flipbrad

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by flipbrad 25d ago
Algorithms, not AI.
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by flipbrad 26d ago
Deepseek v4 Flash and OpenAi GPT 5.6 Luna are on their free plan, which is fab. I'm not sure more is needed, for web searching.
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by flipbrad 29d ago
People don't fire their chimneys or have garden bonfires much any more, either.
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by flipbrad 1mo ago
For context: https://x.com/XBR/status/2088341967864320507?s=20
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by flipbrad 2mo ago
I wonder what the failure mode for something like this is (e.g. in bad weather, after a power cut, a car catches fire, etc). Nobody in the country with keys, cars parked so close together you probably couldn't get in anyway... could be
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by flipbrad 2mo ago
How long until this is handled like human hiring (business case, budget, performance reviews, layoffs)?
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
The point perhaps is that these things enable discrimination based on extremely gross grained and defective criteria - in some ways the least relevant parts of your identity.
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Panasonic launches CO₂ air-to-water heat pump with CoP of 6.1(pv-magazine.com)
2 points by flipbrad 3mo ago|0 comments
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
Should have used a GDPR takedown instead of copyright: in the EU, Google doesn't tell you the identity of the requester, what qas allegedly infringing, or even the affected URl, and there's no ability to challenge. Great stuff. (
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
https://avpassociation.com/ and a few key individual crusaders.
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
Donate to his ballroom project, perhaps? Pay for tokens with his crypto coin?
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism a
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by flipbrad 3mo ago
This is what the EU has: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...
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by flipbrad 6mo ago
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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by flipbrad 6mo ago
Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.
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by flipbrad 6mo ago
N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?
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by flipbrad 8mo ago
"we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats" Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training issue, rather than basic design? How does one "
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by flipbrad 9mo ago
Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup
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by flipbrad 9mo ago
This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.
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by flipbrad 9mo ago
Hacker News is social media, isn't it?
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by flipbrad 10mo ago
Check out how Wikipedia and the rest of the wikimedia universe is run.
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by flipbrad 1y ago
EU Data Act will be more relevant here, but will take a while to roll out.
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by flipbrad 1y ago
Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here? I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to significantly push up electricity
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by flipbrad 1y ago
This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).
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by flipbrad 1y ago
A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"
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by flipbrad 1y ago
Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv... Although I can anticipate what you'll say...
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by flipbrad 1y ago
Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
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by flipbrad 1y ago
Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)
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by flipbrad 1y ago
I don't see it as dumb at all. I have solar PV, but adding a 5.8kWh battery would cost over USD 2k / local currency equivalent. As a result, I frequently have to export solar to the grid (during low demand, mid day periods) and th
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by flipbrad 1y ago
Particularly appropriate comment since in this case, everyone in the EU has had this for months, and the UK would as well if it hadn't Brexited. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to

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