Miraste

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by Miraste 2y ago
This is only half the answer. Cooperatives are niche in the US because they don't prioritize growth, and they exist in a legal and financial framework that does. If conventional corporations didn't receive massive amounts of inves
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by Miraste 2y ago
Charitably, that's a very flawed blog post. Studies of housing affordability in Finland should not be used to make points about America. Finland has a number of legal protections that shield its citizens from the rampant price-fixing,
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by Miraste 2y ago
VR has a long way to go on the technical side, but true blacks and latency are both basically solved. Vision Pros have a motion to photon latency of ~12ms, which is unnoticeable, and miniLED and OLED allow for true blacks in plenty of heads
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by Miraste 2y ago
None of those require any personal investment. I think GP meant something that takes a lot of your personal time to do, while staying unprofitable no matter the skill level. For example, ROM hacks and emulators: they're difficult and t
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by Miraste 2y ago
Creation is superior to consumption in basically every value system ever constructed. That doesn't seem like a controversial axiom. Certainly it's widely believed on HN.
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by Miraste 2y ago
Homeless people go to libraries because libraries are the only public space left that hasn't been commodified and commercialized. Killing them in the name of even higher profits is not a solution.
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by Miraste 2y ago
To clarify my point: Learning how to make a small website is useful, and so is the website. Learning how to finetune a large GPT is useful, and so is the finetuned model. Learning how to train a 124M GPT is useful, but the resulting model i
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by Miraste 2y ago
Learning resources are nice, but I don't think it's analogous to web dev. I can download nginx and make a useful website right now, no fleet of servers needed. I can even get it hosted for free. Making a useful LLM absolutely, 100
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by Miraste 2y ago
I'm in favor of FOSS, and I'd like to see more truly open models for ideological reasons, but I don't see a lot of practical value for individuals in open-sourcing the process. You still can't build one yourself. How doe
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by Miraste 2y ago
Schools used to do this, but the push for risk reduction, metrics, and rules has become so great that it no longer happens. There used to be thousands of student-run organizations in schools across the country. That wasn't a euphemism
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by Miraste 2y ago
The source above yours and the one on Wikipedia are using different metrics for literacy. These are generally not comparable. Measuring literacy in a useful way, especially over historic timescales, is harder than it sounds.
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A single company controlling all consumer transactions was unthinkable and technologically impossible in 1789, yes. The US didn't even have standardized currency at the time. Control of tea is not analogous.
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There is a qualitative difference between you as a freelancer, and a company like Visa that controls all consumer commerce in America. When the First Amendment was written, the idea of Visa was impossible. Protections from entities like tha
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by Miraste 2y ago
There aren't that many channels with over 5M subscribers. 3Blue1Brown is 706th in the world. It's insane to me that YouTube still doesn't have a manual sanity check for claims against their top ~1000 channels or so. That coul
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by Miraste 2y ago
Would you feel the same way if the waiting period were objective? Say a study was performed with varying wait periods, the percentage of people who changed their minds and opted out was tracked, and the final length was set somewhere on thi
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by Miraste 2y ago
It's obscured because of how Canada formats their data, but the vast majority of "North American origins" respondents would fall under white as well. The total percentage is in the upper 80s.
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The same reason that pills come in blister packs and bridges have nets-if you add a delay to methods for ending one's life, a significant portion of people change their minds.
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The problem is that camera feeds are not accessible to any app, even with user permission. Quests have no vision capabilities because of this.
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by Miraste 2y ago
It's going to be years before game studios even consider working with them again after the Stadia disaster.
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The World Chess Championship uses rapid and blitz matches (much shorter time controls) for tie breaks. Gukesh is 46th in the world in rapid, and 82nd in blitz. Ding is 2nd and 6th.
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DVDs and Blu-rays also have stupid geographical restrictions. They come marked with region codes, and DVD players will only play discs from their home region. You have to go all the way back to VHS to be free of that particular corporate &q
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by Miraste 2y ago
Pynchon is great, but avoiding the creation of commercializable art is a different tactic that never has an inflection point-there's no moment of "If I sign this paper and give my creations to vultures, I will become rich on the s
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by Miraste 2y ago
Watterson did get financial security and stability from the success of the comic, he wasn't distributing it for free. The point after that is where you find selling out, and that's where he drew a line.
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I have immense respect for Watterson. He's the only artist I can think of to achieve that level of fame and success and not sell out. Selling out is barely even a concept any more because it's simply assumed, and Watterson is stil
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Are you using fractional scaling, or 2x?
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MacOS and Windows have very good fractional scaling now. Linux... still no, but it's better than the X days.
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This has already happened. Search google for a few random terms, and go through the first page of web and image results. A decent chunk will be AI-generated.
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That may be generally true, but the linked page says Nova is a series of foundation models in the first sentence.
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How far would you take this? That rhetoric taken to its conclusion leads to travesties like destroying national parks to install oil wells and strip malls, a net negative for 99.999999% of humanity.
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The most important step is picking the right base model. Gemini, ChatGPT, and Llama are utterly worthless at creative writing. Their training is too rooted in corporate English-they can't write anything without adding fluff and/or

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