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by ForHackernews 23d ago
Their entire sales pitch is based on the idea that no one will need to be any good at anything, because the AI will do it for them. If they can't ask the AI to configure their CDN correctly, it undermines the validity of their claims.
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by ForHackernews 25d ago
What's the tooling for this? I've wanted to do a similar map project for a different dataset and this is a slick presentation.
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by ForHackernews 26d ago
Oops, you're absolutely right to call me out for that. Starting the defrost cycle without emptying the freezer first COULD lead to spoilage. The load-bearing temperature is 0 degrees Celsius — above that point, and frozen food starts t
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by ForHackernews 26d ago
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-off... > Failure to Care or Respond. The biggest holy shit moment, to me, remains that OpenAI on multiple occasions had teams that found out about t
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by ForHackernews 27d ago
Why shouldn't open source get special treatment? Public laws should recognize and incentivize public goods.
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by ForHackernews 27d ago
It must be very freeing for you to absolve everyone of all responsibility because someone, somewhere could be acting irresponsibly. I'm not mocking efforts to secure the system, I'm insulted that they didn't bother taking wha
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
The reasons are money and power/influence. But I take your point.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
This is such a goofy comment. In your mind, there's no difference between the precautions a BSL-4 virology lab should take when working with an unknown pathogen and the precautions that literally everyone else in the world should be
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
> Your robot companion can show joy, sadness, and happiness, reacting just like a living creature would. Seems like a lie to me. Compare: > Our synthetic foodstuffs can taste sweet, salty, tart or tangy, delicious flavors just like na
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
>How were they supposed to know about "previously unknown vulnerabilities"? You don't. That's why you unplug the Ethernet cable.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
I'm not sure I trust any self-reported numbers on this kind of stuff. 10 - 20 days per year (but not evenly distributed) is a common figure I see thrown around: https://www.nedcapital.co.uk/how-much-time-does-a-non-exec
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Being a non-executive board member often involves very little time or attention, it's mostly lending your name and credibility to the organization. Consider it an American form of royal patronage[0] [0] https://www.cosmopoli
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Look, either AI is going to magically solve all our problems or it isn't. If you're in the AI maximalist camp, then you better have an explanation for how AI is going to fix warlords or it's hard for me to take your singulari
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-c...
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
AI can automate a lot of jobs because that is exactly what happened in the past. AI cannot automate all jobs because the purpose of many jobs is to have a human do a thing for you e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Replacing a deterministic factory that makes one type of car that always comes with seatbelts and airbags with a probabilistic vibestruder that churns out carlike objects that usually drive and typically have something that resembles an air
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
This seems like the sort of case the EFF should take up: https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
"Our Neumann projections show us on track to achieve 15.3 heptillion dollars in annual revenue by the year 2030."
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Yep, 92% of estimated US GDP in 2026. That sounds totally plausible to me.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
>Now, again Ebola is very seriously deadly Says who? Bunch of 'experts', I'd wager. We've 'ad enough of their rubbish.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Maybe they don't perceive the risk to be high, just like during covid the Westerners refusing to social distance or get vaccinated perceived the risk to be low. Let's not pretend that either group is carefully assessing the epidem
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
I keep saying AI is going to prove more impactful than cloud computing but less impactful than the sewing machine and a bunch of people get mad at me.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Cheaper/faster is coming for sure. Model on a custom silicon: https://chatjimmy.ai/ 1-bit models that run on a CPU: https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
> You think someone's picking up a first edition Steinbeck and destroying it so it gets into the next training corpus? I doubt the low-paid workers stripping, scanning and shredding the books are checking what anything is. I'd
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
They are running out of novel, clean training data and compute. There is probably a limit to how much improvement can be squeezed out of LLMs. Recent improvements have been more about orchestration and "reasoning" loops (i.e. iter
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
You should consider publishing some of your work at https://pudding.cool/ - I think it would fit in well there.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
I can't tell if you're making a joke but many (most?) rare books predate the modern copyright regime and the original printing plates are somewhere in a 17th century midden heap.
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Project Unica is an initiative by the University of Illinois Libraries to scan and preserve publications that exist as only a single known copy: https://news.illinois.edu/u-of-i-librarys-project-unica-pres...
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
Mining $FARTCOIN
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by ForHackernews 1mo ago
This looks to me like Anthropic and OpenAI preparing the ground to get a taxpayer bailout when they are unable to meet their financial commitments. "It wasn't our insane trillion-dollar promises, it was those dastardly Chinese com

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