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emaro

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emaro··on Challenge Is Gone
Why learn anything if AI can do it for you?
emaro··on One Must Fall 2097 Remastered
Arrow keys + Enter for punch and Right Shift for kick worked for me. Haven't tried special moves or anything but seems fun. Bookmarked for later.
emaro··on Pillowfort Is Closing
You find the information on their homepage under "what is pillowfort"?

> Pillowfort.social is a multipurpose blogging platform. You can use Pillowfort to connect with other fans of your favorite books or tv shows, show off artwork or writing, get tips and advice on your hobbies, and much more. We're independently funded by our users and we strive to protect user privacy, give our users maximum control over the reach of their content, and protect our users from bigotry & harassment.

emaro··on Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
And in other regions the desire to migrate to the US went down a lot more than in Europe. So this is not about what Europeans think about the US at all.

Although recent US international politics did stain the US image in Europe substantually. Just the most recent betrayal against Ukraine is a good example of why.

emaro··on Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses
I think to implicitly trigger the valueOf function.
emaro··on Muse Spark Open
Both your examples take human authored input and transform them in a pretty direct way.

I addressed this by saying if the training data counts as the human input, then the creative authorship of the weights are all the creatives that involuntarily supplied the training data -- not the labs training the models.

emaro··on Muse Spark Open
Aren't model weights the output of human (?) authored software? The training software might have received creative input, but not the weights themselves. And if the training data itself counts, then the copyright would not be the labs, who stole the training data, but all the creatives who's works were used.
emaro··on Thunderbird for iOS
That would be very neat of course. Out of reach for me since I use 3rd-party keyboards that don't provide that.
emaro··on Thunderbird for iOS
I'm on Android, but tbh I'm quite happy with Thunderbird mobile. It's not fancy, but generally works well. Though I'm not an email junkie on mobile, mostly use it to check some info like MFA code, magic link etc.
emaro··on Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac
Thanks for sharing. I guess I (can) have all this in plain Firefox too. Only using vertical tabs right now, but for a while I heavily used the tab groups extension, which worked similar to workspaces I guess. The only thing I think I can't do is the "Little Arc", which does seem handy.
emaro··on Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
Hey Anthropic? Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

I'm angry and laughing at the same time. The audacity! The biggest theft of IP in history, and then the "attacker" whines the same thing happens to them?

To be fair and balanced: • Anthropic payed up (a little) for their theft. • They pretend to be concerned about cyber and national security at least.

There needs to be a coherent position on knowledge and intellectual property: either it's free to take and share, then no one can complain. Or one can "own" an idea, then the AI companies first need to pay up for real (how is Sony doing it?). They can license (subscribe!) all the works used for training and after that they can bitch around about distillation "attacks".

emaro··on Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac
I don't get the appeal of the Arc-esque browsers. They look very clean in screenshots, but I tried both Arc and Zen and never got to feel productive with them. Can someone enlighten me?
emaro··on Lobbying
But isn't "explicitly allowing payments" just legal bribery? At one point you can't call it lobbying anymore.
emaro··on If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves
Meeseeks aren't happy to exist. They're happy to help you with a simple task and suffer if they exist from prolonged amount of time. Literally the point of the episode.
emaro··on Lobbying
Lobbying is hardly uniquely (US) american, right? At least in Europe, we have our fair share and I'm sure it exists in Africa and Asia as well.
emaro··on Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews
Demo seems to be down (503). A screenshot in the readme (or animated gif) goes a long way for anything that includes a UI.
emaro··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
I second that. The 3 body problem is also great!
emaro··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Grayjay I'd say. Also works great on Android.
emaro··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
Not really. Similar to giving drugs to lower class people so they can bear the unbearable life. For an indiviual, sure, life probably feels better in a narrow sense, but is it more ethical? No.
emaro··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
I guess it depens on the preson. The author claims they haven't eaten meat since 2007.
emaro··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
The demo (from minute 29) is really cool.
emaro··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
Interesting to me is the tension between remarks along the lines that this post maybe made sense in 2023, but not today, or how LLMs clearly show intelligence by solving Navier-Stokes, et cetera; versus the comments I read here often as well: "it's just a tool".

I can't quite put my finger on it, but aren't these two statements add odds with each other? Intelligence is hard to define, consciousness even more so, but wouldn't "intelligence" imply some sort of agency? If not, I'd argue computers were intelligent long before the age of LLMs. And likewise, doesn't a tool imply the lack of intelligence and agency, even if the tool's function is very elaborate?

I got the impression that both these statements are made by the same people, or at least people with similar takes on AI. Is that wrong and there are "intelligence" and "tool" factions? Or do people disagree with my assumption and there's nothing wrong with the concept of "intelligent tools"?

Kinda refreshing this discussion, compared to the builder vs. tinkerer debates, imo.

emaro··on Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
Doesn't help obviously if you already lost your phone, but I recommend anyone to use a third party authenticator app. Most services offer to scan a QR code to set up MFA, which can easily be backed up. Don't use Google/Microsoft authenticator apps directly. Personally I use Stratum, but any that allows export/import will do.
emaro··on An update on Wayback Machine access
It's shame that the AI arms race causes such collateral damage. Free resources were always exploited, but the stakes ($T) and capabilities around AI allow unprecedented abuse. I wish we could go back... :/

I really don't see any solution to this; the scrapers probably wouldn't even mind destroying sources like IA too much, which would leave them as the only "authorative" source of knowledge in the end. Best way is likely regulation incl. hefty (!) fines, but politics are too slow and too fragmented to be effective. So... Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess.

emaro··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
*In Chrome.
emaro··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
True. I got this as my first LLM subscription (was a long time skeptic, less so now but still a bit), but now I have cursor too so maybe I can even downgrade. Thanks for the reminder. :)
emaro··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I do agree it's kinda expensive. I'm lucky enough that my employer pays the $25 plan for met because it includes access to many LLMs.
emaro··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
The sensor of the Fairphone camera is good enough, the software processing is what's lacking. Imo, owner of an FP4.
emaro··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Imo their language is not precise enough for their intelligence to be the reason when it's difficult to understand. Maybe I'm prompting wrong, but when I don't understand, it's almost always because they just mash together words from context that don't form sentences with a clear meaning.
emaro··on Show HN: Voronoi Go
Looks really cool. Saved for later because I'm on my phone right now. Ignored the warning and it was fine but the site refreshed sometimes which restarted the tutorial. The third time I gave up.
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