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by anonym29 5d ago
It's partially propaganda, partially a result of a number of accounts on HN which are unwaveringly sympathetic to the US FedGov no matter what moral atrocities it commits. We know the US IC conducts social influence operations in forum
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by anonym29 5d ago
He didn't flee to Russia. He had booked tickets to Ecuador going through Russia. The Obama administration revoked his passport, rendering him stateless and unable to leave Russia. Please do not regurgitate propaganda.
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by anonym29 7d ago
One poses an active, unchecked threat to the constitutional rights of US citizens, has a chartered mission to subvert and undermine the very field of cryptography itself - going so far as to bribe standards bodies to adopt backdoored algori
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by anonym29 13d ago
I suspect this boils down to a cost/benefit tradeoff. The cost of strictly enforcing stated rules for ads is felt immediately and fully by Google. It is concrete, measurable, and probably non-insignificant; the benefit is essentially g
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by anonym29 13d ago
At the end of the day, a government request for private, sensitive information is ultimately a form of a backdoor, and there is no such thing as a backdoor only the good guys can use.
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by anonym29 16d ago
I'm not anthropomorphizing them, to be clear, my position has been and remains that we cannot rule out consciousness; not that they are conscious. Regardless, this is still missing my main point. Hypothetically, if you became convinced
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by anonym29 16d ago
>People have killed themselves or others due to conversations they had with LLMs, but those are just the extreme cases. Most schizophrenics don't commit suicide or kill others, they are mentally ill nonetheless. Do you think the kin
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by anonym29 16d ago
HAAD?
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by anonym29 16d ago
Often the same people behind both! Fun fact: pirates are more likely than the average person to purchase media. https://web.archive.org/web/20170916165525/https://www.ofcom... https://www.te
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by anonym29 16d ago
Humans are not living creatures. They're just bipedal meat shells being operated by a 20W electrochemical computer running a suite of chemically signalled, electrically actuated modellable functions, much of which is wasted on homeosta
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by anonym29 24d ago
They don't necessarily need to be lying for it to be harmful to you - they could simply be grossly incompetent as a custodian of your data. Most people are grossly incompetent even as stewards of their own data, after all.
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by anonym29 24d ago
>Of course, that all assumes that you use a reasonable measure of inflation that’s stable, well-designed, and applied methodically and consistently over many decades. Too bad the measure that everyone points to is far from stable¹; BLS&#
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by anonym29 25d ago
1. Does this require internet connectivity? If Nori goes out of business, can we keep using these? 2. Is the app distributed as an APK outside of the Play Store? Does it have any hard requirements on GMS that would prevent users of degoogle
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by anonym29 1mo ago
This is really frustrating. I'm (native-born US citizen) naviagting the visa process with my future wife. She has no intentions of working (enjoys being NEET) and there's zero risk of her becoming a public charge (our hh gross inc
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by anonym29 1mo ago
Rehiring large numbers of people after AI-motivated layoffs is not the same as getting rid of LLM-generated code and going back to hand-written code as a whole.
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by anonym29 1mo ago
Of course not. That's as absurd, nonsensical, and dogmatic of a position to hold as disowning someone for being gay, or disowning someone for being the wrong religion or race. I tend not to associate with extremists and zealots, regard
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by anonym29 1mo ago
Save money on future dates by causing the woman to leave before she even orders dinner after you pull out your Mensa© Membership card.
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by anonym29 1mo ago
We're not talking about 10x though, that's off by two orders of magnitude. This isn't a $200 bag of saline water, it's a $20,000 bag of saline water.
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by anonym29 1mo ago
>you don't need to know the weird esoterica of a 26 year old piece of software You really don't need to know much at all in order to compile llama.cpp. You can literally ask any half decent AI agent to do it for you or give you
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by anonym29 2mo ago
GP is saying "it's not hard", yet you seem to be hearing "you should already know how to do this without ever looking it up". Those aren't the same assertions. It's not a sensible assumption that a process
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by anonym29 2mo ago
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aEqW3Ze_700b.jpg
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by anonym29 2mo ago
You drop a bowling ball off a space boat into a black hole. Has the amount of mass inside the universe increased, decreased, or stayed the same, ignoring the effects of all other changes?
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by anonym29 2mo ago
That's not at all what I said. What I said had nothing to do with the mechanics driving broader market behavior. What I said was strictly a refutation of the assertion that it's only possible to achieve a 47% return in 6 months or
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by anonym29 2mo ago
>So, don't ask you anything? No. Don't ask me stupid questions that Claude knows more about than me, and that you could've answered yourself with Claude. >Seems I'd rather have your opinion if you know more than Cl
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by anonym29 2mo ago
I don't disagree at all with what you're saying, but it has nothing to do with what I said, which is strictly a refutation of the assertion that it's only possible to achieve a 47% return in 6 months or 400%+ return in ~2 yea
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by anonym29 2mo ago
>This fund returned 47% in its first 6m and over 400% prior to the downturn. >Returns like that are not asymmetrical and can only be produced with leverage This is simply untrue. Just because the path to doing so is much more clear in
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by anonym29 2mo ago
I do this often for stupid questions. It's like sending someone a lmgtfy link. Don't waste my time by asking me a question that: A.) I know no more about than Claude, and B.) You could have answered yourself using Claude All of th
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by anonym29 2mo ago
>First off all, what percent of people do not pay any taxes on income? If you modify this slightly to the percent of people who are not net taxpayers , meaning you subtract transfer payments (including social security, medicare, medicai
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by anonym29 2mo ago
people love to take potshots about how Americans don't know the metric system, but we love our 9mm's and a few grams
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by anonym29 2mo ago
safety datasets and a lot of safety related research

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