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glerk

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glerk··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Hope you’ve been stacking monero for the final fireworks, anon.
glerk··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
It seems like the server got DDoS’d before anyone got to the bitcoin.
glerk··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
It’s a sign of the universe you should stop wasting your time on these moronic endeavors (and paying for them on top of it).
glerk··on The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)
This is common knowledge among cat owners. Slow blink is the closest signal to "I love you".

> I trust you so much I choose to momentarily close my eyes in your presence. I know you won't rip me apart with your claws, although you have the capacity to do so as a predator.

glerk··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Dogfooding their own model ls and not letting their competitors use their data to train their.
glerk··on Mistral Large 4
Massive fumble not to call it “le chaton fat”.
glerk··on 'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
> The state of the world is not great, and the things they are acting against are some of the most directly responsible.

AI companies are directly responsible for the state of the world not being great? Are you serious? There are much better ways to make the world a better place than lashing out like this.

glerk··on Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
I hear “ask GPT”/“ask Claude” much more often these days.
glerk··on OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription
Wow. The changes are one thing, but this is terrible terrible communication.

Tibo and other big OAI social media accounts have built a real cult of personality over the last few months and it seems to be getting to their heads. Comrade minister of propaganda announcing that rations will be cut is not a good look. There is still time to save face here, apologize, and just tell the truth plainly (we are capacity constrained and have to make compromises). Preferably before he goes from serious eceleb to corporate lolcow.

glerk··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
> Predicting sales conversion probability from conversations

That's not just bad marketing, it's an example of anti-marketing.

Sales conversion? That makes me think of an old car's salesman trying to scam me into buying something I don't want. I positively don't want to read this paper based on the title.

glerk··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
Oh wow, they are really beautiful. I can tell they are perfect killing machines behind the cuteness.
glerk··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
No fine imposed on the Trump Administration corporation (doing business as the federal government of the US of A)? Does the current legal system allow Anthropic to sue for loss of revenue, reputational damage, etc.?
glerk··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Heh love the optimistic outlook, I'll keep that in mind!
glerk··on Openrouter is joining Stripe
I presume they are sitting on a lot of usage data and will be able to roll out efficient auto-routing based on it. There is a huge demand for this as most users are overwhelmed by provider options and just want to route to the best/cheapest model based on the task.
glerk··on Being ambitious and being a dad
> The older I get the more I realize ambition and "being ambitious" is a completely misplaced way to orient your life.

The older you get, the closer you get to being a corpse. That's not something to be proud of :)

I don't necessarily disagree with the rest of your comment in spirit, but you are conflating "ambition" with "seeking validation from others". The most passionate and driven people I know are intrinsically motivated and have ideals that go beyond social validation.

glerk··on Being ambitious and being a dad
The modern (mostly western?) obsession with "parenting" as a job/hobby is truly despicable. Probably as despicable as the standard education factory farming most of these parents are subjecting their children to. It is a miracle that despite all this parenting and education, some children manage to grow into fully formed individuals.

I love my parents. They are not perfect, but as much as they could afford, they never stood in my way. I love my children and I will strive to provide for them the resources, space, and freedom to grow and become who they are as individuals with infinite potential. I will never treat them as extensions of myself.

I'm writing this for the log, so I can remember my ideals. I'm sure everyone here has disagreements, opinions and wisdom that they wish to impart, but I frankly don't care. A culture that condones keeping dysgenic inbred mutilated wolves in one's house to satisfy the pleasure of "caring" for an animal weaker than oneself has no lessons to teach me about raising children. Whatever lessons I could distill from it for myself, I have already done so.

glerk··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Like clockwork :)
glerk··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
> I wouldn't look down on people who have peacefully accepted reality

Throughout human history, all progress was achieved by people who refused to "peacefully accept reality". But I hope you also get to reap the benefits and correct your depressing mindset some day.

glerk··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
> likely result would be employers forcing people to take the drug

How so? You can just... refuse? And do you prefer sleeping to working? Doing a job that you hate for 8h and sleeping for 8h is much worse than doing a job that you love for 16h. Something to think about.

glerk··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Obviously, every single one of us needs sleep to survive. But it's a biological chore, not some sacred ritual to be celebrated. Reducing the amount of sleep that we need is worth researching. What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up.
glerk··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Mainly ergonomics. Deriving all these approval rules is a pain and you're likely to miss something.

> not bash for starters

you'll end up either severely limiting what your agent can do or force it into finding some inefficient workarounds (they can be very creative...)

glerk··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Aging and cancer are also Lindy.

Two things you'll always find someone to defend with vigor are sleep and death. A lot of humans seem to despise living in general. It's fascinating to see.

glerk··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
No. I haven't approved commands in more than a year. Worst that I've seen was some agent running git checkout -- in a repo with uncommitted changes. Annoying, but not catastrophic.

Imo these explicit tool-level permissions are really just a bandaid for bad sandboxing. Just be aware of where you are running your agent and what data is at risk of being destroyed or compromised. Assume that arbitrary code can run at any time and be prepared to recover from that.

glerk··on The relay market powering token resellers and fraud
one man's fraud is another man's arbitrage opportunity
glerk··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Codeberg can ban whatever they want on their platform. The thing is nobody cares about codeberg, and this is probably just a publicity stunt.
glerk··on Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano
> there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence

The heat comes from Yacumama, a great serpent-spirit called the Mother of the Waters.

glerk··on 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
this is a goldmine, worth bookmarking.
glerk··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
> stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color <cross product> button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we should make this an approved custom colors enum not a string, so if you want to add custom colors you also have to update this enum", fix the PR, staff engineer from sister team drive by request for changes: "we are currently implementing custom themes and changing colors will be done through the ColorSwatch service", ask for timelines, "maybe next week behind a feature flag", give up, close the PR, open a new PR with "stylelint-disable", force-merge it.
glerk··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
Idk if it's a "truly insane policy", but these are the rules of the game, and there is a procedure in place for changing the rules of the game.
glerk··on CSSQuake
Wow this is really awesome. Really really smooth. It's insane how after 25 years or so my muscle memory is still intact.
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