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by nairboon 6mo ago
It's a social science? Economics is much broader and much less unified than you purport it to be. The (social) science of (in this case) Macroeconomics is just that, an observational science, a bunch of theories and observations (contr
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by nairboon 6mo ago
There are some resemblances, which indicate that you might not have a fully functioning free market. But central planning in the context of von Mises refers to something else. It's about the organization of whole national economies,
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by nairboon 6mo ago
Propaganda is quite a strong term to describe the works of an economist. If one wants to debate the ideas of von Mises, it'd be useful to consider the Zeitgeist at that time. Von Mises preferred free markets in contrast to the planned
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by nairboon 6mo ago
They have a lot of data in the form: user input, LLM output. Then the model learns what the previous LLM models produced, with all their flaws. The core LLM premise is that it learns from all available human text.
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by nairboon 7mo ago
That sounds more like a CEO issue than a reporting frequency issue.
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by nairboon 7mo ago
> What a strange comment. The US did not force Russia to invade Ukraine OP's comment doesn't state that. It refers to the US forcing Germany to stop Nord Stream.
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by nairboon 7mo ago
I assumed that "tests" refers to a program too, which in this example is likely GPL. Thus GPL would stick already on the AI-rewrite of GPL test code. If "tests" should mean a proper specification let's say some IETF
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by nairboon 7mo ago
The Senate could have failed only if they intended to do something, but then couldn't do it.
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by nairboon 7mo ago
No, GPL still holds even if you transform the source code from one language to another language.
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by nairboon 7mo ago
That code is still LGPL, it doesn't matter what some release engineer writes in the release notes on Github. All original authors and copyright holders must have explicitly agreed to relicense under a different license, otherwise the c
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by nairboon 8mo ago
Which changes every day.
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by nairboon 8mo ago
Just the raw numbers? You list the y's and the x's and the model is approximating y=f(x) from the above example. You can totally do it with pen and paper. This is what it'd look like (for linear regression): https:/&#x2
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by nairboon 8mo ago
Google chose "understanding" in that context, because the relevant AI/ML task is called "Natural language understanding". But that term is an aspiration. It's the problem of trying to reveal the "meaning&q
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by nairboon 8mo ago
> We all know... HN isn't as homogeneous as you think. By this measuring stick, half of the posts on the front page can be put into question every day.
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Swiss Venture Capital Report 2026 [pdf](startupticker.ch)
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by nairboon 8mo ago
I wonder if the people in 100 years will refer to the current time period (now) the same way as we sometimes do to about ~100 years ago. As in did the scientist and curious minds in the last century really have this golden period to just wa
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by nairboon 9mo ago
That affordability is closely related with fiscal policy...
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by nairboon 9mo ago
That's one of the issues that causes a bit of work. Citations would need to be judged with context. Let's say paper X is nowadays known to be tainted. If a tainted work is cited just for completeness, it's not an issue, e.g.
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by nairboon 9mo ago
Nowadays high citation numbers don't mean anymore what they used to. I've seen too many highly cited papers with issues that keep getting referenced, probably because people don't really read the sources anymore and just copy
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by nairboon 9mo ago
Regarding alternate search engines: I consider the idea of YaCy kind of interesting: a P2P search engine: https://yacy.net/ Although, it needs some more work and peers to be usable as a general-purpose search engine.
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by nairboon 9mo ago
Where is the hard data?
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by nairboon 9mo ago
> There is going to be a lot of debate over whether this specific operation was legal There might be a local debate about the legality in the US. But from the outside perspective in terms of international law, there is not much to debate
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by nairboon 10mo ago
That's a great project! I have a hypothesis that we're getting closer to a cultural inflection point (maybe half a decade out). With every year, more important and very high-quality cultural artifacts enter the public domain, whil
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by nairboon 10mo ago
Does anyone actually read articles from those low tier journals? Many of those articles are illegible fluff pieces. That top tier publishers create new low-tier journals for this market shows that they are very well aware of these incentive
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by nairboon 10mo ago
The incentives are alright. Publishers who now start publishing too much low quality slop will lose readers (who has time to read all those low quality publications). Less readers leads to less citations, which will drag dawn their impact f
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by nairboon 10mo ago
> There is currently no real European equivalent to the [..] Wikipedia monopoly 8 out of the 10 largest Wikipedias are European languages...
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by nairboon 10mo ago
It really depends on what exactly you want to bet on and on what timeframe. More short term bet? Puts on the AI companies or an AI ETF. Do you assume that the rest of tech stays up even if AI pops? Then you could short some AI ETF and hedge
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by nairboon 10mo ago
That would be a highly bureaucratic solution with significant overheads. Would everyone pay extra tax per kWh or just AI computers? Tax it on the producer or consumer side? How would you verify that a particular data center is "bad co
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by nairboon 10mo ago
> Taxing wealth is much harder on a practical and algorithmic level than taxing income. I find this argument somewhat unconvincing. Where is most of the wealth? In hard assets, such as real estate and financial assets, such as stocks and
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by nairboon 11mo ago
That really depends on the particular algorithm.

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