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satellite2··on How AI text watermarking works
Could you explain how the probabilities are computed for an online/essay excerpt? My understanding is that the probability for the next token is given by all previous token. Given that online the (system + user) prompts and the possible previous turns will almost certainly not be included how can the probabilities be accurate?
satellite2··on NP-overrated
10000?

Wait until you meet pip and liberal requirements.txt

satellite2··on Show HN: River Rescue – Game mechanic for 3yo
Thank you very much. It becomes just a little bit harder. Yes at some point I'd like to improve the visual around the river sprites. Maybe even adding some shader to make water water
satellite2··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
You have a great build up for an argument but why this conclusion?

At some point who should be doing ethics? Lawyers? Computer scientists? (I'm not asking ironically, who really is well placed to make population level and extremely though questions like balancing the protection of the few against a global important health interest/gain?)

satellite2··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
Sure, but is there any evidence that psychology and for that matter, any animal intelligence, is anything more than linear algebra?
satellite2··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
Well sure if you want to actually be right. If you just care about looking right rhetoric might be a better fit.
satellite2··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
How is a data center defined? Is a small business dedicating a room to server racks a "data center"?
satellite2··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
But Dell Apple etc were included when stronger requirements were in place.

Comforting the passive investor that the market would have had time to react and to force a lower valuation before their inclusion in the index

satellite2··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
With the change to only five days of being publicly traded requirements, incentivising market makers to keep a high valuation becomes very cheap.

After five days the index funds have to buy at the last price making it final.

In other words even if the vast majority of the market believes it's worth much less, they can force a high price and force basically everyone to hold it via retirement funds.

satellite2··on Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
Yes they should have stick with the naming convention.

google/gemma-4-31B-it-ass

satellite2··on Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
is it still a useless model if, say, you can run it at (prompt+output)*24/s and use it to make executive function decisions?
satellite2··on The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn't in a Hurry to Reopen Hormuz?
Mmh yes and no. There are two arms in this hypothesis and you can summarize the second one (the main one) as basically wanting to piss off / punish the Europeans. This is perfectly on point and fits the character.

Occam's razor might well describe actions of a cold calculating leader. But of Trump..?

satellite2··on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases
Wouldn't they then expose themselves to discrimination and loss of revenue lawsuits from targeted drivers?
satellite2··on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases
Interesting. When it's the state I think the overwhelming opinion is that predictive policing is dangerous but when it's a private company we actually want it to enforce it?
satellite2··on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
Aren't you just moving the problem a little bit further? If you can't trust it will implement carefully specified features, why would you believe it would properly review those?
satellite2··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
Exactly, his whole tirade felt extraordinarily far fetched, sketchy if not outright racist.
satellite2··on Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
Well it's 2025, we've just spent the better half of the year discussing the bitter lesson. It seems clear solving more general problem is key to innovation.
satellite2··on Go Proposal: Secret Mode
Alternatively:

  enclave, err := secret.GetEnclave()
  // err contains whether the platform doesn't support it
  enclave.Do(f)
satellite2··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
Incredible teamwork: OOP dismantles society in paragraph form, and OP proudly outsources his interpretation to an LLM.. If this isn’t collective self-parody, I don’t know what it is.
satellite2··on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
Are those really standardized in the US?

Where I live the condition vary widely. And basically the switching costs might easily dominate the total costs if you move/sell.

I've found that taking this into account it was better to trade a few places in term of interests for better conditions.

satellite2··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Dynamic led plate that are totp. Where you can determine who is who on which date only with central access.
satellite2··on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities
Of course. But what if the holding lives in a country that don't enforce this (or is too weak to). Then all the subsidiaries are really sovereign from the host country perspective.

It seems the solution is ages old. Don't have the holding incorporated in an empire...

satellite2··on The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry
I'm not sure about this.

If the job market is representative of this then we can see that as both sides uses it and are getting better it's becoming an arms race. Looking for a job two years ago using ChatGPT was the perfect timing but not any more. The current situation is more applications per position and thus longer decision time. The end result is that the duration of unemployment is getting longer.

I'm afraid the current situation, which as described in the article is favorable to customers, is not going to last and might even reverse.

satellite2··on The decline of deviance
Your meta-analysis is one degree too high. You were going to have the long tail anyway. It just shows there was an interest for the deviant.
satellite2··on Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Do you mind citing providers/product names?
satellite2··on How they clean the balls in a ball pit
They're foamy in the middle after ingestion and before being sucked in the tube it seems
satellite2··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
Is that right? Isn't the current way of doing thing to throw "everything" at it then fine tune?
satellite2··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
Yes but the other interesting bit which is not clearly addressed is that increasing the garbage in to 100% does not result in absolute garbage out. So visibly there is still something to learn there.
satellite2··on An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In
Interesting for me it's the opposite. Since they haven't fully disappeared I get one whenever it's available. Next too it a zero is far too sweet and a normal one is gross.
satellite2··on Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program
> there's a built-in assumption that no commercial entity would _want_ to use it under GPLv3 terms.

We also have a fairly strict no GPL dependency at work which I find surprising. Especially for a software like this one that you only use, never ship nor modify I don't understand the risks this license poses. It's like we went from a reasonable "be careful around it" to a "don't touch it with a 10 foot pole". And it's leaving me wondering if there is a more concerted effort to demonize this license

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