CptFribble

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by CptFribble 3mo ago
I agree, but considering the age of AI was ushered in with the largest and most complete theft of IP in human history, from inside the good 'ol USA, we shouldn't trust any LLM provider with critical information of any kind, and in
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by CptFribble 3mo ago
> all the data on how you have interacted with their models 1) there is a very non-zero chance that the US government also has that data from OpenAI and possibly Anthropic 2) unless you are asking the chinese models to draw up plans to o
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by CptFribble 3mo ago
> so was invading Ukraine the difference is that Putin's hand was forced by age, (possibly) illness, and the last several decades of how he chose to run his country. Putin's power base is a relatively small group of elites and
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by CptFribble 4mo ago
its science journalism tbh, the realities of climate change's impact is so spread out and complicated that it's difficult to communicate to a largely scientifically-illiterate audience. see the perennial confusion over cold heavy
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by CptFribble 4mo ago
my money is on: eventually frontier model dev and training becomes basic research funded by governments, and LLM operators become essentially private utilities a la ISPs, competing mostly on data center operational costs and occasionally ne
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by CptFribble 1y ago
This assumes that all areas of research are bottlenecked on human understanding, which is very often not the case. Imagine a field where experiments take days to complete, and reviewing the results and doing deep thought work to figure out
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by CptFribble 2y ago
Ah, I see - thank you for the context! If you don't mind one more question - do you have to leave a substantial amount of cash in the Steam account in case of very late refunds? Or does Steam just send you an invoice or something?
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by CptFribble 2y ago
why are refunds so commonly counted against sales in this way? Wouldn't a refund cost essentially nothing?
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by CptFribble 2y ago
digital music is not artificial scarcity, because it's not the copied bits that are the resource, it's attention. we only have so much time and attention for consuming media, and only so much attention and memory space in our brai
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by CptFribble 2y ago
the reform needs to happen at the layer where whether a copyright is valid or not is decided upon, not before (at the point of "should copyright exist") and not after (enforcement). a world without copyright means those with the l
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by CptFribble 2y ago
Megacorps being naturally risk-averse, and the lion's share of the rest of the capital being held by that banquet room, it's going to take one or a few scrappy startups hitting it big while also committing to WFH/etc to get t
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by CptFribble 2y ago
> R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. adding on to this, typically it takes 1-3 years for the effects of an administration to really bear fruit in
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by CptFribble 2y ago
> why isn't he in jail In 2020, a Pennsylvania white man illegally voted via mail-in ballot on behalf of two deceased parents. Also in 2020, a black woman in Memphis voted while ineligible due to a felony conviction without being in
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by CptFribble 2y ago
until it hallucinates a config and rings up a $10,000 AWS while you're asleep
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by CptFribble 2y ago
> group chat hmm having a sort of mini-forum-like experience tied to particular pages in a book seems like a fascinating idea! being able to discuss plot twists and such only once you've already gotten to that point? wow this seems
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by CptFribble 2y ago
I think that's part of the carefully-crafted hype messaging. Close enough to get excited about, but far enough away that by the time we get there people will have forgotten we were supposed to have it by then.
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by CptFribble 2y ago
To paraphrase Goggins, "Who's gonna carry the cabbage?" While it's true there are a lot of jobs obsoleted by technological progress, the vision of personal AI teams creating a new age of prosperity only makes sense for k
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by CptFribble 2y ago
If WFH was accepted corporate policy, and allowed for moving large distances away, then reversing back to RTO is not just an inconvenience, it's as much a life-upending disruption as moving for a new job.
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by CptFribble 2y ago
I agree the shadow DOM is annoying and best left alone - at my job we just avoid it completely, and our entire web component library is meant to just wrap ordinary light DOM elements with functionality. Used this way, WC are light, easy, an
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by CptFribble 2y ago
Cars are not software, and it's ethically and morally wrong to test them in production. Musk is playing games he doesn't understand, and wagering other people's lives to do it. He should at minimum understand that he has ma
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by CptFribble 3y ago
this is actually explained briefly in the first movie NEO: Do you always look at it encoded? CYPHER: Have to. The image translators sort of work for the construct programs but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. Ever
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Ask HN: Lost 10-year-old Google Voice number due to policy change, any recourse?
3 points by CptFribble 3y ago|2 comments
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by CptFribble 3y ago
It's a hard discussion, because the real issue is whether we as a society want prison to be about punishment or rehabilitation. Like many things, Americans generally seem to be split on the topic: Some want prison to be a hard punishin
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by CptFribble 3y ago
think of how shareholders drive a company's behavior, and how much of most public corporations bad behavior is generating dividends or increased share price for large institutional shareholders, because the leadership (board) is voted
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by CptFribble 3y ago
I am once again asking you to consider plasma gasification. Here is my standard comment, copied again: --- Why are we still not talking about plasma gasification? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification As fa
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by CptFribble 3y ago
I disagree, police should not be able to turn off the cameras, but the footage should NOT be public by default. Instead, the footage should be regularly audited by a vetted third party not connected to the police, police union, of families
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by CptFribble 3y ago
> Some children are literally living in a warzone and don't know if they will survive through the week, some live in poverty, some lose one of their parents or both. This isn't the gotcha you think it is. Yes, there are childre
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by CptFribble 3y ago
A self-sufficient colony outside Earth is a worthy goal in and of itself: 1. The indomitable human spirit and drive to explore and expand 2. It's cool 3. More room for humans There are also reasons that don't apply to Antarctica:
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Another story about waste "solutions," another opportunity to remind the gentle readers about plasma gasification. A re-post of an earlier comment of mine on the topic follows: --- Why are we still not talking about plasma gasific
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by CptFribble 3y ago
it's more complicated than that because of the scale of human society. example: mandatory LED light bulbs. any individual person considering only themselves, would be correct to choose filament over LED because of cost and very little

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