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by flatline 5d ago
Does mathematics still have a practical impact without humans in the loop? I don't think there's one single answer to that question, but I think it's worth considering exactly what that impact may be. Tech companies are as mu
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by flatline 11d ago
Isn’t the implication that the vulnerability had already been found and exploited instead of reported to Google, because its value to Google was so low? Whoever found it originally had more incentive to sell it on the grey/black market
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by flatline 13d ago
It’s Foucault’s interpretation of the panopticon. If we know that we may be watched — and punished — we self-police into following the norm, even if we do not know when we are being watched or that someone is necessarily monitoring us indiv
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by flatline 16d ago
Same, this is like blogspam in the days of old that doesn't add anything to the original content and is just there to generate revenue for this site. The linked posts are better and per HN guidelines the toplink should probably be chan
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by flatline 20d ago
General doesn’t mean it applies to literally everyone. If autism turns out to be a specific condition that is e.g. the result of abnormal neuron pruning during early development, it could have a wide array of symptoms, but that understandin
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by flatline 20d ago
This line of thinking diminishes the real struggles autistic people face. Not everyone is autistic, and it's not just a quirky set of traits. I do believe society could be better arranged for people who for whatever reason don't c
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by flatline 23d ago
I’m not sure why you were downvoted. I have to use Windows for work. The barrier to entry is simply lower for many system administrators and users alike. The homogeneity of a Windows rollout is extremely attractive. You are going to have a
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by flatline 26d ago
Their sandbox just sucked, the agent found a route through artifactory which was also connected to the internet. After the agent breached it, they put it back in the patched sandbox and it found its way out with another artifactory exploit
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by flatline 26d ago
I think I agree with you in spirit. I don’t like what these companies are doing, and Anthropic’s actions can for the most part stand on their own. Copyright law is just a special interest of mine, and I do think it’s important to recognize
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by flatline 26d ago
Why would a company keep the hard-copy around at the risk of it being inadvertently given away, resold, etc.? It's a huge outstanding liability given that the illegal copying of works -- the other part of that case -- is what they sett
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by flatline 26d ago
They cannot scan the books then resell them or donate them under current US copyright law. It’s not clear to me that they could warehouse them if they wanted. In the recent Bartz v Anthropic case the judge ruled this destruction as legal, s
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by flatline 1mo ago
This is why we have hierarchies of abstraction. Pretty much every field of mathematics relies on constructing notations, models, and other tools to simplify things in a way that is verifiable. LLMs rely on the same basic technique, they can
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by flatline 1mo ago
You deploy an application that ostensibly has the desired capabilities but it fails at scale, or the architecture is not extensible to add new capabilities or fix bugs. Those are expensive mistakes and in safety-critical domains could be de
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by flatline 1mo ago
The author kept acting in good faith till the other party stopped doing so, which I took as the actual resolution to this story. Maybe when you stop treating people like rational adults when they have demonstrated otherwise is where you fin
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by flatline 1mo ago
I agree about OpenRouter. The AI Gateway number [0] is likely the figure that was actually coming to mind. Moreover, Qwen models alone have overtaken the previously-dominant Llama models in hf downloads by quite a margin. Real question, and
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by flatline 1mo ago
I knew when I wrote that it was a bare assertion, based partly on memory. This is an approximation based on a few sources, the principal of which was this article, which pulls from a bunch of other sources in turn. https://www.se
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by flatline 1mo ago
I watched the full video and their conclusion was: service providers need to be doing this type of agent red-teaming continuously to counteract the attack sophistication of systems like theirs that are either extant now or soon will be. “Yo
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by flatline 1mo ago
As critical as I am of NM, I don’t know that this is true. The state has been funding mental healthcare for 2+ years out of gross receipts revenue. A large part of this goes to Medicaid recipients - NM is one of the highest paying states fo
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by flatline 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments
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by flatline 1mo ago
I have still not gotten a Waymo even once. I am in the service area. I don't use the service frequently, just enough to be disappointed.
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by flatline 1mo ago
Impressive judgment from someone who presumably has no knowledge of the types of problems the lab was addressing, the scope of research, the actual individuals employed, or the prior and anticipated impact of their work. This was the whole
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by flatline 2mo ago
Unscrupulous operators will just run up huge liabilities and close up shop by the time they can be identified and dragged into court, meanwhile having started another similar operation under a different name. That's basically already w
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by flatline 2mo ago
I don't understand how people fail to understand how public policy works. You can tell people to do something and they may or may not ignore you depending on how you say it, and what incentives and penalties you provide. Being a parent
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by flatline 2mo ago
Every time there is an economic boom like this, you get unscrupulous actors coming in and extracting as much value as they can before the regulatory environment catches up. Yes, datacenters should be doing all these things, but that costs
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by flatline 2mo ago
Yeah I didn’t read it that way at all. I think that addressing mental health issues requires some frankness with yourself first and foremost. I know some people object to identifying with labels such as ADHD, autism, depressive disorder, et
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by flatline 2mo ago
I think the parent comment stands - I’ve asked Opus to do a review of DeepSeek’s test suite and told it a couple things I wanted it to look for, and it did a very thorough review of the tests and picked out a reasonable number of gaps and t
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by flatline 3mo ago
I currently parse the TOC for chapter markers, then walk the spine between markers to ensure everything is captured regardless of what the TOC says. I think it is in the spirit of what epub readers do and in line with the spec. The eval age
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by flatline 3mo ago
Thanks for checking it out! The Alice link is a generated m4b, so it’s sample output that you could likely play back directly in your browser, although that may not have the cover display or chapter listing. I recommend Apple Books or Plapp
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by flatline 3mo ago
I checked out your product - nice! I think we have a similar approach for a different audience. EbookAloud is basically just a two-click conversion system more geared towards consumers than content creators. Upload an epub, get an audiobook
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by flatline 3mo ago
That "I'm not a robot" check lol

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