Levitating

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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025(lesswrong.com)
478 points by Levitating 3d ago|232 comments
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US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs(tomshardware.com)
135 points by Levitating 3d ago|109 comments
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by Levitating 5d ago
> even though 2,977 people died while 42,116 died from car accidents that same year I have trouble understanding your logic. A lot of trouble is made to prevent car accidents. We require driving licenses, we develop whole categories of l
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by Levitating 6d ago
To be fair, even before LLMs could spot my bugs in an instant I really only regularly used debuggers in C because it can't display arbitrary types in debug print statements.
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Core War: three crowns on the King of the Hill(dm2tim.de)
3 points by Levitating 7d ago|0 comments
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OpenAI claims maths breakthrough on a famed 'Millennium Problem'(nature.com)
2 points by Levitating 7d ago|1 comments
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by Levitating 9d ago
> Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? So even Bill Gates believed Windows wasn't usable in 2003. Yikes.
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by Levitating 9d ago
I am convinced. Is there any project implementing or proposing this?
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by Levitating 10d ago
> at least in crypto there is a token you can sell That would defeat the purpose. The goal is to make scraping costly, not profitable.
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by Levitating 11d ago
The link died, but it's a cut-down PS5 APU previously sold for crypto mining apparently.
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by Levitating 11d ago
That you can do complicated things with it does not make it complicated.
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AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores(tomshardware.com)
29 points by Levitating 11d ago|9 comments
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by Levitating 12d ago
> We need simpler protocols and formats But we do! It doesn't get much simpler than HTML/CSS/JS. It's just abused to make apps instead of web documents.
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by Levitating 13d ago
To serve as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair exposition.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)
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Balance of Power Geopolitics in the Nuclear Age (1985)(archive.org)
2 points by Levitating 13d ago|0 comments
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by Levitating 15d ago
European passports are NFC tags and you can prove your identity using your phone.
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Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" faster than US Government(arstechnica.com)
96 points by Levitating 16d ago|60 comments
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by Levitating 16d ago
You can still find honest companies providing correctly priced services. Purelymail.com handles my email. There are many VPS hostars, cloud storage providers etc with honest pricing.
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by Levitating 17d ago
I love the spectrum. They are quite repairable and even upgradable machines. I was literally able to buy a new ram chip at my local electronics store.
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by Levitating 19d ago
Title is taken from the reuters coverage[1], but I used the link to the original epa.gov press release. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-power-data...
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EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws(epa.gov)
260 points by Levitating 19d ago|264 comments
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AMD Jumps from ROCm 7.14 to ROCm 10.0 with Rocm.ai(phoronix.com)
4 points by Levitating 20d ago|0 comments
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by Levitating 24d ago
I wonder if AI companies already have a good way of filtering out these generated sites, or if the internet has just become worthless for training.
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by Levitating 27d ago
It's also not a trivial problem. Rust supports a few dozen more platforms than CPython.[1][2] [1]: https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/platforms.html [2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/
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by Levitating 27d ago
> it seems that the reason for Rust not having an API to get a stream of random bytes from the OS This is already in nightly[1]. I don't see what "getting money in peoples pockets" has to do with its stabilization. [1]: h
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by Levitating 1mo ago
"...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s." That seems like a contradiction.
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by Levitating 1mo ago
How much good data can you get out of twitch?
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by Levitating 1mo ago
That's not my experience
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by Levitating 1mo ago
> The name was registered in 2009 because it was the shortest URL possible: a zero, a dot, two letters. Seventeen years later the zero means something else. Did the zero ever mean anything? It's still a 3 character domain regardless
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by Levitating 1mo ago
But we don't all use Facebook, Facebook found its niche of tech-illiterate people to abuse. The population is a wide demographic and it would be nice if companies didn't try to exploit parts of it.

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