MichaelMoser123

9 days agodiscuss

Wow. Now did you try to check the setup with something like Claude Fable? Will it find issues, what kind of issues? Another question: how many tokens did this effort cost? Did you learn new prompting tricks?

MichaelMoser123

2 months agodiscuss

i happened to liked Google AI mode, even wrote a composition about that [1] Now it is going to be enshittified, which is probably inevitable.

https://github.com/MoserMichael/tips_on_using_google_ai_mode

MichaelMoser123

9 months agodiscuss

CNN is quoting data from the Gaza health ministry, an organization run by genocidal Islamist Hamas, without mentioning its affiliation and without questioning the data. So much for objectivity on CNN and "Hacker News". There is also no mention on the food convoys that get plundered by Hamas. Just to mention: Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization in the US, since 1997 - just adding some missing background information.

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

We noticed the sincerity of this outreach on the 7th of October 2023, with 1,195 people butchered by the terrorists and 251 hostages taken. We are still grappling with the results.

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

I have a naive question, as a foreigner: do European leaders have any kind of leverage on their US allies?

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

the state as such consists of many entities, all these entities are not all pulling into the same direction.

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

Hard to tell if the sanctions are targeted at the population or at the military industrial complex of Russia. I am not an expert in these matters.

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

that's a slippery slope. The Russian government is also justifying all of its censorship with foreign interference (this line of argument works with the Russian public, just to note), take care!

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

Thanks kernel_lover! I don't think he did, he is a very civil person, by any standards. I get flagged occasionally, when talking about topics similar to that of this article, but don't think that Dang has anything to do with it.

(on the other hand, I got less involved with Hacker News, probably because I don't have much to say about AI/LLM and because of that discernible bias in middle east politics over here)

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

>It's pretty evident that the person who wrote your article is just complaining that wikipedia is at least somewhat resistant to being used as a platform for pushing zionist propaganda.

you violated NPOV

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

i think the key passage of this article is when they discuss the shortcomings of the wikipedia arbitration process (Arbcom) - however the wikimedia foundation is not exactly short on cash.

'''The charges are serious, and the evidence backing them up abundant. Nevertheless, seven months later the Arbcom case is still pending. The reason is systemic: in a lengthy request for arbitration on a separate PIA case, one of Wikipedia’s arbitrators noted that the final decision-making panel is staffed by 12 volunteers, only 10 of whom are active. “It is clear that AE [arbitration enforcement] has run out of steam to handle the morass of editor conduct issues in PIA,” the arbitrator wrote. “PIA is a Gordian knot; and AE has run short of knot detanglers.”

Electing more Arbcom members would require a massive overhaul of the site’s governing regulations, a task akin to the US government amending its constitution. And though Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the site, has around $500 million in assets, because of the air-gap between Wikipedia and WMF and the volunteer ethos of Wikipedia’s mission not a penny can be used to hire people to oversee contentious topics.'''

MichaelMoser123

last yeardiscuss

https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-edit... - There is even an article that explains exactly how 'a powerful group of editors is hijacking wikipedia, pushing pro-palestinian propaganda, erasing key facts about hamas, and reshaping the narrative around Israel with alarming influence'

MichaelMoser123

2 years agodiscuss

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MichaelMoser123

3 years agodiscuss

if anyone tries to check this approach in practice (on a smaller scale), wouldn't that be prohibited under the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat...

MichaelMoser123

3 years agodiscuss

Well, non of them in particular. But without side projects i would have lost interest long ago.

Here they are: https://github.com/mosermichael

MichaelMoser123

4 years agodiscuss

Google will have to match that somehow. I guess the search engine wars are getting hot again.

I think the real challenge is internationalization - it would be a challenge to build GPT-N like models for all the other languages, that work as well as the original one.

Interesting if Google will roll it's own language model for that purpose. Is it possible, that we might get several language models, each one for a specific category of users, or would that approach lead to a loss in generality/quality?

MichaelMoser123

4 years agodiscuss

Smatbear has a great article on code reviews https://smartbear.com/blog/avoiding-the-politics-of-code-rev...

He has the following suggestions:

    - "Ensure that reviews are two-way. Never have people who only review and people who only get reviewed."
    - "Always focus on the code and not the person who wrote the code."
    - "Make the reviews small, frequent, and informal. Marathon group sessions in rooms make people defensive."
    - "Frame things as questions and suggestions rather than orders and accusations. Ask that others do the same."
    - "Automate as many checks as possible so that reviews don't focus on simple details."
    - You can frame the review as optional "asking for advice" instead of a gatekeeper approach of "getting the code approved"
    - Says that the potential harm of the bad approach is worse than taking up the risks, that is taking the risks that come with the policy of not requiring a code review for each and every commit.

MichaelMoser123

4 years agodiscuss

Did he say anything about cloud providers/the SaaS loophole? I mean they do anything with GPL licensed software, as distribution does not happen. The AGPL addresses this issue, but it does not seem to be used much.

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/the-saas-...

MichaelMoser123

4 years agodiscuss

I saw that back in the nineties: my employee had an interviewing task where you had to look at a c++ listing with obvious errors, the task was to find the errors, like memory leaks, buffer overruns, use of stack allocated memory, etc. Actually few candidates would pass this test...

I don't think they will do this: the interviewing process at most places seems to emulate that of the industry leader, nowadays that's google, correct me if I am wrong.

MichaelMoser123

5 years agodiscuss

is it possible, that the state wants to grab this contractor and make it his own?

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