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by c7b 2mo ago
The way push notifications work today is a result of said optimization. Smartphones didn't start out with constant notifications, nor did any major desktop OS have them built in the way they do today.
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by c7b 2mo ago
Not sure if that makes it better or worse.
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by c7b 2mo ago
There is some utility to ads. Knowing that my favorite shop has a promotion, that a movie, game or book I've been waiting for is out, or something other that might interest me has some usefulness. The problem isn't the ad per se,
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by c7b 2mo ago
Fwiw, afaik in most Oxford and Cambridge degrees the only exams that count towards your grade are in the final year or the final two years. Everything before that is basically preparation, and the colleges doing weekly supervision and regul
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by c7b 2mo ago
My gut feeling would be that most of not all of the points apply to Rust as well, and even more so. Rust's compiler is famously strict, the whole language and tooling is designed to catch footguns early, and it's less verbose than
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by c7b 2mo ago
I think the educational policies are most interesting to compare. There was systematic attrition of academic talent driven by xenophobic ideologies. It started slowly and well before the 1930's, before it turned into an all-out purge.
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by c7b 2mo ago
I would agree with that stance and that classical antiquity ended then. But you still have to acknowledge that the Roman state, its culture and institutions not only survived but arguably came out even more dominant (with the exception of p
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by c7b 2mo ago
The decline of the Roman Empire, depending on how you define it, played out over centuries, if not a millennium. It is such a bad analogy for the kind of within-our-lifetimes collapse that is being speculated about here that it undermines t
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by c7b 2mo ago
Seems that this is a patent application from March, so a challenge should still be possible. But it would have to come from a named entity afaik (not a lawyer).
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by c7b 2mo ago
But then how would you get into the news for how dangerously good your models are? And have something to warn about how dangerous open weights models could be?
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by c7b 2mo ago
> opting for authoritarianism before eventually the center can't hold any more and it all collapses in on itself It all depends on what you define as the collapse of the Roman Empire, but the earliest sensible candidate date would b
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by c7b 2mo ago
Hiring people isn't retirement, if anything it means growing your business. You're outsourcing some of the menial tasks and inherit managerial tasks instead. The show and the ROI on all those expenses still ultimately depend on hi
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by c7b 2mo ago
And what does taking it seriously entail?
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by c7b 2mo ago
I keep hearing he's retired, yet his channel looks just like any channel by a full-time influencer. The few videos of him I've watched (all quite recent) must have required substantial effort. Like, he's showing off extensive
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by c7b 2mo ago
I think those concerned about ensuring a place for human mathematicians usually go in different directions than my suggestion, at least those I've seen so far. Like this post that was recently featured on HN: https://kirwinh
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by c7b 2mo ago
I agree with your reading of the presentation and I mostly agree with the presentation - but I believe the recommendations should go a bit further than they do there.
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by c7b 2mo ago
I know it sounds unrealistic and not aligned with academic incentive structures. But those are the exact structures that gave us a lot of headaches in the experimental sciences. I think it would be a good north star to aim for something tha
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by c7b 2mo ago
Because the math isn't solely about the proof being correct. You don't need to take my word for it, here's one of the most famous living mathematicians' take on it: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/s
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by c7b 2mo ago
I believe we're seeing a new kind of mathematics that will require completely new formats for publication, a bit similar to those used in experimental sciences. AI-powered mathematics should be fully reproducible, so it's the auth
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by c7b 2mo ago
I haven't driven a recent model but afaik the answer for most is Yes, or at best you can disable them for the current ride and they turn on again automatically on every start.
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by c7b 2mo ago
It sounds awful, but it might not even make the top-5 of the most annoying/concering things you'll get in a new car (bought in the EU at least), many of which are now mandatory by regulation. What you'll also get is a camera
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by c7b 2mo ago
Very relevant for anyone whose friends live uniformly spaced across all boroughs of London. So probably no-one.
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by c7b 2mo ago
Stupid question, if there's an old version that you liked, couldn't you just keep using that version?
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by c7b 2mo ago
In this case it's about how you say it, not what. Which is also covered by the HN guidelines, btw.
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by c7b 2mo ago
The amount of unacknowledged privilege in this post is hard to bear.
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by c7b 2mo ago
Ok. But what about just making the credits 5x more expensive without requiring monstrous bookkeeping of tree populations and their associated credits over centuries?
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by c7b 2mo ago
The inflation-adjusted cost for getting one of the early personal computers to do some BASIC programming was probably a lot higher than $5k today, and you could still go cheaper. Local AI is still (expensive) hobby territory. A capable loca
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by c7b 2mo ago
270727 if we want to save tokens :)
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by c7b 2mo ago
If the program works as advertised (big if), the money should flow into projects like yours, with the success rate that those projects generally have. So far ok I'd say. Just pointing out that trying to adjust for fires would tie up ca
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by c7b 2mo ago
So 20% of the trees get planted later or maybe never? How is that better?

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