PhantomHour

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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The wider context here is that the TikTok ban had significant support on the grounds of, what politicians and Zionist lobbying groups called, "anti-Israel bias" and "support for Hamas". Not just the explicitly stated &qu
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Waymo doesn't gain anything. Google i.e. Alphabet Inc, does. Especially these days. Every scrap of news that could pump the stock price is publicized aggressively. And this makes the absence of such actions suspicious.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Not really sure I understand the economics here There is nothing to understand. The point of such subsidies is to turn OPEX into a green line on the stock market. Especially as Microsoft is currently also in a fight with OpenAI.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
You'd be surprised. A lot of sellers don't "cash out" from paypal all that often, letting tens of thousands pile up. (And inevitably, some of them get hit with arbitrary account closures and have that money seized)
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
This is a baseless assertion of emergent behaviour. > Every time a bot searches We are talking about LLMs by themselves, not larger systems using them. > LLMs ability to separate facts from expression is quite well developed It is not
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Well, all a judge can/should do is to apply current law to the case before them This is true, and I do not mean to suggest it is bad . But rather, that it leaves uncertainty. These cases can all be struck down without reducing th
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
It is not.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> While this likely has no legal weight I wouldn't be quite so sure about that. The AI industry has entirely relied on 'move fast and break things' and 'old fart judges who don't understand the tech' as thei
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Whether or not it's "essential" is kind of irrelevant for the ergonomics; Languages do exist that provide only closures. (And yes, the likes of Java do struggle a bit with function pointer ffi) Similarly, "we need this b
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
It's not strictly about the money. (Though it is absolutely also about that) > Dealing with unexpected job terminations (fired or laid off) is the problem. Herein lies the problem. This gives employers absolutely massive leverage
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> But every article I've read on this makes no statement about whether any of these hundreds of people were actually working without an appropriate visa This is because ICE is being particularly tight lipped about those details. The
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Do they think they're above it? Are they stupid and don't know what they vote for? They're somewhat out of touch with tech, and caught up in police narratives around encrypted apps blocking their attempts to find pedos.
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> 5:10 "475 were illegally present in the United States" Not quite; The figure includes those with visa. "Illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the united states, working unlawfully &
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> I hope the recession ends up being smaller in length and magnitude than the 2008-2009 recession Not a chance. Were it just the tariffs, the recession would be quite small. The tariffs might even be cancelled if the SCOTUS remembers t
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
That's not the point under contention. Removing the de minimis exemption is a perfectly cromulent policy. It's not even particularly unpopular to remove it. The problem is that the Trump Administration is plainly incompetent in ha
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
To be slightly rude, there is just a wikipedia article by the name "Dumping"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) The actual legal mechanics are complicated; "Illegal under internation
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
"Dumping" in the context of international trade; Predatory pricing. The standard model for tech firms has been to run at enormous losses to push competition into bankruptcy or steal their users through subsidized service. No Europ
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major tech company off the ground. This is plainly untrue i
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The entire idea of "Oh they'll leave" is ridiculous, an empty threat from billionaires who are afraid of regulation. The EU has 450M (+80M for UK & similar non-eu countries that are likely to follow the EU on such regulat
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> If they all have valid visas and are legal to work, I'm confident they'll be released The Trump administration has been in court several times already for trying to deport people who, not only are not supposed to be deporte
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
Two things to bear in mind here: 1) As much as JD Vance and his puppetmaster wishes they were the president, they are not. The tech fascism isn't happening, just regular kind. What you're seeing here with the "deregulation&
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
They have visas. Ones that permit specific kinds of work. They are not "illegal aliens".
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
One particular datapoint to watch is auction prices for production capacity as these are the most immediate market. Those have jumped, with PJM's +800% in 2024 and +22% (22% from 2024->2025, $28.92 -> $329.17 or +1038% total over
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Is that no longer the case? Generally (but there are exceptions) in the US they have not gotten better. It's just that datacenter demand has eclipsed the effect of that. > My assertion is just that it is misleading to pin them
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Consider, if people get the new housing developments that they want, that would also add load to the system. It's a matter of scale and efficiency. Housing also adds (full-price) customers new taxpayers. A major problem with housi
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
The distinction is that you cannot make the LLM do the drilling. And the way these tools are designed is to train the user to use the LLM rather than their own brain, so they'll never learn it themselves. A big problem with the &quot
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> Just beware the “real programmers hand-write assembly” fallacy. It was said that compilers would produce a generation of programmers unable to understand the workings of their programs. In some sense, this is true! But, almost nobody t
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
> What if I want to listen to an obscure book? Should I be paying a human narrator to narrate my personal library? You weren't doing that before AI either, were you? The practical answer has already been "you pipe an ebook thro
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
I'm sorry but I simply do not believe you that it does handle things like puns and things requiring footnotes, my experience is that LLMs are miserable at this even when directly "instructed" to. But for what it concerns my p
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by PhantomHour 1y ago
There's a big difference in precisely how the technology is applied. Transformer models making screen readers better is cool. Companies deciding to fire their human voice actors and replacing all audiobooks with slop is decidedly not

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