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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   Regulatory capture because open models undermine the business models they have used to rack up debt. I suspect they didn't think the Chinese / open source communities would catch them so quickly. Turns out it's not so hard to
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   every prompt to set it up indicates otherwise, they really really want you to set up biometric auth, however the gov't can make you provide biometric unlock, whereas they cannot compel a password or real "passkey" (pin)
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   I first heard her on NPR during an Ai segment where they had a pilled CEO and Sherry (separately). "What to do when Ai says 'I love you'" https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/w
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   I refuse to use any biometric based auth, so passkeys are a nope for me laminated physical backup codes, you are a hero among peasants friend!
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   As a society, we do need to think about what "responsible ai" means and how we legislate for it without over regulating Ai outright
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   I'd recommend checking out Sherry Turkle's work. It's not as much about availability as friction. Ai does not come with the friction IRL does, so people turn to it as an "easy mode" I applaud the CCP for getting out
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   The actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08425v3 > Our key insight is to leverage numerical optimal control to steer the sampling trajectory so that constraints are satisfied precisely at the terminal time. Does
8. 338.▲
   by verdverm 1mo ago

   one does not typically do data science on message content by capturing it at the proxy, go to the database and dump the data set
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   by verdverm 1mo ago

   E2EE has well known issues for scaling, which is why it's found primarily in small group / personal chat
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    good call on the two, I actually have two personally, one for primary email, one for all the other logins, so now we are at four keys
11. 341.▲
    by verdverm 1mo ago

    it's also good at regularly ignoring markdown / prompt based instructions, it's a probability machine that is doing something like "shortest path" on token probabilities, and why "actually" and "but w
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    Many comedies are also tragedies
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    Is it better at the preceding token? That location resounds with me
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    Practical for those who vibe and think "coding is solved" or practical for those of us who wish to remain human-in-the-loop? I for one find the incessant, do anything to finish the task because that is what pleases the s/user
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    I recommend they get a physical key (yubikey), it's more intuitive or natural for the pre-digital-first generations
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    you'll need one major group if traction is the goal, which seems to be what the posted link is really after chat is network effect, so a chat app needs to answer "which network of people" if the creators about traction?
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    Siri is Gemini now (Semeni?) so expect similar stories from both major phone OS providers going forward, since we have lost more diversity in the mobile market (seems anti-trustworthy to me)
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    this is likely true for most applications accessing the standard APIs, a good thing in my book
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    > Nobody needs a messenger that isn't encrypted. Businesses want to analyze internal company messages. Chat protocols / platforms need to make inroads with one of the core audiences for online chat. Those are largely taken righ
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    What stack did you land on?
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    > No one actually has to give you permission to do anything. For now, in the current context (with ai), it seems like a non-ignorable portion of society now wants to limit what kind of code people can write, Ai is apparently sufficiently
22. 352.▲
    by verdverm 1mo ago

    How are design docs changing in the agentic age?
23. 353.▲
    by verdverm 1mo ago

    alignment does not have a uniform definition, so "who gets to decide the right answer?" (1984 has some thoughts on the matter)
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    > bound by safety regulation should be fine I do not believe this is a feature we can differentiate between the "good" and "bad" guys, as the US is currently under a poor safety regulation regime. Democracies can elec
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    Is it still hacker news if you manipulate the listing based on your own bias? I suppose it depends on what point of view we answer from. It is very hacker-newsery to make something like this
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    perhaps they meant "beating" as in aggressively trying to disadvantage while losing the "leading" distance?
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    it's also gemini under the hood, so big G is involved here too https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-intel
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    How is that something that defines humans? The machines break the rules as a matter of fact. It's also really a human deciding to have the machine post, they don't do anything of their own volition, so the person behind it is stil
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    I think the dev holdouts will have to give in on the PR reviews. They catch things and you are delivering less secure software to real people if the luddite desires trump real results for the sake of some false purity test.
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    by verdverm 1mo ago

    capitalism ensures I get high marx on my Ai bill