tsimionescu

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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> Making robots that are human shaped is easier and more efficient than redesigning and rebuilding everything that exists. In the last 100-200 years, that has been proven wrong at every single step.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
No, with FHE you don't know what program is running on the data, you just know that it can't access your data.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
One thing you could perhaps shed some light on - if a TRO were to be requested (it seems none has been?) that would be similar to the permanent order that NY requested, would it have the effect of shutting down Kalshi nationwide unless and
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
That's irrelevant. It's still gambling, or even worse - direct payment for successfully attacking Cloudflare's infrastructure. The point overall is that the "prediction markets" don't act as real insurance, it&
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
That's exactly the point, yes - the Republicans have always claimed to be the party of Small Government and of States Rights while in the opposition, but in reality when they are in power they immediately act to expand federal powers,
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
This is a framing that obscures rather than illuminating. Perhaps in this specific case, the prediction market bet acts as insurance (and even then, only for those market participants who are actual Cloudflare customers; many others are sim
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
That claim is coming directly from the CFTC, it is not this user's novel claim. It seems that overall the CFTC and the NYAG are presenting materially different event time lines, so as an outsider it's a bit unclear what is actuall
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Even in this idea of "could in principle", the IP address randomly changing as you roam is not an arbitrary technical limitation, it is a fundamental property of how IP networks operate that proved to be too hard to fix for IPv6.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Rationing works when people can make do with a small amount of something despite preferring a larger amount. In particular, food rationing was not about alternatives, but simply about restricting everyone's diet so that a limited food
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
No, the context is obvious to any human, that's the whole point. No one would think you've left your car at a car wash, as no one ever does that, and if they did, they wouldn't even consider driving there. It's obvious t
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I don't understand what you mean that "there are not that many of them". The models, even the best ones, still have clear problems with certain kinds of real world reasoning, and it's not a known, closed set. With some p
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> These are usually from a missing context (i.e. specifying where the car is right now). The reason for the mistake is irrelevant here. All that matters is that you catch the agent saying something that basically no human would, especial
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Give that it's impossible to even listen on port 443 on a phone, as that would require root privileges, I don't think you can host your website on your phone at all, at least not if you want it to accessible in a normal way. And t
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I don't think that's true, assuming that the humans are also allowed to strategize and study the problem beforehand. The main weakness of the current models is that they still fail hard at certain kinds of common sense reasoning a
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> You'd think that LLMs fulfill this, but I do wonder if a clever human could still discern between them given their particularities. I think the clear winning strategy is to find some of the common sense reasoning fails that are st
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> "Neither can a CPU, but somehow we managed to make it work way back in the day. Amazing, isn't it?". I feel this completely misunderstands the problem, and the vast gulf between an LLM and a CPU. First and most important
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Because code is utilitarian, it is only valued for what it does, while art is not utilitarian - it is valued for subjective human reasons, which, for many people, include human authorship. It's the same reason people build their games
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Yes, corruption happens every day. So do rape and murder and theft, and so many other problems. Why should I be so accepting of any of them?
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
The post is about the OpenJDK, not Java the language per se. Which applies to Scala, Kotlin, JPython, and others.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
What happens here is that the buyer "kicks back" a fat contract to their sales buddy who took them to that great golf resort. Or, if the terminology is wrong, you can just say that the sales agent bribed the buyer with a golf trip
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
How is paying for someone to have fun with the intention that they will then do business with you not a kickback? Just because you're not getting cash doesn't mean it's not a bribe.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> Demand is elastic. If the price of potatoes rises to $1000 / kg most people will switch to using pasta or rice for their dinner instead. There might be a shortage of potatoes at $1 / kg, but not at $1000 / kg. If potatoe
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Not that I'm advocating for this with RAM, but another tried and true solution for necessary goods with limited supply is rationing. This is what got everyone through WW2, for example.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
"We don't trust the llm, so we built a tool that uses the llm to check if the llm can be trusted"
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
It does. The initial strike, while effective, has proven to achieve absolutely nothing, or less than nothing. Neither Iran's military nor logistic nor even administrative capability was impacted to any serious extent. The population, o
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
If you've ever read anything about the internal culture in Microsoft, you'd know this is extremely implausible.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
Tax payers strictly pay for the judges' and other court personnel's salaries. The vast, vast, vast majority of the cost of any civil suit is paid for by the parties to the suit.
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
For certain use cases, probably. For others, no. For example, hardware that uses GNU software must be patchable by users (if it is patchable at all). Hardware running public software can be completely locked down to its users, regardless of
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
> Furthermore, I don’t think you can really assume that the courts will rule a certain way on this just because of the money involved; there’s a lot of money involved when it comes to the copyright holders too, and they’ve long enjoyed a
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by tsimionescu 2mo ago
I believe there are still ongoing lawsuits on this in various places, I don't believe it's fully settled law - though, as I mentioned in my post, I also don't expect there is any realistic chance for the courts to simply shut

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