burkaman

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by burkaman 7mo ago
It can get pretty bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Filomena
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by burkaman 7mo ago
Also because prior administrations were successful with diplomacy and/or nonviolent sabotage.
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by burkaman 7mo ago
> Not to mention pressure to weaken oil sanctions. The Trump administration instantly folded under that pressure and has already removed some sanctions: https://xcancel.com/SecScottBessent/status/202971425372526
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by burkaman 7mo ago
Source is https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f77... , archived at https://archive.is/hLd8X
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I've never gotten an automated ticket so I don't know what is normal. It doesn't seem insane to give it to the vehicle owner, but I can certainly understand feeling indignant about getting a ticket for something you didn&#x27
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by burkaman 8mo ago
This person is not articulating it well but I think they are complaining that the person identified as the driver is random. Presumably the camera can impartially identify a car running a light, but not necessarily who is driving. "I&#
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Actually $25 million, and for him specifically ( https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trum... ). They didn't bother trying to pretend it was a non-political donation, who cares? Nobody can st
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by burkaman 8mo ago
"jumped on the opportunity" is possible, but per https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam it's plausible that OpenAI created this situation through straightforward bribery.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
The two answers I'm hearing to my question so far are that either this decision was so obvious that anyone could have predicted it without insider information, or that this was a split decision that the administration could not have pr
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I understand your position but I disagree. If I were trying to predict whether the government is going to win in court, I think reading what the government's own lawyers think about the case would be valuable. If it were possible to pa
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by burkaman 8mo ago
This is contradicted by Cantor Fitzgerald documents obtained by Wired which said "We’ve already put a trade through representing about ~$10 million of IEEPA Rights and anticipate that number will balloon in the coming weeks". - h
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Yes, because it was produced by the same people that are going to argue the case in court. You can hire the best lawyers in the world but they will still have to speculate on what arguments the government is going to make, and whether there
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by burkaman 8mo ago
He presumably did not have access to the court's opinion before it was released, but he did have access to internal White House legal opinions before the tariffs were announced ("Mr. President this is illegal and very likely to be
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by burkaman 8mo ago
He said Linux is a cancer, which was a stupid thing to say, but not the same as calling Linus a cancer. I say plenty of bad things about software that I would not say about the people who create it. I think Next.js is awful to use but that
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by burkaman 8mo ago
> As for getting externalities internalized: as a society, we call the procedure for updating rules "politics", and it's as open to you as to anyone else. Ok so I do need to worry about energy so that I can identify these
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I don't think this is true, I can't even find anyone else claiming this happened.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
It makes sense to stop poaching talented scientists and instead let them continue working for your adversaries? I don't understand how this improves national security. The proposed rule is actually worse than this: > The changes are
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Seems like it is probably a fake quote: https://politicalresearch.org/2005/01/12/mussolini-corporate...
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by burkaman 8mo ago
That's true they are not new buildings. Here's one that is: https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semiconductor/epic-pl... The Infinera one is described as a "new fab" though ( https:&#x2
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I wouldn't expect it to be impossible, and it isn't, but I would expect the permits to be different than they were 60 years ago. You can still build a house today, but that doesn't mean you can build one using the same permit
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Really difficult to say because it doesn't make many concrete claims. It doesn't mention any regulations or say what chemicals or processes are actually banned. These are not easy things to look up. I can tell you that at least th
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by burkaman 8mo ago
The Grandfatherd-in section is incredibly misleading. Look at the Semiconductor Fabrication section, for example. The implication is that these are the only fabs in the state, they wouldn't be able to get new permits today, and the red
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Here's the "mathematical proof" if you're curious: https://poc.bcachefs.org/blog/hello.html . It is not mathematical, not a proof, and generally doesn't make any sense. Many of these sentences a
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Sort of, but you also want to keep the sub-agent context small for as long as possible, and if you're paying per token there's no reason to be sending thousands of tokens that are probably useless.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Why can't the agent harness dynamically decide whether outputs should be put into the context or not? It could check with an LLM to determine if the verbatim output seems important, and if not, store the full output locally but replace
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I don't think those are contradictory. Say each notification has a 90% chance of being true, so it's reasonable to say "probably". After 10+ notifications, each of which was individually probable, it is still very likely
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Mass recording discourages social behavior, not anti-social behavior.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Tried this on a Pixel 9, after allowing permissions the Start Scanning button does nothing, and there's nothing in the debug log. I do like the idea and might try again in the future if it gets updated. Seems like a good candidate for
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Yes a whitelist makes a lot of sense, I don't know why I didn't think of that. Seems like it would be doable to blanket allow office supplies, gas, uniforms, etc. and then declare that anything else, even if it's free, must b
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I do not agree with the philosophy that the police should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as it wasn't explicitly prohibited in advance. That is the result of relying on ordinances that enumerate "what things require c

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