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The USA is far wealthier, uses more carbon per-person, and is responsible for more historical emissions than China or India. We have an obligation to reduce our gluttony before asking others to go without.

Are you saying that calling people racist is the worst bigotry?

Those of us using our human minds to extract meaning from specifications and manuals don't want to look at LLM slop either.

What happened to the remaining 39 months of his term? Are you saying he should've instantly fulfilled every campaign promise the moment he took office?

> Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows.

In record-high approval ratings, multiple reforms supported by small businesses, and fast progress on many huge initiatives?

> even understand without putting some serious study into the subject.

Then how can you possibly know that it's true?

Fair enough on Zitron being wrong, but I think the opening argument about Meta, Google, and Microsoft misunderstands his point.

Zitron is saying that the hyperscalers had no genuine growth opportunities, so they're using the AI bubble to achieve growth. The fact that they've continued to grow for a few years doesn't contradict his point, and Meta's steadily decreasing profit margin certainly doesn't look healthy.

Maybe the difference in hardware (producing 2 racks vs. 500)

Conspicuously missing: power consumption figures

What is it with AI people and plagiarism? Here they are stealing Blender's mascot as their brand. (Scroll down to "Everything real was designed first" and they even have the Suzanne model spinning behind the text.)

But that implies being a farm worker turns you into a sort of indentured servant

Oops, true. I regard Anthropic and OpenAI as essentially the same company. Neither of them seem capable of securing their infrastructure.

> we have a heuristic harness that Fable 5 uses to check the board for DFM issues

So OpenAI gets a full copy of every customer board? I wish that was mentioned on the upload page.

I've been using one of these 1700K bulbs [1] for a few years, and it produces a pleasant light. They also have a 2400K model [2].

[1] https://store.waveformlighting.com/products/superwarm-1700k-...

[2] https://store.waveformlighting.com/products/lux24-circadian-...

Yes things fail, but currently random bit flips are not considered a failure.

If you're going to "Show HN" you should show something. This just a hastily-extruded [1] landing page with no details.

Also, using an agentic framework and writing code by hand "a lot of the time" does not count as "from scratch".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129191

It's not illogical, because film behaves differently than CMOS/CCD image sensors. Film scanners can then digitize the film's nuances more very accurately, resulting in an digital image with better dynamic range etc.

For reference, that's 0.25% of Alphabet's revenue last year.

Genuine question to AI users upset by this: if you trust AI to generate your code, why don't you trust it to help you "deploy https://forgejo.org/ on cheap VPS make no mistakes"?

What is and isn't illegal is the very definition of political

This is slop, but perhaps the old-fashioned kind.

> An 8085 processor that could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with only a 25% reduction in performance, and 3×106 rads with a 40% drop.

Hmm, from where did they copy-paste this mangled scientific notation?

Ah here we are, pg. 37 (46 in PDF file): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA063902.pdf

> Was it against the law for them to ASK

> Yes, it was an attempt to intimidate her

You've answered your own question

> commercial printers will refuse to print anything that looks like counterfeit currency

They will refuse to print images that contain the EURion constellation, a cluster of points with specific distances between them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation)

More generally, "Does this image represent US currency?" and "Does this 3D mesh represent a dangerous gun part?" are different kinds of questions.

Checking if an image is US currency is simple. Not only can an image similarity hash be used, but the design of the currency can be changed to make checking easier. The checking program just has to run a textbook algorithm and compare the result with a handful of hashes (we only have a few denominations of bills).

We can be confident that the checking program will always see substantial portions of the bill, so it can always see the pattern. If someone chopped the bill into tiny pieces, it would look fake when glued together. Looking like a real bill is the thing we want to control, and that's something we can reliably measure with simple algorithms.

Checking if a 3D shape is a gun part is an unsolvable problem. (It would be equivalent to making a program that can detect hidden "subversive" meanings in text.) The checker would have to understand how the piece could operate in the hands of a skilled person. Parts could be printed in multiple pieces, or have material removed after printing, so it'd have to anticipate all possible post-processing steps.

Even if the problem is limited to "match against these known gun part hashes", gun parts are not defined by their overall appearance. The files can be mutated until they no longer trip the detector, yet can be easily post-processed into functional components. (Also, a similarity hash for 3D toolpaths may not exist.)

(Such a hashing regime would be useless to stop "3D-printed guns" as a concept, because the design could be changed to not match the hash at all, without post-processing.)

Tectonic and erosion processes take place over millions of years, so they aren't an issue for waste that's only dangerous for tens of thousands of years.

> The DVA was correct, the sector math was correct, the dd command was correct. The right place, the wrong mental model.

God the intensity is tiresome. Whether or not it's AI slop, it's also bad writing. Things can be fun or interesting or worthwhile without being a harrowing battle of discovery!

If they did, they'd be less valuable. Unlike real estate, those chips will be obsolete in a few years.

Besides other factors: If someone who tweets about individual nazi high command members does a nazi salute, they're doing it for the fuhrer.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882406209187409976

So how many years can Tesla lie about FSD before it becomes a crime? How much CSAM and revenge porn can X generate before it becomes a crime? How many bribes can he give the president before it becomes a crime? How much data can his lackeys at DOGE exfiltrate before it becomes a crime? How many poor people can he kill before it becomes a crime?

How many sig heils and eugenics memes can he emit until he's considered a bad person?

> I think if the bar is to consider it not a replacement for knowledge work as long as there is a human in the loop.

That's where I put it personally, because of humans' limited amount of useful focus during a work day.

Anything that requires human attention will take some of that resource, and don't think models' rate of improvement will be fast enough to overcome that in the near future. Reviewing an output that is 99%, 99.9%, or 99.99% correct all take about the same amount of time, so the output needs to be correct enough not to need review before any knowledge work is replaced.