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by flashman 2y ago
That's funny because if I was running SIGINT at the NSA I would do all of the above, and also compromise Tor
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by flashman 2y ago
"Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things will require millions of chips, tens of billions of dollars (at least), and is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." What an incredible claim to just slip in tw
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by flashman 2y ago
I imagine that argument is a pretty easy sell. Of course governments will want to create moats that protect their incumbents.
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by flashman 2y ago
AI models and their outputs aren't copyrightable because they're not made with human creativity :)
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by flashman 2y ago
That's a coincidence, Australian astronomers published a paper on a new interferometry-based system for fast radio burst detection today too: https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025/January&#
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by flashman 2y ago
> Next up: 1,156 prompts censored by ChatGPT If published this would, to my knowledge, be the first time anyone has systematically explored which topics ChatGPT censors.
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by flashman 2y ago
Jevons was talking about coal as an input to commercial processes, for which there were other alternatives that competed on price (e.g. manual/animal labour). Whatever the process, it generated a return, it had utility, and it had scal
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by flashman 2y ago
Yeah, GME for instance shows you can only think about it correctly in retrospect (or perhaps with perfect knowledge of all players' intentions).
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by flashman 2y ago
what people are neglecting about Jevons is that fuel efficiency led to increased use of coal because you could use coal to displace more expensive fuels i wonder what is more expensive that cheap large language models can displace? is the
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by flashman 2y ago
I think it's entirely possible that one categorically can't think correctly about markets and equity valuations since they are vibes-based. Post hoc, sure, but not ahead of time.
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by flashman 2y ago
> 1) It's more effort and time than most people are willing to deal with, when instead they can create an account on Bluesky in seconds, and immediately begin sharing their opinions. This is an interesting point because the apps and
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by flashman 2y ago
I think their top-down approach is a problem. What they call human civilization wasn't and isn't centrally-planned, and its goals and ideologies are neither universal nor implicit. The integration of software agents (I refuse to c
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by flashman 2y ago
Douglas Adams was satirizing touch interfaces and technological progress 45 years ago: > A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machi
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by flashman 2y ago
> quality really does not matter What an inspiring vision for the future of news and entertainment.
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by flashman 2y ago
go look at a photo of a CPU and imagine what else you'd need to run Windows on it, and then imagine it's probably extremely exponentially more difficult
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by flashman 2y ago
it looks like the original submission is now unflagged and appears with a submission time of 1 hour ago, instead of 21 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329
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by flashman 3y ago
The weight of evidence is against Andreessen's ilk being able to improve the world because what have they done since they got wealthy? It's funny how the garage startup kids' mantra of "lean and scrappy beats behemoth&qu
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by flashman 4y ago
Lift with your knees. This is very difficult around change tables, cribs and baths, but very necessary, and nobody ever tells you!
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by flashman 4y ago
Down in Singapore and Australia but not in Europe or North America, from what I can see.
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by flashman 5y ago
As to how the FBI got access to the messages, Vice says[1] after Vincent Ramos of Phantom Secure was arrested in 2018, a confidential human source offered Anom, which the source was developing, to the FBI (probably in exchange for immunity
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by flashman 6y ago
Same with BitTorrent: first released in July 2001
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by flashman 6y ago
Also, to expand on this point: > My friends who ”made” it posted three quality videos a week. For 1-2 years. For every ten people who did this, maybe one made it big. There's no guarantee the grind will pay off.
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Conspiracy theorists are harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers(theverge.com)
10 points by flashman 6y ago|1 comments
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by flashman 6y ago
Cult! Ha!
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In OS X 10.15, all Excel documents show text upside down and backwards(excel.uservoice.com)
40 points by flashman 6y ago|4 comments
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by flashman 6y ago
Patreon makes more sense as a medium-sized business than an epic-scale corporation. Unfortunately reliable recurring revenue is a tough pill for "To The Moon!" investors to swallow.
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by flashman 6y ago
But I thought Patreon never took more than a 12% cut...
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by flashman 6y ago
communism baby 3% is nothing if shared equally
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by flashman 6y ago
As early as 2012 the RAAF Hornet fleet flight activities (12-13000 hours per year) were estimated to exhaust the fleets' lifetime airframe limits (6000 hours) in 2020.[1] Keeping them in the air beyond this year was going to get more a
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by flashman 7y ago
So, we ingest a third-party dataset that changes daily. One of our problems is that we need to retrospectively measure arbitrary metrics (how many X had condition Y on days 1 through 180 of the current year?). Imagine the external data like

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