mmooss

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by mmooss 6mo ago
> This is an investigative substack, not a piece of academic literature. Professional news is usually written without expressing judgement and minimizing opinion. > fraudsters It's an allegation. The author only hurts themself: M
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Why would the people who control Waymo be better at these things than the people who control Uber? Again, the premise seems to be the fantasy that computers are objective, autonomous gods that don't have biases or errors, none of which
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> a Waymo car has a huge impact compared to gig drivers. Even ones that do it 12 hours a day. The Waymo fleet is maximally available for both rush-hour busy times plus closing time at bars and nightclubs. What makes you say that there is
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by mmooss 6mo ago
We can; the tide changed to where it is now and can change again - and somebody will change it. People need to stop bemoaning it, and think and do something. The enshittification is an idiotic, failing, extremely short-sighted strategy. It&
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Github isn't a public good or a person; it's a product for a for-profit company, whose aim is to squeeze profit out of you. They care nothing for you and will dump you the moment it's profitable. I would invest your energy in
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I guess everything is hell, if you feel like writing that. > Bus seats are just as tight as coach class airline seats IME bus seats are first class in padding and support, a bit wider than coach, and with more leg room (though I'd n
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Machines require maintenance, repairs, upgrades. Also, Waymo hasn't fired all their engineers for some reason, so those costs are not one-time.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> A robo taxi only has down time when there are no rides, or for charging and maintenance/cleaning. It's wierd to see this fantasy of machines on HN, of all places - that they have no downtime, no additional costs - it's o
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Waymo doesn't have this cost, so it's effectively ~$25/hr cheaper to operate than Uber/Lyft. Waymo has other costs, such as engineering driverless operation.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Ironically, Uber used the same tactics to replace taxis with rideshare: (Taxis/rideshares) are dangerous, drivers harass you, etc. Ours are so amazing, people love them. The reality is that I have zero problems with rideshares (or taxi
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Busses take multiple times as long for the same trip compared to a car. Buses can be slower, but I don't even know of a 2x difference. For longer trips they can travel 24/7. And overall they are more efficient because you ca
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I agree; I expect that's already true? In the GP I'm talking about people releasing FOSS and similar projects.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Lots of things have existed throughout history, yet we have overcome them in the last few hundred years. There is peace in Europe (west of Russia) which had as ancient conflict as Yemen; there is democracy, freedom, women have equal rights
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by mmooss 6mo ago
There is a negative network effect: The opt-out is so complex and time-consuming that it will deter almost all users (even if some on HN say they will do it). With so few users, many fewer developers will release apps that don't comp
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Google could lock out Graphene too, whenever they like, with no warning. I hope Graphene has a plan.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
OK. Sorry if I misunderstood. Here are examples of what I perceive: > EMR systems are not like Quickbooks running on an 8 year old terminal server. Obviously that's literally true, so why write it? It suggests to me that you think I
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Very hard to replicate those conditions on paper (or in a computer). I wonder if it is hard to replicate on computer, or in what ways it is hard. I expect that modern military commanders, at least those in command posts, interface with
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> going harder into the hard stuff and knowing when they can back off and rest. Why is going harder in the hard stuff and easier in the easy stuff more efficient or faster than vice versa? I imagine arguments either way: Going harder whe
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Thanks.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> pleistocene The Pleistocene lasts from 2.58 million years ago, maybe the first time our ancestors figured out tools, to 11,000 years ago, when we Homo sapiens had been around for ~200,000 years. Isn't that too wide a range of huma
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Seriously, I wonder about why it's supported. Maybe the drillers are from the fossil fuel extraction industry.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? On desktops/laptops, keyboard shortcuts save reaching for a mouse, aiming (on the relativley large screen), and clicking. On handhelds, I don't think it's faste
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Most of your responses are uncharitable readings of the questions - as if you are looking for targets for your contempt, which shows up in all but one answer. If you are contemptuous of questions and questioners, it looks like you don'
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by mmooss 6mo ago
If I allow it, is the data from my meeting sent offsite at any stage, for example to an LLM service (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)? Or do the LLM vendors (or any others) have access to the internal data at any stage?
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> looking to remove old drivers due to the surge of AI/LLM bug reports I wonder how OpenBSD's careful code quality and hygiene (maybe there's a better word) has affected its vulnerability to LLM bug finding. Did their appr
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I agree; I was talking about the math in the parent post. I think the math represents the probability of individual mutations and not of evolution.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Is that true for evolution? If that math works, it seems that any one bacterium's mutation must become universal across the globe? Evolution works but not for every instance of a beneficial mutation. I wonder what the odds are for bact
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Tolkien was a devout catholic and a conservative. Tolkien was a serious Catholic, but not at all of the same politics and perspective as the people using the names he created in his books. For one thing, in Tolkien's stories powe
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Palantir already has the blessings of the Tolkien estate. Do you know a source that says that? I've wondered about it but never heard anything, and I just did a very quick look and found nothing that explains how and why that is h
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by mmooss 6mo ago
They are, depending on your definition of 'mass': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866222 The number of people lost is much higher than from shootings, I'm pretty sure.

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