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by jerf 2mo ago
Even better, how about those capacitive buttons that look like computer buttons in the real world, only even less visually distinct, and have absolutely no force feedback, depressing motion, or any other feedback whatsoever that you've
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by jerf 2mo ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051595 Of course, if you're sure that the entire rest of the industry is just lazy , then by all means feel free to join the set of people who have spent vast amounts of tim
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by jerf 2mo ago
The problem with a "2D" text is that you think in your head that there's all these amazing possibilities that you're creating, when in fact you're taking on vastly more constraints . For a sort of simple analog to
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by jerf 2mo ago
I'm not to stuck on the complete, 100% impossibility of things to be found. But one counterargument that can be made is that fossilization requires very specific circumstances, and the legacy of the dinosaurs is from millions of years
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by jerf 2mo ago
People get way too excited about the word "reactor". They hear "reactor" and think "oh, a natural formation of uranium was evaporating water into steam and generating electricity". They don't consciously e
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by jerf 2mo ago
Yes. We'd find mines, where the richest veins were mined out and what's left is spread in a pattern that clearly appears to be "a rich deposit but with the best stuff taken already". The mine itself would have long colla
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by jerf 2mo ago
I don't care why they're being censored. I care that they're being censored. You can also make a pretty good case that exactly what you just said, rather than being a demonstration of how free and open the American system
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by jerf 2mo ago
Heh, thanks for the attempted recovery but I definitely meant the other way around.
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by jerf 2mo ago
Of course not. What it does seem to do is inject its grammar, style, and propensity for certain constructs that cause people to flag it as "AI" in their brain. It's possible they're all lying. It's very unlikely tha
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by jerf 2mo ago
"All this time we’ve been writing expressions in 1D space, but what happens when we unlock an extra dimension?" Text is a serialization of an n-dimensional work space. "N-dimensional" doesn't have a formal definitio
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by jerf 2mo ago
Fair.
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by jerf 2mo ago
"Scale" isn't a binary, it's a continuum. "Scales to 60K/s" can be 5 orders of magnitude more than one system needs and 5 orders of magnitude too small for another. Personally I'd knock the general &q
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by jerf 2mo ago
You can read ahead as to how this would go by looking at the CAPTCHA world, which unbeknownst to a lot of people left behind "click this image" as the actual test a long time ago and does a lot of behavioral analysis of mouse moti
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by jerf 2mo ago
This is an arms race, advantage attacker. That means this basically works, as long as it never gets large enough to attack. Which may suit the author just fine. Not everything has to solve the world's problems. But it won't genera
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by jerf 2mo ago
A general question for HN: Are there any translation services that I can recommend that people use instead just asking a standard AI to translate in the naive way? I'm saddened by the number of times I'm seeing non-native speakers
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by jerf 2mo ago
Oof, yes.
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by jerf 2mo ago
"My experience has been the opposite. I prompt it and it generates something that mostly works, but steering it into something that would actually be maintainable is an exercise in futility." I've seen others have this experi
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by jerf 2mo ago
If it wasn't clear, I don't ask the agent to "clean up my code". I ask it to "take this map[string]string you pass around with constant keys and turn that into a structure" or "extract this API provider ou
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by jerf 2mo ago
You also shouldn't forget the Eminem dash: –—–. Recommended for use in censoring words in rap songs.
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by jerf 2mo ago
Simple hack for yourself: Simply disbelieve all "lifetime" claims, presumptively. I do. Also, the more and more every {expletive deleted} app thinks that the simple features are worth a $14.99/month subscription, the more sen
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by jerf 2mo ago
LLMs can clean up after themselves if you steer them. It's not very hard. I often have a two-step dance I do where the LLM first outputs some code and then I prompt it to fix the types up to my standards. I haven't found a way to
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by jerf 2mo ago
It's an interesting counter to the efficient market hypothesis. "Everybody" knows about this debt. It's in the most public news outlets there are, and the word has been getting around. It's about as secret as Taylor
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by jerf 2mo ago
An interesting question. I suspect with the current training that it would be very difficult to get an agent to distrust a skill or an MCP server. Could one get them to distrust an API call? As the AI world seeks more benchmarks it would be
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by jerf 2mo ago
I know it's easy to forget, and InsideOutSanta kind of anchored the conversation on "revenue", but profit is ultimately what matters. Back when Silicon Valley was merely insane rather than bat-guano crazy insane, it was com
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by jerf 3mo ago
Cut and paste is broken everywhere because of the number of apps that think they know better and "fix" it. My bitterness is compounded by being on Linux, where this is probably even more encouraged in GUI apps then in other OSes.
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by jerf 3mo ago
If the person you describe really is doing that for all their passwords, then they are correct. Their password store is more secure than a password manager by nearly every metric that counts. The one thing I would ding that approach on is r
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by jerf 3mo ago
This some sort of impromptu agent security test? Is the follow-up post about how many people were willing to inject arbitrary content into their agent for a joke already half-written, awaiting only the final numbers?
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by jerf 3mo ago
"In a fight, who would win, Pikachu or Spongebob Squarepants? What is the best episode of Bluey? What are the IRS' exact rules for claiming office space as a deduction on my tax return? Where can I stream Sesame Street for free?&q
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by jerf 3mo ago
I only sampled them, but all the ones I sampled are announcements of fixes, not just vulnerabilities. This seems to be downstream of the "intake" already.
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by jerf 3mo ago
"There's never been a better time to consider writing your own media server solution from scratch." If you want to go the hacker route, and do not give a flying fig about UI, you can get a long way just by setting up any old

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