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by themafia 9mo ago
The government is going to use them. The flock cameras are going to be fed into them. The bitcoin network will be crashed. A technological arms race just occurred in front of your eyes for the past 5 years and you think they're going t
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Bubbles are a desirable feature of the American experiment Wild speculation detached from reality which destroys personal fortunes are not "a desirable feature." It's only a "desirable feature" to the nihilisti
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by themafia 9mo ago
AI "boom?" Where's the "boom?" Doesn't that imply a bunch of people are getting rich off of new business? Where are those?
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by themafia 9mo ago
They couldn't even make burger flipping robots work and are paying fast food workers $20/hr in California. If that doesn't make it obvious what they can and cannot do then I can't respect the tranche of "hackers&quo
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by themafia 9mo ago
Dig deep enough into any "AI" idea and you'll find the bottom end of the scam looks exactly like this. We've simply relabeled the "Mechanical Turk" into "AI." The rest is built on stolen copyrighted d
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by themafia 9mo ago
It's a 3500lb robot that can kill you. Boston Robotics is working on a smaller robot that can kill you. Anduril is working on even smaller robots that can kill you. The future sucks.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> C was elevated to a role of prestige and power We didn't do it to annoy you or to foist bad APIs on you. We did it because it was the best language for writing machine code at the time. By miles. Not understanding why this is t
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by themafia 9mo ago
> 7) Paired with some "certified AWS partner" What do you think RedHat support contracts are? This situation exists in every technology stack in existence.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> while largely maximising operational costs The core services are cheap. S3 is cheap. Dynamo is cheap. Lambda is exceedingly cheap. Not understanding these services on their own terms and failing to read the documentation can lead o
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft Google became a monopoly. All monopolies do this.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> They're just gaming the system The "system" is not hapless or ignorant here. In fact, this company would not exist, if the "system" didn't have specific desires to effectively enslave the entire populat
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by themafia 9mo ago
> One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own Says the guy trying to buy high resolution scans of people's eyeballs for $25 a pop. Okay dude.
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by themafia 9mo ago
The CIA was a secondary source. This bulk of this material is all drawn from other publications. Which you can now access in ways you could not before.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> It was not just a physical book. It was. You were able to access a copy on the internet. It was neither edited nor published there. As such it simply couldn't compete with resources that are.
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by themafia 9mo ago
I don't know that the Schlesinger memo was real but I think it's conclusions were perfect. The CIA needs to be split into two divisions. The research division and the operations division.
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by themafia 9mo ago
The internet now exists and easily surpasses the value of this static publication.
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by themafia 9mo ago
What would be censorship is if those same companies then brigaded forums and interfered with conversations and votes in an effort to try to hide their greed and criminality. Not that this would _ever_ happen on Hacker News. :|
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by themafia 9mo ago
Holding corporations accountable for their profit streams is "censorship?" I wish they'd stop passing models trained on internet conversations and hoarded data as fit for any purpose. The world does not need to boil oceans
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by themafia 9mo ago
I'm sure you're right; however, there is still a distinction between the state using my device against me and unaffiliated or foreign states using my device against me or more likely simply to generate cash for themselves. It&#x
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by themafia 9mo ago
I tend to think things like .bashrc or .zshrc are bad ideas anyways. Not that you asked but I think the simpler solution is to have those files be owned by root and not writable by the user. You're probably not modifying them that of
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by themafia 9mo ago
Do you really need the entire walled garden of the store? It's not impervious just harder to attack but due to it's scale and value it will be constantly attacked. Not a great trade. What happened to just good old OS APIs? You
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Yes, I blame AI for this. Just don't use it. That's always an option. Perhaps your builder doesn't actually benefit from an unlimited runway detached from the cost of effort.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Using rust doesn't guarantee correctness or performance, that should also be obvious. Judging from the most vocal segment of their community it's very much not obvious to them. > make it easier Define "easier."
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Any Linux distro What is the upgrade path? How often do they release? Do I have to worry about CVEs? Who is doing network security? Who is testing that security? Where are my credentials stored? Do I have a dashboard that tracks the hu
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Thats not that much is it given the size and energy demand of the country? What is it relative to these 5 projects? > you'll only see the true impact of this in the next 6 years. Are these the _only_ new projects that could _po
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it's barely holding on Where are you deriving this from? > is best represented by the meme Ah.. well that offers a guess.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Exactly. I wish it was about money. It's about surveillance. The TSA even flatly says the quiet part out loud. "The fee is to make you _comply_." That's madness. For the $45 I should get a "TSA ID" that lets me
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by themafia 9mo ago
> If a country changes course every four years Dozens of new GW+ wind farms came online in the last four years. This concerns a few projects in a few particular locations that are exposed to federal interference. It has impacts on the
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by themafia 9mo ago
It has to annotate it too. We've let models do this before. They devolve into an incomprehensible mess in very short order. Errors multiply. Lossy weight compression on erroneous material makes it all that much more worse. https:&#
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by themafia 9mo ago
> the circular financing from Nvidia has been peanuts for the company. Enron thought the same thing. Until they had a closer look at what their middle managers were actually doing to the books.

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