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twothreeone··on Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD
That was my impression as well. You have to babysit the AI the whole time and if you fail to do that it's basically your life (and others' of course) on the line.
twothreeone··on Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
- AT&T “unlimited” mobile plans - Purdue Pharma's OxyContin push - Juul marketing vaping products as a "safer alternative" to smoking - Facebook's sale of user data to Cambridge Analytica - Wells Fargo opening fake accounts for people - ...
twothreeone··on Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
> rightfully convicted of what is indisputably criminal behaviour

Consider the opposite view: if pretending to be a human is "criminal behavior" there are about 8 billion criminals walking around on this planet.. and in this case our current legal system appears to be hijacked for the protection of utterly nonsensical, hopelessly broken, ancient business models from a rent-seeking, anti-consumer, creator-exploiting, trillion-dollar corporate mafia, which would like nothing better than to track, spy, and force-feed their audience at every turn.

twothreeone··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
That's basically what I heard ten years ago from individuals (and even universities) for why they switched to Mint.. but even now, if you ask Perplexity for a "debian-based distro thats not ubuntu" Mint is the second option.
twothreeone··on Nasdaq's Shame
> To get the remaining 15%, which they are contractually obligated to acquire, they must purchase from the founder. As they are in violation of their contract if they fail to acquire the remaining 15%, the founder now has complete control to dictate any price they want.

I can't imagine "any price they want" is quite right here. At the very least, shouldn't we expect underwriters and other stakeholders (in this case Nasdaq, Inc.) to negotiate option-contracts as part of the IPO deal to cover their future obligations?

Yes, it might be a "worse" deal than those initial 5% - though we don't even know that - but then institutional investors time horizons are typically much longer than 6 months. Unless you think SpaceX goes straight down to 0, it seems like a risky but calculated, long-term investment.

I agree they could be more transparent about it, but maybe they will send out a notice in the prospectus update?

twothreeone··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Data doesn't belong to anyone, data is free :) zero-copy cost, delivery at speed of light.
twothreeone··on FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
The terminology is overloaded.. Tensors in QM are objects obeying transformation laws, in ML Tensors are just data arranged in multidimensional arrays. There are no constraints on how the data transforms.
twothreeone··on The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car
Interesting.. I agree on the description but my experience was opposite. I enjoyed F1 much more, though I really enjoy all the technical stats and talks with the teams/engineers that develop the cars and find it to be an equal part of the whole thing as the actual racing itself.
twothreeone··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Good point too. Though it makes me wonder if "We declared Code Red" is really enough to justify eye-watering valuations.
twothreeone··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
The way I've experienced "Code Red" is mostly as a euphemism for "on-going company-wide lack of focus" and a band-aid for mid-level management having absolutely no clue how to meaningfully make progress, upper management panicking, and ultimately putting engineers and ICs on the spot to bear the brunt of that organizational mess.

Interestingly enough, apart from Google, I've never seen an organization take the actual proper steps (fire mid-management and PMs) to prevent the same thing from happening again. Will be interesting to see how OAI handles this.

twothreeone··on How good engineers write bad code at big companies
The thing is shipping sloppy code is orders of magnitudes easier, because that's the default result. Any sufficiently determined hack-job can do it. On the other hand, steering a team of 5-10 engineers to deliver quality on (or before!) a deadline requires excessive amounts of coordination and skill. Now, is this trade-off "worth" the effort? I guess that's a matter of opinion, though I would argue in the long term quality wins out by a large margin.
twothreeone··on Molly: An Improved Signal App
been using this for years.. it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well. Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it.
twothreeone··on Being poor vs. being broke
Particularly the numerous variations of 2 have found widespread success when explaining to the poor the reasons for why they are poor:

2.a) the foreigners / jews / muslims invading and pillaging our glorious, Christian home country are stealing their jobs

2.b) the socialists / communists / antifa bureaucrats are stealing their wages

This can be tailored and highly specific towards the target audience (e.g., Facebook Ads, Twitter Bots, in a small town with abandoned industry), alternatively keeping it broad and widely accessible (for Podcasts, banners, or national TV). What really matters for explaining this with impact though is the tone. It is imperative to be loud and angry, ideally you are yelling at your audience. Repeat yourself often and use the most limited vocabulary possible. You need to empathize with the anger of the poor for the clear and obvious injustice that has happened to them. Leaning into that emotion will make anyone happily abandon any remains of rationality and critical thinking, which they have experienced as being completely futile in advancing their own quality of life, or improving their family's living situation. Which is of course the reason why Conservatives would like to have as many poor people as possible amongst their constituencies, and are fighting hard to actively push more people into poverty. They know those people will be their most faithful voters.

twothreeone··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
I wouldn't exactly call them "excellent", but yeah I think the big caveat is

> the US has excellent protections for PII and data privacy

*for _US nationals_ :)

twothreeone··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
If you're trying to convince someone (other countries the US) the burden of proof is on you.
twothreeone··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
That perspective also helps to understand the position that any call for radical climate action must be a weaponization of competing economies to weaken the leader of the pack. So it is very bad framing. Do the work cheaper, better, and at scale. By doing it more efficiently you win. Oh, and of course you'll be more innovative too.
twothreeone··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
That approach is also super useful if you're manually flashing an image onto some embedded thing (like an ECU, or other types of boot rom). Of course on many modern systems you'll have to get around the checksum guards, but there's typically all sorts of glitch hacks to do that.
twothreeone··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
FWIW, thank you and the team for all the hard work. Me and my family use it to install, discover, and try out many of the genuinely useful and really cool, high-quality Apps on our de-Googled devices and truly appreciate it. I could never imagine using that ad-ridden, user-tracking, scam-infested, filth-flinging abomination they call Play "Store". The only thing that's worse is GCM - you don't even see it's there as a regular user.
twothreeone··on Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
Now factor 21.
twothreeone··on Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
Usually, the crypto should have Forward Secrecy already even without being PQ-safe (e.g., via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm) so in practice the attacker would need to break many successive session keys - which rotates every time a new message is sent.
twothreeone··on FSF announces Librephone project
Sorry, but no. Device attestation is another mechanism to track and ultimately exercise control over the user. It fundamentally goes against the freedom of choice. You want me to authenticate with multiple factors? Cool.. let me tell you which method I'm already using on all my other accounts and then tell me how to register that with your service. You want to "measure" my device? Okay, I'll take my business elsewhere..
twothreeone··on America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
You mean Julian Schrittwieser (collaborator on AlphaGo and first author on MuZero)?

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-...

twothreeone··on Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]
One very interesting aspect is how the Churches are portrayed as "seeking truth" and speaking out in this piece. In the US today it is reversed - in large part due to Baptists. But even in Nazi Germany the relationship between the Church and Hitler was much more complicated than portrayed. For instance, many Catholics supported the NSDAP.
twothreeone··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Right? Curious how someone could be so imaginative in all the wrong ways.. it's almost like globalized markets breed a certain type of successful man.
twothreeone··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Perhaps because they didn't have literal police states guard and defend their wealth. If the town mob showed up at their house they knew the game was over. Trillionaires or social cohesion.. choose 1.
twothreeone··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Jobless and drowning in cash is rough.. it takes a toll on the strongest of minds.. meandering through the day, aimless, chasing the next high. Realizing that being handed a mic wherever you go is now your life. Cursed to be incapable of achievement because what else remains to be achieved. Minimizing your taxes?
twothreeone··on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
Textbook CDU conduct. The best democracy money can buy!!1
twothreeone··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
"Most trades" doesn't necessarily mean "most profitable trades" ;)
twothreeone··on America is now one big bet on AI
Mainly growing energy demand of AI deployments leading to capacity increases becoming the bottleneck. The key challenge is going to be scaling up energy production in the US.
twothreeone··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
In Germany, there is the Electronic Cash (or newer versions called Girocard) which is similarly smartcard-based for the offline use case, but pairs with a regular debit card for online use [1]. Apparently, not that many people use the offline functionality.. it also has a somewhat low daily limit (though I think those are in place for some online transactions such as getting cash as well).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash

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