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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Let’s not discount with what means that wealth has been acquired in the first place. One man’s wealth might be poverty for the thousands. That’s why we got social welfare, it’s just not doing enough. At this point I would say a random store
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
I think the OP’s proposal is great but impossible to implement right away. Some steps have to be taken towards that direction though. First, eliminate borrowing using their stocks as collateral, thus avoiding capital gains tax. That would i
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
I don’t get why reasonable claims like this get downvoted. Are billionaires downvoting them? Do so many other ambitious people expect to become billionaires at some point in their lives?
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Peter Thiel thinks that he has the upper hand and will outsmart everyone to stay at the top. The problem with chaos is that it’s very difficult to control so there’s a good chance he won’t and different actors will come to the top.
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Depends on what is a ‘generation’ for LLMs. It would be weird to build a model which is a generation behind. My guess is that like all models, it will be considered the best until the novelty factor wears off and then it will be more or les
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Hindsight is 20/20. That bitcoin is a store of value has been talked about for a very long time when other blockchains overtook it in terms of functionality. People’s memories are short so I am sure it will be touted as such again in a
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Neural networks is an extremely loose and simplified approximation of how actual biological brain neural pathways work. It’s simplified to the point that there’s basically nothing in common.
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
The point of Moltbook is that OpenClaw human owners installed skills to participate in Moltbook, not that the bots decided to do that on their own. There’s no denying that it’s stupid and fake though.
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
A human, not a statistical model. I can insert any random words out of my own volition if I wanted to, not because I have been pre-programmed (pre-trained) to output tokens based on a limited 200k (tiny) context for one particular conversat
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
I never considered this aspect at all. To me it feels more that some people find it really fascinating that we finally live in the future. I think so too, just with a lot of reservations but fully aware that the genie has been let out of th
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
Some posts absolutely are. That’s partially why it looks pointless and uninteresting. Even if it wasn’t the case, my opinion would be the same.
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
To me it looks like some of the more “interesting” posts are created by humans. It’s a pointless experiment, I don’t understand why would anyone find it interesting what statistical models are randomly writing in response to other random wr
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by pllbnk 9mo ago
That’s the most refreshing take I have read on a public forum. I am really glad there are people like that. I have met a few people like that over my professional career and either coincidentally or not, they have been among the most compet
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Ask HN: How do you find well-moderated communities
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by pllbnk 10mo ago
It can’t do what I really want it to do: delete the crap emails even when I tell it what I consider crap. Instead it tells me how to filter them and delete them myself; that I can do without Gemini.
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by pllbnk 10mo ago
I am glad more people think this way. I had started exactly this HN discussion a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43238553
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by pllbnk 10mo ago
Don’t be surprised if it tells you to click on the moon icon in the top right corner. Or it might not, but there is a slight probability.
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by pllbnk 10mo ago
That's exactly it. It's not like all these data centers are only going to teach models or perform inference. The goal is renters' economy.
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by pllbnk 10mo ago
Popular media likes to take this very simplistic view and turns the nations' economies into competition, forgetting that economies should work for the people, not vice versa. If it was a competition, then eventually someone would have
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by pllbnk 11mo ago
I have seen it commonly cited (although haven't bothered to check the actual sources, mostly because I believe they should be taken with a grain of salt) that developers spend somewhere in the ballpark of 50-60% of their time doing &qu
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by pllbnk 11mo ago
It's relevant because it shows models haven't improved as much as the companies delivering them would like you to believe no matter what mode (or code) they work under. Developers are quickly transforming from code writers to code
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by pllbnk 1y ago
With the pace of inflation we have been witnessing over the past years $1T has become unimpressive. Let's talk percentages. And if somebody wants to talk about absolute numbers, they should talk not only about negatives, but positives
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Fiat currencies are becoming meme tokens at this point. I think we are in a hyperinflation era and consumer price growth will simply have to catch-up to the stock market growth rate because wealth isn't being created right now, it&#x27
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Too many services is a good problem to have in a regular market. The problem is the accessibility and fragmentation of content. If all services had the same content, they would have to compete on the features, price and performance, which w
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Not talking about this specifically but I am very skeptical towards biographic books because they make the most despicable individuals look how they want to be viewed.
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by pllbnk 1y ago
People overestimate computer vision and other AI capabilities. A few days ago I had a relative struggle to open some fancy cosmetics box. Another relative decided it would be helpful to photograph it and send it to ChatGPT for help. Coincid
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by pllbnk 1y ago
That's the right approach. On the other hand, do you even want to participate in a scam interview?
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by pllbnk 1y ago
I once reported this kind of interview scam repository with the full backstory and explanation why I was reporting it and Github's support asked for a proof that it was a scam. As if I was supposed to do the detective's work. I ju
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by pllbnk 1y ago
I think this is a real picture. I can't explain the ghost finger, probably just a weird angle but it doesn't give off the generated vibe. The poster of the photo seems to be a real person as well as the person who left a comment.
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Exactly. There are at least several different modes these scammers are operating in but eventually it all boils down to some "technical" part in the interviews where the developer is supposed to run some code from an unknown repos

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