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by lkbm 4y ago
Did the people working on rice hamper the work on coal? Or is the issue that they're wasting their time by doing anything but trying to get rid of coal? As best I can tell, neither you nor I are working on coal either.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I don't know what you're talking about. White Rabbits Can't Jump is available for purchase right now on Abe Books for the low, low price of $222.22 ($4.25 shipping, US only, only one copy available)[0]. The emergency librar
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by lkbm 4y ago
There's no "intention" involved or necessary. If you make more copies of yourself then there are more copies of you than there are of the thing that makes no copies of itself. Viruses don't have intention, and they'
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by lkbm 4y ago
Lot of commenters saying they're all scam pump-and-dumps, but I suspect a lot had something to them that the builders believed to be of value. As best I can tell, the value props were 90%+ "more efficient crypto", "more
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by lkbm 4y ago
It was prompted by the unrestricted lending, but it's pretty clear that the fight is now about lending at all.[0] That may still only be the OpenLibrary, but it's not just the unrestricted lending, and I wouldn't be surprised
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by lkbm 4y ago
There are people working on this, but "IA preserved as it was when it was killed in 2023" is nowhere near as valuable as IA as it would be in 2033 if it survives. IA is constantly adding new content. ("New" meaning &quot
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by lkbm 4y ago
ipfs might be a hosting solution, but that's a small part of the challenge. You also have to source the data. I recently used some online periodical archive access from my local library to find sources about 1940s musicians protesting
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by lkbm 4y ago
There's nothing special about biological organisms. Things that fight to survival tend to survive; things that spread better tend to spread more. We see this clearly with memes, which currently use biological beings as their replicatio
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by lkbm 4y ago
This is a bit like saying that 1939 Einstein wasn't an expert in nuclear bombs. Sure, it didn't exist, so he wasn't an expert on them, but he was an expert on the thing that led to it and when we said it was possible, sensibl
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by lkbm 4y ago
I agree there's a lot more than "sign an open letter" they could be doing. I'm mostly objecting to the "they need to engage in terrorism or they're not serious" assertion. As for resigning in protest, my u
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by lkbm 4y ago
Sure, sure, Marcus says one thing and has one set of motives. Elon Musk says another thing and has another set of motives. But if you want to dismiss this by questioning the motives of the signers, you've got a few thousand other peopl
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by lkbm 4y ago
I think the fact that LLMs are basically fixed models (plus some RLHF and a tiny context window) means they won't likely foom in their current form, but we're trying to change that. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of ML researchers are s
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by lkbm 4y ago
Training a state-of-the-art LLM is currently at least in the $100ks. That stands to drop rapidly, but it's currently more along the lines of "the branches of one million willow trees". So long as it's not something an
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by lkbm 4y ago
Academics, businessmen, and other non-governmental entities are usually better off advocating for the government to enact regulations than engaging in paramilitary action on their own. Do you think Extinction Rebellion is doing more to figh
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by lkbm 4y ago
On Twitter, it was "multi-blillionaires [Elon Musk] want to keep us down!" In the HN open letter thread it was "All the companies falling behind want a chance to catch up." Now it's "Gary Marcus". The lett
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by lkbm 4y ago
How is that a distinction at all? What would it mean for the government, but not the taxpayers, to pay?
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by lkbm 4y ago
I don't want to weigh in on this debate in general, but just to clarify terminology: "Gay" is orthogonal to "cis". "Cis" is short for "cisgendered", meaning "not transgendered". "C
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by lkbm 4y ago
The thing that caused this was the news that they have at least $3.3B in reserves. SVB uninsured deposits aren't dropping to zero, or anywhere close.
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by lkbm 4y ago
If you reply directly to your initial tweet with your correction (perhaps QTing the person who asked), I think it will appear at the top, or at least get higher ranking. I often see replies "boosted" via the original author QTin
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by lkbm 4y ago
He meant solvency issue. Someone else called this out downthread and he confirmed. Definitely felt like it should've been corrected more prominently, though.
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by lkbm 4y ago
> The paint is also being perfected and tested to ensure it can resist dirt and can last as long under UV light as commercial white paints. Having stored some old closet doors on the porch near a small urban road for a few months, this w
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by lkbm 4y ago
I've always figured I should have two numbers—one I let people know, and one for 2fa. But that's ~$20/mo and a moderate annoyance, so for now mostly just fingers crossed that eventually everywhere that matters will allow me t
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by lkbm 4y ago
Certainly debatable how close it is, but it seems obvious that it's improving in general ability. It's surely not moving away from AGI.
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by lkbm 4y ago
What I really want is duplicate keys. I should be able to order a set of 2-3 Yubikeys that are identical. It's getting better, but for a long time the majority of places that supported hardware keys only supported adding one. Place
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by lkbm 4y ago
I've always figured that if I buy a bike from Craigslist, I should check the serial number and look it up on bikeindex.org. If I ran a used bike shop, that would definitely be part of my procedure.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I won't physically stop the person, but I will say something to them and take a photo of them in the act. I don't have a way of knowing if you're doing this legitimately (I've had to cut a lock due to a lost key), so I&#
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by lkbm 4y ago
I still haven't tried Slashem. I've been using unnethack for the past couple years. I'm not sure why I ended up trying it after years of vanilla.
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by lkbm 4y ago
Almost every single time I've had to deal with something being slow in the Python web app I work on, it's been a bad query, or bad ORM usage spawning thousands of additional queries to pull in relations. I've seen a couple ou
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by lkbm 4y ago
I think GPT added more idiomatic, verbose language without making it more specific—quite possibly making it less specific.
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by lkbm 4y ago
Oh, I definitely don't worry about audit insurance, and operate on the assumption that the IRS will be non-antagonistic towards me if I make a mistake. I want to pay the correct amount in taxes, and the IRS wants me to pay the correct

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