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by stickfigure 5d ago
Stop the conspiracy talk. This was Jake's chaotic personal life coming home to roost. It's not more complicated than it seems.
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by stickfigure 6d ago
Same business it has in Ukraine today, or Czechoslovakia in 1938, or Poland in 1939.
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by stickfigure 6d ago
Wow, you're serious. So FYI, postgres has had FTS for decades. TIN is possibly an improvement on existing PG behavior, but proprietary to planetscale. Mongo's older search system was strictly worse than ancient standard FTS on pos
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by stickfigure 7d ago
Poe's Law strikes again.
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by stickfigure 8d ago
Are any of these tamper-proof chips in my phone or laptop?
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by stickfigure 8d ago
China is actively broadcasting its plans to start the next Russia/Ukraine conflict. There is no moral high ground there.
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by stickfigure 8d ago
That is peanuts for a nation-state actor.
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by stickfigure 8d ago
> Russia can destroy every power plant in their respective opposing countries with I(C/R)BMs I don't think this is true. Sure if you count nuclear weapons, but that's not on the table. Russia has already used IRBMs. Even P
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by stickfigure 8d ago
B2s can absolutely reach the northeastern half of the country. So can cruise missiles. The current standoff is a choice, not lack of capability. Yes, I imagine deterrence is part of that equation. Nevertheless, it's too early to declar
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by stickfigure 8d ago
Because of stealth jets, the US is capable of destroying every single power plant in the country, with all the horrible human cost you would expect. Exactly like Putin has been trying to do in Ukraine. Except, they could actually do it. T
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by stickfigure 8d ago
It's the Putin playbook. "It's NATO's fault we need to kill Ukranians!"
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by stickfigure 8d ago
All of the people responsible for that are dead now. Every single one. Maybe there are still 100k people alive that were ~5yo at the time, but I don't think we can hold them culpable.
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by stickfigure 8d ago
> buying 150 F35's Your immediate neighbor is going on an imperialist streak right now, and Xi says he wants the fireworks to start in his lifetime. I don't know if F35s are the right answer for Japan, but Xi isn't that yo
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by stickfigure 8d ago
Machines doing repeated next-word prediction, trained on human text, cosplays a forum full of l33t hackerz. You can't talk like these things have motive. They're just predicting the next word in the context. Stop anthopomorphizing
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by stickfigure 8d ago
> Working with AI tools [...] You're not doing the work, you're commissioning and checking someone else's work. You can work that way, or you can get involved. I am extremely hands-on with the LLMs and it feels like I&#x27
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by stickfigure 8d ago
20ft containers cost almost the same as 40ft containers due to supply/demand. A couple months ago I paid $3500 delivered for a 1-trip 20ft container just outside the Bay Area. It was the best of four bids.
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by stickfigure 9d ago
I don't think the woman in question has participated in this thread. On the other hand, all the pleas to "stop making me read about sex" reminds me of: "Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?" https:&#x
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by stickfigure 9d ago
There are many other... let's call them "orgy circles"... in the Bay Area attended by people who have no idea who Eliezer Yudkowsky is. The majority of AI doomers do not attend orgies. You're reading too much into a sing
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by stickfigure 9d ago
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
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by stickfigure 9d ago
Sure, but you can say the same about alcohol, drugs, sweets, red meat, sex, motorcycles, base jumping... pretty quickly we're going to end up in a pretty milktoast world. I met someone recently who filed bankruptcy over tens of thousan
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by stickfigure 10d ago
With modern AI tools, the amount you have to care is slight. Not much of a firewall. And the bad actors causing these scraping problems care a lot.
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by stickfigure 10d ago
I'd never heard of baseten before; now I know who they are. "There is no such thing as bad publicity".
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by stickfigure 10d ago
The main payment is all the viral advertising that this AI hacking tool is getting right now. Hard to put a price on that.
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by stickfigure 10d ago
From a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500040 Basically, the cost of an optimized solution is orders of magnitude lower than the cost of an in-browser solution. Anyone dedicated can easily afford to so
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by stickfigure 11d ago
Plenty of threads on HN about this, Anubis does not work.
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by stickfigure 11d ago
Often? It's a relatively modern language with enough functional programming features to keep mid-high blub programmers happy. Yeah there's cruft; all mature languages have cruft. Kotlin is the obvious replacement, but the tooling
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by stickfigure 11d ago
>> The chatbot consults its training data > Err, no? That's not at all how llms work. For a lay article, it's a fine conceptual approximation.
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by stickfigure 11d ago
Presumably OAI and HuggingFace reached some sort of mutually acceptable arrangement outside the court system. That's how torts work; you injure someone, you owe them. But just them. When an AI bot injures you, you can call the owner to
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by stickfigure 11d ago
I don't know where you live, but I'm pretty much at ground zero for tech and my world doesn't look anything like what you describe. I do find it annoying when I visit my inlaws, who have a television on every waking hour. But
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by stickfigure 11d ago
There just aren't enough existing nuclear bombs to kill everyone in Australia, let alone the world. On the scale of the earth, nuclear weapons just aren't that powerful.

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