Gathering6678

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by Gathering6678 6mo ago
Care to elaborate why? I'm just curious since I didn't know (1) there was actually any kind of serious usage, or (2) there was pushback from rescue team...
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by Gathering6678 6mo ago
It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.
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Are there lessons from high-reliability engineering for AGI safety?(lesswrong.com)
1 points by Gathering6678 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
My knowledge may be out-of-date, but sodium-ion battery has a 30-50% lower energy density to lithium (200 Wh/kg vs 300-400). My understanding is it will be confined to cheaper solutions.
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
Oh okay, that's fair. How long would you achieve breakeven, i.e. save enough money from electricity to cover the initial cost?
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
That makes sense. I am running a desktop PC as server, and a NAS for backup. Only the PC is protected by a UPS, and the NAS is directly connected to the socket. I can't recall experiencing any glitches actually...it was a bit more comm
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
We live in a big city now (though not exactly close to hospital or government), but my wife's hometown is a smallish rural town, and power outage is also extremely rare (less than once per year?) in the past decade or so. If you need e
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
Oh I didn't mean 'violated', but 'no longer work as intended'. It's been a while, but I think there were cases where the robot was paralysed because of conflicting directives from the three laws.
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
I'm always curious why homes in the US need energy storage systems, basically UPS for the house? I live in China, and the only times my UPS for the home server tripped in the last 5 years were scheduled maintenance that lasted for no m
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
Well, in the books the three laws were immediately challenged and broken, so much so it felt like Mr Asimov's intention, to show that nuances of human society can't be represented easily by a few "laws".
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
I meant the enforceability of such clause: to the extent of my limited understanding of law, you would need to at least appear to prove that: someone has breached the agreement by, for example, using your code to train AI. I am not sure how
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
How do you propose someone who uses this license to enforce such clauses?
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
That is probably a good idea. I was so confused listening to the example.
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
This number is wrong. Instead, ~70-75%[0] of China's oil demand is met by importing. [0]: "2024年，中国...石油对外依存度71.9%，同比下降0.5个百分点。" (In 2024, China's ... dependence on foreign oil was 71.9%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5 p
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
Emm...I played the sample audio and it was...horrible? How is it voice cloning if even the sample doesn't sound like any human being...
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by Gathering6678 9mo ago
I suppose it would be trivial to simply block or severely throttle high-volume SMTP traffic?
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by Gathering6678 10mo ago
I have to emphasise that this is all my personal feeling and experience: I used to think these people and their actions actually mean something, and could lead to a different future. I was uncertain of this future, but willing to try. Seein
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by Gathering6678 10mo ago
As a native Chinese, the recent years of US politics definitely made me more unsympathetic for people like Jimmy Lai and the (for lack of better words) campaigns related to them, and, at least from my personal experience, my sentiment (that
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by Gathering6678 11mo ago
I live in China, and even I am surprised to see completely electric heavy trucks that are eerily quiet compared to diesel ones and carrying building materials, just cruising by on public roads. No idea how well or expensive they run, though
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by Gathering6678 11mo ago
More automation while keeping trained professionals in the loop is definitely going to help with safety. But the money comes from ... ?
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
For a country built on dead bodies of independent natives, the last sentence seems disingenuous at best.
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
I honestly don't even know about your company before and the only thing I remember now about PlanetScale is the CEO telling HN readers to f off...
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
This is an interesting statement I've never thought of before. Makes a lot of sense to me.
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
Where this current administration is leading, the US does not need an enemy to "lose".
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
Not sure about the true/false of your premise, but a potential conflict between US and China will adversely affect all risk assets, which include US equity and crypto (unless you are one of those who equate crypto to gold). However, I
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
I wonder if there's a comparison between level of (a) pollution from satellites burning, and (b) pollution from other sources. If (a) is only a tiny amount compared to (b), I think this is not a significant issue.
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
The calculator also misleads in another direction, in that it could underestimate the probability of failure by only considering the "takeover" scenario, while I think it is much more likely to be defeated via other OpSec failur
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this feels like a long-winded way of saying: if an adversary could control a significant portion of relays without being found out and for a not-insignificant period of time, it could defeat Tor. Is it corr
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
My understanding is Anthropic is closed source and has been unavailable for Chinese companies for a long time, and if they wanted to use offshore entities to use closed-source LLMs, they would have gone to OpenAI...?
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by Gathering6678 1y ago
From my experience, apart from small restaurants and yatai s (basically food carts), as well as local buses in small towns, you could get by using a credit card / Suica perfectly fine.

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