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by Uehreka 1y ago
I need iOS and iPadOS. Although ideally there’d be a GUI that could work on all of the “mainstream” OSes, since most of my problem here is that I frequently need to move files between devices in different walled or unwalled gardens.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I’ve used this and localsend, both are great, but has anyone finally solved the problem of making one of these things that can use a GUI (for phones and tablets) and also a CLI (for when I’m SSHed into my home computer and need to send a vi
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by Uehreka 1y ago
It’s a lot easier if you (I know I know) stop thinking of them as algorithms and anthropomorphize them more. People frequently say stuff like this, and its pretty clear that our minds process thoughts differently when we directly articulate
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I’ve definitely seen Claude Code go “[wrong fact], which means [some conclusion]. Wait—hold on, wrong fact is wrong.” On the one hand, this is annoying. On the other hand, if the LLM is going to screw up (presumably preventing this is not i
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I really wish HN supported images so I could reply to this comment with the boy-crashes-bike-after-putting-a-stick-through-the-wheel meme it so richly deserves.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
This is the encodings equivalent of the “there should just be one timezone” take.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
This is an app that constantly nags you to use it, to the point that its mascot is so widely known as annoying that they play it for laughs in their ads. All that to say: you and Duolingo’s owners may disagree about what “the point of Duoli
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Well do I have a video for you: https://youtu.be/hBP-NzOadL0?si=CilQHOjso4GPn9OT
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I’ve been using Pop OS for several years and really like it. However while I think it’s cool that they’re doing some innovative DE stuff, the fact that it has come at such a huge cost to the stability of the OS is extremely frustrating. I’v
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by Uehreka 1y ago
That’s exactly what those guidelines say: https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-new-york-times-anonymous... > What we consider before using anonymous sources: > How do they know the information? > What’s their m
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by Uehreka 1y ago
The problem is that it doesn’t stay simplified; once you leave the room those people start using that model to explain details of actual LLM behavior. I’m constantly arguing with people who use this mental model to explain why LLMs can’t do
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I remember super clearly the first time an LLM told me “No.” It was in May when I was using Copilot in VS Code and switched from Claude 3.7 Sonnet to Claude Sonnet 4. I asked Sonnet 4 to do something 3.7 Sonnet had been struggling with (som
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by Uehreka 1y ago
If you fuzz the names they won’t mean the same thing anymore, and then it’s no longer the same test. If you remove the whitespace the LLM will just run a formatter on the code. It’s not like the LLM just loads in all the code and then start
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I think it might be the case that licenses often include the authors’ names in the “this code is copyright of so-and-so” (as you can see, I Am Not A Lawyer) section, which might be considered part of the text of the license, thereby making
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Several years ago, I spearheaded an effort to just take the PhET sims and get them into an online school’s physics and chemistry curriculum (without even doing any development of new sims, I was trying to keep the cost close to zero). It wa
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by Uehreka 1y ago
So in American English, the term “gimped” refers to someone who has a physical disability, usually affecting the way they walk. This term has largely fallen out of fashion though and isn’t used much anymore unless someone is very deliberate
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Yeah, we’re at the point now where people saying left-pad isn’t fixed is more of an indicator that they aren’t paying attention. I’ve largely stopped correcting people, as it’s clear there’s a sizable community that just likes being grumpy
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Honestly, yeah. I know on HN we’re all used to it and over it, but the general population is not. Like, you can claim the weird name is a celebration of how anti-corporate and unfettered the team is, but whenever I try tell people about it
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I love how people like Simon Willison and Pete Steinberger spend all this effort trying to be skeptical of their own experiences and arrive at nuanced takes like “50% more productive, but that’s actually a pretty big deal, but the nature of
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by Uehreka 1y ago
iPhone Travel? Please. We don’t go on Craig-approved drug-fueled vision quests just to land on mediocrity like that. You’re close though. It’s gonna be the iPhone Voyager.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I will believe this when I see it. It’s totally possible that those capabilities are locked behind some private API or that there’s some weedsy hardware complication not mentioned that makes them non-viable for what we want to do with them.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
I get that it’s fun and stylish to tell people they aren’t aware of their own cognitive biases, but it’s also a difficult take to falsify, which is why I generally have a high bar for people to clear when they want to assert that something
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> There could be various reasons Trump wants to report bad numbers, such as pressuring the Fed to lower rates, or to establish a horrible baseline from which he can then report improvement on by the midterms. Trump doesn’t play 3D chess
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> It does nothing but derail the conversation into absurdism. The conversation (about whether AI is “intelligent”) was already absurd, I’m just pointing it out ;) The more important conversation is about whether AI is useful, dangerous,
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by Uehreka 1y ago
> I think intelligence That very phrasing belies the problem with the word: There is no consensus on what intelligence is, what a clear test for it would be or whether such a test could even exist. There are only people on the internet w
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Honestly, I think the best way to reason about LLM behavior is to abandon any sort of white-box mental model (where you start from things you “know” about their internal mechanisms). Treat them as a black box, observe their behavior in many
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by Uehreka 1y ago
The human stochastic parrots (GP, not you) spouting these 2023 talking points really need to update their weights. I’m guessing this way of thinking has a stickiness because thinking of an LLM as “just a fancy markov chain” makes them feel
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Have you gotten any of these to work? A few years ago I was tasked with investigating these kinds of techniques for a client (it was something cool and benign but I can’t say what due to NDA) and the big papers people are referring to when
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Idk if I’ve ever seen an HN thread dunk on nihilists this hard. It warms my heart.
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by Uehreka 1y ago
Their comments about the singing and background music are odd. It’s been a while since I’ve done academic research, but something about those comments gave me a strong “we couldn’t figure out how to make background music go away in time for

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