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by thomascountz 2mo ago
What does an "exclusive sponsorship" of Hyperland mean?[1] Sorry for the rhetorical question. I think I mean, why does a foundation need to be the exclusive sponsor of a project? [1]: https://omarchy.org/news/
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
For the record, I agree with you. (Though I don't directly pay for any "AI".) I am not doubting the danger of where we are heading, and it sounds like we have a similar doomsday image in mind. For my part, I am doubting this
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
Of course you are leaving things out. Also, your insulation that a trillion-dollar corporation wouldn't intentionally commit a federal crime makes it difficult to take your argument seriously. I think OpenAI's story, as they'
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
That's incorrect. My thought process hinges upon the fact that Hugging face did not report that uncontrolled models escaped confinement autonomously by coordinating with other models via a series of zero days during training. OP is c
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
Follow the money: who told you that OpenAI's models autonomously coordinated to hack external systems? What incentives might they have to want you to believe that story? Are there priors which demonstrate them benefiting from telling s
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
[The judge] said he welcomed litigants’ use of AI in general and even used AI tools to help prepare the decision. But hiding a set of instructions is “evidence of its malicious purpose,” he wrote. Of course you should challenge
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
The interpretation of the quote which resonated with me is that, in my experience as a professional code writer, I find it frustrating to take responsibility for code which was written by someone who themselves did not engineer the code res
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
That makes sense. For me, being "responsible," becoming the new "owner," and "debugging" code which I did not write, can each be frustrating. With regard to LLM generated code, the frustration often comes from
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
What do you mean by "someone else's code"? Because, if I am taking responsibility for it, it is not "someone else's," it is—at least in part—my code. I am not in a position to say "this is someone else&#
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
This is not a Geiger counter, despite sounding a little like one. I'm so glad they cleared that up! Jokes aside, I thought BLE RSSI was too noisy to be accurate enough for something like this.
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
- As a professional developer, I would find it very frustrating to have to debug someone else's code and also be held responsible for that code. - As a hobbyist developer, it would bother me that I'm no longer a devel
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
Part of NASA's remit is public communications. They have inspired generations and generations of engineers, scientists, technicians, and explorers. We can debate whether or not "AI", as you describe its potential use here, is
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
If you follow Oxide (perhaps just by reading their Blog[1] and RFDs[2]), I think you'd find a more rigorous engineering and business culture than most case studies you're referring to from the 90s/00s. Of course it's not
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
It's not that I believe all HN comments must be fruitful, but contributing the suggestion that there may have been "some backlash" against someone at "some point", could do with a little more help.
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
For the uninitiated, Berkeley Mono[1] (the font this is mimicking) is the oft cherished[2] font by Neil Panchal[3] [1]: https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono [2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRan
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
Not OP, but I think the take is similar to: "why market yourself as a rip off of Neil's[1] work?" [1]: https://neil.computer/
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by thomascountz 2mo ago
In my experience in NYC kitchens, I wouldn't trust most restaurants to actually be able to accommodate certain allergies. If it isn't stated clearly on the menu, I would rather be turned away than to have an inexperienced kitchen
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
The point of STE is to support technical writers who have knowledge of the matter and a style guide. In other words, STE will not make something unambiguous simply by replacing words. The example sentence is just to illustrate a grammar ru
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
https://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/ https://github.com/ce-store/ce-store
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
I'm surprised not to see Odin[1] mentioned. DoD is one of its central paradigms. [1]: https://odin-lang.org/
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Teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school(theguardian.com)
6 points by thomascountz 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
Many artificial environments are useless to tasks they were not designed for until somebody experiments, tests, redesigns, and iterates. I'll give a specific example apropos of TFA. Computer vision models were never run on MCUs because
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
http://archive.today/2026.07.25-012850/https://www.wsj.com/h...
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
I learned something and along the way, I really enjoyed the author's writing style! Phew, it works. But it wasn’t easy, was it? That’s why remember my advice: when writing a quine, avoid using quotes. Once you start escaping them,
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
Reminds me of SpaceTraders[1] [1]: https://spacetraders.io/
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
Not OP, but here's Gemini's reaction: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
Baby food is often just puréed fruits and vegetables. Adult diapers are only funny if you've never considered that being able-bodied is temporary. It is more likely that the person purchasing adult diapers and baby food is the caregive
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
There are tools which exist to make things such as this accessible to non-CS major perpetrators.
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by thomascountz 3mo ago
Animated Knots by Grog[1] and 3D Knots[2] are oft-cited places to learn knots on the internet, but OP's is such a nice throwback. Don't miss the "requested entries" page with 28 more knots![3] [1]: https://www

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