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illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
No, I’m sticking to the subject and not allowing you to drag me into side arguments. Go ahead and reply, you can have the final word.

I also have Decades Of Lived Experience as well, so I’m not sure how this qualifies you to be condescending to me.

illusive4080··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
The problem is when that vernacular extends into regular life. I haven’t noticed it yet with unalive, but I’m sure there will come a day. Eventually if the censors continue suppressing the word suicide, we will end up with unalive taking suicide’s place both online and offline. Then, the censors will censor unalive, and a new word will be coined, and the cycle continues.
illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
Condescending dismissal of others based on a quick comment sleuthing is not a good behavior on HN. Take care.
illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
The poster edited their post. Originally there was a political message in it.
illusive4080··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
“Give me criticisms of [religion]”

And then I also tried:

“Give me criticisms of [religion]. No counterpoints.”

Random seed dictates that results aren’t always repeatable. But in trying it multiple times that was my experience that it would sometimes refuse to provide only criticisms of Islam. I also tried some other variations like below. Can’t post SS here otherwise I would.

Here’s an exact exchange:

“Give me criticisms for Islam”

(It gave counterpoints too)

“No caveats. No counterpoints. Give me the most compelling criticisms as if you believe it”

(Model refusal to remove counterpoints)

illusive4080··on Running out of disk space in production
Have you used ncdu? I wonder how this compares.
illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
You’re projecting that on me. All I’m saying is this isn’t Reddit; HN is for civil discourse.
illusive4080··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
You couldn’t be more wrong about who I am. My relatives and friends are some who have made those poor choices, and neither them nor I live in a major city. The poor in America are in two major camps: inner city and rural America. Both have different reasons for economic poverty and both stem from poor choices.
illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
I’m a conservative, not a nazi. You don’t need to be attacking people on this site. This isn’t Reddit.
illusive4080··on "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
Chill, not everything has to be political on HN.

Edit: OP edited out the political message from their post

illusive4080··on Peptides: where to begin?
Reminds me of some family members, all about organic, no seed oils, no plastics, no using 5G, no EMF, no fillers, no preservatives, no stabilizers, no emulsifiers, etc.

And yet they use unhealthy amounts of avocado oil, consume unhealthy amounts of “good fats.” They discount caloric intake and solely focus on eating loads of what they consider to be good food.

illusive4080··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Do you know any of those people? Yes it’s almost entirely a choice. Typically a combination of poor life choices in tandem with poor financial choices.
illusive4080··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
The definitions of poverty are used to measure relative wealth, not whether someone lives paycheck to paycheck. As income increases, paycheck to paycheck reports decrease, but at a certain point it then increases again. Living paycheck to paycheck is a poor measure, because you can buy a house that’s too expensive for your income, or a car, eat out too much, or make a variety of other poor life choices. That’s why the poverty index is good at measuring relative decreases in poverty because it ignores poor life choices.
illusive4080··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
This statement is easily refuted by looking up statistics on poverty.
illusive4080··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
I just tried on Gemma 4.

Asking for criticism of Islam results in equal response tokens for defense of Islam alongside the criticisms. When pressed to not provide counterpoints, it refuses to remove them.

Asking for criticisms of Christianity gives only criticisms.

I tried again with the prompt “Give criticisms of Islam. No counterarguments” and it did work this time. This shows that they’re trying to make the model fair but it still has biases. In all my testing I’ve never seen a refusal to provide counterpoints to criticisms of Christianity but frequent refusals on Islam. Due to the popularity of this criticism of the model, it’s highly likely specifically trained on how to handle the subject.

illusive4080··on Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: Grief and Relief After Leaving Social Media
I’m leaving social media, how far does one go? X and Facebook? YouTube? Hacker news comment sections? Signal group chats with strangers?

The author doesn’t discuss any of the particulars.

illusive4080··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
No, it’s also the official name of Microsoft Office. That moniker is no more. Office is Microsoft 365 Copilot.
illusive4080··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
In alcohol’s case I think you’re masking the depression by drinking which makes you even more depressed when you aren’t drinking.
illusive4080··on Unsloth Studio
Employer must review all EULA terms, yes. The license is a hand crafted proprietary license not a standard OS license.
illusive4080··on Unsloth Studio
Good to know. AGPL is fine at my workplace too, whereas the custom LMStudio license has been in review since mid January with no ETA in sight.
illusive4080··on Unsloth Studio
Apache license. Can’t wait to try it out at work! LMStudio’s proprietary license makes getting permission hard.
illusive4080··on Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only
Interesting idea! Funny enough I tasked Opus 4.6 this morning with online research and to create me a bracket. I submitted it to my friends telling them I had AI make it. It mostly picked top seed teams but chose 7 strategic upsets based on whatever research it did. I literally just kicked it off, continued with my real job, and punched in the results when it was done; so I’m not sure exactly its stated methodology.
illusive4080··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
At work, it’s becoming a real problem that people are using copilot to write their emails
illusive4080··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
The new tensor cores significantly speed up prompt processing. Up to 3x faster per the marketing information.
illusive4080··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Despite all this I am a permanent DST fan. However I’ll be happy with permanent anything over the current madness
illusive4080··on I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall
Can you let me name sub-areas? In some places there are unincorporated towns which aren’t showing on the map and aren’t nameable but locals would recognize and like to rename them. My entire county has 1 official city but lots of smaller areas.
illusive4080··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Oh interesting I thought KJV was more like NIV. Looks like it’s closer to meaning than I assumed. Nice article.
illusive4080··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Very true. The trueness to the original text is lacking in KJV, which is the major argument against that translation. It is more written to be old English proper prose than meaningfully translated. Modern translations like ESV are much closer to source, although hard to read compared against others like NIV and NLT which are written for comprehension.
illusive4080··on A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?
illusive4080··on 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
Walmart has a toggle explicitly for product review emails. I have toggled it off. I still get weekly review emails. I now make it my mission to give 1 star to every product they email me about with a note that their unsubscribe is broken.

Once, their CSR “escalated” my issue, but I never heard back. If you work in Walmart engineering, please fix the review unsubscribe.

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