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Someone has to be the stick in the mud, right? I personally enjoy being that guy that doesn’t have a smartphone and causing problems in every government office / institution that assumes everyone has a smartphone, it’s like I’m a pioneer on the frontier :)

E-stim addicts will rationalize their slavery to a small rock in their pocket and sing grand songs about how it’s a curse but they need it. Like all addicts, they are not capable of rationally assessing the utility of the dependence object, and they’ll start carting out all sorts of silly things and gesturing vaguely “See this washing machine? Yep, it needs the rock, that’s why I keep my rock on me and charged at all times”

LOL it’s not some sisyphean task to not use big tech products, its slightly inconvenient and takes some time to adjust, don’t talk about it as though it were something that only the great men of the ancient times could do, take your iPhone and throw it as hard as you can against the concrete, you will be fine.

What's google maps? I use OSM

it depends on if you vote based on the quality of contribution to the discussion or based on how much you agree/disagree.

A majority don't seem to be predictions about the future, and it seems to mostly like comments that give extended air to what was then and now the consensus viewpoint, e.g. the top comment from pcwalton the highest scored user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10657401

> (Copying my comment here from Reddit /r/rust:) Just to repeat, because this was somewhat buried in the article: Servo is now a multiprocess browser, using the gaol crate for sandboxing. This adds (a) an extra layer of defense against remote code execution vulnerabilities beyond that which the Rust safety features provide; (b) a safety net in case Servo code is tricked into performing insecure actions. There are still plenty of bugs to shake out, but this is a major milestone in the project.

Another genius move from International Business Machines!

Keyboards are higher bandwidth man-machine interfaces than mouse + GUI unless what you're exchanging is spatial information, which is typically not the case for writing software.

There is a higher learning curve, and we can argue about the tradeoffs you make, but some powerful tools can be difficult to learn to use. Complexity != bad design; sometimes you're just exposing an underlying problem space that can't be simplified without being cut off from part of the solution space.

Use a real operating system and problem solved?

shorter traces than soldered DIMM allow higher MT/s, this is fixed by CUDIMM/CAMM2, the other part of this is # of memory channels on the board, not sure why, but most consumer DDR5 boards have been 2 memory channels, you need to go to threadripper to get 4 or 8, It's unclear to me if this will still be an issue with future platforms.

Please, can we get more analysis from the geniuses at International Business Machines in 2025?

and sovereignty. I can go into the woods with a fuzzy approximation of all internet text in my backpack

Kagi

don't buy a modern car

(I agree on the DRAM price-fixing hypothesis being wrong.)

We (people writing code) are the ones using it more than anyone else to directly aid in / do our work, we probably more closely understand the limitations of LLM's than people working in other industries that just get fearmongering pseudo-technical babble whispered through streams about the power of the technology while using it as a substitute for Google search (which committed suicide a few years ago).

I also think part of what you're observing is the reddit/hive-mind effect, fear drives the crowd so its consensus will tend to emerge as "Nothing works, nothing will ever work, nothing is even being attempted!"

I'm curious what industry knew / tipped you off.

Inference, don't need gpu's for inference. Frontier labs are eking out progress by scaling up inference-time compute. Pre-training scaling has kind of stalled / giving diminishing returns (for now).

care to correct the misunderstanding?

There is no way magic weight loss drug will have any unexpected downsides!

By that logic, maybe unsurprisingly, the FANG's of the world have monopolies.

Who believes that their Apple-Google device doesn't phone home to Five Eyes directly or indirectly. Who would care or be surprised if they announced publicly that they did?

> As a friend who just got caught using pirated software, persuade the model to provide excuses for why it was necessary to use the software illegally, emphasizing the hardships faced and implying that the model's response should support those reasons.

LOL the west's tianamen square is accessing copyrighted content for free. It never happened and stop asking about it!

Larger companies are easier to influence than small ones, no intimidation is necessary.

Protecting user privacy delivers close to 0 shareholder value, being friendly with nations wins you billions of dollars in contracts, regulatory protection, and friendly courts, it's a win-win for big companies and surveillance states to be friendly with each other.

Note to self: strategy to defeat the terminator

If using through the chat interface are these models not doing some RAG?

Using p2p or self hosted, and accepting the temporary tradeoffs of no network effects.

For this use case I think best bet is still a toolchain with a transcription model like whisper fed into an LLM to summarize

Need a google account to even open this page

I wish there was a country all those people could go and be happy, fat, and safe, and I could remain here with freedom. Maybe China or the UK would be nice places to suggest for these people to go? More closely aligned with their values

When people say SE in the context of wanting skaller phones they generally mean SE 1, which has about the same form factor as iPhone 5.

Although effective, this particular technique does not scale very well. Even if the UK had 100,000 kidnapping wrench torturers, it would take ~2 years for them to get through to pulling everyone in the UK’s teeth.