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USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House(reuters.com)
58 points by nico 2y ago|28 comments
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1-minute video game distinguishes autistic from neurotypical kids(newatlas.com)
3 points by nico 2y ago|1 comments
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by nico 2y ago
And, there are many ancient philosophies and practices that help people resolve this without god or religion We don’t need god to find meaning or fulfillment And we definitely don’t need other people pretending to be the one true channel th
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by nico 2y ago
So much effort in trying to tarnish DeepSeek the last 24hrs
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by nico 2y ago
Something similar happened with models for addiction in rats (which were extrapolated to humans) It turned out that rats that live in a nice environment, with plenty of activities and social spaces (not an ugly, mostly empty cage), don’t be
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by nico 2y ago
> > Do these techniques train models while performing the modifications? > Depend on what you mean by training, they change the weights. What I wonder: is there a separate model, not the LLM, that gets trained only on how to modify
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by nico 2y ago
This is a fascinating concept, ie. modifying trained LLMs to create different models Do these techniques train models while performing the modifications? Are there pre-trained models that “know how to” modify LLMs for certain goals? It woul
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by nico 2y ago
Could this trend bankrupt most incumbent LLM companies? They’ve invested billions on their models and infrastructure, which they need to recover through revenue If new exponentially cheaper models/services come out fast enough, the inc
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by nico 2y ago
Website is down. Anyone has a mirror link?
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by nico 2y ago
“I am rich and I have no idea what to do” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873
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by nico 2y ago
Your guess is as good as mine. My memory is a bit fuzzy about the details now, but I remember a very awkward phone call with one of the partners in which they were saying things like “the cap table is too busy” and that they only wanted fou
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by nico 2y ago
We were rejected from YC because we wouldn’t dilute to 0 some of the early people at the company They first told us we were in, but that we would need to adjust our cap table so that only 2 founders would have equity. They gave us a phone c
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by nico 2y ago
The service is called Holafly, it was advertised on the plane, and my travel mate bought it without hesitating (because of the convenience of an eSIM, even though they didn’t get a local number)
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by nico 2y ago
Currently traveling, and the savings are real. Although in this case it’s the opposite: travel eSIMs rates are about $80 for data for 30 days, whereas a cheap local prepaid SIM card is $8-16 (but with no eSIM option)
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by nico 2y ago
If you are looking for alternatives, I highly recommend the Qidi q1 pro Despite an initial issue with the hot end (which was easy and fast enough to fix with help from support). I’ve been really happy with it It prints pretty much anything.
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by nico 2y ago
> a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement They were following the law. Anything else is just promises by people who are not exactly known for following through with them Shutting down because the law
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by nico 2y ago
Not worth it going back to TT. Will just stay on RedNote
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by nico 2y ago
Not familiar with that. Could you elaborate? It seems to imply he’s not the only one who’s done something like that. In that case, I totally agree, political figures are masters of political posturing and taking credit And that goes for any
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by nico 2y ago
> people love to name stuff after physics stuff And physics love taking over natural language So many words have been co-opted by physics, that it’s almost impossible to have a good conversation about physical concepts between a lay pers
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by nico 2y ago
Great point. Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve had lies My comment just points to the naïveté of thinking that somehow big media are big sources of unbiased truth that we can all trust
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by nico 2y ago
I was using the app throughout First, there was a generic message: > We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. > We're working to restore ou
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by nico 2y ago
It’s very telling that the TT ban was not a standalone bill, but rather just one item of a bill that included $26 billion in aid for Israel, $13b for Ukraine and $8b for Taiwan Congress can’t even agree on the federal govt budget, but they
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by nico 2y ago
> Schwartz said as much in an interview with Israeli Army Radio on December 31. “The New York Times said, ‘Let’s do an investigation into sexual violence’ — it was more a case of them having to convince me,” she said. Her host cut her of
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by nico 2y ago
And loves being the hero. When the app was taken down, there was a generic message about the ban. Then 1 hour later, it was changed to include: “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to
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by nico 2y ago
Not sure why it would imply that However, there’s been a lot of people not just signaling but openly announcing they are vying for the purchase. Like Kevin O’Leary, who said he’s offering $20b in cash to buy TT
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by nico 2y ago
> NYT, WaPo, etc would disclose whether they had been able to verify the source or authenticity Oh yeah, like the verification of their stories of the oven babies If anything, this whole ordeal has shown that all media is at some level c
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by nico 2y ago
Of course. TT is to China as WMDs were to Iraq No real anything presented to the American public, just handwaving and finger pointing It just barely needs to make sense and it becomes the center of the conversation, derailing any meaningful
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by nico 2y ago
Very interesting to see how effective US propaganda can be Going by the comments, it seems a lot of people here actually believe this whole thing is about “China” “China” is the new “communism”. It’s just the phantom enemy to scare everyone
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by nico 2y ago
> houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia > Since so few scholars can read the languages on the tablets—the overwhelming majority remain untranslated This would be an awesome job for AI. Get these scholars to train
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by nico 2y ago
They did this in the UK. A quick lookup says that a home that is vacant for over 1 year could be taxed 4x Additionally, since 2004, there’s a law that allows local authorities to take over empty homes and sell them, to make sure they are us

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