streetfighter64

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by streetfighter64 1mo ago
I don't really see the value of regulation requiring a certain preference, given that there are tradeoffs. I owned a modular phone previously, and it was, as you say, not as thin and not waterproof, and not dustproof either. Given that
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by streetfighter64 1mo ago
Sure, but so far I've replaced my phone screen once and the battery never, I suppose both would be equally easy though. Why is heating a big issue but removing screws not? Shouldn't we mandate user-replaceable screens too? Soon yo
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by streetfighter64 1mo ago
Powerbank: Works with all phones, Doesn't require you to shut down and take your phone apart, Can be charged with a regular phone charger. Spare battery: ???
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
I don't know, in my experience the chat output has been fairly natural. The quoted sentence seems to be from some "model internals". Of course that can be incomprehensible, what an AI assistant is really doing is just statist
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
By default? I doubt it would be useful or desirable for 95% of users. I'm guessing most people find natural language easiest to read, STE seems to be like a project almost akin to Esperanto or Lojban.
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
It's controversial because your definition of "over-engineered" is different from most other people's understanding of the term. Most people would take it to mean "using more complex systems than needed to achieve a
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Godwin's law was invoked quickly. It's not very hacker spirit to hear a story of somebody putting together a cool hardware solution to do something they wanted, and then complain that they wanted the wrong thing. > check out my
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Well, as I mentioned there was already in 2020 the problem of (human-generated) slop commits causing unnecessary work for maintainers. The commit in itself might add some minuscule value to the project, but when you take into account the ti
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
I think Goodhart's law applies really well here. When people make commits for the sake of having made a commit to some famous repo, the "merit" that a commit measures is already useless. Remember Hacktoberfest 2020, before LL
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Well, it's about as honest as repackaging tap water as mineral water, given that the fans could just prompt personalized stories of the same quality, but it's a career for sure. :)
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Well, we don't. Just look at all the wars going on right now. In light of that, does it seem like a good idea to introduce a bunch of even less aligned agents into the world? "Grey goo" nanobots are another example of artific
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Like most of these get-rich-quick schemes, there's probably no money in actually doing it, but lots of money selling "courses" supposedly teaching people how to make money day trading or betting. You don't even need to r
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
> There is no amount of care that will be able to fully protect you. That's true, but one thing that'll protect you is just not doing it. If you want to go cave diving, or do gain of function research on dangerous viruses, you&
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean with "load bearing"? My example of newtonian mechanics was actually to exemplify a simple model that's obviously correct to everybody (given that you use it for what it's useful for). Like
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
> That matters because most people won't actually read the article but will see the title and take it at face value. Welcome to, like any news article in the history of mankind. Also I disagree that it's a lie. Clearly it depen
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
It's a tautology, who would need explaining of it? The fact that "if there is evidence for something, people will agree with that thing". That's like, pretty much the definition of evidence...
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
Surprised at the quick dismissals in the comments here. Of course the title is a bit sensationalist, that's the case for all pop-sci articles. I don't think anybody would reasonably believe physicists disagree about for example Ne
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
AI writing, sigh... > to be unreachable: no banner, no version string, > It works, but it has a real weakness:
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by streetfighter64 2mo ago
> They try to inject malware into your thinking, manipulating your worldview and your actions. Isn't your comment an attack as well by that line of thinking? Am I attacking you by arguing that people nowadays are way to quick to con
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
In Europe the problem is already pretty solved because you can get a MPL and fly right seat in a passenger jet in 245 flight hours, just by going through an airline cadet program or something like that. If I'm not mistaken the US still
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
Perhaps I'm being a bit reductive, but threads on anything that you're more well versed in than the average person, are evidently almost always goofy. It's called the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect.
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
No, pilots should ensure they're current at navigating without GPS because it can fail, just like pilots practice engine failure procedures and every other emergency / non-normal procedure. That doesn't mean it should be &quo
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
> it is a big problem for a lot of rich people who have the time and money to think about this sort of stuff Because banks famously love spending time and money on IT security... Anyway, if TLS was broken, that would be a big problem
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
If there's a zero-day in TLS there would be a huge amount of problems that a VPN wouldn't protect you against. Even if you're using a VPN (or just a trusted ISP from your home), as soon as your data leaves their hands it woul
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
> short sighted for an interim policy Bit of an oxymoron, no? > just require clear and detailed disclosure of the use of said tools Do you mean disclosure of the use of tools used "privately to help comprehend, debug, and review&
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073042 > an 18th century botanical text that there's only 2 copies of in existence. > books that had little in common, except for the fact that they all had ISBNs. This sell
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
Again, what's more technically feasible? Setting up a DRM-cracking LLM and manually verifying that it's actually succeeded for each and every DRM scheme you encounter, or just throwing the books in a regular old office scanner and
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
Well, destroying them once they already exist is reasonable, but producing garbage (e.g. great quantities of unsold books) on a "massive scale" is completely unreasonable though. But that's a larger problem that encompasses s
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by streetfighter64 3mo ago
> Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter? Because DRM is just a way to make "breaking copyright" more practically cumbersome. What's easier, breaking digital DRM for each and every E-book you find, or just establ

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