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by toss1 8mo ago
No, it is a famously coherent concept over millenia. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?" >>A Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines
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by toss1 8mo ago
Yes unfortunate, but sometimes necessary Wait until the governance fails to the point data centers start getting burned down
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by toss1 8mo ago
Yup, for some types of rides it's definitely better, and the not having to chat up the driver is definitely an advantage. To take off as a real replacement for ownership, self driving cars likely needs to meet at least these criteria:
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by toss1 8mo ago
That may work when the global population is 200 million to maybe 800 million, and it didn't even work that well back then. Feeding eight billion plus people requires scalable technologies. So, which nine of every ten people should die?
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>Why should transportation be different? Good question, and for many it will not be, and rentals are acceptable. But also for many, renting a car has a huge ICK factor. It is one thing while traveling to rent from an agency who has
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by toss1 8mo ago
So, use the framework for the prototype and maybe thru v1.x, then after you have better understanding of how it is actually used in the field and what architecture and patterns would work best in your team's situation, fully write th
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by toss1 8mo ago
THIS, EXACTLY! If there is an algorithm, the social media platform is exactly as responsible for the content as any publisher If it is only a straight chronological feed of posts by actually followed accts, the social media platform gets Se
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by toss1 8mo ago
This looks like the same problem as when the first page layout software came out. It looked to everyone like a huge leap into a new world word processing applications could basically move around blocks of text to be output later, maybe with
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>As consumers, we grow more and more accustomed to paying for services. Just check how many subscriptions you had two decades ago, a decade ago, and now. I bet the trend is as clear as day. This trend is accurate, but it does not mea
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by toss1 8mo ago
A corollary of Right To Repair — ability to access an API or service layer allows real customization. For vendors offering a valuable product that provides data or info, this will be a massive boost For vendors whose offerings are primarily
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by toss1 8mo ago
Possibly a most archetypal example of Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Parents find kids get ahead by not only good grades but also by winning in science fairs, sports, or disa
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by toss1 8mo ago
Doesn't the alignment sort of depend on who is paying for all the tokens? If Dave the developer is paying, Dave is incentivized to optimize token use along with Anthropic (for the different reasons mentioned). If the Dave's employ
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by toss1 8mo ago
And if the Big Tech companies think it is so important to get all those compute and/or memory chips sooner and in larger supply, it should be no problem at all for those Big Tech companies to pay for the costs and then have priority ac
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Moderna Won't Run Any Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US(biospace.com)
12 points by toss1 8mo ago|4 comments
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by toss1 8mo ago
To be more clear than the headline: It was NOT the party balloon, it was the CBP's [0] massively irresponsible use of the laser weapon as a response to a threat it failed to identify properly, inside commercial airspace with zero coo
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by toss1 8mo ago
I am absolutely NOT making any economic argument for approval or that an investment beyond $x should somehow guarantee approval! They are all professionals and know the risks and how to manage them. And NO this is not about "money
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by toss1 8mo ago
You call out idiocy, using actual data, and get downvoted. On HN, without so much as a comment describing why you might be in error. HN is indeed sliding.
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by toss1 8mo ago
So, the 'administration' specifically demands pharmaceutical companies move production to the US. Then, when they do, and invest "hundreds of millions of dollars running Phase 3 trials enrolling over 43,000 participants based
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by toss1 8mo ago
"As radio waves move through a space and interact with people, they create distinctive patterns that can be captured and analyzed. These patterns are comparable to images produced by cameras, but they are formed using radio signals rat
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>The machines I fell in love with became instruments of surveillance and extraction. Surveillance and Extraction "We were promised flying cars", and what we got was "investors" running the industry off the cliff i
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by toss1 8mo ago
Your proposal is to do nothing and then make sure the entire thing causes orders of magnitude greater costs and damage which can be irreparable for centuries. That has ALREADY been tried, and it was an absolute disaster, killing people, w
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by toss1 8mo ago
The environmental review WILL help if it is used to adjust the mining techniques so they don't destroy everything nearby to do the work, or even if it jist creates a reclamation / restoration plan (and yes, factor that into the
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'The most anti-biking bill in history' – Iowa's near-total bike ban proposal(cyclingweekly.com)
6 points by toss1 8mo ago|0 comments
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by toss1 8mo ago
Great article, capturing some really important distinctions and successes/failures. I've found ChatGPT, especially "5.2 Thinking" to be very helpful in the relatively static world of fabrication. CNC cutting parameters
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>rarely...[Citation needed] You are awfully quick to dismiss what you do not know and are too lazy to even do a quick search. I literally read about these parallel construction scenarios here on HN and they are sufficiently common an
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by toss1 8mo ago
Yup, sounds about right. Same issue with I tried Fusion a few years back... I use RhinoCAD / MadCAM, and it is really the only thing keeping me on Windows. I've heard it works on some emulators like WINE, but haven't yet mad
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by toss1 8mo ago
All that very justifiable work to avoid a cloud-connected OS . . . and then switch to OnShape which (afaict) has zero local option and requires a full cloud connection to run at all? Seems like walking a tightrope across the river to avoid
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>0 actual impact on you Nonsense. Sure, scenario A requires intent in advance Scenario B requires intent ANY TIME. Someone in the system can decide they want to track me RETROACTIVELY and do it even more effectively than if they had
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by toss1 8mo ago
>> this kind of abuse of power still rarely happens It is not even close to "rarely happens" It happens in EVERY authoritarian state that has the technology, to BILLIONS of people around the world. It is also already happe
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by toss1 8mo ago
Scenario A: A person or drone follows you and takes a sequence of photos of your activities (approximately) wherever you go in public. Scenario B: An array of cameras is installed (approximately) everywhere and takes a series of photos that

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