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Comment · 5 days ago
Yes, they have been saying that for a while: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-expected-to-tell-inves...
Comment · 10 days ago
I just asked Claude or codex to do it using uv/uvx and it did it effortlessly and perfectly, I didn't even look at what package(s) it used.
Comment · 23 days ago
As a non-mathematician I'm confused by this Wikipedia article. Isn't it trivial to fabricate arbitrarily hard integrals by starting from a function with known values and differentiating it?
I understand that people enjoyed the prank, but I think the article doesn't make it clear enough that he was just trolling and wasn't actually solving hard mathematical problems
Comment · 29 days ago
In my experience LLMs write better svelte code then React code, as there's fewer footguns (e.g. useEffect is much more brittle in React)
Comment · 1 month ago
You could ask AI for the best charity to donate to
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow this is just bullying, it's insane that we are letting these people be in charge of the transition
Comment · 1 month ago
> This is a a Deep Blue-Kasparov moment.
I guess this is true in more ways than one. Kasparov famously accused IBM of cheating during the match, by spying on his preparation (edit: though the main cheating accusation was live human intervention during the games, on top of IBM downplaying the heavy human involvement behind the AI, which also mirrors this situation)
Comment · 2 months ago
I think it's because customers don't seem to mind enough to switch.
I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism, but it's getting harder and harder to justify on technical merits. Sol is just faster, cheaper, and more reliable, and as good as Opus for my use cases
Comment · 2 months ago
Haven't noticed any issue, the main limitation is the lack of mobile support on Chrome, but that has always been the case.
I'm so grateful for Firefox on Android
Comment · 2 months ago
All comments here are written as if Situational Awareness blew up, but it seems like it didn't and is up 80% YTD https://nitter.net/tbpn/status/2083226453509030285
All the stuff that it was forced to sell to Citadel is also up ~10%-30% since the sale
Comment · 3 months ago
Another comment got downvoted for raising this, but I found it interesting that pangram flags large parts of this blog post as AI generated ( https://www.pangram.com/history/b82cdbf4-bdbc-46ea-8315-bd43... ), while earendil denies it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119957
Comment · 3 months ago
See the classic Gwern post: https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
Which quotes Tao on using deliberate disinformation to preserve anonymity.
> …one additional way to gain more anonymity is through deliberate disinformation. For instance, suppose that one reveals 100 independent bits of information about oneself. Ordinarily, this would cost 100 bits of anonymity (assuming that each bit was a priori equally likely to be true or false), by cutting the number of possibilities down by a factor of 2100; but if 5 of these 100 bits (chosen randomly and not revealed in advance) are deliberately falsified, then the number of possibilities increases again by a factor of (100 choose 5) ~ 226, recovering about 26 bits of anonymity.
Intentionally adding writing "tics", scheduling posts to appear between 2am and 6am in your timezone, or pretending to have a different gender/location/age should help a lot in staying pseudonymous for a while longer.
Comment · 4 months ago
Many deb packages are easily repackaged for arch by the community
Comment · 4 months ago
This seems to have unblocked Claude Desktop for Linux ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux )