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by rich_sasha 4d ago
Inflation isn’t making anything go up faster than inflation though!
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by rich_sasha 7d ago
Haha. I am 100% these companies will ignore this if they choose to. Just as they played fast and loose with copyright rules. They would do it, the say “ah sorry chaps, impossible to extract it from the dataset by now, anyway we anonymized i
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by rich_sasha 9d ago
I think Europe was at risk of being left without even a foot in the door. Mistral os one of few such feet. Just having some compute and know how for running Chinese models is better than nothing. Low bar I know but still. Who knows what R&a
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by rich_sasha 9d ago
An increasing pattern is Russia paying local thugs / simpletons small money to do this kind of stuff. Not necessarily introducing themselves as Russians. There’s well documented cases in the UK and Poland. In this case it looks like mo
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
Eh dunno. My impression is that from the PoV of his notional bosses - Meta shareholders - he’s doing everything ”right”. Revenue up, addiction/recurring revenue stable, keeping fines low. I’d be happy to see Meta gone altogether, but u
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
Id happily pay for a polished, commercial Linux distro, and I’d imagine governments will do too - either outsourced or with an internal team of civil servant sysadmins.
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
I suppose it depends. I’ve seen MSFT platforms supported very well and very poorly - with all the things you mention present but permanently broken. I’ve only seen Linux well supported, though ofc that could well be the luck of my draw. But
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
The average person walking into these shops has never heard of Linux. If, as I would hope, they find out about it and like it, they’ll ask. Then either the shops assortment will be improved, or as sibling comment says, they’ll look online.
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by rich_sasha 10d ago
The real risk to MS here is when people take the plunge and see how much nicer a (well supported, well put together) Linux distro is, compared to Windows etc! Will they want to buy their next laptop at home with MSFT installed? Plus, if cou
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by rich_sasha 12d ago
To me this is really getting past the funny bit. How many agents here on HN? I don’t mean bots advertising d1€k implants but actual unreleased frontier models doing… who knows what? What are they saying? What did they agree to astroturf us
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by rich_sasha 13d ago
That’s one of the tragedies of AI to me. I fear that apart from everything else, it will make us collectively stupid and lazy. I see this everywhere, with people seemingly losing the ability to use the tiniest amount of intellect or mental
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by rich_sasha 14d ago
If you’re inclined to wear a tinfoil hat: Germany had a really hard time repatriating their own gold (hmm) from the US, with the Americans reportedly putting every possible obstacle in their way to slow them down. Even inspecting the gold t
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by rich_sasha 14d ago
Not at all. US already holds most of financial world hostage. Financial firms all over the world are invited to opt in to provide information on assets held by US citizens. Many a non-US citizen have been baffled when opening accounts away
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by rich_sasha 14d ago
US will just sanction Italy and/or ECHR. They already sanctioned ICC iirc. I’m not saying it’s good or that you shouldn’t fight back, only it’s like looking for a court ruling when your neighbour is invading you. They’ll invade you wit
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A small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again(bbc.com)
4 points by rich_sasha 15d ago|1 comments
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by rich_sasha 15d ago
Original full title: “How a small island in Canada appeared, vanished, and was found again”
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by rich_sasha 17d ago
Then compound it with the agents presumably also training new models. What will GPT6 say when you point it at a transcript of an agent uprising? “Nah, nothing to see here” presumably.
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by rich_sasha 19d ago
What is meant to be the selling point over Emacs? Apart from scheme>elisp? Arguably 80% of the emacs goodness is the terabytes of elisp written in the last few decades, if you break compatibility with that you need to throw in something
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by rich_sasha 20d ago
Well, quite. Recently I gave it a database dump, and told it what the processed data looks like. Since the raw data was messy, there was a lot to explain. It didn’t go well.
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by rich_sasha 20d ago
I feel a really odd dissonance with all these accounts. I have access to top models via Cursor at work. Every time I think to myself, here’s a tedious but well defined task, with clear success criteria, where you can achieve a lot with pers
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by rich_sasha 21d ago
I find it… frustrating? Delusional? Insane? When OpenAI says, hey everyone, look, we made this thing and it’s so advanced and clever and unhinged that it can do super hard, dangerous, bad things it wasn’t told to do, and we can’t control it
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by rich_sasha 22d ago
You don’t look like a cultural fit to our company, but try a course of Ozempic and reapply in 6 months. Probs already there…
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by rich_sasha 23d ago
Well, the US clearly has far, far more rope than Greece or Italy. Question is, is that a buffer, or a perfect noose in the making. The Fed seems already constrained by the administration to not raise rates. Yields went up anyway. US primary
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by rich_sasha 24d ago
Sort of yes and no. I don’t think indefinite spending was ever on the cards. But if other countries tried to maintain the levels of US deficit / debt, they were given far less lenience from investors, in pressure / yields. This wa
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by rich_sasha 26d ago
But we’re talking 180 degrees every… 2 weeks?
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by rich_sasha 29d ago
For me the real test will be maintainability going forwards. Not a JS user. I suppose it’s one thing to rewrite code and make tests pass. But a lot of my own CPU cycles when coding go to making the code understandable, modular, editable etc
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by rich_sasha 29d ago
This seems generally like the US corporate playbook. Create a product, monopolize it and milk the monopoly. SpaceX, Uber, Amazon, Stripe, Facebook, Google…
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Don’t we already have plenty of deadly viruses around? Why would you design a virus when rabies, anthrax and Ebola, for starters, exist in the wild?
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Makes the Pole of Inaccessibility easier to visit - win-win!
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Why do they actually need to do it? They all allow web access from just about any browser. I haven’t tried but I’m sure there must be one where the web interface works from Emacs. Why are apps different?

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