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by p-e-w 3mo ago
So mob rule by whichever busybodies buy into the inner circle, with no fundamental principles whatsoever? Ugh.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
That doesn’t answer the question. What is the underlying ideology/value system? Lots of people would disagree with your second claim, so if that’s what they believe then this itself implies all kinds of nonstandard values.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The problem isn’t about ToS or other kinds of rules, it’s about what drives them. When I join a community, I would like to be able to predict whether tomorrow, they might ban Chinese projects, or projects written in Lisp, or projects that o
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> Should hackernews also mention that allowed content is dependent on its moderators with vaguely defined ideologies? Absolutely. And it would be even better if the moderators each wrote a short summary that’s an honest attempt to descri
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
When something appears to be poorly designed, then the deeper explanation is often that it’s indeed poorly designed.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
So what is Codeberg’s political stance? From which ideology does it follow that crypto projects are bad, but VPN projects are not, for example?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> If you disagree with their beliefs, you are free to host your own instance or find a code forge that better aligns with your beliefs. Sure, but Codeberg has presented itself as a hoster for Free Software projects, not for Free Software
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
If you consider supporting a Russian company equivalent to “supporting Russia”, then I assume you are happy to be supporting the United States by using US services… like the one you are on right now.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> a human prompting with deep math expertise The original tweet implied that the whole thing was done while the author was watching the World Cup final. I know it’s tempting to hope that a human did the “real” work here, but if some spec
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Just because a company wants to know who you are doesn’t mean they are entitled to a scan of a sensitive government document that can be used to commit identity theft. I’m amazed that it is even legal for businesses to ask for that at all,
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Wait, Thunderbird is getting more donations than Blender? I was under the impression that Thunderbird is on life support, while Blender is everywhere.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
And they can’t stop because they want to IPO soon, and stopping this madness would signal loudly that they are bleeding cash, don’t really have a business model, and might not be worth $2 trillion after all.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
It’s safe to assume that after less than a decade of LLM development, we’re nowhere close to the limit yet. In fact, progress still seems to be accelerating at the moment.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> GitHub's moat is not code hosting Of course not, it’s the number of people who are already signed up. Instagram’s moat also most certainly isn’t a scrollable photo timeline.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Unless you’re claiming that AIs will suddenly (and very soon) stop improving, they are obviously a threat to everyone’s job. Calling notable conjectures that have been open for decades “low-hanging fruit” is an act of desperation. Most prof
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
I’d be interested too. Besides the fact that the company appears to be registered in Finland, I haven’t been able to find any information on who’s behind this, how they are funded, etc.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
But the model recognized that they apply here. That’s absolutely non-trivial. It could have easily mistaken the line pattern for an autostereogram and told the user to cross their eyes instead.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
It’s absolutely incredible that the model can deduce what the human needs to do in order to more clearly see the text.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The single point of failure is always the biggest instances or communities, which impose their rules on everyone else under threat of refusing to communicate with them. This has happened with every single federated platform, and it can’t be
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> Nowadays, with the focus on agentic use and coding, it seems models have all been RLHF’d to death I don’t get it. If nobody likes this writing style, how can it be the result of human feedback? Something else is going on.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> So if things continue as they are today, I think in the near future, being a software developer is going to be more analogous to the medical field, where in the medical field you have different levels of professional expertise. The med
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
This happens to me every time I take a quick look at the “high culture” world, be it literature, art, music, or general intellectualism. I have a minor in philosophy and consider myself reasonably well-read, but today’s avantgarde is nothin
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> I think the Zig people are really just concerned that maybe Zig itself is a DOA language because it doesn't offer enough over C for any serious use and their flagship project has now abandoned it. You hit the nail on the head ther
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Which of these papers “have been considered extremely harmful to society” by a significant number of people who wouldn’t be classified as cranks? I’m asking specifically about claims that those papers have harmed society. Not cop-outs lik
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
If they indeed made search worse “on purpose”, there should be plenty of alternatives with better results. I’ve tried about a dozen of them, including paid ones like Kagi, and found the quality of results to be universally worse than Google
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Don’t bother. This is the third or fourth time AI has solved an open conjecture, and once again the comment sections everywhere are full of people explaining how this doesn’t really matter at all, how it’s an irrelevant, obscure problem, ho
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> Just because they published it doesn't mean that others haven't already discovered it. That’s irrelevant for the moral evaluation. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. If you choose not to kill anyone it won’t stop
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> This does indeed seem comically evil. And I have yet to see a single paper like this where a researcher bails out and publicly says they refuse to work on such projects. Not one. The most benign interpretation of this observation is th
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The difference between today and 30 years ago is that if you are an individual developer, you are at the complete mercy of a single company (Valve), who can force you to do essentially anything they want for the privilege of publishing on t
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
You could (e.g. by replacing residual-dependent expert routing with hardcoded logic), but quality will suffer dramatically. It’s far better to use a similar-sized dense model then.

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