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by x-complexity 8mo ago
> Right now latex would be a high indicator of manual effort, right? ...no? Just one Google search for "latex editor" showed more than 2 in the first page. https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.texpa
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
> The CCP aspires to climb the value chain up to where the US is, which means shifting away from manufacturing to the high profit margin tech, biotech, and other science related industries. None of that requires a strong currency, only a
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
> Why would a country want to remain a manufactured-good export economy, rather than having the stronger position of a consumer economy that lives off the wealth of the rest of the world? 1) A consumer economy is not required to extract
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
> subsidize their local industries that rely on exports to the point that it's a smooth transition to more of a consumer economy. There's an implication here that the country *wants* to become a consumer economy, and not remain
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
> If, for example, China decides that it finally wants a consumer economy This is a fantasy that the CCP leadership will not entertain, because it would mean losing their control as the (export/industrial) king. Their national secur
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
> I'm just talking about text generated by human beings. That in itself is a goalpost shift from > > We will run out of additional material to train on Where it is implied "additional material" === "all data, hu
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by x-complexity 9mo ago
Their pricing page says that it's currently a free trial. https://exe.dev/docs/pricing
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by x-complexity 10mo ago
> Probably not. All side effects need to go through the js side. So you can alway see where http calls are made That can be circumnavigated by bundling the conversations into one POST to an API endpoint, along with a few hundred calls t
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by x-complexity 10mo ago
> > For a perfectly spherical person > The transformation of humans to spherical shape is gluttony not evolution. They should be forced to ride a bike until their silhouette returns to that of a human. ...GP's comment is a pla
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by x-complexity 11mo ago
Counterpoint: Such a market *technically* already existed outside of FIFA, just that it was a more underground/grey/black market. Strictly speaking, an external market being brought into existing ticketing systems would be net-neu
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by x-complexity 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529810 https://cpufun.substack.com/i/32474663/notable-differences As noted by the other comments, Apple's M-series chips seem to use a 128-byte cache li
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> Any reason to believe Google's unit economics on AI are any different than the other players here? Only when it comes to their TPUs, and sometimes that one thing may just be the difference to push them over the hump. Per-token cos
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by x-complexity 1y ago
Mandatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/297/ Related performance-oriented discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40296932 Lisp will always be the 'what if' watering hole in the compsc
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> Tracking and restricting the freedom of criminals is critical to a healthy society. Under such an excuse, any type of extreme measure is similarly allowed. In fact, why not go full Suicide Squad and strap bomb/shock collars to eve
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by x-complexity 1y ago
This is just a benchmark of how much of a sycophant an LLM is. Anything that scores > 50% on this test should be punted into the bin.
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by x-complexity 1y ago
7000000 reels ÷ 50 years ÷ 365.25 (days/year) = ~383.3 reels / day Each reel being a minute long would equal to 6 hours & 24 minutes of scrolling a day. It would be close to the most depressing world record to ever exist.
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by x-complexity 1y ago
I will always push Dylan Beattie's talk about this exact thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg&t=2358
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> Isn’t that basically what the ARC tests are? Reductively, yes. IMO, the ARC tests & the visual pattern IQ tests (e.g. Raven's) have little difference, especially if the Raven tests require the taker to draw out the answer. ht
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> So, an ai generated psuedo-game engine with a majority of users under the age of 13? I'm sure that WILL make a lot of money. Those of us who didn't grow up playing Roblox will find this comparison impossibly stupid. > ...w
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by x-complexity 1y ago
I actually laughed at the last one.... Jesus.....
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> The question is, try to spend $1bn on stuff. Go. Easy: The largest ship in the world by area. (Goal - either 500m x 500m, or at least 0.25km^2 with the breadth >= 300m) The current status quo for bulk carriers are the Valemax ships
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by x-complexity 1y ago
The section is not without its own flaws, mainly in 5(c): > (c) Civil penalty.—Any payment card network that violates subsection (b) shall be assessed a civil penalty by the Comptroller of the Currency of not more than 10 percent of the
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by x-complexity 1y ago
You're rationally thinking about this, not the impulsive state someone will be in when impulse buying (where math rarely occurs, if ever). Visually showing alternatives to the impulse buyer adds friction between the user & the purc
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by x-complexity 1y ago
The parent comment is an ad hominem attack, plain & simple. Nothing has been said by the parent about the message: Instead, the messenger is marked as the target in order to take down the message via association. "Give me the man a
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by x-complexity 1y ago
...It took me writing out my original question to recognize why X:=(an in-place upgrade from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2) is non-trivial to implement. (Original question: Why X hasn't been implemented yet?) https://www.raidz-calculator
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> Why do you feel the need to be the devils advocate? What do you get from defending this crap? To prevent this level of monopolar partisanship. Is this action a net-negative for ISP subscribers (i.e. everyone)? Yes. However, this doesn&
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> On the other hand, stable-coins suffer the same problems as visa. They're centralised, and subject to zealous regulations. Not all stablecoins are the same. There exists 2 main categories: Fiat-backed (as initially described), &am
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by x-complexity 1y ago
Previous discussion (520 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911598
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by x-complexity 1y ago
> Capitalism, plain and simple. I don't like it either, but that's the way all fundraising has devolved down to. No. *Even under a socialist framework*, the tactics used for fundraising would not be alien. The main difference w
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by x-complexity 1y ago
The article assumes that there will be no architectural improvements / migrations in the future, & that Sparse MoE will always stay. Not a great foundation to build upon. Personally, I'm rooting for RWKV / Mamba2 to pull

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