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by metacritic12 2mo ago
If I didn't know any better, I would think this is a thinly veiled marketing piece by "Codeberg", a company that I never heard of until this headline. https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by metacritic12 2mo ago
Possibly because OP might have one-shot vibe-coded this app with a single sentence as an LLM wrapper.
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by metacritic12 2mo ago
Flagging for clickbait title. It's deliberately obfuscating to intrigue users into clicking. A better plain title would be Strata: An LLM App that Tells You If Your Hiking Route Today is Likely Safe.
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by metacritic12 4mo ago
"Accidentally taking someone's bike thinking it was your" How often does this actually happen in reality versus it being trotted out as a backstory after being caught?
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by metacritic12 4mo ago
Seems like it's not pleasant, and the author says in theory it could be as low of a bar as getting into a heated argument; but the author never discloses his actual charge, which I think is critical context. If he stabbed someone and g
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by metacritic12 8mo ago
When I go to their homepage, I get a Cloudflare SSL handshake failed error -- feels like a classical vibecode bug.
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by metacritic12 9mo ago
^ For what it's worth, just a note that the above paragraphs are AI generated, as can be easily inferred by the author's replies below.
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by metacritic12 9mo ago
Given the lack of denial to the straightforward question, you're probably safe in reading this as "yes it was indeed AI generated".
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by metacritic12 10mo ago
Good catch. Additionally, one of the authors on this is just a student at UWisc, and the other author is also not a professional researcher but instead an author of popular books. This is not an ad-hominum, but does put into question the s
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by metacritic12 10mo ago
Anthropic has also been the biggest anti-China LLM in a long while, so it's possible they're using an opportunistic hack (potentially involving actual Chinese IP addresses) as another way to push their agenda.
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by metacritic12 11mo ago
Honestly, I'm fine with Google doing it. If not them, then some regulatory arbitrage startup will do it with way more de-facto scam and fraud. Google is not some morale arbiter for the long arc of technology -- look at how they gatek
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by metacritic12 1y ago
I was surprised to note at the end of the article it's written by Cade Metz, the same writer who doxxed Scott Alexander. I wonder if this turn to human interest pieces is a fallout from that scandal.
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by metacritic12 1y ago
Would it also be true to say: AI will change the world, but not in the way the OP (Thomas Hunter) thinks. -- The first statement, AI will change the world, is low surprise and clearly true already. The second statement, not in the way X thi
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The guide starts with the presumption they gained power through democratic elections. Neither China nor most other historic authoritarian regimes started this way. (Nazi Germany and Putin's Russia being the classical examples of democ
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Is this really an authoritarian regime survival guide or a not-too-hidden jab at the Trump presidency? Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China. Let's apply the guide's o
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by metacritic12 2y ago
But everyone will upgrade to AES-256 (many system already has), and that truly will be the final symmetric algo even with moore's law.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Yeah it has terrible optics, yet it's clearly going to be normalized and come. The question is who does it and what is the organization of it. If this company doesn't do it, the next will. In certain roles, AI micromanagement cl
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by metacritic12 2y ago
I would say the critics are already on average proven wrong in the sense that they were betting on something that had a prior of 90% chance of being true. And now those odds might be say 50%. If they were betting people, they would have l
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by metacritic12 2y ago
for those curious why an app would name itself Little Red Book despite the association, obviously they could have been better about the naming, but they're actually not the same name in either language: The social media app Xiaohongshu
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Yeah but "little red book" (xiaohongshu) in mandarin is not actually how the original Mao Little Red Book is called in Mandarin, either formally or informally. Informally in mandarin it's called hongbaoshu (literally "r
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Doesn't this "explanation" just shift the question to what is stiffness? Like it refactored the question but didn't actually explain it. Previously, we had statement "the weak force is short range". In order
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by metacritic12 2y ago
In practice it was a targetted ban probably because this video got traction. Analogously, with a lot of grey area stuff, a person can almost surely get away with it ... but not if they post it online and it gets attention.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Probably some amount of customer service. Banks are at their distrection then on whether they want to tell you or not -- just like for any other reason for dropping you as a customer. I guess more important than empirically whether banks t
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The middle ground seems to be allowing SARs (which are analogous to tips to police officers), but not requiring banks keep them secret from the customer. The bank could decide to do so, but also could decide not to, like any other speech.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Absolutely, it's one of the most undemocratic, potentially violative of 1st amendment laws that is out there. This is from the point of view that money laundering as a law is essentially thoughtcrime. The police state has done an orwe
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The incoming administration doesn't seem to really be pro upregulating anything. In fact core members of their team believe the firefighters have had way too much political power already in building requirements, etc.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
I don't think reciprocation can be analyzed in a dynamic setting like that. Another version of this is, what happens if the younger generation doesn't take the deal -- do they get fired? Keeping them on is a form of reciprocation
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Do you also think $40K a year for Hubspot is insane? What about people who pay $1k in order to work on a field for 4 hours hitting a small ball with a stick? The truth is that there are people who value the marginal performance -- if you t
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The sneeze example is contrived because in English, sneeze is both phonetic and a word with common occurence. A better example might involve a common English word with a wierd, non-phonetic spelling. A word that you might imagine it forgiv
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Ars has gone down the ragebait rabbit hole, which is perfectly rational, though they do it with technical stories, which people don't expect so much baiting. Basically the carriers are making the standard libertarian argument, which ma

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