JoshTriplett

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by JoshTriplett 5d ago
If you don't need to share passwords between people (other than manually), Firefox Sync is perfect.
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by JoshTriplett 5d ago
Sadly they don't accept donations, but send it to your favorite channel's Patreon or similar.
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by JoshTriplett 5d ago
Partly true, though to a first approximation, the reason we don't build more houses isn't an issue of construction labor costs. Many places with jobs don't allow building homes. (That's not inherently a universal problem
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by JoshTriplett 5d ago
Sure, but there's a difference between a fear being tenuously plausible but overblown/stoked, and a fear being flatly incorrect and inverted. The former is harder to counter. The latter still has the standard problem of lies propa
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by JoshTriplett 5d ago
> Equally striking is what did not happen. Employment of low-skill American workers at losing firms did not increase. Across all firms the effect of foreign hiring on US employment was zero or positive, and in a prespecified subsample of
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
Yes, it should. But this is also why you use uBlock Origin to block tracker scripts.
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
It is absolutely the case that some things people wrote about AI and LLMs in the past is no longer true; it's a fast-changing area. It's also the case that some things remain true. If someone says "don't use them for X
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
Some people want to have an experience with their printer. Some people want it to be an appliance. If you wanted an appliance, and got an experience , you're going to be disappointed. For people who genuinely wanted the experience of
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
> The lie has been heavily sold to the maker community that you are "wasting your time if you make something yourself" since it is cheaper to offshore even small 3d prints and machining projects. I've seen what people go t
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
It absolutely can be. Suppose you're trying to reverse-engineer some proprietary tool, for instance. If you're doing that with human experts, you pick experts who haven't seen the code of the tool, or any disassembly of the t
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
Can't believe how right we were, too.
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
The word for that is "crux". Also a great way to disagree collaboratively. If you can collaboratively find the crux of each others' arguments, you now know both know exactly what would change each others' minds, and you
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
This is true of code, as well. LLMs have a strong tendency to make suspiciously prompt-shaped comments and code. "This deliberately does not do X". "This is kept in its own module rather than put in module M because". Th
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
> Have it rewrite your terrible first draft. > Have it fix your grammar. > Have it make your argument clearer. > Have it turn your 2,000-word ramble into something people can actually read. Please don't do this, and then tr
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
Anything done with an LLM is not a "clean room".
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
> Illicit access as defined by Google / Apple? No, illicit access as defined by a user who doesn't want anyone but themselves to have access . Remember the iPhone jailbreaks where you visited a website and the website exploite
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
The author works at Anthropic, so probably idle capacity in Anthropic's datacenters.
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by JoshTriplett 6d ago
I remember the days of DOS and getting a direct pointer to video memory. And I've enjoyed the long history of video game exploits and even arbitrary code execution. But at the same time, I'm also glad that era is over. The same bu
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by JoshTriplett 7d ago
Preparing a derivative work, and distributing that.
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by JoshTriplett 7d ago
> replace whole-file hashes BLAKE3 has a whole mechanism for this, and as an added bonus it'd be substantially faster.
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by JoshTriplett 7d ago
The mistake was declaring infinite loops to be UB in the first place.
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by JoshTriplett 7d ago
The comment you're replying to was implying that some ciphers are sufficiently flexible that you could make up a key to make the cipher decrypt to a nearly arbitrary plaintext. In this case, though, that seems unlikely from the fact th
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
Yes, the courts are leaning towards creating the exception that I said should not exist, giving an advantage to AI companies over the humans that created the work they've trained on. That is not surprising , but it's still harmfu
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
> Consider the full current date, including the day of the week; does it have a 'y' in it? leaning no 0.41 Probabilities won't make an AI stop hallucinating. > Is the port number of this website between 400 and 500? pro
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
I was utterly unconvinced that the original infinite-loop UB gave the compiler any important performance optimization, and I'm unconvinced that this is providing useful value to compensate for its surprise. If I wanted a yield in my
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
I expect an infinite loop to be compiled into, for instance, a jump instruction jumping to itself. The OS, if there is any , is welcome to interrupt and context switch. I don't expect code that has no function calls at all to have a
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
So let it livelock the entire warp when someone writes an infinite loop. Should we start replacing integer division by zero with INT_MAX so that people aren't "surprised" by their program crashing?
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
You said "Real experts can explain their position plainly.". The experts have explained their position plainly. If you disagree, you should be able to explain your position plainly; "feels like vibes to me" is not an exp
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
"Emitted in inappropriate contexts" is very much one of the shapes I would expect unpleasant surprises to take, yeah. If you're writing code in C, you often need a lot of control over exactly what's happening. You might,
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
If you're arguing for abolishing copyright, I'm all for it. But as long as copyright exists, AI training should not get any exception to it. That creates an asymmetry, where AI gets to rip off our work and use it to compete with u

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