zahlman

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781.
by zahlman 4mo ago
Pretty much the same with LLMs as in other contexts. You set up a system where LLM output is used as input (a new prompt) as well. Or you have an external system that repeatedly prompts an LLM to "continue" with what it was doing
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> but it somehow lets me bypass akrasia… I get more done in three months even if I get less done in a day. I think this is going to be a big deal for many programmers in the long run. "Flow" comes from feeling faster as much
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> The lack of taste can be mitigated to some degree by improved training, though taste is not a stationary distribution in humans (see trends/fads/etc), we can at least better track the cutting edge. The point of "taste&qu
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Don't try to delegate decisions you care deeply about. > they didn't live the curse of having that kind of person around - if you don't have them PERFECTLY aligned, then they run off at break neck speed in the wrong d
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I've found that if you look over the code and notice and describe a specific problem and solution, the agent can apply a refactoring for you well enough; and that's often faster than editing the file yourself even if you already
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I would expect a language model to do a better job of coping with that kind of uncertainty, inferring type from name and usage, etc.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> So I wrote a little script to hash all my pictures: Would be nice to have the script, or at least the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Of course it would, at least at some point; the model has to… model what it means for a token to be a control token. (And the eventual interface of course has to be secure against end users generating such tokens, but that should be easy
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Academic writing is designed to be frustrating to read. Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but it does come across as intentional sometimes.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> an attacker ... what exactly is your threat model? How are "attackers" getting themselves involved in the first place?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Would be rather difficult for "them" to get it off my $80 CAD vertical flip phone, I dare say.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It's increasingly difficult to accomplish much on the Internet without JavaScript, though. This is an era where literal image hosting sites won't show you an image without it; where it's used to reinvent <details> tags,
793.
by zahlman 4mo ago
What part of this demonstrates corruption, fraud or other crime?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It is exactly what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613400 wrote. > If I hadn't been hearing that the illegal immigrant population has remained unchanged at approximately 11 million for decades The entire po
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Unregulated use of antibiotics has negative consequences for the rest of society, in that it promotes antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. Many people try to take antibiotics (and pressure doctors for prescriptions) for likely viral infec
796.
by zahlman 4mo ago
The point of GP is that the number of illegal immigrants has in fact dramatically increased over that decades-long period, and the people continuing to claim 11 million are at best grossly uninformed.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> It removes a larger share of the ocean work and the fuel burned to do that work. Sure, but as long as ratio of fuel moved:fuel used is good enough, people won't care (as demonstrated by historical data). This isn't an argumen
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> a file named "schön" (s-c-h-combining¨-o-n) Combining marks come after the character they modify, btw. (Presumably thanks to support from things like harfbuzz, modern systems will happily put two dots above an h.)
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by zahlman 4mo ago
You still have to worry about colons on Linux; while they're valid in file and folder names, they prevent folders from being put on PATH and understood properly. (Other characters of course cause usability problems and are potentially
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by zahlman 4mo ago
(how-to in-python (write (interpreter lisp)))
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by zahlman 4mo ago
There have been stories about this kind of certificate expiration before that turned out to be nothingburgers, incluing almost a year ago ( https://lwn.net/Articles/1029767/ ). Mint has already fixed the issue for m
802.
by zahlman 4mo ago
Zero bytes won't ever be part of a multi-byte character in UTF-8. They simply represent code point 0 (which is valid, but wouldn't appear in normal text) by themselves.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
For that matter, the agent harness accumulating "chat history" is state.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I assume the choice of phrase "bitter lesson" is intentional irony (since the original concept is that you get better results by just scaling up and not trying to be clever with domain-specific knowledge)?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Every home, school and office should have a view of at least three trees, be in a neighbourhood with 30% tree cover, and be within 300 metres of a park. The middle one seems a lot harder to me than the other two.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Hmm? What else did I miss?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
5) You'd need image formats that record those channels, and that in turn would cause problems for raw bitmaps with alpha (they either get twice as big or the pixels are no longer aligned).
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Couldn't we capture more of it by just using a slightly bluer green phosphor?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Which is strange, because they did not in fact implement a big (or any) increase in the federal funds rate. I also notice the article is "tagged" as if its title had been split on lowercase 's'es: > Big tech i > bo
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by zahlman 4mo ago
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