kibwen

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by kibwen 6mo ago
Stephen's Sausage Roll is great, but even among sokobanlikes, I'm loathe to call it the undisputed all-time best when it's up against Baba Is You.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Scheduledn't maintenance.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
I suspect that models that are so hamfistedly censored to blackhole verboten topics are going to exhibit very curious emergent behavior relating to their potential thoughtcrime. I see no reason to believe they would be "harder to poiso
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> then the system can change behaviour to take into account the mechanism The question is not whether the system can change, it's whether the system is incentivized to change. Poisoners could operate entirely in the public, and th
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by kibwen 6mo ago
At my new startup, Ungoliant, we intend use AI-powered space-based mirrors to at long last achieve humanity's dream of plunging Arda into endless night. We're excited to have you join us in this exciting venture!
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> I don't really see any evidence that the poor are smarter than the rich. This is attributable to survivorship bias. Poor people who make bad decisions either die in a gutter or die in a cell. Rich people who make bad decisions g
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Yes, but while we're all born stupid, rich people are subject to forces that actually make them dumber than the average person. Normally people learn from failure because they experience tangible negative consequences as a result of fa
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by kibwen 6mo ago
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Let me rephrase that: it's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment using war as a pretense.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Blizzard are well within their legal (and moral) rights to shut that down. Legal rights, sure. Moral rights, you're gonna have to explain yourself, because I see no moral objection here. Culture advances through remixes, and whi
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by kibwen 6mo ago
It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime. > The objective of wartime censorship was to prevent the exposure of sensitive military information to the enemy. Similar censorship
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by kibwen 6mo ago
I admit I'm having a visceral reaction to this analogy. A bicycle is a sophisticated product whose form is almost pure function. Despite being apparenty simple, almost no regular person can draw even a reasonable facsimile of a bicycle
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Have no fear, we'll just train an LLM on TAOCP and have it automatically generate the remaining volumes‽
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> Despite what the article says, the only people who benefit from a rush to update are the malware spreaders. And, you know, all the downstream users trying to install fixes for zero-days.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> insecure early releases This is the wrong framing. There's no free lunch here. Delays in publishing not only slow down attacks, they also slow down critical security patches. There's no one-size-fits-all policy here, you&
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> If version 0.7 turned out to hit the right API and not require backward incompatible changes, releasing a version 1.0 would be as disruptive as a major version change Nope, this is what the semver trick is for: https://git
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Users who don't care about security are screwed no matter what you do. The best you can do is empower those users who do care about security.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
LLM providers are interested in maximizing their profits, not minimizing your costs. The eventual goal of the providers, and the reason that they have trillion-dollar valuations, is because the objective is to capture the market and then in
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by kibwen 7mo ago
It's not ahistoric. Going back to the bad old days of forbiddingly high costs to developer tooling (not to mention the hardware needed to run it) would be a societal regression. Imagine needing a subscription to use a programming langu
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by kibwen 7mo ago
I'm unclear what's being asked. Zellij is just a TUI-based terminal multiplexer like tmux and screen, you either run it locally and SSH within it to a remote machine, or SSH to a remote machine and run Zellij from within the remot
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The evidence is that quotas exist, as seen here, and are low enough that people are hitting them regularly. When was the last time you hit your quota of Google searches? When was the last time you hit your quota of StackOverflow questions?
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Except for the inevitable and obvious fact that proof-of-work creates a self-sustaining primary incentive for energy waste more pernicious than has ever been seen in any other financial or commercial enterprise, obliterating any hope of hav
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by kibwen 7mo ago
I can't even imagine prioritizing resale value here over one's own comfort. The purpose of a tool is to be used, not to serve as an asset class.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Tim Cook here, we've heard you loud and clear, the next Macbook will have a perfectly circular screen with square windows.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Is unlimited email aliases (with or without custom domains) also on the roadmap?
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Protip for readers: when people on HN say "democracy", what they mean is "plutocracy".
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Last I checked there was no consensus on whether or not a Faraday cage needed to be grounded to function properly, which seemed surprising.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Yes, even if China can deny the US access to the region, that doesn't mean that taking Taiwan would be a trivial endeavor. It would still be the largest and most complicated aquatic invasion in human history, executed by a relatively i
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by kibwen 7mo ago
This seems instructive for considering when a difference in degree makes for a difference in kind. Let's call this "whale potential": the amount of money that a power user can naturally funnel into a casino over a single visi
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Agreed. The real bull case for SpaceX is that the US government will use it to aggressively militarize LEO.

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