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floundy commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
alex1138 · 7 days ago
I just can't stop thinking though about the vulnerability of training data

You say good enough. Great, but what if I as a malicious person were to just make a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong, to trick LLMs?

floundy · 7 days ago
>a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong

So Reddit?

I’d imagine the AI companies have all the “pre AI internet” data they scraped very carefully catalogued.

floundy commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
willis936 · 7 days ago
That's too bad. Apple's most interesting value proposition is running local inference with big privacy promises. They wouldn't need to be the highest performer to offer something a lot of people might want.
floundy · 7 days ago
Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again.

From a business perspective it’s a smart move (inasmuch as “integrating AI” is the default which I fundamentally disagree with) since Apple won’t be left holding the bag on a bunch of AI datacenters when/if the AI bubble pops.

I don’t want to lose trust in Apple, but I literally moved away from Google/Android to try and retain control over my data and now they’re taking me… right back to Google. Guess I’ll retreat further into self-hosting.

floundy commented on Taxing Growth   equitileconversations.com... · Posted by u/Incerto
briteside · 15 days ago
Lol how is this #1
floundy · 15 days ago
Because topics like these always attract some Very Smart People to comment and engage in order to share their Very Correct Opinions on macroeconomics and politics.
floundy commented on Taxing Growth   equitileconversations.com... · Posted by u/Incerto
Mountain_Skies · 15 days ago
In the US about twenty years ago, there was a minor movement for a flat sales tax that would replace all other taxes. I lived in Georgia at the time, which was the epicenter of support for the idea. Proponents got themselves stuck in a metaphoric tarpit when they wouldn't accept that most people's way of calculating sales tax was different than what they promoted. At least in the US, if there's a 7% sales tax, it means if you buy something for a dollar, you pay seven cents in tax. Their flat sales tax would have been 30% using this method, but they wanted to promote it as being only 23% since $0.30 is 23% of $1.30.

I'm sure there were other reasons why it failed, but for the people I knew who supported it, claiming it to be a 23% sales tax instead of a 30% sales tax was a hill they were willing to let the whole thing die on (and it did die). Lots of people who casually supported it at first when they heard 23%, lost interest when it was clarified what that really meant. The difference between 23% and 30% isn't all that great but if you're going to overhaul the tax system, trust in those who are doing it is needed.

floundy · 15 days ago
Laughing aloud at the thought of the average paycheck to paycheck consumerist blowing a gasket when they see a $24k tax bill for their $80k pickup truck.
floundy commented on Taxing Growth   equitileconversations.com... · Posted by u/Incerto
embedding-shape · 15 days ago
Every time someone shares something it has to be new, otherwise it's not worthy of your attention? Couldn't you at least provide some constructive criticism why the argument falls short in your mind, instead of the sharing the first knee-jerky reaction that popped up in your head that just touches the surface?
floundy · 15 days ago
The quality of discourse on HN has been nearing the bottom of the barrel (read: mostly indistinguishable from Reddit) since the pandemic. It’s very rare these days to see citations or even arguments that explain personal reasoning. Just like Reddit and Facebook, commenters mostly write what they think or feel as if it were unyielding fact, and the most common denominator (read: boring, derivative, often oversimplified assumptions) rise to the top via the voting system.
floundy commented on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks   blockclubchicago.org/2025... · Posted by u/mikhael
monerozcash · 16 days ago
In Illinois? If you cause more than $300 in damage, yes.
floundy · 16 days ago
Just turn it upside down then. At best some “Good Samaritan” turns it right side up at some point but the food arrives late, cold, and spilled all over the inside of the robot.

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floundy commented on Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame   npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/ilamont
jasonsb · a month ago
100% this. I'm sick and tired of alarmist news and scapegoats when politicians and greedy energy corporations are to blame for everything. Yes, AI consumes more energy because we're using AI so by this logic we are to blame for everything.
floundy · a month ago
If these "greedy utility companies" were such good monopolists or duopolists wouldn't it reflect in some pretty insane stock performance?

Eversource (NYSE: ES) is my local electric/natural gas provider in Massachusetts that I hear these same arguments about. Their stock is down 21% over the past 5 years. (To contrast, the S&P500 is up 91% over this same timeframe).)

floundy commented on Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck   github.com/samcervantes/b... · Posted by u/MakerSam
poisonborz · 2 months ago
> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket

I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)

floundy · 2 months ago
Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than average.
floundy commented on Ticker: Don't die of heart disease   myticker.com/... · Posted by u/colelyman
mrtksn · 2 months ago
And yet, the Germans are having long and healthy lives just like other drinkers like France, Spain and Italy. So maybe just relax and have a drink.
floundy · 2 months ago
Average German lifespan is about 80 years. What if it was 70 years for an 80th percentile drinker and 90 years for a 20th percentile drinker, I assume that changes your conclusion? These are of course entirely made up numbers, and the data doesn't even exist as far as I'm aware, but goes to show how useless averages may be.

As for the other countries: 56% of French either "don't drink" or "only on special occasions", 43.5% of Spaniards never drink or less than 2x per week, and 35% of Italians do not drink compared to 12% who drink daily.

Like it or not the median data point in these population sets are those of people who drink very little.

u/floundy

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