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by CivBase 5mo ago
What do you think an LLM is "supposed" to do? At the end of the day it's just a big weighted graph traversal. Its output is a result of many combined probabilities. It's not deterministic and even if it was the input ran
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> The problem is that people are now building our world around tooling that eschews accountability. Tools cannot eschew accountability. But the users of the tools can and that is exactly what happened in the PocketOS fiasco. Just as a co
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> They are WAY more complex to plan, install and maintain than traditional heating. I'm curious what about them would be more difficult to plan, install, and maintain. Obviously there are many things to consider when retrofitting a
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by CivBase 5mo ago
I got a ton of value out of mine... but I graduated in 2011, when smartphones were only just taking off and relatively few people had them yet. But my wife is also a high school teacher and one of the most consistent problems I hear about f
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros. Okay... so? I do not understand the connectio
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> but if everyone isn't on the same page about formatting and stuff like that you see a lot of file churn as things move around. IMO that is what automated static analysis jobs are for. Let me configure my IDE how I want.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
Depends on what you mean by "free market". If you think "free market" means market participants should just be free to do whatever they want then yeah, it's weird. But if you think "free market" means that
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by CivBase 5mo ago
A lot of people do outsource their thinking to AI, so it's not that weird to bring up. That's effectively how many AI companies are marketing the technology. But it's definitely possible to use AI without letting it think f
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by CivBase 5mo ago
Great for you. But what about the rest of us?
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by CivBase 5mo ago
Humans understand rules to be commands with risks and consequences. They conceously evaluate the benefits of breaking rules against the risks and consequences. They also have their own needs, self-interests, and instincts for preservation a
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by CivBase 5mo ago
Exactly. Prompts are just weights on a graph traversal. They don't guarantee anything. The LLM does not "understand" the prompts and so it cannot fully adhere to them. They only improve the liklihood it will output what you w
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by CivBase 6mo ago
> this law will make phones _worse_ for most people I challenge you to give me an example of how this law might result in a phone that is worse for most people. This law does not require a slide-off phone cover. It does not require a scr
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by CivBase 6mo ago
I strongly believe that code should always be subjected to review before entering production. This does a few things: 1. It increases the chances of any bugs being found and resolved. 2. It encourages the author to be more careful with thei
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by CivBase 6mo ago
If you're using a company's product to get advice or do work, you should probably expect that product to be heavily biased towards that company and its affiliates. It's not your own employee, who would presumably act with the
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by CivBase 6mo ago
I'm perfectly fine with Mozilla working on other things as long as those things are profitable or at least self-funded. As long as they are not leeching donated resources from Firefox or Thunderbird, I don't see a problem. However
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by CivBase 6mo ago
This seems pretty obvious, no? It's pattern matching on training material. There is almost certainly an overlap between positivity and success in the training material. Positive prompts cause the pattern matching to weight towards posi
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by CivBase 6mo ago
> But there’s no way you can make wholesale changes to a layout faster than a machine. You lost me here. I can make changes very quickly once I understand both the problem and the solution I want to go with. Modifying text is quite eas
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by CivBase 6mo ago
This is why we need developer verification - so Google can protect us from threats like this /s
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by CivBase 6mo ago
In most cases I've seen it's because they get overwhelmed by sloppy contributions from developers who do not bother to review their AI's output. Code reviews are a lot of work.
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by CivBase 6mo ago
It's too late to close that Pandora's box. Linux is far too ubiquitous now. Even if it still lags behind Windows in the desktop computing space, it is already a non-trivial market share and growing quickly. And in many other compu
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by CivBase 6mo ago
Why would I do that?
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by CivBase 6mo ago
Not really. This game uses a turn-based combat system with a hex grid. It's more like Sid Meier's Civilization, but with a drastically simplified economy and a strong focus on battles. It also has a Tolkein-esque fantasy theme i
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by CivBase 6mo ago
You're right... but I think you have incorrectly conflated "web" with "desktop". Websites work perfectly fine on smartphones when they are designed to do so. I'm using HN on my phone's web browser right no
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by CivBase 6mo ago
How very noble of Google /s
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by CivBase 7mo ago
> we have not been “pressured” by Atari to make these changes. > Atari approached us to explain their plans for the Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, and what it might mean for OpenTTD. > we understood that a compromise would be
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Because they're cheap.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
> What do you mean by "monitor and control"? Should an employer not be able to see what their employees are doing at work? I don't see any reason to get into a discussion about how much an employer should or shouldn't
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by CivBase 7mo ago
For something to "backfire" you first have to account for why it was done. This article assumes performance and retention are the only considerations. It does not account for things like commercial real estate value, a buesiness&#
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Here's his video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0
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by CivBase 7mo ago
The spirit of the rule is clearly about using AI to determine what you say and how you say it. Translation is not again the spirit of the rule and I doubt you'd get in trouble for using it.

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