jappgar

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by jappgar 2y ago
"Open-source" in 2024 is a synonym for "ransomware." It's still nice that I can audit the code and contribute (unpaid) changes, but I no longer assume anyone is acting in good faith.
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by jappgar 2y ago
Structured outputs are hard... but they claimed to have solved this a year ago. They were lying, of course, and meanwhile charged output tokens for malformed JSON.
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by jappgar 2y ago
It's nice that they're not making me pay for broken json anymore but touting this as a "feature" is laughable. It's a bug fix. They should never have been charging for malformed responses in the first place!
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by jappgar 2y ago
Politics and advertising are essentially the same thing. A lot of "safety" stuff in AI is blatantly political wrongthink detection. The actual safety stuff (don't drink bleach) gets less attention because you can't (easi
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by jappgar 2y ago
You "know" that climate change is anthropegenic only because you read that on the internet (and because what you read was convincingly argued). I don't see a reason why AI would need special instruction to come to a mature co
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by jappgar 2y ago
Yes it's outright preposterous that the temperature of Earth could be affected by the Sun, of all things.
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by jappgar 2y ago
If browsers used vision-based login spoof detection we wouldn't have a phishing problem. At this point I'm just assuming they just don't want to be held liable for false-negatives so they don't even bother trying.
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by jappgar 2y ago
Indeed. It will be very interesting when we start letting models choose their own training data. Humans and other animals do this simply by interacting with the world around them. If you want to know what is on the back of something, you si
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by jappgar 2y ago
A cool demonstration of your skills but not a viable business unfortunately. Others have said this, but t bears repeating: When you reach the size where you can actually make good money your site will be hosting plenty of malware and other
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by jappgar 2y ago
It doesn't dispel the idea that things are changing too quickly. It reinforces that we are engaged in a never ending battle against exploitation and enslavement.
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by jappgar 2y ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they never stopped to think if they should.
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by jappgar 2y ago
wait, what? SaaS is about offloading deployment complexity not development complexity. if anything, SaaS/PaaS has made _development_ more complex than ever. Webcontainers being yet another example.
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by jappgar 2y ago
Everyone else eating a full cup.
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by jappgar 2y ago
This is true about a lot of things. The optimal number of (minor) crashes when training for a mountain bike race is non-zero. If you never crash, you cannot be sure you were going fast enough around that turn.
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by jappgar 2y ago
And the optimal uptime of b2b saas is not 100% or even 99.999% and yet...
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by jappgar 2y ago
IMO this is a terrible approach, and why I hate the way feature-flags are used nowadays. For example, I'm not approving anything without input validation (frontend or backend). I have no idea if you're actually going to add valida
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by jappgar 2y ago
To be fair the original sentence could still be implying the same thing. The second half of the sentence just sounds like a hedge.
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by jappgar 2y ago
very few people can afford to be ethical. it's like Joe Rogan trashing factory farms and bragging about only eating wild elk be killed with his bare hands on his private game preserve. writing software for an oil company doesn't m
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by jappgar 2y ago
Unless you're putting money down today the model doesn't mean anything. Predicting the past isn't the same thing as predicting the future. You can train a model or compose an algorithm that fits existing data but that doesn&#
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by jappgar 2y ago
Tinder had only been around for three years when AM was hacked. Presumably a lot of the data predates Tinder. Ashley Madison had been operating for ten years by that point
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by jappgar 2y ago
> A rather delightful property if you want to attack anonymity in some proposed “everybody just uses cryptographic signatures for everything” scheme.
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by jappgar 2y ago
all political issues can be solved with technology. it is called "war".
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by jappgar 2y ago
I think the question is, what happens when you attempt to send something illegal? Does it just prevent you from sending? If so, it seems like you could game that system very easily. Or does it notify the government that you have committed a
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by jappgar 2y ago
"Thus, when you and I, asleep or dozing off to sleep, fall through space and awake to sickening consciousness just before we strike, we are merely remembering what happened to our arboreal ancestors, and which has been stamped by cereb
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by jappgar 2y ago
who cares? the difference between 50ms and 5ms is barely pereceptible. vscode isn't slow. it's fast. it could be faster, but making it faster would be, ironically, a waste of time.
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by jappgar 2y ago
default state is dying before reproductive age
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by jappgar 2y ago
"For a wild animal, the default state is health." what
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by jappgar 2y ago
communists never did like orwell and they're still around so naturally we get these articles every now and again.
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by jappgar 2y ago
why should it be lossless when presumably there is a lot of noise you don't really need to preserve
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by jappgar 3y ago
popcorn is incredibly easy to make in a pot with a little oil.

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