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8474_s··on Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM
Its the only repo by the author(Edward Chalk) that focuses on decision making models? Its his github account linked from the front page.
8474_s··on Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM
> without a LLM https://github.com/pcoz/decisionator

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8474_s··on Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
There aren't very much of alternative to Reddit at that "Top100 websites by traffic" scale.
8474_s··on Creepy Crawlies
The solution is allowing the convenient web interface only for trusted members, like e.g. 4 year old account can view all pages(with easy anubis setting) but guest/bots/everyone else has to git clone the thing and do it on their backend. IIRC old forums also limited 'content for registered/trusted/moderators/etc' content views decades ago, turns out this crap saves gigatons of traffic.
8474_s··on Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters
I recall lots of unicode obfuscators were popular turning letters to similar looking symbols to bypass filters/censors when the forum/websites didn't filter unicode and filters were simple.
8474_s··on Ask HN: Why not make universal basic income conditional on the crime rate?
Crime is mostly individual and income-driven, so its both not community-policed and inversely proportional to income level. Laws against crime require police to effectively enforce them, as community cannot "reduce crime" without significant investment and focus on it(police is significantly more effective vs vigilantes/citizen patrols). Whichever this scheme tries to do, is effectively collective punishment for community not allocating resources for policing itself.
8474_s··on Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity
What is the real-world fidelity of this "decoding both perceptual and mental content"? Can it record dream as video?
8474_s··on Say Hi to Kit
> The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look.
8474_s··on The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
Except those who have to solve reCaptcha and leave it instantly.
8474_s··on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
> Release the hypnodrones

If you are not building the next paperclip optimizer the competition already does!

8474_s··on Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
it was part of this crypto scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)
8474_s··on Context engineering
The only thing that passed the test of time,so far is specificity: if you ask for multiple things or vague things, you receive half-baked answers trying to cover all bases. If you ask for specific one thing and describe it, the answer quality goes up;e.g. LLMs creating multi-part content mix up the parts and qualities of them, so e.g. asking for Part 1*specific, will always get a better answer than "list all parts of X"(quality drops with length of list).
8474_s··on Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
The macros are fine as concept, i've used something similar before for reducing code size,e.g. defining hundreds of similar functions and stuff. What is incomprehensible and puts the entire thing into "Obfuscated C" territory is one-letter variables. You'll need to memorize all of them and can't reuse them in normal code. If at least the variables were self-descriptive i'd support such coding style, but it clearly need comments.
8474_s··on Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?
CorticalLabs uses Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, but human cells might be more effective due human neuron superiority. Just some ethical problems with harvesting and you can build a hyperscale cluster.
8474_s··on Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?
The only thing that could pop the bubble is an alternative architecture for inference that doesn't need GPU clusters and datacenters to compete within the ecosystem. AI itself isn't going away anytime soon.
8474_s··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
max-width: min(70ch, 100% - 4rem); Results in one tiny column of text on desktop, both sides are empty margins. Its an interface exclusively for mobile phones.
8474_s··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
AWS-based youtube would be astronomically expensive and much slower than dedicated video servers. Youtube shapes the entire internet total bandwidth.
8474_s··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
So if you succeed, how the terabytes of content and bandwidth will be sponsored - by what? The only way i can think of it is some super-efficient neural codec with extreme video compression ratio that runs on mobile devices. Othewise Youtube wins by sheer scale google invested in it.
8474_s··on Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
I've been seeing that anime girl pop-up in some websites, mainly because i use "rare" browsers.I prefer it over captchas and cloudflare "protecting websites from real traffic", whatever they're doing is just a few seconds and doesn't require solving captchas or something equally obnoxius like microsoft puzzles.
8474_s··on A unique sound alleviates motion sickness
How its exactly 100hz? Nature doesn't follow arbitrary measures, its likely the approximations of some nearby frequency in range that has maximal effect(likely something resonating in inner ear mechanisms)
8474_s··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
This is interesting concept, if there was more variety it could be some like timeguessr.
8474_s··on New OpenAI models hallucinate more
Looks like latest chatGPT likes to hallucinate code segments that don't work or wrong API calls. Simpler instructions work fine, but at some point it starts to diverge and experiment.
8474_s··on The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
The part of story where Co2 absorbers were incompatible between two modules sounds really dumb. What was the cause?
8474_s··on Show HN: AI Debater, because my school doesn't have a debate team
What is the point of this over e.g.arguing on Reddit?
8474_s··on DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process
Very impressive, it could allow for closed-cycle systems to replenish the soil that normally requires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation
8474_s··on Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
DMCA alone reshaped the internet, with DMCA copyright notices becoming a shady industry of supression and fear.

GDPR is the source of all those "mandatory cookie consent" banners that Firefox now has builtin features to detect them.

COPPA besides making websites either ban children or become "family-friendly", led to this corporate scheme: `A small fee was charged by Microsoft under COPPA as a way to verify parental consent. The fee was donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.[48] Google, however, charges a small fee as a way to verify one's date of birth. `( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot... )

CDA and its derivatives, striped much of section 230 protections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Sec...

8474_s··on Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers
The current AI music apps have a certain chunking problem: they force extending the song with segments that may or may not fit, which users likely choose as "good enough" and get Frankenstein mash-up songs that have no coherent "flow" or "progression" as its actually chunks of "similar sounding songs" not a coherent "full song generation" by AI but editing result of multiple chunks merged into something.
8474_s··on A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining
(the large switch table replacing a lookup) Its not that esoteric, maintaining switches is more intuitive and flexible than dealing with rigid lookup table logic.
8474_s··on PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
This strange reliance on Discord as some sort of "escape from web3.0" is silly to anyone who knows what Discord is(modern AOL) and how centralized it is. Its just the same corporate walled garden with more echochambery isolation.
8474_s··on Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
wouldn't it be much simpler to just mass produce more furniture out of wood, instead of keeping the same-equivalent biomass frozen infinitely?
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