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by teraflop 4mo ago
Where are you getting the information that this project hadn't been cleared? That seems like a big assumption, and I don't see anything in the linked tweet, or the replies, or any of the linked pages that supports it. Unless I mis
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by teraflop 4mo ago
If you tolerate small abuses, and let people get accustomed to abusing their power in small meaningless ways, the abuses will only grow.
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by teraflop 4mo ago
Well, the thing about reliability is that you can't really guarantee it by testing one particular scenario. It seems to me that neither the old nor the new version of the code is really "durable" as I would understand the wor
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by teraflop 4mo ago
The article doesn't link to it but this appears to be the repo in question: https://github.com/AasheeshLikePanner/lsm-tree-go I'm very amused by this obviously AI-generated "benchmark program": htt
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by teraflop 4mo ago
This is an active area of research (look up papers that mention the "sim2real gap"). It is indeed a problem, but there are known strategies to deal with it.
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by teraflop 4mo ago
> But on the other hand... this is a robust reminder that coding agents can do anything you can do by typing commands into a terminal—and frontier models know every trick in the book and evidently a few that nobody has ever written down
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by teraflop 4mo ago
Thus solving the problem once and for all. "But--" Once and for all!
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by teraflop 5mo ago
Not sure about LSP, but IntelliJ has had a "structural search and replace" feature for many years, and it can easily handle changes like the one in your second paragraph. It's conceptually like a regex search, but it matches
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by teraflop 5mo ago
That clip is fairly low-res (at least for me). Here's the higher-quality source from Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O90WZJALYc
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by teraflop 5mo ago
You're misreading that sentence. The contract was awarded for launches "into the 2020s". It wasn't awarded in the 2020s.
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by teraflop 5mo ago
This isn't being proposed as a serious, useful version of Raft. It's just a thought experiment. The sentence you quote is inevitably going to be true for any type of Raft quorum that can reach consensus with a minority of nodes.
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by teraflop 5mo ago
> All other users on our US cloud instance are opted in by default Cool, cool. Glad to see that you are the arbiter of what your users have "opted" to do, and their input isn't required. While we're at it, I'm go
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by teraflop 5mo ago
I started reading this and right away hit something that doesn't really make any sense to me: > the extractor. the thing that reads conversation transcripts and decides what to keep. > the most consequential choice an extractor m
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by teraflop 5mo ago
For #1 and #3, I believe this is talking about Netflix's "Open Connect Appliance", which is basically a custom cache server that they co-locate with ISPs. Most (maybe all?) of their video content is served from this distribut
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by teraflop 5mo ago
> May 19, 22:10 UTC - Our automated monitoring detected API health check failures and paged our on-calls, who started investigating the issue. > At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended
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by teraflop 5mo ago
That seems to be an official listing from the manufacturer. If so, it's really shady that they prominently advertise it as having 9GB of RAM, when what they really mean is 4GB RAM + 5GB "extended RAM", and by "extended R
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by teraflop 5mo ago
Swiping a card (or inserting, or tapping) is a "card present" transaction. Online shopping, where you type in the card number, is a "card not present" transaction. Retailers and banks can tell the difference.
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by teraflop 5mo ago
I like to think, (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of lovi
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by teraflop 5mo ago
Cool graphs. > Our previous reticence to measure UPSs was centered around the connection of our very nice $50,000 Rohde & Schwarz MXO58 oscilloscope directly to mains power. [...] What we do have is a Chroma 61507, a programmable AC
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by teraflop 5mo ago
It used to be super common that when you spotted a bot post and clicked through to the user's history, you'd see very average, human-looking activity from years ago, followed by a long gap of inactivity, and then a flurry of obvio
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by teraflop 5mo ago
Sure. C has never been the only language supported on Windows. For instance, Delphi had a period of popularity for Windows application development, and AFAIK it has always used its own runtime library which is completely independent of the
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by teraflop 6mo ago
It's both, isn't it? If the AI writes the policy and is also responsible for enforcing it (by handling tickets and acting as a gatekeeper for which issues are escalated to humans who can do something about them), then the hallucin
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by teraflop 6mo ago
As I read it, they didn't look up the account to process the refund. They looked up the account to decide whether to process the refund, and then the decision was "no". The rest of the support response is just pleasantries
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by teraflop 6mo ago
Oh, what I wouldn't give to see the system prompt that tells Claude what it is or isn't "able" to give refunds for. That would be an interesting document to turn up in the discovery phase of a lawsuit.
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by teraflop 6mo ago
I have no real quibble with the blog post itself, but I take issue with the title that calls it a "vintage model". The blog post defines a "vintage model" as one that is trained only on data before a particular cutoff
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by teraflop 6mo ago
Also, running the network stack on a separate core allows it to be encrypted and signed, so that end users can't (easily) reverse engineer it. Which sucks for those of us who would like to run fully open-source code without binary blob
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by teraflop 6mo ago
Public domain isn't "viral" like copyleft. If I take something in the public domain and make a derivative work, the original remains in the public domain, and I retain ownership of whatever additions or modifications I create
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by teraflop 6mo ago
We should have learned this lesson 20 years ago when researchers were able to deanonymize a lot of the Netflix Prize dataset, which contained nothing except movie ratings and their associated dates. https://arxiv.org/abs&#x2
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by teraflop 6mo ago
> Is using puppeteer to automate a form submission a violation of ToS? If so then why is using a screen reader not? Without taking a position on the ethics of automation, surely this isn't a serious question? Things that the ToS pr
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by teraflop 6mo ago
Here's a modest proposal: what if we made it a serious crime for anyone to retain automatically-recorded surveillance footage, or data derived from it, for longer than some limited period of time (say, 7 days) unless said footage i

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