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IncreasePosts··on Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin
"My little hundred million": https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/my-littl...
IncreasePosts··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Well Jim has been dead for 2 years
IncreasePosts··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
Maybe there will be an inversion. Lots of white collar office jobs can be partially automated, or have their efficiency greatly increased by AI. But we still don't seem to be near widely deployed robots that finish drywall
IncreasePosts··on NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
It's not nickles and dimes. It's 5x more expensive than a conservative estimate on 700mw of wind or solar
IncreasePosts··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
We can probably calculate the investment, but how do you calculate the return? What's the value of solving a crime? Is it solely the value of preventing some future crimes by the suspect, or does it have intrinsic value?
IncreasePosts··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
They caught him because a customer thought he looked like the suspect.
IncreasePosts··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Who cares? She isn't a public figure, and she never asked to be. She has some thoughts she wants to put out there after going viral due to nothing she did.
IncreasePosts··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/elementpath/media/?media_id=2484...

I would not call that "extremely noticeable". Perhaps it is extremely noticeable if you are familiar that a company makes normal looking glasses with cameras built in. But if you aren't, you might just assume that is some stylistic part of the glasses and not a tiny lens.

IncreasePosts··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Most people would recognize a gopro, or a security camera, or a phone held in a certain way as something that is recording or likely to be recording.

I don't think most people would recognize the meta glasses as something that could be recording. Especially if you cover or disable the recording LED light that is supposed to come on.

IncreasePosts··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
You've got guys like this just doing it on their cell phone, imagine how excited they are for the glasses: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-prosecutor-fired-a...
IncreasePosts··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Asking someone to turn around isn't making them turn around. And he asked multiple men and just one woman in the video. In any case - among real life Meta glasses users, who do you think is going to be perved on more - men, or women?

If you judge this video without any kind of context, then yes he is a weirdo harassing strangers who are just trying to go about their day. The point is that these glasses enable this weird behavior, and the people he's filming are (ostensibly) part of that system.

IncreasePosts··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Where is it stated that white people are Aryan?

Oh right, 19th century racial myths

IncreasePosts··on Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees
I'm predicting the police will use it to stifle any kind of criticism.

Like: police officer does something racist. Person says "hey, you're racist!". Police officer then gives a $1000 fine to the person for insulting them

IncreasePosts··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
No, not at all. Just that I've heard maybe 10 people over the years mention ways to harness power grid fluctuations and they all had watched the tom Scott video.
IncreasePosts··on OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
I imagine his time at ycombinator as Gríma Wormtongue whispering into theoden's(paulg's) ear
IncreasePosts··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
Find me a person who knows about power grid voltage fluctuations and you will have found me a person who has watched Tom Scott's video on the matter
IncreasePosts··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
Do you think western AI polemicists have read a lot of Andrew Chi-Chih Yao or Yi Yeng?
IncreasePosts··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
Bezos didn't build Amazon? First I heard of that
IncreasePosts··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
Give it a chance! Rust hasn't even had its bar mitzvah yet and C++ is already buying a Porsche during its midlife crisis.

Yes, on paper zig has more features than C, but what zig has is explicitness. C has a big murky space of implicitness. For example, there might be 5 different zig features which can be used at various times you might use a void* in C, buy the conceptual space of void* fully contains(and then some) the spaces of those zig features.

IncreasePosts··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
Rust is for devs who think "if only c++ had a few more features, it would be perfect". Zig is for devs who think "if only C had fewer features, it would be perfect"
IncreasePosts··on San Francisco Onion Futures Company
Maybe it's a really big onion
IncreasePosts··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
I think more likely is that bill and Jeff built their wealth through their businesses, which they are still directly involved in. Giving away their wealth would be equivalent to giving away the business they built from the ground up

I think there's also a question of efficacy. Bill and Jeff are really good at turning $1 into $10. Melinda and Mackenzie? Not so much. If bill or Jeff wanted to maximize the amount they can give, the best strategy would be for them to continually earn until they die, and then donate it.

IncreasePosts··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
You should check the math on a real calculator.

Despite what most JavaScript implementations will tell you, 2 to the 55th power is 36028797018963968, and adding one to that value is 36028797018963969. That's clearly odd.

There is no extra code between the parens. I just put them there so there wouldn't be any question as to operator precedence. I do see now that hn ate my double star, but I think you know what I mean since you told me the value that is spits out when you do the exponentiation

IncreasePosts··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
Sorry, it's supposed to be power. So 2**55 in JavaScript

2 to the 55th power is obviously even, so that +1 is obviously odd, but ((2*55) +1) % 2 == 0 in JavaScript.

IncreasePosts··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
It's something I'm fighting for in my own little way.

Everyone does a glottal stop between the "uh" and "oh", so I'm trying to align the spelling

Unlike the guy on him who writes all years with 5 digits like 02026, I have good reasons for my idiosyncracies.

IncreasePosts··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
You want to implement your own is-odd in your code - simple, right? isOdd = (x) => x % 2 == 1

Ut oh, your code is broken for negative numbers now since % isn't a true modulo operator...

Fine then, isOdd = (x) => x % 2 != 0

Ut oh, your code is broken because isOdd("hi") returns true now...

Fine then, isOdd = (x) => if(!isNumber(x)) throw... else return x%2 != 0

Ut oh, your code is now broken because isOdd(2^55+1) returns true now...

IncreasePosts··on OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
To be fair to sam, he doesn't really have any experience running a successful company not dependent on VC backing
IncreasePosts··on How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality
I had a pony!
IncreasePosts··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
If the leaders want to slow down, but the companies aren't, then it isn't those 50-100 people demonstrating no agency - it's just the opposite. Or, the leaders words are empty.
IncreasePosts··on Eating Fruit Skins
All mushrooms are edible only once, unless you're into coprophagia
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