thephyber

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by thephyber 5d ago
Are you complaining about the existence of emojis? Get off my lawn, old man!
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by thephyber 5d ago
Quit being pedantic and try to understand the concept I'm expressing, not just semantically parse my sentence looking for the first quibble. There are only a few dozen PhDs working the BSL-4+ labs worldwide. And they have state securit
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by thephyber 15d ago
Maybe you intended to reply to my comment's parent? I don't necessarily disagree. But also, according to the Ars article comment describing the Unicode character range, it has been deprecated, so maybe someone involved in the Unic
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by thephyber 15d ago
The question isn't only "should we" regulate the companies, but also "how"? The current Trump Admin can't even decide on the first question, let alone come up for a plan on the second. The Trump Admin's EO
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by thephyber 15d ago
> There’s no need for an LLM, just a phd in virology, a decent lab, and a handful of grad students. You are missing the forest for the trees. The existing virologist PhDs and the GoF labs are a scarce resource. The model makes the same s
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by thephyber 15d ago
The CIA, FBI, and DoD are being ideologically purged. I would assume we are already in the "we are probably increasingly failing at our jobs" phase. It will only get worse as sovereign debt service takes a larger piece of the budg
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by thephyber 15d ago
I feel like your comment is relying heavily on bad heuristics (the entities capable of using LLMs to create weapons aren't all individuals) and you are making assumptions that the same "strictly controlled" regimes are in pla
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by thephyber 15d ago
The weapons of mass destruction trio (bio, chem, nuke) have long been a concern for world powers. Nuke requires a long supply chain and massive resources, so the worry there is maintaining control of all of the existing nuke weapons. Except
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by thephyber 17d ago
> Simple enough to strip out anything that isn't a flag. But it's not simple enough for every company/app to independently research the entire Unicode code point space (which is MASSIVE) to find out what kinds of "fix
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by thephyber 17d ago
The top comment (the Staff Highlighted one) explains why this range of code point exists. There was a rationale (ISO country codes to modify a flag to display that national flag). Maybe the problem wasn't the proposal, but the lack of
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by thephyber 17d ago
Do you have any evidence they didn't? My suspicion is that the spam filter programmers didn't do a comprehensive evaluation of every code point on every plane of Unicode because... well that's a massive job. So your "san
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by thephyber 17d ago
> The Democrat Party believes everything that God hates. Like, we’re dealing with maggots, vermin, and swine here. This is not — these are not good people, they’re not even a little bit good.[1] He also called for the death of Biden (bec
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by thephyber 18d ago
This is a weirdly dissonant comment that misunderstands both religion and the nature of choices. Religions don't exist without the people. The scriptures have no narrative power if they are not told by people to people. The rites and t
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by thephyber 18d ago
Yes, and... Not only the quantity of people who have the minimum aptitude required, specialized expertise requires both knowledge and experience doing these tasks. Using an LLM requires neither. Leaning on an LLM to do much or all of this m
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by thephyber 19d ago
And remember that there is precedence for Trump pardoned financial criminals avoiding restitution.
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by thephyber 19d ago
This is worded in a way that pretends like the banks and governments themselves aren't considered criminals by the masses.
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by thephyber 19d ago
You are conflating the original BTC network and a lot of the other projects in the cryptocurrency / token / stable currency space. Every time there was a new token that was 80% reminded or was governed by a central company, the or
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by thephyber 19d ago
You have worded this like a fact, but this is your opinion.
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by thephyber 20d ago
WSJ is almost never rated center-left on any media bias charts based on any objective standards (eg. Ad Fontes media chart). They always fall into center-right.
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by thephyber 20d ago
It's almost like he's undermining the one single thing the diamond sales industry had used to thrive for nearly a century before him.
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by thephyber 20d ago
Using Lina Khan as an example (your only example?) undermines your point because she started upset Biden and was quickly fired after Trump 2 started.
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by thephyber 20d ago
Now we rewrite the web in Rust WASM. /s But seriously, Python and JavaScript have reflection/introspection features. Once the investment was made to transcribe the entire language into a compiled language, the speed gains were obv
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by thephyber 21d ago
Straw man fallacy. There are plenty of people who have been very concerned that both of those categories are weakening the foundations of the US-based financial system. It is likely to contribute to the migration away from the US petrodolla
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by thephyber 22d ago
You are just repeating the same meme that every Republican says. There is a huge difference between a guaranteed Constitutional right that this country fought a Civil War for... and a privilege such as getting on a plane or driving a car. A
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by thephyber 22d ago
Yeah, the steps follow exactly what happened at VW with DieselGate. The diesel emissions lies were found out because some enterprising person set up an emissions testing system and drove the car in real world scenarios with it to verify the
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by thephyber 23d ago
Yes, I'm sure every person in Mississippi has the same super expedient interaction as a HNer when they have to visit to get their ID documents. I bet you even live next door to the DMV so your travel time was negligible. The point of t
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by thephyber 23d ago
All the more reason to decouple DMV from ID verification. Like I said, the USPS is in a much better position to be able to scale identity to the national scale.
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by thephyber 23d ago
> Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results Imagine all of the blast radius to society if this type of incentive is reproduced everywhere. Police searches through Flock databases, matches for hiring cand
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by thephyber 23d ago
Your one example doesn't make all of LLMs a lie. It's like someone reading a National Enquirer article about "Hillary Clinton being an alien from outer space" (a real headline topic from decades ago) and drawling the con
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by thephyber 23d ago
No it wouldn't. It wasn't "catastrophic" for the largest of the 3 US credit reporting agencies when their entire dataset was breached. The company is 100% IP and the only value they have was completely copied. Their larg

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