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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Thank you. I stand corrected.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
The person who starts shooting him has full visibility of the gun the entire time. Even if he doesn't realize it is a misfire, why would he believe that it was Pretti who shot? How can you reasonably believe a dude that is dogpiled wit
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> It depends on your scale, in the both cases of shootings though the victims assaulted an officer before they had been shot. It's on video and in case you deny that - look up the definition of assault as a criminal act. Good never
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
No. There are not non-citizens on voter rolls. They want the rolls to get data on voters. When you ask yourself why the ultra-politicized DOJ (which isn't even the DHS...) from an administration that has explicitly called liberals the
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> Presumably, it's because a lot of them are getting Medicaid despite not being eligible to Why are you presuming this? There is no evidence this is happening in any widespread fashion. > Isn't the point of every audit, inve
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> I agree. Assaulting police or federal officers, harassing citizens and blocking traffic does though, and the police acts on that, not just randomly gassing people because Trump. The first of the things in this list has a very large gap
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
This is true. Yet law enforcement officers are some of the most resistant to the idea, and Trump and DHS are extremely resistant to the idea of utilizing them for ICE and CBP, and have even cut funding for it. https://www.reuters
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Trying to map the current Republican party, despite calling themselves conservatives, to anything that Freeden would recognize in 98 does not seem to be particularly productive.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
They are not where I would hold them to if they were truly a principled organization and not largely a political tool for the far-right on any and every talking point, but we got far more out of them than we usually do. They publicly called
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> This type of thinking is what is leading to the destruction of order there. Yes, we are seeing a destruction of order in MN. US citizens being terrorized by ICE and CBP agents with 47 days of training, no understanding of the legal lim
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
The US can be both a terrible place and yet also better than other places that are more terrible. I would like to hold my country to higher standards than "Eh, it's better than oppressive regimes where people get murdered for poli
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
I feel like calling protests that are overwhelmingly peaceful riots tells me everything I need to know about the chances of this conversation being productive. Framing the language in a way that intrinsically devalues the fundamental first
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
That's still different from a bunch of researchers being specifically put in a negative light purely to sell a product. They weren't criticized so that they could do better, be it in their own error checking if it was a human-indu
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> Isn’t that the whole point of publishing? No, obviously not. You're confusing a marketing post by people with a product to sell with an actual review of the work by the relevant community, or even review by interested laypeople. T
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
There was a front page post just a couple of days ago where the article claimed LLMs have not improved in any way in over a year - an obviously absurd statement. A year before Opus 4.5, I couldn't get models to spit out a one shot Tamp
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> horrified to come to the HN comments and LinkedIn comments proclaiming Gastown as the future of engineering. I don't spend much time on LinkedIn, but basically every comment I've read on HN is that, at best, Gas Town can pump
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Artists were saying this even before streaming, though, much less AI. I listen pretty exclusively to metal, and a huge chunk of that is bands that are very small. I go to shows where they headliners stick around at the bar and chat with peo
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
The fact that there is absurd AI hype right now doesn't mean that we should let equally absurd bullshit pass on the other side of the spectrum. Having a reasonable and accurate discussion about the benefits, drawbacks, side effects, et
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Muscimol has not produced tiny people for me, but it definitely is different from psilocybin. It definitely is a weirder trip overall, though.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
My experiences with mescaline are that it has mostly wound down by 6-8 hours though I can tell that I am slightly "off" for a few hours after that. Shorter timeframe than LSD, though not by a whole lot.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Cannibalizing a <product/industry/etc.> is a common phrase to describe the act of a new thing outcompeting an existing thing to another thing to the degree that it significantly harms the market share, sometimes to the point
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> He made a new industry. He didn't cannibalize an existing one. I don't see how you can claim the second part is true. Cars directly cannibalized other forms of self transportation.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Sure - but I think this makes it a self equalizing problem, more than it eating it's own tail.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Those citations come from it searching the web and summarizing, not from it's built in training data. Processes outside of the inference are tracking it. If it were to give you a model-only response it could not determine where the inf
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> 100s of users might have discussed the same/similar technical problem with an LLM, but there's no way (afaik) for the AI to promote good content and demote bad ones, as it (AI) doesn't have the concept of correctness&#x2
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
This is an article that I agreed with more reading the headline than I did when I finished reading the article itself. Stack Overflow peaked in 2014 before beginning it's downward decline. How is that at all related to GenAI? GPT4 is
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Home stuff was the last holdout for me, but even that has been replaced by Proxmox these days. I used SmartOS for a solid 7-8 years, though, and like it for most of that time. I couldn't point to any one single major reason that prompt
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
I would agree. And the best Art Directors today almost all have a background in creating art themselves, in some fashion. I suspect that will remain true in the AI world as well, at least for the foreseeable future.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
He explicitly said they would get different results.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> Maybe some people think of it that way. I don't know. I've never asked those questions about any art I consume. I just think something like, "wow, this looks nice, it must have taken a while" or "what would it

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