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by p-e-w 9mo ago
Unless you can demonstrate that there is in fact an AI bubble, that is simply begging the question. Notice how the term “housing bubble” is used much less frequently today than 10 years ago? That’s because that so-called bubble has been bal
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by p-e-w 9mo ago
Yeah, that quote just reads like the typical “everyone is an idiot except me” attitude that pervades the tech world. Of course people visiting a website specifically designed for evaluating LLMs do try all kinds of specific things to specif
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by p-e-w 9mo ago
One thing that often gets overlooked is that 25 years ago, “the Internet” was essentially educated people from North America and Western Europe, with everyone else being a rounding error. This made it very easy to connect on a level beyond
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Indeed. StackOverflow was by far the most unpleasant website that I have regularly interacted with. Sometimes, just seeing how users were treated there (even in Q&A threads that I wasn’t involved in at all) disturbed me so much it was a
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
A trading partner that has absolutely nothing to gain from ever setting foot on the Australian continent, and has never expressed or even implied the slightest intention to do so. But hey, if making up a bogus threat is what it takes to sel
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Indeed. The top-level comment is pretty much wishful thinking. At this point, if you tell a frontier LLM to explain things bottom up, with motivation and background, you usually get something that’s better than 95% of the openly available m
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
How would Spectre, a timing attack that does not require root, affect whether eBPF is safe to run as root?
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
I don’t get it. What’s the holdup? Uploading a model to Hugging Face isn’t exactly difficult.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
One of the cited reviews goes: “We're excited for powerful open-source models like M2.1 […]” Yet as far as I can tell, this model isn’t open at all. Not even open weights, nevermind open source.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Your analogy fails because the purpose of stage magic is concealing what’s going on. That’s not what happened here. Someone just made a really stupid mistake that even non-technical folks can accidentally discover. There are undoubtedly so
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> To us, it's a life skill. To a non-technical person, it's black magic. I’m sorry, but “this text is black on black background; the actual letters are still there” isn’t “black magic” unless someone is being deliberately obtus
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> What happens if Apple just exits the Italian market? They can’t. If they did, the company (and thus shareholders) would lose money. Shareholders would vote out the board, and the new board would appoint a CEO who would promptly re-ente
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Is there anyone with a spine left in science? Or are they all ruled by fear of what might be said if whatever might happen?
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> With experimental things, it's non uncommon for a lab to develop a new technique and omit slight but important details to give them a competitive advantage. Yes, to give them a competitive advantage. Not to LARP as morality police
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
It’s as if every researcher in this field is getting high on the small amount of power they have from denying others access to their results. I’ve never been as unimpressed by scientists as I have been in the past five years or so. “We’ve c
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> In any other department, misrepresenting your intent to engage in a transaction would be seen as a breach of professional ethics. In most other situations related to money or contracts, it would be a criminal offense punishable by pris
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Seems to be the expected outcome of everything, in every industry, for the past 10 years or so.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
No, they mostly just show a popup telling you to use Chrome. Websites work fine if you switch the user agent.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
It very strongly depends on which country you live in.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
All options that are in line with the organization’s mission. The CEO of an organization like Mozilla even considering blocking adblockers for profit is like the president of Amnesty International considering to sell lists of dissidents t
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Firefox has a market share around 3%. Even most technologists stopped using it long ago. Many banks and government websites don’t even support it anymore and loudly tell people to use Chrome instead, especially in developing countries. Noth
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Agreed, this is a terrible presentation. The paper abstract is bordering on word salad, the demo images are meaningless and don’t show any clear difference to the previous SotA, the introduction talks about “nearby” views while the images a
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> The part of craft that can be replicated mechanically is the least interesting and valuable part of art. Everything humans do can be replicated mechanically. We’re biological machines, and crafts are just behaviors, not some mystical f
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
I do care for craft, but I don’t view it as an end in itself. The value of craft lies in what it creates, and that value reflects back on the undertaking itself. But if a machine can replicate mechanically what takes a human effort and in
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
That idea is incomprehensible to me. I see value (or lack of it) in what I have in front of me, not in how much a person had to struggle and suffer for it to come into existence. Either something is good or it’s not. Creating something good
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
It’s strange and highly unpleasant to watch people treat something as a zero-sum game that is decidedly not one.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
> “How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life.” This is the very first sentence in the abstract, but I find this claim highly dubious. Remembering the dead is a ritualized process built around etiquette and soci
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Claiming that AI in anything resembling its current form is older than 5 years is like claiming the history of the combustion engine started when an ape picked up a burning stick.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
The prediction that a new technology that is being heavily researched plateaus after just 5 years of development is certainly a daring one. I can’t think of an example from history where that happened.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
“Boring” predictions usually state that things will continue to work the way they do right now. Which is trivially correct, except in cases where it catastrophically isn’t. So the correctness of boring predictions is unsurprising, but also

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