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by lkbm 14d ago
I have this as a bash script and a some similar bash and python scripts for converting between python's print(my_dict) and json, or to run some python (mostly the dicts) through black. The j2p is pretty self-evident if you know any pyt
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by lkbm 17d ago
It's larger than HN on my browser. It seems to just be what you have your browser default to.
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by lkbm 17d ago
Because they're crawling a billion webpages, only a tiny fraction of which can be git cloned, and configuring a special case just for that tiny fraction isn't worth the effort (of the crawlers).
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by lkbm 17d ago
> So, you'd think that something that pretends to be “Artificial Intelligence” would use the most efficient way of using our data for training purposes, right? Clone the repos, walk every commit. Done. If repos like this were 10%+ o
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by lkbm 18d ago
Yeah, and the number also is not of all exports, but of goods exports (as opposed to total, which includes both goods and services). In 2024, fishing/marine products was ~18% of total exports, which is still a massive deal, but only
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by lkbm 21d ago
Not sure which number you're questioning, but it all looks right to me: $852.7B[0] + $109.9B[0] = $962.6B ~= $1T ($1,000,000,000,000) World population ~= 8.3B (8,300,000,000)[1] $1,000,000,000,000 / 8,300,000,000 people = $120.481
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by lkbm 26d ago
I don't think it is. A lot of federal government debt is held by other governments, not just private entities.
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by lkbm 26d ago
Companies discovered that they can pour tends of billions into clean energy and still be hated for destroying the planet. They can use a small amount of water and be blamed for draining the Great Lakes. Why would they avoid doing things peo
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by lkbm 26d ago
With many old books, a big part of the problem is that it's non-trivial to determine who owns the copyright. Sometimes the contract would say the copyright reverts to the author after a certain amount of time out of print,but you have
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by lkbm 29d ago
> No, they mean free at time of service, which they are. I don't think that's true France, Norway, New Zealand, or Switzerland. (And that's just developed nations. The GP's claim was every country other than the US.
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by lkbm 29d ago
> Car accidents, because we drive much more and are much more spread out than other countries. Somewhat off-topic, but I think this explanation of the car accidents misses the mark. It might be part of the cause, but car accident deaths
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by lkbm 1mo ago
Add in that my freezer probably contains over $500 of food (and the fridge has less, but not none.) Usually you can buy ice, but when I had a ~36 hour outage a couple years ago, I couldn't. Most stuff was fine for that long, but 2-3 d
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by lkbm 1mo ago
USA Today also owns a huge number of local papers -- possibly most. The main local papers in the three last places I've lived (Austin TX, South Bend IN, Asheville NC area) were all USA Today Co.-owned. (Used to be called Gannett.) It&#
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by lkbm 1mo ago
Ads are influencing us to buy things we don't need! This is terrible! [Billboards stop targeting you at all.] Ads no longer influence us to buy things we don't need! This is terrible! Just take the win.
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by lkbm 1mo ago
Bigger fines would, too. If you gain $1B by doing an action, but you have a >10% chance of a >10B fine, it's expected value is negative. The 10% and 10B might need to be extra high to account for hyperbolic discounting, but I t
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by lkbm 1mo ago
I can understand a no answer from people who think climate change is no big deal, but it's kind of weird that people who think climate change will kill hundreds of millions -- possibly everyone -- say no on the grounds that it has risk
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by lkbm 1mo ago
It's occasionally mentioned, but the answer appears to be "roughly 1000x current global electricity production", so we don't worry about it too much. Energy is much higher than electricity, of course, but we're no
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by lkbm 1mo ago
> Good sanitation is a financial and political problem. The engineering has been solved for decades now. This was true of computers, phones, books, washing machines, refrigerators, A/C...most technologies. Turns out that doing the a
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by lkbm 1mo ago
I know it's not popular in some circles to say it, but people (not just evil, rich racists) dislike riding the bus because of homeless people and other people who have little reason (or ability) to conform to social norms. I only saw o
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by lkbm 1mo ago
Quoting a dictionary won't get you very far with real people. Those are obviously wrong in that they're overly prescriptive and tied to what was common when they were written. The dictionary is trying to give you an idea of what m
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by lkbm 1mo ago
What changed in June?
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by lkbm 1mo ago
Pangram gave 95% human for the chunk (1,547 words) that I gave it. Part of a single paragraph was listed as AI.
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by lkbm 1mo ago
I switched my small personal projects to preact in a (temporarily successful effort) to get one under 14kb after re-reading [0] a year or two back. So far haven't run into any limitations. If you need React, then go ahead and use React
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by lkbm 2mo ago
Starlink wasn't working yet, but had been announced as a thing they intended to do.
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by lkbm 2mo ago
Huh. How do things end up with scores like 30.2% (and results between 0% and 1%) if it's that low resolution?
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by lkbm 2mo ago
(1982)
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by lkbm 2mo ago
I think software has always been terribly buggy. Back in the day, things would crash (including your entire OS in many cases) all the time. These days, it's more often smaller, stupid UX issues, but that's been the situation for a
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by lkbm 2mo ago
Seems unlikely they'd be this dumb. The way to get us to use more tokens is to make those tokens more useful, not less. Anthropic is full of people (including higher-ups) who know this.
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by lkbm 2mo ago
> The real question is "On my block, what is the probability of any given house having at least one delivery on any given day" In the city, I used to see multiple Amazon delivery trucks per day. On the rural road I now live on
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by lkbm 3mo ago
> If I write stuff on wikipedia, it is opinion of wikipedia That's obviously false, if for no other reason than: > and there is rigorous editorial process, to get my stuff published... There are people who will see and review you

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