skygazer

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by skygazer 7mo ago
OAI: “If they stretch, reinterpret or beak the law with our systems, well, that’s on them. Good luck everybody!”
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by skygazer 7mo ago
Perhaps Trump's DOD objects specifically to Anthropic models themselves declining to do immoral and illegal things, and not something just stipulated in an ignorable contract. That would give room for Sam to throw some public CYA into
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by skygazer 7mo ago
Don’t become numb. They want normal people to be depoliticized, silent, and withdrawn. We’re so much easier to subjugate and exploit that way: hopeless and spineless. They take more and more each day.
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by skygazer 8mo ago
I haven’t noticed it consume any additional battery. It doesn’t actually connect to a vpn server, or reencrypt traffic. It’s just a hack to deny select connections. I often do end up turning it off after a few days, though, because some tim
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by skygazer 8mo ago
1Blocker, with their in-app tracker blocking turned on, will block Apple News ads on iOS/iPadOS and will also block ads in Google News and free to play games. I guess you can’t block tracking without also blocking the ads. It installs
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by skygazer 8mo ago
I know calling attention to typos is verboten here, but this one is a delightfully evocative contrast with the intended message.
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by skygazer 9mo ago
I've had similar issues -- consider it a bug -- and unpair and re-pair with your phone, and likely the issue will go away.
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by skygazer 9mo ago
In light of that possibility, HN's voting system is probably too rudimentary, private and zero-cost for the modern world. Now I'm not sure if it's naivete, laziness or meant to allow opaque maligned censorship.
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by skygazer 9mo ago
I also notice the commentariat here is progressive, but it seems the silent but pervasive downvote campaigns are dominated by, or more charitably, inadvertently aligned with those MAGA oriented views. I’ve come to think of the right wingers
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by skygazer 9mo ago
I have an absurd and overwrought system involving Gmail, and client-side rspamd and SpamSieve on my Mac. Gmail is (was?) overly aggressive flagging things as spam, so I have the client-side Bayesian filter check Gmail’s spam folder and resc
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by skygazer 9mo ago
It's kinda like Microsoft became a private equity company and bought itself out.
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by skygazer 10mo ago
79% win over OCR2 was just for English.
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by skygazer 10mo ago
Apple does something similar right now in their photos app, generating spatial views from 2d photos, where parallax is visible by moving your phone. This paper’s technique seems to produce them faster. They also use this same tech in their
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by skygazer 10mo ago
Today he's an electrician.
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by skygazer 10mo ago
Why is the first row oversized and sliding back and forth with keys sliding off screen. Hitting letters on this moving row is like a carnival game. Is that intentional or a bug on my Pro Max phone?
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by skygazer 10mo ago
I pranked a friend in college by tricking him into installing a “utility” on his Amiga 1200 that swapped adjacent keys into the key stream as he typed, but only above a certain speed. He called and woke me the next morning in a panic about
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by skygazer 10mo ago
"My, what big eyes you have, Grandmother." "All the better to compress you with, my dear."
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by skygazer 11mo ago
Hmm. I use arm64 macports instead of homebrew, and as far as I know, I download prebuilt binaries from macports without issue even on Tahoe -- are they signing them with an approved account? Or did they force me to build everything from scr
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by skygazer 11mo ago
Also, the longer the context window, the more likely the LLM derangement/ignoring safety. Frequently, those with questionable dependence on AI stay in the same chat indefinitely, because that's where the LLM has developed the ideo
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by skygazer 11mo ago
By firsthand reports of AVP users, it is.. apparently it feels like a real presence in your space, like hanging out in person.. and their recollections of the conversations weren’t of calls but of visits. The main downside being that there
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by skygazer 1y ago
I’ve noticed very recently (last several weeks) Siri (via my HomePod) is able to competently answer some very nuanced world knowledge questions that are sourced to random but still reputable websites — it appears to paraphrase enough to app
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by skygazer 1y ago
Bah! This stupid mistaken rumor will not die. SPR AVS is the USB Power Delivery 3.2 spec for Standard Power Range + Adjustable Voltage Supply. Apple announced their support of SPR AVS in their new dynamic 40 watt charger that can alter its
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by skygazer 1y ago
Without knowing anything about their routing, I think grandparent is saying they likely were on the same vector, perhaps same destination.
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by skygazer 1y ago
SPR AVS is probably confusion -- it's likely the new USB PD3.2 Standard Power Range Adjustable Voltage Supply used to fast charge the iPhone 17 Pro phones with Apple's new 40/60watt charger. It seems improbable that SPR AVS i
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by skygazer 1y ago
It's interesting how easily Google results rankings are manipulated by bad actors, and how unvetted the scams are in paid adverts on and through Google. The web is untrustworthy, and Google transparently passes it to users. We'd p
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by skygazer 1y ago
Also, HN hates machine generated replies, especially the lengthy and overly verbose slop variety -- I think that probably eclipsed any perceived rudeness.
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by skygazer 1y ago
My understanding (without having played the game) is that you choose an ideology for your character (equivalent to fascist, communist, capitalist or centrist) and whichever of those you chose, it satirizes you for it by making you an absurd
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by skygazer 1y ago
Does the UK have above average just-shy-of-two-years turnover? Seems there might be a small incentive to let people go before that threshold.
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by skygazer 1y ago
You phrase that as if the statements are contradictory rather than complimentary.
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by skygazer 1y ago
I didn’t finish reading to the end but by halfway through it’s about building protocols in advance to weaken encryption for government benefit, before the government mandates it, and framing encryption strength has the length of time users

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