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by antonvs 4mo ago
PR companies have found that getting ahead of controversies is useful, so they invented time travel.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
No. There's a reason that transparency, oversight, and controls are important in government. It allows citizens to detect abuse of power, it allows checks and balances, it improves government decisions, it protects citizens' freed
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You made this same incorrect claim in another comment. You’re generalizing beyond what others are claiming, without any basis. (This is the logical fallacy known as hasty generalization.)
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by antonvs 4mo ago
An LLM could certainly write you an OpenCV program to do this task. I’ve used them for exactly that kind of work. The moot non sequitur is yours.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The have been cases of police harassing and stalking people using Flock cameras. Just because it hasn't happened to you personally doesn't mean it's not a real issue.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Right. After all, surely they have nothing to hide?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
It's more like the CNS of the golden-handcuffed wage slaves of the capital class.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The claim was "a lot of tasks", which is certainly true. It wasn't "all tasks".
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by antonvs 4mo ago
That was the point.
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Have you actually tried Gemini for coding? I use 3.5 Flash daily. It’s very good for software development in general, including coding.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You linked to a comment about someone on the free tier. Someone else mentioned preview. I use Gemini daily, on a paid basis. Mostly 3.5 Flash Medium. It’s very good for software development, has a great context window, and pricing is about
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> Chet, eyes going up to the ceiling, pausing, “Oh.” Walks away. That's the first step in routing around damage. In this case, Kent Beck is the damage, not being willing to listen to what a teammate has to say about the design of a
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by antonvs 4mo ago
GPUs were for graphics. Now, they're mainly used for machine learning training and inference. The big tech companies are spending eye-watering amounts for GPUs - hundreds of billions of dollars a year each. That's the reason tha
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by antonvs 4mo ago
True, but in practice, the vast majority of advertising-funded sites use targeted advertising, because they use standard ad networks. There are very few ads networks that don’t do targeted ads.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
It’s not just “social media”. Any site that’s funded by advertising fits that description.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
This article is mostly AI slop. It’s very recognizable, and that’s probably what you’re picking up on in other articles as well, because it’s everywhere right now.
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Why does it matter whether the subsidies come from a government, from venture capitalists, or from private equity?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> But if you can't ask your EA to do a quick email check a few times in the evening Thanks for making the case for laws like this.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> To measure is to quantize You're confusing "quantify" with "quantize". To measure is to quantify, not to quantize. In quantum physics, "quantized" means that a field has a smallest possible excitation
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by antonvs 4mo ago
We can certainly imagine part of what the GP comment described being true: "a more fundamental substrate to reality than fields that fields emerge from." In fact, many physicists assume that's the case with the Standard Model
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by antonvs 4mo ago
No, that's just the vacuum state of any of the standard quantum fields. "Field" is being used there in its general sense, of a quantity that has a value for every point in space and time. It's saying that in a (region of
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> I did not say everything is the quantum wave. I quoted your own comment: "Everything is a quantum wave." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698834
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> Open source is not opposed to capitalism You’re right. One of its big uses is for big companies to destroy the ability of individual developers or small companies to make a living selling software. It’s also used to harm larger competi
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> it’s like saying there are two photons because they can come in two polarizations The article claimed exactly that! It said, "Not everyone counts these different chiral and polarization states as distinct particle types. Yet it’s
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I can speak definitively on behalf of the Standard Model here: "No idea, bro!" It's one of the biggest open questions about the Standard Model, and it's considered an indication that the model is probably incomplete. Btw
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> There is no "quantum wave" Earlier you wrote, "Everything is a quantum wave." You also linked to an article titled, "The Everything-Is-a-Quantum-Wave Interpretation of Quantum Physics." You seem to be cont
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Sure. We can say the same thing about a "quantum wave", though.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Here's a more exact breakdown of the 118 particle number from the article: 72 quarks: 6 flavors x 3 colors x 2 (particle/antiparticle) x 2 (spin up/down) 12 charged leptons: 3 flavors x 2 (particle/antiparticle) x 2 (spi
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> The standard model has 17 fields. Without qualification, that's false. 17 is a simplified or compressed view of what the Standard Model describes. I gave more detail in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by antonvs 4mo ago
First, just to clarify - there are different ways to count the quantum fields, just as there are different ways to count particles, as the article points out. You really need to specify the premises you're using to count them. But eith

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