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by nullc 5mo ago
> But let's not forget that if author cannot live of what they create, they, for the most part, won't be able to continue creating. At least when it comes to academic publishing the authors are not paid by the publishers. They
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by nullc 5mo ago
Parent poster was being a bit grandiose, but there is at least something in the idea that if your company produces a product that I make myself economical prosperous with... some credit for the taxes I pay is owed to you.
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by nullc 5mo ago
That's a distraction. Were that the issue politicians and the media were actually concerned about they could implement policy which made it ineffective at avoiding taxes-- e.g. requiring appreciated assets used as collateral to throw
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by nullc 5mo ago
LTCG + Corp tax rate >= income tax rate. It's an error to disregard the taxes your investments pay before they pass that wealth back to you.
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by nullc 5mo ago
> where the top tax rate is 13% 13.3% > and presumably for billionaires, the Net Investment Income Tax, NIIT kicks in at 200k, you presumably know this but I thought your comment could be misread as implying it only mattered for bil
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by nullc 5mo ago
But strangely politicians generally aren't pushing for targeted corrections to reduce those loopholes-- e.g. impugning realizing gains when you take a loan on assets beyond certain thresholds just as currently happens when you create a
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by nullc 5mo ago
We'll see that improve as people move onto synthetic training data-- something now possible that we have sufficiently smart LLMs to create enough of it. The idea is that you generate fake llm transcripts using your classical training d
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by nullc 5mo ago
In my experience slopbombers are inevitably the worst llm users-- returning a pile of hallucinations because they use some polluted context, don't know how to ask the LLM to double check it (aren't running in an environment where
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by nullc 5mo ago
> if I throw an ESP32 into a product and use wifi, I don’t need further certification Sounds like nonsense to me, at least from past reading of the regulation. These devices are supposed to be type-accepted-- your entire product is supp
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by nullc 5mo ago
Bad is mystifying. Unassisted but for handing it a pile of PDFs of relevant academic papers and my initial codebase, I had hermes agent based on qwen-3.6 27B implement karatsuba multiplication of characteristic-2 polynomials in C++ in an e
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by nullc 5mo ago
Not just discourse about real AI-- but there have been pretty clear examples of AI riffing on fictional AI (which is usually evil) in response to prompts saying that it's AI.
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by nullc 5mo ago
Better to run a simple full virtual machine. It's easy to spin one up on any modern linux distro (okay, not as easy it is in Qubes-- only three mouse clicks, but still pretty easy). There are many advantages of running it in a VM: rea
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by nullc 5mo ago
It's been pretty eye opening watching Craig Wright (of bitcoin fakery fame) flooding out LLM generated 'academic' papers and even having some of them accepted. He's toast if SSRN were to adopt a similar policy.
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by nullc 5mo ago
> Kias have a “Massachusetts mode” flag hidden behind a service menu (that needs a dealer code) that disables telematics at the owner’s request. I would be very concerned that the flag just continues to submit your data but with a "
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by nullc 5mo ago
> then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota [...] so I exclusively use CarPlay via USB. I would be concerned that a passenger connecting their phone to it while I was d
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by nullc 5mo ago
> that might even still be the case. No way, hasn't been true for many years. Try viewing the site from a few different people's systems.
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by nullc 5mo ago
This is why grapheneos creates 'sensors' as a permission. On android all apps can spy on you this way.
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by nullc 5mo ago
Thanks for the cluestick! Can you read the filaments installed in the printer over MQTT too?
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by nullc 5mo ago
> clients can send prints locally Using an AGPL violating mystery meat binary plugin that you run on your host, which potentially compromises any airgap you put around your printer (it attempts to connect to bambu servers, or did last ti
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by nullc 5mo ago
I have sympathy for the desire but that isn't something you actually get through google's surveillance-ware. You can change the information you put into the hash in my example to get them one go per site per day or one per year or
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by nullc 5mo ago
> word choice in AI notes that might have a sinister connotation Potentially sinister due to the biases of the model, as the model may have been trained using internet content that has a lot more fictional titillating evil overlord board
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by nullc 5mo ago
Presumably the attacker used Google's own LLM and they searched the history of all user chats to find the transcript. I say this only slightly in jest, as that's about the only thing I can think of which would legitimately give th
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by nullc 5mo ago
> If you care about your car, truck, tractor, or dozer being maintainable and reliable, don't get one with a computer in it. Got a list of widely available cars and trucks 'without a computer'? :D
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by nullc 5mo ago
> Vandalism can be reduced by excluding fare evaders because that's a class of people rather than a class of devices. Just observing: People who don't own an iPhone or modern android are also, generally, of a class -- and proba
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by nullc 5mo ago
Small models were originally built from distilling, using synthetic training materials, and filtering training material with much larger models. There is a bit of a bootstrapping problem where to build a good LLM you need a working LLM and
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by nullc 5mo ago
Apple doesn't own re-captcha. Apple's walled garden is still a tragedy but its a tragedy of willing participants.
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I know it from personal experience using GNU tools on Sun early on (really Solaris in my case, I wasn't quite that early a user), and I think from a talk or essay by RMS but for a moment I worried it might have been personal correspond
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by nullc 5mo ago
I'll be the first to admit that the technology can be abused-- that it's even ripe for abuse. That sort of problem can be avoided by allowing 'enough'-- and if the goal is to just prevent a site being flooded out '
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by nullc 5mo ago
Small models are more useful for "doing stuff" than "knowing stuff" to begin with. Add in an agentic harness and a small model can happily read more current information on demand (including from e.g. a local wikipedia s
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by nullc 5mo ago
This is a change that's been happening gradually over time-- I don't think I could have done this on a local model that could run on a consumer class gpu a couple months ago. There are plenty of other uses that people have been ma

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