JohnLocke4

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by JohnLocke4 5mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if innovation in the AI space has stalled and recent progress is just a product of increased compute. Competence is increasing exponentially[1] but I guess it doesn't rule it out completely. I would postulate that
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Is This Your Job?(jasper.tandy.is)
1 points by JohnLocke4 5mo ago|0 comments
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What Is Freedom?(geohot.github.io)
2 points by JohnLocke4 5mo ago|0 comments
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by JohnLocke4 6mo ago
You heard it here first
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
Interesting story. I have noticed that certain parameters are often ignored not because they're unimportant, but instead because they're hard to quantify. Another story is how the first product made by Jobs and Wozniak at Apple wa
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
This reminds me of a story I read once about how Bell Labs engineers wanted to find the ideal length of a landline telephone chord. They did this by secretly shortening the chord over time on test users' telephones and waited to see ho
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
The HN crowd is not representative of the entire market. Most people don't care about the operating system and only want something that 1) is simple to use 2) they already know 3) they happen to already have (most people keep their pho
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
I agree. I just don't agree with misinformation not being protected as free speech. Surely having an INGSOC decide what is truthful enough to be shared is detrimental to free expression and thought. Heliocentrism was also misinformatio
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
How exactly does a proxy spread misinfo? Also, the project isn't even functional yet and appears to have been blocked to avert piracy
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by JohnLocke4 7mo ago
It is basically just a proxy. I don't see how censorship could be an antidote to a "subversive political influence campaign" - if anything you're describing censorship
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Graham's Number(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by JohnLocke4 7mo ago|0 comments
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by JohnLocke4 8mo ago
At first I wanted to write a comment about how cars and sex are apparently very well linked. Upon thinking it over once more, it appears that the real link to sex is privacy, which is of course obvious. Thinking over it once more, we'r
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by JohnLocke4 9mo ago
Yes. The reason the year of the Linux desktop has yet to arrive is because most people don't understand this joke. Linux is powerful because it is made for power users (although certain distros are changing this)
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by JohnLocke4 9mo ago
As a reward for freeing yourself from the de facto government DNS, you will now be gifted free movies for eternity
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by JohnLocke4 9mo ago
I think the obvious thing to do here is to say "Always bet on symbolics". What separates text from images is that text is symbolic while images are visceral or feelings based. In the same way, text comes in short when it comes to
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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal(en.wikipedia.org)
30 points by JohnLocke4 9mo ago|3 comments
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by JohnLocke4 9mo ago
No, that is not what I mean. The efficiency of a piece of knowledge is not only a function of its intrinsic value, but also how easy it is to understand. Sure, the people who are expected to read the document are smart and this is probably
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by JohnLocke4 9mo ago
It is often that seemingly irrelevant factors play a big role. In this case, a 141 page highly dense (and frankly boring to read) document is in its essence a liability. Engineers get bored too and it is obviously more fun to just code rath
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
I think almost all multilingual people would agree that writing cordially is easier in their native language - whatever that language may be. Expressing heartfelt messages in the language you spoke when developing your identity and emotiona
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Session(getsession.org)
3 points by JohnLocke4 10mo ago|0 comments
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
Is your real name also Seth? This is wholesome and hilarious
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
All theft is preventing people from getting value out of their work, but not all preventing people from getting value out of their work is theft. I'm not trying to make a definition, just trying to convey my opinion. I suggest we discu
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
English is not a programming language. You're only disagreeing with my articulation here, which is irrelevant in relation to the thing of the matter - namely what I mean rather than what I type into the keyboard physically.
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
Preventing someone from getting value out of their work is theft - not matter how it is done. Copying a dead person's work isn't theft because a dead person can't create value, but stealing a dead person's car is still t
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by JohnLocke4 10mo ago
Good OPSEC is surprisingly simple and boring. Essentially, it just boils down to using tor and not accidentally exposing sensitive information, which is how Ross Ulbricht got caught. (okay, it is more than that but in essence it is true) Th
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by JohnLocke4 11mo ago
Convention and the terminal holds it back. A terminal looks like the 1970s but feels like the future
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by JohnLocke4 11mo ago
In 2040 fusion energy advancements will have gotten far enough to be the next technological step and make this redundant anyway
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by JohnLocke4 11mo ago
I suggest we stop speculating about the cause of death and instead wait for an official announcement to be made. Please respect the family at this time.
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by JohnLocke4 11mo ago
Not to rationalize it, but it appears that they're gatekeeping the dataset to get access to the OCR-scans from the people they choose to share it with. This is to improve their existing service by making the content of books (and not j
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by JohnLocke4 11mo ago
There is even a Wikipedia section for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peac...

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