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by sangnoir 2y ago
Tim is not Phil...
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How is it logic defying? It seems straightforward to apply on any compositional entity: I could make one with "Apple Executive", "Tim", "Phill", and "Eddy"
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If it's the first, somebody should tell them the slop's already up to their navels and they probably shouldn't be helping people generate more of it. One would imagine Meta can readily quantify how much AI-generated con
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I'm sorry but what are these guys working on that's taking precedence over this? Their day-jobs at other various Musk enterprises.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I mentioned broken peripherals in the comments you responded to. You're moving goals. >> which distro(es) would be available? > None Me: there's Ubuntu 24.10 build specifically for Snapdragon X Elite ARM computers You: th
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by sangnoir 2y ago
They could just hack their devices remotely, or physically break into his residence. I suspect a serial leaker will lack neither the discipline to not copy data onto personal devices, nor the opsec to withstand a motivated nation-state, sin
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by sangnoir 2y ago
An experimental build of Ubuntu 24.10 for Snapdragon X Elite ARM computers is available[1] today from Canonical. It's denoted as "Experimental" because its very bleeding edge, and under active development. It boots and is ins
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> None. I was down-voted during the launch for saying that there won't be any meaningful support from Qualcomm and 6 months later You were - and are - wrong. Qualcomm mainlined enough drivers for in the same window (past 6 months) s
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Strong vs weak sense of obligation to the collective (the people around you).
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by sangnoir 2y ago
That sounds about right - the medium is the message. If you can't stand the clunky-but-working, decades-old, patch process, you probably won't stand the clunky-but-working decades-old code. I'm grateful the kernel still suppo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Robotics will be solved pretty soon by 10x reasoners if this development curve continues Don't get high on your own (industry's) supply. This foward-looking BS is targeted at clueless investors, Level 5 self-driving cars have
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Call me a doomsday prepper, but frankly I haven't heard a compelling argument against this line of thinking that is actually in line with the absurd development curve. Are the current economics viable indefinitely? I think not. Th
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by sangnoir 2y ago
That only works if the edit buffer is blank or only has commented out lines. In other cases, such as when you're trying to cancel a `git commit --amend` that loads up the last commit message in your buffer, :q! will not cancel the comm
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by sangnoir 2y ago
That's just part of the game. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, but there's never a decisive winner.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> So if Cloudflare has access to other data that can positively identify bots They do not - not definitively [1]. This cat-and-mouse game is stochastic at higher levels, with bots doing their best to blend in with regular traffic, and th
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I see Chinese nationals in US labs thinking a return to China is a more attractive now than it was a few weeks ago. Chinese institutions should absolutely capitalize on this.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Everything is securities fraud - they'd likely be sued by shareholders. Some individuals and institutions are picky about the symbols in their portfolio for religious or moral reasons, and would not appreciate being deceived into inv
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's not a luxury belief for a multinational tech company that intends to remain in business in countries that are not allied to the US. Being seen as independent of the military has a dollar value, but that may be smaller than value o
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Plenty of US companies not named Google haven't had qualms about weapons development in decades. It's not about US vs China/Russia, it's about Google's culture. Additionally, the US has been vociferous about limitin
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You're just highlighting a different aspect of parent's concern: there shouldn't be special-casing for military aircraft in shared airspace.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Boosting their personal brand, perhaps?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But since LLMs don’t really act deterministically, I feel the need to double check their output. I feel the same > That’s very painful for me. At that point I’d rather just write the code once, correctly. I use AI tools augmentative
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The whole “chat as UX” metaphor is a cul-de-sac that I’m sure we’ll back out of sooner or later. Only when someone discovers another paradigm that matches or exceeds the effectiveness of LLMs without being a language model.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Narrative is a famously flawed way to communicate or record the real world. ...and yet with it's flaws, it's the most flexible in conveying meaning. A Ted Chiang interview was on the HN frontpage a few days ago, in it, he men
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> if the “deep state” was a real thing If it wasn't, he made it real. Elon is the deep state. An unelected individual who has set up a no-oversight machinery with hands on the levers of state power, and using them to his own ends,
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> $0.01 per action that can potentially save you tens of minutes to hours of work sounds like a pretty good deal to me Save tens of hours in one commit?! No model is this good yet[1] - especially not Aider with its recommended models.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> [...] but he may be a little more convinced about physical ones. He thought raking forests would prevent fires. His off-the-cuff solution to physical barriers would be long hoses and a bunch of water pumps.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Humans are not deterministic and can break for many reasons. Yes. Humans can also self-evaluate about their state, and have culpability. It not surprising that non-humans are held to a different standard.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> How realistic is it to have ATC performed by an AI? Not very. For safety-critical systems, you probably want something deterministic, and doesn't break when faced with novel situations. Solvers are probably a better solution than
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The Aviation safety industry considers near-misses as an indicator of danger, and worth reviewing. A near-miss followed by a crash is maximally damning of the system.

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