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sobchak

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  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • The problem is likely exponential. Technically, some optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms are "AI." I could see them also doing something like AlphaGo (predictive model + monte-carlo tree search).

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  • I doubt it's fine-tuned, it's likely just one of the open-weight LLMs with RAG. I've done similar things, and they don't really work as well as I'd like (the most relevant chunks of text aren't always ranked the highest/have the least embedding distance, and the models still hallucinate sometimes).

  • Accelerationism

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  • That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

  • Accelerationism

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  • A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

  • Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.

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  • Crypto crashed a few times, but recovered fairly quickly. A lot of companies went bankrupt. The crashes didn't severely affect a significant portion of the population. Most people and institutions had little exposure if any at all, and the crypto industry didn't really employ many people. Most people with a 401k are significantly exposed to AI due to top-heavy index funds like the SP 500. Not sure how exposed major financial institutions are.

  • Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

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  • And as he mentioned in the video, it would eventually just make them better when they add the adversarial examples into their training set.

  • Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce in May, according to report

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  • I thought about it before (a Meta recruiter contacted me a couple years ago). The expected total compensation was insane. But, I would've likely had to move, I despise the company, and they were already doing stupid layoffs back then too, so decided not to move forward.

  • Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

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  • So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t

    This seems like a statement designed to deceive. I would like to see comparisons like the percent of vulnerabilities Mythos found that an expert also found (and somehow make sure those vulnerabilities weren't leaked into the training data and the prompts don't hint at the answer).

  • RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

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  • IDK, as I understand it, OpenAI bought 20% of RAM wafer production, mostly just to prevent competitors from getting access to affordable wafers. OpenAI has no ability to do anything with raw wafers.

  • fuck you bill

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  • If the company also trains AI, I'm guessing they're also forcing use to gather training data. I.e. tracking feedback, corrections, etc.

  • Do you think there's too much emphasis in popular media on working your ass off?

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  • That kind of media doesn't really appeal to me so I don't consume it. A lot of rap and country is about that (in different ways; hustling vs working hard at your job). The only recent show or movie I watched that I can think of that emphasizes overworking is The Pitt, but I'm not sure it glorifies it.

    I do think working hard (or smart or whatever) is important and admirable, but only if the work is exceptionally important and beneficial to society (not most work), and not if you're being exploited by your employer (most work). The most important work is probably the labor people don't typically get paid to do (or get paid little).

    I'm also of the opinion that trying to work too much is usually counterproductive and people get less work done. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of studies that confirm this.

  • Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client

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  • I thought gstack already gave developers God Mode?

  • ‘Pray With Me Please’: Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Pentagon Prayer Service

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  • Before the Civil War, there was more separation. Things really started going out of wack in the 1950s (that's when "God" was printed on paper money). The swearing on the bible thing is a tradition from England. At US's founding 17% of the population were church members. In the the 1950s, 70% were. Now it's < 50%.

  • Date Structures and Algorithms?

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  • You need to have a general idea what structures and algorithms those libraries are using, so you know if they're a right fit for your use case,what configuration options to use, and how they'll scale. Design patterns are good to learn (required even), but I wouldn't go too deep into them. IIRC, that Design Patterns book goes a little too crazy and gets a little too abstract in some cases, and is what caused all that Enterprise Java craziness. The profession seems to be currently moving away from that kind of OOP, and moving to OOP-ish + some functional programming concepts mixed in (Rust, React, etc).

  • Replaced $40/month in AI API subscriptions with self-hosted Ollama + n8n

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  • You really only need a little more RAM than your GPU's VRAM (unless you're doing CPU offloading, which is extremely slow). Otherwise, I did the same thing recently too, and was surprised I was able to get it a Qwen 9B to fix a bug in a script I had. I think Sonnet would've fixed in a lot fewer tries, but the 9B model was eventually able to fix it. I could've fixed it myself quicker and cleaner than both, but it was an interesting test.

  • I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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  • It's insane that companies are going back to metrics like LOC (or tokens generated), when the industry figured out decades ago that these are horrible, counterproductive metrics.

    "The hard thing about building software is deciding what one wants to say, not saying it. No facilitation of expression can give more than marginal gains." - No Silver Bullet (1986)

  • Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as Trump orders U.S. to join Iran in blockade of Strait of Hormuz

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  • I think this entire war was so Trump and the admin could personally enrich themselves by taking control of Iran's oil in some way. They had success doing it Venezuela, and they were then convinced they could do it in Iran too. Attacking these countries would only produce limited, "well I agree, but don't like the way he's going about it" push back from establishment Dems and Western politicians in general. Israel "helping" is just a bonus, and provided further buy-in from the many Zionist politicians. They thought it would be a quick decapitation and puppeting like Venezuela was. I think Israel made things worse for the admin by bombing the people the admin had in mind for being the leaders.

  • Trump says US to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz immediately

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  • Nah, I don't want to see two nuclear powers directly fight.

  • Trump says US to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz immediately

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  • Many of the super wealthy obviously want to create company towns again (I think Musk is already in the process). Child labor laws are being rolled back. Wouldn't be surprised if stuff like debtor prisons come back. We are in the process of building concentration (and likely labor) camps for the homeless. We have and are building concentration camps for the undocumented. People are openly talking about denaturalization. I think it's clear where the "elite" want to see things go. Open question is how far we collectively will let them.