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by nradov 4mo ago
We would need a Constitutional amendment to explicitly state that spending money on political campaigns doesn't count as an exercise of freedom of speech (1st Amendment). The Supreme Court Citizens United v. FEC decision was built on
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by nradov 4mo ago
That perception bears almost no relation to reality. The most reliable path to building a modicum of wealth has remained the same for generations: start a small business in some boring field and work your ass off for 80 hrs/wk. Buildin
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by nradov 4mo ago
It probably depends on the algorithm. I never see gambling ads on YouTube.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Distillation isn't illegal. But LLM vendors are free to block attempts at distillation or prohibit it in customer contracts.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Yes, and when the local officials are corrupt or incompetent then little off that outside food aid reaches the people who need it. That's why giving food to a country like North Korea does more harm than good.
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by nradov 4mo ago
I'm not blaming anyone. A lot of open source developers are paid to do that so presumably most of them will continue doing so if they want to keep their jobs. The major volunteer projects will probably introduce access controls to limi
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by nradov 4mo ago
Yes, that would be an issue because it allows the regime to divert more resources to weapons. In general major famines are always caused by corrupt or incompetent political leaders rather than lack of food.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Dario and Sam are literally hiring human experts today specifically to create proprietary training data which their competitors can't access.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Fortunately we don't have to care much about questions asked by shithole countries today because the UN is virtually powerless. Let's keep it that way.
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by nradov 4mo ago
It's so weird how technologists overestimate the importance of LLMs to society at large. It's going to be far less important than real world issues like nuclear weapons proliferation, access to fossil fuels, declining birth rates,
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by nradov 4mo ago
Do you really want countries like Saudi Arabia and North Korea to have a vote in wealth redistribution?
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by nradov 4mo ago
How did Palantir break in? What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same?
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by nradov 4mo ago
If that's true then why hasn't Canada managed to produce a credible competitor already? What are they missing? Will the opportunity to win domestic government contracts change that situation or are there other obstacles?
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by nradov 4mo ago
No, you're missing the point. You can't demonstrate safety regulation compliance with data. The entire avionics software development process has to be structured from the start to allow for validation. Military experience, especia
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by nradov 4mo ago
I find it so bizarre that anyone would be upset about this instead of thankful for the protection.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Updating the infotainment head unit on most newer vehicles is effectively impossible due to the way they're tightly integrated into the rest of the vehicle's systems and controls.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Are you sure you're actually hearing sonic booms? The low-bypass turbofan engines used on most current tactical aircraft are quite loud even in subsonic flight. F-35 and F/A-18 fighters overfly my house occasionally and while I do
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by nradov 4mo ago
Exactly. Now they even make decisions on which routes to offer based on how likely they are to attract customers who use their branded credit cards. The analytics around this are quite sophisticated.
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by nradov 4mo ago
I should use it to read and vote on HN comments so that I don't have to waste time doing that myself.
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by nradov 4mo ago
LLM based agentic systems can never meet current FAA certification requirements for civil aircraft. The problem is that the internal logic is essentially a black box and there's no way to verify that it won't go off and do somethi
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by nradov 4mo ago
Meta can unify their own products but they're still sharecroppers on someone else's farm.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Meta will continue trying to build a platform that they can control. They're terrified that existing platform owners like Google, Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft will find a way to cut them out of the loop. The metaverse failed but maybe
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by nradov 4mo ago
What a silly idea. Design and manufacturing of something as complex as an airliner is inextricably coupled. There's no way for one company to design the whole aircraft and then just hand it off to others. We're not talking about t
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by nradov 4mo ago
That unlikely hypothetical scenario makes no sense. MDD was going to drop out of the airliner market no matter what. They simply weren't viable. If they hadn't merged with Boeing then it would have been with some other large aeros
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by nradov 4mo ago
It's available to the average person if they're willing to put in the work necessary to attract investors. Blake Scholl was a regular engineer before he founded Boom Supersonic. He had made some money on previous jobs but wasn&#x2
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by nradov 4mo ago
The chemistry and metallurgy involved here are far from "simple".
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by nradov 4mo ago
That's correct to an extent. It could never work for long haul flights due to the weight penalty but there is potential for regional flights. Current airliner turbine engines are sized to deliver enough thrust to safely take off and cl
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by nradov 4mo ago
There's no reason think that removing pilots altogether would enhance safety. Military experience has shown that mishap rates for unmanned aircraft are significantly higher than similar crewed aircraft. Routine flight operations can be
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by nradov 4mo ago
There is still the potential for significant efficiency improvements with open rotor ultra-high bypass propfan designs. https://www.geaerospace.com/news/articles/shape-things-come-... And for short flights, batter
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by nradov 4mo ago
Exactly. Advanced turbine manufacturing is largely a chemistry and metallurgy problem. The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed off China's intellectual capital so they had to start from scratch in 1976, and only really go

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