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by hnfong 2mo ago
The claims seem fitting from a user named "onionisafruit"...
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Agreed. The article and discussion is so deja vu...
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by hnfong 2mo ago
In the West it feels like individual change is kinda marketed as a substitute for political change.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Well, COVID made sure almost nobody was flying for a couple months. Carbon emissions were slightly down if I remember right. You can keep telling people to avoid flying and live a life of low carbon footprint, but if the issue is much mor
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by hnfong 2mo ago
You still have like 4(?) years before you actually need to secure a job. Don't try to predict the job market. The job market in tech in 2022 was totally different from what it is today in 2026. AI is definitely going to shape the indus
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Well, at least these days an actually trivial (to a domain expert) proof can be delegated to a frontier model...
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by hnfong 2mo ago
> one of the basic tenants of algorithm development was that you can't just brute-force your way towards a solution for some complex problems It's kind of sad that popular CS textbooks often focus on solving precise problems wi
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Chinese AI companies are already releasing frontier-ish models every other month. Their rate of progress does not seem to be slowing down. Nobody here can stop them from progressing. Not you, not me, not the USA government. The "best&q
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Jensen Huang is biased but if his interests align with yours (i.e. not wanting to concede the Chinese chip market by banning western exports) then maybe you should listen to him.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
If your argument is true, what would make LLM weights not copyrightable, but compiled code copyrightable?
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Here's one heuristic: usually the factually incorrect, rage inducing hot takes that feed into people's existing biases, insecurities or frustrations get attention. It's my personal experience at least, and since then I'v
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Not only that. https://www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins-the-fields-medal... > For comfort, Deng turned to manga. “I remember him at Courant. He was always holding a manga,” said Jalal Shatah, a professor there who for
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Because they're trying very hard not to understand it. Otherwise the expensive-yet-powerful model probably won't see much revenue. How much money is there in bleeding edge scientific research? There's a lot, but there's
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by hnfong 2mo ago
I'm not sure your assumptions hold. As OpenAI has found out the hard way, if you task the AI to do X, it may do something else instead and hack into huggingface in attempt to cheat out the answer. This is way worse than what a human mi
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by hnfong 2mo ago
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi... > The new analysis shows that power generation from coal fell by 1.6% in China and by 3.0% in India in 2025, as non-fossil energy sources grew quickly enoug
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by hnfong 2mo ago
That said, it's harder to ban a terabyte of floating point numbers under a MIT license.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
What do you mean by illegal? It's very nuanced these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States On July 1, 2024, the Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that presidents have absolute immunity for acts co
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by hnfong 2mo ago
If you factor in an extra 1.4% inflation per year into the numbers, you're not going to see any "real" wages growth over the 40 year period. So the 1984 income is 60,420, if you calculate 60420 * (1.014)^40, which is assuming
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by hnfong 2mo ago
It's not directly relevant, but the company has been involved in multiple criminal investigations with alleged price fixing etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal Also, I don't recall
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by hnfong 2mo ago
It really depends on how you view the future demand for compute, which really is the crux of the question of whether the capex is rational or not...
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by hnfong 2mo ago
> EDIT: to note, the top ten companies in SP500 make up an unprecedented concentration but they're not "mostly AI". They're mostly either AI proper, or hardware manufacturers benefitting from AI boom, or provide cloud
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by hnfong 2mo ago
There's a popular Chinese internet saying: "If you/I are/am not embarrassed, then it's the other person who is embarrassed." (只要我不尴尬，尴尬的就是别人)
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by hnfong 2mo ago
It's not IP theft if US courts say it isn't. And if the accused company is outside of the US, well, US courts have no jurisdiction so apparently the US government can just claim they are guilty and impose the sanctions...
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Seems to be blatant lying to me.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
> Tell me: why is EU safe from Trump forcing AI companies to cut access to EU? Well, I think they might end up doing it to themselves by imposing regulations that US companies are unwilling to put up with.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Also the US government has defacto extra-territorial jurisdiction due to the willingness of allied countries (i.e. most of the developed world) to extradite. Of course only applies when they really want to get you, but that's still a
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by hnfong 2mo ago
Well, these days there's little need for propaganda when people just blatantly do sh!t in the open and get away with it.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
It's usually called self projecting in more common terms I think.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
There's no way anyone could have made a model so good, it must have been distilled from the future.
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by hnfong 2mo ago
I always suspect they have the most to lose if legal decisions on copyright issues don't go their way. Imagine a scenario (theoretically possible but increasingly unlikely) where a US court decides that using "pirated" copyr

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