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Comment · 13 days ago
I certainly feel like certain AI coding practices I have leave me with nothing learned in a frustrating way. Sometimes the most effective way to getting what I want is just describing a goal really clearly, and then bashing the AI until it gets there. That bashing process can take a lot of energy and yet I don’t gain useful skills or a “better way” that I would if I was still coding. I generate more training data for BigAI corp, but that’s a slow return cycle.

Not sure if this is the right solution, but I would like to learn/understand/grow more as I pursue reckless efficiency.

Comment · 14 days ago
It literally flew over the entire Tesla fleet starting from the ground. Or does it only count if it can do it indefinitely?
Comment · 29 days ago
Wait maybe I’m missing something, but are you saying the temporary confusion while people realize they have different versions would be the primary downside? I feel like that’s an acceptable loss. It seems likely that the data in both commits, while one healthy and the other corrupt, will still have to be very different in order to produce the same hash. It’s not like you can reasonably find same-hash commits that just change line19 execute_hack from true to false.
Comment · 1 month ago
I remember when this company was just doing agentic playwright style browser interactions
Comment · 1 month ago
I think exfiltration is much more likely via prompted external hacking by one of these models than an internal model deciding to go rogue and somehow having access to its own weights in the first place. People do try to exfiltrate model weights indirectly ofc, its called distillation
Comment · 1 month ago
For anyone that missed it, I believe they’re referring to exfiltrating models by encoding the weights as bits as voltage fluctuations from the relevant data centers. I’m sure they’d take your money but I don’t think that’s what it’s referring to.
Comment · 3 months ago
… that Claude can use, because Claude can’t use the XCode gui very efficiently.
Comment · 4 months ago
If you start with $7.35464e-6 you’ll get to a trillion by the time you’re done!
Comment · 6 months ago
I got banned from Hinge for reverse engineering their proxy and filtering through hundreds of profile per minute. The bot would auto filter 80%, and I could go through the last 20% as it goes, with a slick interface to view multiple profiles at once with keybindings.

It’s pretty funny to see that in their demo video given it’s a blatant violation of their ToS.

Comment · 7 months ago
Just switch it to a background process with

Ctrl-Z $ bg

Or run it in tmux so you can pull it up on demand and have it open at startup.

Comment · 7 months ago
While having more satellites sure does help serve more people, there’s a second issue which arises when trying to serve high density areas, where you run into bandwidth limitations. The solution there is not more satellites but either bigger satellites (which can make smaller beams) or more FCC allowance on the spectrum.
Comment · 7 months ago
I really thought this was gonna be a sick material science paper. Still cool though
Comment · 7 months ago
It’s not the RISC-V core itself, it’s just some of the surrounding architecture to support the CPU, to turn it into a SOC. So the USB drivers, the AXI memory interfaces, and the analog components, like PLLs for generating clocks, or even the IO pad drivers. These components take the fully open RISC-V core which works in a simulator and makes it work like a normal physical chip would.
Comment · 8 months ago
The self reported safety score for violence dropped from 91% to 83%.
Comment · 8 months ago
It seems rather typical for Apple. The removal of the headphone jack obsoleted thousands of consumer devices.

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