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by edot 4mo ago
You are missing half of the story. This is not “caring legislators punishing big bad tech”. This IS big bad tech. Meta has spent $2B lobbying for this. More than wanting to get kids addicted, Big Tech and the intelligence community wants pe
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by edot 4mo ago
If everyone else jumps off a bridge, do you want to be forced to jump off a bridge?
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by edot 4mo ago
George E.P. Box for anyone wondering. So true. “All models are wrong, but some are useful”. True of any abstraction unless you’re doing everything at the quantum level, but even then … are you sure you’ve captured all the details? But then
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by edot 4mo ago
This triggered Opus 4.8 the other day for me. Said “nuke that folder” and it said I was violating TOS.
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by edot 4mo ago
Yep, I manually listened to the meeting recordings (easy to find the spots based on the transcript timestamps) for any quotes. There are also meeting minutes and agendas with supporting docs to corroborate against (e.g. for dollar amounts).
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by edot 4mo ago
I rolled my own. I hadn’t heard of this one, but I looked into stuff like OpenStates (now privately for-profit owned, ugh). My city just uses a Wordpress site so it’s structured enough. I’m looking at building something to ingest cities wit
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by edot 4mo ago
Citizens monitoring their government is literally THE foundation of democracy (ok, maybe voting comes before it, but then you have to monitor who you voted for to see if they’re doing what you voted for).
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by edot 4mo ago
Nope, I used a minute fraction of the technology they have, along with open records as is my right in this country, to stand up for my Fourth Amendment right to travel without creeps stalking my every move. I need to make my specific framew
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by edot 4mo ago
For some things, yes. But I'm half-assing some really cool stuff right now. Made a scraper to pull my city's meeting minutes, agendas, recordings, made transcripts. Regex for "Flock", found every mention, passed those fi
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by edot 4mo ago
Agreed. I’ve cancelled all plans except OpenCode Go. OpenRouter for API spend. Feels so nice to a) not feel like I have to code when I don’t want to just because I need to make my subscription worth the cost and b) know that this level of p
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Anthropic's Fable 5 Silent Sabotage Mode(everettdutton.com)
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by edot 4mo ago
I don't quite follow his point. Is it: a) that we need a new foundational algorithm that integrates a goal (one with "taste") directly into the training step, or b) that we need to point trained models towards goals as they i
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by edot 4mo ago
Same here when I said to “nuke” a process.
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by edot 4mo ago
Wow, this is horrible. Local LLMs are the future. Thanks, China! Seriously crazy that I’m saying that, but the American companies are being so anti-freedom they’re making the CCP look libertarian. Also, Fable’s sensing is hypersensitive. Fe
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by edot 4mo ago
I think I’d separate “entertainment to be entertained” from “entertainment to feel good about myself”. Watching football for the fun or awe of it is completely fine. It’s impressive for sure. Watching football and feeling a true self-confid
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by edot 4mo ago
Is this mindset why people like watching sports so much? I’ve never understood it, really. You’re not playing, exercising, practicing, getting injured, losing, or winning, nor are you getting paid, so … why care? I could just be an asshole
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by edot 4mo ago
Can you give some examples of the deterministic tasks? So in your example, was the deterministic task “fetch this team’s backlog”? And then the LLM parts are “process each backlog” and “combine a summary”?
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by edot 4mo ago
Anthropic, no s, is owned by some Australian guy.
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by edot 5mo ago
Wait, but I was told that my local police department owned the Flock data, and that Flock doesn't own it and cannot share it? Was I lied to, to further expand the surveillance state?
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by edot 5mo ago
Might help with phone numbers, but addresses are trivial to find and cannot be removed, if you own property in the United States. Every county publishes property records, searchable by name. Unless you own your house with an LLC, if someone
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by edot 5mo ago
Exactly. Thus the blame when an LLM does something dumb should fall on the human who owns the implementation of said LLM. A dead simple example: if I paste confidential information into ChatGPT, that’s on me. If I let Codex have access to a
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by edot 5mo ago
This is why you don’t hire interns! They can delete things and cause havoc! The same people who would blame AI for their failing to properly configure permissions would also blame interns for deleting production whatever. Blame should go up
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by edot 6mo ago
Yes, it’s amazing the things you can see fitting into this same mold once you realize that many of our issues in this country are due to old men (and old companies) holding onto power when they should really let the next generation take con
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by edot 6mo ago
I am in a similar boat to you, but I can’t make the money math work. Local LLMs obviously have a privacy benefit but DeepSeek V4 Flash (which you’ll struggle to get running on any single Mac - you’d need at least 128gb RAM) is $0.14$/m
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by edot 6mo ago
I don't think this will be true for average consumers. Perhaps for nerds like us, who enjoy a bit of tinkering and can put up with weird behaviors. I mean, are you envisioning that everyone would have their own custom messaging app, fo
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by edot 6mo ago
Yes, yahoo “journalism” is garbage. The primary source of this story is paywalled, so I can’t actually see what it said, but this AI (or otherwise crappy) summary is worthless.
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by edot 7mo ago
Exactly. This is such a goofy idea, that you can buy something from China and use it in the EU and suddenly you’re “energy independent”. No, you’re China dependent. I guess the argument would be that solar panels last a long time and thus y
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by edot 7mo ago
It’s also against the rules now too. I wish there were a report button.
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by edot 7mo ago
LLM written comments are not allowed on HN. This comment is written by an LLM and the account is fresh.
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by edot 8mo ago
Yes, from the title and first few comments I thought it was about getting customer support and having to talk to a chatbot first. For anyone else who didn't read, this article is about how mindlessly copy-pasting LLM output is comparab

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