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by Fricken 10mo ago
They're suing OpenAI for serenading a murder-suicide. Altman's anguished model is so large and over leveraged -so negligence alleged- that even the financiers are flexing on Zero Hedge. So pop some corn and pick a side. Would you
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Yesterday I was having the same issues as the top commenter except I was having trouble getting Google to label various mountain peaks I had zoomed in on.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
This is the slop that BBC failed to show you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YwjXEVGo8
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by Fricken 10mo ago
Starship is just one company. There are dozens in the west. In China there are hundreds of sidewalk delivery robot start-ups. We're not talking about all the "Possible unique problems", we're just talking about the reall
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by Fricken 10mo ago
They aren't that new. Starship Technologies, founded in 2014, has performed over 9 million deliveries across 270 locations.
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by Fricken 10mo ago
There was a brief period of time in which rifles were available and game was easy to find. 20 million bison were hunted to the brink of extinction within a couple decades.
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by Fricken 11mo ago
It's the opinion of Netflix execs, who have expressed envy over how much money HBO is still making off of decades old IP. Not a lot of Netflix content has legs like that, but I suppose that's about to change with the WB acquisitio
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by Fricken 11mo ago
When there are more obstacles and hazards on the road drivers tend to slow down and pay attention. Pedestrian deaths in my city peaked in 2025, but they didn't happen in the walkable central areas of the city where pedestrians are com
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by Fricken 11mo ago
Google is well positioned because they were thinking about AI from the earliest days. The race not a sprint, it just seems that way.
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by Fricken 11mo ago
Exactly. They aren't going to win the AI race chasing rabbits at the expense of long-term goals. We're 3 years into a 10 year build-out. Open AI and it's financiers are too impatient, clearly, and they're fucking themsel
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by Fricken 11mo ago
I take this code red as a red flag. Open AI should continue to concern itself with where it will be 5 years from now, not lose sight over concern about where it will 5 months from now.
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by Fricken 11mo ago
When I was a teenager I borrowed a unicycle for the weekend from a friend at school. I practiced obsessively the whole weekend long and by Sunday afternoon I was able to go to the end of my street, turn around and come back. That Monday I r
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by Fricken 11mo ago
The 90s was the best decade for film, it was peak. One thing about the blockbusters of the 90s is that they were made to appeal to Western tastes. Throughout the 2000s Hollywood drew progressively more and more revenue from global audiences
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by Fricken 11mo ago
Without reading the article, the headline, taken at face value, should come with the caveat that human brain is preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world we've evolved to inhabit. Modern industrial civilization is som
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by Fricken 11mo ago
Check out Hup #1, published in 1987. A grotesque parody of Donald Trump is featured on the front cover. On Page 2 is "The Ruff Tuff Creampuffs", a 9 page story which I think is worth taking a look at in light of the current politi
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by Fricken 11mo ago
We've known of foreign influence campaigns targeting Americans on social media for a long time. A significant number of HN users have a vested interest in pretending it isn't the case. Some of them are making money off it. Others
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by Fricken 11mo ago
Copyright was originally intended to last 14 years, after which the work is transferred to public domain. That was back in the 1700s, when the pace of life moved much faster than it does now. If it weren't for Disney's success at
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by Fricken 11mo ago
It's been a long time coming, but Waymo is doing it. Waymo is scaleable and on the march! They've been announcing plans to roll out in new cities every month or 2 all year, and by the end of 2026 they'll be testing or offerin
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by Fricken 11mo ago
We can't keep ignoring those Chinese tech companies. The ones that have pivoted into EVs, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robotics, amongst other things.
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by Fricken 11mo ago
If you scroll down to the next article in Yahoo's autofeed, the headline reads "Why Apple CEO Tim Cook will be with Apple for the long haul".
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by Fricken 11mo ago
A trillion dollars are now riding on that white whale. An entire naval fleet is being raised for the purposes of chasing down that whale. LeCun and Fei-Fei merely believe that the whale is in a different ocean.
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by Fricken 11mo ago
We've got hundreds of thousands of people employed whose job is to pick up a box and then set it down again somewhere else. That's their whole job, they do it all day every day. Maybe we can get a robot that does that. Pick up box
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by Fricken 1y ago
Historically I would see far more em-dashes in capital "L" literature than I would in more casual contexts. LLMs assign more weight to literature than to things like reddit comments or Daily Mail articles.
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by Fricken 1y ago
It's a hassle to get permits to shoot anything in Canadian national parks and they'll ride your ass if they find unpermitted footage of their park being used in a commercial context. The rock climber Adam Ondra climbed the Dawn Wa
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by Fricken 1y ago
They especially aren't our friends if we go out of our way to make enemies with them. Why would we do that? It doesn't make any sense. It's a small world, China isn't going anywhere, we're stuck living on the same p
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by Fricken 1y ago
China has been a stable and reliable trading partner with Canada for a long time. Canada is far too small a country to produce everything it needs within it's own borders. If anyone ever declares war on Canada then we're toast, so
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by Fricken 1y ago
Smoking related deaths are relatively cheap. In Canada a typical pack-a-day smoker pays an extra $5k/year in taxes, and then dies not long after they retire and start collecting social security. A bigger burden are the healthy people w
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by Fricken 1y ago
https://archive.ph/eKAu6 >Sony Pictures describes the movie, which Sorkin is both writing and directing, as a “companion piece” to 2010’s The Social Network. (David Fincher is not returning.) Jeremy Strong is taking over
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One and a Half Days at Aaron Sorkin's Canadian January 6(vulture.com)
1 points by Fricken 1y ago|2 comments
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by Fricken 1y ago
https://archive.ph/qsmhk

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