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unsupp0rted commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri   reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
praptak · 4 days ago
Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.
unsupp0rted · 4 days ago
More charitably, the signaling could be: “keep the government as small as possible, but no smaller than that”, i.e. use things that basically mostly work and quit expending resources addressing every edge case, particularly when it’s performative (slight font variations) rather than obvious (a ramp to get into a public building)
unsupp0rted commented on Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]   berkshirehathaway.com/new... · Posted by u/kamaraju
gbacon · 7 days ago
Had to be expected. Buffett was a once in several generations talent.
unsupp0rted · 7 days ago
Is there a write-up somewhere of how much of an outlier he really was?
unsupp0rted commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race   theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
riku_iki · 13 days ago
> Altman says that OpenAI will top $20 billion in ARR this year, which certainly seems like significant revenue generation. [1]

fixed this for you

unsupp0rted · 13 days ago
Can he safely lie about that? Or would that be a slam-dunk lawsuit against him? He's already got Elon Musk on his enemies list.
unsupp0rted commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480
unsupp0rted · 13 days ago
"Hey Siri, stop playback"

...

...

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Siri disappears and song continues playing

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"Hey Siri, stop playback"

Songs stops playing.

unsupp0rted commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
wowamit · 17 days ago
A much-needed project. Making yourself invisible to such privacy-invasive devices will be the need of the day. Of the two approaches you mentioned, blocking/jamming the specific wireless traffic would be pretty interesting, if possible.
unsupp0rted · 17 days ago
I'll feel much safer when I'm visible only to every single ATM camera, traffic camera, random smartphone camera and doorbell camera, but not to people's glasses.
unsupp0rted commented on Claude Opus 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
roywiggins · 20 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

The way this works is:

1) x% of users have an exceptional first experience by chance. Nobody who has a meh first experience bothers to try a second time. 2) x²% of users also have an exceptional second experience by chance 3) So a lot of people with a great first experience think the model started off great and got suddenly worse

Suppose it's 25% that have a really great first experience. 25% of them have a great second experience too, but 75% of them see a sudden decline in quality and decide that it must be intentional. After the third experience this population gets bigger again.

So by pure chance and sampling biases you end up convincing a bunch of people that the model used to be great but has gotten worse, but a much smaller population of people who thought it was terrible but got better because most of them gave up early.

This is not in their heads- they really did see declining success. But they experienced it without any changes to the model at all.

unsupp0rted · 20 days ago
If by "second" and "third" experience you mean "after 2 ~ 4 weeks of all-day usage"
unsupp0rted commented on Claude Opus 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
unsupp0rted · 21 days ago
This is gonna be game-changing for the next 2-4 weeks before they nerf the model.

Then for the next 2-3 months people complaining about the degradation will be labeled “skill issue”.

Then a sacrificial Anthropic engineer will “discover” a couple obscure bugs that “in some cases” might have lead to less than optimal performance. Still largely a user skill issue though.

Then a couple months later they’ll release Opus 4.7 and go through the cycle again.

My allegiance to these companies is now measured in nerf cycles.

I’m a nerf cycle customer.

unsupp0rted commented on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients   today.ucsd.edu/story/glp-... · Posted by u/gmays
bicx · a month ago
Maybe I'm just an aging cynic, but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop when it comes to GLP-1s. There have been so many claims of positive benefits that it almost seems too good to be true. With them being so expensive, the producers have every incentive to upsell using any study they can get their hands or money on.

If it's all upside, then I'm happy to be wrong.

unsupp0rted · a month ago
Not everything has another shoe to drop.

Getting people to eat more broccoli is almost entirely upside. Sure a handful of people will be allergic or whatever, but on a population level some interventions are just one positive after another, and there's no reason it has to be a deal made with the devil.

unsupp0rted commented on UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis   news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30... · Posted by u/mxkopy
credit_guy · a month ago
I’ll play devil’s advocate. The beings that made our VMs are clearly superior. But the Halting theorem applies to them too. They too represent floating point numbers with finite precision. Does that mean we can catch them violating conservation laws? Maybe.

In any case, here’s some food for thought: ray tracing is undecidable [1]. If something is undecidable, it is for any form of computation, classical, quantum, or anything. Does this mean we can find some “glitches in the matrix”. It simply means such glitches are there (if we are in a similation). But they might be too infinitesimal for us to identify.

[1]https://users.cs.duke.edu/~reif/paper/tygar/raytracing.pdf

unsupp0rted · a month ago
> But the Halting theorem applies to them too. They too represent floating point numbers with finite precision

Does it? Do they?

unsupp0rted commented on Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware   extropic.ai/... · Posted by u/vyrotek
rvz · 2 months ago
This looks really amazing if not unbelieveable to the point where it is almost too good to be real.

I have not seen benchmarks on Extropic's new computing hardware yet but need to know from experts who are in the field of AI infrastructure at the semiconductor level if this is legit.

I'm 75% believing that this is real but have a 25% skepticisim and will reserve judgement until others have tried the hardware.

So my only question for the remaining 25%:

Is this a scam?

unsupp0rted · 2 months ago
I doubt it’s a scam. Beff might be on to something or completely delusional, but not actively scamming.

u/unsupp0rted

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