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evertedsphere··on Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID
>institute.global

hubris

evertedsphere··on Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]
It's not an attack on an idea.

It's pointing out that the person who posted something couldn't be bothered to actually write it themselves. The "content" is the prompt, which is of course never shared because it's probably so trite that it's not going to get anyone's interest unless it's stochastically decompressed into a large amount of text.

Like the sibling commenter, I do not write Ruby and do not care about this conflict apart from a general interest in supply chain stuff. I'm merely tired of the constant encroachment of obvious LLM prose in HN submissions and (albeit less commonly) in comments.

evertedsphere··on Jeena's Hyprland Demo
the ideal solution takes into account which screen you were on and leaves you on it

i used to have a setup like this on i3, using i3-msg to query the state

evertedsphere··on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
it can get even better

https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/tracing.html#i-dont-wa...

evertedsphere··on GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme
> A system in Scheme was the first to get a particular certification for sensitive data hosting on cloud servers.

What system was this?

evertedsphere··on US Intel
could you expand upon this?
evertedsphere··on DeepConf: Scaling LLM reasoning with confidence, not just compute
yet again i am asking for a mandatory "(LLM output)" label in the title like we do for pdf/video links
evertedsphere··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
what's the battery life like?
evertedsphere··on Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables
nature abhors an unexploited resource
evertedsphere··on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
i'm sure you know this but it's important not to understate the importance of the fact that there is no "prompt"

the notion of "turns" is a useful fiction on top of what remains, under all of the multimodality and chat uis and instruction tuning, a system for autocompleting tokens in a straight line

the abstraction will leak as long as the architecture of the thing makes it merely unlikely rather than impossible for it to leak

evertedsphere··on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
> Initial commit: Jun 24, 2025. Already has a migration path from 0.x to 1.x.

because that is perfectly reasonable to the llm that wrote that readme

evertedsphere··on How to Think About GPUs
https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm

should have most of it

evertedsphere··on What does Palantir actually do?
in other words
evertedsphere··on Accessibility and the agentic web
the models are clicking around in real browsers
evertedsphere··on Accessibility and the agentic web
> An agent has nothing to process if there's no text on the page

all of the major labs' flagship models are multimodal and the post is specifically about processing the non-text parts of the page

evertedsphere··on Software Development at 800 Words per Minute
i've always wondered about the possibility of hybrid visual-audio interfaces for sighted users. a screen reader producing lots of words at the same time that you're looking around the screen—perhaps the visual ui would have to privilege symbols over words, to not force you to perform two language processing tasks at once

imagine the bandwidth

evertedsphere··on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome
> Lower intelligence would likely surface as hedonistic behavior why do you think so
evertedsphere··on Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE
at this point i think we ought to start having a tag in the submission title for when the submission is (primarily) llm-generated, like we do for video/pdf/nsfw
evertedsphere··on What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]
no javascript please, we're british
evertedsphere··on I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files
i like how this blog post complaining about data loss due to an llm was itself (mostly? entirely?) generated by an llm
evertedsphere··on What the Fuck Python
> While some of the examples you see below may not be WTFs in the truest sense, but they'll reveal some of the interesting parts of Python that you might be unaware of. I find it a nice way to learn the internals of a programming language, and I believe that you'll find it interesting too!

the spirit in which that page is presented is different from what you seem to have taken it to mean

evertedsphere··on Wishes Upon My Demise
well written; it's got me thinking about writing one of my own. also i hadn't heard of resomation and promession as practices (under those or any other names)

(btw: the 死は生の一部である at the end is missing the final る)

evertedsphere··on The Bitter Lessons Behind Kimi Researcher's Taste
the generated ui that their "deep research" tool uses to present a report
evertedsphere··on Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
why'd that get flagged
evertedsphere··on Underwriting Superintelligence
> But we don’t want medical device manufacturers or nuclear power plant operators to move fast and break things. AI will quickly get baked into critical infrastructure and could enable dangerous misuse.

nobody will put a language model in a pacemaker or a nuclear reactor, because the people who would be in a position to do such things are actual doctors or engineers aware both of their responsibilities and of the long jail term that awaits them if they neglect them

this inevitabilism, to borrow a word from another submission earlier today, about "AI" ending up in critical infrastructure and the important thing being to figure out how to do it right is really quite repugnant

sure, yes, i know about the shitty kinda-explainable statistical models that already control my insurance premiums or likelihood of getting policed or whatever

but why is it a foregone conclusion that people are going to (implicitly rightly so given the framing lets it pass unquestioned!) put llms into things that materially affect my life on the level of it ending due to a stopped heart or a lethal dose of radiation

evertedsphere··on Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
honey it's 4pm time for your daily frontpage chatgpt readme
evertedsphere··on Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
oh, right, i misunderstood
evertedsphere··on Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
no, that's a region variable if i understand correctly, so closer to a rust lifetime
evertedsphere··on # [derive(Clone)] Is Broken
that's incorrect

haskell implements the "perfect derive" behaviour that the blog post is complaining about rust's lack of. the constraint is only propagated to the field types when using a haskell derive, not the parameters themselves (as in rust)

so the following compiles just fine:

    data Foo -- not Eq

    data Bar a = Bar 
      deriving Eq

    f :: Eq (Bar Foo) => ()
    f = ()
evertedsphere··on What to build instead of AI agents
Another day, another blog post chock full of LLM tells on the front page.
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