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by pjc50 3mo ago
This is an old problem in philosophy, one that the pre-LLM systems were interested in, which got completely bypassed by the present approach. What is knowledge? It's not a simple question even for humans, we don't have a magic tru
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by pjc50 3mo ago
But since there's a potential nonzero risk of permanent account loss, I don't want to experiment, and since I can still log in with email/password I'm going to keep doing that.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Apparently not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007750
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by pjc50 3mo ago
How is one supposed to let an LLM log in with passkey?
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by pjc50 3mo ago
This would be bad; we've already had a few cases on HN where someone noticed that they could increment the customer number in a URL or similar, resulting in police action.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Confused as to what the point of calling the police would be here. I wouldn't expect OpenAI to turn themselves in for hacking HuggingFace.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Either outcome is risky for TR here. They're a very respected news publisher, so if they start colluding in fraud that would damage all their other business. If they take it seriously and don't produce results they'll get rep
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by pjc50 3mo ago
There's a massive cultural chasm here. I can understand why people want to hide themselves, and I can also understand the audience not wanting to see too much behind the curtain, but at the same time it feels unhealthy to not acknowled
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by pjc50 3mo ago
None of this is about "information" (apart from the occasional serious moment, like the Juufutei Raden art education streams). It's entertainment. > sit through a 45 minute YouTube video This is the reverse. You have 45 mi
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Despite how mad this sounds, a smaller variant was actually tried at the peak of French techno-optimism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis_(personal_rapid_transit... (obviously this is something that, even if you co
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Incredible work, I tip my hat to you: > advertise product on HN > no real viewers, lightly inundated with advertising spam > write up about the advertising > HN reader clicks on blog > it's an ad again
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> what problem does move to the US actually solve in this case? None of the specific ones, but the general problem of startups that the UK is a poor environment for funding. Source for million unbuilt homes: https://www.terraq
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by pjc50 3mo ago
You could apply clever modelling to work out what minimal set of upgrades would best increase capacity .. and then spend the next 30 years trying to get one line built. We're stuck at basic political questions like "should there b
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> bigger company = worse movies? Less competition.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Some people are just contrarians who want their ideas to be the most outlandish. This is a real problem if you're one of the people involved in something like OWS who wants to see effective change, not just making a circus about yourse
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by pjc50 3mo ago
American police seem to be a uniquely bad combo of false positives and false negatives. Failing to go after actual crime while also capable of using disproportionate violence in incidents that don't warrant it.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
9/11 was an incredible shift in attitude.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Unfortunately evidence suggests that people want the opposite, or at least surveillance for everyone else. And not just over murder, over petty crime. Nextdoor is full of people who want to be a surveillance network of humans.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
A photocopy isn't a primary record!
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Offshoring is passé. If you want to give out a set of written instructions, get back something which literally meets the spec but is otherwise inadequate, and babysit overseeing trying to get the results you actually wanted, you can feed it
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> The NHS is struggling because we have an unhealthy population I think we should stop pretending the NHS doesn't have quality and availability issues, which are validly pointed out in the OP article. I was shocked to discover that
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Ah, more of a joke on your datapoint. And the traditional British practice of retiring to more southern locations in Europe.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Very different economy from the rest of that list. Economically it's like an Ireland (high tech and services) that spends 8% of its economy on war. And receives significant foreign aid.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> companies have an incentive to collect old parts and recycle them, preventing them from going to a landfill You should read up on what the existing WEEE requirements are.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> 2020 when switching off the economy squashed all growth The exception here is the US, again. And what did they do differently? Massive QE and "helicopter money". Anti-austerity worked extremely well for growth, even if the
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> there was no way I could retire early over there. It seems that the UK is becoming the new Portugal (warm retiree destination with stagnant non-retiree economy)
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Note on the economics here; why don't we look at the whole picture rather than one or two countries? Clearly America should be top of this list, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no..
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by pjc50 3mo ago
It will be all such devices, not specifying a manufacturer by name.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
But this is incredibly bad for commerce when online has already destroyed offline commerce! We should simply not let people do fraud. Some of the oldest laws define weight and measures for this reason.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Perhaps we need OP to explain "I fully trust AI with these things", because it is difficult to define trust in this sense. Yes of course the human motivation was always going to be the real "AI threat", and fraud (and a

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