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blah2244··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Attempts to eliminate this have even failed in solid blue states -- Prop 6 in California failed 53-47 last election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_California_Proposition_6

blah2244··on See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally)
Fwiw, there are some pretty great HN reader apps I’ve found — Hack and Octal are the two favorites I’ve come across for iOS.
blah2244··on When AI thinks it will lose, it sometimes cheats, study finds
How do you differentiate between the two?

Each token the model outputs requires it to evaluate all of the context it already has (query + existing output). By allowing it more tokens to "reason", you're allowing it to evaluate the context many times over, similar to how a person might turn a problem over in their heads before coming up with an answer. Given the performance of reasoning models on complex tasks, I'm of the opinion that the "more tokens with reasoning prompting" approach is at least a decent model of the process that humans would go through to "reason".

blah2244··on My LLM codegen workflow
This is a great article -- I really appreciate the author giving specific examples. I have never heard of mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/) before either, and the integration with the saved prompts is a nifty idea -- excited to try it out!
blah2244··on Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon
Yeah, as the other commentator mentioned, it practically just means he won't be entering any other competitions until April. He'll probably cover >1000 miles in training over that period :)
blah2244··on Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon
The rule since 2020 (when supershoes really started taking over) has been 40mm stack height/1 carbon plate: https://worldathletics.org/news/press-release/modified-rules...

As for training, that's a pretty contentious topic in the running community right now -- some recent research concluded that training in supershoes might actually impair race performance: https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/su...

blah2244··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
To be fair, his argument is valid for FSD! We have fully deployed FSD in multiple US cities now!
blah2244··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Zitron is a blogger whose content/internet personality is centered around being anti-Big Tech, and very much falls in the "AI is dumb/useless and will die any day now".

He's a good writer, but his content is written through an extreme anti-AI lens, so take it with a pretty big grain of salt.

blah2244··on Three Observations
> AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean it to be a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields.

Is it just me, or is that an incredibly weak/vague definition for AGI? Feels like you could make the claim that AI is at this level already if you stretch the terms he used enough.

blah2244··on Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young
Yep, here’s one about symptoms chronic kidney disease that showed significant results: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39246955/

Similar significant results for symptoms of cystic fibrosis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32275788/

blah2244··on Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox
I've heard of a startup that claims to be able to achieve a near-0% false positive rate: https://www.pangram.com/our-model/how-it-works

They appear to basically RLHF a model on a bunch of examples of human/AI output on the same prompt. Not sure how well it works, but I'm guessing Mozilla is doing something similar here.

blah2244··on Five coding hats
Everything comes back to social identity theory :) Especially programmers, who are already partially drawn to pattern matching.

I still enjoy articles like these, though -- think the author did a good job of describing the hats as "modes of working that you switch between" instead of "all-encompassing static personality traits that put you in a box".

blah2244··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Yek is fantastic -- I've converted my whole team to using it for prompting. As input context windows keep increasing, I think it'll just keep becoming more and more valuable -- I can put most of my team's code in Gemini 2.0 now.