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by anonym29 2mo ago
If you're using Windows on a personal device in the first place, you're pretty loudly declaring that your consent doesn't matter anyway. That's not your computer, that's Microsoft's computer. You're the th
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by anonym29 2mo ago
Keep in mind, the data you just linked is all firearm deaths, not just firearm homicides, and that a majority of all firearm deaths in the USA (over 60%) are suicides, not homicides or accidents. What you're seeing in Alaska and Wyomin
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by anonym29 2mo ago
Sure, but 5.5 per 100,000 is still extremely rare, and even that number obscures a highly bimodal distribution that largely tracks race. In Massachusetts, the rate drops to 0.7 per 100,000, while in Mississippi and Louisiana it's over
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by anonym29 2mo ago
Extremely rarely from a gun. And even when it is from a gun, it's not your kid dying from a gun, it's hundreds to thousands of "kids" (young teenagers) in places like Detroit and Chicago who have chosen an early career
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by anonym29 2mo ago
>The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable business in a decade. I don't know, renting out a fleet of GPUs at annualized rate of ~100% of the capex
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by anonym29 2mo ago
Sure, but almost never from a school shooting - usually from a car accident. That is one place where I'll be the first to acknowledge America isn't doing great on with regards to child safety.
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by anonym29 2mo ago
The odds a child will be killed by an armed assailant at a school in the USA are about 1 in 5 million per year, and if you narrow down to mass shootings at schools, that drops to about 1 in 10 million. Between 2013 and 2022, a total of 77 s
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by anonym29 2mo ago
CO2 emissions have been consistently declining in both the USA and Europe for over 2 decades now. The bulk of the CO2 increase over that time period comes from China and India. Americans also invented the solar photovoltaic panel. You'
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by anonym29 2mo ago
Training kids how to respond to school shootings is like training kids how to respond to dual engine failures on an airplane. It happens, it's just statistically so unlikely to ever happen to your kid, that the drill essentially serves
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by anonym29 2mo ago
I guess better phrasing would be auditability, ease of codebase comprehension, coverage of just the features I want. My agent isn't meant to be for X users across Y providers with Z extensible plugins, it's meant for exactly one u
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Bloated TUI library, unified multi-provider LLM layer, bloated RPC and SDK modes, the entire plugin framework, the list goes on and on. For reference, pi-coding-agent, by itself (not including dependencies, tests, or pi-ai, pi-tui, pi-age
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Quick self-correction: "Responses" is a newer OpenAI API format, "Messages" is the Anthropic format.
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Pi has way too many batteries included, including a bunch I don't want, and lacked the batteries I did want. Pi is a bit like the movie Idiocracy in that the idea is much better than the execution. Incidentally, I also have zero supply
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Yes. In my case, the virus became active after severe and chronic sleep deprivation one summer where I tried experimenting with going from a 16/8 sleep schedule to a 24/12 sleep schedule, on a now-resoundingly-disproven hypothesis
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by anonym29 3mo ago
At a minimum, you need an inference endpoint: either cloud or local. If going local, llama.cpp is going to be the more beginner friendly local inference engine that supports more processor types (AMD GPUs, Intel GPUs, CPUs, anything that su
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by anonym29 3mo ago
If you really want a minimal agent that you heavily customize, just skip pi (130+ transitive dependencies on the "minimal" pi-coder package) and write your own. You learn a bunch, and it's not hard. You can even ask another L
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by anonym29 3mo ago
The antibodies you develop to fight the virus fade over time. I just had it fairly recently (young 30s, vaccinated with the attenuated chickenpox virus, never had chickenpox, so this was likely the vaccine strain¹). Did a lot of reading and
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by anonym29 3mo ago
It very explicitly guesses that she is black, based solely on statistical inference. From TFA: " Statistics suggest that Maria was undoubtedly poor and, most likely , Black." To read this as established fact is analogous to as
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by anonym29 3mo ago
>Statistics suggest >facts Statistical inference is not established fact. I'm not defending parent comment above, but to be clear, it's not actually established as a fact that "Maria" was black, right? "Maria&
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by anonym29 3mo ago
No, and removed anyway because n=1 of me isn't a load-bearing pillar of my broader point, and came across as braggy in a way that detracts from the message I want to present upon a re-reading.
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by anonym29 3mo ago
>Then we set the bar for hiring to requiring a degree making it so that if you want anything above minimum wage, you’re going to have to get a degree. While this may have been true in the past, this is no longer the case, and it has not
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by anonym29 3mo ago
You raise some good points here, but PoW is meant to be one tool in the toolbox, not the only line of defense. You can still maintain blocklists of known scrapers (or better yet, have your PoW system be aware of them and silently adjust the
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Ah, I see what you're getting at. Yes. You can think of any given computer aa having a fixed amount of compute budget for these types of acceleration-resistant hashing algorithms. Let's say the scraper can perform 10,000 hashing o
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Typically, the machine doing the content processing, including solving PoW, is the centralized "control" node described in the article, not the machines who's IP addresses are being used. In typical residential proxy networks
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by anonym29 3mo ago
It's not about traffic identification at all, but rather a hashing algorithm that is deliberately resistant to parallelization and GPU/ASIC acceleration, which shrinks the gap in solving speed between the fastest systems (i.e. dat
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Most users of residential proxies just get a SOCKS5 address and routing, they don't actually get computational resources of the infected systems beyond that. The user of the proxies, the operator of what the article describes as a cont
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by anonym29 3mo ago
isn't that the worst, when you post a breaking story first and someone else's dupe hits front page? upvoted your original :)
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by anonym29 3mo ago
Reciprocity is great when all parties contribute equal amounts, all parties receive an equal share of the benefit, and the arrangement is strictly voluntary. Think toll roads where everyone pays the same price, only the people using the roa
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by anonym29 3mo ago
$500k? There entire helicopters you can just buy outright for less money than that. Does the $500k ride come with the helicopter itself included in the purchase?
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by anonym29 3mo ago
This sounds like a great deal if your annual taxes are less than your annual unsubsidized medical expenses, and a terrible deal if your annual taxes stretch into the six figure range as a young healthy person.

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