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by gspr 2mo ago
Kagi pays Yandex for data. Yandex is definitely Russian.
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by gspr 2mo ago
Thank you for your suggestion. I think I've discounted Brave automatically because my brain is numb to the dime-a-dozen chromium browsers out there. I'll definitely give the search a try!
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by gspr 2mo ago
> I write because I have ideas I want to share, and whether that happens with LLMs as an intermediary isn't important to me. Sure. But you can see that for some people (myself included), writing for peers is part of the joy? And
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by gspr 2mo ago
Did the operators of HN mention anything about a reward structure for posting comments here? I'm sure you can see how that's still attractive to some.
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by gspr 2mo ago
They're so horrible that I've started defaulting to their AI summaries. And I hate those summaries. It's just that the regular results are so terrible now, and seemingly getting worse at a noticeable pace. I used to not wor
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by gspr 2mo ago
To racists, people who look different are inherently harmful. Racists are terrible.
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by gspr 2mo ago
You still have radiative transfer. The instruments in question probably take significantly less power in than they lose through radiation. So they need to be given extra power to maintain temperature. I.e. they need to be heated.
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by gspr 2mo ago
Won't Saudi ownership of something bad make it even worse? The era goes on!
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by gspr 2mo ago
Ugh. There's nothing inherently European about Chat Control. It's a dumb proposal, and it's European. Any free society has a bunch of dumb proposals. Nor is there anything inherently European about the AI Act. But that one I
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by gspr 2mo ago
This reduction of everything to stochasticity is silly. Or, to put it differently: Do you accept a value with some error appearing in your bank account on salary day? We have plenty of systems where complete accuracy is the only acceptable
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by gspr 2mo ago
Exactly! When someone does it at work, I get a bit sad because my conclusion is that whoever does it can't like their job very much. But that's ok – not liking your job very much is compatible with an otherwise happy life. When pe
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by gspr 2mo ago
It's not out of the realm of possibility to do AI audits. I'm not saying it's a good idea or likely, but certainly something they could do.
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by gspr 2mo ago
There's a huge difference between a completely decentralized reputation system like the interpersonal one that has existed since humans first became sentient, and an artificially built top-down reputation system run by a powerful entit
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by gspr 2mo ago
Cleanroom?! What the hell kind of definition of a cleanroom is it when you get to take hundreds of GB of compressed code with you into it?!
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by gspr 2mo ago
I think you know that well-known, highly visible entities usually set their legal bar a bit higher than "I'm sure we won't be sued over this".
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by gspr 2mo ago
Good thing it's a sport and not a commercial operation then!
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by gspr 2mo ago
How long until one of these bots actually commits fraud or some other criminal act? Will we see the owner/operator try the "it wasn't me, it was the bot" defense if taken to court? I'm beginning to think yes. And I&
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by gspr 2mo ago
Works well where I work. Some ground rules to help are: * Do the bulk during work hours. * Be 100% accepting of people who don't wanna spend free time on it. Or compensate. * Add in loads of general fun. * Let the employees be in charg
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by gspr 3mo ago
Nonsense. Man-made things can be explained by humans without needing to experience what came before.
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by gspr 3mo ago
> But I'm not sure what you mean by "understand". If you want to understand the graphics theory, Vulkan tutorials aren't going to teach you that. I meant understand the Vulkan-specific minutiae of setting everything u
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by gspr 3mo ago
Relatedly: could someone recommend a Vulkan introduction for people who don't "just want to make it work"? I understand the fact that Vulkan abstracts away a lot less of the rendering device than OpenGL does – that may be a s
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by gspr 3mo ago
I think this is some of the most interesting revelation to come about during these times: there seems to be two kinds of people – those for whom the act doing something well has the highest inherent value, and those for whom accomplishin
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by gspr 3mo ago
> Selling author signings, talks, authorized copies, subscriptions/merch, sponsorships. Most of these turn intellectual work into that of indie musicians, or outright beggars. You are stepping dangerously close to stripping people r
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by gspr 3mo ago
I, too, hate rentseeking. Owning one's intellectual output, however, is not in and of itself rentseeking.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Are you really saying that because IP protections are (and should be, I agree) time-limited, they're not doing anything in the first place? This is patently ridiculous. > Speaking of insane worlds, how does the concept of the Public
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by gspr 3mo ago
Yes. But you can't redistribute it. Which is what the AI companies are doing.
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by gspr 3mo ago
Are you saying that if someone writes a book or records a song, anyone should be able to use it for anything forever without consent? How does intellectual work get funded in this insane world if yours, pray tell?
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by gspr 3mo ago
> I dunno, ever used a thing you learned from a textbook in your job? Did you have to continue paying for the copy of that knowledge speed on your brain? They are, presumably, human. We can perfectly well say that humans have certain rig
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by gspr 3mo ago
I thought these "engineers" were bragging that they aren't writing code anymore.
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by gspr 3mo ago
We're not mad at you. But we'd really like to learn: what went through your head when you read that comment? Was there not even an inkling that this might be satire? Can you tell glaringly obvious satire apart in oral conversation

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