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by throwup238 3d ago
> Given that we are on the heels of the worst warning shot ever, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are ramping up their cleanups of internal RL environments, it seems like both a useful and conservative test of alignment, to see whether the
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by throwup238 3d ago
The CCP publishes their primary central planning mechanism for all to see. They just adopted the new 15th Five Year Plan in March [1]. There’s a whole bureaucracy just to coordinate the implementation at the sector, provincial, and corporat
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by throwup238 4d ago
I also strongly hold this belief largely due to Moravec’s paradox, which is kind of approaching this issue from the side. Sort of like large language models work on top of what our language has encoded in our massive training datasets, I th
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by throwup238 5d ago
> A negative pressure enclosure, filtration, and UVC sterilization can't be built in a shed? Don’t even have to DIY anything, the equipment is often found in liquidation auctions for a few hundred bucks a piece. A decent lab can b
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by throwup238 6d ago
“Big data”!
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by throwup238 6d ago
The errors are correlated, not random. Lumps are usually benign cysts. If you start cutting people open for every cyst on a scan, you’d kill a lot more people than you’d save. This isn’t something you can solve with more scans because the t
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by throwup238 6d ago
> daily cancer scans instead of one every few years Silly nitpick: the reason we don’t do daily cancer scans isn’t the cost, it’s the false positive rate. Invasive procedures like biopsies come with complications like infections that h
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by throwup238 6d ago
> Andreessen Horowitz is being played like a fiddle. Andreessen Horowitz is not being played like a fiddle here. This might be their only investment in a decade that isn’t entirely predicated on being a scam.
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by throwup238 7d ago
Many Burning Man guides, including the original arctic monkey guide that I first read about 20 years ago, specifically warn against making any life altering decisions for weeks after Burning Man. Decompression is a bitch when coming down fr
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by throwup238 7d ago
I’ve never had a problem with the IRS or DMV, because unlike Visa or Mastercard they are government agencies with accountability to the people. Visa and Mastercard are a cancer.
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by throwup238 7d ago
> Or, you know, design trade-offs like every other hardware ever made. Or different SKUs. Just saying. Not that hard for the most profitable trillion dollar company on the planet.
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by throwup238 7d ago
If it’s anything like my San Francisco DMV driving test, they did a loop around Fell and Oak St (both one way streets with no opposing traffic). I passed because I didn’t kill anyone in the span of eight blocks.
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by throwup238 7d ago
> “We track concerning behavior over time through a person-of-interest process, allowing us to catch escalation patterns early.” They’re building Samaritan.
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by throwup238 8d ago
Called it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520903
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by throwup238 8d ago
We’ve outsourced everything else.
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by throwup238 9d ago
> just in time for the audience to see Macduff kill Macbeth. Spoilers! I was just about to go see my middle school’s production of Macbeth hoping to see some violence but now it’s ruined!
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by throwup238 9d ago
> As much as we don't like "this" we don't want to put any bureaucrats in power to squash creativity and enterprise. That was literally Broadcom’s reason for existing before Avago even acquired them. It’s the other
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by throwup238 9d ago
> Would tiny airborne particles be safe for our lungs ? Almost certainly not. Pretty much anything inhaled in large amounts will cause pneumoconiosis including pollen . Some stuff like asbestos or coal dust are worse than others, but
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by throwup238 11d ago
What dictionary are you using? I just looked it up and MW’s definition of “missing” is “absent” or “lost” or “needed or expected but not included”. Dictionary.com says “absent, not found, or lost” and “lacking”. Wiktionary says “Not able
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by throwup238 11d ago
They were missing. Then they used GPS tags to locate them. That’s why the article is titled “ A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found ”. Something was unknown, then we used sensors to solve the mystery. Wild, isn’t it?
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by throwup238 12d ago
I use MCP for two types of things: ones where I need to give access to the memory of the process like an MCP server to inspect a Qt gui, and ones where I need to give authenticated access to my data to ChatGPT/Claude web/mobile ap
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by throwup238 12d ago
> - this article doesn’t enable tool search for starters where tokens start at near zero for MCP too Is that why I have to constantly remind Claude and ChatGPT that they do have access to a Github plugin that can access my account, i
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by throwup238 13d ago
It does. This article is about Latino workers but there are well known hotspots for CKDu in Sri Lanka and India. There’s other reports of it in the rest of Asia, Middle East, and Africa but its not as well known of an issue and under report
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by throwup238 13d ago
In a future where Claude and ChatGPT agents automate all aspects of society, that triggers a cascade of real world consequences where everything keeps running as if the new model is released, except the vibe coded upgrade procedure fails to
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by throwup238 13d ago
Are you perhaps under the mistaken impression that you’re the only one getting retargeted?
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by throwup238 13d ago
Or just their own models locally, since 8x GPU pods fit under a desk (makes a nice foot heater too)
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by throwup238 13d ago
For caving you’re supposed to take three and keep them in separate areas of the bag so you can’t lose all three at the same time.
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by throwup238 14d ago
You might return them and get another brand. Even that little positive signal is often worth the wasted impressions because most of the other signals are either so weak or so competitive.
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by throwup238 14d ago
> short, there are some big concepts like Christianity or Islam that people refer to as if it's the same thing but almost nobody has a shared meaning when they refer to such big things. Even so there can be concrete dialogues abou
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by throwup238 17d ago
Someone submitted the design during WWI but it wasn’t used: https://www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/2992498/boomer...

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