations.
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lawiejtrlj 6mo ago
Yes, clearly the journalist was the cause of the problem here. You're an idiot.
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clown_show 6mo ago
Sorry, but it's been a "clown show" since the Orange moron won the title of "most powerful man on earth".
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bschmidt25013 6mo ago
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drcongo 6mo ago
I was nodding along in agreement until he inserted his tongue into Musk and Vance. A little bit of sick came up.
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jauntywundrkind 6mo ago
There's zero legitimacy to any of this administration. None of this is real. It's all sick fucking Ballardian hyperreality imposed upon the world, sick delusions with no backing, forcing its way in. Rapists and treasonous seditious shits, on and on.
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hitarpetar 6mo ago
hows that boot taste?
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computerthings 6mo ago
All companies will cease to exist as the heat death of the universe inches closer. So what's the outrage at some people frowning at a company for some reason or other about? Seems kind of unsophisticated.
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bschmidt25002 6mo ago
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tomalbrc 6mo ago
tech bros hate reality
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koteelok 6mo ago
AI slop cashgrab
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DonHopkins 6mo ago
When you look at the history of it all, it clearly shows that men have always been misogynistic bigots oppressing and driving women out of educational opportunities and professional careers, and they still all, even more so today than ten years ago, due to the rise of GamerGate, MAGA and Project 2025.
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postalrat 6mo ago
USA is on the decline and its not because trump or elon musk.
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exe34 6mo ago
Not everybody is a psychopath who only values profit. Some people will leave money on the table if it means not supporting the turd reich.
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causalscience 6mo ago
You only needed the "extra context" because you lack the critical thinking. Everybody else here can see the importance of phone numbers being connected to people.
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bonsai_spool 6mo ago
What's the purpose of using an LLM to write a comment here?
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kurthr 6mo ago
Epstein class fits here, might as well use it.
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fjejfhdh 6mo ago
I take my children to school to learn them how to use English grammar.
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JohnTHaller 6mo ago
CBS is now run by a right-wing billionaire. The equal time rule is being used as cover to kill an interview that the Republican administration doesn't like. Same way CBS keeps killing 60 Minutes reporting that does the same.
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jimsimmons 6mo ago
pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowdthey do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.
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lm28469 6mo ago
Because you're hiding the vast majority of facts, like the fact that we already used every last drop of data available, the fact that they spent hundreds of billions on it and no one makes money besides the people selling them GPUs and memory chips, the fact that contrary to most tech these hings aren't getting cheaper to create, &c.
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