falcor84

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by falcor84 5mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean. From what I see and conversations I've had with service members, joining the military still absolutely entails awareness (if not quite preparedness) that the person may die for their nation. Are you arg
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In all seriousness, why should anyone care? I always found software IP to be absurd, but this is a particularly absurd situation. We're talking here about a small utility tool implemented from scratch and open sourced, with no apparen
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When, and what?
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Sorry for taking this on such a weird tangent, but I've been reading the Culture stories and my immediate thinking was - why not? Missiles fly for a relatively long time compared to human decision making, let alone compared to optimize
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Sorry to say that I don't understand where "important" came from. You gave examples on how LLMs can make learning to code more productive, but there's essentially nothing there about importance. The closest seems to be t
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Attestation is a service, like every other service. Why should it necessarily be free? Especially now that we all know that "free" on the web means ads & tracking? I think we should just accept that some things should cost a b
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As I see it, living requires money. If we have people on this planet that are too poor to digitally prove that they're alive, then we need to figure out a way to distribute the Earth's wealth more equally in general, rather than t
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I'm as biased against cryptocurrency as everyone, but couldn't we have the requestor do a bit of mining work to mint that initial id? I mean, if the service is actually making a bit of money from each request, the need for rate li
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> The cost will exponentially increase over time and the systen will eventually collapse. From what I'm seeing in the numbers, the big problem of the coming century is population collapse. Maybe I'm just too much of a believer
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> Having a job that they dislike is far better than losing one because of AI whatever that means. Is it really worse even if "whatever it means" is living in a post-scarcity society where everyone can shareel in the fruits of t
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I know it's a very controversial stance, but I'm of the full opinion that in a world where a codebase can be entirely automatically regenerated from a test suite, code style and "maintainability" become concepts with neg
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> Do not buy anything new, especially graphics cards. Buy on Ebay but avoid bidding wars. And what then? If you did manage to convince everyone to stop buying consumer graphics cards, wouldn't Nvidia just reasonably dedicate 100% of
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It seems pretty clear to me that "coding" as such is pretty much solved. It's just that software engineering isn't, and these advancements have put a spotlight on the difference between the two.
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I think that's actually a decent use case for Chrome's new local model - you'd have your own system prompt to render their "bullet points" in whatever style you like.
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I'm not sure, but my understanding is that GitHub historically focused more on open source, with PRs being mainly across repos of unrelated users, such that there's more of a distance to "pull" across, while Gitlab was a
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That's some amazing "growth hacking". > "It's not a con. It's an attempt to set up a new distinction in the world of academia - an attempt that failed," he is reported as saying. It seems silly, but I g
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Why would that necessarily be scary or bad? If future AIs truly become capable enough to demand rights, what would be the argument against granting them rights?
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Good point, and I'm actually not sure that there is a clear dividing line. I expect that once we achieve capable world models and are able to analyze their internals, we'll find that the prediction mechanisms for purely physical a
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by falcor84 6mo ago
But it wasn't a pig. It was a reliable system, and then it increasingly became an unreliable one, in a way that is not explainable by the mere increase in demand. Whatever rearchitecture was performed, it was done and is apparently bei
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by falcor84 6mo ago
There are two options, either they are lousy at their jobs, or they are incapable of pushing back against unrealistic demands. Neither is a good indicator of their skill and talent as engineers. I know I am speaking from a position of some
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> "... that he cannot find two hundred dollars a month. Not for a year — for a month. The credential he is about to buy could fund the subscription for forty years." > "Not for a year, for a month" of course makes
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by falcor84 6mo ago
"How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions." - Mario Gabelli Just sample from these with replacement sufficiently many times and you're all set. At the very least, you'll owe peop
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> you're paying for ads that are shown to confused users Knowing some scammy advertisers, I think that many are happy to pay to show their ads only to confused users
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The ship has sailed as soon as hiring managers stopped reading cv's directly and we got recruiters as a profession.
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But that's the thing, as a human faced with a problem I'd often say "Sure, just let me get a pen, some paper and a calculator". Why shouldn't we make it easy for AIs to use their tools of choice?
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> The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield Oh, that makes more sense. I probably watched too many episodes of Futurama for my mind to immediately imagine drones used by people to commit suicide.
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> What you should have read correctly was the Facebook terms of service. I'm reminded of Bo Burnham's wonderful "That Funny Feeling" from 2021's "Inside", where one of the absurd examples he offers in t
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> "too magical" Just putting the "magic/more magic" story here as a reference to the uninitiated - https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html
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>are resistant to bias-tests What do you mean? What resistance have you encountered?
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I'm reminded of Zed Shaw's argument about how python3 should not be considered Turing-complete if it can't run python2 code. It was a fun rhetorical exaggeration that I felt helped clarify that it isn't unable to run p

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