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by p-e-w 3mo ago
No, I’m talking about an article I saw maybe 10-12 months ago on a major news site, perhaps The Guardian. Individual reports of scientists leaving are meaningless without overall statistics. If there is a net outflow of scientists from th
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> If you're talking about the article featured on HN just day(s) ago I’m not.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
I’ve seen titles like “Why top scientists are leaving the United States” where the article itself talked about A SINGLE RESEARCHER relocating to France.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
It both works and fails, like many other things. But if you hold the goal that it must never fail in sufficiently high esteem, you invariably end up with a system like the one we have now.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
It’s not accurate, it’s absurd hyperbole no different from the kind the people who peddle it have arrogantly ridiculed their entire lives. A mentally unstable person being “made” to do something by a chatbot is no different from other menta
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
This doesn’t work on iOS, where you can’t selectively disable automatic updates for a single app.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> Isn't this conflating encryption with trust? Absolutely, and the claim is somewhere between nonsense and pedantry bordering on nonsense. The exact same thing is true for, say, Signal. The provider delivers the client, and they agg
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> now there is an upgrade ai agent for something that should just be ticking up a version number. If a component as basic as a button or a list view ever requires an “upgrade”, something is fundamentally wrong to begin with. HTML5, ARIA,
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> The thing runs on usb 5v so the power consumption is negligible. There’s a huge leap from that to the power consumption being low enough to be integrated into a smartphone, as demanded by OP.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Assuming the original result is correct, isn’t the linked paper simply a corollary?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Debating is always primarily a game of power and only secondarily about truth or correctness. If it were about truth alone, the person who is right could be content with being right and not caring what others believe, just like they don’t c
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Nothing is “created 100% by AI” though, because AIs don’t create things without human instructions.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Indeed. When they say that AI music can’t be monetized, they of course mean “… except by us”.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Many, if not most, historical institutions that are universally recognized as slavery didn’t permit slave owners to dispose of their slaves like arbitrary property they owned. If that’s the definition of slavery, it’s an unusually restricti
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
The analogy doesn’t quite work because it’s not clear whether LLMs actually need additional mediocre-quality, human-written explanations in order to improve, or whether better training pipelines and ingesting documentation might be enough.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Indeed, and there are many historical examples of this. Today’s average Western nation-state tends to be a rathole that spits into the faces of its citizens every single day, until the moment the state is under attack, at which point everyo
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> Nor was a tenant farmer in the Middle Ages when required to provide corvée. Many historians now concede that there is little to no meaningful difference between various forms of feudal servitude and slavery. Slaves in the later Roman E
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Why would it behave more like a human in that particular sense? What advantage would it gain from that?
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
It wasn’t “prescient”, StackExchange sites have always been among the most hostile communities on the Internet. Today they are additionally weighed down by increasingly erratic management decisions desperately trying to extract as much mone
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
> Aren't LLMs notoriously bad at math? Compared to computer algebra systems, sure. Compared to the overwhelming majority of humans, absolutely not.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Do you have any concrete plan to make things better that doesn’t involve magical thinking or pseudo-appeals like “everyone just needs to…”?
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Imagine if the AGPL had become the default license for open source projects, as it was intended to when the service provider loophole in the GPL became apparent. The software industry would be unrecognizable. Instead, millions of developers
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Lots of mediocre people already are.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
What kind of answer are you expecting? The only “structure” that matters is power, and the only power that matters is the power to force and destroy. Everything else is derived from that, not the other way round.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Vi plugins don’t even exist for the vast majority of applications.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
That’s why HN users constantly advocate for Vim, a program in which every single thing works completely differently from every other modern application.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
The intended “protection” is the ToS, which requires apps to disclose what they are tracking and whether they perform cross-premise tracking.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
What? Every country has the right to freely decide which companies are permitted to operate under its jurisdiction, and exercising that right isn’t “warfare” of any kind.
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
Did you read the words immediately following the part you quoted?
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by p-e-w 4mo ago
It isn’t. This is a Bash feature. It doesn’t work from other programs.

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