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by doctoboggan 4d ago
I recently purchased some very rural land with a cabin that I put on AirBnB. The address is a different road than the driveway is and all the maps took drivers around 1 mile away with no way to find the actual driveway. I had to go through
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Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development(axios.com)
12 points by doctoboggan 4d ago|6 comments
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by doctoboggan 5d ago
The administration is way behind the curve on this one. Data center opposition is one of the rare areas that has bipartisan support.
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by doctoboggan 7d ago
v1 to v2 is the biggest leap, and each leap after that is smaller and smaller. Just look at the difference between the 17 pro and 18 pro.
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by doctoboggan 7d ago
Just a reminder to everyone, always buy the second version of any new product category, even from Apple. The first duo will look primitive in a few refresh cycles. It does look really cool though!
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by doctoboggan 8d ago
I use it for audiobooks. They are served up by Plex and I use the Prologue iOS app which is a great audiobook listening experience.
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by doctoboggan 8d ago
I think all he big labs are pretty explicit about when they do and don't train on customer prompts. Is the accusation here that OpenAI trained on prompts when they claimed not to? Or were the mathematicians using one of the interfaces
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
Claude will be able to help you with everything you need. If you don't have Claude code then the various self hosted subreddits are a good starting point. I had Claude do a sweep of the recent reddit posts to capture the current most r
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
After reading a lot of reddit threads I settled on ReadMeABook[0] and it has been working great so far. One pretty cool feature is that it lets you connect an LLM API key and then you can have it make requests based on your library. I now h
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
Thanks, fixed
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
Step one is to just let Claude have ssh access to the machine you run plex from and let him do a full sweep. I had some conflicting profile rules and was not properly blocking malware and not properly marking failures so they were never ret
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
Yes it really does, and I intend to switch eventually but from what I heard the last time I looked into it, the end user clients are a big area where plex still beats Jellyfin. Since that’s where my non technical friends and family mostly i
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by doctoboggan 9d ago
As a long time plex user with a lifetime pass, I always enjoy seeing the good progress with Jellyfin as it will increasingly give me a soft landing for when Plex finally does something to make me move. At the very least it will hopefully ke
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by doctoboggan 12d ago
Isn't it the cost we care about, rather than the speed? All we know know is that a frontier AI lab was able to do it in 11 days, we have no idea how much compute they threw at it.
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by doctoboggan 12d ago
I am not sure it’s a question of competence, at least I don’t see evidence of that. Designing sandboxes is hard. It’s more a question of alignment failures. A human given a task that requires internet and given a system with no internet wou
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by doctoboggan 13d ago
Me too! I recently made this bluesky bot that finds and posts them: https://bsky.app/profile/hnwiki.bsky.social
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by doctoboggan 13d ago
Wouldn’t that be ASI? I.e. surpassing humans by outputting novel treatments at a far greater rate than normal humans?
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by doctoboggan 14d ago
I remember watching that as a young teen with a libertarian bent. As an old man who no longer identifies as libertarian that episode for some reason has stuck with me as the arguments were pretty compelling. I agree and would like to know i
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by doctoboggan 15d ago
I have a backlog of content from the past, and if nothing is posted in 48hours I have it post something from the backlog
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by doctoboggan 16d ago
I just made this! https://bsky.app/profile/hnwiki.bsky.social
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Show HN: A Bluesky bot that shares Wikipedia links from the HN front page(bsky.app)
5 points by doctoboggan 16d ago|2 comments
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by doctoboggan 16d ago
A bit of a meta comment: I love when wikipedia articles are posted to HN, I always click on them as I know they will be interesting. On one of the recent wikipedia article posts (Glacier Mice I believe) someone commented that there should b
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by doctoboggan 16d ago
Yes you are right not sure how I flubbed that one. Made an edit in my comment.
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by doctoboggan 16d ago
If you read the "Manufacture" section you will find this: > Wulf Hein and Kurt Wehrberger conducted an experimental replication with the kinds of stone tools available at the time. Removing the base of the tusk took ten hours.
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by doctoboggan 18d ago
> Ajeya Cotra, one of the other authors on the report, wrote a blog post with her takeaways from this incident. She concludes, “Compared to the reward hacks we know of from just six months ago, this incident feels like it’s more than 50%
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by doctoboggan 18d ago
At this point, I think anthropomorphizing the models gives us better insight into expected behaviors rather than continuing to insist they are just simple probabilistic token generators.
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by doctoboggan 22d ago
> Apple’s most powerful Mac raises the bar for local AI Wow, "Local AI" mentioned in the subheading above the fold - it's really awesome to see Apple leaning into this use case and I think it will definitely pay off for th
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by doctoboggan 23d ago
Sorry, I thought we were talking about Human + LLM agent for software development. I misinterpreted your initial statement.
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by doctoboggan 23d ago
> the days when a human can do anything to help AI there are long past; the human can only drag it down. I disagree, currently a human guiding an AI agent is far better (more productive for less money) than an AI agent with very loose no
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by doctoboggan 23d ago
> Local AI would thwart this vision While I agree Local AI would be a good goal, even the huge open weight models that can't be run locally are already thwarting the US AI lab's duopoly. Other companies can and do serve up thes

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