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by burkaman 9mo ago
It doesn't show up in JMail for some reason, but it's this email: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01852...
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by burkaman 9mo ago
This is not a counterpoint, it is a post discussing the same topic but it doesn't address any of the points in this article.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
https://github.com/microsoft/sudo?tab=readme-ov-file#relatio... > This project is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of that sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specifi
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I am not opposed to this (that's why I said "this seems good"), just wanted to point out that I don't believe their claim that "Today’s action will not only expand consumer choice and provide opportunities for farme
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Seems good but unlikely to accomplish anything. Manufacturers obviously don't want to make third-party repairs easier because they think they'll lose money, so if the EPA says one excuse isn't valid anymore they'll just
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Most planes broadcast their position using ADS-B, and some websites collect these signals and visualize them so you can track flight paths. Somebody broadcast a fake flight path that draws a picture of JD Vance on these sites: https:/
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Also, I'm willing to bet this guy isn't reading Cicero in Latin either, he's reading translations that were probably done by someone who went to Cambridge or Oxford.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
The author did not strike me as someone who actually goes to Barnes & Noble or the library very often. 60% of American adults say they read at least one book last year: https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/article
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Obviously a lot of this was exaggerated for effect (dare I say attempting to entertain the reader, even though reading for entertainment is apparently obsolete), but I still couldn't agree with any of it. Clearly "everyone alive t
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by burkaman 9mo ago
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
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by burkaman 9mo ago
That's fair. It does seem pretty similar to just reading a newspaper and moving your eyes to the next story, but I get that TV is a lot more stimulating and you can't go at your own pace like you can with the paper.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Isn't "now this" just a synonym for "moving on" or "next order of business" or "apropos of nothing"? I don't think the concept of jumping to a completely new topic is something TV introduced
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by burkaman 9mo ago
It's actually 80% against Opus, 66% average against the 5 models it's tested with.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
In one of my college classes, after you submitted your project you'd have a short meeting with a TA and/or the professor to talk through your solution. For a smaller advanced class I think this kind of thing is feasible and can he
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Yes but the goal of school is to lift heavy things, basically. You're trying to do things that are difficult (for you) but don't produce anything useful for anyone else. That's how you gain the ability to do useful things.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I think it's a good analogy. A forklift is a useful tool and objectively better than humans for some tasks, but if you've never developed your muscles because you use the forklift every time you go to the gym, then when you need t
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I don't really know anything about the DSA so I can't agree or disagree with any of this. I guess I misread your comment, I interpreted it as "Based on the events described in this thread, American socialism's purpose is
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Based on what I know about Denver, people there want to live outside the city, not in Denver itself. Everyone I know that moved to "Denver" actually moved somewhere like an hour's drive from downtown, and not because they cou
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by burkaman 9mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does, but here you're saying that the purpose of [American socialism] is what [the Denver DSA] does.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Well it is already open as a park, but yes they are spending a lot of money to make it nicer I guess.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I think opposing housing was a mistake, but just to add some context, the result of this was that the city purchased the land and made it a public park ( https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Of... ).
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by burkaman 9mo ago
If you click on the article you can see a full list of the hallucinations they found. They did put in the effort to look for plausible partial matches, but most of them are some variation of "No author or title match. Doesn't exis
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by burkaman 9mo ago
It's not written by Yahoo, it's a syndicated post from https://www.thecooldown.com/ .
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by burkaman 9mo ago
It's LLMs. You can tell from the phrasing ("no X just Y", "isn't A it's B", "pure ___"), and because all of the sections except Screenshots say basically the same thing. A competent person would
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Right, because that's a completely different sentence with a completely different meaning.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Does this do anything that Firefox Reader Mode doesn't? Just seems like a non-deterministic, slower, non-free version. Also, I understand writing READMEs is boring, but please at least edit what the LLM produces. You do not need this m
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Possibly apocryphal quote from a Yosemite park ranger talking about the difficulty of designing a trash can that a bear can't open but a human can: "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and
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by burkaman 9mo ago
Yeah I guess I meant specifically for the population that uses LLMs enough to know what skills are.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
In this demonstration they use a .docx with prompt injection hidden in an unreadable font size, but in the real world that would probably be unnecessary. You could upload a plain Markdown file somewhere and tell people it has a skill that w
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by burkaman 9mo ago
> “Wahhh I bought my car to make a statement and now it makes the wrong statement and I am self-conscious about it!!” The correct interpretation for most people is "I bought my car because it was a good car and now for reasons beyon

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