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by kjreact 3mo ago
I’ve always thought that Elon’s “genius” is that he is able to convince smart/capable people to be very loyal to him. I doubt any of his inner circle would comment about him on HN, but I wonder if my theory is correct?
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by kjreact 4mo ago
I don’t see an issue with quoting an AI and citing it. Are you defending the parent post’s position of rewriting the AI answer to hide the fact that you used AI to find the solution? I’m not condoning simply taking the first answer that AI
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by kjreact 4mo ago
> If you really rewrite LLM’s response in your own words, I will know that you have learnt something. What a waste of time. Do you treat your coworkers like students trying to do homework that you assigned? > Because if you tell me di
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by kjreact 8mo ago
> This is what people who "vote their feelings" would assert. Most people think they are "sophisticated" and "educated" on these issues, both Democrats and Republicans. There is ample evidence that this is n
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by kjreact 10mo ago
Companies with high morality, do those even exist? Which one of the big tech companies do you expect to work towards benefiting humanity instead of focusing on turning a profit by any means?
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by kjreact 10mo ago
It’s probably a VC fundraising strategy, “Meta gave me 100s of millions so you should give me more”.
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by kjreact 11mo ago
The YouTube video in your link refers to a single Veritasium video regarding their coverage of Waymo autonomous driving. But I feel the entire video is invalidated by the fact that Veritasium clearly mentions that their video is sponsored b
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by kjreact 11mo ago
How am I misquoting you? If you meant to say that Veritasium is frequently incomplete then just say that. No need to add the frequently wrong part at all. You’re implying something much stronger than what you intended; just to sway people’s
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by kjreact 1y ago
That’s a bold statement to make that “Veritasium seems to be frequently wrong”. Can you list some of these many wrong statements that they make?
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by kjreact 1y ago
Because everyone who likes how Apple has made it easy for users to manage their subscriptions and enjoy the overall user friendliness of their products we are thus cultists who just blindly do as we’re told. Maybe some people don’t agree wi
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by kjreact 1y ago
Having a carbon tax seems to be the most fair way to combat climate change; unfortunately in practice it is political suicide. Australia had a carbon tax in 2011 and was quickly repealed in 2014. Likewise Canada also implemented such a tax
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by kjreact 1y ago
I agree with avoiding AI generated opinion pieces, but in this case was this article really “LLM junk”? At the bottom it attributes: > This article was written in collaboration with AI. The tool helped shape the words—but the questions,
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by kjreact 1y ago
I don’t think it has anything to do with whether it was a white collar crime or not. If it was the other team that committed the crime there would be endless outrage from his supporters whether or not they understood the crime. Look at the
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by kjreact 1y ago
> Citizens pay attention to the number of employees, and they get mad about it. You really don't want to be the one to cause citizens to angrily call elected officials if you're in an appointed government position. This week, a
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by kjreact 1y ago
Never been proven? He’s been convicted of a crime already. Are there really HNers who only watch Fox News? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-30/bloomb...
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Trump orders 90-day pause on some tariffs, raises China's to 125%(msnbc.com)
12 points by kjreact 1y ago|6 comments
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by kjreact 1y ago
People on HN have too much to lose. Who is willing to put their personal wealth and livelihood at risk to protest? We are witnessing the fall of democracy and the middle class will stand aside and let it happen.
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by kjreact 1y ago
I like that Nintendo recognises that the mouse is a superior input device, but their vertical joycon implementation seems more like a gimmick than an actually useful device. Balancing and sliding a vertical joycon doesn’t seem like it would
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by kjreact 1y ago
That is a good question, is there any harm to play freemium games if the kids aren’t allowed to spend any money? My view is that freemium games tend to be engineered to hook people into playing for long periods of time. They use strategies
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by kjreact 1y ago
Wow, do you work for these ad-tech companies? You’re totally correct that I don’t want to be tracked and I’m happy that Apple is trying to protect me from these predatory companies. If “hurt[ing] the finances” of these privacy invasive comp
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by kjreact 1y ago
YouTube is another dangerous vehicle for toxic ideology affecting our children. If you’re not careful with censoring the algorithm it is very easy to fall into a self reinforcing loop of disinformation. And even after blocking a bad channel
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by kjreact 1y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I too have struggled with fighting these network effects. And I am disheartened to see so many parents who just blindly let their children play these harmful games. Then parents like us, who do see the
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Apple hit with $162M French antitrust fine over privacy tool(reuters.com)
3 points by kjreact 1y ago|0 comments
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by kjreact 1y ago
Why do responsible parents even allow their kids to play Roblox? Roblox is plagued by freemium style gambling games that are harmful to children. I’m interested to hear from HN parents why they feel Roblox is a safe environment for their ki
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by kjreact 1y ago
How does that video show that Apple “should have made a car”? The video spends time explaining Xiaomi’s history, but spends no time justifying the clickbait title other than implying Xiaomi’s rise in stock price as the reason.
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by kjreact 1y ago
Apple’s strongest advantage is their seamless integration between their hardware and their software. The best way for rivals to weaken this advantage is to lobby for breaking this integration under the guise of consumer protection.
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by kjreact 2y ago
Are the benchmarks worse? Running LLMs in system memory is rather painful. I am having a hard time finding benchmarks for running large models using system memory. Can you point me to some benchmarks you’re referring to?
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by kjreact 2y ago
2x 5090s would only give you 64GB of memory to work with re:LLM workloads, which is what people are talking about in this thread. The 512GB of system RAM you’re referring to would not be useful in this context. Apple’s unified memory archit
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by kjreact 2y ago
Why do people keep making the mistake that smart people are good at doing everything? A person could be a mathematical genius or an amazing computer scientist, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a good leader or even a good parent. Just
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by kjreact 2y ago
An interesting quote from the article: “this pattern of risky play as a protective factor against mental-health issues was stronger for children from lower-income households than for those from higher-income households.” I wonder if being a

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