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by CMay 2y ago
Except China has been imperialist for longer than the US has existed. Then after the Qing dynasty fell and the CCP rose, they've been trying to imagine what the greatness of their past empire looked like and regain it. Their last emp
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by CMay 2y ago
Unless every aspect of AI generated art is required to be marked or labeled as such in some way, it will likely still gain the benefits of copyright assumptions in the sense that if you mix copyrightable and uncopyrightable material togethe
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by CMay 2y ago
LLMs can make a lot of mistakes. If you get the impression that an LLM was used, it brings much more into question any detail provided in an article. If they did use one and didn't specifically state which one they used, that leaves
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by CMay 2y ago
This is something I've been watching and thinking about for many years as tangential to a primary interest. It's not all bad as there have been many benefits to these changes too. These aren't occurring in isolation, since
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by CMay 2y ago
The closest natural relative origin of SARS-CoV-2 was in Yunnan ~700 miles away from the market. The Wuhan lab collected samples from that area and the lab is only ~10 miles away from the market. Those wet markets are huge vectors for a vir
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by CMay 2y ago
Trump can nominate a CIA director, but cannot appoint a CIA director. Once a CIA director gets confirmed, they can influence hiring decisions at the CIA, but that takes time. This was investigated for a long while before Trump was even pres
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by CMay 2y ago
Things that are true: "Officials said the agency was not bending its views to a new boss, and that the new assessment had been in the works for some time." The Department of Energy concluded with low confidence that it was a lab l
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by CMay 2y ago
Concern about China is not partisan anymore, pretty much everyone is on board now. Also from the article: "Officials said the agency was not bending its views to a new boss, and that the new assessment had been in the works for some t
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by CMay 2y ago
Absolutely, governments should work for the people. Sometimes in order to do more for someone, you do less for them. There's a balance. Sometimes what you or the country needs is not what you want. A lot of people don't necessa
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by CMay 2y ago
If you firmly believe that your job is important and helping people, then it seems reasonable that you would complain and try to get an exception or other people who know of the program would complain. It's not perfect, some people wo
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by CMay 2y ago
I don't know anything about the specifics, but a thought that came to mind is: If you're trying to thin down agencies to reduce costs so the government can significantly reverse or slow its financial trends to buy more time, shaki
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by CMay 2y ago
I don't necessarily think it's simple from that angle. It's more like convenience and efficiency often come with encapsulation and reduced friction, which puts us in bubbles that cause us to slip right past eachother. That
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by CMay 2y ago
A journalist recently wrote an article in The Atlantic covering the epidemic of people spending more time alone and did an interview to talk about it. PBS - “The Anti-Social Century:” Inside America’s Epidemic of Solitude | Amanpour and Com
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by CMay 2y ago
Haven't really been following the latest in TTS ML, but I expected this to be better or at least as good-bad as the stuff you hear on YouTube. Somehow it sounds worse. It really is jarring to listen to any of these ML voices and can&
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by CMay 2y ago
I'm not going to pretend to know everything about Ollama, llama.cpp or llamafile, but my experiences using llama.cpp and llamafile (llama.cpp based) were both negative. Web UI frontends aren't relevant here, this is just purely a
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by CMay 2y ago
In my notes the Sony section was listed Sony / Nikon, but there was non-Nikon pattern in there and I removed the Nikon label to reduce inconsistency. Then I didn't update the Nikon section to include the other pattern. :) Should
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by CMay 2y ago
From my notes. Maybe it's useful to someone. Not comprehensive as there are other brands and other iterations I'm sure. Many dpreview.com sample galleries show original filenames. Some forums list filenames, youtube descriptio
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by CMay 2y ago
Saying that some law or principle works in one context, so it can probably work here or that some country did X so we can do it too doesn't really account for many of the nuances. Solar panels aren't equally effective everywhere o
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by CMay 3y ago
It is not the truth, it is largely opinion informed by deep cynicism that fails to reflect on the complexities of human behavior and motivation. That does not mean it is completely divorced from any truth, but it is not usefully informativ
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by CMay 3y ago
Western countries are not run on direct democracy, because it is known to fail quicker. They're representative systems. What you are essentially talking about is mob rule (direct democracy) which is a risk for any government, but for
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by CMay 3y ago
My guess is that 3rd party apps have reached a user threshold where they pose a potential future risk of pulling the rug out from under Reddit enough to give some non-negligible traction to an alternative. After all, once you've got t
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by CMay 3y ago
This is based on the Phil Spencer interview by Kinda Funny. The major point was that as consoles transitioned to online digital libraries, the customer investments into those account-bound libraries really helped crystallize the console pr
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by CMay 3y ago
When you grow up with the internet, it can be kind of easy to take it personally when companies torpedo part of the culture like it has no value. It ends up feeling like an attack on the internet, which itself has almost an amorphous perso
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by CMay 4y ago
You could also appreciate that nature has examples of animals that are ugly or masquerade as something worse than they are, intentionally to fend off other animals that are evolutionarily disadvantageous to survival. Digital products are la
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by CMay 4y ago
It's less about full trust and more about willingness to negotiate, act in good faith and take feedback from society if side effects surface. Ideally oriented towards empowering the people rather than the government.
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by CMay 4y ago
If I recall, HN intentionally avoids appealing to modern aesthetics and user conveniences to reduce popularity among a non-technical audience that could harm the average quality of participants. Whether that approach is effective, I don&#x
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by CMay 4y ago
The problem with this is that at present, it is largely good people who are ahead in AI development and that gap might widen over time if China has difficulty acquiring large numbers of high end chips. China and Russia feel that they need
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by CMay 4y ago
Malcolm Smith's YEdit deserves mention here, also inspired by the old MS-DOS Edit which was used by so many people in yesteryears to edit their autoexec files, read .nfo files and poke into the numerous batch files of the day. MS-DOS
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by CMay 4y ago
Also played Eufloria a long time ago and there was another game that had similarities called Galcon which maybe had more in common with RISK. The developer had Galcon Fusion and Galcon Legends on Steam back then which I think supported mul
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by CMay 4y ago
VS Code was pretty appealing to me at the start, but the project overall has experienced the typical degradation such that it provides cause to consider alternatives again even if it would be possible to return to older versions of it. Didn

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