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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The article puts it very succinctly: Cloudflare fronts attackers for free and bills the victims for relief. Ddos protection services can be cast as a digital protection racket where they have a perverse incentive to keep attackers attacking
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
> These are deep neural network architectures that are task-specific for things like OCR, translation, or GUI detection. The way they consume and see data is trained to be task specific, which makes them up to 100x more accurate at their
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Meta released Llama just when OpenAI was so hot and its valuation was going through the roof. Speculating, but Meta probably thought the model not competitive enough to keep as a secret weapon but well good enough to commercially damage Op
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
This was a fun read! Thanks for the great introduction to Finite State Transducers. I hadn't heard the formal term before, but your article gave me serious déjà vu. Years ago, I entered a Scrabble programming contest and needed to comp
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Chiming in to agree but clarify that the latest sota models are no better than Gemini. I put my stuff through several sota models and round robin them in adversarial collaboration and they are all useful even though, fundamentally, they don
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
I have found Claude et al good at quickly implementing the algorithm I have in mind effectively, as long as I ask lots of control questions and check code. They aren’t good at inventing non-mainstream algorithms though and often slip stagg
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
That is actually reassuring. I used to try to work this way with people but the culture where I work didn’t align and I found it easier to work this way alone by trying to put myself into critique mode and so on. Now much better to get AI
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Sharing my current MO: I start with a high level design md doc which an AI helps write. Then I ask another AI - whether the same model without the context, or another model - to critique it and spot bugs, gaps and omissions. It always fin
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
The opening paragraphs about how people enamoured by a shiny gadget will overlook a terrible interface brings immediately to my mind the modern day LLMs.
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
A beautiful algorithm. Would there be any value in using simd to check the whole cache line that you fetch for exact matches on the narrowing phase for an early out?
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
My mainstream supermarket in Nordics has for the longest time given individual coupons in their loyalty program. There are three tiers of discount. There are general special offers, advertised widely, to get people through the door. Then
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
I can speak of myself. Sometimes my session starts out well and I get the AI to cruise to 80%. But then gains after that seem impossible and what was built steadily unravels and then I get the compacting conversation message and realise t
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Just curious, did the move on Greenland and Iran have national security interest? And is it economical or life threatening?
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
The general problem the average user has with a metered instead of provisioned billing model for computer services is you can’t easily control for cost overruns. From the old days customers getting stung for hosting costs when slashdotted
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Yes air source are really good value in cost effectiveness terms, especially when a house has an existing central heating system they can connect to. But their COP - whilst dramatically improving in the last 10-20 years - is still behind g
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
The downvotes are unfair. The price of things - heat pumps and alternatives - in different regions - even different regions within the US - varies by what people are prepared to pay not what they cost to produce. The nordics have traditiona
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
In the nordics it is common to have ground source heat pumps (brine in closed circuit pipe or bore hole) that are run backwards in summer to cool the house while actually assisting in storing heat back in the ground to extract in the winter
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
The examiners would delight in you entertaining them. It’s fine to argue anything, wilfully misinterpret the question or say outlandish things. All that matters is you give the examiner a window into your mind showing it to be clever and a
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Yes that was one issue. It’s not the general degradation I have been talking about though, which is ongoing. I recall reading similar tales of woe with other providers here on HN. I think the gradual dialling back of capability as capacit
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Me and so many coworkers have been struggling with a big cognitive decline in Claude over the last two months. 4.5 was useful and 4.6 was great. I had my own little benchmark and 4.5 could just about keep track of a two way pointer merge
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Stock markets are too high and set to fall, says Bank of England deputy(bbc.com)
38 points by wood_spirit 6mo ago|23 comments
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Reminds me of Roy Van Rijn’s prototype that got a cease and desist letter! Lots of community disappointment at the time! https://hn.algolia.com/?q=royvanrijn
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
I write bad, but my text editor is putting little grammar and spelling squiggly lines under everything and I click through them and end up with very AI-like text. My emails even end up with emdash in them. It’s to shrug. You don’t know if
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Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model(bbc.com)
6 points by wood_spirit 6mo ago|0 comments
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
How does a highly automated factory zone in the Philippines gel with the administrations promise of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US?
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Such a disconnect from the minutes I’ve lost and given up on Gemini trying to get it to update a diagram in a slide today. The one shot joke stuff is great but trying to say “that is close but just make this small change” seems impossible.
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Most uranium mining is from Russia/CIS and those African counties that have experienced the recent wave of Wagner-assisted coups. The West needs to be energy independent, not just swap who it is dependent upon?
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by wood_spirit 6mo ago
Through a modern lenses and with hindsight and memes that follow from napoleons failed attempt we can say flippant things like this and say napoleon wasn’t a genius. But students of history and future generals will obviously investigate th
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by wood_spirit 7mo ago
And Swedish houses, particularly detached houses built or renovated the 70s. Typically used for storing boxes.
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by wood_spirit 7mo ago
Or the company data has been compromised. That’s a really common way for emails to ‘leak’.

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