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by fastball 6d ago
If you have a business account the terms say they will not train on your data, so that seems like the easiest route to avoid such questions for researchers.
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by fastball 6d ago
Yeah this meta commentary on HN is very confusing for me. The structure of the article is literally - short paragraph saying "we launched neki" - short paragraph saying why neki was needed - paragraphs about what neki is (with a h
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by fastball 6d ago
You can also find that in first section of the linked post (after the intro)...
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by fastball 10d ago
I appreciate your wanting to introduce nuance into the discussion, but nuance isn't really needed here. Two commenters replied to GP saying "Pro-hamas activists don't exist", which is untrue. That was my claim, and that
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by fastball 10d ago
Very clearly untrue. Just search for "people waving hamas paraglider flags" on Google and you will find plenty of sources[1], like this. Basically every movement/organization on earth has activists who support their activitie
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by fastball 10d ago
That's exactly the point though: if you are choosing to platform some and not others, and some (many? most?) of the groups you are choosing to platform are violent groups, you very quickly run out of plausible deniability.
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by fastball 10d ago
> A/I’s cadre of radical hackers and tech developers provide a full spectrum of services Pun intended?
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by fastball 10d ago
Not really? Nobody is talking about source-available code with a restrictive license. People are talking about having LLMs write up protocols and libraries and firmwares from scratch and making those freely available, as in open source.
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by fastball 12d ago
How is that relevant?
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by fastball 12d ago
AFAIK it's just yolo mode, which doesn't actually do any checks like Claude Code's auto-mode (which has a model checking all commands for safety).
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by fastball 13d ago
Are we sure an Astra hacker swarm didn't compromise arcprize.org's servers and exfiltrate the private eval set in order to achieve that 99%?
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by fastball 13d ago
Codex's lack of auto-mode is what prevents me from using it for serious work compared to Claude Code.
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by fastball 15d ago
Output tokens are 5x more expensive than input tokens, so I'm not sure "dominate" is entirely correct. A conversation with 20 turns, 50k tok growth per turn, 1m tok context at end would price out like this: Fable 5 ($1/M
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by fastball 17d ago
Say more?
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by fastball 18d ago
I wish model providers would stop committing chart crimes in their releases. - if you're gonna order the rest of the bar chart by rank, order your model accordingly. - if you're gonna highlight a winner in a table of benchmarks,
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by fastball 20d ago
Do large development teams care about Firefox?
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by fastball 21d ago
The problem is that neither you nor I have evidence that says they should be paying , either.
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by fastball 22d ago
Nth order effects are powerful things. A single person could change the trajectory of Louisiana in a meaningful way.
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by fastball 22d ago
As much incentive as the oil & gas industry receives?
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by fastball 22d ago
hundreds of millions unpaid and zero investigative journalism to try to get at the truth, besides "liens filed therefore Elon Musk is a cheapskate".
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by fastball 26d ago
You can test for test vacuity with mutation testing, using tools like Stryker (for JS). In my experience this significantly helps models to write tests that actually test for correctness rather than aligned assumptions.
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by fastball 26d ago
So we don't want companies to buy books and scan them and do whatever they want afterwards, but we also don't want to allow piracy of digital copies (the $1.5B Anthropic settlement)? Bit of a rock and a hard place for them.
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by fastball 27d ago
What Microsoft models?
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by fastball 28d ago
It would take like 30s of vibe-coding (including writing the prompt) to add support for AGENTS.md to claude code.
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by fastball 1mo ago
Well the difference is that most home water filtration systems (e.g. Brita et al) are made out of plastic, so even if their filters do reduce microplastic levels, making that claim to consumers ("our plastic filters help reduce plast
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by fastball 1mo ago
It's not really a unit of measurement but rather just what you'd call the container[1], which in turn is 5 gallon / 19L. But nobody says "My 19L water jug", they they just say "My water gallon". Since most
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by fastball 1mo ago
Yeah, in Indonesia (and other parts of the world), the 5-gallon jug you would stick in e.g. a water cooler is called a "water gallon".
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by fastball 1mo ago
There is a company[1] in Indonesia that actually makes very nice versions of this tech. [1] https://www.terrawaterindonesia.com/
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by fastball 1mo ago
Moral posturing also doesn't equate to moral or ethical goodness. That said, effectiveness actually is a frequent shortcut to goodness, in that effectiveness often leads to efficiency and efficiency is one of the best methods of indi
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by fastball 1mo ago
In my experience your criticism of the writing is valid in all Claude 5 models, so I wonder if it is somehow related to the new tokenizer introduced in gen 5.

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