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   by pants2 11mo ago

   Certianly the costs in employee time making change in pennies and stocking / transporting / changing pennies is way higher
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   Even 5-year performance packages can be problematic. That's about one R&D cycle, if a CEO cuts all new R&D to make stock buybacks they'll probably do great for another 5 years til they become irrelevant.
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   FWIW I didn't like the Robot / Efficient mode because it would give very short answers without much explanation or background. "Nerdy" seems to be the best, except with GPT-5 instant it's extremely cringy like &quot
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   Another pro tip: the audio version of the captcha is usually much easier / faster to solve if you're in a quiet environment
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   I've seen this! Following some Math and Physics subreddits it's a regular occurrence for a new submitter to come in and post some 40 pages of incomprehensible bullshit and claim that they developed a unifying theory of physics wit
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   Sure, but that means there's a person accountable for building those new features into the AI, so you're back to where we started.
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   USPS should have issued every American an official government email address 20 years ago
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   Don't be so sure - the company that owns YouTube also probably owns your web browser.
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   by pants2 11mo ago

   That's an interesting point that I haven't considered before: that the narrative of AI replacing jobs plus the widespread cheating in school using LLMs is making students less engaged and new graduates less employable, becoming a
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    There are certainly a lot of ways to interpret it but accountability assumes that a person will learn from their mistakes and generally not make them again. LLMs even in the same chat session will do something wrong and confidently claim th
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    Somewhat related, there has been lots of research on how your dating profile photo affects your chances at getting a match (smiling vs not smiling, etc). Little research on how your LinkedIn profile pic affects your job prospects. When I wa
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    Why should I care that much what Microsoft is doing? I sold my Windows 11 computer long ago and haven't looked back. In fact, more user-hostile they get the better that is for the Linux ecosystem which is better for me!
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    How are the prompting techniques for dLLMs different than LLMs?
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    Expectation: > "AI with the overarching purpose of just trying to understand the universe," the billionaire stated, noting that he believes the safest way to build an AI is to make one that is curious and truth-seeking. Musk po
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    While we're posting our favorite definitions of AGI, I like what Francois Chollet once said: "AGI is reached when it’s no longer easy to come up with problems that regular people can solve … and AIs can’t."
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    by pants2 11mo ago

    Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchases? I used to make Amazon purchases through ChatGPT Agent before Amazon blocked them. I could take a picture of a wrapper and say "buy a new one on Amazon" and it would
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    by pants2 1y ago

    I got an unsolicited call from Fidelity once and they asked for a bunch of financial info. I told them I'd call back on their official number and they said that's not possible, I had to answer right away. So I told them to pound s
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    by pants2 1y ago

    > the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore reported that cases were being disproportionately seen in Mennonite, Amish, and other Anabaptist communities. These communities are more than "anti-vaxx." Likely the
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    by pants2 1y ago

    I had a very dangerous 1-bar the other day. You see I was in the Canadian wilderness relying on iPhone text-over-satellite, which works well, but only when you have no signal. I needed to relay a message to the rest of my group when suddenl
20. 380.▲
    by pants2 1y ago

    Almost like it should just be a combo of realized ping + internet speed instead of signal strength
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    by pants2 1y ago

    Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!
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    by pants2 1y ago

    HOWEVER, if I had to steelman the "unfairly persecuted" argument, I'd say that the $4B fine + prison sentence was much harsher than what the DOJ did to traditional banks engaging in the same thing. HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standa
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    by pants2 1y ago

    It's difficult to defend CZ/Binance from a guilty verdict. I'll go purely on exact quotes that the US investigation dug up from Binance internal comms: > As one compliance employee wrote, “we need a banner ‘is washing drug
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    by pants2 1y ago

    But aside from usual "studies show" skepticism: - Ho much does this apply to the weaker strains that are still circulating today? - To what extent does vaccination prevent any of these issues?
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    by pants2 1y ago

    I haven't but I know the old interface only supported search and fetch, but presumably the new one has full support if you enable "developer mode"
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    by pants2 1y ago

    They saw how much sports betting platforms and crypto exchanges were making offering parlays and leverage, and wanted in on the action. Soon you'll be able to buy a 60X leveraged perpetual option to speculate on game ticket prices.
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    by pants2 1y ago

    Companies like PH use full Enterprise stacks from AWS to Oracle. Hell, CloudFlare actively takes flack for running much worse websites like 8Chan, Daily Stormer, etc. and they are as enterprise-focused as it gets.
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    by pants2 1y ago

    Incredible that they have the same general hardware as any other mammal, compare a shrew to a blue whale, potentially 50,000,000X heavier - they both have one heart, two eyes, hearing, smell, lungs, sex organs, kidneys, brain, spine, etc. I
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    by pants2 1y ago

    I recently got a Mr. Cool DIY minisplit at Costco for $1600. I called an independent electrician to run the wiring for $200 and he helped me install the thing for another $200. So I got a fully installed minisplit for $2k and it works great
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    by pants2 1y ago

    I recently went into a McDonald's for the first time in years to just order a drink. The guy at the register informed me I couldn't place an order at the front and had to use the kiosk. The kiosk was full of dark patterns to try t