At some point during that primary season I was driving in my car listening to my local NPR station and they had a story about these two candidates. I shit you not: they were introduced as "Hillary Clinton" and "the…
I think Halo could successfully get the Andor treatment (intentional departure from the tone and scope of mainline entries) in the right hands, but so could pretty much anything, and such hands are hard to find.
You generally don't need to do any transcoding if you're only streaming to devices on your local network. I have an old 1060 set up for my Jellyfin server but it pretty much never gets used.
Not OP but I do still call it Facebook.
> the wealthy don't universally aspire to be evil overlords hoarding resources at the apex of a dystopian society I wouldn't make any such claim (the universality of it, anyway). But in a sci-fi scenario like the one I…
This (implied) end state isn't inconsistent with my scenario. We already see the incredibly hubristic "I'm the only person who can safely handle AI!" attitude among the people working at/running the big labs.
I don't understand this comment. "There will be no real need to produce goods, except as many as the AI owner class will need" is exactly the point---people not in that class will be powerless, useless (to the owning…
The problem I have with the "benevolent billionaires" thing is that it's demonstrably not how they act today. I think there are plenty of ways for a couple of guys with god-machines to one-up each other, if it comes to…
Why do you need to "make money" if you already own a machine that can produce arbitrary goods and perform arbitrary services (including military/security services) for you? You don't need labor for anything anymore. The…
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> Flock is intended to be searchable by law enforcement, not Joe Average. Isn't Flock's alleged legality predicated on the principle that there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in public? I don't see why that…
Trump is not really a dictator due to constraints outside his control, but he certainly behaves as if he wants to be one, and this is the result: it's hard for people to believe that policy moves (or whatever you want…
> Didn't those all involve major crimes? I'm not sure about all, but many did (at least, a serious crime was alleged), which is why I described them as "far worse examples". But they are examples of the same pattern…
> Why is the "scrap of paper" a problem now You misunderstand. I am attempting to present the situation from the point of view of a hypothetical police officer, especially one who may be motivated to view the…
The thing you need to realize is that reality is the way it is and as a result cops are going to behave the way they do and there's nothing we can do about it in the near to mid term. You appear to think what the cop…
None of the things named in your comment, on either side of the line, really matter. Reading, writing, and critical thinking skills matter. You don't have to "write structured interpretations of 1950s texts [you] have…
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you draw a line between capital and consumers, and the latter are so tightly squeezed as a result of the "privilege" imbalance that they can barely afford housing, health care,…
I really truly honestly am not sure what to make of this result from $20M in compute, 10K+ parallel agents (smells like brute force), and a pre-existing approach that was already bearing fruit. I know the models are…
To be fair, I don't expect anything electronic to survive going through the wash unless it has hardcore waterproofing (eg a dive computer). I was pleasantly surprised by the way my airpods kept working. I don't remember…
> overengineered sound makers that breaks the moment you drop them. Which ones are those? I've owned a couple of generations of airpods and dropped them probably hundreds of times (both in the case and out of it) and it…
Some people claim Astra is significantly better than anything else and significantly more token-efficient, and others (like you) say it's meh and way more expensive to boot. I really don't know what to think. Kind of a…
+1. I've used the recent Gemini Flash models and I've used Opus 5, and the latter makes the former look like a box of broken crayons. Unless Flash 3.8 and/or this Muse Spark model are a much bigger deal than people seem…
it got want to use em dash. but decide: do? q is if appropriate. check martian websner blog. verdict yes---emdash + comma interchangeable---proceed---judgment superficial however no desire dig deeper style irrelevant…
Well, I disagree! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527581 It's fine in the sense that when a bad writer writes something I can usually understand what they're trying to say.
Emdashes and commas aren't interchangeable, and your example there demonstrates one great reason why. The emdash establishes a discontinuity rather than one thing flowing into another, which is why the tomatoes don't…
At some point during that primary season I was driving in my car listening to my local NPR station and they had a story about these two candidates. I shit you not: they were introduced as "Hillary Clinton" and "the…
I think Halo could successfully get the Andor treatment (intentional departure from the tone and scope of mainline entries) in the right hands, but so could pretty much anything, and such hands are hard to find.
You generally don't need to do any transcoding if you're only streaming to devices on your local network. I have an old 1060 set up for my Jellyfin server but it pretty much never gets used.
Not OP but I do still call it Facebook.
> the wealthy don't universally aspire to be evil overlords hoarding resources at the apex of a dystopian society I wouldn't make any such claim (the universality of it, anyway). But in a sci-fi scenario like the one I…
This (implied) end state isn't inconsistent with my scenario. We already see the incredibly hubristic "I'm the only person who can safely handle AI!" attitude among the people working at/running the big labs.
I don't understand this comment. "There will be no real need to produce goods, except as many as the AI owner class will need" is exactly the point---people not in that class will be powerless, useless (to the owning…
The problem I have with the "benevolent billionaires" thing is that it's demonstrably not how they act today. I think there are plenty of ways for a couple of guys with god-machines to one-up each other, if it comes to…
Why do you need to "make money" if you already own a machine that can produce arbitrary goods and perform arbitrary services (including military/security services) for you? You don't need labor for anything anymore. The…
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> Flock is intended to be searchable by law enforcement, not Joe Average. Isn't Flock's alleged legality predicated on the principle that there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in public? I don't see why that…
Trump is not really a dictator due to constraints outside his control, but he certainly behaves as if he wants to be one, and this is the result: it's hard for people to believe that policy moves (or whatever you want…
> Didn't those all involve major crimes? I'm not sure about all, but many did (at least, a serious crime was alleged), which is why I described them as "far worse examples". But they are examples of the same pattern…
> Why is the "scrap of paper" a problem now You misunderstand. I am attempting to present the situation from the point of view of a hypothetical police officer, especially one who may be motivated to view the…
The thing you need to realize is that reality is the way it is and as a result cops are going to behave the way they do and there's nothing we can do about it in the near to mid term. You appear to think what the cop…
None of the things named in your comment, on either side of the line, really matter. Reading, writing, and critical thinking skills matter. You don't have to "write structured interpretations of 1950s texts [you] have…
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you draw a line between capital and consumers, and the latter are so tightly squeezed as a result of the "privilege" imbalance that they can barely afford housing, health care,…
I really truly honestly am not sure what to make of this result from $20M in compute, 10K+ parallel agents (smells like brute force), and a pre-existing approach that was already bearing fruit. I know the models are…
To be fair, I don't expect anything electronic to survive going through the wash unless it has hardcore waterproofing (eg a dive computer). I was pleasantly surprised by the way my airpods kept working. I don't remember…
> overengineered sound makers that breaks the moment you drop them. Which ones are those? I've owned a couple of generations of airpods and dropped them probably hundreds of times (both in the case and out of it) and it…
Some people claim Astra is significantly better than anything else and significantly more token-efficient, and others (like you) say it's meh and way more expensive to boot. I really don't know what to think. Kind of a…
+1. I've used the recent Gemini Flash models and I've used Opus 5, and the latter makes the former look like a box of broken crayons. Unless Flash 3.8 and/or this Muse Spark model are a much bigger deal than people seem…
it got want to use em dash. but decide: do? q is if appropriate. check martian websner blog. verdict yes---emdash + comma interchangeable---proceed---judgment superficial however no desire dig deeper style irrelevant…
Well, I disagree! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527581 It's fine in the sense that when a bad writer writes something I can usually understand what they're trying to say.
Emdashes and commas aren't interchangeable, and your example there demonstrates one great reason why. The emdash establishes a discontinuity rather than one thing flowing into another, which is why the tomatoes don't…