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The US is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes(spacedaily.com)
9 points by rurp 4d ago|0 comments
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by rurp 5d ago
Impeachment means nothing without convinction by a super majority in the senate. The republicans had a chance to convict trump and remove him from our politics right after he tried to murder them on Jan 6, but most of them were still to s
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by rurp 5d ago
I'm not a mathematician but it seems to me that if all it took to solve the problem was an enthusiast level understanding of the domain and a few hundred dollars of tokens then the result probably isn't that valuable. Even assumin
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by rurp 5d ago
Yeah Chinese oil reserves were much larger than was publicly known. They immediately cut imports by a massive amount as soon as the war started and have been able to keep it up for months. Without that the economic fallout would have been f
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by rurp 6d ago
An experienced runner can almost always tell if another person is an experienced runner by watching them run or hearing them talk about the activity. Same for a mathematician, or a car mechanic, or a software engineer. I don't see why
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by rurp 15d ago
Dems are certainly less evil and marginally more competent, but they are still an unpopular shit show. Even with trump attacking America left and right and becoming deeply unpopular for it they're only a coin flip to win the senate. Va
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by rurp 15d ago
> something will have to change if we want to still have a functioning world where people make good art and others are enriched by it. Unfortunately this is completely opposed to the goals of the companies creating AI. An org like Google
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Musk's AI company sues its users as victim lawsuits over Grok deepfakes mount(politico.com)
8 points by rurp 19d ago|1 comments
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by rurp 20d ago
I'm not going to vouch for every single HN comment, but running a large established company is fundamentally different from founding a startup, and I think most people recognize that. Getting a big company CEO job has way way more to
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by rurp 22d ago
Few Americans have done more than musk to destroy state capacity and to enable corruption on a massive scale, all while enriching himself to an unprecedented degree. That's great for him and his cronies that he has gotten so wealthy do
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by rurp 23d ago
To prevent countless thousands of easily preventable deaths. Human problems don't just stop at some point, especially in poor areas that are also getting hit the hardest by climate change. Are you also upset that western countries have
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by rurp 28d ago
> Samsung just includes too much overlapping bloat "features" Yep, that's a major drawback. My partner has a Samsung phone and seeing all of the included bloatware, plus the terrible updates and add even more, made me not
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by rurp 28d ago
Eh, it depends on how you use it. I have a heavily used Linux laptop that's almost a decade old and I still love it. I've had various work and personal MacBooks over the years and don't really miss them. It sounds like their
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by rurp 29d ago
I think it's more about institutional trust than the technology itself. AI could be a great common good in the west, but look at the companies and politicians controlling its development. The notion that trump/elon/altman&#
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by rurp 1mo ago
Translations are inherently lossy, especially for cases like the bible that use less common dialects and have conflicting source versions. Are any biblical translators claiming that their work is a 100% reproduction of the original? I doubt
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by rurp 1mo ago
Scale matters and modern humans drive species to extinction faster than the historical average by several orders of magnitude. Even if you value non-human intelligent life at zero, which I think is morally reprehensible but know plenty of o
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by rurp 1mo ago
SpaceX isn't more secure than the government because the government might bail it out in the future, that makes no logical sense. Obviously SpaceX is a higher default risk than the entity supposedly backstopping it. Not to mention that
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by rurp 1mo ago
I can relate to this so much. My interests tend to be pretty niche and I have little interest in most of the major online websites. The scale at which Google has hollowed out the non-corporate internet boggles the mind. The earlier web era
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by rurp 1mo ago
Not just reading, videos have been ruined in many ways as well. My base reaction to seeing anything surprising on video form has switched from "Interesting!" to "Probably fake". Novel events caught on video are now immed
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by rurp 1mo ago
Part of the problem is that there is so much overlap between GenAI's biggest boosters and people who reflexively welcome on any tech change as an unalloyed good. People can be really fanatical about this stuff. Any nuanced discussion o
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by rurp 1mo ago
Scale matters. Parents taking their phones out to record discrete events in a visible way is one thing, and the data may or may not make its way to Facebook. Parents wearing glasses that record and upload 100% of what they are seeing to Fac
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by rurp 1mo ago
The most surprising thing to me about the data center backlash is how surprised a lot of people in tech are about it. The public tradeoffs seem pretty terrible from the perspective of folks who aren't spending all day enamored with age
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by rurp 1mo ago
Nothing that uses as much power as a modern data center is anywhere close to the most clean eco friendly business imaginable. Even one on 100% renewables, which most very much are not, is hurting the environment far more than many industrie
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by rurp 1mo ago
Are you saying that Waymo spends a similar percentage of revenue on local salaries as a labor intensive business like Home Depot or Uber? That would be surprising to me. I've seen Walmart and similar companies criticized countless time
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by rurp 1mo ago
> it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded This is simply wrong in a lot of cases. Tech companies absolutely use their immense wealth and influence to alter public policy and spending. Regulatio
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by rurp 2mo ago
Somewhat related, after desert rains you can often see fairy shrimp (think sea monkeys you might have had as a kid) swimming around in the isolated pools that form. I looked this up after wondering how the heck these water creatures could s
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San Francisco mayor backs national robotaxi rules after Waymo meltdowns(politico.com)
4 points by rurp 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2mo ago
How does a board objectively evaluate that a potential CEO is worth say $25M/year over a candidate who will take the job for $4M/year? Previous job performance isn't that reliable since countless CEOs have been great at one c
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by rurp 2mo ago
I'm confident that the companies that invented modern ad tech to create some of the greatest revenue streams in history will find a way monetize an equally promising industry of selling LLM influencing opportunities. It will take some
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by rurp 2mo ago
Things will get there for sure, with ads and other propaganda baked in at the training level with no reliable way to discern the manipulations as an end user. Modern tech companies will sacrifice anything UX related to generate more effecti

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