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541.
by roughly 1y ago
I am not an Elon or X fan, and I don’t think this is Good, but Twitter’s policy pre-X to comply with national content laws was to geo-block content when a government demanded it be blocked. I don’t recall if the algorithmic shadow-ban was i
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by roughly 1y ago
I dunno, I feel like we’ve seen this play often enough - “option to opt-out” is absolutely going to be the first feature slated for elimination on the product roadmap - “after all, only 5% of customers are using it.”
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by roughly 1y ago
> Very well argued. It's such a stunning dereliction the US let things get to this point. We were doing the "pivot to Asia" over a decade ago but no one thought to find TSMC on a map and ask whether Intel was driving itsel
544.
by roughly 1y ago
> So the answer to your question would seem to be 'war'. As the saying goes, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
545.
by roughly 1y ago
This is a fantastic recap of everything Juno discovered and the value of this kind of mission - there’s multiple discoveries in here that are at odds with our theoretical understanding of planetary formation, physics, and chemistry that can
546.
by roughly 1y ago
I am generally well read across a wide variety of fields, but now and again I come across a sentence or paragraph where the sheer density of information packed into a small number of well-chosen field-specific terms just stops me in my trac
547.
by roughly 1y ago
Nature really, really, really wants you to have kids. It took us collectively as a species most of our existence to find genuinely effective methods to alter our biology sufficient to block this process, and we still have a hard time doing
548.
by roughly 1y ago
While we’re discussing map projections - Tupaia’s map of the south seas deserves mention as a reminder that every map has a baked in set of assumptions and use cases: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/so
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by roughly 1y ago
All of these things are possible, but the cost difference between “put the plant in the dirt” and “put the plant in a specially constructed climate and humidity controlled box” are why large-scale hydroponics are only really used for high p
550.
by roughly 1y ago
Something that occurred to me a while back that I can’t stop seeing is that Americans fundamentally do not expect laws to actually be enforced and will get angry if they are, even when they voted for those laws. It’s something baked deeply
551.
by roughly 1y ago
My favorite variant of that kind of story: https://blog.nature.org/2018/01/12/australian-firehawk-rapto...
552.
by roughly 1y ago
I audibly laughed at this one: https://gist.github.com/simonw/25e7b7afd6a63a2f15db48b3a51ec... where it generates a… poem? Song? And then proceeds to explain how each line contributes to the SVG, concluding with: >
553.
by roughly 1y ago
"Technically this isn't illegal, because we've got an extradition treaty with Guatemala, and the court said Trump needed to show evidence in a trial before flying people out, but we're on a bus, not a plane, so really th
554.
by roughly 1y ago
I get the feeling you're one of the people who's going to be telling me I'm overreacting while we sit shackled together on a bus to Guatemala, where surely there are lawyers waiting for us.
555.
by roughly 1y ago
The same way you do with every other product. Ads redefine alignment, because they redefine who the product is for.
556.
by roughly 1y ago
Yeah, and this may be part of what the brain is doing - a referent check on our personal sense of identity to validate whether or not a response or action seems like the sort of thing we would do - “given that I’m this kind of person, is th
557.
by roughly 1y ago
I think this may also be why every discussion of the limitation of these models is met with a “well humans also hallucinate/whatever” - because we Do, but that’s often when some other part of the controlling mechanism has broken down.
558.
by roughly 1y ago
One of my favorites was Python’s datetime.time() object evaluating to True for every value except exact midnight, which is the sort of thing that makes fine sense when you think about the underlying implementation but is absolutely going to
559.
by roughly 1y ago
The point of a report is to provide a structured process and background for a set of technical or policy recommendations. It’d be perfectly normal for a report drafted by the efforts of 50 people to have an audience of 2-3 major decision ma
560.
by roughly 1y ago
I think I’d put this under the “3D printed gun” panic category - once we deal with all the actual sociopaths, we can start worrying about the imaginary ones.
561.
by roughly 1y ago
Like a lot of the research Anthropic has done, this and the “emergent misalignment” research they link to put more points in the “stochastic parrot” hypothesis column. The reason these LLM behaviors read as so weird to us is that we’re stil
562.
by roughly 1y ago
I believe he’s asking why the parent poster was suggesting monopolistic consolidation would be good for the consumer, contrary to what all theory and experience would suggest.
563.
by roughly 1y ago
Perfectly average, I’d say
564.
by roughly 1y ago
Yeah, there’s two rules that define the internet: 1. 95% of people will not be trying to draw penises 2. 5% penises by volume is a lot of penises
565.
by roughly 1y ago
Welcome to government work - that dude’s not an edge case, he’s a constituent.
566.
by roughly 1y ago
I think it depends on what you're trying to do, and I also think the landscape is different right now than it would have been 5 years ago. I'd actually view the browser as a more difficult market to crack than search, because ther
567.
by roughly 1y ago
Someone once described the secret to making magic as putting in far more effort than any reasonable person would, such that no reasonable person would think you'd done it the hard way.
568.
by roughly 1y ago
I really like Kagi, but I'm starting to get that same sense of anticipatory melancholy I used to get when I found a really good drug dealer back in the day - this product or service is fantastic, and I'm very happy to be able to g
569.
by roughly 1y ago
wait people used to have walls separating them from their neighbors? and, like, 40sq feet to themselves? what the fuck?
570.
by roughly 1y ago
My rule with LLMs has been "if a shitty* answer fast gets you somewhere, the LLMs are the right tool," and that's where I've seen them for learning, too. There are times when I'm reading a paper, and there's a

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