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comeonbro··on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
Sorry that's definitely not it. In an un-emphesized other tab, there is a raw link to an ISO with no instructions.
comeonbro··on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
What is the best opinionated, minimal, happy-path-only, official-feeling landing page for Linux? A quick search right now didn't bring up anything I could endorse to a normie.
comeonbro··on Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous
In a thread full of people with weird preconceptions talking past each-other, this is the most perfectly wrong statement anyone has made.

The people you're talking about would strangle this entire country to death (and have) before allowing a single 3-story building to be built outside of the small areas that were already been zoned for it 80 years ago.

The Canadian Indigenous identity issues tied up in this project are the only force that have ever been powerful enough to bludgeon them into submission, just this one time.

comeonbro··on Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous
I don't know if it's fair to call a bridge a stroad
comeonbro··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
> With mixture of experts (MoE) models, I would think that Mistral might make a lot of money reselling specific models to big players like Microsoft and Google to augment their MoE systems

I am curious about what you mean by this. There is a (very understandable) common misconception about what "mixture of experts" means in current practice.

Mixtral is not a mixture of fully-separable domain experts, like one is an expert at programming and one is an expert at arts and literature. The "experts" are per-layer (and as far as I know, the subject of their "expertise" not even interpretable at this point).

comeonbro··on The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl

    M Y P U S S Y I N B I O
I gave Musk a lot of leeway on this for taking over right as open-source LLMs started ~passing the turing test, but that they can't even stop this is eating most of it.
comeonbro··on Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
If it "leaks" the exact same text multiple times, to multiple users, using different prompts to elicit it, it's a reasonable bet it's not just a hallucination.

Especially since (I'm fairly sure? though this is apparently not trivial to find today) it doesn't use temperature=0.

comeonbro··on Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's ouster
> who tweets under the pseudonym @roon

Fundamental factual error, about a figure who anybody doing OpenAI kremlinology would be extremely familiar with.

Inspiring reporting by the Washington Post as usual.

comeonbro··on Ask HN: Which sources cover AI developments without falling for the hype?
Hilarious answer
comeonbro··on My Left Kidney
I would be moderately surprised if association with Effective Altruism was very much more predictive of sociopathy than association with Monero.

Which isn't to say that either is so unforgiveably horrible, just that it's very funny to see someone try to make this case without a shred of self-awareness.

comeonbro··on Hoxne Hoard
Yes, I am open to the possibility that confiscation by the state (with compensation) in the interest of national heritage may be the right thing to do in such cases, I'm just, as I said, skeptical of the claim that "full market value" for completely unique things that have never been on the market can be determined by a committee; and that interests of the farmer and the interests of the government are as blissfully aligned as was claimed.
comeonbro··on Hoxne Hoard
The article lists several unique items which are not coins, including one unique enough to have its own wikipedia page in 6 languages.

Pretty much by definition, its "full market value" cannot be determined by a committee.

comeonbro··on Hoxne Hoard
I'm skeptical of "full market value" for unique items for which there is no public market.
comeonbro··on A WWII documentary series is being demonetized by YouTube [video]
'World War Two' is an enormous documentary project that's been following WWII week-by-week in ~real-time for the past 5 years.

Its content is increasingly being age-restricted and demonetized by YouTube.

comeonbro··on X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training
Yeah, that this willfully stupid a comment is so high up on so important a topic is pretty damning of the value of the conversation here.
comeonbro··on Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)
The entire original design for the Space Transportation System was fatally compromised by the requirement it be able to do that mission, setting back human spaceflight 40 years, and then it never did it.
comeonbro··on P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
This is not replicating when I try it on various simulators.

It's also 12 characters shorter.

Let me guess: you ran this through an LLM, and have posted the resulting hallucination as an undisclaimed fact.

comeonbro··on Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to
Sub Brief just released his first video on the matter an hour ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac

comeonbro··on Ted Kaczynski has died
> He targeted people like me and you, and would probably kill you in person if he had the choice.

Yeah. I initially came into this news ready to edgelord out with everybody else, but, synthesizing from some other comments I've read on the internet today:

Thinking of the dads that owned their little computer stores in the 80s getting their fingers blown off and dying in their parking lots while reading these comments.

> Friends recall Hugh as a man who embraced life, a gentle man with a sense of humor who had traveled around the world, climbed mountains, and studied languages. He cared about politics, was “fair and kind” in business, and was remembered as “straightforward, honest, and sincere.” He left behind his mother, sister, family members, a girlfriend who loved him dearly, and a circle of friends and colleagues who respected and cared for him.

Kaczynski’s account of the killing:

> Experiment 97. Dec. 11, 1985. I planted a bomb disguised to look like a scrap of lumber behind Rentech Computer Store in Sacramento. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 20, the “operator” (owner? manager?) of the store was killed, "blown to bits, on Dec. 12. Excellent. Humane way to eliminate somebody. He probably never felt a thing. 25,000 reward offered. Rather flattering.

comeonbro··on SR-71 pilot, photographer and storyteller Brian Shul dies at 75
I don't know if this is justifiable but I've always considered that story a significant piece of web heritage as much as anything else. It's from a book that sold few enough copies that it's $400 on Amazon right now, as a measure, but it's a beloved piece of folklore that's been exclusively spread by people lovingly repeating it to each-other in conversation threads for the past 20 years.

I'm struggling to come up with any other examples that have lasted as long that are as beloved.

RIP

comeonbro··on The techlash that never happened
I'm surprised that the article didn't mention this, given the company the author apparently keeps I would have thought he'd have been among the criminally few people who witnessed and is aware of it, and it's both narratively aligned and the single most important piece of background information.
comeonbro··on “Twitter is going great” is being sunset
Your explanation of why many people ended up disliking him is at least closer to the truth than the grandparent comment's baffling anticausal take of "people hate him because of what he did to Twitter".

But it seems pretty absurd to charge Elon Musk with under-delivering. Do you not remember what the idea of an electric car meant prior to 2005? Or the possibilities and economics of reusable spacecraft just 5 years ago?

comeonbro··on “Twitter is going great” is being sunset
Waging culture war against the blue-check class was one of his primary motivations for purchasing the site in the first place.

As long as that move doesn't somehow end up solely responsible for burning the site to the ground, I can't imagine he'll regret it.

comeonbro··on Freud as Talmudist
I default to assuming chiropraxis is bullshit, but the existence of "potential dangers" is not a good argument against the potential existence of benefits.
comeonbro··on Hydroxychloroquine lowers Alzheimer's disease and related dementias risk
Didier Raoult was the original person who received western popular media coverage for it.

It had been part of the scientific conversation for over a month before his involvement (an eternity in 2020 time), eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0

comeonbro··on AI found a bug in my code
TLDR; steam engine moved load that could have been trivially moved by good old-fashioned labor.

TLDR; printing press copied book that could have been trivially transcribed by hand.

TLDR; farm produced food that could have been trivially foraged.

comeonbro··on Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
Something like this is only possible at the end of an unimaginably long chain of absurd and impossible feats of organization.

The things he is concerned about when he's "futzing about with content moderation" are deep enough in that chain that it's easy to lose connection, but are absolutely part of it.

comeonbro··on Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
Ideological commitments that could be resolved with < 1 minute of research, will not be resolved with < 1 minute of research.
comeonbro··on Google is shutting down Stadia
1. Gamers are particularly vindictive

2. Highest probability of any product shutdown of this exploding "don't even bother, Google will just shut it down in a few years" into broad public consciousness

3. It's an enormous market and they know they'll want to try again

4. Maybe it's relatively not that much money. I would be surprised if I knew more than one or two people who'd ever even heard of Stadia

comeonbro··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
I didn't appreciate until recently that the calendar we live by today was personally designed by Julius Caesar.

Like not by some forgotten technocrats incidentally during his time, but Julius Caesar himself as a subject matter expert, as a side-project. With consultation, certainly, but by his initiative, from long-standing engagement with the problem in one of his early jobs from long before he was a main character of the Roman story.

Digestable and entertaining (fragment of a) video on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-R35DSSZY&t=1312s

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