jmyeet

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There's a subtext in your point that I want to expand on. Tech people, particularly engineers, tend to make a fundamental error when dealing with the law that almost always causes them to make wrong conclusions. And that error is that
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This is really a state law issue and there's really no solution for spiralling energy costs other than nationalizing utilities or otherwise making them into state or municipal entities, much like municipal broadband. Take the case of D
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I think the genie is out of the bottle on this one and there's really no putting it back. There is a certain amount of brand loyalty and platform inertia that will keep people. Also, as you point out, just having the source code isn&#x
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
This is a bad argument. Think of a rewrite (by a human or an LLM) as a translation . If you wrote a book in English and somebody translated it into Spanish, it'd still be a copyright issue. Same thing with translations. That's ve
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
I just looked over the specs [1] and it's pretty good for the price. My only quibble is that there's only one USB3 port and that's also the charging port. So if you want to use an external display, you need some form of dock
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I'm reminded of the Air Canada customer service chatbot. It completely made up a refund policy (and there are still people on HN who insist LLMs don't hallucinate) and a court ruled the company had to honor it [1]. The only way to
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The only people who can be trusted with any form of identity (including age) vertification is the government. You know, the same people who issued the identity documents and know who you are. It's not some SV-backed startup. It'
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There are a bunch of videos showing how expensive it is to fire certain weapons eg [1]. Not only are there our direct costs but we're also supplying several allies with munitions and weapon systems and paying for them ourselves. Also,
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What I find interesting is how over a long period Apple had to basically reverse everything Johnny Ive was probably responsible for before he left and how we got back to where we were 10-15 years ago in many ways. Remember how cool MagSafe
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Apple absolutely has a massive opportunity here because they used a shared memory architecture. So as most people in or adjacent to the AI space know, NVidia gatekeeps their best GPUs with the most memory by making them eye-wateringly expen
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by jmyeet 8mo ago
Like pretty much everything else, it's an optimization problem rather than a physical limit. So running a train at 350kph is more expensive than 300kph, both in per-distance and pre-unit time terms. But if you can run more services tha
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Personally I would’ve understood this as sarcasm on its own but the commenter even added the /s sarcasm tone indicator. Come on now.
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The crazy part to me is that even here on HN there are people who still insist that LLMs don't fabricate things or otherwise lie. I wonder if these are the same people who 3-4 years ago were insisting putting 20 characters onto a blo
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I agree with most of this. You can learn Go syntax in an afternoon. Idiomatic Go takes a little longer but it just doesn't have the complexity footguns C++ does. But you can shoot yourself in the foot somewhat in Go. I'm talking a
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I have an M3 iPad Air. I only upgraded after my M1 iPad Air 4th generation (IIRC) stopped turning off and it was way too expensive to get a replacement board. I am desperately clinging on to these because they still use TouchID. Words canno
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Wait til you hear about Steven Donziger. Steven is a lawyer who helped Ecuador sue Chevron who was polluting massively. The Ecuadorians won and secured an historic $9.5 billion judgment because it was so egregious. Did that end the matter?
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Some years ago I came to the conclusion that the US would ultimately consider it a security risk to employ mainland Chinese born people (or even just people who had family in mainland China still) in any classified or sensitive industry. I
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It's interesting to watch industry after industry hollow itself out from the inside then inevitably die long after all the financial people, investment bankers and management consultants have all cashed their checks. Steve Jobs famousl
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Did you miss the part where I said that Iran is not going to fall apart like some seem to think?
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We created Saddam Hussein. He was our foil against Iran. We propped up a war that killed over a million Iraqis and Iranians in the 1980s for no net strategic result. And why did we want to punish Iran? Because the fundamentalist regime over
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People should never treat the diaspora as representative of any population other than the diaspora. This issue comes up with Cuba a lot. A lot of Cuban-Americans hate Castro. Why? Because they were the upper-middle class to wealthy under Ba
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The dirty little secret here is that the Democratic establishment and thus many Democratic politicians like what's happening. They just don't like how it's being done. What's they're doing is both bad policy (IMHO
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> This is false, and you know it. But I will challenge you for others to see Sorry but it's 100% true [1][2][3]. REsisting foreign occupation and colonialism is well-recognized in several UN conventions. > Interesting. You comple
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This isn’t new. Maybe some people are just now realizing it. Take the stated tool for this action, the Defense Production Act ("DPA") [1]. It was passed in 1950. What does it cover? Well, lots of things. The DPA has been invoked m
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Resisting the imperialist goals of the US itx proxies doesn't make you imperialist. It's not only moral. It's generaly permissible under international law. Take for example the UAE, which has been hit by the Iranian response,
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Military action in Iran is deeply unpopular, being supported by just 27% of US adult citizens [1]. As an aside, Congress literally doesn't care what voters think [2]. The pearl-clutching about this from Congressional Democrats isn&#x27
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> I am just befuddled by how much of this violence is directly motivated by religious concerns, both on the side of Iran and on the side of Israel and USA. This just isn't true. Religion is never the reason for these conflicts. It&#
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What I would like people to understand is that this isn't a partisan issue. As bad as Trump is, American foreign policy is uniparty. Just look at the rhetoric from the Democratic Party leadership on an Iran strike. You have the likes o
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I just want to expand on this. 1. According to the US and Israel, Iran has been a week away from having nuclear weapons for at least 34 years [1]; 2. It's quite clear Iran could've developed nuclear weapons but chose not to. I act
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Once again we have the US actually doing what the says China might do in the future. It's true that Chinese companies are extensions of the state. But they serve the state. And the state has thus far served the citizenry eg raising 800

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