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Silent Speech with Ultrasound

alephneuro.com
1 points·by semiquaver·vor 3 Tagen·0 comments

RubyGems Under Attack

twitter.com
11 points·by semiquaver·vor 2 Monaten·3 comments

Contra Benn Jordan, infrasound issues are fake

blog.andymasley.com
1 points·by semiquaver·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Models have some pretty funny attractor states

lesswrong.com
3 points·by semiquaver·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

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

lawfaremedia.org
5 points·by semiquaver·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

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

creditslips.org
4 points·by semiquaver·vor 7 Monaten·1 comments

Texas traffic stop reveals pitfalls of police surveillance Intel

houstonchronicle.com
42 points·by semiquaver·vor 7 Monaten·18 comments

A Tale of Two Emulators – Matt Godbolt

youtube.com
4 points·by semiquaver·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

The RubyGems "Security Incident"

andre.arko.net
177 points·by semiquaver·vor 9 Monaten·65 comments

Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)

latacora.com
5 points·by semiquaver·vor 9 Monaten·2 comments

comments

semiquaver
·vor 12 Stunden·discuss
Yup. There’s infinite latent demand for software, we just don’t know yet.
semiquaver
·gestern·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
·vorgestern·discuss
How dare you point out that 2015 is 11 years ago.
semiquaver
·vorgestern·discuss
But the bitter lesson is explicitly about scaling compute. If increased human involvement counts as “Scaling” the thesis becomes incoherent.
semiquaver
·vorgestern·discuss
The quality of sol on effort=none makes me think this test is saturated or they are benchmarkmaxxing this exercise.
semiquaver
·vorgestern·discuss
Real engineers don’t eschew powerful engineering tools because of what their political tribe says about them.
semiquaver
·vorgestern·discuss
iPhone bug: double tapping on a letter zooms in the viewport with no way to zoom back out, permanently breaking the page.
semiquaver
·vor 3 Tagen·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
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Presumably it did not make it to the other Room.
semiquaver
·vor 8 Tagen·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
·vor 9 Tagen·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
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Yeah, and you’re just a next-word-sayer.
semiquaver
·vor 9 Tagen·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
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Anything requiring bipartisanship can be gamed with synthetic parties, the legitimacy of which will surely be deemed a nonjusticiable political question.
semiquaver
·vor 10 Tagen·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
·vor 16 Tagen·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
·vor 19 Tagen·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
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
Of course it is.

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

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