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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
Probably anti-ban evasion signal (user was previously banned, created a new account, gets shadowbanned on spot) I agree that shadowbans are an underhanded measure that doesn't belong in a site like HN. I always vouch [dead] comments ma
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
The problem was that the Internet allowed for the "innovation" of tracking users to send specific ads to them. And it wasn't made promptly illegal. That's all it took
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
Does Postgres 19 support full temporal tables, or what's landing is a subset of that?
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
That's why you need to curate and adapt the skills for your specific project. That is, don't blindly accumulate skills downloaded from the web
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
Firefox is amazing I don't use pulseaudio and audio works fine. (I use pipeware)
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> But if an LLM were to say, "I'm sad" or "I'm happy", does that actually correlate to anything? I'm OK with saying "The LLM was sad", if there is an internal state that leads to observable ch
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> Can Astra one-shot level completion on some yet-to-be-released video game? If no, does that mean it’s not yet ‘Generally’ intelligent? If a model can't learn on their own to play some new game just as well as humans do, it's
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> This spatial segregation of memory is the worst hangover from the “brain is a computer” analogy. It's a computer, it's just not a digital computer But even digital computers can have stuff like processing-in-memory. "Com
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
I think this is exactly the same problem to decide whether any human is conscious, just because they say they are conscious. Humans can act as if they are conscious too, they can even lie to themselves, their whole life, and never discover
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> First, an LLM describing its own experience is not actually proof that it has any experience to be aware of, Likewise, humans describing their own experience is not actually proof that they have any experience to be aware of
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> Fact checking is harder. A RAG can only check what's in the database, so you have to know what to know beforehand. A global database of facts would make easier for AI to stay factual Also ironically it would also make it easier to
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
The important part I think is not the ban on kids pre 8th grade, but that high schoolers are getting courses on AI literacy
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
> The root of the problem is that more housing is no longer a net positive for many communities in a great many places. The increase in taxation income does not justify the extra infrastructure in many places. This means local authoritie
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
the "no codex quota used" makes me think this is against tos
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
Safe Haskell is just a worst version of Rust's unsafe. What it actually does is equivalent to Rust's #![forbid(unsafe_code)] which immediately lead to a question: so Haskell has unsafe, just like Rust? And of course it does. Any p
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
i like the idea of autonomous agents automatically committing fake crimes
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
that said, the borrowing part is incredibly short on details i read trying to assess if it's more or less expressible than rust's current nll or the future polonius and honestly there's nothing there
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
every spec is implementable some just delegate more or less to the implementation
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
Note I am not talking about the title bar (it's hidden here), I am talking about the bar where the address bar is (also back/forward/reload buttons and extension buttons)
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
The trouble is, his knowledge covers just a slice of it. He won't talk about stuff like functional programming for instance
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by nextaccountic 1mo ago
There's an idea in this book, that when using a mouse, smaller buttons are harder to click because you need to stop the cursor inside its hitbox, but moving the cursor to the edge of the screen is easy because it's effectively a h
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
Today's models can just write code to run the simulation instead
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
I'm not so sure LLM code today is below average. There was a time that things posted to dailywtf were normal everyday stuff
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
> co-owners HOAs don't make neighbors co-owners of your own property, do they? Anyway HOA is something that shouldn't even exist. Or at least not with power to prevent people from having air conditioning in their home.
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
Taxes can't replace people spending money and getting goods and services. Also, who said AI is getting paid well enough to afford paying taxes?
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
> they caused a bunch of damage and assaulted some employees Does this look like terrorism to you? In the US, people get assaulted for political reasons all the time.
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
Software are mathematical objects. It's just a matter of writing the correct mathematical proofs There's just one problem. You need not only to verify your own software, but also run a verified compiler, a verified operating syste
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
> I know who are financially well-off but completely fall apart when there is no visible professional hierarchy to give them meaning. This reminds me of white people in the American south that didn't personally own slaves, but fough
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
Maybe then the US should abandon first past the post?
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by nextaccountic 2mo ago
Or maybe venlafaxine is to counteract any anxiety that the upper may cause. Well that's the theory my doctor had anyway. (I took venlafaxine with ADHD meds because of this)

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