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liamwire··on RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims
Your link contradicts your comment:

“In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of Violentacrez (a moderator of several Reddit jailbait communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.”

liamwire··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
You misunderstand, it’s two hours with the battery pack connected, there’s no internal battery that’s intended for standalone use.
liamwire··on Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System
My understanding is that this is already the case, see PaLM-E as one such example of a multimodal model.
liamwire··on LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay
Practically by definition, no?
liamwire··on Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2
Not only that, but also increases the talent pool you can hire from that has familiarity with your internal tooling from the start.
liamwire··on Two students built an A-bomb (2003)
For those interested, Restricted Data is a fascinating book in this vein.
liamwire··on Google DeepMind CEO says some form of AGI possible in a few years
Given that a sufficiently resourced computer ought to be able to run a subatomic-level simulation of an entire human brain, and while acknowledging the usual counterpoint vis a vis C. elegans/OpenWorm but deeming it irrelevant on longer timescales, your take seems quite arrogant. “Outside the scope of computation” is an awfully broad claim.
liamwire··on Now at 140% of my usual brightness! #Betelgeuse
Sure, but we can and do still routinely talk about reference frames other than those on earth. Your pedantry isn’t warranted, and rather comes across as needlessly condescending.
liamwire··on GPT-4
Introducing, Representr: the first Democracy-as-a Service.
liamwire··on Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow
Australia, and the aurora australis, checking in.
liamwire··on MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia
Your anecdote doesn’t equate to the truth, and the truth is, benzodiazepines are astoundingly addictive when abused, and dependency-forming even when following moderate treatment plans.
liamwire··on Decentralized storage company Storj removed their warrant canary
Given the way this warrant canary works, in that it’s published daily, wouldn’t the government instructing that you cannot opt to stop publishing the canary equate to compelling speech, and be a fairly clear path to a First Amendment violation? I ask this as a total outsider to both the United States, and US law.
liamwire··on Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
I’ve been listening to Stacktrace for some number of years now, and it’s been consistently quality. Primarily focused on Apple ecosystem development, both hosts have a great dynamic.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stacktrace/id135943544...

liamwire··on Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
From the council, not the AI authors.
liamwire··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
For a reason I can’t entirely articulate, this scares me on an almost primal level.
liamwire··on Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image
I found this absolutely mesmerising – thank you!
liamwire··on MDN converted to Markdown
I think this is a fantastic reply, and written with the good grace that the GP didn’t show you. Thanks for the insight, Will.
liamwire··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
‘Only this in-group are actual humans’ is dangerous rhetoric. See dehumanisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization

liamwire··on Psychedelic drugs take on depression
Plenty, see erowid.org. It’s vital to note that the therapy used in combination with these medicines appears to be a key component in all trials I’ve read into—simply taking mushrooms themselves, for example, doesn’t guarantee any positive outcome.

Anecdotally, many people report self-guided use of psychedelics to have been transformative for their own mental health, but it’s equally important to not blind yourself to the very real risks posed in doing so. I don’t say this to discourage you, but rather encourage you to really dive into the topic and learn as much factual information as you can, particularly before undertaking any treatment.

liamwire··on TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
In that example, we may as well compare a thermonuclear weapon to a conventional one—the scales are gargantuan. In my opinion a more apt comparison might be the TI-84 calculator, which was ~350x faster than the computers used in Apollo.
liamwire··on Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM—the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey.

For more niche, ‘serious’ interests, Peter Attia’s podcast, The Drive, and it’s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris’ podcast, Making Sense.

Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years.

liamwire··on Cities with Nice Weather
As a Queenslander, the crime rate on the Gold Coast, particularly around Surfers Paradise, subjectively feels a bit higher than other cities of a similar size. (It’s still nothing too bad, nor am I looking at objective data currently.)
liamwire··on Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention
Your point notwithstanding, methylphenidate isn’t an amphetamine.
liamwire··on Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill?
It seems you don’t understand the notion of conditional share ownership. These aren’t bearer bonds or cryptocurrency. Within the corporate structure that allowed you to be issued/sold these shares at the outset are stipulations that the board can liquidate your shares, under certain conditions. Evidently, those conditions have been met. An arbitrary definition of ‘fair’ doesn’t play into it.
liamwire··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
I sincerely appreciate your articulation of this, thank you for taking the time.
liamwire··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
In a word: ERP.
liamwire··on Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (Poseidon)
Didn’t Russia beat the USA to hypersonic glide missiles? I’d be interested to know what measures are deemed trying to defend against/defeat MAD.
liamwire··on The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes
Please forgive my ignorance, how is it possible that you lived until your thirties without knowing you have T1D?
liamwire··on Starship Update [video]
From my reading of his biography by Ashlee Vance, with imperfect recollection, Musk has always stuttered/struggled with his speech.
liamwire··on Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
That first sentence is an entirely subjective take, and one that I disagree with entirely.
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