Buttons840

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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Actually, yeah, advertisers might be about to hang themselves. Okay, so the OS in my own computer is responsible for reporting my age. Okay, okay... And some states are going to pass laws that advertisements can't be shown to minors. S
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I think it's time for people to build a local database of every site they've ever visited, and then they can give their LLMs access to that. I might be willing to pass this data off to a company to store for me. Companies already
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
> peg it to life expectancy at birth minus 15 years That would lower the retirement age for me. I was born in the mid-80s. I know that was just a suggestion. We could go with something like "life expectancy at birth minus 5 years&
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Are charging stations subsidized? That could be a good excuse to add regulations. I've heard the subsidies are the reason why there's so many shitty charging stations. People build them, collect the subsidies, and never actually c
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Hugely profitable companies leak half the nation's personal data every month. Tell me more about how being wrong at scale is not valuable.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
It's okay to be rude to benchmarks though, they don't have feelings.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Just add if-statements until it works
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Lean has dependant types. Wouldn't something like Haskell or Idris, that are trying to be general purpose dependantly typed languages--wouldn't they be a better start than versus? Versus appears to just be a formal verification to
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
What is a "Chinese model"? If I change one weight in Kimi, is it still a Chinese model? If I fine-tune Kimi on pro-America nationalistic freedom loving anti-Chinese propaganda, is it still a Chinese model? If I distill Kimi from o
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
The actual way to do this is run a few fine-tuning passes on some pro-America nationalistic freedom loving anti-China propaganda, and then you can tell the judge with a straight face that it's a new model.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Won't EU companies just announce they've "developed" a new model named Komo, and then we can just use that? Or is the US just going to straight up prosecute plebs for using any model not owned by one of the 5 Americans?
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I've said before that I think red team security researchers should be able to investigate the security of government and corporate systems without needing permission. Currently companies say "you cannot investigate the security of
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I have several thoughts about this, which I'll just iterate: 1) US export bans have made it so that Chinese companies have to compete using less-than-state-of-the-art hardware. This has forced Chinese companies to build more cost effic
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
We have other signals now. Before we would find an intriguing post on the internet from years ago, and you have to verify it with additional research--it's easy to skip that additional research. With a LLM when you're skeptical yo
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
Yeah, I guess. Now it appears to be a project run by Anthropic and I'm sure the real focus is on making money--which is still slightly different than having the focus be on making the best tool.
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
I've always felt [0] the people who created Bun had, as their first and foremost goal, a desire to use Zig--and that's great, I like Zig, I like when people build things their own way. However, I've been skeptical of using Bu
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
Again, I really think this is a viewpoint we've talked ourselves into to help us feel better about how cumbersome creating the cards are. I'm willing to grant that there is some value in choosing what to put in the cards, but most
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
I would add that somewhere in there should be a spaced repetition algorithm. Spaced repetition is very effective, but it's really really clunky to use. My unpopular opinion is that we all have Stockholm syndrome when it comes to creati
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
> You spend billions The you being taxpayers, right?
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
I disagree. People would still buy that. There's a dangerous path where the companies are required to describe these transactions as "rentals", but that wont actually solve anything. If we require clearer advertising, we&#x27
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
Yep. That's the argument. People don't like that though. We should change the laws so that is illegal. We can just make laws we want--we're allowed to do that.
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
The GP comment mentioned Minecraft servers. The full story is that California politicians were discussing Stop Killing Games and and that gamers were willing and capable of running their own servers, and ESA argued against that by saying pr
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
We will own the games we purchase digitally if we change the laws to say that we own them. We've reached the point where politicians are talking about this issue, and I suppose support for copyright reform will only continue to grow.
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
Fucking Broadcom? The only time I've ever seen that name before is when trying to solve driver issues, on both Linux and Windows. Are they especially stingy with their IP related to drivers or something?
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
To prevent this situation the peons should be given the benefit of the doubt by the courts. In this case, either (1) the peon was lying about reported hours, the boss didn't notice, and then the peon reported himself... or (2) everythi
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
I fully expect anonymity to disappear, but also certain causes will still be supported by massive amounts of bot accounts.
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by Buttons840 3mo ago
How does a lowly pharmacy transform a drug that is not for eye injection into one that is?
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by Buttons840 4mo ago
Probably every single person in the region is a descendant of the Jewish people who "lived in that region first". And if we go back further: If Abraham existed, then like 99.9% of all living humans are descendants of Abraham. Do t
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by Buttons840 4mo ago
Local AI servers are different because they don't have to form a single system. If one AI server goes down, just use the other one. This is unlike customer facing systems where, if your database server goes down, you probably can'
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by Buttons840 4mo ago
I think companies will eventually just buy a local AI server. Using local hardware is expensive when it's running a complicated software stack that can break in 10,000 different ways. These eventual local AI servers will just talk some

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