sangnoir

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by sangnoir 2y ago
Touche. I meant to say "lenders" - but they too were pretty dumb with sub-prime mortgages in 2008
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I suppose those voters don't have to wait for too long: the economy is going to start doing great for them again at noon on January 20, 2025.
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> Yes you can, just borrow more Did you purposely leave out my parenthetical to use it as a dunk? Borrowers are not dumb (and the amount of debt is also a useful signal on economic health by the way, and right now it's not terrible;
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Robots don't need to guess what they can't see, they would have sensors to tell them exactly what is there (like a self driving car). Self driving vars have cameras as part of their sensor suite, and have models to make sense
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> In a high inflation environment, one has to consume "strongly" just to maintain the same standards of living. Strong disagree: you can't spend what you don't have (or can't borrow), so spending is a vital signa
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> but has it caught up? Which year is your baseline, and why?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Is that so? What's the best American drone company again? Consumer ones, not the MQ-9 Reaper type.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Follow the money. Which companies are better at vacuuming money from all over the world into their countries of origin and exporting the rules, norms and regulations that everyone else -including domestic competition - has to play by. Is HS
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But is the majority of the population thriving? Looking at the numbers: low unemployment, strong consumer spending, average income increasing at a rate higher than inflation, I'd say the majority is doing better than most years. T
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...and?
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> The problem is, lately you can't tell if they are normal or high beams. Properly leveled lights should cast the beam below the horizon: any person seeing the headlights situated above the their height should not be blinded by them
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- isolation and political polarization concomitant with covid shutdowns accelerated the demise of the social fabric, and generally weakened a prior sense of obligation to others The majority (>80%) of drivers in my area are perm
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The final step is an oversimplification: purpose-built simulator -> deconstructed robot on a lab workbench -> controlled space -> "real world" with constraints -> real world Any model would have to succeed in one stage
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Interacting with the actual physical world is very different from creating a video game The major difference being the former scales very poorly for generating training data compared to the latter. Genie 2 is not even a video game and
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> Is it really arguing in good faith to put hypotheticals side by side, on an equal footing, with evidence? Is it arguing in good faith to consider other perspectives outside of our own? Yes it is, and I consider the reverse to be in bad
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Its not your eyes getting old, it's just that are just more inconsiderate assholes out there now, enabled by newer car models that have a uncomfortably bright high-beams with the worst color temperature for night vision (for both the d
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> To dismiss the Romans, the colonials, &c, as of no benefit, however, is to deny reality. At no point did I dismiss the knowledge-transfer as being of no benefit. The point I was making is that it is very easy to be on a high horse
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The fine article states reviews are still embargoed, and sales start next week.
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> Too small for ML. What do you mean by this - I assume you mean too small for SoTA LLMs? There are many ML applications where 12GB is more than enough. Even w.r.t. LLMs, not everyone requires the latest & biggest LLM models. Some &q
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by sangnoir 2y ago
That's not nearly disruptive enough. I'm raising seed rounds for HackerRV - a high end, compact RV rentals for knowledge workers that does away with the need for houses. Starlink comes standard, with additional subscriptions avail
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Yay - I can't wait for Pax Sinica to do away with the inefficiencies of democracy if it means more suffering humans will be uplifted. A brief period of reeducation is worth the amazing infrastructure and getting things done. The end
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You forget that there is value in having moneyed consumers. You can sell them more things that cost more money than you could poor consumers. With increased financializarion and abstraction of tradable assets - the capital class no lon
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> While true, at one time within the memory of people alive today, that underclass in this country could afford homes with their paycheck from widely available unskilled work That was a temporary blip because the underclass had been temp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You should care about counterparty risks. If your business model depends on unsustainable 3rd party prices powered by VC largesse and unrealizable dreams of dominance, the very least you can do is plan for the impending reckoning, after whi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Its not roundabout at all
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Tbf, they meant stuff where the firmware updates and/or control-plane are controlled by Chinese servers. I'll go further: all Internet of shiT gadgets shouldn't be allowed to phone home: Chinese, Korean, American, doesn&#x2
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> That is a pretty cynical take. FSF good, OSI bad. I ascribed no moral value judgement on which is better. However , Tim O'Reilly isn't exactly shy about who the target of those early Open Source conferences (OSCON) were, and
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This specific model is designed to second-guess itself/ chack it's work. So the slowness is part of the point.
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Data safety is a not a binary thing (essential = okay to keep, non-essential = not okay). Instead , it is a context-sensitive, layered, multi-axis concern. IP addresses, for instance, are PII that are essential for network routing, but that
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The a 2024 lecture with Stanford students where he also insinuated that Google lost its edge because it coddles its engineers too much.

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