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by lucumo 6mo ago
Well, obviously. What else did you expect to be the most dangerous thing on roads? Sharks?
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by lucumo 6mo ago
It's got our number... https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Hacker+News+speak&tex... . "I like burgers." in Hacker News speak: > I'm curious if anyone has looked into the scalability of burge
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by lucumo 7mo ago
My college classes usually had one offline written test per quarter, and about half the classes had an assignment with them. I can see how those would be easier to cheat on now, though they were already hardly cheat-free. (Not just plagiari
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by lucumo 7mo ago
There's something viscerally distasteful about a one-liner comment berating the author of a long thoughful comment for exerting too little effort.
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by lucumo 7mo ago
Why would oral verification be needed? Hand-written answers on paper in a proctored classroom should still work fine. That was the way most verification worked when I was in school, and still is the most used verification method used curren
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by lucumo 7mo ago
I would say that you also don't know the false positive rate. The only person who truly knows is the one who wrote/generated the text. And they have every incentive to say it's not AI-generated, whether or not it truly is. Pe
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by lucumo 7mo ago
> At this point it’s pretty easy to detect unaltered LLM output because it is such bad writing. And yet people seem to still be terrible at that. Someone uses an em-dash and there's always a moron calling it out as AI. > I honest
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by lucumo 7mo ago
I think that's Gemini trying to personalize the answer specifically for you. It really leans heavily into that to the point of being galling. You can give it additional instructions in the settings, but you have to be careful with that
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by lucumo 7mo ago
Yes, and it's a detection loop without feedback. You can never verify that a piece of work in the wild is actually AI. The poster is the only one who really knows, and they'll always say it's not. This is a problem, because y
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by lucumo 7mo ago
> Perhaps if Sweden adopted a different policy it would have an even longer life expectancy! The policy of being between 55 and 69 N? I'm not sure the world is ready for another viking age. Joking aside, GPs point was that Sweden ha
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by lucumo 7mo ago
So because we're used to it? I know perfectly how those C numbers will feel. Haven't got a clue about the F numbers. Anyway, I doubt that that analogy goes for noon. I eat lunch by the clock, not when the sun's highest. I exp
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by lucumo 7mo ago
> Then a brick hits you in the face when it dawns on you that all of our tools are dumping crazy amounts of non-relevant context into stdout thereby polluting your context windows. Not just context windows. Lots of that crap is completel
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by lucumo 7mo ago
It's latin. "de omnibus" on the second line is pretty well recognizable. But holy hell is Gutenberg's font terrible. Look at the first word on the second line, it ends in seven undotted sticks that seem to bleed over int
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by lucumo 8mo ago
> Sounds like every AI KPI I've seen. They are all just "use solution more" and none actually measure any outcome remotely meaningful or beneficial to what the business is ostensibly doing or producing. This makes more sen
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by lucumo 8mo ago
Plain CSS is very useful if all you have is an HTML page. Giving all buttons a consistent look is nice and easy if you can just specify that with a nice CSS selector. That's also the only place you can do it without changing all <bu
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by lucumo 8mo ago
:-D I did ask G'mini for synonyms. And to do a cursory count of e's in my post. Just as a 2nd opinion. It found only glyphs with quotation marks around it. It graciously put forward a proxy for that: "the fifth letter".
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by lucumo 8mo ago
Not long ago, a statistical study found that AI almost always has an 'e' in its output. It is a firm indicator of AI slop. If you catch a post with an 'e', pay it no mind: it's probably AI. Uh-oh. Caught you. Bang t
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by lucumo 9mo ago
Family Link is kind of funny like that as well. As a parent you can limit which apps your child can use, and even how long they can use them. My child is above the age we can monitor their every move, but they're below the age where we
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by lucumo 9mo ago
> on the van Emde Boas construction Cool to see that the capitalization of Dutch names was as confusing then as it is now. The correct way to write that would have been with a capital 'V'. The rule for these surname prefixes i
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by lucumo 9mo ago
There's a marked difference between this and the Russian one: the Americans owned their mistake and paid reparations. The Russians denied and keep denying. Mistakes aren't good, but pretending that you didn't make them adds i
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by lucumo 11mo ago
Indeed. Nor is GDPR about cookies at all. GDPR is about identifiable user profiles and information. A piece of paper with someone's name falls under the GDPR; a cookie that hides a shown alert doesn't.
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by lucumo 11mo ago
Exactly. People like the author are part of the problem. Blindly clicking consent is allowing site owners to bully you into consent. It works, so they keep doing it. If you're going to blindly click anything it should be decline all.
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by lucumo 1y ago
I interpreted the comment thread as talking about the website being clearly Turkish, because that was what my first thought when I saw the Turkish text. It didn't even occur to me they could be talking about the archeological site ,
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by lucumo 1y ago
They do. But a generic warning about locale-dependence doesn't really tell you that ASCII-strings will be broken. For nearly every purpose ASCII is the same in every locale. If you have a string that is guaranteed to be ASCII (like an
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by lucumo 1y ago
As an addition, 5 million is a lot for BoF. At the end of 2024 their balance was a little over 1.8 million EUR. Even a single day's worth of coercive fine (100k EUR) would be meaningful to them. Their annual report is online at https
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by lucumo 1y ago
Note that the penalty for non-compliance will be forfeited to Bits of Freedom. It's not like a traffic fine that has to be paid to the government. In Dutch this is called a "last onder dwangsom": an injuctive order enforced b
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by lucumo 1y ago
But if you allow that, the third-party has your id and a list of ALL adult sites you visit. If that leaks it's even worse than a single site leaking your id.
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by lucumo 1y ago
> OECD's numbers for health expenditure per capita[1]. Interesting that the graphs use PPP, but that the age-adjusted graph still shows the richer OECD countries spend more than the poorer ones. I wonder what's up with that.
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by lucumo 1y ago
To clarify, https://revoked.badssl.com/ is the one being blocked. https://revoked-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/ shows just fine.
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by lucumo 1y ago
Interestingly Chrome 140.0.7339.51 on Android 16 blocks it with a net::ERR_CERT_REVOKED error. I always thought Chrome didn't block them and that revocation was pretty much dead.

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