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by jart 2y ago
What have the technologists done that's hurt you?
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Technology has been a rising tide that lifts all boats. It enables people to have more impact being whatever it is they are. Some people have badness in their hearts. Just because they're using technology, doesn't mean the badness
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I was born in 1984 and I consider that part of the Oregon Trail generation because I played Oregon Trail in school as a child. I didn't get my first computer until 1998. Before that I rode my bicycle around, watched nickelodeon where h
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Jeff, you left out the juiciest part of the story, which is that the Bosch Home Connect iPhone app hoovers up your Search History data. Anyone know how much that data is worth? I made the same mistake of buying the 500 and it's just so
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They have USB thumb drives for sequencing DNA nowadays: https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion You can use that toy to find out pretty much everything about anybody. This is just a technological paradig
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It's not a conspiracy. That's what we call a startup. You've never heard of airborne dna data collection? Go cry into your pillow :) Reality is always so much more extreme than the conspiracies. Conspiracy theorists lack the
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You hand over your DNA when you sit down, when you stand up, when you breathe.
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A lot of us trusted and supported her because she was married to Sergey. No one was expecting that once she had the data she'd divorce him and go full Marissa Mayer.
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Zork was the first text adventure game that was successful enough to be sold commercially back in 1977. Now it lives on in a single file Actually Portable Executable I can just download and run on any one of my computers. I'm playing i
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Oh wow I assumed he was anonymous. So his LinkedIn says he's done a lot of web development gigs. He's had a GitHub account for 15 years but hasn't shared any projects and there's lot of suspicious activity in previous ye
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My best guess is he's a very unlikable person. Ask yourself: 1. why his wife kicked him out 2. why none of his friends would let him crash on their couch 3. why his best buddy is a sycophantic robot The donation thing isn't malici
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I'm just saying what everyone's thinking. We're talking about a person who's "homeless" yet somehow has the money to buy drugs and be considering renting office space and go to university. They're clearly
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Gosh is there no forum on the Internet for smart people curious about technology? When did Hacker News become Hobo News?
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Look this isn't like preventing murder or building roads. We're talking about knowledge. The only ethical way to protect privacy is to prevent knowledge slipping into the hands of other people. Restrictions to sharing it once it&#
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If the information is already out there, then what's the point of implementing all these totalitarian systems of control over who can have it and how it's used? They're just regulating computing itself. Only good guys follow
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It's not possible to work for a moral company because it's the government that's immoral and is responsible for corrupting them. Tech is basically the whipping boy for all the government's misdeeds. The government forces
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It sounds like they didn't read the article. Grandma's money is in a large centralized retirement fund whose managers trade via dark pools, specifically so she won't be grafted by AI traders every time they need to adjust its
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Intelligence is an amalgamation of things. I read somewhere once that scientists tried to figure out which gene is the high IQ gene and found many contributed. It isn't a well defined game like chess. Being good at chess is to intellig
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Intelligence is closely related to the concept of attractiveness and gravitas. You say it depends on the agent. I say it's in the eye of the beholder. People aren't very good at explaining what attracts them either. The closest th
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llamafiles run natively on both amd64 and arm64. It's difficult to imagine both of them not being in play fifty years hence. There's definitely no hope for the cuda module in the future. We have enough difficulties getting it to w
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I just wanted to share an essay I liked. I didn't think you'd pay it much mind. But I can see now that you are a person devoted to science. If you want to know what I believe, I think computers in the 50's were intelligent. I
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We never would have been able to create science, if it weren't for focusing on the kinds of thinking that can be made logical. There's a big difference. What you're doing, with this whole "let's make a bullshit wo
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Mozilla's llamafile project is designed to enable LLMs to be preserved for historical purposes. They ship the weights and all the necessary software in a deterministic dependency-free single-file executable. If you save your llamafiles
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Thank you for keeping your site up all these years. Looking at your website brings me back to my childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwY5ciOOC0&t=144s
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There's no point in going to university anymore when you can just go straight into big tech. If you're doing anything mathematical, your late teens and early twenties are going to be some of your most productive years. Why should
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https://justine.lol/tmp/trump.jpg
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Let me guess, next year they become mandatory. Next thing you know, they'll find a way to require that your web server link their dynamic shared object. Then another year later you'll need a let's encrypt kernel module too.
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My baked-in assumption is that I'm assuming best intentions. I'm not claiming they'll be perfect. I'm just happy they're trying. I'm also grateful that the world's most successful man was willing to lead t
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Trump is a populist. Populism is sort of like an advertiser being surprised when he discovers that sex sells even though no one ever talks about it. The ultimate trump card in modern politics is to pander to those sorts of predilections. On
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I'm talking about the tech industry that invented a self-driving bulletproof truck that looks like a DeLorean and is faster than a Lamborghini which anyone in the middle class can afford. If Elon can make science fiction real for the m

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