B-Con

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by B-Con 1mo ago
It's almost as if we're building something that... mimics intelligence.
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by B-Con 1mo ago
The US has proved it can do horizontal scaling, as the majority of adults gets a college degree. The horizontal capacity is ineffectively used by having many degree mills and low-value degrees, but if we re-tooled the knowledge sets we coul
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by B-Con 1mo ago
Not OP but I've tried using all the major frontier models to find niche items in a field that I collect. The models get confused and hallucinate items that sounds complete reasonable, but don't actually exist. Usually it's an
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by B-Con 1mo ago
I read Google's business incentive as "in it to not lose". AI is a new consumer endpoint and Google currently captures a lot of the endpoints. > I think HN skews coding agent focused 100% this. Coding agents are an interes
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by B-Con 2mo ago
I've learned this applies to a lot of life. Being a good manager, tech lead, consultant, etc, advisor, parent, friend, etc, is sometimes just half being a good therapist and helping them regulate. I've watched a lot of "not o
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by B-Con 2mo ago
Go seems like a pragmatic fit, even though it was obviously not designed for LLMs and nor is it purely functional. I review a lot of Go code, which means I review a lot of LLM Go code. Even though the human vs LLM authorship distinction has
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by B-Con 2mo ago
I think one of the key differences is that math is abstract whereas CS is relatively concrete. CS examples are often easy to picture and understand the motivation for. You can use tools to visualize or play around with them and test them.
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by B-Con 2mo ago
A human reader for a popular product is generally a paid actor who reads the script nearly verbatim, not a domain expert, so it has no bearing on the technical quality of the script.
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by B-Con 2mo ago
I can see them as a shared fate for a couple reasons: * the obvious one is Elon - both valuations are largely propped up on belief in Elon. Whenever he falters, his companies that are speculation-based (all of them) will take a hit * Elon p
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by B-Con 2mo ago
Same. And since I won with an age, company, and title that is literally me right now... Well, I'm not exactly sure what to do with it information but some internalization is in order.
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by B-Con 3mo ago
I'm simply impressed they're releasing at all. This has to be literally the worst 6 month time window in the last 20+ years to launch a new computing device at scale and have to build the vendor contracts and inventory from zero.
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by B-Con 3mo ago
Yeah, I imagine Linux support would be more like a supported Linux distro rather than generic Linux support. Something like SteamOS but with kernel anti-cheat and secure boot from the start. Big question is whether they can make craching th
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by B-Con 3mo ago
Even though I balked at the Steam Deck prices on the recent inventory restock, as they were up ~30% presumably due to the same hardware shortages, I got one anyway. Prices won't drop anytime soon and if any for-profit organization has
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by B-Con 3mo ago
People want to do X, so the metric is how much X can be done. Everyone is over-complicating the explanation. The answer for "why are we fixating on this bad metric" is almost always the same pattern. Broad audiences need simple me
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by B-Con 4mo ago
They added $80 out of a $4.5T market cap, which means redistributing ~1.67% of value from shares outstanding to the new shares. So being down 1.7% is literally exactly what you'd expect.
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by B-Con 5mo ago
I'm with you. Australia calls December "summer". If climate patterns changed and shifted our weather patterns by a month, we'd shift our season vernacular to match. Seasons refer to the climate we experience. They'r
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by B-Con 7mo ago
> I've had to spend week and a half battling Gmail daily email account limits sending batches of 500 emails just to notify people in her address book, receiving hundreds of responses. Her memorial was attended by hundreds of people.
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by B-Con 7mo ago
Yawing seems like it must be adventurous, the contagious part not so much. Even the mention of a yawn can trigger it. Perhaps we are almost always in a state of needing a yawn, but the trigger is seldom met, and seeing or hearing about it i
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by B-Con 8mo ago
I know this guy from his videos over the years on hiking topics, like how to safely purify water with the minimum fuel and how to pack calorie efficient food. His videos are incredibly well researched, very in-depth, and absolutely zero flu
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by B-Con 8mo ago
Any time an app has bizarre functionality gap on iOS, I assume it's because of Apple's anti-consumer bullshit app restrictions. No idea if that's actually what's going on, but Apple thinks of their devices as appliances
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by B-Con 8mo ago
I used to have that strip on a t-shirt as a teen.
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by B-Con 8mo ago
So if the top 10% is $2m net worth, then what's the 1%? Are we supposed to mentally extrapolate? I hate when only part of the criteria are provided. Arrives like this need a table. If they don't have it, it calls into question whe
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by B-Con 8mo ago
This is exactly what I've said for a decade. When people talk about the 1% they almost always mean the 0.1%>
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by B-Con 9mo ago
Preserving more than one lineage and providing a cohesive family name isn't practically easy, and society did not go that direction, and that likely isn't a coincidence. Discarding names doesn't preserve lineage. If you need
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by B-Con 9mo ago
What societies? Keyword being "practically". Just because there is an alternative doesn't mean society will adjust. And hyphenation isn't a solution, it only works for one generation.
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by B-Con 9mo ago
It hails from when family lines were important, and you can practically only have one line reflected in a name. Unsurprisingly, most societies considered the male's name to be the dominate lineage of interest, although that doesn'
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by B-Con 9mo ago
For me, I despise having different abstractions get crossed. I expect my media app, ie. YouTube, to know what I watch from the media app. YouTube knows about YouTube. My operating system, ie. Roku, should not know about what's happenin
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by B-Con 9mo ago
I have a theory: They realized the right approach is to focus purely on the yes/no of what you choose to consume, rather than trying to optimize the consumption experience itself. Remember how YouTube and Netflix used to let you rate t
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by B-Con 10mo ago
See last week's thread on why more parents homeschool.
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by B-Con 10mo ago
I just rebuilt my PC and setup Steam on Linux. It was fairly smooth. I've dual-booted Arch and Windows for about 16 years. I always kept Windows around for gaming, and the occasional "doesn't support Linux" workflow. For

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