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by EGreg 7mo ago
I remember I met Bram Cohen (of Bittorent fame!) around 15 years ago. Around that time is when I had started building web-based distributed collaborative systems, starting with Qbix.com and then spun off a company to build blockchain-based
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by EGreg 7mo ago
That's nothing, we also have this: https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Related: https://magarshak.com/blog/explaining-benfords-law/
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by EGreg 7mo ago
This is great! I thought of doing something like this for Karaoke, but was wondering about the copyright implications of doing it server-side. We already do this for ingesting podcasts and cutting their clips with text being highlighted as
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by EGreg 7mo ago
They could have just waited until AI came out, now they can spend $1 million on tokens and slop :)
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Here is a much more moral and useful prediction market: https://unblockers.org
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Show HN: OpenClaiming, a tiny protocol for verifiable claims that works anywhere(github.com)
2 points by EGreg 7mo ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 7mo ago
It’s made by Google and comes with Chrome
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by EGreg 7mo ago
It’s worse than you think. It’s not even coordinated by someone in the background — it’s just the emergent overton window thanks to technology, see: https://community.qbix.com/t/the-global-war-on-end-to-end-en...
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by EGreg 7mo ago
I'm not a fan of Elon's software endeavors, ever since he bought Twitter and turned it into an even worse cesspool of angry political nonsense than it used to be. I don't like how he's been biasing Grok, etc. But, what e
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Not even future governments. There's also this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-show...
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by EGreg 7mo ago
This, exactly. And governments are always doing something wrong...
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by EGreg 7mo ago
To be fair, it's not about blowing into the machine, but a bunch of sensors all around the driver, e.g. looking at the finger pressing the button to test your blood alcohol content through your skin, detecting alcohol particles, etc. S
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by EGreg 7mo ago
The trenches will eventually be overwhelmed regardless. Once the government has AI and sensors, it will mandate its ubiquitous use. For minors, we have this lovely law coming in NYC: that will broadcast to everyone that you’re a minor: htt
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by EGreg 7mo ago
I love how this paper describes what actually happens and what the current tradeoffs are. That having been said, many LLMs are being run on SIMD GPUs, in warps, basically they are just doing a lot of vector multiplications, activation funct
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by EGreg 7mo ago
That goes for all AI generated content If you can’t be bothered to write something to me personally, why should I deal with you? :)
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Working for the man eh?
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Those four examples were supposed to show how great they were as a VC!
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by EGreg 7mo ago
What was the price for the acquisition? $1 Billion Dollars with the pinky?
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by EGreg 7mo ago
This is like when Union Square Ventures invested in CryptoKitties. I kind of lost a bunch of respect for them after that. These are the same guys that backed Twitter, Etsy, Stripe and Coinbase.
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by EGreg 7mo ago
My libertarian view on discrimination (independent of the Civil Rights Act) is this: If a service is not widely available in the region, any systematic discrimination leading to refusing to provide service, or specific level of service or c
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Interesting One of you is afraid that YOU are going to get assaulted or worse. The other is afraid you’re going to get ACCUSED of it. What has this society become?
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Yes, but it's not natural to say "It's not <non sequitur thing no one was talking about>. It's <amazing globally impactful thing that should make you pay attention>." That's how LLMs write though.
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Nope. It is generated by LLMs, and a few people got influenced by it now. It isn’t like em-dashes
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Im also gonna be honest Ever since LLM generated content proliferated we now have “This isn’t X. It’s Y” shibboleths EVRYWHERE! A person doesn’t normally start a sentence with “This isn’t a silly minor thing that you wouldn’t think it was b
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by EGreg 7mo ago
Amazing as in his stuff actually works? I just hear him promoting OBLITERATUS all day long and trying to get models to say naughty things
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by EGreg 8mo ago
Previous discussion a few months ago -- same problems persist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632336
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Public Grok is toxic and unable to reason properly. This affects discourse(twitter.com)
4 points by EGreg 8mo ago|1 comments
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by EGreg 8mo ago
Literally came here to write this There are some models that everyone wants but companies discontinue or never make iPhone 13s was the last one Another example was the Cadiallac Ciel at Pebble Beach. Only ever appeared in Entourage after th
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by EGreg 8mo ago
I wonder what people will say to that. I personally think neither Go nor Java would be good for "agents". Better to have them sandboxed in WASM.

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