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by bloppe 9mo ago
If you continue to get mountains of slop applications after introducing an application fee, then at least you have a new revenue stream.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Does this count as news?
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I agree that it's unconscionable to consign a centenarian to unwanted labor, but the article says this is not the case for Ginny. Also, wages in the US have not stagnated at all. Wage growth in the poorest quartile has outpaced inflati
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by bloppe 9mo ago
They're sandboxed if you use bazel. Not as much as the nix people would like, but bazel tests get read-only access to the host filesystem except /tmp
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by bloppe 9mo ago
You could provide decently meaningful and targeted sandboxing using mount namespaces and an overlay FS, while retaining sudo privileges for what you need to do.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
The website credits include roles for "decompilation" and "porting". So I guess it was decompiled from the original binary and ported to TS.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I'm sure my crude idea has it's shortcomings, but this feels superfluous. Deep-pocketed propagandists can do all sorts of things to pump their message whether a slop tax exists or not. There may or may not be existing countermeasu
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by bloppe 9mo ago
This is sorta the opposite of pay to publish. It's pay to be rejected.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I wonder if there's a way to tax the frivolous submissions. There could be a submission fee that would be fully reimbursed iff the submission is actually accepted for publication. If you're confident in your paper, you can think o
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by bloppe 9mo ago
VMs are pretty heavy-weight to run all the JavaScript on a modern page. A proper VM requires a dedicated kernel. Firecracker boots the whole 40MB Linux kernel just to run a "function". A container doesn't have this baggage, b
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Respectfully disagree. I think polecats are a reasonable antidote to overanthropomorphization.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I feel that yegge captured the mania of the whole operation rather well. If your bosses commit to the idea that 100 memoryless stochastic "polecats" will deliver a long term sustainable business, then there are probably other lead
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I agree, but I don't think any of the broadly acceptable uses would result in easily identifiable flaws like those in the post, especially hallucinated URLs.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Markdown succeeded because both the source code and the rendered HTML are readable. Other markups like restructured text don't look good in source form. But ya, in order to look good in source form, but still handle arbitrary content,
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by bloppe 9mo ago
There's also no technical limit preventing a single engineer without AI from implementing Photoshop all by themselves. The question is can they compete with Adobe.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I realize it's a strained equivalence, but Apple makes a lot of money violating EU anticompetitive laws. Their stranglehold over app distribution is not entirely dissimilar to ransome.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
The notion that humans and LLMs need different instructions feels flawed to me. Both humans and LLMs should be able to work with the same instructions.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
By that logic, the online scam industry is shipping the best products of all time. By some estimates they make over a trillion a year.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
True, but you could say the same thing about e.g. pineapple, which has a bunch of different words for it.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
These are called translingual words. 2 interesting ones are coffee and chocolate. basically no matter where you are in the world, people will understand those (with slight regional differences like "cafe", similar to hello)
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I'm curious how they concluded this was done to scrape for AI training. If the traffic was easily distinguishable from regular users, they would be able to firewall it. If it was not, then how can they be sure it wasn't just a reg
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Ya. I'm saying I support UBI, and that the concern most people raise about UBI (usually along the lines of "I don't think anybody should just coast by without working") is completely unfounded. The parent post was talkin
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I support UBI, funded by high capital gains taxes, to offset the growing value of capital relative to labor due to ever-improving automation, but I think it's silly to think a significant number of people will ever be happy with UBI al
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I always chuckle at indignant GH comments on OSS projects. There should be a subreddit dedicated to them. Like a specific kind of r/choosingbeggars
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Estonia basically got this completely right in 2002 with their e-ID. I'm kinda shocked nobody else has figured it out yet. Age verification could be simple, secure, robust, and require only the disclosure of your age, nothing more.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
Ah, yep. Did conflate coal with oil. I guess my nice analogy doesn't quite hold, but the point stands that plastic originally came from organic matter and is technically biodegradable.
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by bloppe 9mo ago
I don't think LLMs are an abject failure, but I find it equally odd that so many people think that transformer-based LLMs can be incrementally improved to perfection. It seems pretty obvious to me now that we're not gonna RLHF our
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by bloppe 9mo ago
All petroleum products come from the fossilized remains of the first trees to evolve lignin, which was tough and durable enough to allow trees to grow taller, but also too tough and durable for any other living things to decompose it. At th
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by bloppe 9mo ago
In my experience, even a version upgrade of the same model will tend to break many assumptions about its quirks, so most people don't have time to try to optimize for them anyway. This is the wrong technology if you're that concer

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