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by deaux 8mo ago
Let's look at other wealthy countries with large economies. Germany, Japan, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Australia, South Korea, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan.. Which of these have trouble verifying identity reliably, to th
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by deaux 8mo ago
You did imply it, that in the past the same welfare was affordable that now no longer is, because its economy apparently doesn't generate enough wealth.
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> Factorio works but not much else. Currently looking at the top 20 Steam games [0] for today, excluding non-games like Wallpaper Engine. 8 out of 20 work on Mac natively. Out of the remaining 12, 3 of them work with Crossover, so that m
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> The UK can't afford anything even close to this. It can't even afford the theoretically non-universal benefits schemes it has: it has massive government debt and deficits because its economy doesn't generate enough wealt
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This is a complete non-issue in basically every wealthy country bar potentially the US, all five things you named are already known to the government at all times. They also apply the exact same way to any other scheme, there's nothing
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> The userbase is extremely off putting from the get go Fair enough > moved back to twitter "The summer heat in Phoenix is extremely off putting, so I moved to Riyadh"
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Anthropic has willingly left money on the table by taking a stand. They could just not have done this. OpenAI so far has done the opposite, instead seizing the above as an opportunity. That is a seriously meaningful difference. Their agreem
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> What’s the last principled thing you did? Leaving a job for one that paid 3x less. And they weren't making automated killing machines (at least at the time, who knows now). > Easy to point fingers, harder to practice what you p
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by deaux 8mo ago
Just like how HN itself can't be immune from macro trends, neither can its users, and macro trends have unfortunately made this a necessity for many of them.
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Vultr and HostHatch are also worth considering.
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Not from people using that same phrasing twice within a few sentences. """ No warning. No traffic spike. Just… more money gone. That’s when I finally looked at Hetzner. I’ve seen too many backend systems fail for the same rea
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> Granted, this was a long time ago and even seeing non-Japanese around in Tokyo was rare, unlike now. Please say "non-East Asians" when that's what you mean. There were already loads of Chinese and Koreans around in Tokyo
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> In Japan and in many East Asian cultures, debate is behind closed doors. East Asia consists of only 4 countries, two of them (China and Taiwan) sharing the bulk of their main language. In the other 3 East Asian countries, meetings bein
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by deaux 8mo ago
> This is my experience with how LLMs "draft" legal arguments: at first glance, it's plausible — but may be, and often is, invalid, unsound, and/or ill-advised. Correct, and this of course extends past just laws, into
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I expected you to say this, but hoped you wouldn't. Of course I know they talk about it. GOP campaigns say and do a lot of things, there's dozens of topics they shout about. From Benghazi to Hillary's Emails to gender-neutra
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> What have you done? Made a shitload of sacrifices, how about you?
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> The hard part is finding policies that actually work without costing the lower and middle class more right now You imprison the current administration for treason, seize their ill-gotten gains and there you go, hundreds of billions of
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> Not responding to climate change is hurting everyone's pocket No it's not. There's a large group of people whose pockets are being lined by it. A large group of billionaires.
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> (of course that isn't the only reason, but it's one of many). This is disingenuous. It's one of many in that it may have contributed 0.0001%. If they wouldn't have done that, would they currently have more power?
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The entire point is that you _don't_ for creative writing, vibes are the whole point, and those vibes often get worse across model updates for the same prompts.
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> it's pretty culturally inevitable, I think, to have an in-group signalling their strategies using coded language. Pretty shocking belief when you're of course ing all "ICs". If it was inevitable than the amount and
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by deaux 8mo ago
You shouldn't have a hard time believing it. There are thousands of different domains out there. You find it hard to believe that any of them would perform worse in your scenario? Labs are still really optimizing for maybe 10 of thos
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There's a whole universe of tasks that aren't "fix a Github issue" or even related to coding in the slightest. A large number of those tasks doesn't necessarily get better with model updates. In many cases, the per
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by deaux 8mo ago
It's been well known for a while that car tires are the biggest single source of microplastics, but it's nice to have more numbers backing this up. This is one of multiple reasons why Electric cars are much closer to ICE cars in t
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Since you quoted the long-term part: The policies you're naming are still enacted for their expected long-term consequences. That doesn't mean all of them are successful in achieving their goals, sometimes their expectations turn
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by deaux 8mo ago
Strange downvotes for a relevant question.
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by deaux 8mo ago
Page title - Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything” Original HN title - The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything Editorialized HN title v1, 7 hours after post - A hidden workforc
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> Terms like "hidden" and "see everything" are in a title are clickbait. The one containing "hidden" is the one you apparently changed it to originally - I don't think GP can, nor has any reason to -
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> That's because they haven't came out with another small iPhone in more than four years. They also haven't come out with another iPhone with a headphone jack, yet no one kept using those. I get what you're saying, bu
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> Still holding onto my 13 mini. That's why they stopped making them, because the people who buy minis are willing to stick with them for 5 years, whereas Apple wants you to buy a new phone every year. Every single person I know who

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