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by californical 3mo ago
Every breath you take, there is a 99.99% chance that everything is normal, and a 0.01% chance that you breathe mild acid which horribly burns and causes a massive coughing fit. It probably don’t cause long term damage unless that breath hap
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by californical 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s even “seniors” containing slop of others. I think it’s those who still care about quality (which seems to be decreasing in the industry overall) trying to keep the whole thing running, in a sea of people who think going r
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by californical 3mo ago
Two things tell me this isn’t the case: (1) it’s not that I can’t understand their output, it’s just written in a way that is very homogenous and same-y, with very boring cliches and phrases that don’t quite match their context (2) a pretty
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by californical 3mo ago
Sure, just like it’s illegal to steal the formula of Coca Cola from their documents. But you can do an analysis of a bottle of Coke to figure out exactly what’s in it. You can even make your own and sell it, if you call it a different nam
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by californical 3mo ago
I agree that the fair use argument on training data is a genie that’s not getting put back in a bottle. But: > If it isn't fair use, then we may need to sue all teachers for spitting out knowledge they ultimately acquired from someo
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by californical 3mo ago
Why do you assume they're disagreeing with you?
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by californical 3mo ago
It’s not interesting to talk about per HN rules, but I expect your downvotes are because your comment doesn’t add any substance or interesting new details, not because people disagree with you. Votes here are different than Reddit (oh you h
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by californical 4mo ago
I don’t hear this perspective too often in my bubbles and it does make a lot of sense - the money of these people would be a means to an end. Sure they might want more money to enable their goals, but the money itself isn’t the goal. Thanks
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by californical 4mo ago
If we actually do meaningfully automate intellectual labor, we create a world where we have real technical solutions for our toughest problems. Maybe we can get carbon capture and fusion energy working. There’s a theoretical world of abunda
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by californical 4mo ago
I think we also would need to know how many of these warnings they gave where nothing bad happened
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by californical 4mo ago
You could also come up with a cure for cancer, but if nobody knows what you’ve done then there’s not a whole lot we can say about it
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by californical 4mo ago
My TB5 dock from OWC on a M4 Pro MacBook can run dual 4k 240hz displays, 2.5gb ethernet, and several peripherals no problem. It also provides 100W of power. All over a single cable. So good these days
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by californical 4mo ago
Normalizing by miles driven will take you to the wrong conclusions. It underestimates the extra deaths directly caused by the fact that we’ve built exurbs farther and farther away from where people work over the last 20-30 years. So maybe d
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by californical 4mo ago
I’ve agreed for a long time… Unfortunately though, Apple Maps just added Ads, so expect them to start having the same issues as Google Maps does (like showing big ads for every location whenever you’re moving around at the map). After Apple
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by californical 4mo ago
It’s filling in a lot of the holes, but it’s putting a very convincing paper cover over the ones it misses. So it’s very hard to find the ones it didn’t fill, better hope your most valuable customers don’t walk over the paper ones!
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by californical 4mo ago
Sometimes, even usually, evolution finds a “local maximum” of effectiveness. Where the solution an organism finds is not optimal but it’s good enough for the organism to survive, even win. So yeah I’m sure evolution didn’t create something
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by californical 4mo ago
I mean my state has been making it illegal to download 3d models of pieces that could be used to make guns in a 3d printer It’s a very broad law and likely not legal, but it’s going to take a long time to be fought through the courts, and i
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by californical 4mo ago
Oh California has its problems too, I moved away from California after living there for a few years due to the impossibility of affording a home. It’s a beautiful state but the affordability was oppressive, even for high earners. On top of
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by californical 4mo ago
Honestly it may be 50-50 purple in population, but the policies are what affect people the most. I’m not even worried about Democrat vs Republican, as I’m not associated to either party, and both have their share of crazy. There are a numbe
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by californical 4mo ago
Yeah, I cancelled my Claude subscription yesterday after learning about their attitude of intentionally sabotaging their paying customers. Especially after trying Fable yesterday for some benign projects and being unimpressive relative to o
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by californical 4mo ago
Will you though? I see this repeated, but I’ve almost never changed products because one has 10x more features than another. I usually buy and use products that are simple and effective, and that get out of my way to do the thing that I wan
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by californical 4mo ago
I’ve also been trying to use it a lot due to all of the hype, but when I compared it side-by-side on a specific problem against Opus, I think that the solution Opus came to was cleaner and more accurate, although also more verbose. Small sa
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by californical 4mo ago
> the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) Holy crap that is dark. I like learning about ML for fun, and now I have to assume that th
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by californical 4mo ago
Check out Swinsian. It is basically old iTunes with some UI improvements and modern features built around somebody who has their own library to manage. Been around for a long time. It’s great software that I’m willing to pay for in today’s
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by californical 4mo ago
Are there really companies losing right now for using less AI? Think - would you rather your telecom company’s customer support be AI-forward? Would you pay an extra $5 per month to ensure that you get humans solving your problems immediate
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by californical 4mo ago
Generating hydrocarbons at home from their air with excess electricity is like the ultimate endgame in my opinion. It’d be so sick and enable a million new possibilities, essentially getting us into a net-zero emissions state without needin
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by californical 4mo ago
> There are also differences between discrete neuron firing and weights as signals, but there is enough similarity to make artificial neural nets useful and do things similar to what real one do. There is barely a surface-level similarit
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by californical 5mo ago
Remember this MacOS bug? Letting you login to any computer as a root user by typing "root" as the username with no password. My IT department had a blast with that one, pure disbelief that it worked on all of our systems https:&#
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by californical 5mo ago
It will lead to outflows either way. And I say that as someone who has been an Index fund evangelist for years, strongly considering selling my index funds to build my own collection of companies that I believe in long term. So why not just
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by californical 5mo ago
And maybe that tuition costs must go down so that they can still get students enrolled

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