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That's a good point. So then what makes it a fever dream?

The duration between the equinoxes is the same six months everywhere on earth. 22-hour days are balanced out by 2-hour days, not a smaller number of days with more than 12 hours of…

Nowadays, a farmer who can't grow crops anymore doesn't necessarily have to find a farm elsewhere, but could also move to a nearby city and work in a factory. That option is entici…

I wondered where this article got the idea that "half the planet" would die "in 26 years or less" with 3°C of warming. It appears to be a misreading of the table in https://actuari…

Fairphone? https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6#f_slide_1 But also, I doubt any polity would have its sovereignty undermined if their general-purpose computing hardware do…

There is no shortage of general-purpose computing hardware in the EU. If you need some general-purpose compute to make a car, an oven, or a phone, you can get it. That consumers mo…

The Crisis Group report is a very interesting read, thanks!

Yes, since he said neither of these things nor the opposite, I decided to take the opportunity to ask instead of assuming. For example, is Guelmim-Oued Noun https://en.wikipedia.or…

> Sahrawis on the Moroccan controlled areas basically enjoy a welfare state with free transport, no VAT, and many other benefits. How is this implemented? Do ethnic Sahrawis get sp…

"Best" because of the irony that it was written by Claude? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199

If tractability could only be used to filter out literally intractable charities, it would indeed not be very useful. But you can also use it to compare different approaches and pi…

"tractability = % of a problem solved / % increase in resources" does not sound like "you have to decisively and completely solve a problem or it's not worth supporting." You can o…

What do you think the frequency of EAs committing mass fraud is? How many cases are you basing that on? What does that imply about the size of the EA movement? Does that number mak…

There are other meanings that don't require the carving to be a form of writing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoglyph

"Modulation weights" here refers to weights used to adjust layer normalization depending on the task (adaLN). General-purpose LLMs generally don't have those in the first place.

That graph features a completely-made-up superexponential AI growth curve coincidentally reaching 100% of US electricity generation in 2030, but even if you take the prediction up …

The internet has certainly changed the composition of the economy a lot, so that a lot of services that used to be in-person are now available online. But GDP growth is about the d…

Why amplify the copycat spam domains?

From the article: > Today, Seedance 2.5 is rolling out on Jimeng AI, Doubao Pro, and other platforms, with API access coming soon via BytePlus ModelArk. Jimeng is https://jimeng.ji…

Without anchoring on the group average it's hardly Group-Relative and without likelihood there's no Policy; that doesn't leave much of the original GRPO unchanged... Do you have a …

GRPO increases the likelihood of samples that are better than average, not just the single best, and decreases that of samples that are worse than average. This method doesn't even…

Why no qualitative examples? Based on the numbers, you should have some pretty pictures you could put in the paper.

It probably doesn't help that much of the medieval liberal arts curriculum is now taught in high school using modern textbooks, much diminishing the value of learning Ancient Greek…

The author spent almost $50 buying junk on Temu just to try it out. Such profligate spending habits are why Americans' private data is worth so much in the first place, and Temu ca…

From the article: > A person familiar with Moonshot’s procurement strategy confirmed that the company does indeed have a channel for accessing Blackwell processors via Southeast As…