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by demosthanos 3mo ago
I wonder if it'd be more effective to teach how to critically use AI than to try to forward people to textbooks. For myself, I have found that I am better able to learn new topics than ever before because being able to have a conversat
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I'm aware of the mechanism, but that mechanism relies on a mic that is always on . I agree that the primary issue is that it's a software-controlled microphone with no off switch controlled by software written by Meta. I only emp
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by demosthanos 1y ago
My main point in the last comment is that inserting himself into their lives at all is disrespectful. He doesn't need a word for them because he has no relationship to them: he was an anonymous donor to enable their actual parents to h
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by demosthanos 1y ago
That depends a lot on your definition of "children" and "father". Many people with uninvolved biological fathers would disagree with you that the guy who impregnated their mother counted as their father, especially if th
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Whether an empty gun and a magazine counts as a loaded gun varies state-by-state, so the distinction is not as clear-cut as you make it sound. New York State penal code defines a loaded gun as follows: > 15. "Loaded firearm" me
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I responded to that above. If the mic is always on and controls the camera (both of which are demonstrated in the promo video), any reasonable approach to infosec needs to treat the camera as always on as well.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Right, I'm not claiming Glass was good , but it at least attempted to use the glasses form factor for something.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
In general I agree, but The Verge in particular tends to just say exactly what the press release says with less detail. If we're going to do a non-press-release source it should be because they're offering context and information
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> “They are all my children and will all have the same rights! I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death,” he said, after revealing that he recently wrote his will. I agree that it's pretty cringe to refer to all of
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by demosthanos 1y ago
If you can ask "Hey Meta, ..." while holding a golf club and unable to touch a button (which the promo video [0] shows you can) then the mic is always on. It may not always be beaming data to Meta, but that's a matter of trus
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Right before LLMs broke into the scene we had a few techniques I was aware of: * Personality Forge uses a rules-based scripting approach [0]. This is basically ELIZA extended to take advantage of modern processing power. * Rasa [1] used tra
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Somehow we've actually managed to regress from 2013's Google Glass. Always-on microphone and camera sold by one of the world's sketchiest privacy invaders? Check. Display that actually takes advantage of the glasses form fact
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by demosthanos 1y ago
I've been totally breaking Linux installs trying to get Nvidia to work for 15 years now, and that's on X11. On the other hand I recently did the first OS upgrade that I've ever done successfully without breaking Nvidia and th
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by demosthanos 1y ago
The [flagged] indicator on a submission usually indicates user flagging. Moderators and algorithms just quietly downweight submissions without any visible indicator. So this isn't an HN moderator position, the question to resolve is wh
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Given that we're apparently discussing an entire k8s 2.0 based on HCL that hardly seems like a barrier. You'd have needed to write the HCL tooling to get the 2.0 working anyway.
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The Personal Genome Project(personalgenomes.org)
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> And if you restrict it, they'll just fork your code and overwrite whatever they need. More power to them. They can take responsibility for that code and maintain it and I don't have to worry about breaking them when I release
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by demosthanos 1y ago
What you're missing is the audience. This talk is different from his others because it's directed at aspiring startup founders. It's about how we conceptualize the place of an LLM in a new business. It's designed to prov
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Yep, it's obvious that a lot of people are interested because junk articles like this usually get penalized harder. That interest is what this piece is preying on. Unfortunately it's easier to write a piece that tells people what
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Just curious: Are you speaking as an insider or just guessing about the test coverage?
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Did you actually read the study? I assumed you did and so I read every word so I could engage with you on it, but it's really feeling like you skimmed it looking for it to prove what you thought it would prove. It's not even all t
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by demosthanos 1y ago
You can't say "that is just the motivation", because the motivation is what dictated the terms of the experiment. I read the whole study: the contrast between the two types of displays permeates the whole thing. They repeat
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by demosthanos 1y ago
No, they're specifically contrasting two types of displays and identify that the traditional way of measuring flicker effect does work for the traditional displays, regardless of image complexity: > Traditional TVs show a sequence
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Yes, that's an interesting source that at least shows that our eyes can perceive things at those high frequencies, but I'm not sold that it generalizes. The study actually demonstrates that perception of flicker for regular PWM
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by demosthanos 1y ago
Interesting! Be sure to follow the link to the second post about what happened to the 2nd, 3rd, 22nd, and 23rd. It's simpler but still worth the read: https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-23rd-of-the-month/
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by demosthanos 1y ago
The repair-ability has been a huge thing for me as a father of young kids. I've only had to do it once when a toddler jumped on the laptop screen, but it ended up being a fairly cheap repair instead of what had hitherto been a full lap
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by demosthanos 1y ago
90 days is still absurd. I have custom apps I install on my Android phones once per phone . I go years without bothering to rebuild them.
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by demosthanos 1y ago
> The frequency of 239 Hz is relatively low, so sensitive users will likely notice flickering and experience eyestrain at the stated brightness setting and below. Do you have a source for this claim that 239 Hz is low enough to be notice
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by demosthanos 1y ago
The article is worse than confused. It's a marketing piece written in a way that sounds vaguely science-y but with only a tenuous basis in real research. I wrote more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312224
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by demosthanos 1y ago
That does not define the scale that they're using. That's a typical hazard analysis risk matrix which has two axes which can be converted into a 4-point scale (Low, Medium, Serious, High). Importantly, to do a risk assessment in t

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