trevyn

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by trevyn 2y ago
Apologies if I missed a repo link, but ... no open source, no go.
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by trevyn 2y ago
kerkour is basically a spam blog.
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by trevyn 2y ago
McMaster-Carr not meeting your needs?
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by trevyn 2y ago
Sounds like you don’t know how to farm romantically.
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by trevyn 2y ago
> How can I protect myself in such a situation? Choose a different career, like maybe public-opinion influencer.
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by trevyn 2y ago
Are you saying you don’t give equity, or are you saying that you don’t expect the equity you give to be valuable?
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by trevyn 2y ago
You can tape your mouth shut when you sleep, and after a few days/weeks of this, you don’t need the tape anymore.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Weird, literally the majority of people who eat or live under roofs don’t have jobs.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Is this intended to be an anecdote about life in Oslo, or are you suggesting that you expect the world outside of Scandinavia will somehow become more like Scandinavia over time?
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by trevyn 3y ago
But not any commercial use, only that which is covered by the license. Whereas the copyright holder has broader rights. So a licensed user is not “equally entitled”.
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by trevyn 3y ago
> Going to a restaurant twice a week with your partner, when you're 40+ and no kids, will get very repetitive and boring. That is a very strange perspective.
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by trevyn 3y ago
For a HN twist on Minesweeper, Bombe is a must-try.
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by trevyn 3y ago
MIGALOO luxury submarine? Those Chinese Amazon brands are really stepping up their game.
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by trevyn 3y ago
“In the end, LLMs may be little more than the word processor of tomorrow” I think this is the single most shocking thing I have ever read. How on Earth can someone with Schneier’s background not see where this is going?
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by trevyn 3y ago
No. A license to copyrighted code does not confer the same privileges as holding copyright to that code. Public domain is closer to “equally entitled”.
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by trevyn 3y ago
https://www.muckrock.com/ seems to have a lot of good information on this too, and fun-to-look-through archives of requests and responses.
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by trevyn 3y ago
HN just hates reddit.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Yes, people tend to regard things that they don’t personally understand as magic. I understand my own intelligence, and newsflash: AGI is already here.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Opinionated? More like firebrand.
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by trevyn 3y ago
TLDR: Person who has never used a database before benchmarks completely unoptimized SQLite vs completely unoptimized PostgreSQL and writes a content marketing post for Twilio. Two years ago.
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by trevyn 3y ago
You mean a left-to-right top strap.
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by trevyn 3y ago
People were very skeptical about the lack of a keyboard on iPhone, and it was missing a few basic features like copy/paste, but it was incomprehensibly small in person and other phones couldn’t touch the capabilities.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Legal systems are code execution for people who can’t code. Use accordingly.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Heh. Well played, even if you put words in my mouth. (A surprisingly effective LLM technique, btw) We’ll see if the west has the will to deny GPUs to the entire rest of the world. I will say that Yudkowsky’s clusters aren’t relevant anymore
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by trevyn 3y ago
I think it would help the discussion to understand what the world is like outside of the US and Europe (and… Japan?). There are no rules out here. There is no law. It is a fucking free-for-all. Might makes right. Do there exist GPUs? Shit w
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by trevyn 3y ago
> Can we agree that people should not be able to unilaterally take existential risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity This has nothing to do with should. There are at the very least a handful of people who ca
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by trevyn 3y ago
> nobody should be developing AGI without incredibly robustly proven alignment, open or closed, any more than people should be developing nuclear weapons in their garage. I have an alternate proposal: We assume that someone, somewhere
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by trevyn 3y ago
Do you have a case study? My prior is that GitHub is pretty competent in understanding malicious PRs to open source repos, and wouldn’t penalize the repo owner without other evidence of wrongdoing.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Pwn me.
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by trevyn 3y ago
Nobody really cares. I’m not usually the type to complain about input lag; most modern apps on a recent machine are snappy enough for me. But I’ve been messing around with egui lately, and it just feels… fast. It’s weird. But nobody really

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