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by nearbuy 5mo ago
You're underestimating how easy and common piracy is. You can get books, movies, or music with just a search, for free, with no consequences. It's generally socially accepted. This report tracked 216 billion visits to piracy websi
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People have been pirating books online for 20 years and in that time the number of books published per year has increased 15-fold. A number of my favorites have been released in that time.
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It's about 240 wpm on text.
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That's assuming they only use it to replace their software engineers and make no money selling AI usage or using it for anything else.
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Are you suggesting that the lack of development and poverty is caused by good government?
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As the article states, that Malawi hasn't developed much industry or exports is more of a description of poverty than an explanation. Malawi can grow coffee, but mostly doesn't. They have rare earth element deposits, but little mi
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by nearbuy 6mo ago
I assume they meant they can't come up with a reasonable justification.
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They do it because training different personalities is more effective than just changing the system prompt. Ever try asking ChatGPT to adopt a specific personality in a prompt? Its standard style bleeds through. As the article says, the per
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Just to clarify, it's not the prompt voodoo that caused the affinity for goblins. It's the reward. They rewarded it for mentioning goblins when set to Nerdy, and it's still the same model as the other personalities, so the ef
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It's not entirely clear from the article but it sounds like Thus is either this chip or a series of chips that run low power neural nets with millions of parameters and they intend to use them for other applications in IoT devices. It&
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According to the article, it's used for noise cancelling and calling that can better isolate voice from background noise. It's not an AI assistant or an LLM. These are totally different and the public's feelings on LLMs do no
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I don't have one but odds are you know someone with one. Or, given the audience of hn, someone with a heat gun.
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You don't need a heat gun. A regular hair dryer is fine.
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I didn't choose 1975. That's the year the parent comment claimed median earnings have dropped from in comparison, so that's the year I have to use to refute the claim. Still, real wages in 1975 were relatively high compared t
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This isn't true for median purchasing power. You're looking at the federal minimum wage, not the median. Only about 1% of hourly workers earn $7.25 or less. Median earnings were $48,070 in 1975, measured in 2024 dollars, and $51,3
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by nearbuy 6mo ago
Yeah, the Twitter acquisition wasn't obviously irredeemably stupid. I think it was a bad decision, but paying a 38% premium above market price for an acquisition of a public company is within the normal range. You can argue the markets
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In my experience, people of every social strata sometimes do audaciously stupid things, and it's not because they get special treatment. It's often the people who have gotten in trouble the most that do audaciously stupid things t
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I think you get less return on investment for the same absolute edge in percentage points. A 1% event priced at 4% gets you a 3/96 = ~3.1% return. A 53% event priced at 50% gets you a 6% return. You nearly double your returns by invest
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by nearbuy 6mo ago
I was replying to someone who said we should make lobbying illegal and they don't understand why it's accepted. "Checks are written" is vague. What do you want to make illegal? Super PACs? I had just said they should be
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Lobbying is "directly advocating for or against particular legislation or regulations." Writing your representative is lobbying. Fighting bad legislation is lobbying. Any good faith attempt to argue a position on a government poli
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That's an editorialized headline. What they actually wrote was that it could be used to "generate misleading news articles, impersonate others online, automate the production of abusive or faked content to post on social media, [o
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I don't mean that Rand wrote more. I mean that her idea was different and nearly opposite. This is a short story about an artist learning to reframe their frustration with customers wanting utility over artistry as a positive. The simi
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There is a similar theme in both of an artistic person not wanting to compromise their vision to suit common tastes. But this goes in a completely different direction than Rand.
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I'd say the same thing about two thirds of the iTunes top 100. Different people love different songs I guess. The lyrics of the one you linked are fairly strong compared to other songs on the top 100 list.
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If my math is right, assuming a mix of around 70% cached tokens, 20% input tokens, and 10% output tokens, it breaks even with the old pricing at around 130k tokens per message, or about 13k output tokens per message. With the hidden reasoni
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> The reasoning part is not diferente from the part that goes in answer. Exactly. And this instruction isn't telling it to skip the reasoning. That part is unaffected. The instruction is only for the user-visible output. By the time
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It won't matter. By the time it's done reasoning, it has already decided what it wants to say. Reasoning tokens are just regular output tokens the model generates before answering. The UI just doesn't show the reasoning. Conc
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> Answer is always line 1. Reasoning comes after, never before. This doesn't stop it from reasoning before answering. This only affects the user-facing output, not the reasoning tokens. It has already reasoned by the time it shows t
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> See this definition of AGI (link shamelessly stolen from someone else in this comment section) from before the latest AI hypecycle started warping things. Every definition on that page, both theoretical and operational, match my defin
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First, what is your definition exactly? That it must be better than the median human intelligence? You're trying to define a term in a way that's completely detached from how anyone uses it. If we discover an alien race with an IQ

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