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by magicalist 2mo ago
> It depends on if you can say things like "it is good they are supporting this" or "I'm glad they're doing this" or "good for them" without having to couch it in a bunch of stuff about how terrib
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> The only thing Fable was given was a clean of copy of the ancient Greek. This is not a bastardization of other translations FWIW I gave GPT-5.5 two lines of William Cowper's translation (long out of copyright to avoid any filter
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs Is that actually true? Maybe I'm being dense right now but that's not completely apparent to me. More abundance per person does seem generally
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by magicalist 2mo ago
So they found their agents had RCE'd Artifactory once, reported it and got the fix, continued using Artifactory for their sandbox, and left it unmonitored for days despite the earlier exploits? They really do come out looking totally i
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Yes, they are "totally unrelated" in the sense that I am likely totally unrelated to you Why would you assume that the "larger audience" would assume that "unrelated" means that these species of trees ca
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by magicalist 2mo ago
Short sentences were never the danger, or what the GP is referring to.
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by magicalist 2mo ago
Note that Tom Delay of all people (remember that guy? I'm old and I'd say barely) wrote an opposing op ed saying that even though he supports the change that this is contrary to the governing statute that he helped write, which ex
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> I don't know what DC Blox was going to put in this particular datacenter, but they are a "traditional" colocation datacenter company. Maybe this one would've been superdense GPUs... 50 MW for 69k square feet defin
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> driven by specific poorly designed gas turbine powered installations *increasingly nonspecific. See [1] for example [1] https://floodlightnews.org/ai-data-centers-texas-pollution-l...
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Lesbians too [0] > A 2010 CDC survey compared domestic violence victimization rates between lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women. The differences between most forms of reported domestic violence rates between lesbian women a
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> there are certainly arguments that a society where most people are happy is pretty utopian Sure, like a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics...and an AI life companion in their ear. What I can't understand is why they're still on
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> How so? First, kernel writing (or ML engineering more broadly) is a highly specialised task. Not everyone can do it. It shows that models are getting better and better at (easily verifiable) hard tasks. No it doesn't. You have n
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> Ironically, it also exposes inconsistencies (or "hallucinations" as some might call them) in the text because the author didn't have an AI proofread the text. That's not irony, or even cute. He's literally de
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> But he’s made the error of trying to come at it from a technical perspective Huh? That quote appears to be the entirety of the "technical perspective" of the post and is an aside from his larger points that you have blessed
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by magicalist 3mo ago
If you optimize program A and manage to wring out a 1% improvement, and I optimize program B and improve performance by 20%, you can see the problem with trying to infer anything from those two numbers. Edit: searching for the story now, fu
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by magicalist 3mo ago
>> Agents don't work on their own > This is factually false From your link: > After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models...while being internally tested
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by magicalist 3mo ago
It's a 17 year old joke, maybe one of the most famous on stackoverflow for the aging engineers out there. No one wants new "funny" edits on it.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Zalgo and situational subset parsing aside: > You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length This isn't sufficient, unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying. It's not enou
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> but if they produce the work maybe they should get the credit But that's not what the Fields Medal is for . If you're a 41 year old mathematician and do amazing groundbreaking world shifting math, you can't get a Fiel
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> instead of shutting down agriculture in the only marginal spot on the west coast you can grow food. Not an expert, but I would think greenhouse light pollution is not necessary for agriculture? It seems like obvious waste (money spen
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> This thread is a perfect example of why HN has a "no politics" guideline From a quick perusal, your account appears to only comment on politics.
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by magicalist 3mo ago
I couldn't find anything easier. Seems like they're trying to tease excitement for new emoji in the next Android release (there was also an earlier linkless post in May[1]), so I'm assuming they don't want anyone scoopin
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> > Everyone could choose to use the same emoji font across platforms or apps, but they don't. > Yeah, that's the problem. We can't rely on every user going out of the way to drive adoption, it has to be done cent
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Yeah, looks like that article was from an I/O announcement of these new emoji (which I don't remember, but I also didn't watch much of the keynote), and they've decided to tease this until it finally lands in the next ve
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. You can't really do this. Or, rather, it's already been done, but people choose not to do this. Emoji are just unicode characters. How they're display
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by magicalist 3mo ago
Sounds like you help people. Unless the OP edited their post, they said > close HN, reach out to people, get help that seems like perfectly compatible advice. I'm not sure why you're inferring a "professional" in th
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> It is odd when you see people freaking out about copyright and patents when they typically have neither of those things personally. They advocate for the intellectual prison. You have at least two comments in this thread lauding the
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> If you think ESR got something right that nobody can see anymore, then your hope should be rooted in the knowledge of how much less than what's possible we are currently achieving So...the worse things are the better because we
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> It's always been generally accepted that someone has to support it, either paid professional services or a full time employee with expertise. Yes, it's always been accepted that someone has to support it, but someone else
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by magicalist 3mo ago
> If you didn't participate in it But that's not what they said? >> I didn't get to participate in much of that

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