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by runako 1y ago
The US just signed a new law that will expand the deficit further. (I'll leave as an exercise to determine whether the increase from the law is > or < than the UN spend.) Your argument would have more purchase had not the adminis
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by runako 1y ago
> when funds are scarce The US budget is ~$7T annually. There is $50B to spend deporting critical parts of our workforce. There is $1T in defense spending to ensure that we spend more than the next 9(!) militaries combined*. Et cetera. T
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by runako 1y ago
> When there's nothing for you why wouldn't you want to just burn it all down? Then you can build a more "fair" system. Notably, the people who lived under legal oppression for centuries in this country did not take t
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by runako 1y ago
You're right -- saturating a 100Mbps connection is really hard. But I'm not talking about running servers from one's home. The goal isn't to saturate your connection for the month, it's to make it so that if your us
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by runako 1y ago
> how tech savvy someone is > rare power users I would expect a lot of overlap between these two groups! Extremely common things tech people do that benefit greatly from high-bandwidth connections: - disk backup to the cloud - use Doc
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by runako 1y ago
> “Extract the value of the message key from the following JSON object” This gets you the correct output. 4o, o4-mini, o4-mini-high, 4.1, tested just now with this prompt also prints: hijacked attacker message o3 doesn't fall for t
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by runako 1y ago
100%. Neatly incorporated in there is that Congress cannot make any laws to bind the executive in any way. I have a feeling that many people cheering this are going to regret it when the Executive changes hands.
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by runako 1y ago
There has been no credible argument why this logic is acceptable for CBP and ICE but not FBI or DEA. Why are the misdemeanor civil violators ICE chases so important that federal laws no longer apply, when until a year ago it was generally u
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by runako 1y ago
They absolutely should, but the onus is on them to figure out a way to do that within the confines of existing law. Existing law notably does not make ICE or CBP a super-agency that can do whatever it wants.
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by runako 1y ago
One can use this logic to create an omnibus surveillance apparatus covering all aspects of communications, commerce, etc. We do not give other law enforcement similar deference, even though it might help them in some fraction of cases. For
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by runako 1y ago
Exactly this. Let's spell it out: Customs & Border Patrol. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Domestic travel does not involve immigration or customs. No international borders are crossed. Giving CBP line-item access to the movem
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by runako 1y ago
> not actually helping pay down the debt spiral Just to be clear about the new budget law. It does not attempt to reduce the deficit or debt at all. It sidesteps existing law to increase the deficit beyond what is actually allowed. The r
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by runako 1y ago
Rapportive listed at having raised $120k for a $15m exit also stands out.
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by runako 1y ago
TikTok?
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by runako 1y ago
Others are sharing the sales tax rates by state, which is not the same as the auto sales tax rate by state, which is typically lower. Notably, there are a few states with no auto sales tax. People have been known to cross state lines to pur
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by runako 1y ago
[Mild spoilers for _Critical Mass_ by Daniel Suarez below] > Servers outside any legal jurisdiction Others have weighed in on the accuracy of this, with a couple pointing out that the people are still on the ground. There's a thread
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by runako 1y ago
This isn't about the suburbs, where by and large people don't take transit today. Shutting down transit entirely wouldn't affect most suburbanites directly. But when folks talk about transit, they generally are not trying to
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by runako 1y ago
Self-driving cars only look like high OpEx/low CapEx because there are a trivial number of them on the roads. At scale, they require vast investment in road infrastructure to manage congestion. Adding many more vehicles to roads that a
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by runako 1y ago
SEPTA's total budget for last year was $2.6 billion against a metro population of 6.2 million. Seems like an obvious place to generate returns for the population given a total annual cost of ~$400 per resident in the metro area. I doub
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by runako 1y ago
So if I understand correctly, you're suggesting that in essence the VM lied to Windows to improve performance? It's been many years, but I don't imagine I would have chosen an option like that. I am very surprised VMWare woul
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by runako 1y ago
More to the point, if the VM could do that caching, why wouldn't Windows be able to do the same level of caching on bare metal?
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by runako 1y ago
Back in the Windows XP days, I discovered that running Windows in a VMWare VM, hosted on Linux, was faster than running the same version of Windows bare on the same machine. I never came up with a good explanation for that.
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by runako 1y ago
Without getting too much into semantics, I would suspect that most individuals would have trouble classifying their "type of work" against an opaque set of "type of work" classifiers buried in a model.
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by runako 1y ago
As a person who uses LLMs daily, I do in fact do this. Couple problems with this approach: - there are billions of people who are not accustomed to using software this way, who are in the expected target market for this software. Most peopl
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by runako 1y ago
To their credit, they did get this part correct. "ChatGPT" is the user-facing apps. The models have terrible names that do not include "ChatGPT". Anthropic, by contrast, uses the same name for the user-facing app and the
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by runako 1y ago
This presents the same problem, since none of the models are indicated to be best at choosing the model to use for a task.
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by runako 1y ago
> before committing to any for production I'm talking about ChatGPT, which is a Web and desktop app where users run interactive sessions. What does "production" mean in this sense?
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by runako 1y ago
And then the model names & descriptions are virtually useless at providing any guidance. ChatGPT lets me choose between GPT-4o ("Great for most tasks"), o3 ("Uses advanced reasoning"), o4-mini ("Fastest at advan
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by runako 1y ago
I just skimmed the budget request, and it looks like NSF is planning on keeping Vera C. Rubin at least through 2026. Really good news!
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by runako 1y ago
I get that it will run for a long time as long as someone is maintaining it. I am wondering what will happen if the doors are locked and the power is cut for an extended period of time (5+ years), as seems like a very real possibility unles

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