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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Maybe, just maybe, that's because inventing something is actually within their grasp The problem is that inventing a solution that no-one needs or wants and then using venture money to hype it up feels like rubbing salt in a wound
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Very good point. That number almost certainly doesn't take into account recent RAM price increases, etc. Tracing back through all the multitude of references to the $600k price, the earliest I found was from 2023, and it's complet
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Flock provides tools and information that influence and encourage bad behavior from police. Yes, we need laws to help stop this. Ideally, those laws should entirely destroy Flock's business model and lead to its bankruptcy. The issue i
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> It's not the 'incident' that is the problem, because Flock is not helping cops be 'dirty cops' or anything. That's exactly what Flock is doing. It's just the latest variation on "power corrupts&q
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by antonvs 2mo ago
The problem it helps solve is our lack of understanding of how the models work. The way we got these models in the first place is by people researching to try to understand how the relevant systems worked. There’s a great deal we don’t know
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Rawdogging LLM isn't the tool for forecasting like this, as they found. You seem to have misunderstood the paper. They didn’t find that LLMs weren’t the tool for this, that was essentially assumed as a well-known premise. The pape
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself? How much would you pay to get that sheer monomaniacal narcissism checked out?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I’m at a fully remote company with staff in at least 8 countries speaking at least 5 languages. It works out fine. A possible analogy to AI is that a lot depends on how you use it. The “skill issue” doesn’t disappear, at least not yet.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Agreed, it’s why I said “at any kind of scale”. There’s a sort of arguable sweet spot where someone motivated and knowledgeable can manage their own hardware, even if it’s just rented from Hetzner etc. But that just doesn’t scale. Once you
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It reminds me of Richard Hamming’s notorious question. I like the summary at https://bestjelly.substack.com/p/hamming-questions (which starts out with a quote from another site): > > Mathematician Richard Hamming
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Putting together bits and pieces from different sources: a half-rack is the minimum SKU, and it has 1024 cores and 16 TiB RAM for somewhere around $600k. (So many people have repeated the latter number that it must be true! I.e., add salt g
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Itym Tim Berners-Lee, not Vint Cerf. Tim invented the web: HTML, HTTP, URLs. Vint did a lot of things, but most of it had to do with lower-level internet infrastructure, not the web per se.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Presumably the prompt focused on the aspect described in the title, and the LLM obliged.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I wouldn’t assume that email is genuine. “Hi,” and “…the B-point link that I’ve sent”? Dodgy AF. My first suspicion would be that they’re getting hold of the Fedex invoice data, via a software compromise or an insider. If it really is real,
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Why are the "D" and the "T" capitalised? Dodgy AF! You should be more respectful, you’ve clearly received a Message direct from President Trump!
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by antonvs 2mo ago
You’re expressing a very narrow engineer’s perspective that doesn’t consider the realities of managing bare metal hosting at any kind of scale. These are business decisions, made in terms of core competencies, capex vs. opex, and the diffic
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Haha I guess we discovered the mysterious country you were referring to when you said, "Elsewhere in the same country." I wonder why you didn't want to reveal it? Could it be because you knew you were wrong, ahead of time? I&
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Most nuclear advocates don’t seem to realize how incompetent and short-sighted humans are collectively, and don’t recognize the inevitable implications of that. They prove this when they complain about how regulations are stifling nuclear p
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I can’t think of many places in the US where “mushroom burger” doesn’t mean a beef burger with mushrooms. Maybe in a vegetation or vegan restaurant. Now if you asked for a mushroom veggie burger, that would be different.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> If you want something to compare against, this is like banning people businesses from calling soymilk just "milk". Big Dairy got to you, huh. There’s nothing wrong with referring to other kinds of milk as milk. If anything, c
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by antonvs 3mo ago
After the apocalypse, this story will appear every August on HN, even though there’s no-one left to read it. But there will, somehow, still be complaints about the dup.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It was published 5 years after World War II was ended via the first ever nuclear warfare. The silhouettes on the house wall are a clear allusion to the shadows of people left on buildings in Hiroshima. The bleakness was a warning and remind
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Medical doctors and physicists also regularly suffer from this. It’s more of a disease of expertise in general, it seems.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> Like all of life, maybe the "winner" is the person who just does stuff. Someone who just does stuff still has to be able to deal with errors and failures. That’s where an expert or a generalist may have an advantage.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> Russia said for decades that Ukraine in NATO is unacceptable. Russia, as a hostile nation not interested in participating in global peace, doesn’t get to decide such things.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
IME you can get good results if: 1. You have very good tests. The agent can write them, but you have to prompt it to do that, and some human input may be needed here. 2. You have a good, modular architecture. Again, this is something that n
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Probably not, because your agent won’t have much info about this tool in its training set.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I don’t suppose that could have anything to do with the fact that AI has become a huge part of day to day business in the tech industry and elsewhere? Totally mystifying that anyone would say anything about that!
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Regardless of that claim, here’s a good test for how real this site is - it’s called “The Wire by Acutus”, but try to find a site for “Acutus”. Is it Acutus Medical, a “cardiac arrhythmia management company”, or Acutus Partners, “Expert hea
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by antonvs 3mo ago
“Appreciation of the arts” = “stealing someone’s creative work”. Nothing has changed, people are just trash.

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