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by panarky 3y ago
If it doesn't matter that it's public, then why did Boeing try to keep it secret?
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by panarky 3y ago
> were meant to ... Many inventions "were meant to" to do one thing, but wound up doing something else far more valuable. The value of a tool has little to do with the original intent of its inventor.
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by panarky 3y ago
Courts take years. This industry is changing far too fast for the legal calendar. By the time the lawsuits are resolved, it will all be irrelevant.
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by panarky 3y ago
> Don't suddenly deprecate stuff and break people's code on a moment's notice. "Deprecated" doesn't mean "break people's code on a moment's notice". FTA: "datetime.datetime’s utcno
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by panarky 3y ago
> Build a RAID array with 33 disks ... Yes, naturally 33 > 1, so you might expect 33 times as many failures of individual components. But your analogy between arrays of rocket engines and disks is apt, because both have redundancy t
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by panarky 3y ago
I was also genuinely interested in your simple question, "what makes the functioning of all the engines so difficult?" You received a response with many words but I don't think it contains a real answer, other than "the
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by panarky 3y ago
Until last night, Microsoft seemed to have a lock on the world's most advanced AI. Now if the top talent follows Altman to his new company, Microsoft's investment could be stranded. We should start a pool on which Microsoft compet
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by panarky 3y ago
Deceiving the board about ... Its investigation of misconduct? Sources and rights to training data? That the AGI escaped containment?
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by panarky 3y ago
> The patch for the vulnerability was pushed to Github on July 5. Another actor exploited the vulnerability for a full two weeks beginning on July 11 before the official patch became available on July 25. What's the point of a res
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by panarky 3y ago
Why not both? If I want discoverability, let me provide my phone number. If I want privacy, just assign a random identifier.
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by panarky 3y ago
We need a better way to store important historical documents than a website that only works half the time archiving a Google cache version of a page from a midsized newspaper.
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by panarky 3y ago
I fly on airplanes and drive in cars and work in a skyscraper even though I cannot explain Bernoulli's principle or exothermic redox chemical reactions, or the chemistry of concrete hydration and curing. Even though I don't unders
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by panarky 3y ago
Debian's ffmpeg is at 6.1, no subscription nonsense required.
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by panarky 3y ago
I'm so confused. When I install an LTS version with a Universe package like ffmpeg, does everything continue getting security patches for the full five-year LTS life? Or do I now need Ubuntu Pro to get the full five years?
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by panarky 3y ago
> cypherpunk maximalist Way past time to get assassination markets back in the popular imagination so that a new generation can re-litigate the usenet flame wars of olde, amplified by a factor of ten thousand.
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by panarky 3y ago
> voting for and against the causes celebs put up Thereby turning every issue into a cause célèbre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre
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Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government(eff.org)
250 points by panarky 3y ago|65 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
From an exhausted and humiliated veteran of the failed struggle against the verbification of "impact", you have my respect and sympathy.
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by panarky 3y ago
And that ancient and perfectly good noun has transmogrified into a modern, trendy and awkward corpspeak verb with nauseating echos of milspeak.
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by panarky 3y ago
> brief ask ... imprecise ask ... any ask ... receiving an ask ... clarify that ask It's curious how "ask" has transformed from an ancient verb into a modern, trendy and awkward noun. According to the OED, nounification
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by panarky 3y ago
Next logical step: make it recursively self-improve.
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by panarky 3y ago
GPT4 knows it sucks at math, but it's awesome at writing simple code, so it answers math problems by writing and executing simple scripts.
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by panarky 3y ago
Jan Hendrik Schön, a researcher at Bell Labs in the field of condensed matter physics, committed scientific fraud by fabricating and manipulating data in his research. The fraud was discovered in 2002. I'm thankful that most people can
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by panarky 3y ago
> Brand new cars depreciate instantly >>> Elon derangement syndrome The Tesla CEO promised that Teslas wouldn't depreciate like other cars do. He promised that they would not only hold their value, they would increase
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by panarky 3y ago
> they simply took it over I see it like the free internet. Yes, there's all kinds of garbage built on top of the underlying foundation, most of which is spam, scams, surveillance, or centralized unfree profit extraction. But none
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Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers(blog.research.google)
2 points by panarky 3y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
> not the kind of thing I'd normally post, but certainly good enough ... What would you change to make it better than "good enough"?
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by panarky 3y ago
If the hardware is just a microphone and speaker that calls an API, why does the world need a new device? Every phone, tablet, laptop, game console, smart watch, smart speaker, smart doorbell, earbud and TV can do this already. To justify a
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by panarky 3y ago
None of this is about whether I trust Chase or not. It's about the big claim that Chase monitors the political activity of their customers and systematically closes the accounts of people with opinions Chase doesn't like. There&#x
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by panarky 3y ago
The fact that someone with a political opinion had their account closed is not evidence that Chase is monitoring all their customers' political activity and systematically closing accounts for political activity Chase doesn't like

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