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I don't think that people realize that this is bigger than just the tariffs now. Even if Trump completely backs down, he's shown himself to be too unstable to do business with. I don't think that I'm exaggerating when I say that American hegemony is in terminal decline because of this. Maybe forcibly removing Trump (which will never happen) can help slow the decline, but the international community is still going to divest from America.

Yeah, I can see that. Having a pope that's denounced by more conservative Catholics for truly believing in Catholic ethics shone a light on how far people were straying from the church. Really makes the pope look a bit like a Christ figure, when you think of it like that.

RIP. I think history will find Pope Francis to be a man who was a fairly average pope that constantly got taken out of context. Nothing he did was really far out of line with Catholic doctrine, but he was often portrayed as being more liberal than he really was.

Wouldn't be too suspicious, since Trump people told people to buy into the stock market before announcing this.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

Doesn't help America as much as some people might think. The world has seen that Trump is erratic, and America imports too much from China to just ignore the 125% (!!!) tariff on the country.

>It's not that hard as a foreign student to not join political protests in favor of terrorist groups.

I obviously don't support terrorism, but people unambiguously have the right to protest in favour of terrorist groups. It's only when they provide material support to these groups that they actually commit a crime.

I really doubt that worked, given that North Korea does most of its trade with China and Russia, who don't participate in the sanctions. Besides, they already have nukes and the ability to launch them over the ocean. The military presence has grown as much as the regime needs it to with the sanctions, so there's no point to keeping them anymore.

I was thinking the same thing. If this even slightly jeopardizes America's ability to pay off its debt, the entire world will suffer. Something that occurred to me from talking to Americans online is that most of them don't realize just how much soft power they have across the world. I really feel that China becoming the global superpower might end up becoming the least bad option if America keeps destabilizing.

>It looks like it's still chugging along.

To this day, it remains rate-limited for people who don't have an account. Also, that fact that you (and most people) keep calling it "Twitter" is proof that the name change was an absolutely horrible idea.

Oh, I'm not denying climate change, I'm just saying that we can't say for certain whether or not we passed the Paris Agreement threshold, even though it's likely that we did.

>I doubt very much that it was an anomaly.

The article that OP posted says the odds that it's not an anomaly is around 80%, so there's still a 1 / 5 chance that this is just noise.

I hope this turns out to just be an anomaly, but I know that's likely not the case. The kicker is that global warming isn't even terribly hard to prevent, just give up your car and you've pretty much done your part.

Why is it even important to stay informed? In virtually all cases, there's very little that I can do about anything, so I'm just wasting energy by looking at the news.

>Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent.

I really doubt that, actually. The only thing that LLMs are truly good for is to create plausible-sounding text. Everything else, like generating facts, is outside of its main use case and known to frequently fail.

You still need to get the vaccine after getting bitten, pre-exposure prophylaxis just reduces the amount that you need afterwards.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies

>A rather large slice of the global populace was still farming in 1988.

Okay? Last I checked, it's not 1988 anymore.

> It doesn’t work for people farming corn/rice etc

Well duh, that's an edge case. Obviously I don't expect literally every single person to give up driving, but most people who use this website are white collar workers, or at least people who don't need to haul things on a regular basis.

>Oh, I agree on this. People were never going to accept, nor IMO should they have, a massive reduction in their living standards.

I don't even think a massive reduction is necessary, though. Just stop driving, and your carbon footprint shrinks massively. I bike everywhere, and I don't consider it a sacrifice at all. Obviously, there still needs to be commensurate increases in funding for public transit to match the decrease in driving, but most people would still save money by not having to buy gas anymore. Really, I think that living an eco-friendly life would mean improving life, not worsening it.

By design, a watermark would make it easy to create a discriminator that distinguishes between LLM content and human content. In that case, just make a discriminator yourself and use regex to find and remove any of the watermarks.

Of course they don't work. The whole point of LLMs is that they're indistinguishable from human-written text. People need to understand that AI isn't magic, it can't tell that something wasn't written by a human without a distinctive clue.

No, you can finetune locally hosted LLMs to be nasty.

Given how HN always freaks out about microplastics, I'm surprised that people feel like this is a bad law. Personally, I want a Rwanda-style ban on plastic.

>When these molecules come naturally, they come with other ingredients that often complement or offset the positive or negative effects.

They can also come with ingredients that amplify their negative effects. That's why you usually don't eat your food raw, you cook it or leech out the bad stuff.

I replace 20% of my salt with MSG when I use it, and I normally salt meat with 1% of its weight. A pinch or two for a 1kg of meat + rice isn't enough for me unless you're not using a lot of meat, but obviously YMMV.

I use MSG constantly, and I'm one of the people that get headaches if they eat too much of it. Really, you have to so much that the dish starts to taste bad before you get headaches, and I'm pretty sure you build up a tolerance anyways. I will say, while it's a good salt substitute for people looking to lower their sodium intake, you can't replace all of your salt with it. In fact, it's absolutely disgusting if you use it for something other than savoury dishes.

This is an expected consequence of American hegemony. When so much of our culture is imported from America, we end up feeling American. To a degree, what happens in America really does affect our lives, even more than what happens in Canada in many cases. When everybody around you is focused on American issues and American politics, they start to vote based on these imported ideas and make them Canadian ideas.

In the olden days, these towns wouldn't pay you money, they would pay you scrip issued by the mining company[0]. This could only be used at company-operated stores, so miners were imprisoned in the towns. Moving back literally wasn't an option for the people that worked there, but if there was no other jobs around, where else could you go?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

I don't know anything about neuroscience, but is there anything in the brain even remotely like the transformer architecture? It can do a lot of things, but I don't think that it's capable of emulating human intelligence.

The only real technological edge that OpenAI has right now (at least that I know of) is Sora. There are already some very good open source LLMs and the SoTA for image generation has always been Stable Diffusion. I don't think that Sora's some miraculous piece of technology that nobody else can replicate, so I doubt that OpenAI will be the absolute best in AI for long.

>What gets me is that much of the OSS/Linux ecosystem consists of thousandas of lashed together piles of code written by independent and only very loosely coordinated groups, much of it code and lashed together by amateurs for free, and it is still more robust than software created by multi-billion dollar corporations.

I mostly agree, but I think that there's a delayed effect for OSS projects falling apart. Most of these projects are literally just 1 or 2 people coding in their spare time with maybe a few causal contributors. The lack of contributors working on extremely important software makes them vulnerable to bad actors (e.g. the XZ backdoor) or to the maintainers going AWOL. The upside is that it's easy for anybody to just go in and fix the issue once it's found, but the problem needs to happen first before anybody does that.