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by resters 2y ago
Currently TikTok is the only one that is not heavily skewed to promote state-approved content.
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by resters 2y ago
A firewall is actually less powerful than an algorithmic feed that does the state's bidding.
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by resters 2y ago
Look at the other replies to my comment, Americans don't know it exists either.
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by resters 2y ago
You can always tell an intellectually limited programmer when their code requires thinking too hard.
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by resters 2y ago
You just skim over the API docs and learn the APIs. Grep can help look things up. Depends a lot on how many new APIs one is using and how non-trivial their implementations are.
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by resters 2y ago
This comment isn't false but it's very naive.
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by resters 2y ago
It's not contradictory. It can happen over a decade and still be a dramatically sloped S curve with tremendous change happening in a relatively short time.
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by resters 2y ago
I think it was a fad that caught on among people who had been writing code for a few weeks.
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by resters 2y ago
IMHO it's expensive and not at all better than IRC, plus it helps kill IRC which was a core part of the public internet, open source culture, etc. I also find it annoying that the creators of slack pretend they invented something origi
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by resters 2y ago
let's hope this replaced slack and all the gimmickware.
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by resters 2y ago
Anyone who doesn't think $200/month is a bargain has definitely not been using LLMs anywhere near their potential.
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by resters 2y ago
Right. I'm imagining a tool that would let users impose choices such as the following: - Accept any certs trusted by Bruce Schneier unless they are not trusted by tptacec - Do not accept new certs for top 1000 domain names unless they
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by resters 2y ago
The simple solution would be to have independent entities offer trust assertions about CAs and to allow users to consider multiple entities' views in their decision about whether to trust. It's surprising this doesn't exist y
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by resters 2y ago
The secret sauce part is the useful part -- the local vector store. Anthropic is probably not going to release that without competitive pressure. Meanwhile this helps Anthropic build an ecosystem. When you think about it, function calling n
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by resters 2y ago
Those are interesting resources! I meant armored in more of a figurative sense, as in "prepared to defend itself against offensive collisions".
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by resters 2y ago
Perhaps it is recycled aboard the large armored satellite or propelled into the Earth's atmosphere so it can burn up.
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by resters 2y ago
Positioning a large, armored satellite in low or mid-Earth orbit significantly enhances its strategic value for both offensive and defensive anti-satellite operations. Such a platform could serve as a pivotal asset in maintaining orbital do
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by resters 2y ago
Of course businesses want to be able to de-risk by having highly accurate predictions of the future. Too bad those don't exist in any domain of business planning. More often, the focus on estimating comes from management layers where
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by resters 2y ago
Back in the day on Slashdot the Reiser/ReiserFS saga was one of the more interesting linux-related dramas. Seems like the other FS options in the kernel are now unequivocally superior and ReiserFS is completely obsolete.
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by resters 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what time of day and pre-ceremony preparation do you recommend for the retreat?
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by resters 2y ago
indeed! HN has gone way to the authoritarian right. Not just socially but also a lot of HN readers favor economically authoritarian policies like tariffs!
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by resters 2y ago
I agree. I also have an M1 mini with 8GB of RAM and while I wish I'd bought one with more RAM, it work nicely when the task doesn't require much RAM. The incremental benefits of the M2-M4 are nice, but they do not obsolete the M1
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by resters 2y ago
I agree. my comment was not meant to suggest that I believe otherwise.
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by resters 2y ago
In many ways it's probably already more useful than Google. Regular GPT-4 dramatically reduced my need to search Google for anything. However it refused to search the internet for instances of my email address. Not sure what the benefi
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by resters 2y ago
It's hard to imagine ay reason why I would not want to keep upgrading to a new MPB every few years -- my M3 MBP is by far the best laptop I've owned thanks to the incredible battery life. Of course I'm rooting for competition
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by resters 2y ago
This is a very solid pattern. Many systems that are built using traditional relational database systems would lend themselves to far simpler designs using this paradigm. It is not necessarily immediately obvious but nonetheless quite true.
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by resters 2y ago
Interesting points. I appreciate the discussion a great deal. I really want to believe that the US is doing state of the art engineering and manufacturing in the EV space. You've given me some good things to think about.
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by resters 2y ago
So China is both using slave labor and also paying close to wage parity with the US? How can both of those assertions be true? I think the lithium/cobalt argument is a bit of a straw man, since the generally accepted view is that the
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by resters 2y ago
> The tariffs are to protect all US car manufacturers Most of the US car manufacturers would have gone out of business in 2008 if the US government had not bailed them out. How can anything China is doing to help BYD compare with that?
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by resters 2y ago
It's perplexing because Elon is effective at fundraising and pursuing challenging and ambitious goals. However now Tesla cars are protected by a 100% tariff on competitors, and Elon is campaigning for Trump who is now promising 200% ta

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