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WFHRenaissance commented on U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction   torrentfreak.com/u-s-cour... · Posted by u/samizdis
dansitu · a year ago
Armchair anarchists aside, it's galling to see the work my co-authors, editors, designers, illustrators, translators, and reviewers poured months of our lives into available for free on this site.

Money is rarely an incentive for writing a textbook, but it's certainly important for the brilliant and under-appreciated people who work in publishing, maintaining the fragile existence of our greatest technology: the book.

WFHRenaissance · a year ago
The reality is that without the existence of publishers the price of almost all texts would drift toward a minimum far below the worthwhileness of any author.

So maybe, like art, texts will become sheer passion projects - even technical texts. Otherwise, I'm sure LLMs will be able to replace their usefulness soon.

WFHRenaissance commented on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI   twitter.com/miramurati/st... · Posted by u/brianjking
ssnistfajen · a year ago
FSD isn't getting "solved" without outlawing human drivers, period. Otherwise you are trying to solve a non-deterministic system with deterministic software under a 0% error tolerance rate. Even without human drivers you still have to deal with all the non-vehicle entities that pop onto the road from time to time. Jaywalkers alone is almost as complex to deal with as human drivers.
WFHRenaissance · a year ago
LOL this is BS. We have plenty of deterministic software being used to solve non-deterministic systems already. I agree that 0% error rate will require the removal of all human drivers from the system, but 0.0001% error rate will be seen as accepted risk.

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WFHRenaissance commented on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments   deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/nuz
101008 · 2 years ago
I understand that this is a great leap in AI and it sounds amazing, looks amazing, almost unbeliable. I wonder if it is needed, though.

I can't find a good reason for computers playing videogames. I read another comment saying that they could be your buddies in an adventure game... what's the point? The fun is to play with other people. We already are able to play with bots (different algorithms rule them), so I can't see why someone would prefer this over them.

About traslating this from a virtual world to the real world... I can't imagine who would think it's a good idea to give this type of freedom to machines in a physical world, were consequences are way riskier than something digital (and yes, digitally they could empty your bank account, physically they could kill someone. One is much worser than the other).

WFHRenaissance · 2 years ago
My thinking is that it enables a "more full" virtual world.

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WFHRenaissance commented on Vice website is shutting down   writing.exchange/@ernie/1... · Posted by u/colinprince
meindnoch · 2 years ago
Venezuela's transgender ketamine dealers are mourning.
WFHRenaissance · 2 years ago
Vice got super activisty toward the end - obviously there is a place for that sort of content but mainly I watched Vice so I could see nerdy white guys in strange places doing weird shit
WFHRenaissance commented on Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?   alicegg.tech//2023/07/25/... · Posted by u/zer0tonin
WFHRenaissance · 3 years ago
TA is an egregore in that it is a concept that is only empowered/useful when everyone "believes" in it.
WFHRenaissance commented on Integrated Information Theory   scholarpedia.org/article/... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Der_Einzige · 3 years ago
"Thus, all object relations, human and nonhuman, are said to exist on an equal ontological footing with one another"

They are ideas from people who don't like Anthropocenterism, which Integrated Information Theory is also opposed to.

It's worth noting that all of the people who believe in any of this are philosophical wingcucks like Nick Land.

WFHRenaissance · 3 years ago
LOL Chill with the Land hate.
WFHRenaissance commented on Monitoring Is a Pain   matduggan.com/were-all-do... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
aynyc · 3 years ago
Monitoring is at the infrastructure level. CPU/Memory/Disk space/network.

Logging is at the application level. Log just enough that you can replicate a problem, usually it means just the input.

The rest is marketing.

WFHRenaissance · 3 years ago
There are some basic performance metrics that come to mind that are also important:

Latency Uptime Throughput

And if you're working with a distributed system, you should really be using metrics to track the health of your system at the application level.

WFHRenaissance commented on Crypto Exchange Backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, Schwab Starts Operations   wsj.com/articles/crypto-e... · Posted by u/WhereIsTheTruth
scottiebarnes · 3 years ago
If the alternative is fiat currencies printing themselves out of existence, then yes, people will happily transact in hard money with high fees. See Turkey, where you basically take on debt to buy anything (including commodity items like iPhones) that you can sell later, simply because the currency is spiraling out of control and you need your networth divested out of it.
WFHRenaissance · 3 years ago
I'm always very surprised to see HN ignore the obvious counterweight that cryptocurrencies serve to fiat currencies.

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