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by qlte 24d ago
Was there a follow up if he ever managed to collect on the $721 judgment? EDIT: Ah, missed the follow up link at the end. No, he did not get any money. Google appealed to a superior court (sending their lawyers this time) and the award was
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by qlte 24d ago
Well the key difference making any superficial similarities fall apart is Nvidia does not have neutral economy-wide goals of maintaining small+stable inflation, near-full employment and stabilizing financial institutions like the Fed does.
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by qlte 24d ago
It's beyond embarrassing how the Bush admin took cases that in 2003 would have produced a slam dunk guilty verdict from any federal court in the country and decided to taint the evidence with torture (producing a bunch of spurious unac
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by qlte 24d ago
SBF is a better example since he was actually sentenced and an actual billionaire (and did not get pardoned by Biden like the cynical "all politicians are equally corrupt" crowd on HN were adamant was a done deal, even though that
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by qlte 24d ago
The letter addresses this specifically.
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by qlte 24d ago
It includes Terrance Tao who has made the front page several dozen times at this point for his usage of AI such as to help the community write proofs for Erdos problems. But to many commentors he's a now gatekeeping AI-hating Luddite c
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by qlte 24d ago
A long complex proof to something we have been able to simulate in fidelity forever doesn't do any of that though.
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by qlte 24d ago
Yes, mathematicians will clearly need to rewrite the qualifying criteria for prizes to better align with the actual goals and value they were hoping to get from a solved problem. The field as a whole assumed good faith actors and collaborat
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by qlte 25d ago
This is over simplified to the point of being misleading/wrong. Russia was the legal successor of the USSR for purposes of diplomatic continuity, but the other Soviet successor states divided portions of the Soviet military/equipm
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by qlte 25d ago
> And I don't buy the "Iran is different" gospel. It's funny reading literature from the mega hawks in US politics during the Cold War. Descriptions of the Soviet leadership basically word for word use the sam
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by qlte 25d ago
Analyzing jazz voice leading would be extremely difficult without understanding the basic rules of harmonic analysis from the common practice period it evolved from and built on. It sounds like what you're looking for is closer to a ge
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by qlte 25d ago
Sure, I know that on an intellectual level. But I will say, I find these reports quite unsettling to read due to the extreme specificity. Especially since some of the examples they chose to include clearly aren't terrorists and just so
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by qlte 25d ago
Ah, that makes way more sense than Anthropic's (probably deliberately misleading) insinuation that Moonshot has been burning millions of dollars in Claude API credits by swapping in a slightly better but infinitely more expensive model
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by qlte 25d ago
IMO you should disclose that you are an OpenAI employee if you're going to try and shape the contours of public discussion in a lecturing tone.
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by qlte 25d ago
Also not GAAP profitable in that quarter
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by qlte 26d ago
Same, I'm also just barely old enough that a lot of the wall maps in elementary school were from the Cold War and remember thinking the USSR was like 1/4 the world's surface area thanks to the Mercator projection. My teachers
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by qlte 26d ago
Man, in a thread he links to his tweet from 2024 that mentions using disappearing messages on Signal which the WPEngine lawyers are now using against him. So many people (including DannyBee, himself a lawyer) were telling him on HN how oppo
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by qlte 26d ago
They were using the trademark on the website to describe WordPress the software project under nomitative fair use in the same way many, many hosting providers have been doing for decades. He openly admitted in online comments to trying (and
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by qlte 26d ago
How is that a de facto ban, you can't trademark the common names of plenty of substances ubiquitous in daily life. The manufacturers of refrigerants don't seem like they could completely dictate what appliance manufacturers choose
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by qlte 26d ago
They did not in fact diagnose anything, "mental illness" is not a specific condition in the DSM. You'd have a valid point if they confidently stated he had bipolar disorder or something.
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by qlte 27d ago
That's how it is on my Z Fold 8, I can really only see it with the screen off.
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by qlte 27d ago
Z Fold 8 already has this form factor, just without the giant corners so the front/inside screen are symmetrical on both axes and share the same radius.
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by qlte 27d ago
Yeah I posted in another comment, but I'm quite confused by the corners. It's described like they solved some giant UX pain point on other foldables, but as far as I can tell it's a solution to a problem they created to make
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by qlte 27d ago
I don't understand the value of the asymmetric corners, it seems to be working around their decision to have absolutely massive corner radius? Why would you want that? I have a Z Fold 8 in the same passport form factor and it has sligh
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by qlte 27d ago
Yep, it's same "passport" form factor as the (non-ultra) Z Fold 8, I just bought one last week and love the size.
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by qlte 27d ago
When working on a problem models will walk you down a garden path requiring only yes/no answers or very brief clarifications for a long time. It's always proposing its own workarounds/suggestions/etc. Especially if tryi
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by qlte 27d ago
No that makes them more interesting for the same reasons OP gave. You try to build a mental model of this mystery person from a mysterious time, where ever little detail could be a clue about them, their society/culture, or just triv
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by qlte 27d ago
Pure mathematics (defined by anything without a known application) exists not to "solve problems" in the real world, but by whatever mathematicians find interesting or lacking in current knowledge. Based on the agreed set of rules
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by qlte 27d ago
The incentives are massively skewed towards the AI labs investing their massive amounts of compute into being the first to solve an outstanding problem. It's a marketing game for them, any societal benefits are secondary. Winning a pri
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by qlte 28d ago
The question being posed isn't whether AI is impressive but whether we're at the "dawn of the singularity"

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