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by xpe 1y ago
My hope was to shift the conversation away from people disagreeing about words to people understanding each other. When a person reads e.g. "an LLM thinks" I'm pretty sure that person translates it sufficiently well to unde
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> What about pardoning 8,000 people by autopen? Is there more to this comment than whataboutism? The core concern raised in this part of the thread is Trump's outsized corruption: > It's all transactional. Do something Trump
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My main issue is how Trump said one thing and did another: > “It won’t interfere with the current building,” Trump said on July 31. “It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the bi
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by xpe 1y ago
> Reminds of Biden pardoning his relatives without even saying for what. Just blanked pardon for everything. No democrat dropped his jaw. Everyone I talked to (more than 10, including myself) that I knew who voted for Biden was pissed,
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by xpe 1y ago
> I wish they’d stop with the anthropomorphizations You mean in how Claude interacts with you, right? If so, you can change the system prompt (under "styles") and explain what you want and don't want. > Claude doesn’t “
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Embarrassingly, it took me a minute to realize Muratori is not Haruki Murakami, the Japanese novelist ("What I Talk About When I Talk About Running").
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Any sensible person should probably be riled up -- or at least dissatified -- when an article contains this: > With this approach, he claims he can always understand if someone is a competent programmer, and he has never seen it fail.
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In the US, given the current trajectory, I see a frightening and bleak future.* Due to the Trump administration and the people who enable it, the United States is highly degraded and getting worse every day. I'll list what comes to min
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TL;DR: I recommend downloading and reading the "News Integrity in AI Assistants TOOLKIT" (PDF) [1] linked from the article. =Why?= The PDF is something that can appeal to anyone who is simply striving to have slower, deeper conv
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The two paragraphs I quoted come from the description of the book, directly from the publisher: Stanford University Press. Below, I'll quote some sections from the book directly. But first, I will be transparent in saying I think the b
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Thanks for mentioning Byung-Chul Han and The Transparency Society. I previously worked for an organization that promoted government transparency. Here, I'd like to share my take in the hopes of it being useful and/or getting feedb
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> train on bad data, get a bad model Right: in the context of supervised learning, this statement is a good starting point. After all, how can one build a good supervised model if you can't train it on good examples? But even in tha
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I'm currently exploring how different APIs compute ETags [1]. I'm inclined to think the overhead of Merkle-trees make them relatively less useful for ETags for paginated APIs where responses are small and flat hashing is fast. One
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Sure. Do you have anything in mind for using it somehow?
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How Certificate Transparency fits into the Web PKI ecosystem(certificate.transparency.dev)
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For those in the know... Do you have any recommended reading for Merkle-curious people that may have some scars from blockchain-related hype? It would be nice to find a nice introductory resource that covers some interesting use-cases that
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Ok, to synthesize: there is a difference between the legislative branch having some authority (e.g. granted by the Constitution) versus the administrative branch having some legal authority (e.g. based on legislation).
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You wrote: > Government no longer has the power or authority to constrain private enterprise; especially in highly technical sectors. Perhaps you meant only this: "Government no longer has the power ..."? It is clear governme
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> This is what government is for, and not to stifle innovation We should compare how anti-government politicians talk versus how trained, educated neoclassical economists talk. The latter readily recognize that a valid function of govern
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There is much more to concerns about AI than fear mongering. Reasonable people can disagree on predictions about probabilities of future events, but they should not discount reasonable arguments .
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Of course government has the authority to represent the people; if not it, then who or what does?
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this is pure absturtity! ("absturtlety"?)
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Two things. First, some economists study stated versus revealed preferences. [1] The idea is to figure out what people do rather than what they say they will do. Second, in the case of people making feature requests, it could be a net-s
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Even if you don't use KDL, you might enjoy seeing its use of "slashdash comments" -- this is a great idea to steal if you ever write your own language! [1] package name my-pkg version "1.2.3"
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I recently came across KDL when searching for a data language that makes it easy to compactly write out a structured document. It seems likely it isn't widely known about, at least among general HN readers, so I wanted to share it. If
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KDL: A small document language with node semantics(kdl.dev)
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Thanks for sharing goose. This phase of LLM product development feels a bit like the Tower of Babel days with Cloud services before wrapper tools became popular and more standardization happened.
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Better when blastin' Skills by Gang Starr (headphones recommended if at work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgmy9qlZElc
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Yes and as we rely on AI to help us choose our tools... the phenomena feels very different, don't you think? Human thinking, writing, talking, etc is becoming less important in this feedback loop seems to me.
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abstractions all the way down: abstraction abstraction abstraction abstraction ...

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