20+ years behind

I don’t think it’s realistic, but what they mean is that the community can in theory get together and decide to fork the code, collectively deciding that BlackRock’s Bitcoin addresses are no longer part of their Bitcoin network. The BlackRock Bitcoin would be incompatible with the forked code.

The result of a fork like that is two coins: BlackRock Bitcoin and Everyone Else Bitcoin. Every holder of the original Bitcoin gets an equal amount of both. It’s a popularity contest between the two resulting Bitcoins to determine the price of each.

In 2017, Bitcoin was struggling to scale. It had absurd transaction fees due to demand (just like Ethereum a few years later), and the community couldn’t come to a consensus on how to upgrade it. 10% of the community forked the code to upgrade it by increasing block size, while everyone else opted for an L2 scaling solution. The result for holders was that they ended up with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in their wallets. Weirdly, the combined market value ended up being higher than value of the Bitcoin before the fork. I sold my Bitcoin Cash immediately and pocketed the money, expecting the price to go to zero. It did not.

I eagerly await an F-Droid-like open source app store for Apple. Fapple.

I searched for “nitinol cooling system” and found articles dating back to 2016 about the same technology at a German university –

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-refrigerant-free/41652

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-alloy-nitinol-heating-cooling/58837/

Cool tech, but this recent article lacks substance compared to the older ones. Also interesting that the German team claimed 2x better efficiency than a typical heat pump.

I love this. I think I’m one night away from turning it into screensaver to pair with Chicago95, a la

https://alvinalexander.com/python/python-screensaver-xscreensaver-linux/

I don’t see this talked about much anymore, but the day Plex added telemetry in 2017 was the day I became five-alarm desperate for an alternative. Had to wait a 2-3 years with Plex’s telemetry IP’s and domains blacklisted before Jellyfin was mature enough for me to make the change.

How Plex users can be comfortable with any telemetry is beyond me.

Example?

Isn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?

Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.

Actually, this is a great idea in principle, because the inverse is possible.

We could use Amazon’s resources for search, then use a browser plug-in to replace the buy button and have it buy the product from somewhere else using an AI agent.

In the decades that people have been screaming about nuclear plants “taking too long to build” stalling progress, we could have built many nuclear plants and significantly reduced emissions.

We’ve kicked the can down the road for far too long. We are well past the point of preventing the devastating impacts of climate change we were warned about 20+ years ago.

If this institute is so convinced wind and solar are the answer, I hope they also have vast amounts of lithium pre-mined or a novel approach to energy storage that isn’t so damaging.

Reddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.

Is there any way to fling YouTube videos to SmartTube from a smartphone?

That’s the one thing locking me into Kodi.

Training: Creating the model
Inference: Using the model

I feel like people here have forgotten the difference between “vulnerable” and “compromised”.

It matters because calling everyone’s default setup chat apps compromised implies that an attack has occurred.

Wouldn’t it be a vulnerable device? Up until the point it’s compromised by downloading a malicious image?

We know

Here are some techniques for measuring alignment:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16216

By in large, the goals driving LLM alignment are to answer things correctly and in a way that won’t ruffle too many feathers. Any goal driven by human feedback can introduce bias, sure. But as with most of the world, the primary goal of companies developing LLMs is to make money. Alignment targets accuracy and minimal bias, because that’s what the market values. Inaccuracy and biased models aren’t good for business.

I believe it’s supported. On initial install, I remember reading that it was possible to fling a video to SmartTube from the official YouTube app, but that wasn’t an option for me using NewPipe on Android. Saying that out loud, it’s probably worth it for me download the official YouTube app, just so I can do that.

Also, the GitHub readme is a bit long and intimidating for installation. All you have to do is install this app:
https://www.aftvnews.com/downloader/

Then use the code 28544 to install SmartTube.

It’s just a way to sidestep Google, since Google obviously doesn’t want an app like this listed on their official store.

Yes, you can

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

This is a hit on my TV, because it includes ad and sponsor blocking