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No, I’m saying that Bitcoin’s designed so that there will always be some miners that are slightly unprofitable. It’s worth mining for most of the miners, but not the ones that are just over that edge. The edge automatically adjusts so that there will always be some that are just over it.

If you want to interpret that as “Bitcoin is always unprofitable to mine”, then sure, you can interpret it that way. Profitability varies from mining operation to mining operation, though. Not everyone will be over that threshold, and even if by some strange sequence of events everyone was over it the difficulty would adjust downward soon enough.

I generally expect a headline to be about something notable. “Sky remains blue”, “Boiling water said to be hot”, and so forth are ridiculous headlines IMO.

This is exactly as designed. Bitcoin mining is intended to becomes less profitable the more people do it, using market forces to control the amount of mining that’s being done. Headlines like this are kind of ridiculous.

This just in: people who are used to earning millions of dollars and being the center of public adoration warn against anything that might change that.

This is silly.

Whether it’s “silly” or not is irrelevant, the problem described in the article is real. I have seen innumerable PDFs over the years that were atrocious when it came to the use of those accessibility features, the format’s design factors in to how people use it and people use it terribly. If plain old OCR were enough then this wouldn’t be such a problem.

Ah, they were paid with exposure.

How dare those AIs draw inspiration from the things they’ve seen without compensating the IP holders.

Reminds me of an anecdote I read a while back about a company that was training an LLM and wanted to make it less “sexy”, but a programming error flipped the sign on the weight that was being applied during training. Trainers kept trying to penalize it but that was only encouraging it and the result was an extreme horndog AI.

Unfortunately they found the error and fixed it before ship.

The story is also not saying that AI generates no value, just that it’s not generating revolutionary change-the-world new-Industrial-Revolution levels of value.

Similar to online AI detector tools

Ah, so it’s useless then.

“The majority secretly agrees with me, only a minority of idiots disagree” is a bad assumption no matter which “side” of an issue you’re on. I’m always glad to see options become available but we shouldn’t expect everyone to want them.

• Outrage fatigue is a thing. There was plenty of attention on the Uyghur genocide previously, but we can’t all be angry about everything all the time.
• It’s not something that Western nations are actively supporting, so protests and activism in the west would be less effective anyway. Nothing that protests in the West did has helped Tibet, what can be done differently about this?
• It’s China, the biggest oppressive regime on Earth with a billion citizens under its thumb. The Uyghurs just sort of fade into a general haze of “sucks over there.”

Reality desperately needs a better PR department.

Indeed. And that also applies to getting left-wing politicians to recognize reality, not just the electorate.

This is wildly diverging from “I want the specs for a file format.”

The “google-fu” in this case was to search for “.glb format specification” when seeking the .glb format specification.

This really doesn’t seem like a huge challenge requiring sophisticated skills.

I looked at the sites. Did you? The thing that OP was looking for that they claimed had been made unfindable or “polluted” were perfectly accessible and fine.

It’s only “polluted” if you’re looking for something specific and you refuse to ask for something specific.

If you go into a restaurant and ask them for “a drink” without specifying what drink you want, don’t complain about the quality of the coffee when they bring you a coke.

If you wanted the specification why not search for “.glb format specification”? I did that on Google and the specification was the first hit.

If I wasn’t just so very, very tired, I would find amusement in how this story is going back and forth. “Haha, cybertruck exploded! Stupid Elon!” “Oh, it had a bomb, it was a deliberate explosion. And the cybertruck’s structure stopped anyone outside it from getting hurt…” silence “Ah! It auto-locked, something about cybertruck we can criticize! Stupid Elon!”

And people complain about the “tribalism” in politics these days.

And, ideally, subscribers to this community? There are so many weird takes and misunderstandings about this stuff.