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by panarky 2y ago
30 minutes after posting: #2 with 140 points and 79 comments https://imgur.com/a/MwsnQIH 40 minutes after posting: #17 with 171 points and 120 comments https://imgur.com/a/YEyuKP5 50 minutes after
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Altman would have us believe it's all just an innocent misunderstanding but without actually saying so: "We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson." Is he trying to suggest the company
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Sam Altman is showing us who he really is(slate.com)
393 points by panarky 2y ago|456 comments
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by panarky 2y ago
Competition is just one click away. As others in this thread already point out, it's extremely easy to use DDG or Bing if you want.
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by panarky 2y ago
Google calls PaliGemma "open" not "open source". https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/paligemma
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by panarky 2y ago
Is it really "Big Brother" when the model runs locally on your device and doesn't send any personal info to anybody?
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by panarky 2y ago
People experience existential terror from AI because it feels like massive, pervasive, implacable forces that we can't understand or control, with the potential to do great harm to our personal lives and to larger social and political
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ChatGPT in "4o" mode is not running the new features yet(simonwillison.net)
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by panarky 2y ago
> not-entirely-useless but still quite crappy 15 months ago, general-purpose LLMs that have not been specifically trained on legal reasoning could score better than 90% of humans on the multistate bar exam, and these are humans who act
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by panarky 2y ago
It's not either-or, it's yes-and. We don't have to abandon one for the other. AlphaFold 3 can rapidly reduce a vast search space in a way physically-based methods alone cannot. This narrowly focused search space allows scien
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by panarky 2y ago
See also Russia's campaign to rapidly take Kyiv using highly centralized command that failed catastrophically when faced with mobile, autonomous, hit-and-run tactics using antitank missiles like Javelin.
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by panarky 2y ago
A major factor causing increased demand for housing that's rarely discussed is the dramatic drop in the number of people per household. Consider a hypothetical city with a population of 100,000: 1960: average household size: 3.63 perso
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by panarky 2y ago
What's really absurd is how hard we fight to view the world only through our own ideologies.
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AI automates the jobs of sheep, not the (yet) the jobs of shepherds.
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by panarky 2y ago
Your understanding of how LLMs work is overly simplistic and incomplete. Yes, doing probabilistic next-word prediction plays a role in how LLMs generate text output, but that's not the whole story. LLMs "understand" (to a deg
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by panarky 2y ago
The tendency for HN comments to focus on a relatively less important detail and completely ignore the larger implications never ceases to amaze. Certainly the safety of raw milk is important for the 2% of the population that drinks it, and
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by panarky 2y ago
> you're not making profit compared to market rates for Uber drivers Your implicit assumption is that robotaxis are competing on price with Uber drivers in their personally owned cars. But as we can see today with fully autonomous
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by panarky 2y ago
Applying millions of nuclear bombs to either slow down or speed up the Moon by the same amount will change its orbit by a similar magnitude in terms of the sheer change in energy. The energy required to achieve a specific Δv is the same whe
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by panarky 3y ago
There's no rule of humor that says it must be politically neutral. If you want balance, feel free to post equally funny satire with a right-wing slant. Though it might be harder to find anything equivalent, since biting political humor
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by panarky 3y ago
> the reply from the mutation operation is stored in a tracker until the transaction log acknowledges persistence What are the consistency and durability properties of the tracker datastore? Are replies from tracker mutations stored in
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by panarky 3y ago
Whenever I see a story with a large scary number with zero context, I assume it's agenda-driven bullshit designed to deceive. For example, in NYC there were 386 homicides last year, more than one per day! What a hazardous hellhole! But
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by panarky 3y ago
Your theory is contradicted by actual events. The Fed doesn't set the value of the dollar, but it can influence the market value of the dollar lower by (1) reducing short-term interest rates, or (2) monetary policy (buying bonds on the
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by panarky 3y ago
So shooting down drones and missiles from one regional power is de-escalatory, while shooting down drones and missiles from a different regional power is massively escalatory. Makes perfect sense, thanks.
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by panarky 3y ago
The French term "chiasse" is slang for diarrhea, so the translation to English should also use a slang term for diarrhea. Maybe a closer translation would be "having a bad case of the runs".
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by panarky 3y ago
>> massive red line and a huge escalation When someone argues it would be a huge escalation for the US, UK and France to directly defend Ukrainian territory against Russia's attacks, they should explain how the same nations dir
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by panarky 3y ago
It currently shows that renewables are generating 145% of the total load. So what happens to the excess that isn't being used? Does it charge batteries to be used when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing? Is it e
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by panarky 3y ago
When you own a company, you can direct that company to pay you. There are many names for the payments to owners, such as "dividend", "loan", "draw", etc. None of these payments are suspicious if both you and yo
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by panarky 3y ago
If there's no financing contingency identified in the contract, and the buyer can't come up with the cash to close, then the buyer forfeits whatever deposit or earnest money they paid.
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by panarky 3y ago
That link is to vapor detection of narcotics, not x-ray. And those vertical towers are almost certainly radiation detectors.
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by panarky 3y ago
>> I refuse to buy a Tesla > assuming Musk is the problem The answer, of course, is "all of the above". Yes, Tesla is subject to the same forces as other car companies. On top of that, some percentage of potential custo

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