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by Sabinus 1y ago
Because of the incentives of the US voting system. Voting is not mandatory so parties are incentivised to mess with voting access to make it easier for their demographics to vote but not others. There's also a general distain for letti
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by Sabinus 1y ago
If a tshirt rental store was renting me my favourite tshirt (not available to buy) for two decades then decided it wasn't available any more because other people don't like the shirt design, I would be pissed and not want to suppo
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by Sabinus 1y ago
The Hulk Hogan and Pope dying stories aren't flagged. Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged . The leader of the most powerful democracy on earth doing authoritarian actions and eroding norms is worth discussion.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Apart from execution speedup due to caching, how does the article explain this is an advantage?
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by Sabinus 1y ago
What do you think the main use case for fine tuning small language models is?
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by Sabinus 1y ago
And every day we delay the serious and difficult action that climate change demands, business can go on as normal and the industry foundational to our modern experience, the fossil fuel industry, can continue to dominate the world economy a
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by Sabinus 1y ago
They are selling AGI to investors, but they're just selling intelligence to subscribers. And they just made the intelligence cheaper and better.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
If you're just using the models in a web chat: 4o for straightforward stuff that takes one or two steps to complete. o3 for everything more complicated than that. Ignore the rest of the models.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Not enough safeguards on the 'spicy' setting. It'll refuse the request directly but does via an ambiguous prompt and the preset. How is the preset implemented I wonder? Additional prompt or something more sophisticated?
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Allegedly this is big news. It's a positive development. The actual support of a functioning Palestinian government by surrounding states is crucial for peace and a two-state deal. Some states have actually volunteered peacekeeping for
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by Sabinus 1y ago
>Do you also blame Ukraine for fighting back? If they had decades of conflict and there was a credible peace deal freezing the lines as they are and instead the Ukrainian leaders sold the future of the state for a decades long insurgency
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by Sabinus 1y ago
No one is forcing anyone to use Trae. But the telemetry settings not working and the actions of the Trae moderators to quash any discussion of the telemetry is extremely concerning. People should be able to make informed decisions about the
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by Sabinus 1y ago
This was the couple that was funding Tim Pool and Dave Rubin. Millions of dollars to damage American society straight from the Kremlin, and they portray themselves as victims. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Slowly taking land, because if they can't have security through a negotiated peace they'll have it by taking more land. It's cynical and harms the negotiated peace process, but the hope for a peace deal is low and falling aft
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by Sabinus 1y ago
This may be the case but China is also steadily building the specific capacity to take the island by force. Circumstances could easily change. What if they decide the Taiwanese people will never accept unification, or something unexpected h
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Do you write about your assessments of model capabilities and the results of your experiments?
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by Sabinus 1y ago
In my humble opinion, yes. Modern genocide law doesn't really account for a government engaging in suicidal sacred war.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
> Operation Downfall, the Americans were planning literal genocide against the Japanese. If you're at war and your opponent has lost but is foreign to the idea of surrender and fights to the last man, and you oblige him, you are pur
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by Sabinus 1y ago
>Often requested to 'start a new chat limit reached'. Are you using one conversation thread to implement lots of features? That's not recommended as the huge context makes the model behaviour unstable. Restart the conversa
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by Sabinus 1y ago
I think the issue we're having is that encouraging women to have children is more of a traditionalist/conservative/right social norm and we're not geared for that kind of social change in the West.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Someone posted that last week. https://www.hackernews.coffee/
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Billions will die from starvation and conflict in that future. Be careful what you wish for.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Would you say the industrial revolution would have been able to be stopped by enough humans not wanting to achieve it? >The unstated premise of this essay is that venture capital and oligarchs do not get to define our future simply becau
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by Sabinus 1y ago
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc... This guy is famous for converting kkk members by just showing them that they can be friends with a black guy. They didn't just write h
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by Sabinus 1y ago
To me, there is very little wisdom in using a piece of software designed by an internet advertising company to browse the internet. The incentives are just too perverse.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
All the comments are not flagged, go back another page. Nor are the most recent posts.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
The ability to recycle solar panels will only get better with time.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
I am always reminded of HN's interesting flagging habits when I think back to how well upvoted and certainly not flagged the Pope's death and appointment news articles were.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Trump doesn't have the power. There needs to be a real emergency, or congress needs to pass it. And I think 'tax cuts' are easier for the Republicans to pass than tariffs but we'll see.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
I took it to mean it was borrowed/a hand me down/ otherwise scrounged.

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