muglug

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by muglug 5d ago
> Of course, the more you know about a subject, the less convincing the AI's responses are. This is said all the time by AI skeptics and I think it's right in some areas and massively wrong in others. I know (or at least assume
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by muglug 6d ago
1 engineer != Anthropic
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by muglug 8d ago
My guess is that OpenAI has done a lot more to prevent exfil of their model weights than the codebase of their main web app and client.
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by muglug 9d ago
Bought to us by Fable 5 and the more-experienced colleague who foresaw potential issues.
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by muglug 10d ago
Did you read it or, if English isn’t your first language, have someone who writes English well read it? I’ve had a lot of useful feedback on stuff I’ve written that way.
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by muglug 11d ago
> There’s one honest footnote. I'm so tired of AI writing
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by muglug 12d ago
Other sources say it was a cargo plane, so unclear.
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by muglug 13d ago
I assume he was taken to a US airbase and flown from there. Americans can recall diplomats back to their home country at any time. He was recalled somewhat more hastily than most. I imagine they said something to the effect of “you will be
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by muglug 16d ago
> He is surely very evidently mentally ill. I don’t think that’s accurate or helpful. I think he found himself in a situation that he could not cope with in a rational manner. I suspect that many people, myself included, would struggle i
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by muglug 17d ago
> 95–100% agreement for actionscript Great news for a language whose last stable release was 20 years ago
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by muglug 18d ago
You might want to use https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-de... as a reference. Some of the polygons were a little off
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by muglug 19d ago
It specifically says he worked for the US gov during that period, so your comment needs an edit
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by muglug 19d ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174
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by muglug 22d ago
Your proof that it’s fake is just that the website was registered a couple of days ago?
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by muglug 24d ago
> It's Bluesky, they hate AI That's not true. The Bluesky team are themselves pretty pro-AI and open about how LLMs are used to build Bluesky and are necessary for moderation. Lots of SWEs on Bluesky (e.g. me) use LLMs a lot an
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by muglug 1mo ago
I think it's important to point out how much easier it is to create a new typeface based on an existing one and using the metrics of another one, than to create one from scratch. For example, I've built metrics-compatible versions
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by muglug 1mo ago
Claude can add comments in code that are better just living as a comment on the PR. You'll ask it to do something and it'll comment the code with an answer to what you asked it, rather than just explanatory comments to whoever com
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by muglug 1mo ago
If you’re the size of GitHub and you’ve been running your infra for years with very little variation in traffic patterns you have a strong incentive to optimise costs for that existing behaviour.
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by muglug 1mo ago
Eh 2020-2022 saw a nationwide increase in crime.
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by muglug 2mo ago
Not a Republican by any stretch of any imagination, but here’s my attempt at a steelman argument: I imagine these companies were already spending some amount on crawlers that would poll every N milliseconds to get an edge on some market-mov
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by muglug 2mo ago
You’re not “giving up” on accessibility. You’re just not getting it “for free” — though it was never free to begin with. When you’re dealing with things like spreadsheet viewers, disengaging from the DOM for sighted users can actually make
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by muglug 2mo ago
Different posts on HN can attract different audiences.
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by muglug 2mo ago
> MirrorCode only covers programs with plain-text output. MirrorCode does not test AI abilities in software that is inherently visual It’s an interesting eval but this is a distinct limitation — most applications that consumers use direc
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by muglug 2mo ago
Counterpoint: stretching fonts is commonly regarded as a typographic sin, and a condensed form of Georgia exists: https://carterandcone.com/font/georgia/
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by muglug 2mo ago
Fable was not convinced: https://claude.ai/share/1597e697-0638-488a-971d-e17872943137
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by muglug 2mo ago
Get help.
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by muglug 2mo ago
A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here. > Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet Not sure what you’re talking about. According to his wiki bio he’s done two
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by muglug 2mo ago
Thanks — sorry for spreading nonsense.
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OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf](philarchive.org)
33 points by muglug 2mo ago|42 comments
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by muglug 2mo ago
> We have seen many projects that adopted AI under corporate pressure circle the drain. Which? > Often the corporations themselves backpedaled after some months. Which

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