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by jonahx 10mo ago
I think you'd notice a pretty big difference in an LLM clone of this site. The art, music, and other small wouldn't be as consistent or hang together as nicely.
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by jonahx 11mo ago
I like it. An interesting twist would be to somehow (not sure how) have a followup on the later importance of the news item, which was so worthy of news at that time. I'd guess the vast majority would be "not important by next ye
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by jonahx 11mo ago
Also, even the proposed effect is modest: > But early friendship bonds played an even bigger part than maternal relationships in the ways people navigated adult friendships and romantic partnerships, accounting for 4 percent of the varia
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by jonahx 11mo ago
India scores high on the Power Distance Index: https://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensio... Seems like that would influence the behavior we're talking about. Maybe it's culturally independent o
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by jonahx 11mo ago
It makes sense that caste would amplify this effect, because unequal treatment is already a cultural norm. In the US, even in most corporate cultures, truly egregious credit stealing is harder. Not to say it never happens, just that peop
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by jonahx 11mo ago
I instinctively agree there is an important difference. If you try to define systematically what that difference is, though, it's not obvious. At the end of day, I think it's something like "degree of difficulty" or &qu
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by jonahx 11mo ago
> and exploits and traumatises data workers to make sure ChatGPT doesn’t generate outputs like child sexual abuse material and hate speech or encourage users to self-harm. It's hard to take this seriously, especially with the inflat
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by jonahx 11mo ago
> And somehow after being given a patently counterfactual response to one query, we just blindly continue to take their responses to other queries as having value. They have value because they are very fast, concise, and right "ofte
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by jonahx 11mo ago
You can open up your terrain in codepen with nothing but CSS/HTML, and it renders fine. It's just not interactive / draggable anymore. So the JS is only being used, essentially, as a nice UI for configuring your terrain and
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by jonahx 1y ago
> I'm pretty sure it should be "inheritable", because "inherited" on an attribute means the attribute is inherited, not the element's children will inherit the attribute. That is one interpretation, but not
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by jonahx 1y ago
It makes the service worse. I won't pay for a streamer that uses ads. If they start doing that I'm out. Ofc, that doesn't mean it's not a net win for them across all customers, but it does mean there are a subset of c
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by jonahx 1y ago
The one possible hope here is that since these things started as paid services, we know subscriptions are a viable and profitable model. So there's a market force to provide the product users actually want, which does not include ads.
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by jonahx 1y ago
> I'm asking for an attribution given that the tool was copied, how is that aggressive? Your original comment is snarky and unprofessional. That's a bad look for projects that actually seem solid and impressive. It's fine
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Why would you do this? Performance and re-use are two possible reasons. You may have a command sub-routine that is used by multiple higher-level commands, or even called multiple times within by a higher-level command. If the validati
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by jonahx 1y ago
I do not hold that belief, and nothing in my reply implies that I do. Per the link I included, the total spent on consulting was 17,939.51 USD. So, if they were paying people, the people were working cheaply. But the consulting may have b
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by jonahx 1y ago
Out of pure curiosity, is all the actual programming work for the foundation provided free of charge by volunteers? And the foundation expenses are mostly legal and administrative? It wasn't clear to me based on the financials: https:
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by jonahx 1y ago
> An actor acting to be a genius is in fact, if they are a good actor, indistinguishable in their appearance to a genius. An actor will be distinguishable from a genius in their ability to answer questions and generate new insights. If
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by jonahx 1y ago
> I think it’s less like doubting that the given panic works and more like an extremely thorough proof that all possible branches of the control flow have acceptable behavior. The way I was thinking about it was: if you somehow magically
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by jonahx 1y ago
So is the argument that safe langs produce stuff like: // pseudocode if (i >= array_length) panic("index out of bounds") that are never actually run if the code is correct? But (if I understand correctly
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by jonahx 1y ago
Also: Tavern Puzzles, high quality metal entanglement puzzles: https://tavernpuzzles.store.turbify.net/puzzle.html Craighill. These puzzles are beautiful and double as art objects: https://craighill.co/coll
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by jonahx 1y ago
The behavior described here, if true, is psychopathic. A chilling read.
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by jonahx 1y ago
I've played for years, in locations all across the US, and know many other people who've played much more. This is basically not a thing. I encountered it once, decades ago, at Hawaiian Gardens in SoCal. If it's happening
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by jonahx 1y ago
Collusion in live poker, especially at low to mid-stakes, is almost non-existent.
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by jonahx 1y ago
Agree the phenomenon you describe is pervasive, though I don't see it as mutually exclusive with social cooling. I see them working together. If everyone is privately living in different fiefdoms of homogenous thought, you never know
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by jonahx 1y ago
Yes, provocation is a viable strategy for clicks and audience-building, but few people are attempting that, and among those who do it's not the only strategy. Everywhere else -- in corporate America, on Facebook, at churches and family
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by jonahx 1y ago
On a purely aesthetic note, the design is quite nice.
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by jonahx 1y ago
You don't have to love them, but dismissing two of the 20th century's great artists in their respective mediums while having a blog named "engineersneedart" is certainly ironic.
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by jonahx 1y ago
Agree completely -- that's what my suggestion was getting at.
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by jonahx 1y ago
This diagram (which resonated): Traditional Coding: [ Thinking & Coding ....................... | Fixing ] AI-Assisted Coding: [ Coding | Thinking & Fixing ................ ] suggests a workflow where AI is used al
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by jonahx 1y ago
"In vitro growth of chick sensory neurons, shown in gold using a dye marking their internal structure (18 hour time lapse)" 40X (Objective Lens Magnification) How is this possible? Wouldn't neurons be at much tinier scale th

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