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by achrono 3y ago
Why "PRC-Linked" and not "Chinese"? They don't seem to hesitate to use demonyms -- they do use 'Japanese' for example ( https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/27
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by achrono 3y ago
>Until recently I had no means to buy Linux, I was forced to buy Windows Huh, why not?
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by achrono 3y ago
https://archive.ph/Gw9ww
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by achrono 3y ago
I usually ask for sales. Always the fastest way to get hold of someone . Beyond that, sometimes it's begging that does it, sometimes it's threatening. I've discovered that some companies appear to have a rule where if a cust
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by achrono 3y ago
> we observe substantially more total travel miles for remote workers > to drop off/pick up friends, conduct recreational activities, > visit healthcare facilities, visit friends/relatives, and exercise This is genuinely
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by achrono 3y ago
>Sentient buildings weird me out. Courts are not buildings, sentient or otherwise. A court can exist without even a single brick or piece of stone being around. You're also making this about Brand when in fact this is a discussion a
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by achrono 3y ago
>it's just about trust. Yes, and a big part of establishing trust is sending the right signals. The risk vs reward differential is way higher for open-source compared to closed source, so all other things being equal I would trust o
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by achrono 3y ago
>Is it open-source? No, it is not. Why not? As to Why --> this one actually has a decent GUI and one that's not (visibly) based on a locally running webserver -- so it seems like it's got a shot at getting 100x popular with
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by achrono 3y ago
cough O, Canada! cough
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by achrono 3y ago
No, your self-appellation aside, you are not missing anything unless there is some really secret 'nuance' hidden in the paper. If the triune brain model was completely false (as stated by the caricature of "brain is not an
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by achrono 3y ago
>I'm not sure of the unintended consequences of my proposals, but they couldn't be worse than what is happening now. I wonder how large the percentage of buyers would be who would buy on-behalf of someone -- e.g. person A is an
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by achrono 3y ago
I'm on the fence on this, and feel like even if it were true, the academic & journalist types are obviously going to argue the s#!t out of their position. Do you have sources that compare pre/post or show how non-conforming bu
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Superconductor Autopsy and Prediction Markets(astralcodexten.substack.com)
2 points by achrono 3y ago|0 comments
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by achrono 3y ago
Exactly -- there's a reason this is coming from a billion dollar SV company.
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by achrono 3y ago
My question was rhetorical but sure. The real question is whether we as the public are doing a good enough job at holding these esteemed publications accountable for their mission -- especially as they continue to hold the position of autho
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Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance(wsj.com)
1 points by achrono 3y ago|2 comments
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by achrono 3y ago
What's with these half-baked and politically motivated opinionated pieces? According to The Economist: The good that's happening in India is due to Modi having "turbocharged" what his rival party Congress set out to do.
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by achrono 3y ago
Been to the Canadian side literally dozens of times, holidays and weekdays, but by far it's Ontario, New York or New Jersey repping most of 'em. A few Texas here and there, but never something like Alabama. Always wondered why tha
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by achrono 3y ago
That's really generous. The top comments in here are taking this article at face value and non-ironically. We love to occasionally question the quality of minds on HN "these days", but this time it just seems... quite severe.
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by achrono 3y ago
I thought for a second going into this that it might be an interview from at least 6 months ago. But no, it's from yesterday. As much as I prefer not to criticize the individual, Mr. Lakhani here is clearly not the most insightful pers
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by achrono 3y ago
I see this as only one more vote for the thesis that OpenAI is in this not for all its lofty goals but purely to make a "Netflix, but for AI". It's no secret they're in this for the money -- but they're doing so in
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by achrono 3y ago
This might be a naive question, but here me out. Do we really know what the difference is between statistics and the capacity to think? Is "true understanding" rather a continuum of sophistication from a simple adder to Albert Ein
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by achrono 3y ago
Another problem with this take is that it's giving humans too much credit here -- there's a vast continuum from pure-human-creation to pure-AI-creation. Human beings are given to (1) repeating tropes (2) arguing incoherently (3) m
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by achrono 3y ago
>While it’s not clear if Microsoft will ever make these chips available to its Azure cloud customers, the software maker is reportedly planning to make its AI chips available more broadly inside Microsoft and OpenAI as early as next year
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by achrono 3y ago
Yes! I kept wondering why but allisdust's compute reason makes the most sense.
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by achrono 3y ago
Skeptical of layoffs happening for non-"tech" companies due to AI, but lower HC for next year is happening in at least some orgs for sure, especially at entry levels. Cf. Bill Gates' comment of having a white-collar worker
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by achrono 3y ago
How exactly does a separate LAN or ISP help?
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by achrono 3y ago
While I agree, what's puzzling to me is the subtext around this -- why does Altman's take matter on this? Or does Altman's take on everything matter now because GPT is the answer to everything and Altman is its father? As a s
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Have you assembled a turbocharged computer yourself for non-gaming purposes?
3 points by achrono 3y ago|1 comments
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by achrono 4y ago
^ This. Twitter's response is tragicomic -- is this the best that a company like Twitter can do?

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