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by ajross 4mo ago
Headline is, frankly, awful. This isn't the AI secretly doing stuff and hiding it. This is the very human Anthropic engineers trying to detect Chinese scraping via some frankly hamfisted and unimaginative URL trickery.
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by ajross 4mo ago
Is there a reference you can cite with corrected numbers? Honestly this sounds like excuse-making, especially when used as a jumping point into a decidedly partisan take (complete with scare quotes!) on the essentially unrelated subject of
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by ajross 4mo ago
So... your solution is that Google implements authentication for DMCA takedowns using an authentication system that isn't Google's? Whose, then? Same headline, different villain. Probably still Google's fault somehow. No,
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by ajross 4mo ago
> A good start would be to require that claimants must verify their real identity. I GUARANTEE that if this were tried, "YOU CAN'T FILE A DMCA COMPLAINT WITHOUT A GOOGLE ACCOUNT!" would rocket to the front page here and
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by ajross 4mo ago
Depressing to see how much discussion on HN (!!) has resulted from a objectively terrible graph reading. I mean... in the process of our infiltration by finance bros and VC money, have we genuinely forgotten how exponentials work?
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by ajross 4mo ago
Well, there's an arguable point of fiscal policy there, and a conspiracy rathole that no one wants to excavate. But none of that matters here. As grandparent comment indicates, you're making a pretty fundamental math error. This
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by ajross 4mo ago
> What’s more sustainable, changing your lifestyle to maintain the weight you lost, or being beholden to taking a drug to maintain that same lifestyle change for a hope at maintenance? That's some pretty... charged language. But ev
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by ajross 4mo ago
> No, the symptom is being treated, not the underlying issue. That's a semantic argument. The "issue", medically, to most people viewing this as a health problem, is excess body fat and not eating behavior. I mean, you&#x
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by ajross 4mo ago
> If you can't run linux you can always run netbsd. or any *bsd. That was NetBSD's marketing way back in the days of "I have a Sparcstation 2 in my closet, can I do anything with it?". It really doesn't apply to
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by ajross 4mo ago
To nitpick your nitpick: I know. But precision isn't the point here, it's to point out that there's an interesting and deeper symmetry at work. Energy and Momentum are not actually different quantities that vary in differ
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by ajross 4mo ago
Actually, it is momentum, sorta. Galilean 3D momentum isn't conserved under special relativity. The energy-momentum four-vector, however, is, under all lorentz-transformed frames. So in some sense energy is momentum in the time direc
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by ajross 4mo ago
> People believing they are entitled to dictate what other people do with their property, or believing they should have some say in the "character" of their neighborhood So... iron smeltery next door for you then? Acid rain? C
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by ajross 4mo ago
They didn't develop it from scratch though! The 2010 Mac HL2 binaries are a port of the existing 32 bit Windows product, with all the word size and alignment issues you'd expect for C++ code of that vintage. You don't magic
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by ajross 4mo ago
> Valve should never have shipped a 32-bit application in the first place. It's literally a 2004 game! That's ridiculous. A handful of opterons existed in the market, but Intel wouldn't get there for years still and it w
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by ajross 4mo ago
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by ajross 4mo ago
While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is runn
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by ajross 4mo ago
> One infringes on a specific constitutional right. The ability to develop and use technological products is, y'know, kinda protected speech under the first amendment. Congress shall make no law... unless you're talking about s
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by ajross 4mo ago
"Failure" is the expected median though. You can't due-diligence your way out of "startup ran out of runway"! The discussion here isn't about funding, it's that there's a presumptively useful communi
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by ajross 4mo ago
Not even "packages" in the distro sense. You can't use software installed with Arch to install this stuff via any path that isn't isomorphic to rebuilding the package yourself. This was the AUR repository, which is the
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by ajross 4mo ago
This kind of deliberate both-sides-ist ignorance is PRECISELY why those arguments work. You aren't being smart, you are giving your overlords permission to lie to you. These are tractable (if complicated) questions with real (if imp
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by ajross 4mo ago
> The Chinese EV industry is actually lead by development of batteries This is the core point, but it applies for the whole of the industry. Motors just don't matter. An electric motor is an almost vanishing component of the weigh
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by ajross 4mo ago
> But when humans handled it, this was not as much as a problem. In fact it's arguably a feature. The ability of support staff to short-circuit nitpicky rules when there's an obvious external validation happening (e.g. you&#x2
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by ajross 4mo ago
> So maybe long term this isn't a great business, but _right now_ Exactly! "Maybe not a long term great business" is exactly the opposite of what you want to buy in an IPO. This is a "private equity can squeeze out a
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by ajross 4mo ago
> Google renting infra from xAI, I did not see that coming. Actually that seems to be fairly logical? Hardware is what xAI has , and it's in great demand. So sell what makes you money. The real story here is that that xAI hardwa
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by ajross 4mo ago
To be fair (and, somewhat ironically, rationally detached libertarian) that's the way it's supposed to be. We don't develop and deploy technology to make a bunch of too-online nerds rich. We develop and deploy technology
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by ajross 4mo ago
> [Stupid Other People] enjoy pissing away their own time ingesting the [LLM] output Stop. Yes yes, you are a fine writer with excellent communication skills. You would never stoop so low as to allow a mere machine to write for you, an
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by ajross 4mo ago
> nobody [wants to use AI] to augment already working solutions Plenty of people do, but that only produces a blog post that will get you to the front page of HN. If you want VCs to drop $40M on your head, you need to pretend to reinven
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by ajross 4mo ago
> Mandating that the final binary is compiled without having any access to any test file It would, but I'm not seeing that as a suggestion? That was a very clever side channel for hiding the build-time payload. It wasn't remo
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by ajross 4mo ago
> they very frequently get malicious npm packages taken down within a day of publishing If I'm reading the secondarily-linked blog post correctly, this was live for 12 days before discovery.
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by ajross 4mo ago
> Certainly it's only by pure luck that no malefactors have infiltrated the [pinko commie Linux hippy commune] Yeah... no. Sorry, that's a wild misunderstanding of the economics of the Linux ecosystem, modern libertarian thoug

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