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agency··on When the shortage is the strategy
Sincere question: where are you buying beef for $5/lb? I shop at Costco and ground beef is close to $10/lb
agency··on Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
I thought I wasn't, but you're making me second-guess myself.
agency··on Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
Agreed. This is genuinely interesting content, but there is no doubt in my mind that "The two operations diverge on real characters—ß, İ, final sigma—which is why lowercasing as a stand-in silently produces wrong matches." is LLM output.

Are we doomed to spend the rest of our professional and personal lives reading AI output?

agency··on Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
This shit drives me insane. Last year I had my home insurer send me a link in an SMS pointing me to allstate.yem.bo to collect some information. Stop training your users to get phished!!
agency··on Using Chinese AI models to get a degree
like most of the reddit posts these LLMs are trained on, this is a creative writing assignment
agency··on Why airlines are always going bankrupt
Is the marvelous world in the room with us right now?
agency··on Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
Unlike 3 years ago, when nobody complained about software being slow, buggy and chaotic
agency··on Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you
You press and hold the hyphen key on iPhone — like this! And I'm a human :)
agency··on Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
Another recent book inspired by Ghuloum is Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach (which publishes Python and Racket versions) https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...
agency··on Just 'English with Hanzi'
Did you want the article to teach you read Classical Chinese?
agency··on Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
> Since these representations appear to be largely inherited from training data, the composition of that data has downstream effects on the model’s emotional architecture. Curating pretraining datasets to include models of healthy patterns of emotional regulation—resilience under pressure, composed empathy, warmth while maintaining appropriate boundaries—could influence these representations, and their impact on behavior, at their source.

What better source of healthy patterns of emotional regulation than, uhhh, Reddit?

agency··on Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
You sure about that? It really comes off as LLM output to me, in its general structure and formatting, attention-grabbing opening sentences of paragraphs ("This ratio has a profound consequence:", "This distinction matters."x2), and the classic "it's not X, it's Y" stuff ("The collector is a hybrid optical-power megastructure, not a single dense slab of ordinary powersats.", "The shell does not interact with a small number of giant launchers. It interacts with a dense distributed network.")
agency··on Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
I'm sure all the vibe coded slop that eats the SaaS market will be better about license attribution.
agency··on Tailscale's new macOS home
I'm using tailscale for this and am finding it great. I have an Unraid home server/NAS, which has quite nice tailscale integration. The server can be used as an exit node, and each containerized application/workload can be configured to use tailscale and get a nice (https) address that works in your tailnet. I'm not close to hitting the free tier limits, though I'd be happy to pay for it (and I do pay for mullvad through them)
agency··on Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
I can't believe no one has brought up the legendary Apollo 10 "turd incident" https://archive.ph/J61jD
agency··on Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]
I always wondered what that juggling animation slide looked like!
agency··on Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]
Simple Made Easy[https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/] in particular had a huge impact on the way I think about writing software at a formative time in my development/career. I have not had the chance to use Clojure professionally, but thinking about software in terms of "intertwining" is the idea I return to when evaluating software designs, regardless of technology, and gave me a way to articulate what makes software difficult to reason about.
agency··on Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral
Maybe not saying things like

> '[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."

agency··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
I don't think this is true, though enforcement is another thing and the standard is different than in securities markets. Prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC and the insider trading standard is “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information” (vs any “material non-public information” for securities) https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...
agency··on Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
Haven't you heard? Crime is legal
agency··on Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework
shorter syntax != higher level of abstraction
agency··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
> Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.
agency··on A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson
> Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western territories and the only general to be elected president since George Washington

Do they mean up to that point? Eisenhower was elected twice

agency··on Tell HN: Azure outage
So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...
agency··on ChatGPT Pulse
> I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago

Ok, so subjective

agency··on Slow Liquid
on an iPhone?
agency··on Woman Ignored Scam Texts About Overdue Bills. Turns Out They Were Real
I recently had similar experience where a legitimate text from my insurance company was 100% indistinguishable from a scam text, directing me to a link on allstate.yem.bo. You would think it would be in an insurance company's interest not to train their users to click on scam links but what do I know.
agency··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
I find the claim (repeated verbatim in some of the comments here) that people with ADHD process stimulants differently particularly specious. Are there any medical studies/not-reddit threads that suggest anything like this?
agency··on Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn
This honestly seems safer than the OP since there's no way you could get up to speed on the tiny perpendicular leg
agency··on Sam Altman and Jony Ive 'IO' Lawsuit Copy [pdf]
There is no small r party. The point of saying "small r" is to distinguish the political ideology of republicanism[1] from the "big R" Republican Party™

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_...

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