palmotea

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by palmotea 6mo ago
>> Teslas turning off autopilot seconds before a crash, apparently avoiding being recorded as active during an incident, is wild https://futurism.com/tesla-nhtsa-autopilot-report > It's well known for a while
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> How is it strong or controversial? It's the open ideology of the times. You said: >>>> I don't think there's ever been an argument that anybody... I just made a such an argument, and the fact that I'm no
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I don't think there's ever been an argument that anybody in a free market capitalist economy has to perform a "socially useful function"? That's a extremely strong statement, and may only be true in libertari
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Again, VCs don't care if you'll make a profitable business some day. They're just interested in if someone else will come along and pay out giant bags of cash for it later in a liquidity event. If they get even one of th
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> AI isn’t going away, but it’s also clear the much promised impacts aren’t there and aren’t coming anytime soon. Even if it doesn't result in increased productivity, AI can still take the fun out of the job (goodbye coding, hello c
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> That has nothing to do with Trump's trade policies w.r.t Canada, though. If Canada's going to wag a finger at the US about breaking commitments, it does.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> What will change, however, is no country will build anything new that is entirely dependent on a U.S. entity, and every country will now try to find alternatives to existing dependencies. > It will be a slow, multi-decade process, b
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Lockheed Martin can, given peak rates seen in 2025, produce a new F-35 approximately every 36 hours ... it's a operating line at full rate production that could conceivably build a US Navy squadron every ~15 days, plus a complet
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Ironic how a libertarian would impose his personal views on "the system". Doesn't work? Let it die. Too many PhDs? Perhaps, let them search for a job. If they're indeed too many, a generation of plumbers etc. will e
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Hey you gotta start being scum somewhere Can you tell me when it started? Because I don't think this is the first time I've seen these kinds of problematic comments from you.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> We send teenagers to prison for less societal damage. They don't get an opportunity to "grow out of it". Yeah, but in those cases there are literal laws against what they did, and usually the morality is much more stark
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Apparently, the AI needed to hire humans to carry out the actual work. So AI can replace capitalists but not workers. Maybe the future isn't so dark after all. No, it's still dark. This is very similar to the initial stages o
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Wasn't their previous attempt at running vending machines unprofitable? Not aware of any demonstration that it can actually run that business successfully. It doesn't look like this one will be any better. Did you look at the
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> It feels like every other convenience in modern life. We trade off some value for lack of human ability. Should you drive or walk or bike? In the US, most people drive and sit all day. Now we have fenced off part of our week for dedica
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Thanks! I'd scanned the main content but I'd been blind to the sidebar on the far right.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
More like "about how long of a string do I need to run between two houses in the densest residential neighborhood of single-family homes in the US?"
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> If you have to ask then your GPU is too small. What's the minimum memory you need to run a decent model? Is it pretty much only doable by people running Macs with unified memory?
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by palmotea 7mo ago
How much VRAM does it need? I haven't run a local model yet, but I did recently pick up a 16GB GPU, before they were discontinued.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> But the em-dash is a pretty informal mark... I think you have to make a distinction: there's using a dash as you describe and using the actual em-dash character. Without an smartquotes-type autocorrect-type feature (which admitted
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Good move, and a good reminder of how much of an echo chamber Hacker News is on AI matters. In here, and big tech at large, it's touted like the unavoidable future that either you adapt or you die. When you look across all softwar
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> It's always funny to see people arguing that em-dash use is indicative of LLM usage, yet they don't realize where that training came from in the first place. The em-dash is indicative of AI usage when it shows up in contexts
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> We would literally not have access to this criticism without the written word. It would have long been lost to time. And so it is with enumerate other thoughts that happily have been recorded. No. Without the written word, this critici
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> 1. You can't understand the nuances, but there is a general pattern: new inventions may make us slightly less proficient at specifics, yet more powerful overall No. It's not a phenomenon with a pattern, maybe there's a
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Oh no, not that tired thing again. I suppose your point is: people once were critical of the technology of writing, so all criticism of the technology-at-hand is illegitimate. You don't actually make a point, so one has to assume. Some
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Maybe, just maybe, the previous generation (I include myself here) have lost the plot raising/educating children and are breeding just absolute disrespectful, egotistical, attention seeking assholes as younger generations. > ..
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Sounds like pets.com in 1999 But that was a bubble, but AI is not a bubble! It is a revolution in the way we work! That's why your leaders have made AI-embracement metrics a critical part of your performance evaluation.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
This is good news for AI. These kind of pivots just show what a revolutionary and world-changing technology this is. Invest now! This is the lowest AI stocks will ever be.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Perhaps it's gotten harder to determine by eye, but Google will still point you towards trustworthy brands in 2 minutes. One of the main points of the article is you cannot rely on the brand to determine quality. The marketers k
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> The main issue is that _determining_ which products actually are quality has also gotten harder in many cases. And there's a perverse effect to that difficulty: even if you really want high quality, it can be so hard to be sure
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Mikrotik manufactures routers in Latvia, of all places. I don't think it's as hard as you make it out to be.

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