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by KPGv2 1y ago
FYI it works now because I just brought it up. The website mentions there were HN promo/discount codes, so I honestly expected the app to be like $20+, so color me shocked when it's $3.99.
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> they didnt have the compute or the data to make use of NNs The compute and data are both limitations of NNs. We've already gotten really close to the data limit (we aren't generating enough useful content as a species and the
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by KPGv2 1y ago
Discord is literally a web chat room. It operates over the web. Its interface is a re-branded web browser. You chat in it. There are rooms (although I suppose people call them "channels," implying a conceptual link to IRC).
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by KPGv2 1y ago
The neural net was invented in the 1940s, and LLMs were created in the 1960s. It's 2025 and we're still using 80yo architecture. Call me cynical, but I don't understand how we're going to avoid the physical limitations o
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> Speech to text and vice versa exists for over a decade. Indeed. I was using speech to text three decades ago. Dragon Naturally Speaking was released in the 90s.
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In what way? I would really like to hear you explain how they revolutionized supermarkets. I use them every day, and my shopping experience is served far better by going to a place that is smaller than one that has automated checkout ma
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by KPGv2 1y ago
It seems to me the people running America are Trump (business), Bezos (engineering), Musk (Physics), Pichai (engineering), Zuckerberg (CS), Mike Johnson (business), John Thune (business), etc but yeah the Vice President has a humanities deg
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> On economics and foreign policy there's almost no daylight between the major parties in the US This is, and the rudeness is warranted here, a breathtakingly stupid thing to claim. Are you just not looking at what the Republican pa
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by KPGv2 1y ago
My friend, China invading Taiwan would be catastrophically ruinous to the American economy and would almost assuredly trigger a hot war because of it. Biden was trying to fix this problem by on-shoring more chip manufacturing, but Trump put
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Not always. Just recently.
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> Aggressive and cynical environmental activism How is environmental activism cynical? My understanding is that RE mining is terrible for the environment. If I must cause some level of pollution, I don't think it's cynical to w
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by KPGv2 1y ago
According to the Product Environmental Report published by Apple in September 2021, an iPhone 13 emits a total of 64kg CO2 (that is total lifecycle, from resource extraction to destruction). According to Sustainability by Numbers, "[s]
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> No one was twirling their mustache trying to make people suffer. Someone had a lab, and prestige and control over funding and the best way to keep it all was by being dishonest. The second sentence and the first sentence are merely lit
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> the common argument against it is that it guarantees a technological arms race and by those conditions pushes the smaller groups out of the competition. But a cursory examination of history would reveal that the literal opposite has ha
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> "How does HFT provide social benefit to the world at large?" It's explained multiple times in this very discussion. It's not our fault if you refuse to read them. But the most straightforward and obvious way is that
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You wrote: > > the better our discovery gets > The better the computers hooked directly into the exchange get you mean. This implies a distinction between "our" (i.e., humans) and "the computers." Can you explai
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It's exhausting to see good reasons offered and then y'all proudly failing to understand those reasons. Like, there are literally multiple comments here explaining it.
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> Millisecond trading strategies have zero relationship to information about companies or economic fundamentals and are therfore not economically productive It is not clear to me that the only economically productive information is &quot
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> The point isn't to make something 'wall street hates' it's to make something that doesn't get money eaten away by automated computers in the middle so that it's the best option for people making trading de
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> The better the computers hooked directly into the exchange get you mean. I need you to understand that HFT makes decisions based on human-defined parameters. It's not AI-driven. What's the difference between a human saying &q
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by KPGv2 1y ago
One other aspect of HFT that is good for the general investor is that HFT injects liquidity, making it easier for a general investor to liquidate their position, which is a desirable thing for human traders. HFT does not magically make huma
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by KPGv2 1y ago
@selfmodruntime Arguing that the existence of regulations makes an economy non-capitalist is something I've only ever seen extreme left and extreme right-wing people make. Everyone else recognizes "capitalism is a system based on
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> They call it a "gross employer contribution" It feels disingenuous to me to see "someone else pays tax, so that counts as a tax on me" leveled as a serious argument. Maybe it's just my cold pragmatism speaking,
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by KPGv2 1y ago
> No way that serious neo-Nazis wouldn't think about that. Unless Germany's serious neo-Nazis are especially wiser than America's equivalent far-right groups (which have played the political game well enough to achieve s
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> Spying on people using DHS and ICE resources or Palantier isn't better on using the TSA. It's all the same. You're right, but not for the reason you think. TSA is part of DHS, so it's a tautology.
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> There's probably some interesting new architectures already in the works either from postdocs or in tiny startups It is not clear to me why we will have a breakthrough after virtually no movement on this front for decades. Backpro
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In the long run they're still way ahead because they exploited those "low-quality" people for centuries, extracting all their labor and material resources for virtually nothing.
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Where are gamma waves on the visible light spectrum? It's a spectrum, which means everything is on it!
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> and over medicating don't forget the vaccines and tylenol, RFK Jr autism predates the widespread use of plastic by generations The Nazis had already holocausted autistic people.
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I agree, which is why it drives me crazy to be on HN and see people be like "if you want to work as a programmer you must live breathe eat sleep code and have a resume of Github commits three miles long." It's a job, not a re

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