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by lambdaone 3d ago
Technically, they could do a whole bunch of things, including doing multihop routing via other connected televisions or insecure WiFi networks. There's no evidence that they do this, as far as I know, but also no reason why they couldn
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by lambdaone 3d ago
"Owning the glass" is a euphemistic way of saying "owning the viewers".
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Novel Realizations of Warp Drive Spacetimes as Solutions of General Relativity(mdpi.com)
3 points by lambdaone 4d ago|1 comments
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by lambdaone 4d ago
The drive to make warp drives reality seems irresistable. But will they ever actually be possible?
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by lambdaone 5d ago
It would seem relatively easy to eliminate this sort of infinite loop by ensuring that all loops are finite, function call depth limited and so on. It isn't a case where you hit the halting problem; the halting problem applies to gener
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by lambdaone 6d ago
Many cities are doing it already with bike lanes which support both push-bikes and electric bicycles.
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by lambdaone 6d ago
With respect to tire pollution, buses are far less bad than cars. Providing a bus is not nearly empty, while the per-vehicle pollution is worse than a car, it's per-passenger pollution is much less.
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by lambdaone 10d ago
If only it did. AI is designed to do what you tell it to, and that mostly works. But in the general case, AI does what it does, with no real guarantee of anything.
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by lambdaone 15d ago
LLMs seem to have been fine-tuned to use metaphors, presumably because they read like vivid creative writing. The over-use of metaphor in LLM-produced text is exhausting.
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Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine(theregister.com)
7 points by lambdaone 15d ago|2 comments
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by lambdaone 15d ago
Should chips like the Jetson Orin module be regarded as dual-use technologies? Or have similarly powerful embedded processors now become widely enough available that it isn't worth making the distinction any more?
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by lambdaone 15d ago
He's right, of course, for those people who already have a mathematical gift, but the problem with that is that Tao has never experienced not being a mathematical genius, and is no more capable of understanding what it's like to n
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by lambdaone 15d ago
I found the use of <SYMBOLS LIKE THIS> throughout the text without explanation somewhat off-putting. Clearly some sort of technical usage is being suggested, but it doesn't seem to add anything to the text.
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by lambdaone 15d ago
This is a romantic and very appealing idea that flies in the face of reality. The market for skilled trade workers like plumbers, electricians, landscapers and so on is more or less in equilibrium, and the demand side of it is relatively in
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by lambdaone 1mo ago
250 MB is exactly the sort of bloat you'd expect from this sort of daft web-browser-wrapper application, and Apple get it there. 1.2 GB, on the other hand, is 5x as much, and completely insane even when you start off with daft as your
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by lambdaone 1mo ago
I wonder if the same is also true of other high-spatial-complexity activities like rock climbing and professional dancing? (Exercise level would of course be a counfounding varable to be eliminated in these cases.)
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by lambdaone 1mo ago
This is a really weak argument. High-quality government websites exist, most notably the British gov.uk system. All this is beside the point - the current age verification proposals are wrong, and attempt to solve the wrong problem in ways
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Interpreting the Second Amendment in a sane way might be a start. Its wording seems clear to me: it establishes the need for a well-regulated militia as necessary to the security of the state, and grants the right to bear arms in that con
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Does this imply that Claude Opus was trained on Qwen output?
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Windows XP and MacOS System 7 had pretty good looking GUIs. Since then, modern keyboard-and-mouse UIs have not really improved that much; it's mostly been just evolving and polishing styling. All the real innovation has been on touchsc
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Algorthmic improvements in inference could make all that kit redundant very quickly - there are already moderately capable models that can be run on phones or laptops with specifications that are currently high-end but will be mainstream in
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
I think Farage will probably win, but it will be a lot closer than he would like. While they will make no difference at all for his hard-core supporters, the financial allegations will be discouraging for at least some of his voters and wil
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
This is a vastly superior, earlier, and more detailed article compared to the one being discussed here [0], and should replace it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888331
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
That article is vastly superior and is the one that should be being discussed, not this.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
I'm working on improving my PCB synthesis system; given a KiCad schematic and some extra metadata it can currently lay out and route an entire double-sided PCB with about 50 components in 4 minutes without any human intervention. I wro
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
It's the 10% chance they are worried about. Reform is very much the Farage party, and him losing to a bin in their heartland would be catastrophic; he would go from being the presumptive next Prime Minister to a national joke. Binface,
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
To be fair, we really don't know what counts as smart business attire on Sigma IX.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
His birth name, and I believe still his legal name, is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. But he is "commonly known as" Boris Johnson, so that's what can go on the ballot paper, although his full name must still go on the re
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Absolutely. For him the bloat is not a problem; it's a negative externality.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
If only there was some way that countries could make international agreements on things...

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