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by lxgr 7mo ago
The goal isn't to not survive though, is it? So while I definitely think it's possible that hot baths and sauna have similar effects, I don't think this can be shown by simple thermodynamics and would require medical studie
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by lxgr 7mo ago
How are you suffering equal heat stress from being submerged in moderately warm water and breathing very hot air? I could imagine quite different effects on airways and skin, for example. "Exactly the same effect" seems like the u
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by lxgr 7mo ago
There's a world of a difference between being able to carve out 30 actually uninterrupted minutes (and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home, so they'd need to spend some time getting there and ba
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I think these analogies are largely correct, but TFA is about something subtly different: LLMs don't make it impossible to do anything yourself, but they make it economically impractical to do so. In other words, you'll have t
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> But they would be outdated, right? Outdated compared to what? In your counterfactual, VC funded agents don't exist anymore, no? Your argument, if I understand it correctly, is that they might somehow go away entirely when VC fundi
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things. This point is directly addressed in the paper: Bob will ultimately not be able to do the things Alice can, with or without agents, because he didn't build the necessary interna
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'm happy to herd idiots all my life if they come out of it smarter than they went in . The real tragedy with current LLM agents is that they're effectively stateless, and so all the effort of "educating" them feels was
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work Very well said. I think people are about to realize how incredibly fortunate and exceptional it is to actually get paid , and in our industry very well,
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That doesn't seem like a contradiction to the idea that "Windows subsystem" is (at least after WSL 1 and especially 2) a description for a functionality (i.e. running binaries targeting a different OS's interfaces), not
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Ah, got it, I’m holding it wrong. > My goal is genially not to have anything running in the menubar that isn't out of the box from the OS. My goal is to use the apps I want to use, and if they are exclusively menu bar apps, what can
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That index seems to add new listings even more quickly (5 trading days!), so this effect doesn’t seem to be easy to escape just by switching indexes. MSCI is also on the order of days.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I can only second this. I personally got more out of “The Oldest View” than I did out of maybe half of all commercial shows I recently watched, and I consider myself pretty picky. At a meta level, there’s something amazing about fiction tha
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by lxgr 7mo ago
But can you “un-un-scare” yourself to enjoy liminal space horror?
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by lxgr 7mo ago
As I understand it, an extension could also leak its links via its own backend, e.g. to advertisers, who could then detect it even though no user-observable DOM modification is happening. Much better than static global IDs, but still not id
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by lxgr 7mo ago
It's an interesting question whether you could legally track the NASDAQ 100 without calling it that, or something very similar, e.g. "NASDAQ 100, but with a one year delay for new listings". But assuming it is: How would you
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That sounds like a "no true scotsman" argument. Even passive investors need to pick some methodology of how to pick assets and how to relatively weigh them, and while you can make that as mathematically simple as possible, it&#x27
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Huh, TIL, thank you. Seems like MSCI can add new large constituents very quickly as well [1], so to remain neutral to the frenzy until a price has been discovered, one might need to actively short. [1] e.g. https://www.msci.com&#
888.
by lxgr 7mo ago
But consider that they will eventually own the entire observable universe excluding Earth! /s
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Are indexes not covered by copyright, even if you don't mention the underlying data source by name? If they are, you'd only get a license when accepting their terms.
890.
by lxgr 7mo ago
Turns out Firefox has a similar issue, despite mitigations :( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372288
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results Why exactly does Chrome even allow this in the first place!? This is the most surprising takeaway for me here, given browser vendors' focus on harden
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by lxgr 7mo ago
All I'm seeing is that Chrome apparently is failing to properly sandbox websites against extension fingerprinting. Sure, this can be solved at the legal layer, but in this case, there seems to be a much simpler and more effective techn
893.
by lxgr 7mo ago
I don't think that LLMs can be meaningfully modeled as a series of if/else statements, conscious or not.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Care to elaborate? Non-sophisticated users don't deserve IP reachability?
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Are you saying that current LLMs… can’t refuse requests?
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That would cause the opposite effect of what we’re actually seeing (i.e. “more redundant languages” would be using comparatively fewer tokens). The real reason is that tokens are probably strictly based on n-gram frequency of the training d
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I guess token length is indirectly determined by language frequency in the training set, and it would be possible to train a model on machine translated training data only to combat that (or maybe to force tokenization to overrepresent lang
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by lxgr 7mo ago
“Pay by token” is priced by token, not word or semantic unit; news at 11? The product itself seems genuinely useful, but the article reads very sensationalist about something that should be pretty obvious. In other news: French publishers a
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> the common advice is to use a firewall rule that disallows incoming connections by default. That's good advice! But firewall hole punching is also significantly easier (and guaranteed to work) compared to NAT hole punching. Addres
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by lxgr 7mo ago
And IPv6 vs v4 discussions are just like Python 3 vs. 2 discussions: Often much more annoying than just getting it over with and switching.

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