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by tangenter 2mo ago
> It is hard to fathom anyone on the planet less qualified than Elon Musk to opine on the value of public service experience when lives are at stake. This is the opening line of this piece. With a hyperbolic, charged statement like that,
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Gentle reminder to folks to use Firefox or even LibreWolf. These sites and these articles are notorious for anti-user ads. I suspect this article is intentionally lengthy and filled with flowery backdrop descriptions to get the user to scro
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by tangenter 2mo ago
> It started with Lex Fridman planted interviews to make AI researchers appear human and ends with AI awarding AI prizes. You should expand on this. Would be interesting to hear more about the propaganda apparatus at play.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Long shot - any hope of us getting an MSN Gaming Zone code release? The Lobby and Friends/Messages system? Would help us... counts on fingers 9 greybeards out.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Slow is fine, and I do. My personal favorite is a former NASA employee who recorded a series of lessons for students to use to supplement their normal undergrad studies, prepare for exams, that kind of thing. He has a YouTube channel which
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by tangenter 2mo ago
I have a pile of my own so I know what you are talking about. I love how even today DVD and Blu Ray players look, long after they were released. They are compact and chic, looking a tad futuristic but not at all the sort of stuff that screa
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by tangenter 2mo ago
I don’t think they are simplified but they are an introduction course for sure. I think what’s usually missing is integrating (heh) linear algebra with calculus for solving more interesting problems but I think the audience for that needs t
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Chill Winston.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Personally, I haven’t stopped buying CDs or in certain cases DVDs and Blu-Rays - not of movies but of music. I find it interesting these “went away” but I can see why: nobody I know has a cd player to begin with. A lot of laptops nowadays d
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by tangenter 2mo ago
As I read this article I lament that the childlike naïveté angle is the dominant one used to distill the spirit of creation in most written literature. There are other, more profound and perhaps more interesting ones, but the people who are
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Flagged because not even Google reads their own blog posts. This is LLM slop.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
It’s interesting to see how independent analyses reach more or less the same conclusion.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Aye, the world we live in.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
We already have a name for this that’s widely used: concern trolling.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
This is a load-bearing title.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Either that or they’ve been repeated by the audience so often as to lose all their appeal.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
VW is a massive casualty, but the future of automotive is currently a cutthroat war between BYD and Tesla. Everyone else is, at best, a second tier competitor. Auto industry/dealerships for trad cars is not looking good.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Upvoted. The secret origin story of Kord as he feels belittled by an anonymous online commenter, one of a handful who flagged his submission to HN. A Great War is about to waged on the internet. Absolute cinema is in our grasp, we must be a
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by tangenter 2mo ago
For better or worse we are on Discord. A mixture of a throwback to IRC days combined with a platform that speaks “Internet” better than most places means a lot more interesting, unrestrained discussion happens. While most people will not go
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by tangenter 2mo ago
So much of this space has been collapsed into homogenized entertainment. Nowadays, by the time a child is ten years old they have seen every form of the hero’s journey in the cartoons they watch, to the degree where there are tropes and nod
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Fuck it. I’m exclusively running the book version of minix from now on, neovim be damned. The exploit surface of these kernels is wild.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
It drives engagement. That’s the metric for why this gets posted.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
> I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. What you’re seeing are people who live in their heads. We all do it from time to time, but we snap out of it whe
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by tangenter 2mo ago
LLMs are heavily trained on Python.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Meh. Consider that you had no choice and no say that your data out there, both present and historic as mined, aggregated and analyzed by data collectors, was used as a training set for the LLMs. I think you’re a tad too late with your warni
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by tangenter 2mo ago
The fact that people have to resort to hacks and tricks to do basic coding tells me that the quality of code generated by these frontier models is mediocre at best. And I’ve had the same happen - the code, the comments, is at the level of a
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by tangenter 2mo ago
I see a flamebait title, I click flag. Simple as.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
You better find that video for us. Sounds juicy af.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
People flexing on HN not knowing who geohot is. Sad.
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by tangenter 2mo ago
Because it’s a numbers game and nothing wrong with playing to win.

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