jobs_throwaway

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by jobs_throwaway 20d ago
> "some societies seem hopelessly conservative, inward looking, and hostile to change." This rings absolutely true? Do you not think any societies are more hostile to change than others?
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by jobs_throwaway 21d ago
Then the next tier of labs will be even closer to the frontier than present, and the top labs will lose their pricing power
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by jobs_throwaway 1mo ago
The nature of LLMs is that you give them input, they give you output. That allows for distillation. They do try to make it harder by hiding the chain of thought stuff, but fundamentally, if your model is publicly available, its distillable.
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by jobs_throwaway 2mo ago
How is a judge going to do that when this man wasn't even indicted?
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by jobs_throwaway 2mo ago
Heh, my bad
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by jobs_throwaway 2mo ago
The common refrain is "you can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich". The standards required to indict are quite low. The fact that they failed to get an indictment here must mean they had ~nothing.
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by jobs_throwaway 2mo ago
There's been a lot of failed attempts at therapeutic vaccines and the like, but nothing has proven effective. It seems that the virus is quite hard to detect and target in the skin. That, plus a lack of urgency due to the effectiveness
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by jobs_throwaway 2mo ago
Yep. I'm categorically ignoring messages and PRs that are obviously AI written.
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
A win for privacy and freedom
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
The article says that its already known to not work against human drone pilots, its specifically targeting AI-piloted ones
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
Classic HN responses ITT. Very Reddit-like in its absolute knee-knocking fear at any kind of liability/rule-breaking
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
This is one reason why piracy is legitimate and important
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
Why should I give a shit what 95% of other countries do? 99% of other countries are worse in every way that matters
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
The Brothers Karamazov reads like young adult literature? Hard disagree there. Maybe in terms of how navel-gazey it is, but the themes are not at all young adult.
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
> Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there The whole point is to read the actual primary text that has been so done, re-done, overdone. And hopefully to recognize there's some real beauty
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
You didn't code it, you stole it from open source OS and compiler maintainers
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by jobs_throwaway 3mo ago
And in real life piercing the veil is extremely exceptional
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
Probably. And they deserve to be able to prove it in a way that the current tests do not allow due to their low ceiling.
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
> Anyone who scores near perfect (within the margin of error) should be admitted to at least one UC campus You really don't see a problem with that? Our best students should not be "admitted to at least one UC campus". The
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
Yes, the scores at the top are way too bunched. A perfect score should indicate generational genius, not the 100th smartest kid your year in California.
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
A lot of hurt feelings. Which to be clear is productive. We treat university students with kid gloves far too much
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
Anathem* for those like me who googled it
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
Give teachers authority again. It shouldn't be their problem if a student wants to fail the class.
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by jobs_throwaway 4mo ago
It depends what you mean by locally. I don't foresee running a model on my laptop anytime soon to power a coding agent. Far more likely is an infra team at my company operating an open source model on cloud infrastructure. When they&#x
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by jobs_throwaway 5mo ago
Our best universities have massive endowments is a national asset
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by jobs_throwaway 5mo ago
Laughably wrongheaded
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by jobs_throwaway 5mo ago
> And frankly, it’s a loss for the nation: When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures – and you shrink the supply of future scientists. Well said
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by jobs_throwaway 5mo ago
Actually an enormous whitepill on Burning Man. Modest amounts of debris, real accountability, and improvement over time despite overall growth. You really can't ask for much more.
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by jobs_throwaway 5mo ago
> Is it really about crying about outages You mean being affected by the constant outages that make the product literally unusable? If you were doing any serious work with it you might understand.
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by jobs_throwaway 6mo ago
You're wrong. The Subway, Orderville, and Mystery Canyon are all slot/narrow canyons and you won't find crowds remotely comparable to the shuttle stops. You can get the unique canyon experience without the crowds.

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