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by kevingadd 1y ago
> if they're working against the elected leadership of the US, who are they working FOR? Unironically: Either themselves, or the American people.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Not that weird of a strawman: > According to the Metro, several states have prosecuted women for miscarriages or stillbirths. They include South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, California, Mississippi, and Ohio. It appears West Virgi
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by kevingadd 1y ago
On this note, even if LLMs or "AGI" make businesses more profitable by improving margins and allowing them to cut labor costs, you eventually have to balance it out somehow - all those people who've lost jobs are competing fo
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by kevingadd 1y ago
It's interesting that Valve sort of put themselves in this situation by opting not to police their store anymore. I'm personally a fan of fewer restrictions on content in video games and fewer "gatekeepers" but it's
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by kevingadd 1y ago
My understanding from reading the federal website is that this would not be Medicaid, it would be a different program. So they would not be in the Medicaid database, right?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This is not what the federal website for Medicaid says, though.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I don't understand why ICE would need access to Medicaid data. You need to be a citizen or lawful permanent resident to access that program, not to mention all the other additional criteria. The idea of illegal immigrants somehow byp
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by kevingadd 1y ago
IIRC the free tax filing thing being killed is just classic lobbying, the owners of Intuit and other paid tax filing companies have myriad political connections and spend a lot of money to protect their interests.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Does this work in practice? Historically my actual residence is needed for tax reasons, i.e. properly tracking what state I owe income tax in for cash compensation and stock options.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Beyond that, as we gradually slide towards having zero political representation and near-zero actual human rights, it becomes more and more questionable what we're getting for our tax dollars. The contract between the taxpayer and the
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This post gradually seems to tiptoe towards eugenics, which makes me a little nervous, closing with this bit: > If we took this history seriously, we might spend more money on not only parents of young children but also the basic scienti
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Off the top of my head: If you rely on being able to do things like mark a range of memory as read-only or executable, you now have to care about page sizes. If your code is still assuming 4KB pages you may try to change the protection of a
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Are you suggesting that YC applications contain trick questions? Or that the questions are intentionally drafted in a confusing and/or misleading way? That seems kind of weird.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The CP2077 framerate is 59, so it's probably effectively running at 60FPS, or is CPU-limited instead of GPU-limited. If the graphics side of things has spare headroom it's going to draw less power. On the flip side, the CPU may be
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by kevingadd 1y ago
My understanding is that chaining compressors is a classic technique for image compression. IIRC PNG and Basis are both implemented as initial transformation/pre-filtering/conditioning pass(es) designed to make the image data more
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Mesh optimizer's performance here is a nice reminder: the state of the art in general purpose compression is hard to beat, but special purpose still has room for improvement.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The Hertz from this article is a company you should never do business with, unless you like getting falsely accused of a felony, arrested, and imprisoned for no reason: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/114099867
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This is presently happening in China with homosexual literature: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056nle2drno Rural police departments decide that a piece of text 'harmed' one of their residents and pr
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by kevingadd 1y ago
How will you sell them porn when VISA and Mastercard ban you?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If this screenshot isn't omitting some truly exculpatory context (I can't imagine what kind of context would justify it), it appears to be Grok advocating for truly abhorrent behavior: https://bsky.app/profile&#x2F
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by kevingadd 1y ago
My personal experience: We run over 1.1m test cases to verify every PR that I submit, and there are more test cases that don't get run on every commit and instead get run daily or on-demand. At that scale getting quick turnaround is a
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Google did it the legal way with Google Books, didn't they?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If most of what an LLM spits out is a digested version of its training set, is it really an outside view of the world? If anything, seeing how easy it is to get these things to spit out conspiracy theories or bigotry suggests to me that we&
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The article gestures at it: > Even before these recent changes, Grok raised eyebrows after appearing to briefly censor unflattering mentions of Musk and his then-ally President Donald Trump, repeatedly bringing up “white genocide” withou
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Putting your thumb on the scale so obviously in any direction feels really questionable if your goal is to turn your AI product into a popular, profitable thing. But maybe that's not xAI leadership's goal at all and they're h
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Can't generalize based on one data point but it really was historically low-stress and low-toxicity in every part of the company I've interacted with in the past 8+ years. If it had been combative and high-stress like some of the
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by kevingadd 1y ago
We've had a considerable number of layoffs impact the video game industry over the past few years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932025_video_game_i... ) and executive incompetence is a big factor in i
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The baseline number of attacks was in the single digits, yes.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of modern software triggers UAC popups now. Games (for anticheat and/or network connectivity), development tools (for network connectivity or debugging), updaters for stuff that live-updates like Electron apps, etc.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This seems like a liability nightmare. If they're just scanning all the image files on people's devices and using them for training, they're inevitably going to scoop up nudes without permission, not to mention the occasional

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