behindsight

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by behindsight 1mo ago
I agree as long as you are very upfront about it being a learning/stream of conciousness blogpost, then it should be fine to watch how someone's learning journey progresses. The author does outline the steps they take to make it c
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by behindsight 1mo ago
OMP has this, it's called "/shake" where bloat from tool calls and such is turned into an artifact ref instead of remaining in the context. There are other pruning or compaction strategies you can configure too. You can
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by behindsight 2mo ago
Wasn't it stated as being in "preview" prior to this? If implementing non-trivial tasks on a preview model surely there is some anticipation of it not being the final stable release? Unless you mean they should have appended
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by behindsight 2mo ago
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/ but on a serious note it is a bit more than some guy's list, it's more of an initiative that was started by the Mozilla Foundation and is used by: - browsers: Firefox, Ch
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by behindsight 2mo ago
the main reason they mentioned [1] for radicle.network is because their old domain radicle.xyz was blocked in some places by some lists that they think was because it may have hosted certain UGC that triggered some flags. > Content about
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by behindsight 2mo ago
The blog's visual design is quite pleasant to read. However I am a bit confused by the author's remarks > I do NOT EVER consent to ANYTHING being done in regard to AI in my name. > With newer sites like Bio Link and FediProf
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by behindsight 2mo ago
thank you so much for the clarification! Yes, you're correct. The vouch button doesn't appear when viewing the thread context containing the `[dead]` comment. It only appears when clicking the specific comment directly via its per
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by behindsight 2mo ago
I have vouched a couple (~3-5) benign comments a while back and now I no longer have a vouch button for comments. I don't know if the vouch threshold has increased or if the mods have removed my ability to vouch for other comments enti
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by behindsight 2mo ago
very well said, and I have been rooting for the team big time! if you have an alliance hub for discussions with those also building open infrastructure tooling, please let me know! have already been in the Mozilla AI discord since last year
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by behindsight 3mo ago
Project Glasswing is already a thing, and the other labs have started their own initiatives too if they want to collaborate and work on securing closed-source software. Still not addressed the moral clarity point being brought up, nor the r
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by behindsight 3mo ago
if you go to the full changelog on the blog and click on the "retired" button, the url will have type=deprecations as the parameter. It's a holdover from previous posts where there were more clearly defined deprecations. but
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by behindsight 3mo ago
> Retired? What does that even mean in this context "retired" is probably a followup to functionality that was "deprecated". I agree "breaking" would be clearer
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by behindsight 4mo ago
the CTO of Cloudflare (hn: dknecht) said: > It is in the works. The billing team has been sprinting to fix a lot of debt in this area. I don’t have a date. https://x.com/dok2001/status/2051220429973389622
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by behindsight 5mo ago
been cranking on this too but not just for snark but for spam/scam heuristics too. it's something I feel is finally viable to combat at zero cost to the user. This plus webmcp would allow it to serve as a form of automod too on we
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by behindsight 7mo ago
I'm building this. Initially it was to do codegen for tools/sdks/docs but will incorporate webmcp as part of it. I wanted to make FOSS codegen that was not locked behind paywalls + had wasm plugins to extend it.
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by behindsight 7mo ago
On a similar vein is the "argument from fallacy" aka fallacist's fallacy. [1] Essentially if you dismiss someone's argument as false just because it may have had a fallacy within it, that reasoning is itself a fallacy. S
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by behindsight 7mo ago
It's explicitly called out as excluded in the blue info bubble they have there. > Fast mode usage is billed directly to extra usage, even if you have remaining usage on your plan. This means fast mode tokens do not count against you
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by behindsight 8mo ago
While it's commendable, the reality is they should have already "figured out" how to play the system and just farmed the reward points from credit cards and immediately pay them off without incurring any interest. You get a g
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by behindsight 9mo ago
Out of curiosity, do you have watch history enabled/disabled? I found the feed with it enabled is much better than disabled and I have it finetuned to be more in line with the niches I care about. I am also very proactive with marking
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by behindsight 9mo ago
ah thank you for the context
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by behindsight 9mo ago
sidenote: just a heads up that I tried emailing you recently to let you know that you might want to contact the HN mods to find out why all your comments get set to dead/hidden automatically. Your account might have triggered some flag
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by behindsight 9mo ago
> You can also do some inbetween systems programming in C# if you don’t care about a VM or msft. C# Native AOT gets rid of the JIT and gives you a pretty good perf+memory profile compared to the past. It's mostly the stigma of .NET
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by behindsight 10mo ago
oh this is very cool! I've been building in my spare time a spam/scam blocking extension and was also playing around with the experimental in-browser LLM feature for this (alongside Aho–Corasick, Naive Bayes and other classifiers)
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by behindsight 10mo ago
> The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing sim
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by behindsight 11mo ago
great stuff, working on something around agentic tooling and hope to collab with Mozilla AI as well in the future as they share the same values I have
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by behindsight 1y ago
Interesting questions, I can later provide more links to more indepth security resources that go over similar points if you would be interested but currently on my phone so I will just jot down some quick surface level points. > If a mal
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by behindsight 1y ago
> I always have to manually copy/paste the credentials. I really hope you clear your clipboard history entirely after doing your copy/paste method because your credentials would otherwise persist for any other application with
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NPM Package Provenance (2023)(github.blog)
2 points by behindsight 1y ago|2 comments
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by behindsight 1y ago
Reminder, you can audit all your npm packages to see if they provide provenance attestation with: npm audit signatures you can use this to also provide a gentle reminder to package authors to consider setting one up (or replacing t
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by behindsight 1y ago
> How is it possible that this code (line 9 of the index.js) isn't present in the source github repo, but can be seen in the beta feature of npmjs.com You may also be interested in npm package provenance [1] which lets you sign your

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