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Silent Speech with Ultrasound

alephneuro.com
1 points·by semiquaver·قبل 3 أيام·0 comments

RubyGems Under Attack

twitter.com
11 points·by semiquaver·قبل شهرين·3 comments

Contra Benn Jordan, infrasound issues are fake

blog.andymasley.com
1 points·by semiquaver·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

Models have some pretty funny attractor states

lesswrong.com
3 points·by semiquaver·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Trump's $100K H-1B Visa Fee May Be Here to Stay

lawfaremedia.org
5 points·by semiquaver·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

Congress screwed up on the GENIUS act: stablecoin holders have fifth priority

creditslips.org
4 points·by semiquaver·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

Texas traffic stop reveals pitfalls of police surveillance Intel

houstonchronicle.com
42 points·by semiquaver·قبل 7 أشهر·18 comments

A Tale of Two Emulators – Matt Godbolt

youtube.com
4 points·by semiquaver·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

The RubyGems "Security Incident"

andre.arko.net
177 points·by semiquaver·قبل 9 أشهر·65 comments

Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)

latacora.com
5 points·by semiquaver·قبل 9 أشهر·2 comments

comments

semiquaver
·قبل 5 ساعات·discuss
Yup. There’s infinite latent demand for software, we just don’t know yet.
semiquaver
·أمس·discuss


  > discovered the "life hack" of having an extremely inadequate network
The article covers this. Ambulance providers are strongly incentivized not to join insurance provider networks, and as a result more than 80% of ambulance rides in the US are “out of network”. So the inadequacy of the network is probably not the insurer’s fault.
semiquaver
·أمس·discuss
How dare you point out that 2015 is 11 years ago.
semiquaver
·أمس·discuss
But the bitter lesson is explicitly about scaling compute. If increased human involvement counts as “Scaling” the thesis becomes incoherent.
semiquaver
·أمس·discuss
The quality of sol on effort=none makes me think this test is saturated or they are benchmarkmaxxing this exercise.
semiquaver
·أول أمس·discuss
Real engineers don’t eschew powerful engineering tools because of what their political tribe says about them.
semiquaver
·أول أمس·discuss
iPhone bug: double tapping on a letter zooms in the viewport with no way to zoom back out, permanently breaking the page.
semiquaver
·أول أمس·discuss
For one, you’re not using TypeScript server-side. Whatever execution engine you are using is executing transpiled or JavaScript.

And yeah, I don’t know who in their right mind is starting projects in TS/JS/python these days except when they don’t have an option.
semiquaver
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
Presumably it did not make it to the other Room.
semiquaver
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
Strongly agree here. claude-code’s memory system is occasionally useful but much more often harmful, pulling in obsolete info that muddies the waters about current tasks. I’ve frequently seen Claude’s own memories severely mislead it.

My guess is that has something to do with the training process leaving models unable to differentiate between “what’s happening now” and “what happened before”. Perhaps if making inferences from memories was actually part of the training process things would be different but my sense is that as an inference-time-only feature this just gets the models confused.
semiquaver
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Do you not say your words one-at-a-time like everyone else? Otherwise I can’t see how my comment is “wrong”
semiquaver
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Yeah, and you’re just a next-word-sayer.
semiquaver
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss


  > Anything an AI spits out is pretty much by definition something that either exists in their training set or which can be trivially deduced from something in their training set

What? Have you used modern frontier models? I find it very hard to believe you could interact with them much and maintain this level of misapprehension.
semiquaver
·قبل 9 أيام·discuss
Anything requiring bipartisanship can be gamed with synthetic parties, the legitimacy of which will surely be deemed a nonjusticiable political question.
semiquaver
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss


  > no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century
What on earth do you mean? The practical way is the same as it always was: subsequent amendment. The fact that it requires consensus is a feature.

This reads the same way as people who say things like “we just have to accept that Congress is broken and can’t pass new legislation.” Like hell we do!
semiquaver
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
HN automangled the title, should have a “how” at the beginning. The change makes the headline sound like this is news, but it’s just a description of neutrino detectors.
semiquaver
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss


  > I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity
Conflating things in this inflammatory way is a big mistake. Using a technology employers want you to use is not betraying your friends. Not everything has to be a culture war front.
semiquaver
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
Of course it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still
semiquaver
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
“So it’s all Gell-Mann amnesia?”

“Always has been”
semiquaver
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yes, I edited after about 20 minutes to add examples, mea culpa. Will mark the edit.