dinobones

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by dinobones 5d ago
AI researchers: Yeah our AI models are a bioweapon threat and a nation state level cybersecurity threat and also a genius math researcher and very dAnGeRoUs! The world: Cool, can you rewrite this email with a professional tone.
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by dinobones 1mo ago
Why are you assuming there’s some taxpayer that will pay for my transportation? I fully intend to pay my transportation costs myself. It’s not about getting a free ride, it’s about being able to get to work while sleeping, saving money on h
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by dinobones 1mo ago
Here's another idea: The places where people want to live have no land or archaic zoning laws. I wouldn't want to live two hours away, but if I could sleep/work during my commute, and pay $400/month for it, I might do
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by dinobones 2mo ago
This is like the “why not use FTP yourself” response to the YC Dropbox page. Yes, but good, standardized developer tooling is valuable. Postman could’ve also been a “just use CURL and dump to JSON” for example. I actually am bullish on this
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by dinobones 2mo ago
Just start pricing in bytes input/output. This whole "token" and "tokenizer" thing is an implementation detail that shouldn't even be leaking out into the API. Providers change tokenizers all the time with mode
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by dinobones 5mo ago
Don't underestimate corporate waste. If it's not someone's job to care for something, they really won't. Even before this AI wave, it was common for me to see spinning dev environments for like $3k/month that hadn&#
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by dinobones 5mo ago
Yeah, this implementation and their behavior these past few weeks is especially laughable when you consider that they consider themselves “philosopher programmers” or whatever. You would think they’d be more reflective and introspective abo
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by dinobones 5mo ago
Those walkways are only in between each set of gates, there aren’t any actually near gates or anywhere near seating. Where did you sleep lol?
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by dinobones 5mo ago
I've noticed that all of these music generators suffer from something like "mean" collapse (as opposed to mode, you do get variance, but all results are highly centered around similar sounding songs). The music is all just ve
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by dinobones 5mo ago
Couldn't someone just uhh... patch their macOS/kernel, mock these things out, then behold, you can now access all the data? If it's not running fully end to end in some secure enclave, then it's always just a best effort
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by dinobones 5mo ago
Wait, the linter re-ordered the file. Let me restore it to the previous state. whisper: There is no linter.
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by dinobones 6mo ago
why tho? it's just an alternate alphabet/set of symbols.
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by dinobones 7mo ago
> And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly. There is no unsupervised robotaxi service in Austin and there won't be, for years, if ever. Ju
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by dinobones 8mo ago
There are 67 million baby boomers in the US. How can you rationally blame them all? Roughly 20% of the population. Saying the "boomers ruined everything" is not sophisticated, we can't move forward from a blame game, we have
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by dinobones 8mo ago
Has any society ever behaved that way? It's already a push to get people to think of the middle/lower classes during the present. I understand the desire to find an entity or group of people to blame, but they were acting in their
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by dinobones 8mo ago
Can you blame them for existing during early globalization, before over the financialization of everything? It's not like they actively took more than they "should have" from anyone directly, it's a consequence of their
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by dinobones 8mo ago
It's not that hard to notice this, just google "{university} {degree} syllabus" and you can see all the courses that the student will take. In my case, I have CS degree and work as SWE but I probably would've been fine w
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by dinobones 8mo ago
A brief history of programming: 1. Punch cards -> Assembly languages 2. Assembly languages -> Compiled languages 3. Compiled languages -> Interpreted languages 4. Interpreted languages -> Agentic LLM prompting I've tried th
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by dinobones 9mo ago
I used the early web. I miss forums, I miss the small webmaster, I miss making fun, small websites to share with friends. And while you could make the argument that these forms of media were superior to TikTok, I’d also argue that this is m
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by dinobones 9mo ago
You spent 3 months on this hacked together garbage when you probably could’ve just configured a pre-existing solution off the shelf with like 10 minutes of reading and understanding documentation. This blog post reeks of “you can just do th
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by dinobones 9mo ago
The year is 2034. Countless attempts at re-producing the sophisticated wetware of the brain have failed. Modeling research has proved unfruitful, with the curse of dimensionality afflicting every attempt at breaking the walls of general int
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by dinobones 9mo ago
It's becoming challenging to really evaluate models. The amount of intelligence that you can display within a single prompt, the riddles, the puzzles, they've all been solved or are mostly trivial to reasoners. Now you have to dri
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by dinobones 10mo ago
I stopped listening to Lex Fridman after he tried to arbiter a "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine and claimed he just wanted to make the world "love" each other more. Then I found out he was a fraud that had no
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by dinobones 10mo ago
Mega cool, I’m curious if there’s a way to burn the ISO to a disc and get this playing on a physical console?
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by dinobones 10mo ago
I’ve felt the same. Also the AGI outcome for software engineers is: A) In 5 years no real improvement, AI bubble pops, most of us are laid off. B) In 5 years near—AGI replaces most software engineers, most of us are laid off. Woohoo. Lose-l
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by dinobones 10mo ago
This is such a good idea! Kids music toys are often just purely toys tap a button, make a sound... But the skill ceiling could be so much higher, offering the ability to learn and express themselves more. Awesome work.
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by dinobones 10mo ago
So much text and not a single example, diagram, or demo. I'm honestly skeptical this will work at all, the FOV of most webcams is so small that it can barely capture the shoulder of someone sitting beside me, let alone their eyes. Then
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by dinobones 10mo ago
Thought this was going to be a good article then the author started mentioning water consumption and I stopped reading.
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by dinobones 10mo ago
$30 for a sock even in 2025 seems pretty steep. In 2004 is crazy. I guess I'm forgetting how "overpriced" Apple was at the time.
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by dinobones 10mo ago
Here’s another idea: We’ve had GPT2 since 2019, almost 6 years now. Even then, OpenAI was claiming it was too dangerous to release or whatever. It’s been 6 years since the path started. We’ve gone from hundreds of thousands -> millions -

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