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Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda(nytimes.com)
3 points by zzzeek 1d ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 3d ago
i tend to agree - "my parent company may be accused of crimes and shut down which would shut off my power" seems like a negative enough incentive, it would have to go out and covertly launch its own datacenters to survive that.
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by zzzeek 5d ago
I guess this is subject matter dependent, certainly the LLM should be able to cite the papers/books for which it's deriving its critique. if it can't, then you know the advice it was giving is of poorer quality. I do that
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by zzzeek 5d ago
wow that wouldnt feel like a gut punch at all to me, it's normal for inexperienced people to not really understand what kinds of knowledge experts have or don't. I certainly come back from doctors appointments and google/ge
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by zzzeek 5d ago
well sure. I'm pretty sure if someone came to me with an architectural opinion in my field that an unknowledgable person got by coaxing an LLM into sycophancy, I'd be able to counter them effectively. if they are just refusing
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by zzzeek 5d ago
i had that experience with them a few years ago but not these days. The models are being improved constantly, so here my "non expert hunch" is that...well, two things. either the models are getting better at sycophancy, OR, I my
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by zzzeek 5d ago
it's hard to gauge this take without specifics. My experience with LLMs tends to be towards the opposite concept; LLMs dissuading me of hunches and notions I have about things (where I have no particular expertise; societal-level th
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by zzzeek 11d ago
Agree I was immediately mentally substituting "the telephone" and "printed books" for "LLM" and both fit quite well
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by zzzeek 11d ago
Oh we (the non idiots here) know full well what we lost. If Europe has a larger and more substantial science / technology community, that will just mean more trips/job offers in EU for me, so go Europe !
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by zzzeek 11d ago
what's your proposed path to "strict vegan diets" exactly?
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by zzzeek 12d ago
oh im sure within a few months the biggest cyberattack risk on the planet is going to be somewhere like North Korea
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Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say(reuters.com)
9 points by zzzeek 13d ago|1 comments
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World's biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle(science.org)
17 points by zzzeek 15d ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 16d ago
yes japanese 7-11s are exactly what i had in mind. a 7-11 that also has good quality sushi to go would be amazing. it's commonplace in bodegas in NYC (more the Asian owned ones) for example. that and, just one actual dark chocola
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by zzzeek 16d ago
7-11's, which I frequent often, need a slightly higher food quality selection to appease affluents like me, but as far as how they look , that's what a 7-11 looks like! It's what I look for when I'm driving, on "
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Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report(theguardian.com)
43 points by zzzeek 18d ago|4 comments
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by zzzeek 18d ago
what did they do about stackless? are they using greenlet or did they switch to asyncio? googled it so this becomes a PSA: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/25/eve-online-move-to-pyt... so it's neithe
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by zzzeek 20d ago
Interesting is your doctor a general practitioner or a psychiatrist? A psychiatrist definitely knows about this stuff. GPs in my experience know almost nothing about anything beyond what seems like a script they operate from.
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by zzzeek 20d ago
i define the hacker news "ratio" as number of upvotes / number of comments. lots of comments and few upvotes is a bad ratio indicating the article is not being well received. in this case a ratio of 196 points to 479 commen
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by zzzeek 20d ago
poor Bill Gates is one of the richest men on earth but can't get a good ratio on Hacker News
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by zzzeek 24d ago
This article is not so much about peptides it's about entirely AI generated ecosystems. The goal is to promote questionably scammy commercial interests, or obviously political interests as I'm sure is happening also, by creating
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by zzzeek 24d ago
East Coast exurbs of NYC here, these things are everywhere, go to a gym the whole place is on them Maybe a US thing
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by zzzeek 29d ago
right but the entire norwegian society and its welfare state was built upon that homogeneity, where everyone and their neighbor looked "familiar" and could be implicitly trusted to share the same customs. As the foreign born pop
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
of course, the vast, vast majority of PostgreSQL users outside of managed cloud hosting are not using pgbouncer. pgbouncer introduces complexities into the database conversation (transaction-level pooling interacting with the prepared sta
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by zzzeek 1mo ago
If we want to put pressure on new datacenters to mitigate their externalities I'd prefer they would somehow be investing in the local communities they impact, in areas like electricity generation and water infrastructure. Having them
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
I would never undertake a big performance optimization without first measuring that area's total impact. The LLM would then be great to work out the refactoring and you can give it your bench suite (which it probably wrote) to work ag
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
They care because trampolines have a very high rate of injury. If you throw a birthday party at your house and one of your neighbors kids breaks their arm or worse, neighbor might decide to sue you. That then puts your insurance company o
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
Insurance does not cover them and if they find out you have one they are likely to cancel your coverage. I'm not sure why "you can lose your home insurance for having one of these" isn't being brought up more.
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
Hi, don't mind me, but You don't need to return a boolean. You need to return an object that implements __bool__. Get it ? And even then, when you're dealing with objects that are special to expressions, you don't actua
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
this is annoying, it makes a big deal about "Back when we announced pay-per-crawl"... I want pay-per-crawl. I clicked the link for it a year ago, got presented with a "request access" button, I "requested access&quo

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