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by avazhi 5mo ago
> LLMs in 2022 were very impressive. No they weren't. They were a gimmick - it is only in the past 6 or so months that frontier models have started to do stuff beyond mere gimmicks when it comes to coding, and you could make the ar
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by avazhi 5mo ago
> What stops you from running the best open weighted LLMs currently available on consumer grade hardware for the rest of time? Uh… the hardware requirements? And stop acting like some dog shit 8B model the average Joe can run on a laptop
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by avazhi 5mo ago
LiveLeak, Ogrish.com, Disinfo.com... man, and those are just the ones I can remember.
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Sure. Look at the title. Imagine what you'd expect an article whose title is "What causes lightning?" to say. Now, here's how the article closes: "These features suggest that even as explanations get more comprehens
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Quanta articles are invariably horribly written, horribly explained, and constantly do this thing where they simultaneously are pretentious and over complicate things while also belabouring simple, elementary concepts. Essentially it’s the
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Society would be better off without the homeless on average, objectively. Why does society have an obligation to assist and protect people who don't contribute to society? If you feel some moral imperative to assist some druggie slobbe
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Duggan is all over the place with this one. We even have some hints it’s AI-Slop by the end. Not sure what to tell this guy other than that there’s a universe where parents parent better (ie, by keeping their 10 year olds off the net), and
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by avazhi 5mo ago
> the role of Quanta is to disseminate and explain expert research to scientifically literate non-experts; it is not meant to be distributing the latest research itself Quanta articles are invariably horribly written, horribly explained,
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Not the guy you’re responding to but Quanta articles are invariably horribly written, horribly explained, and constantly do this thing whether they simultaneously are pretentious and over complicate things while also belabouring simple, ele
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by avazhi 5mo ago
Good. And while I know Singapore already allowed this for other misbehaviour, it should have never been removed from schools in the West in the first place, and I say this as somebody who grew up with no lack of (in hindsight deserved) swat
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Why are you using the metropolis with the highest cost of living in the US as some kind of benchmark? SF is an extreme outlier. Why do you keep mentioning it? Almost everybody who is upper middle class in the US doesn’t live in San Fransisc
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by avazhi 6mo ago
> I was figuring upper middle class was around 2x that (250-400k) in desirable areas like the Bay Area/Seattle/NYC. Which after mortgage/rent, car payments, school fees... still isn't private-limo or even stay-at-home
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Plenty of those in the upper middle class can just drive their kids to school. Some of them are taking a bus, sure, but not most. You and some of these other responders are clearly conflating the middle class and the UPPER middle class. The
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Household incomes exceed $100,000 (equivalent to $164,849 in 2025).[5] Professions for this class may include: judges, senior military officers, financial planners, engineers, professors, architects, airline pilots, and businessmen. https:
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by avazhi 6mo ago
The upper middle class don’t need to use public transport and have no issues paying for childcare. It’s like you’ve commented on the wrong article or something. This article was talking about marginal costs and benefits.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Any indications the new CEO will be less inclined to embrace enshittification like this? I say enshittification but it’s a bit of a misnomer because Apple Maps hasn’t ever really not been shit, but anyway…
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by avazhi 6mo ago
I’ve been using Firefox for 20+ years and continue to do so, but let’s not pretend that Firefox hasn’t been an embarrassing shit show for most of the past 15.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
One of the random tidbits I can remember from the New Yorker Altman deep dive was Brockman being obsessed about making $1B dollars. It was memorable because I actually cringed reading it.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Ok? 2 relevant attributes as it turns out.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
A fool and his money etc etc. You love to see it.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
There’s a big difference between a packet being dropped and a packet’s meaning being changed along the way. The latter is better analogised to what LLMs do between receiving inputs and outputs.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
> We know there’s a lot of excitement for Taskbar customization – and that’s coming soon. This will never not be funny to me. These clowns really did remove something that existed for decades and then spend more than a decade trying to e
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by avazhi 6mo ago
> realign the experiences to those that provide the most value to users Aside from the fact that nobody actually takes what Microsoft says seriously (they are professional bullshitters [with full time PR firms perfecting their bullshit]
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by avazhi 6mo ago
The problem is the heretic and abliteration versions are dog shit quality compared to the non-edited versions and much more likely to hallucinate. AFAIK abliteration without quality reduction isn’t even possible without some quality reducti
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by avazhi 6mo ago
What in the slop is this.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Spirit could simply be the first of several; the effects may also be delayed. WGA isn't looking good either, for a number of reasons. Just because it's the first doesn't mean it will be the only one. It goes without saying bu
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by avazhi 6mo ago
If you didn't know about the war in Iran and the effects it has had on oil and thus jet fuel prices, I'm not sure what you're doing on HN.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
No, Spirit is/was not a 'small regional'. You asked if this was caused by or related to bad customer service. This was 100% caused by the increase in jet fuel prices due to the war in Iran. Obviously huge swings in jet fuel p
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Been using the net for 26 years and I never once used that website. Or maybe I used it once and it was so dog shit that I thought it was just a spam website. Wonder how much they’ll get for the domain name though.
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by avazhi 6mo ago
Are you wanting me to explain to you why secretly and without notifying the user that your browser is installing a new program + network service he didn’t ask for is a bad thing, or why having an extra Windows service one doesn’t use runnin

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