nkozyra

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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> These one shot vibecoded sites are always a complete visual headache. Sure, but have you seen the Typesafe.ai site itself? I think this is meant as a homage.
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> all scraping of a website with a ToS would be illegal, yet it's established by jurisprudence that it's not Because terms of service require both parties to accept! If I hold a contract outside your window and scream "you
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> I very much agree with this From the intro blog "Hallucination and type-safety are intrinsically related" I'm not entirely sure why we're conflating type safety with, I guess, value or output safety. "Would you
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
I'm certainly not resigned to that, at least for classification. Even non-frontier models are absurdly good at this in a broad sense. Which would make it hard to judge "a model that will never produce unreliable outputs in the fir
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
How is that different from RLVR?
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
Sure. But then you don't get credentials and can't scrape.
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> If you don't sign the contract nobody can sue you for violating it. But terms of service are contracts which you sign by agreeing. Courts have looked somewhat favorably on "I didn't read that" defenses, but accept
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> How can an automated process be a party in the terms of services though? If it's auth-gated, it needs to be, well, authenticated. The person who provides that, and the subsequent automated scraping, is the party, and would be the
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
Well if you're willing to accept that the extensive API access comes at a price, they at least somewhat fulfilled that promise. It's just a different kind of gate, though.
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
Effectively it forces scrapers to become a party to the terms of service, which usually contains the "no programmatic access (other than via paid API)" or specifically prohibits automated scraping.
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
A weird line to draw since Google still owns the general ad web space.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
> get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable The US House of Representatives posts their live hearings exclusively on YouTube. This is informatio
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
While I'm sure some of the open weight providers do this as well, I think the comparison is frontier labs v local inference.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
I barely see a difference between buying the hardware that feeds (and often colludes with) those labs, at least not as a moral stance. Even if you trained your own model, you'd be committing some of the same sins, paying for the same h
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
I don't understand how people don't consider this. Plus you're spec'd out of near-SOTA level in months. The only reasons to actually do this are a) you have a lot of dispensable income and are a hobbyist/tinkerer, b
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
Censorship being explicitly a function of government, at least in legal terms, seems pertinent here.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
It's not _solely_ a Trump thing, but he gave RFK an enormous platform and has himself been espousing demonstrably untrue things about vaccines and vaccination schedules. This very week, in fact. [1] If you don't see this as an eno
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
Unlike a lot of pathogenic diseases, measles requires an extraordinarily high amount of herd immunity (upwards of 95%), so this isn't a particularly telling data point on its own.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
True, but RFK (and other politicians and celebrities) have been active in pushing some form of anti-vax ideology for a decade plus, in some cases back to the 1970s. It's been a growing movement, not something that kicked off when RFK a
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
Honestly you're lucky there were any leaves left. You must have caught it within two or three hours after its arrival. In the US we have similar hawk moths; the tomato hornworm also looks like a hummingbird when it reaches maturity.
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
No. But do you need to run every small problem through a 10B-30B model? We're smashing ants with hammers most of the time. We're asking frontier Opus/Fable models to classify text and build frontend code. Once we start dissec
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
> But they first need adoption. I think they've got that. Short of budget stuff or the Slate truck, most new cars have some big dumb screen in them at all times. But advertising poses a new problem for both advertisers and mfgs not
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
Obviously they read it, but it's 2026 and entirely possible to publish an article without having read a word of it :) All that said, I think initially it was a mix of a few things coming together. Yes, auto mfgs always want to reduce p
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
Provide financial incentives to make it worse.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
> Everyone constantly does! In the aggregate, I agree, but in tech things are pretty loose outside of California.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
It was purely a hype/media play.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
Elon wanted precisely the same model.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
You can't buy the OS directly, but it certainly isn't free.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
I think this is a good point, but it ignores the idea that a human form is not the ideal (or even closet to) one to do specific and generalized jobs.
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
On the one hand I understand this fairly deeply. I started doing "ML" ~ 20 years ago building classifiers people would laugh at today and even at the time barely impressed people when they were 95% correct. I moved into NLP and bu

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