hansolo
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- Comment on New kinda Captcha 3 hours ago:
Too many birds!
- Comment on New kinda Captcha 7 hours ago:
If this was a CAPCHA, I would love it.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 1 day ago:
An app where all you end up recording is “Bro! Bro! Bro! Broseeeeph! Let’s gooooooo, Bro!”
- Comment on What is the likelihood I see trump shoot someone on 5th Ave? It's gotta be non 0, right? 2 days ago:
This is the correct answer. He famously (so I thought) hates guns.
No, would he have JD or a marshall do it for him? Non-zero chance.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 days ago:
All of this is exactly right. #2 is the least cringe-inducing because of the lumpy bottom.
Is this fork thing an official diagnosis metric? Or just not yet?
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 3 days ago:
It’s been a topic of conferences, books, podcasts, and new laws for almost a decade. They have it all in plain sight. Lol, made it up.
Curtis Yarvin has his Butterfly Revolution, which Thiel is all in about. Therefore Musk as well. Of the five pillars, the EO about forcing university accreditation to heel is the last one needed to not them all. Well documented, and the Nerd Reich had a post recently about how Yarvin is mad at how incompetent Trump and Musk are because they’re literally not gasing people to death by now.
A guy named Balaji wrote a book called the Network State that outlines the government that should replace democraticly electing people. Also a podcast, also conferences with folks like the creator of Etherium backing it. He’s been pushing countries to recognize DAOs as legal entities. Wyoming is on board, and Palau and the Marshall Islands have also been receptive as nation level test cases. Network city-states are in the mix as well.
This is the stuff that makes Project 2025 look like quaint kids’ games. However, where they both agree is the idea of repealing the social gains of the 20th century. Civil rights, women’s rights, gone. The goal is techno-fascist fifedoms built around crypto and AI, like Thiel’s investment in Praxis, where broligarchs don’t just have money, they control the force and violence of the state, which is something that money can’t just buy.
- Comment on Shitting in my post 4 days ago:
This is the face of having regular movements and suddenly missing one.
The rest of your day is ruined, wondering if you might die and never poop again, what you did wrong to anger the BM gods, did you eat a whole loaf of bread yesterday? No… WHY? Where did your poop go?
Then you shit double the next day and the relief washes over you lime you’ve been born again, rising from the ashes.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 4 days ago:
Y’all, one of the far-reaching Broligarchy ideas they’re hoping emerges from the ashes of the United States is the DAO, decentralized autonomous organization.
Every action in the block chain. They facilitate, and are predicated on, the idea of treating every aspect of life as a social network. Everything you do is recorded. So daily life ends up incentived toward constant, persistent, corralled engagement.
The difference is that you can’t build a society on the mechanics of the tobacco industry. But you can on a human reaction industry.
- Comment on Only the biggest ones, folks, trust me! 5 days ago:
Just yesterday this guy comes up too me, big guy, hairy guy, tears in his eyes, and when I remove the ball gag he says “Sir, would you spank me. I heard you were the best, and I want the best.” And so I bent him over and spanked him to within an inch of his life. Other people, they would have stopped after a couple swats, but I really let him have it on his beautiful bear backside.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 6 days ago:
That’s exactly the problem.
However, o4 is actually “o4 mini-high” while o3 is now just o3 now. The full release, no “mini” or other limitations. At this point o3 in its full form is better than a limited o4.
But, none of that matters while Claude 3.7 exists.
- Comment on Anyone know the name of this famous rabbit? 1 week ago:
OK, but this rabbit is named Harvey, and maybe you’re doing some viral picture framing campaign? Seems as likely as a joke related to a rabbit in an entirely different movie.
- Comment on Anyone know the name of this famous rabbit? 1 week ago:
IIRC, he had just gotten it delivered. Though haven’t seen this movie in a while.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think that workarounds with o3 is where we’re at until Altman figures out that just saying the latest oX mini high is “great at coding” is bad marketing when it can’t accomplish the task.
- Comment on lion 1 week ago:
The lion also abandons its young for days at a time to hunt, eats only raw meat covered in flies, and if given a large enough cardboard box, will sit in the cardboard box like a large house cat.
- Comment on lion 1 week ago:
The lion doesn’t concern itself with the blade.
The lion has blades built into it, which it uses instinctively without needing to be taught.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 1 week ago:
Can confirm. o4 seems objectively far worse at coding than o3, which wasn’t super great to begin with. It latches on to a hallucination before anything else and rides it until the wheels come off.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
Mutually assured destruction.
The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there’s a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.
But hey, anything’s possible anymore.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country’s diplomatic officials don’t have to do that with work devices.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that’s a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.
If the data it’s encrypted, then it’s more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don’t follow India or Australia’s government policies either! Such savages.
Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.
- Comment on We're on the wrong timeline! 1 week ago:
We can tick the box on spec now and check back in 10 years to see if they ever actually developed a commercially viable rector.
- Comment on TV Show Idea 1 week ago:
This feels like a 2001 era reality show, bit of would have been all women, and absurdly sexist.
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Custard is a European thing, but plenty of examples of custards in Asia and the Americas.
Frozen custard is a a Midwest American thing.
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Well, if you take “custard” seriously, egg yolk is part of that. Obviously ice cream doesn’t include it, but there are frozen custard places that include pasteurized egg yolk.
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Vanialla ice cream is just melted creme anglaise. Which is vanilla egg desert soup.
- Comment on What else do you need? 2 weeks ago:
In Romania? Daily basis.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the only based take.
IP law is so fractured that individual US states have different laws that can have international implications. It’s a massive hodgepodge that need to be aligned and nationalized.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 2 weeks ago:
All the errors you know about in the nuclear power industry are human-caused.
Is this an industry with a 100% successful operation rate? Not at all.
But have you ever heard of a piece of paperwork with an error submitted to regulatory officials and lawyers outside the plant causing a critical issue inside the plant? I sure haven’t. Please feel free to let me know if you are aware of such an incident.
I would encourage you to learn more about how LLM and SLM structures work. This article is more of a nothingburger superlative clickbait IMO. To me, at least it appears to be airgapped if it’s running locally, which is nice.
I would bet money that this will be entirely managed by the most junior compliance person who is not 120 years old, with more senior folks cross checking it with more suspicion than they would a new hire.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve never used a custom LLM or wrapper for regular ol’ ChatGPT, a lot of what it can hallucinate gets stripped out and the entire corpus of data it’s trained on is your data. Even then, the risk is pretty low here. Do you honestly think that a human has never made an error on paperwork?