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by nexuist 5y ago
This adds a new, unexpected element to the alien visitation theory: the aliens that come here will not be alive at all, they will be robots programmed to extract resources that cannot be reasoned with diplomatically (assuming they are not o
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is this the ML equivalent of Dunning–Kruger effect? A model with a bit of data is too afraid of being wrong to be overconfident. A model with a bit more data is overconfident in itself and gets things wrong. Finally, a model with tons and t
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by nexuist 5y ago
> In what other contexts do we respect an employee's "hesitancy"? When enough people quit, employee hesitancy matters. When remote work isn't allowed and people quit, remote work is suddenly allowed. When employers hi
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by nexuist 5y ago
Oh interesting, do they talk about this somewhere? Is there a conference talk or blog post?
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by nexuist 5y ago
Maybe they're counting on inflation ;)
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by nexuist 5y ago
in the arms of a digital angel...
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by nexuist 5y ago
Does anyone know if Deno has undergone a security audit yet? I'm interested in using it as a sandbox to run user-submitted JS, and I know its permission model is powerful, but I don't know if it is formally certified (if that&#x27
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by nexuist 5y ago
Wouldn't putting the scheduler in userspace double the amount of context switching? You'd have to interrupt a userspace thread and jump to the kernel, then jump from the kernel to the scheduler program (switch 1), then jump from t
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by nexuist 5y ago
Wait, you guys are joking? Over in my corner everyone is completely serious about it. My girlfriend wants to buy our first cow in the next two years. I work fully remote so all I need to do is find some land.
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by nexuist 5y ago
If someone is already paired to it then it won't let you pair so it's not really that bad. The worst that can happen is someone plays some stupid audio for the two seconds it takes me to lower the volume or pull the unit out of th
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by nexuist 5y ago
> If every company that a CEO touches is a tirefire until they are removed from day-to-day operations, is that good execution on their part? Maybe? I think it'd be silly to claim that Tesla and SpaceX are so successful that they wer
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by nexuist 5y ago
I think that technologists and lawmakers have very different jobs in society and the goal of advancing technology implicitly furthers the ability for mankind to commit atrocities. Every benefit we bring into the world can also be used to ki
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by nexuist 5y ago
Well, yeah. The next successful attack will evade defenses since it wouldn't be successful if the defenses worked, right?
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by nexuist 5y ago
I think your definition of execution is a little off, or at least, confused. In a previous comment you wrote: > But surviving for long enough and with the right folks around you means that you can turn things around. Did Elon not hire an
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by nexuist 5y ago
The problem with this kind of system is that it isn't retroactive; all space junk currently in space will remain in space even if the tether device is mandated. And it's unlikely it gets mandated and approved by all spacefaring go
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by nexuist 5y ago
This experience sucks because the car sucks, not the phone. I have a $15 Bluetooth to FM transmitter that you just need to select on your phone's Bluetooth page to start playback (assuming you haven't paired before). No passcode o
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by nexuist 5y ago
I for sure agree with this, but why should OpenAI be the judge and jury for what is and isn't acceptable with this model?
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by nexuist 5y ago
Alternatively, stop assuming that it is our job as technologists to parent the rest of society. We have laws and politicians for that. It's not my job to figure out the eighth order effects of publishing something on GitHub.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Vulcan depends on the BE-4 engines from BO, so this is basically just a low stakes staring contest until then.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Focus more on what you want to see: there are great uses for this tech that would make life better. You can be apart of building it or you can support the people and organizations that are in this for the right reasons.
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by nexuist 5y ago
> anything over something like $2,000 is going to severely limit your customer pool. Eh, not necessarily, early BCIs if actually useful will likely be targeted towards people with disabilities and thus funded through private or socialize
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by nexuist 5y ago
Like the river? They're gonna need to fight hard for that SEO.
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by nexuist 5y ago
If you look closely enough you'll find that boilers are still exploding and chemical spills are still occurring. 98 people died in June from a building that simply collapsed in Florida despite ample warning signs from inspectors and re
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by nexuist 5y ago
I recognize we've all been training to avoid phishing scams and getting taken advantage of, but sometimes a friendly offer is just that. This person is a software developer, if they don't have access to hardware now they will soon
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by nexuist 5y ago
> Hopefully the API cost is reasonable or free with limits If the model was open source you could have an API market where providers competed to build the most economic service just like virtual machine companies do with Linux. If there
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by nexuist 5y ago
My point being that whatever other software runs on this thing is far more likely to contain hidden bugs than bash has given its age and widespread distribution. It seems weird to single out bash as opposed to the hundreds of other random p
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by nexuist 5y ago
Why would you be surprised? Out of nearly a decade of using Bash on Linux I don't think I have ever run into a bash bug or issue. There's been bugs with utilities like sudo of course, but those aren't Bash.
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> We uniquely have the resources to be the most developed nation, domestically, but subsidize other countries’ defense instead ...and in return, the rest of the world plays ball when we want to advance our interests. The basis of foreign
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Might scare Taiwan and embolden China? A huge reason we hold Taiwan as an ally is their chip production capabilities. If we become self reliant on those then we don't really need Taiwan and China might try to invade them, which would b
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by nexuist 5y ago
For the record, there is an anthrax vaccine at least in the US, but it is reserved for service members and politicians due to the potential for side effects. I believe we have a stockpile of a few million shots in the event of an outbreak,

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