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by Taek 1y ago
Each version is likely a new vulnerability that got submitted, doesn't seem that weird.
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by Taek 1y ago
To be fair, "it just works" is a relatively recent feature of Graphene. It used to not be able to support things like Uber, Google Maps, etc. And, I still haven't been able to get it to properly support Google Fi, wherever I
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by Taek 1y ago
The end game is politically controlled speech. First you can't share porn, then you can't share violence, then you can't share police abuse, until it starts to creep into the world of anything unflattering to those in power.
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by Taek 1y ago
This is the sort of attitude that allows nations to fall. If a nation isn't protecting it's most valuable resources, they will be taken away by others who want them.
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by Taek 1y ago
Or... those other parts of the economy increase salaries for skilled labor? If we can only bring 85,000 people into the country on one type of visa, doesn't it make sense to prioritize those that will bring the most value (tax revenue,
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by Taek 1y ago
That seems like a fair way for the free market to address things, no? If you need special carve outs, create a new type of Visa for those special cases. The immigrants are all going to be paying taxes on their earnings. If you can boost H1B
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by Taek 1y ago
Are you able to unpack that more? Are people not proud of themselves and their culture? Do they not want to prioritize the safety of themselves and their possessions?
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by Taek 1y ago
You aren't wrong, but that doesn't mean this level of determinism isn't useful. If you don't even have the level of determinism that the exact same input tokens produce the exact same output tokens, then it's very h
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by Taek 1y ago
They could, but surprisingly they don't. The YouTube algorithm is remarkable in it's stubbornness to only use your watch history.
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by Taek 1y ago
From a business perspective, wouldn't taking these issues seriously harm growth? What sort of fines and punishment are making sure invectives are aligned with good behavior? Is any of the management going to jail? If you want the large
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by Taek 1y ago
It's actually not been established (at least, to the best of my knowledge) that PM2.5 caused by water vapor is any less harmful than other types of PM2.5 particulates. And sure, yes, it's just water and its entirely plausible that
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by Taek 1y ago
I can't help but feel like this is a huge win for Chinese AI. Western companies are going to be limited in the amount of data they can collect and train on, and Chinese (or any foreign AI) is going to have access to much more and much
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by Taek 1y ago
That's because you have history turned off. YouTube did this really weird thing where they refuse to give you algorithmic recommendations if you have history off, which includes refusing to let you watch more than a handful of shorts a
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by Taek 1y ago
I would say it's a different problem. The winner is pretty much always the candidate that gets the most eyeballs. A voting based political structure is fundamentally deeply biased towards visibility, and candidates that can get bigger
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by Taek 1y ago
The difference between us and dogs is that we DO still need to make a salary. Dogs live in a lap of luxury where their needs are guaranteed to be handled. But humans need jobs, and jobs need to capture value from society. So we do actually
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by Taek 1y ago
HN is full of people who say LLMs aren't good at coding and don't "really" produce productivity gains. None of my professional life reflects that whatsoever. When used well, LLMs are exceptional and putting out large amo
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by Taek 1y ago
Cognitive decline is a broad term, and a research paper could claim "decline" if even a single cognitive metric loses strength. When writing was invented, societies started depending on long form memorization less, which is a cogn
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by Taek 1y ago
Well, there are a lot of shortcuts built into engines like stockfish that don't perfectly mirror how beginners vs advanced players think. For example, certain types of piece forks are easy for newer players to spot (knight forking a ki
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by Taek 1y ago
Spammers will buy ASICs and get a huge advantage over consumer CPUs
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by Taek 1y ago
Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it, whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single
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by Taek 1y ago
Just use normal dashes. AI's very notably always use the emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it - but humans tend to use a single dash with spaces on either side. The AI emdash is notably AI because most people don't e
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by Taek 1y ago
This sort of discourse goes against the spirit of HN. This comment outright dismisses an entire class of professionals as "simple minded or mentally unwell" when consciousness itself is poorly understood and has no firm scientific
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by Taek 1y ago
1 operation per second would refer to cryptographic signatures. If you are doing Chacha, the speeds are more like 1 mbps. AES is probably closer to 400 kbps. An uncompressed video stream at 240p, 24 frames per second is 60 mbps, not really
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by Taek 1y ago
When you say "get their asses kicked", you mean in terms of performance right? Both sets of cryptography are secure under the same set of assumptions, it's just that one is more performant on limited instruction sets and the
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by Taek 1y ago
Even the tiniest MCU can typically perform more than one cryptographic operation per second. If your MCU has any cycles to spare at all it usually has enough cycles for cryptography. If you don't have any cycles to spare, you can upgra
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by Taek 1y ago
The problem is that GPT-5 is a smaller model than its predecessors.
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by Taek 1y ago
Yeah, I spent a ton of time yesterday comparing o3, 4.5, 5, 5 thinking, and 5 pro, and... 5 seems to underperform across the board? o3 is better than 5 thinking, o3 pro is better than 5 pro, 4.5 is better than 5, and overall 5 just seems un
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by Taek 1y ago
A quick check on GPT suggests that shipping the thing via ocean freight is going to be comfortably less than 1% of the carbon emissions of manufacturing. Batteries are really tiny, so they ship well, and they are really complex, so they are
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by Taek 1y ago
Companies only need a big incentive to invest in new codecs because creating a codec that has a simple incremental improvement would violate existing patents.
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by Taek 1y ago
People don't develop video codecs for fun because there are patent minefields. You don't *have* to add all the rigour. If you develop a new technique for video compression, a new container for holding data, etc, you can just try i

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