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by alwa 4mo ago
My impression is that the answer is yes, that it purports to dispense the glue on-the-fly in some kind of dynamic way rather than being some kind of new model-amalgam. See also contemporaneous reaction at: https://news.ycombinato
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by alwa 4mo ago
I’m reminded of lawyer Damien Riehl’s (performative) reaction to the Sam Smith infringement decision, back in 2019/2020. He and programmer Noah Rubin algorithmically generated every possible melody (within a certain combinatorial space
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by alwa 4mo ago
I wonder about that. Everyone has a word processor, or a pen and paper, or a voice—everyone can make stories at will. But that doesn’t diminish the value of a good story, as opposed to dreck. Maybe the chatbot can reproduce variations on
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by alwa 4mo ago
Former senior British politician Nick Clegg joined Meta in 2018 as vice president for global affairs and communication. He rose to Meta’s president for global affairs in 2022, and left in 2025 for an AI startup. This would be shortly after
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by alwa 4mo ago
I mean. Makes sense until adversary states start walking through the same doors you’re using. At which point you might regret that maintainers are too flooded to deal with it. Assuming, of course, said state agency is operating under suffic
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by alwa 4mo ago
“Hype Cycle” is a Gartner term of art, which they use to describe the way waves of technological innovation penetrate the business world: https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy... The id
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by alwa 4mo ago
Need work involve money? By far the most important work I do involves volunteer leadership roles above and beyond the things I do for money. Indeed, the whole edifice of modern tech rests on elements of FOSS that are, to within a rounding e
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by alwa 4mo ago
Don’t those cases establish that police may, within the bounds of the fourth amendment, detain both the driver and any passengers; which then triggers requirements under other state laws allowing police to compel detained people to identify
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What if it all came out?(nymag.com)
16 points by alwa 4mo ago|2 comments
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by alwa 5mo ago
Until local interests conflict. Consider the perennial angst over water rights in the American West…
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by alwa 5mo ago
And remove the DEET from it, apparently… at least until it loses its appetitive charge. Until, of course, they learn to like the replacement oil. At which point, break back out the DEET!
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by alwa 5mo ago
One obstacle is geography, and the built environment. Schools are of their communities. Even if you do bus people around, they come home to the same places, norms, and situations; not all education happens in the classroom, and “you don’t b
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by alwa 5mo ago
It’s also OK to like what you like. She likes Suno jams. Great! I feel like this trope is strongest amongst musicians-feeling-underappreciated, but that the idea seeps in to all manners of creative work: that, because you’re rightfully prou
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by alwa 5mo ago
Couldn’t agree more. And for what it’s worth, its aptly-named author Merlin Sheldrake is an absolutely charming human too. As quirky iconoclastic woodland enthusiasts go. For a taste, Joanna Steinhardt for the LA Review: https://
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by alwa 5mo ago
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included: > Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for s
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by alwa 5mo ago
It does seem kind of elegant, doesn’t it, in terms of aligning incentives? Annoyed by the age gating, or feel it to be commercially burdensome? Open your source, and poof, no more mandate! Just trying to build and maintain a cool thing, and
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by alwa 5mo ago
Their approach to “Suspicious merchants” also confuses me: the description doesn’t make logical sense to me and doesn’t match the abuse pattern as far as I understand it. > When a skimmer compromises a card reader at, say, a gas pump, y
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by alwa 5mo ago
True, but the clusters do come from somewhere—namely the training set and the input. The more technical the literature, the sparser the prior work; the more answers depend on labwork, the less the bottleneck is purely symbolic reasoning or
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by alwa 5mo ago
See, my thought would have been the opposite: in a situation like this—where nobody tries the thing because “everybody knows” it’s counterproductive—I’d expect AI literature surveys to confidently assert received wisdom. It sounds from the
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by alwa 5mo ago
I’m inclined to take the author at their word that they’re a copywriter by trade. I agree that the punchy staccato and the rhetorical questions smell AI-ish, but the way this person uses them, there’s, like, a payload each time. Versus LLM-
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by alwa 5mo ago
See also: https://economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/02/27/the-uttar-...
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by alwa 6mo ago
For that matter—not seeing the source interactions or the prompts—I wonder the extent to which business owners see business relationships as negotiated rather than “picked from the shelf.” When I’m dealing with small businesses, I tend to e
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by alwa 6mo ago
Your experience makes sense to me, and it feels like just the sort of hacker-ethos tinkering that brings a smile to a lot of faces around here, mine included. Complete with the thrill of discovering that kind of power, then the “ick” factor
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by alwa 6mo ago
Do you represent an agency?
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by alwa 6mo ago
I don’t post on Facebook—HN is my closest analogue. But I assure you my partner(s) have no interest in seeing whatever I post here. Any more than I want to be in the thick of the extended-family group chats. Or, frankly, Facebook. In that
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by alwa 6mo ago
I share your supportive and generally charitable attitude here. I don’t have to understand the constraints they choose for themselves in order to admire that they’re working within them. For example, I had a reaction to their ethical object
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by alwa 6mo ago
In fact sports bodies are complaining of exactly that being the case, and in much more obscure leagues than Major League Baseball (whose pitchers are presumably accustomed to, and compensated for, the hazards of celebrity): 'Decapitate
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by alwa 6mo ago
They do! But their speed cameras can’t establish the identity of the human who was driving, at least to a legally sufficient standard. While I imagine it’s reasonable to assume “one vehicle per licensed driver” across much of America, that
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by alwa 6mo ago
I’d be interested in your book! I was of the impression that, in our golden age of individualized surveillance, merely interacting with the kiosk was enough to leave a facial-geometry calling card these days. I feel like I may have heard th
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by alwa 6mo ago
Most weekdays. https://status.claude.com/

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