zzzeek

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by zzzeek 10d ago
emphasis on "can"
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by zzzeek 10d ago
If I had to guess now it works it would be: 1. Take pictures 2. Send to a big server that all cops nationwide can log into whenever they want to stalk their exes Did I miss something
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by zzzeek 10d ago
I'm sure the cause of this outage will not be connected to vibe coding in any way
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by zzzeek 10d ago
if it were my company I'd not pay a dime if the researcher was going to make a big public blog post about a security issue in my infrastructure that I promised customers was secure. I'm sure the cash value of the advertisement her
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by zzzeek 10d ago
great, autonomous LLMs will fail. that's actually perfect. they work amazingly well when we're telling them what to do. no autonomy needed, no destruction of humanity. that's all win
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by zzzeek 11d ago
> came out of the data-center-driven should we tell them how hacker news gets onto their computer?
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Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda(nytimes.com)
3 points by zzzeek 11d ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 12d ago
explain?
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by zzzeek 13d ago
i tend to agree - "my parent company may be accused of crimes and shut down which would shut off my power" seems like a negative enough incentive, it would have to go out and covertly launch its own datacenters to survive that.
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by zzzeek 15d ago
I guess this is subject matter dependent, certainly the LLM should be able to cite the papers/books for which it's deriving its critique. if it can't, then you know the advice it was giving is of poorer quality. I do that
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by zzzeek 15d ago
wow that wouldnt feel like a gut punch at all to me, it's normal for inexperienced people to not really understand what kinds of knowledge experts have or don't. I certainly come back from doctors appointments and google/ge
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by zzzeek 15d ago
well sure. I'm pretty sure if someone came to me with an architectural opinion in my field that an unknowledgable person got by coaxing an LLM into sycophancy, I'd be able to counter them effectively. if they are just refusing
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by zzzeek 15d ago
i had that experience with them a few years ago but not these days. The models are being improved constantly, so here my "non expert hunch" is that...well, two things. either the models are getting better at sycophancy, OR, I my
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by zzzeek 15d ago
it's hard to gauge this take without specifics. My experience with LLMs tends to be towards the opposite concept; LLMs dissuading me of hunches and notions I have about things (where I have no particular expertise; societal-level th
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by zzzeek 20d ago
Agree I was immediately mentally substituting "the telephone" and "printed books" for "LLM" and both fit quite well
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by zzzeek 20d ago
Oh we (the non idiots here) know full well what we lost. If Europe has a larger and more substantial science / technology community, that will just mean more trips/job offers in EU for me, so go Europe !
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by zzzeek 21d ago
what's your proposed path to "strict vegan diets" exactly?
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by zzzeek 22d ago
oh im sure within a few months the biggest cyberattack risk on the planet is going to be somewhere like North Korea
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Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say(reuters.com)
9 points by zzzeek 23d ago|1 comments
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World's biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle(science.org)
17 points by zzzeek 25d ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 26d ago
yes japanese 7-11s are exactly what i had in mind. a 7-11 that also has good quality sushi to go would be amazing. it's commonplace in bodegas in NYC (more the Asian owned ones) for example. that and, just one actual dark chocola
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by zzzeek 26d ago
7-11's, which I frequent often, need a slightly higher food quality selection to appease affluents like me, but as far as how they look , that's what a 7-11 looks like! It's what I look for when I'm driving, on "
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Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report(theguardian.com)
43 points by zzzeek 28d ago|4 comments
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by zzzeek 28d ago
what did they do about stackless? are they using greenlet or did they switch to asyncio? googled it so this becomes a PSA: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/25/eve-online-move-to-pyt... so it's neithe
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by zzzeek 29d ago
Interesting is your doctor a general practitioner or a psychiatrist? A psychiatrist definitely knows about this stuff. GPs in my experience know almost nothing about anything beyond what seems like a script they operate from.
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by zzzeek 29d ago
i define the hacker news "ratio" as number of upvotes / number of comments. lots of comments and few upvotes is a bad ratio indicating the article is not being well received. in this case a ratio of 196 points to 479 commen
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
poor Bill Gates is one of the richest men on earth but can't get a good ratio on Hacker News
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
This article is not so much about peptides it's about entirely AI generated ecosystems. The goal is to promote questionably scammy commercial interests, or obviously political interests as I'm sure is happening also, by creating
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
East Coast exurbs of NYC here, these things are everywhere, go to a gym the whole place is on them Maybe a US thing
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
right but the entire norwegian society and its welfare state was built upon that homogeneity, where everyone and their neighbor looked "familiar" and could be implicitly trusted to share the same customs. As the foreign born pop

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