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by tensor 9mo ago
I agree completely. Ads have driven the surveillance state and enshitification. It's allowed for optimized propaganda delivery which in turn has led to true horrors and has helped undo a century of societal progress.
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by tensor 9mo ago
No, distillation is far older than deepseek. Deepseek was impressive because of algorithmic improvements that allowed them to train a model of that size with vastly less compute than anyone expected, even using distillation. I also haven’t
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by tensor 10mo ago
Countries don’t outsource any research to the US. US funding lured many scientists to the US but this has never been seen as a positive thing outside the US. In Canada we call it brain drain. Now we’re capitalizing and the US science failin
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by tensor 10mo ago
Children are not important. China has more than enough population to outdo the US in science. But also, the majority of US high end science is done by immigrants, not by people born in the US. Science is international, and the US has destro
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by tensor 10mo ago
This is pretty fun. Can you make the year configurable?
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by tensor 10mo ago
Keep in mind that write safety comes with performance penalties. You can turn off write protections and many databases will be super fast, but easily corrupt.
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by tensor 10mo ago
I hope the EU blocks any acquisitions by American companies. The west needs to start protecting its strategic assets.
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by tensor 10mo ago
Form processing is vastly more useful than meme generation. When people need to do real work this is the sort of tool they are going to reach for.
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by tensor 10mo ago
IMO tech suffers pretty horrible title inflation. If you reach "senior" after only two years and "principle" after 5, what is left for the next 20 years? It's pretty ridiculous. But this sort of thing is really typi
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by tensor 10mo ago
What? I think people think "rust without unsafe" eliminates certain classes of bugs. Are we really going to imply that people don't understand that "unsafe" labeled code is ... uh.. possibly unsafe? I don't bel
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by tensor 10mo ago
Because we're not idiots and we read the "privacy policy"? And shock , it's different for their enterprise products? What, do you think all corporations using google are just stupid and giving up all their confidential
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by tensor 10mo ago
I'm sure a lot of people would like this to be true, but it's right there in the definition of use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/use . Anywhere you can use "utilize" you can also equall
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by tensor 10mo ago
Somewhat. You can pay for workspace to keep your email private and ad free.
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by tensor 10mo ago
"I got downvoted everytime by ignorant normies of HN when I always...."
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by tensor 10mo ago
omg yes same. No matter how much I try it still happens.
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by tensor 10mo ago
I think we need to stop focusing only on the AI aspect of this. Yes, it's an important component to the sort of mass surveillance system you're describing, but it's not the only component. The internet, advertising, privacy,
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by tensor 10mo ago
To me this is highly misleading. The core idea behind MIT is that you can use it for anything, including commercial. A "you can use it for commercial only if you're revenue is small" is not remotely MIT-like . It's comm
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by tensor 10mo ago
I think the lack of any human to talk to is the worst part of modern tech. Especially for business, where your income may depend on it. It's beyond cruel to prevent people from operating with no explanation of why and no way to find ou
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by tensor 10mo ago
Whoa, if you use a VPN eventually instagram will stop showing you ads?!?! Is that really true? Has anyone else found this?
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by tensor 10mo ago
Yes, there were always common in academic writing and such, but you rarely saw them in casual text.
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by tensor 10mo ago
On the plus side, I guess we can thank AI for bringing back the humble em-dash.
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by tensor 10mo ago
Do you mean "desktop arm linux"? Because AWS, Google, and others all run Linux on their arm servers and that market segment is only growing.
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by tensor 10mo ago
It's actually not. US companies are very used to it and frequently comply with local laws (e.g. in China and elsewhere). What's happening here is a vocal minority is trying to push for some notion of US dominance over other countr
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by tensor 10mo ago
If those US companies operate in foreign countries, then yes they will be following the law in those countries or they won't be operating there. And no, the only tears flowing will be from those who don't understand how laws and b
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by tensor 10mo ago
> I don't want my X posts being handed over to researchers even if they are technically public. Too bad, don't make them public then. I'm not sure where this idea came from that "free speech" also means "fre
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by tensor 10mo ago
Except this isn't limited to ads is it? From the post it sounds like the ruling covers any user content. If someone uploads personal data to Github now Github is liable. In fact, why wouldn't author names on open source licenses c
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by tensor 10mo ago
“I like to be snarky and mean to people on the internet who aren’t as lucky as me to have diverse consumer choices.”
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by tensor 10mo ago
TBF all I really want is highway driving. I probably even prefer signalling lane changes manually. Comma looks pretty neat.
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by tensor 10mo ago
I mostly agree on all points, but what self driving tech is better? I've periodically looked at the options, and nothing really seems to compare in North America. Maybe BYD and others have great tech, but stuff like Blue Cruise works h
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by tensor 10mo ago
Is coreweave a similar situation?

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