sltkr

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Google is ending Gmail 'Send as' support for third-party accounts(proton.me)
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by sltkr 6d ago
So Adam, Adele, and Adrian all have the same profile image?
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by sltkr 6d ago
It's not _strictly_ less work though: reservoir sampling requires generating many more random numbers. As usual, it's a tradeoff.
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by sltkr 6d ago
The current implementation has the same race condition: the sampled file may be deleted by the time SHSetUserPicturePath() is called.
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by sltkr 7d ago
The AI that generated this slop doesn't understand regional dialects of English.
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by sltkr 7d ago
Less AI slop please.
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by sltkr 9d ago
Can you tell me what the zstd invocation is that corresponds to the default invocation of bzip3, which uses block size 16 MiB (according to the man page)? I got some really good results with bzip3 compression Wikipedia XML dumps, and I woul
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by sltkr 10d ago
Why don't you answer the actual question, instead of coming up with far-fetched analogies?
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by sltkr 11d ago
Orwell's entire essay (Politics and the English Language) is well worth reading if you haven't before: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... (I'm guessing Zinsser's comment
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by sltkr 12d ago
You shouldn't have to click away from a blog post to understand what the blog post is about. It should start with a clear self-contained introduction. atproto.com contains a succinct discription: > Atproto is a big-world open social
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by sltkr 21d ago
That article explains that the quirk was introduced during supervised fine-tuning. > We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures It was the human feedback that caused the bias, not a change in training data
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by sltkr 21d ago
> You have no evidence that self improvement can work at generalized tasks. I never made that claim. I just said it's way too early to rule it out: there is no logical reason why AIs will (always) need to have a human in the loop, a
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by sltkr 21d ago
The key word in that paper is “indiscriminate”, as in: > We find that _indiscriminate_ use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models If you view AI training as lossy compression of their t
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by sltkr 21d ago
> When the data fed into an AI model is based on real data you can get predictability. When the AI inputs start coming from the AI outputs the wobble is introduced which results inevitably into delirium. This is asserted without evidence
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by sltkr 24d ago
There's also “lexiphanic” and “denuded” (uncommon but clear from context in this case).
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by sltkr 1mo ago
Lambda expressions in C++ are simply syntactic sugar for defining function objects (aka functors): structs that overload operator() so you can call them as functions. Once you realize this, their features and limitations become immediately
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by sltkr 1mo ago
For the non-capturing case: mainly to improve readability by allowing utility functions to be defined close to where they are used and with short names. For the capturing case: to access context that is not available through global variable
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by sltkr 1mo ago
It was really cool! The ease of getting started was definitely one of the selling points for the “home computers” of that era (GW-BASIC ran on IBM compatible PCs instead, but the appeal of BASIC was the same). Brevity was an important featu
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by sltkr 1mo ago
https://archive.is/8GB36 I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.
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by sltkr 2mo ago
Reminds me of this little game, where you have to code your own elevator algorithm: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
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by sltkr 2mo ago
Another common file format is Javascript's Source Map (which is extensively used to map minified js to its original source form): https://tc39.es/ecma426/2024/ Note that there is an intrinsic trade-off betwee
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by sltkr 3mo ago
The question is if they can tell it's fiber _before_ cutting through it and damaging it. This seems way easier with PVC pipes than with fiber cables.
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by sltkr 3mo ago
> That is how insane the times are becoming Gee whiz what an interesting way of thinking. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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by sltkr 3mo ago
Presumably this is calculated into the contract. If the price is expected to fall over time, then the negotiated price is below market at the beginning and above market at the end. From the suppliers view, they take a loss in the early year
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by sltkr 3mo ago
PyPy is an option too.
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by sltkr 3mo ago
compression = prediction + entropy coding was already an insight from Claude Shannon in the 1950s Since LLM are inherently token predictors, that makes using them for losless compression almost trivial. For something close to the state of t
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by sltkr 3mo ago
I agree that that's the best way to take these kind of "rules", but that's the opposite of how the blog author presents it: > the 3-30-300 test — a standard that has become the go-to for solving a universal urban prob
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by sltkr 3mo ago
It nailed 2 out of 4, which I'm not going to repeat to preserve a modicum of privacy. But unfortunately I'm not a professional footballer _or_ a fictional character in a Henry James novel (though I looked up the reference and it&#
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by sltkr 3mo ago
No university requires you to declare support for that belief.
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by sltkr 3mo ago
No, there is no such requirement.

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