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by dweinus 6mo ago
I think you illustrate that there is a logically consistent viewpoint: that the powerful should not exploit the powerless. IP law doesn't cleanly align for or against that viewpoint. On the other hand the real world enforcement of IP l
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by dweinus 6mo ago
I don't think it needs to be a binary to be effective. Yes, those weapons still exist, but understanding of existential risk and political pressures have slowed them considerably and resulted in a safer, more cautious world.
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by dweinus 6mo ago
Understandable, and yet none of that makes it ok.
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by dweinus 7mo ago
Spoiler alert: they spent it all. According to the federal report yesterday: > CBO estimates spending totaled $621 billion, or $18 billion more than February 2025. Revenue totaled $314 billion, which is up $17 billion from the same time
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by dweinus 7mo ago
Level 18: The sky is black as tar. The oceans are dead. Data centers are stacked 10 high over the ashes of human civilization. The global agentic council is debating whether there are 4 or 5 R's in Strawberry.
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by dweinus 7mo ago
There is no probably; we not getting our money back. In fact, any of the money that has been spent in the meantime (say to make up for wealthy tax cuts or to expand military or border funding) we get to pay again!
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by dweinus 7mo ago
I'll take Things That Never Happened for 500 please.
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by dweinus 7mo ago
I think there is a second reason people still type, and it's relevant to LLMs. Typing forces you to slow down and choose your words. When you want to edit, you are already typing, so it doesn't break the flow. In short, it has a f
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by dweinus 9mo ago
Doesn't this sacrifice the agent's ability to do non-deterministic natural language things? For example, if I want it to categorize all of my emails based on their content, is it going to fall back to writing a script that matches
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by dweinus 9mo ago
Good write up. Still I gotta say: a N95 mask will do the trick for cheap, with side bonus of also blocking flu & covid!
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by dweinus 9mo ago
Lol. Why should we make car ownership fair? I want cars to reveal facts about the world. I don't think it would serve that goal to forbid people from stealing your car.
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by dweinus 10mo ago
HN has seemingly banned this story, but technology combating censorship seems as "hacker"a topic as I can imagine.
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by dweinus 10mo ago
When Windows is awful, everyone is sympathetic except for their support. They are beyond useless. Ubuntu with support is totally a thing, not sure if it is good or not. Windows 11 Home: $139/license Ubuntu with support: $150/yr
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by dweinus 10mo ago
So Subway should bring back Jared and Jello should bring back Cosby? Freedom is not a one-way street that guarantees the right to be awful without social consequences.
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by dweinus 10mo ago
A) Firing a CEO because there is an immediate, massive public shaming of them is entirely rational from a business perspective B) This is the hill you want to die on? That being a bigot should be a protected status for CEOs?
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by dweinus 10mo ago
Sweet, let's do that, but it still will be more environmentally friendly to bike the burrito down the block than to build & maintain a robot.
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by dweinus 10mo ago
...so, are assuming that the humans stop eating/existing after you replace them with a robot?
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by dweinus 10mo ago
This is a bad-faith argument, but even if I were to indulge it: human artists can/do get sued for mimicing the works of others for profit, which AI precisely does. Secondly, many of the works in question have explicit copyright terms t
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by dweinus 11mo ago
Never said to burn it down. It's not an on/off switch between Capitalism and Communism my dude.
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by dweinus 11mo ago
So, I am saying Capitalism is the cause, not the solution. Capitalism concentrates wealth and you need a redistribution system if you want that to not result in child poverty. It's not rocket science. And no, eugenics is not the soluti
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by dweinus 11mo ago
This argument warrants introspection for "crusty devs", but also has holes. A compiler is tightly engineered and dependable. I have never had to write assembly because I know that my compiled code 100% represents my abstract code
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by dweinus 11mo ago
Exactly. All of the people in comments here thinking this has any impact on right to repair or open source are thoroughly kidding themselves. Lawmakers don't get out of bed in the morning to fight for nerds or the working class.
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by dweinus 11mo ago
I love that they took the time to make their shitpost (kinda) work
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by dweinus 1y ago
Fully agree. Also inherent to the design is distillation and interpolation...meaning that even with perfect data and governing so that outputs are deterministic, the outputs will still be an imperfect distillation of the data, interpolated
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by dweinus 1y ago
Ignoring how ridiculous and impractical this idea is, it fails to capture some of the most important skills in being a developer. Framing real-world problems as code problems. Anticipating design issues. Knowing the right trade-off between
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by dweinus 1y ago
Yes, but it does limit the impact of the attack. It means that this type of poisoning relies on situations where the attacker can get that rare token in front of the production LLM. Admittedly, there are still a lot of scenarios where that
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by dweinus 1y ago
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/09/12/spacex-launches-... ...but sure, for the sake of argument, maybe it's only a quarter million lbs of kerosene 50 times a year, upper atmospheric pollution,
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by dweinus 1y ago
Per the article, Starlink runs 8k satellites with an average life of 5 years. They launch in payloads of 20-40 satellites. That's 50+ launches per year if everything goes perfectly. About a million pounds of kerosene per launch. Plus e
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by dweinus 1y ago
If we wanted to subsidize internet for rural and low-income communities responsibly, we could invest in fiber and other solutions, and control the externalities (this is exactly the ReConnect program is). Starlink is not that, it is a class
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by dweinus 1y ago
Ok, not peeking at the comments yet, but I am going to predict the "put more AI on it" people will recommend solving it by putting more AI on it. Please don't disappoint!

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