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by loudmax 1y ago
I fully agree. Just to add some nuance, walking away means pulling back, but it doesn't have to entail completely abandoning all social media. Obviously, the advertising here on Hacker News is very mild, just Y Combinator launches.
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by loudmax 1y ago
An enormous amount of China's economic progress since the 1980's is the result of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms. These reforms were essentially to move away from Communism and allow free markets. Much of the early games
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by loudmax 1y ago
> Can we just admit once and for all that it's going to be the norm under capitalism to not have Nice Things? Capitalism, as opposed to what economic model? Capitalism (or more precisely, a competitive free market form of capitalism
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by loudmax 1y ago
That is an interesting story, thanks for sharing. However, the prospect of speaking to a serial killer does not make me more likely to want to strike up conversations with strangers.
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by loudmax 1y ago
I'm glad to see a European company succeeding here, especially since Mistral has released open weights models. But you're deluding yourself if you think Mistral is any more moral than its American counterparts.
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by loudmax 1y ago
This does sound interesting, but is generative AI the right tool for this use case? A generative AI model sounds great for making a video game or even exploring historical photos, where introducing invented artifacts is a feature not a bug
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by loudmax 1y ago
I'd never recommend someone not learn calculus, but the average non-technical high school or college student would probably benefit more from learning statistics instead. Learning calculus is very valuable to a relatively small numbe
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by loudmax 1y ago
From the post: > Also, these assistants (for now) appear to exhibit no common sense about what is “much”, “little”, “exceptional”, “average”, etc. For example, after measuring a consumption of 3.5GB of memory (!!) for solving a 3-disk pr
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by loudmax 1y ago
David Reich was on the Dwarkesh podcast about a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI It's a really good interview. Recommended if you're an amateur wanting to understand more about human prehisto
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by loudmax 1y ago
These figures are very plausible. Most Linux distros are terribly inefficient by default. Linux can actually meet or even exceed Window's power efficiently, at least at some tasks, but it takes a lot of work to get there. I'd sta
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by loudmax 1y ago
A few years ago I was playing around with upscaling options in ffmpeg. For my starting point, I used my DVD of The Road Warrior that I bought in 1999, and wasn't particularly well mastered. I applied some filters to remove film grain
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by loudmax 1y ago
I must be a few years older than you are. It was the original Cyberpunk (set in 2013, published in 1988) that did it for me. One of the things I remember about the game was that it came with a suggested book and film list. Reading all thos
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by loudmax 1y ago
When I bought my Prius in 2010, the longevity of the traction battery was a concern. A month ago, when I finally sold it to a garage, that car had over 190,000 miles on the odometer. I sold it because the transmission needed some repair w
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by loudmax 1y ago
You're right to point out the difficulty in getting projects accomplished in the face of intransigent environmental concerns. But you're also making a strawman argument. This isn't the possibility of "a bat being injur
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by loudmax 1y ago
You can, but you have to know where to look, and you have to have some idea of what you're doing. The benefit of Ollama is that the barrier to entry is really low, as long as you have the right hardware. To me, one of the benefits o
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by loudmax 1y ago
Very well done! This hearkens back to Asteroids, but it feels very novel. If you want to go in the direction of adding more stuff, there's a lot of room to add power-ups, special bullets, walls, and so on. But this simple game is qui
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by loudmax 1y ago
Arguably, there wasn't a free market. Jean-Louis Gassée has been on record criticizing the Microsoft Windows monopoly of the late 90's, early 2000's.
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by loudmax 1y ago
A lot of people who describe themselves as "conservative" have completely abandoned formerly conservative values: the rule of law, moral integrity, personal humility, and so on. I'd prefer we not call these people "cons
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by loudmax 1y ago
The short answer is that the best value is a used RTX 3090 (the long answer being, naturally, it depends). Most of the time, the bottleneck for running LLMs on consumer grade equipment is memory and memory bandwidth. A 3090 has 24GB of VR
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by loudmax 1y ago
You're giving the administration far too much credit. The policies are decided on alignment with culture war tribalism, or in some cases outright personal grift. Science and technology, or even sensible economics don't enter int
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by loudmax 1y ago
There's been a vibe shift. A cult of personality around an arrogant narcissist who fires people for publishing hard data when it contradicts him is apparently what a lot of people seem to want right now.
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by loudmax 1y ago
It probably depends what your objective is. One of the benefits you get from running less capable models is that it's easier to understand what their limitations are. The shortcomings of more powerful models are harder to see and und
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by loudmax 1y ago
Looking at the rollout of the internet, it did take decades. There was a lot of nonsensical hype in the dotcom era, most famously pets.com taking out an ad during the Superbowl. Most of those companies burned through their VC and went out
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by loudmax 1y ago
Reinvigorating economic growth is the stated intent. The effectiveness of these policies will take longer to sort out, and will probably be argued over for decades. But I think even ascribing economic growth as the intent is generous. The
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by loudmax 1y ago
At some level all fossil fuels come from the sun. Fossil fuels come from biomass accumulated over millions of years. The energy that went into gathering all that carbon and hydrocarbons came from the sun. Take it a step further and nearly
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by loudmax 1y ago
There is plenty of natural selection pressure on not being eaten. If a mold or something could evolve to live off of a dry atmosphere plus sunlight and whatever minerals it can eek out of rocks, it could blanket millions of square kilomete
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by loudmax 1y ago
LLMs are really good at processing vague descriptions of problems and offering a solution that's reasonably close to the mark. They can be a great guide for unfamiliar tools. For example, I have a pretty good grasp of regular expressi
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by loudmax 1y ago
The 19th century US cotton industry was built on far worse crimes than patent infringement.
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by loudmax 1y ago
There's the problem of scale, and also of duration. Let's say Lee Kuan Yew genuinely wants what's best for Singapore as a whole. How do you ensure that the next autocrat will be equally benign?
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by loudmax 1y ago
> It's why I recently have been convinced that we need something like election my jury I think this is how the electoral college was intended to function. This is a hard problem to solve, especially when some of the players aren&#x

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