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by panarky 1y ago
>> non-participation > flip over to something else A flow state is possible with 100% focus at any level of abstraction. If you just "flip over" to HN while the agent thinks, then you're not 100% focused. But if you&
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by panarky 1y ago
Might be fun to respond with one of these to malicious requests for /.env, /.git/config and /.aws/credentials instead of politely returning 404s.
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by panarky 1y ago
> Capitalism is about private ownership of the means of production That's part of the definition but not the whole definition. Other parts of of the definition include: Capitalism is about free markets. Capitalism is about competi
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ToolShell Mass Exploitation (CVE-2025-53770)(research.eye.security)
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by panarky 1y ago
The market may or may not be "bonkers" to price MSTR at a premium to the market value of the assets it owns. But there are other non-bitcoin examples. Berkshire Hathaway is a corporate wrapper around a bunch of assets that are exp
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by panarky 1y ago
It's the second most common four-letter acronym in crypto hype threads right after hfsp.
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by panarky 1y ago
I love a good counter-intuitive anecdote as much as anybody, but I think you'll need to back up this assertion with some evidence. The expenses associated with owning a car in the city are prohibitive for lower-income residents. These
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by panarky 1y ago
This is the thing that people don't realize about autonomous AI. It's not primarily about saving money. Autonomous taxis are superior to Uber and yellow cabs. It's a better experience, and it's far safer. Autonomous ca
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God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro(latent.space)
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by panarky 1y ago
Not profitable given their loss-leader rate limits. Platforms want Planet Fitness type subscriptions, recurring revenue streams where most users rarely use the product. That works fine at the $20/month price point but it won't wor
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by panarky 1y ago
Kraken is literally warning about delays in opening new accounts and getting verified right now. https://imgur.com/a/k8zuSH1
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by panarky 1y ago
The shared reward function from pre-training is like primary school for an LLM. Maybe RLHF is like secondary school. The governor can be differentiated from the workers with different system and user prompts, fine tuning, etc., which might
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by panarky 1y ago
How long do you think it takes to create an account, get your KYC documents verified, get your trading and withdrawal limits raised to a million or more, transfer funds from your brokerage account, buy tokens and then re-verify when you try
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by panarky 1y ago
If it works to run a second LLM to check the first LLM, then why couldn't a "mixture of experts" LLM dedicate one of its experts to checking the results of the others? Or why couldn't a test-time compute "thinking&q
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by panarky 1y ago
The US Government didn't provide high-volume, bulk access to this extremely sensitive information to contractors in foreign countries with no controls over their ability to mass-exfiltrate the data. Coinbase is the entity that set up t
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by panarky 1y ago
If you had any significant assets on Coinbase at any time prior to this breach, spear phishing is the least of your worries. Coinbase not only leaked your full name and address, they also gave up your balances, your transaction history, and
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by panarky 1y ago
Bitwarden paid users have a feature called "Emergency Access" where you designate one or more other Bitwarden users who can access your vault in an emergency. If you die or become incapacitated, your emergency contact can click a
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by panarky 1y ago
Staffing shortages also preceded the incident. The controllers themselves were exempt from the Trump administration's voluntary buyout of federal employees, and from their across-the-board hiring freeze. But to actually hire a new cont
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by panarky 1y ago
And yet many will continue to confidently declare that this is nothing more than fancy autocomplete stochastic parrots.
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by panarky 1y ago
Privileging ideology and loyalty over reality and competence causes massively sub-optimal results. Imagine you ordered your Waymo to pretend its location, direction and velocity were what you wanted them to be, ignoring its sensors. It&#x27
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by panarky 1y ago
Same here. And when asking a question, it just keeps telling me to "moderate the question". My question isn't profane or controversial, so I don't understand what I'm being asked to do.
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by panarky 2y ago
That was the story with CGI too, that there would be overwhelming supply that drives prices and value toward zero. And yet Marvel exists. Turns out in a world of infinite supply, value comes from story, character, branding, marketing and ce
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by panarky 2y ago
> chatbots ... provided for free ... ads Just because the first LLM product people paid for was a chatbot does not mean that chat will be the dominant commercial use of AI. And if the dominant use is agents that replace knowledge worker
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by panarky 2y ago
Shrimp and lobster are really just delivery devices for butter, garlic, lemon, etc.
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by panarky 2y ago
It doesn't matter how useful it is, there will always be naysayers who can't see it, or who refuse to see it. That's okay. It's not my responsibility to convince or convert them. I prefer to just let them be and not enga
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by panarky 2y ago
Hasn't Kunstler been predicting the imminent end of oil supplies since the 1990s? When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't p
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by panarky 2y ago
There's more meaning contained in a hyphen than I could have imagined. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism From the outset the term "anti-Semitism" bore special racial connotations and mea
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by panarky 2y ago
The top three topics of batshit conspiracy theory supported by precisely zero actual evidence: 1) Hidden cabals colluding in secret to control world events. 2) Extraterrestrial beings live among us secretly controlling world events. 3) Goog
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by panarky 2y ago
That's an incredibly insightful observation, I'm sure they've never considered that and will be really disappointed the first time there's rain or fog.
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Building this allows them to reduce the subsidy that is perpetual software license fees.

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