flashman

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by flashman 1mo ago
> "If it's going to make me more money to paint my face, clown me up," she said. Oh you're already a clown
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by flashman 2mo ago
When John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats started recording albums to cassette on his portable Panasonic stereo, he got a sound that was so much more lo-fi than what could be obtained in a studio, or even with a more expensive recorder an
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by flashman 2mo ago
> The "product" is now selling data to LLM companies Incorrect; 94% of Reddit's 2025 revenue came from advertising, it's right here on page 81 https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001713445/
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by flashman 2mo ago
You assert that, but can you prove it? Likewise I can say that the model is biased towards rating the Economist's claims as 'mainstream' and 'bang on' because as a high-profile publication those claims are repeated
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by flashman 3mo ago
The current ID verification requirements for phones were introduced to Australia in 1997
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by flashman 3mo ago
> Claude and ChatGPT are not indoctrinating into the manosphere users asking about discounted cash flow formulae. You're defining an extremely narrow case and then saying bias is irrelevant within it. At the risk of Godwin's La
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by flashman 3mo ago
In the same way that a photograph is not dissimilar to the thing it represents, that is, in the most important way.
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by flashman 3mo ago
vast oversimplification of the experience of brain damage
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by flashman 3mo ago
Maybe when the system can generate its own state, rather than that state existing as a deterministic output of its inputs, maybe then we can consider it to have the interiority and reflexiveness required to call something 'thought&#x27
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by flashman 4mo ago
well we could [HN terms of service violation]
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by flashman 4mo ago
I didn't say there wasn't bot-generated content in the past. I said we weren't excited about a future where it was de rigeur.
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by flashman 4mo ago
I don't know what else you'd call the widespread and enthusiastic adoption of a technology that is designed to exploit people's trust in the veracity of images by mimicking reality as seamlessly as possible. I think it's
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by flashman 4mo ago
Twenty years ago, I don't think any of us were excited about a future internet where we couldn't trust whether what we were seeing or reading was genuine. I hope one day we'll be able to look back on this era as an aberration
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by flashman 4mo ago
hey OP what's with all the carryology submissions in the past two days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279030 https://news.ycombinator.co
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by flashman 4mo ago
Apple is smart to avoid betting the farm on generative AI based on large language models, which is really what we mean by 'AI' here. It costs a lot to create and to run, nobody is willing to pay enough to cover those costs, and wh
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by flashman 4mo ago
No, it's asking for my two-legged horse to have four legs
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by flashman 4mo ago
But we all knew what they meant and here you are being tedious about it
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by flashman 4mo ago
Misleading, because satellites are made of different materials to meteors. Satellites are the dominant injection source of 24 elements into the atmosphere, including Al, Cu, Ti, Nb, Co, Zn, Sn, Pb, Ag, Li, V, Hf, W, Ge, Mo, Zr, B, and Ba. T
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by flashman 4mo ago
well there was this previous issue in the crypto community where it turned out someone was not a competent engineer and should have stuck to their online exchange for magic: the gathering
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by flashman 4mo ago
What's in the files they've already released? Some of them are > 800GB.
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by flashman 6mo ago
Not enough money though. Not hundreds of billions of dollars.
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by flashman 11mo ago
didn't help Shed Garvey lol
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by flashman 1y ago
Jesus
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by flashman 1y ago
seems like vision quality might be a major source of robot accidents
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by flashman 1y ago
Let's reverse that. "Current generation AI models can think of things that are truly new." How could you possibly know that ? Could you prove that an image wasn't copying from images in its training data?
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by flashman 1y ago
Redbubble was sued by the Pokemon Company two months prior to the launch of Pokemon Go, so you picked the exact wrong company and moment to try this with https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/pokemon-hel
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by flashman 1y ago
macintosh.js is an alternative that runs as an Electron app https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js
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by flashman 1y ago
A bunch of these documents have been released in previous years so we'll need a filter on filenames to determine what's actually new, e.g. 2023 release: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/re
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by flashman 2y ago
> It is essential then that the hardware deployed in data centers has not been physically tampered with. Without that the whole thing falls apart. am i wrong or does this just change the threat from Chinese to US government tampering and
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by flashman 2y ago
> Speaking of game loading, it is surprisingly slow. You plug in a cartridge and turn on the 7800+, which takes a moment, and then there is a “Loading game” screen that takes 15 to 20 seconds to actually load the game. This would have be

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