nathansherburn

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by nathansherburn 3mo ago
As someone in the "not set for life" club, I worry a lot about my peers who are blind to the reality of AI progress. You don't have to believe AI is entirely hype to be anti-AI. It can be bad AND real.
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The answer to security-woes, dependecy-complexity and maintenance-burdens is DIY
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by nathansherburn 9mo ago
I learnt a new word today. Thanks!
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by nathansherburn 9mo ago
I've actually been following this project for a long time and it's none of the above. They're simply testing what a set of frontier models can do when given a goal and left to their own devices. I agree this outcome is very p
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by nathansherburn 1y ago
Wouldn't frequent reauth be beneficial for stolen sessions? E.g. If you set your session timeouts to a ~1 day then by the time your session cookies are up for sale on the dark web, they will be expired. The article doesn't mention
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
How does divorcing Europe make the US stronger against China?
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
With who in control? A Russia, China and US alliance? This seems very unlikely to me. All signs indicate we're moving to a multipolar world as far as I can tell. China owns an increasing majority of global GDP and Trump seems to be eit
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
A great way to get around this is with an edge function from deno deploy.
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
I think this is spot on. The confusion for me comes from the fact that, as far as I can tell, I've never met a prig in real life. And yet they seem to be the biggest political issue of our time. Is it because I live in Australia and it
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
Not sure if relevant but I thought this looked very cool. https://www.squiggle-language.com/docs
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
I don't think the purpose of the checkbox was to collect useful data but an any case storing it as a date would probably solve the issue.
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
I'm still using the built in MacOS terminal. What am I missing? I mostly do webdev - maybe terminal features are more important for other types of programming?
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
How do you think reasoning happens in our brains? I wonder if it's more like an LLM than we realise?
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
Open source software is one of our best and most passionately loved inventions. It'd be much easier to have a nuanced discussion about "open weights" but I don't think that's in Facebook's interest.
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
Thanks for the write up! I just wanted to chime in to say the Foliate code is really beautifully written too. I was able to hack together an epub audiobook reader by running a custom version of foliatejs in Microsoft Edge (which has an amaz
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
Reports are that Trump is okay. Politically I disagree with so much of what Trump says and does but I would never wish this on him. We can't let the extremists on either side win.
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
AI will always be far better at languages than I'll ever be and I expect it to get much better very quickly. But I'm still learning my partner's language and don't think I'll stop any time soon. I think it's in
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by nathansherburn 2y ago
I agree we want to democratize AI and we should be very, very weary of powerful people trying to get a monopoly on AI. But I'm not ready to say absolutely everything should immediately be shared with everyone. At least not until it&#x2
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I share your concerns and think you're broadly correct. I think it's worth adding some nuance though. When you drill into specifics there are almost always exceptions. For instance, in your example about sharing research, there ar
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Is there any evidence this actually works? My understanding was that "prison as a deterrence" was largely ineffective.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Just three hours ago I switched back to Linux after a few years on MacOS. The only thing missing was the amazing text copy tool I was using, "Rex" [1]. What a coincidence to see this post on the front page a few hours later! Side
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
There is research out there that shows use of white space can improve things like reading speed and comprehension. An example for text paragraphs: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Reading-Online-Text%3A... I think
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Just want to say thank you for your enormous effort on this. I'm extremely picky about software but Firefox on Android is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. And I use it every day - probably more than any other app
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
That's true. There are many other viruses that we don't publish for good reasons though.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Fair point. I think the thrust of the argument still stands. Open source is generally a fantastic principle but it has its limits. I.e. we probably shouldn't open source bomb designs or superviruses.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Any examples of the web component code they spit out?
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Thank you! I can't believe I never thought to do this!
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I'm surprised given the makeup of the hackernews crowd there aren't more people who appreciate this here. I only know a few folks who work at the big AI labs but it's very clear to me that they are personally worried about ex
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
Audiobookstore.com are fantastic. I've enjoyed so many of their audiobooks over the years.
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by nathansherburn 3y ago
I suspect it's your add-ons. I've been using Firefox mobile for years and I don't think I've ever had a site that worked better in Chrome. Caveats: Sometimes launching apps from the browser only works in Chrome and some

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