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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> Despite its prominence, for over 20 years almost nobody has used this approach. Why is that? There is one highly successful use of REST: the World Wide Web. The Web/Web browsers are driven from hypermedia. (This is circular, as Fi
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
This is an awkward read, the result of trying to convey an idea while couched in other language. That idea being that AI is less important than humans.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> You’re suggesting aligning to an inherently and deliberately changeable presentation. Yes, you have understood the proposal.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
So it drained $5? Can’t speak to the results, but the cost isn’t high.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Well, the idea here is “things that look like buttons do page navigation.” And the proposal is that we should more closely align the presentation and function. You are correct that if you don’t care about alignment, there is nothing wrong w
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Tools are (can be) cheap. An electric drill from Harbor Freight costs as much as breakfast from Dennys. You going to pass it on to your kids? No. But maybe you don’t need to.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Just imagine how bad it would be if we hadn't.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Well said.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> This sounds like some kind of corruption going on, where they're probably paying consultants stupid amounts of money Guaranteed
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Eh, maybe. It's easier to click a single button than hunt for how to create/access an account for the brand.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> Why do I need a system prompt at all? That's like asking why you need employee onboarding. You could have Stephen Freaking Hawking and he still wouldn't know what you specifically want. > Why do I need another black box
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Doesn't this lead to an all-or-nothing approach? I don't want randomnewssite to track me. But a favorite online store...I do want help with recommendations.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> mandating owners give consent for AI training or drop out of Google Huh? Search and AI are hand-in-hand. They both rely on embeddings. (Unless you still do keyword-only search, but that's not as good.)
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> “name, rank, and serial number” That's what you give if captured as a prisoner of war.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
> purpose of the interview is to understand your capabilities and abilities And the purpose of the reference is to understand your actual performance. If you’re lazy or cruel to coworkers, they won’t want to hire you.
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by paulddraper 2mo ago
Doing 1 request for every person on this planet every second? What are these, TCP packets?
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
We’re talking past each other. No one has claimed Chinese models violated copyright law. Some have claimed they violated ToS, which is different.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
> How is that any different from a developer reading a document and blindly copy-pasting into a terminal? Your point is the people can be "hacked." And you are correct. That's often called scamming or phishing. The differe
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Distillation does not violate copyright law. It violates contractual terms of use.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Correct. This seems to be poorly understood. You can use an original work to write an encyclopedia (e.g. Wikipedia). That is fair use. You cannot copy an original work and distribute it. LLMs are an encyclopedia.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cxcsa
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
OpenMP is interesting, though uses threads.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
David Sacks is a Trump admin advisor.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Fortunately, some people see no reason to hamstring development. > Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
It’s hard to download or upload data on an airgapped machine.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Some might say that a smart phone and a smart TV have a lot of similarities.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
DNS and SNI are usually not encrypted.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
> Having tested K3, Qwen 3.8 max preview, Fable and Sol for the past few days, the Chinese models really are slow and token-inefficient. Those are all frontier-competitive models.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Not close to frontier. But yes, it’s cheap.
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by paulddraper 3mo ago
Probably few, but irrelevant as the ruling was it was not a derivative work.

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