ViktorRay

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The White Revolution(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ViktorRay 21h ago|0 comments
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China Pushes Back Against AI Slowdown Talks, Alleging "Fearmongering"(forbes.com)
2 points by ViktorRay 2d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 3d ago
Are you sure the attitude changed generally or did it change more specifically here on Hacker News? Perhaps the kinds of people who use Hacker News changed. https://youtu.be/ZIaOBAjvc38 Go to the 2:00 mark of this interview
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by ViktorRay 3d ago
https://youtu.be/ZIaOBAjvc38 Garry Tan and Sam Altman recently did this interview together. They seemed pretty friendly with each other during it. Wonder what Sam Altman would say about Tan advocating for OpenAI’s models to
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by ViktorRay 3d ago
But it’s not an approximation right? In our reference frame it is the truth.
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Hollywood fears an AI future. China is living it(latimes.com)
3 points by ViktorRay 3d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 3d ago
Ah yes that’s indeed true. But from the Earth’s reference frame wasn’t the Pluto activity I mentioned earlier simultaneous with what happened 5 hours ago on Earth? So couldn’t you say from Earth’s reference frame this black hole’s activity
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by ViktorRay 3d ago
Wait then what about events that happen on Pluto? Pluto is around five light hours away from us. If an astronaut goes to Pluto and films herself doing activity A and then broadcasts that back to Earth, it would take around five hours for th
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by ViktorRay 4d ago
Is is true that they believed women couldn’t rule? England was not the first European country to have a female monarch. By the time all this was going on there had been a female monarch elsewhere in Europe a few decades earlier. Would be in
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Why George W Bush is Africa's favourite US president(ft.com)
3 points by ViktorRay 4d ago|2 comments
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by ViktorRay 4d ago
Wonder if it is similar to the frustrations some people feel when they retire. Some people have these very driven personalities and this can cause quite a bit of angst for them when they get a lot of free time. I remember when I was a teena
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by ViktorRay 5d ago
Wonder if someone might use an LLM to specifically vibe code a program that takes LLM code and makes it appear like non-LLM code.
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by ViktorRay 5d ago
I thought this was super cool… And then I clicked the “Explore” button on the top right and there are even more things that you can see! Pretty neat.
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by ViktorRay 5d ago
But the moderator wasn’t just wringing their hands. The moderator banned the account. He even said so at the end of that comment.
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by ViktorRay 5d ago
You could argue that a bullshit job is a form of rent seeking. The bullshit job worker is increasing his or her share of the wealth without actually creating any wealth through labor. Rent seeking overall is not a good thing for the economy
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by ViktorRay 5d ago
Unfortunately the video game industry is still filled with bullshit jobs with people who do nothing important. https://youtu.be/s5qKN2Yxaok This was a good video from Laura Fryer talking about this. She compared how there w
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by ViktorRay 6d ago
I think an interesting problem would be for a LLM from OpenAI or Anthropic to try to learn chess from first principles and then use that knowledge to try and beat Stockfish. I wonder if anyone at those companies is trying to tackle this pro
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by ViktorRay 6d ago
Why have the streaming costs increased so much? Surely the cost of storage has not gone up. And the cost of sending the 0’s and 1’s hasn’t gone up either. Are movie studios demanding vastly more money from the streaming services for the mov
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by ViktorRay 6d ago
There were times on this site where I saw some pretty bad comments that hadn’t been moderated. I emailed the mods at hn@ycombinator.com to let them know about those bad comments and the moderators were always super nice and helpful in respo
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
I guess we will find out when GTA 6 comes out as Rockstar has become unionized. Although actually…Rockstar didn’t become unionized until most of GTA 6 had already been completed. So I guess we’ll find out when their next game comes out.
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
Maybe my original comment wasn’t clear. If so I apologize. I was actually criticizing Noah Smith. I agree with what the author of the posted article said. EDIT: actually it isn’t even that. I personally don’t know enough about this topic to
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
Don’t worry dang! This response wasn’t irritating at all! It’s actually very interesting to me to see how you all moderate this website! Thank you sincerely for taking the time to type all that up for me. Appreciate all the hard work you do
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
I wonder if there is a name to this phenomena. Where being knowledgeable in one thing (such as computer science) means you incorrectly believe you are an expert in another domain (such as virology)
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
I wonder if it is possible to transfer some upvotes too. This new thread was on the front page before the dupe tag and the comment transfer and the other thread has much fewer upvotes which inadvertently leads to less visibility.
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
The person stated “ Many data centers are being built by companies that won't exist in a few years, as the winner will take all.” The person stated this as a negative. If those built data-centers are sold to other companies what is the
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
Wait but then in your scenario wouldn’t the companies going out of business simply sell their data centers to the winning companies?
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
For me I actually like seeing trailers before the movies. Personally I feel like the trailers are part of the experience and I can’t help but feel some disappointment when a movie starts with no trailers in front of it.
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by ViktorRay 7d ago
He was replying to a tweet by Paul Graham where Paul Graham says the following: “Startups: Instead of appearing on Shark Tank, spend that energy fixing whatever makes your product so unappealing you think you need to.“ https://ww
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by ViktorRay 8d ago
Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456
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by ViktorRay 9d ago
It’s interesting how monopolistic corporations can fall prey to the same dynamics as authoritarian countries with centralized economies.

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