Agraillo

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by Agraillo 1y ago
It's an interesting question, but maybe more complex than it appears. We cannot get rid of the cultural passing of information (non-genetic) in humans. If we do, we get feral children [1] (also known as Mowgli in popular culture). But
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by Agraillo 1y ago
You're probably talking about infamous Dark Matter Developers [1]. When the term was coined, I thought there were many of them, now seeing how many developers are here at HN (including myself) I doubt there are many left /s. The q
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> ... because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on Why stop just here? It's AI, right? So it’s all about prediction - next token, next action, it doesn’t matter. Let’s turn Minority Report the movie i
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by Agraillo 1y ago
I just thought that almost all existing LLMs are already able to do this with the following setup: using an alias "@you may speak now," it should create a prompt like this: "Given the following questions {randomly sampled or
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Reminded me of many movie plots where a derailed character sits in a taxi and, when asked where to go, replies with "anywhere" or "I don't know." But before imagining a terrible future where an AI-driven vehicle act
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> science has nothing more to say about it Science has also given us time machine surrogates - photos and videos. I understand this doesn’t work for everyone and can sometimes make things harder, but for me, seeing our common past brings
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. Two companies come to mind: Strix for kettle controllers and Shimano for bike gears. Maybe they don't fit exactly to the Hidden champions category because they’re not very hidden from the public (many manufacturers
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by Agraillo 1y ago
ECH is on by default for Cloudflare’s free plans, and paying customers can adjust the setting. That’s why CF already has an interesting history with the Russian authorities [1] (The discussion is short but has a lot of interesting details)
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> Maybe LLMs can be sued to design such a thing nice misspelling (or a joke?), related to all the lawsuits around LLMs. Joking aside, it’s already there in a sense. Several times I started with a brief outline of what the prototype sho
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by Agraillo 1y ago
I like challenges like this. First, the edit that introduced the "five-seven ascii" is [1] (2010) by Pete142 with the explanation "add a name for the PDP-6/10 character-packing convention". The user Pete142 cites hi
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Related: Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? (glyphdrawing.club) [1]. There are other interesting articles mentioned in the discussion. m_walden probably would comment here himself [1] https://news.ycombinat
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by Agraillo 1y ago
It's a great aspect to evaluate (fiction books/movies), thanks for mentioning it. I think it's much easier to use as an evaluation tool than techniques like the apple example. One of the tests, for example, is to recall a boo
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by Agraillo 1y ago
The latter, there's an article about this particularly [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/03/technology/zo...
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> ... a topic that's worth only 1-3 minutes of your time It's even worse sometimes, googling some "how to" queries returns links to yt-videos. Even if the video is 5 minutes, it's a waste of time, because I'
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> finds that they're not credible enough to generate an answer The credibility is one side of the story. In many cases, at least for my curious research, I happen to search for something very niche, so to find at least anything rela
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> It's just making sure you're not accidentally passing invalid data or performing an invalid operation. To understand that this is a big deal, one sometimes needs to face the relaxed rules of their static language of choice. D
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by Agraillo 1y ago
The edit did exist. So the phrase "Multiple studies have found a left-wing bias at Wikipedia" can be found last in the edit (4 February 2025) [1] and was removed by the editor Aquillion with the explanation [2] Not seeing
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Hmm.. Is this my brain inference or the parent comment author' too: "Bright side of life" -> "Always look at the bright side of life" from "Monty Python's Life of Brian" -> plot was taking plac
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by Agraillo 1y ago
I felt also something like this before. Also integers seem pretty close to the reality around us. One of their functions is to symbolically represent the similarity of objects (there might be a better way to put it). Like, if you see 5 shee
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> I feel it almost every day for myself and for my family in the US Based on your use of the word 'fill,' the Gallup World Poll seems like a more appropriate ranking because it comes directly from the people. Even your dissatis
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Let's start with the Freedom House index [1] Finland 100/100 ..... United States 84/100 ..... China 9/100 ...... Turkmenistan 1/100 Before claiming a hidden agenda or conflicts of in
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> I've not seen anyone talking about the significance of the set of countries where this is rolled out to first: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand This was really interesting and somewhere there was a comment/quote tha
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by Agraillo 1y ago
The idea for "Severance" was supposedly inspired by Dan Erickson's difficult experiences with jobs that he disliked. If what you are suggesting is true, then we will have an alternative way to achieve a similar effect as the
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Sorry if I didn't recognize your sarcasm, but if you’re serious, you’re probably also assuming that rooting is usually done for criminal activity. In fact, both rooting and easy app creation/side-loading are often tools to solve i
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by Agraillo 1y ago
Reworded from [1]: Earlier this year Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence. Sutskever rebuffed Meta’s efforts, as well as the company’s attempt to hire him [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/meta-tried
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by Agraillo 1y ago
I finally also recalled this project (tiddlywiki), but CMIIW, the statefulness of the hyperclay is only for developers, the end user will get the same conventional html. Without some kind of common solution/protocol/standard on th
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by Agraillo 1y ago
> I've tried to get ChatGPT to generate original fairy tales and whatever plot prompt I give it, it spits out what is essentially the same dull story every time. Not a universal solution, but a working method to get at least sometim
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by Agraillo 1y ago
The management thinking from your example seemed very natural and not so surprising after all. They just needed someone with a "just in case" mindset, similar to the tailor from one of my favorite scenes/movies "The Huds
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by Agraillo 1y ago
As a cultural synthesizer ("create a sketch...") or translator (i.e., from human to programming) perplexity is as good as the others and maybe worse. But I like it as being an alternative semantic web search engine. Search engine
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by Agraillo 1y ago
I'm not sure whether the Apple Music API is so primitive, but for Pink Floyd listing Led Zeppelin and not (for example) Porcupine Tree/Stephen Wilson is a bit strange. Though the site lists "related artists" that sounds

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