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by serf 1y ago
It's easy to guess that an opponent that is focusing on information control and theatre above all else is doing so for reasons. > Everything they do must either be a lie or just stolen American technology as an aviation enthusiast f
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by serf 1y ago
>I imagine most journalists would love to have technical reviewers on their work, but there's no funding for it and there's pressure to churn content as quickly as possible. well, so, we call these people what they are : tabloi
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by serf 1y ago
I can't think of a lower-effort or less beneficial social rebellion, and on top of that the messaging is totally confused and half of the people that encounter it will need it explained to them. it'll just be purposefully misinter
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by serf 1y ago
>Losing a bunch of jobs in a short period is terrible. Losing a bunch of careers in a short period is a catastrophe. 'careers' is so ambiguous as to be useless as a metric. what kind of careers? scamming call centers? heavy pet
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by serf 1y ago
the coral tpu does what it does and it's not bad at it. The documentation is good , and quite a few people use them practically. They're available readily. What's upsetting about the state? Continued development? however, to
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by serf 1y ago
SanDisk is one of the big three on SD-3C/SD Association.. so kinda regardless of the MFG it's 'one of theirs' in a roundabout way.
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by serf 1y ago
interesting to see the phrase 'programmer' coming back en masse - especially as someone who never really stopped using it. I thought we were all 'full stack engineeers' now, otherwise the resume got thrown into the circu
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by serf 1y ago
I just missed an ebay opportunity to get a dell r730xd with 12x 12tb drives for around 400 dollars. if you're willing to wait and bid-snipe you can find deals like that routinely; just wait to find one with the size drives you want. if
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by serf 1y ago
The way the story lead with the belief that the drives were likely going to be untrustworthy made me think the author was going to throw them in a system with multiple redundancies or use them as additional parity drives.. god speed!
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by serf 1y ago
sort of? vegas and the surrounding areas are totally inundated with gated communities, I bet you'd get a LOT of nimbyism in those areas. As far as the strip itself goes , well that's controlled by the corporate casino post-mafia f
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by serf 1y ago
>Tens of thousands of riders You saw tens of thousands of riders? That anecdote just doesn't jibe with the throughput numbers -- that's why it seems like a flex, it's grossly inflated. Now before we go into pedantry and yo
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by serf 1y ago
I kind of hate smart TVs -- my family got a Samsung one that got feature obsoleted in months , but I needed a cctv kiosk -- I bought a fire stick and the cheapest +speakers monitor on amazon with an HDMI port and USB power, was pleasantly
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by serf 1y ago
this doesn't even need to be about AI to be true. You show me an easily found solution and i'll show you some code that is triple the length it needs to be while running double the cycles.
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by serf 1y ago
agreed, but it's not like it came from nowhere. going to be hard to get the entire world to speak differently for every model released.
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by serf 1y ago
isn't this kind of like an 80% vq-vae?
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by serf 1y ago
It's an unfair comparison. Yes, they're both 4 legged 'dogs', but they use radically different design criteria -- design criteria that the BigDog was used to refine. I'm not surprised that a Honda Civic can't n
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by serf 1y ago
A 'hypergenius superintelligence' could achieve most , if not all useful proprioception simply by looking at motor amperage draw, or if that's unavailable then total system amperage draw. An arm moving against gravity has
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by serf 1y ago
the unitree r1 is effectively a useless toy. it's like positing about the future of robotics by looking at a sumo bot. what it IS , however, is a remarkable achievement of commoditization; getting a toy like that with those kind of m
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by serf 1y ago
I feel like all of these points beg us to loop around and ask the question : "How does HFT provide social benefit to the world at large?" the exchanges weren't established for the abstract sake of money, they were established
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by serf 1y ago
the common argument against it is that it guarantees a technological arms race and by those conditions pushes the smaller groups out of the competition. it's unfair in the same vein that the rich are always offered better loan rates th
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by serf 1y ago
>This will never hit a production enterprise system without some form of hooks/callbacks in place to instill governance. knowing how many times Claude Code breezed through a hook call and threw it away after actually computing the h
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by serf 1y ago
go watch any movie about a panopticon for the (overdiscussed) side-effects of a surveillance state. Fiction works, but if you want to spend the evening depressed then go for any East/West Germany (true) stories. For it or against surve
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by serf 1y ago
I don't really believe that premise in a world with competition, and the strategy it supports -- let AI companies produce profit off of old models -- ignores the need for SOTA advancement and expansion by these very same companies. In
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by serf 1y ago
nice pictures. that fire proofing around all of the wires is neat, as is that bldc design with the integrated heat-sinks and the huge compute unit with the copper piping to external heat-sinks. very nice equipment before it was smashed to s
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by serf 1y ago
minutiae to me is the effort of loading a page and reading half a paragraph in order to determine the AI tone for myself. The new AI literature frontier has actually added value to reading the comments first on HN in a surprising twist -
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by serf 1y ago
in the same vein that a 'Behind The Scenes Look At The Making of Jurassic Park' is , in fact, an ad. having a company name pitched at you within the first two sentences is a pretty good give away.
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by serf 1y ago
you also don't fall asleep at your desk as a response to a birthday party in the office early in the morning after a good nights' sleep, but if you play a one-sided game in this that's what happens. it's not a reality si
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by serf 1y ago
larger initial purchases are harder on the lower income earners regardless of the long term value they offer; that's one of the hard parts about being poor, it also makes positive economic decisions harder to accomplish.
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by serf 1y ago
that's a ridiculous stance to take, and you could take it all day -- regulations change on the net daily , it's a full time job being totally compliant, that's why people make money (..or attempt to..) while doing it.
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by serf 1y ago
>Yeesh, ageism, plain and simple. we take it for granted that someone below the age of 15-ish in the United States shouldn't be behind the wheel of an automobile, but that's not universally true. We try 18 year olds as adults,

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