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by jerf 2mo ago
I think you're just stretching because it ruined your point and you refuse to admit it. I can't think of a bigger disproof of your point that Americans just let people do whatever and experience the consequences then applying the
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by jerf 2mo ago
"You're asking the US to do what is un-American. American culture is deeply individualistic." Americas have had no problem with blue laws historically [1], which are laws about what can be done on Sunday largely connected to
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by jerf 2mo ago
I was unclear. I should have said the AI also "detects" it, and as a thing it can detect, it can act on that detection. Whether it is simulating emotion or feeling it isn't relevant in this case, because the problem is that i
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by jerf 2mo ago
"Anyone who claims you can answer fair use controversies by running through the four factors as though they were a checklist really doesn't understand fair use" I agree, but the problem I see far more often is the people wh
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by jerf 2mo ago
It turns out that picking up tone isn't a purely human thing and hasn't been for a while. Your Google search term is "sentiment analysis". It predates LLMs. However, LLMs are fantastic at it. A lot of earlier sentiment
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by jerf 2mo ago
Do you, as a human, feel the urgency in that text? How it sounds like people's jobs, as well as the agent's job, are on the line? So do the AIs. Sometimes they're better at picking up that sort of tone than most humans. And t
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by jerf 2mo ago
I've been budgeting myself explicit "slop removal" time. In fact I'm in it right now one window to my right here. I still get a big win from AI on the net, but you do need to budget some time to clean up. I'm still
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by jerf 2mo ago
"Even if your system loads emails into memory a whole email at a time, that doesn't imply that it will load large numbers of emails simultaneously. The" When thinking about a standard like this, thinking about "your&quot
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by jerf 2mo ago
Very much agree. I'd also observe that "brute force" here is an O(source * target) problem, where a source/target pair is some expressible command. e.g., you can't usually combine two locations on the screen, but yo
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by jerf 2mo ago
I think an issue VPNs face is that while your first paragraph is not objectively true, it ends up being truer than I might like because the other use cases are not well covered. If you've got one of the things the HN gestalt would call
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by jerf 2mo ago
The Sam and Max episodes were pretty good... partially because the episodic format forced the designers to keep things reeled in. A single 3 hour episode can't get to the point that you have a couple hundred possible solutions to the p
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by jerf 2mo ago
"I think this is pretty great, though I’m sure hyperscalers will find a way to make sure such a scheme becomes as shitty for customers as frequent flier programs are today." Oh, that's not even a challenge. The reason to offe
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by jerf 2mo ago
At the risk of sounding like a booster, I have noodled over whether this is a place that AI can legitimately provide some improvements. It's harder than just waving an AI at the problem, which is why we don't really have this yet.
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by jerf 2mo ago
A lot of people are unaware of how much husbandry hunter-gatherers still did. They may not have been farmers, with field plantings, weeding, and harvest seasons designed to maximize every acre under production, but they weren't stupid
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by jerf 2mo ago
There's a number of these problems that end up in a cycle because the solution to some problem is so effective that a later generation forgets what the problem even was. So they remove the solutions. Then they rediscover why they were
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by jerf 2mo ago
Since starting to use AIs seriously for search in the last 3 months I have read and referenced more published papers and academic primary sources then I think I did in the previous 5 years. They're fantastic for pointing at some claim
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by jerf 2mo ago
There is a theorem that is often stated in operating system courses as "For any possible allocation algorithm, there exist streams of allocation and deallocation requests that defeat the allocator and force it into severe fragmentation
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by jerf 2mo ago
I would at least consider the possibility that they already are, and this is how it is going. It could be a fundamental architecture problem for LLMs. It's not like "slop" is a new problem and I'm sure they'd love t
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by jerf 2mo ago
It's because of what's in the second paragraph, which I will paste here for convenience: "Taking a step back, Go manages memory by allocating objects of the same size class (an object’s size is rounded up to the nearest size
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by jerf 2mo ago
I would advise reconsidering keeping the current format exactly. Something that would allow conventional email addresses to kept in a list that disambiguates them unambiguously would probably be a good idea. You don't want to embed the
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by jerf 2mo ago
Compared to the bailout they're going to get at some point, because they're vital to national security and whatever, I think you could easily be looking at a 1000x+ return on investment on those numbers.
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by jerf 2mo ago
Just as an addendum to some of the other fine replies you've got, one of the things I'm interested in for formal verification is security assertions, and those don't necessarily need lots of comprehension to apply. If you can
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by jerf 2mo ago
I would say that especially for books out of copyright, they are unquestionably legally in the right. There is no legal standing for "I like books and it makes me feel squicky when someone disrespects them". Nothing stops you fr
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by jerf 2mo ago
If generics were going to ruin the language, they would have by now. I think you can rest easy.
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by jerf 2mo ago
That's the current state of the internet. In this world it wouldn't be "the Internet" full of propaganda, it would be the AI search engines the propaganda would get concentrated into. For "national security", d
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by jerf 2mo ago
Edit after my edit window closed: You know, it's possible someone reading this could actually fix this. It would really help if someone could go in to whatever system prompt these search engine LLMs are using and tell them to apply the
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by jerf 2mo ago
I think the best answer is, nobody knows. The previous equilibrium for content scraping for search engines on the internet was already at times an uncomfortable one. But I agree that from a game theory perspective, "the AI bots take an
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by jerf 2mo ago
Reflog is, as the article says, the permission to do all kinds of crazy things, including rebasing. Once you realize any committed state is recoverable for a good period of time it really frees you. Plus you can always take a note of the co
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by jerf 2mo ago
Ah, sorry, I did misinterpret. My apologies. Add our nuclear waste dumps to the list of things I mention in another reply that I can't guarantee wouldn't still leave legible evidence even millions of years later. Especially since
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by jerf 2mo ago
The search engines LLMs are the worst. I was reaching for the set of Platonic solids in higher dimensions, and got a lecture about how the Platonic solids are only defined in three dimensions. First of all, wrong anyhow, but also, rude. My

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