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by why_at 5d ago
I just updated mine to try it out, it definitely looks nicer. https://imgur.com/a/ZGpbqB7
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by why_at 8d ago
I also watched it in its prime when I was a teenager, but have hardly watched any in the last 10 years. It feels similar to The Simpsons where they're mostly reacting to the latest news and popular culture, which I don't find as e
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by why_at 13d ago
I'm not very inclined towards drawing, I had more fun trying to guess the characters based on the descriptions than actually drawing them
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by why_at 16d ago
I think it's hard for us to imagine what we could have if not for NAT. Just as an example, any device on your home network could have a web interface which you could access from anywhere using a web browser. All the smart light bulbs a
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by why_at 23d ago
I feel like there are plenty personally. I usually don't have to walk more than a block or two to find one. That article is from 20 years ago by the way
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by why_at 23d ago
I'm still holding out hope for a modern Fallout in the bay area.
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by why_at 28d ago
I've wanted to build a geiger counter in the past but I've always been discouraged because it seems unlikely that I would be able to use it for anything other than maybe testing one or two things in my house like smoke detectors.
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by why_at 1mo ago
I want this to work but this isn't enough to get anywhere. Aren't you supposed to have 30 minutes extra fuel minimum just as a safety margin?
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by why_at 1mo ago
>an official app to report incidents of phone theft I can't be the only person to see the irony here. Do they also have a drive-thru to report car theft?
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by why_at 1mo ago
I think their anger is justified. Yes there's not a lot that individual engineers can do to help, but a big part of the problem is that they don't even understand the people they're "helping". These tech gadgets are
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by why_at 2mo ago
>Then you also run into visitors that assume it's a normal car and can hit a floor button when the get in, only to realize they've walked into a car without buttons. I work in a building with Destination Dispatch elevators so I
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by why_at 2mo ago
Respectfully, calling this misinformation is unwarranted. The featured article is about exactly this. >On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2 >OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concern
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by why_at 2mo ago
Well if you're looking for some kind of statistical analysis of OpenAI's press releases vs their valuation then I don't have anything like that. I also don't have this kind of evidence that running ads during the Superbo
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by why_at 2mo ago
I think you are conflating skepticism about AI companies' motives with skepticism about their capabilities. Even if OpenAI is being 100% honest in their reporting on this it's still good marketing for them. The fact that this outc
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by why_at 2mo ago
This is pretty nice, I might use this if I'm looking to learn more on a topic. I'm always cautious when reading nonfiction because it's hard for me to tell if the author knows what they're talking about when I'm not
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by why_at 2mo ago
>2. We've started expecting "must-see" shows and movies. You want to watch The Pitt, and then are mad that you need to get HBO or whatever and can't just watch it on Netflix. Perhaps you could browse Netflix and find
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by why_at 2mo ago
>problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I think this is the funniest sentence I've ever read on Hackernews. What are we doing with our lives?
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by why_at 2mo ago
This one seems much more likely to work for its intended purpose. Even if an LLM can be trained to read it, it will probably take much more processing to get the text out of a video compared to an image.
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by why_at 2mo ago
There was another article on this recently[1], if I didn't know better I would suspect this narrative is being pushed by some PR firm. Maybe it's coming from AI companies trying to imply their models are so advanced that they need
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by why_at 2mo ago
Yeah I think there's a lot of science news about how plants are capable of more than the average person thinks, but people tend to conflate that with some kind of conscious experience.
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by why_at 3mo ago
I have a special seething hatred for leafblowers. The noise to utility ratio is so high.
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by why_at 3mo ago
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't understand what the innovation is here. I get that they're using liquid coolant at higher than usual temperatures, but why couldn't they do that before? Most of the comparison in the art
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by why_at 3mo ago
>Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”. I wonder if anyone who is connected with actual academic philosophy can comment on this. I'm pretty skeptical. This is a field where it
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by why_at 3mo ago
The comparison with meat consumption seems inapt. 70% of people report reducing meat consumption, but research has shown that these intentions have very little correlation with people's actual behavior.
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by why_at 3mo ago
I agree LLMs can be harmful and that the companies behind them should be held liable to some extent, for example the recent news with Google being held responsible for their AI's defamation.[1] This is a pretty different argument thoug
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by why_at 3mo ago
>A bunch of radioactive stuff together is basically the definition of a nuclear reactor though. It really isn't. A pile of radioactive waste isn't a reactor. Marie Curie's notes are famously contaminated with radioactive m
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by why_at 3mo ago
>Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. Fair enough, I misread your original comment. The broader point stands that the limitation on creating nuclear weapons and reactors is not knowledge but materials. Even if
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by why_at 3mo ago
For an example of how closely this is monitored see the Oklo fossil reactors[1] The proportion of fissile isotopes being mined was off by a fraction of a percent, which caused the French government to launch an investigation. It turns out t
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by why_at 3mo ago
He didn't create a nuclear reactor, this is a common misconception. It even says this in the wikipedia article. He basically got a bunch of radioactive stuff and put it together. He wasn't anywhere close to making a nuclear reacto
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by why_at 3mo ago
>it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Okay, I think this is part of what I found confusing about your initial comment, since "person" is often

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