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by baryphonic 2y ago
(American here.) I don't think I'd support a ban if ByteDance was a European company or Indian or South Korean or Japanese. China is a unique threat given the totalitarian turn they've taken over the past decade combined with
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by baryphonic 2y ago
>>Fisher became founding Chairman of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society, whose other founding members included John Maynard Keynes Keynes was the leading economist of the 20th century. He has some ideas I think are dubious,
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by baryphonic 2y ago
2006 was peak "Great Moderation," where there hadn't been any serious financial crises since the 80s. The consensus wisdom was that many of the policies of the 80s & 90s, particularly around inflation and reducing uncerta
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Each compiled executable has a one-to-one relation with its source code, which has an author (except for LLM code and/or infinite monkeys). Thus compiled executables are derivative works. There is an argument also that LLMs are derivat
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Going a step further, weights, i.e. coefficients, aren't produced by a person at all – they're produced by machine algorithms. Because a human did not create the weights, the weights have no author. Thus they are ineligible for co
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> Its literally manipulation of those who have money to spend them on product they otherwise wouldn't, has absolutely 0 relationship on quality on the product (in extreme cases it goes directly against it). This is an extremely stro
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by baryphonic 2y ago
s/defaults/segfaults/ # stupid autocorrect
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I fail to see how this parade of horribles will happen. Under the Chevron regime, any random person could still sue, and provided that the lawsuit survived an initial motion to dismiss, then any questions involving an administrative agency
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Galileo also couldn't explain the lack of an observed parallax effect between opposite seasons given the ideas about optics at the time. When Kepler's model arrived, it was so much better at predicting the positions of all planets
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I find this bizarre as well. The EU Parliament has no initiative, possessing only the power to approve or veto legislation proposed by the Commission. And then when they occasionally exercise their veto power, the Commission can just resubm
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but ALJs are technically Article I judges (or more precisely judges over Article I tribunals). The Constitution lists two different sources of judicial power, the first in Article I section 8 and the second in Articl
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I wonder how this AI interprets customers who express anger and frustration through sarcasm
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I guess Big Pharma was better at using lobbying dollars than Big Mask.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Interesting. I liked the 1Password 6 UI, was frustrated with 1Password 7 and have been loving 1Password 8 so far. Version 7 seemed really clunky when I needed to do certain workflows.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I tend to be anti-regulation unless the benefits of the regulation can be justified above and beyond laissez-faire , which in practice makes me quite anti-regulatory with some notable exceptions like the FAA. I think the root of this probl
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Neat tool. Would be cool if this CLI could have a flag to read .gitignore and exclude all of the contents automatically. Also it might be cool to have different strategies for detecting secrets, e.g. Kolmogorov complexity as other comments
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by baryphonic 2y ago
If people were avoiding FOIA by having candid discussions on private servers and deliberately misspelling words all while telling the public a contradictory story, that is strong evidence of lying. If the private communications matched the
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> Internally they had dissent but dismissed it and went so far as to misspell things so FOIAs would not find things. I hadn't heard this yet. Unbelievable. And yet all of the sites I found it on from a quick search have at some poin
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by baryphonic 2y ago
When I read the title, my immediate thought was "because 2s complement!" Your explanation is more thorough.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I agree with you. I'd add that this kind of snarky sniping nonsense causes rifts between people who might otherwise agree with one another.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I laughed out loud when I read that. Would expect nothing more from Gizmodo.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
EDIT: cite source I have yet to see any evidence of this. To the contrary, we have seen for years that advances in LLMs require orders of magnitude more parameters/power for each generation. Neural architecture search has been underwhe
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I'll be honest, I don't hear a close similarity. If I were to pick a celebrity, I'd say it sounds more like Rashida Jones, though Rashida's voice is slightly higher.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> Rebase workflows are awful and unintuitive. Leave the rebasing to the git wizards who actually know what they're doing, in no circumstances should this be part of your day-to-day work. Hard disagree. I hardly consider myself a &qu
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by baryphonic 2y ago
Negligence is a significantly lower standard than actual malice, and presumably a person who has been defamed would be seeking significant actual damages anyway (the sum of lost wages for a SWE following a false SA allegation, for example,
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> In the US, getting someone convicted of libel or settling for it is pretty solid proof. It means the person being libeled likely could prove that the person making the claims knew they were false and maliciously spread them anyways. Pr
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by baryphonic 2y ago
This is an interesting theory. Is there evidence that it's happening? Is Big SEO unreasonably effective at lobbying the Justice Department?
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I wasn't responding to the article; I was responding to the claim that Google's results are bad because of all the SEO. It's a claim I've heard from Google apologists including some people I know at Google. I think it&#x
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I'm glad you shared this. My priors before reading this article were that an uncritical over-reliance on ML was responsible for the enshittification of Google search (and Google as a whole). Google seemed to give ML models carte blanch
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by baryphonic 2y ago
What I don't understand about this explanation is that Google's results are abysmal compared to e.g. DuckDuckGo or even Brave search. (I haven't tried Kagi, but people here rave about it as well.) Sure, all the SEO is targeti

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