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by Traster 5mo ago
The person you're replying to is making the argument "Would you object to a book publisher that only signed writers who were white" or "Should a coffee shop be allowed to only hire white barristas". Which is a sound
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by Traster 5mo ago
I'm always a bit sad that silicon valley just doesn't get free speech. Or rather, their view of free speech is "I can say what I want". The damning part for Tan here isn't the defence that Balko makes of their work.
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by Traster 5mo ago
> Granted, I tend to run older hardware, but it seems that most other programs on my machine run fast and happy I'd really like some context here. Because for some people this is like "My M4 is out of date now the M4 ultra is o
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by Traster 5mo ago
I think it depends on what you classify as siding with Iran. I don't support any part of Iran's regime, but they didn't start this war. I don't support any part of Iran's regime, but this war seems to have empowered
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by Traster 5mo ago
I'm always weirded out by this process because it's such a squishy thing. How much are the rights worth? Well, take the revenue from the last 5 years and project it out. But they released a new album in 2022, so that year is going
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by Traster 5mo ago
I think it's interesting that the data suggests that novices can increase productivity by a third and experts not at all. That sounds very similar to Dunning-Kruger- the novices literally don't know what productivity looks like. I
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by Traster 5mo ago
I don't think the author is right. I think more or less it's fine let trusted people have permission to do bad things. Because trying to figure out ahead of time what things are bad is impossible and default denying stuff is a pro
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by Traster 5mo ago
On Chrome on desktop it stops the (slow) javascript running which is what actually loads the blocker. You need a fast finger.
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by Traster 6mo ago
As with all silly internet block BS, simply reload the site and hit escape before the cookie banner loads.
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by Traster 6mo ago
This is slacktivism. I can kind of understand someone coming to the conclusion that we're replacing working class jobs with compute (caveat, I use working class more broadly than you), and that compute is pure capital. So essentially t
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by Traster 6mo ago
Even if you buy the idea that Kalshi is a prediction market whose mechanism is gambling but whose product is accurate predictions, you don't have to buy the idea that insider trading is a good thing. Yes, in the rare occasion there e
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by Traster 6mo ago
Yeah to zoom out, I think it was less specifically search and more generally: There was the PC, the winner became a behemoth. Then was Search, the winner became a behemoth. Then smartphones, the winner became a behemoth, Then there was soci
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by Traster 6mo ago
People can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the core logic behind OpenAI's valuation was essentially that AI would work like search. Google had the best search engine, it became a centre of gravity that sucked everything in an
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by Traster 6mo ago
And as we all know, if you're smart enough to get root access, your neighbours children playing football in the street should be subject to the risk of you driven a car that claims to have full self driving with custom code on it.
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by Traster 7mo ago
This is just Apple saying "We own all user compute now". Yeah you guys can fight over data centres. But every device that a user physically has will be an Apple device. They've now got the full range of price points from low
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by Traster 7mo ago
At the end of the day the core business is throwing off tonnes of money and is run fine. Would it be better not to throw billions at the next cool thing? Who knows. Probably. But Google does the same thing and they've actually built so
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by Traster 7mo ago
I was at Intel for a while and there was one glaring problem - they have one product that spins off a huge amount of cash. This means a few things: First, that one product is really where the things that matter happen. But second, they hav
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by Traster 7mo ago
Well what do you mean by "works" the guys on twitter screaming about "Have fun being poor", were by and large just trying to scam you. Like, I could phone up your grandmother and convince her she's got a virus and s
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by Traster 7mo ago
I was going to say I disagree, that I think that at least some level of discussion on HN about important things going on is important. Israel is actually a tech powerhouse and a lot of this is seriously shaping the defence technology policy
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by Traster 7mo ago
I feel something very similar. I have strong views that what Israel is doing is wrong. But I look around at our politics (in the UK), and there is such a well oiled Israeli PR operation that is very happy making career ending accusations th
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by Traster 7mo ago
I think a lot of the pushback comes down to your attitude. The way you're talking about AI is like how the crypto bros talked about bitcoin. Just being very insistent on your point of view is a red flag. Either you can present new data
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by Traster 7mo ago
This seems odd. I think broadly there are two ways of structuring how you interact with AI agents: * The first is where there's you and your computer, and you're doing pre-AI work. You hit some hotkey and pass off some task to AI.
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by Traster 7mo ago
This article is answering a different question to what it is asking. It's asking "What is the most effective strategy to freeze your eggs if you're absolutely certain you will need to". The reason women freeze their eggs
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by Traster 7mo ago
Given that the UK is structurally uncompetitive in industry because of extremely high energy costs, it would seem crazy to me to build a data centre here. Even if we did build plenty of data centres here, it's simply not a driver of em
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by Traster 7mo ago
>we're no longer hiring: specialists. In this new era, generalists win. I am truly astonished someone said this. My experience with AI has been the opposite. It can knock up something reasonable given the right prompting. It can gen
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by Traster 7mo ago
I'm kind of surprised there has been so much talk about benchmarks. The CPU is probably the single strongest part of the product. The RAM and SSD are clearly going to be limiting factors for a lot of people, but they're not crazy,
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by Traster 7mo ago
Isn't this just the obvious conclusion you would expect going in? Corporate bullshit is meant to sound impressive whilst simultaneously either saying nothing, or hiding the real meaning. Synergy is a great example - what the person s
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by Traster 7mo ago
I'm in two minds about this. I think that by and large We Have A Problem. And i don't mean a problem with children on the internet. We have a problem with people on the internet. There are so many examples of grown adults who have
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by Traster 7mo ago
Well firstly, they don't charge $200 for them because they can't produce them for $200. But the point I'm making is he seems to be trying to say they aren't beautiful. He says he's describing this "dark"
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by Traster 7mo ago
>That's not why brand age watches look strange. Brand age watches look strange because they have no practical function. Their function is to express brand, and while that is certainly a constraint, it's not the clean kind of co

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