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- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 19 hours ago:
Maybe but I don’t think that is well tested legally yet. For instance, I’ve learned things from there, but when I share some knowledge I don’t attribute it to all the underlying sources of my knowledge. If, on the other hand, I shared a quote or copypasta from there I’d be compelled to do so I suppose.
I’m just not sure how neural networks will be treated in this regard. I assume they’ll conveniently claim that they can’t tie answers directly to underpinning training data.
- Comment on Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ 1 day ago:
I get the sentiment, but that implies nothing good is being made. And even if the sentiment “nothing good is being pushed” were true, that wouldn’t be that same as not being made. Still tons of artists out there putting work in.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
I completely agree. If they take another swing, I hope they’ll make it much more open for development. Or just update these.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
Except that some people may like this form factor for these features. Of course it can be delivered in phones, but it does seem at least possible to me that some may prefer a device like this.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
Since iOS 17, I have had no problems with text input. It feels better than anything that preceded it which I used on Apple or other platforms. That is true for swiping or typing and in either of the two languages I use. I’m actually blown away by how good it is sometime, correcting words based on the clause around it.
I also have an S10 Lite that I keep up to date. The native input there is okay, but not nearly as accurate.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
I’m not completely convinced. It is possible but sounds a bit high to me. It is based on a survey of less than 3k parents, and although I found the BBC article, it doesn’t seem to link to the actual source. It is therefore difficult to take this too seriously without seeing exactly who was interviewed and how the questions were worded.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 weeks ago:
NT? You mean Vista maybe? NT was a massive product line that was pretty popular, and the kernel touches most releases to this day.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 1 month ago:
Arc works perfectly for my workflow. Using Firefox since Netscape days, but arc is really good. Don’t love that it is chromium and not open, but the ux is incredible. And air traffic control is such a nice feature.
- Comment on A preview of FOSS video generative AI 2 months ago:
I agree AND I think he really stresses the conjunctions WITH far too much inflection.
- Comment on AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) 2 months ago:
While white hats are sometimes paid, it is generally in bounties. It just means being adversarial without trying to be unethical. So, find the hole but tell the person that made it rather than the crooks that will exploit it.
A red team on the other hand is a known value. They are the bad guys in a simulation. The military exercises similarly or any organization that wants to test defenses. Red team == the make believe bad guys.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 2 months ago:
Generally they do. Of course they are responsible for all the dumb shit in the world, but also most of the good and interesting.
Young people don’t get dumber as they age. They get smarter, wiser, better able to cope with adversity. Setting sore back and knees aside adults are doing alright when it comes to raising the young.
- Comment on Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s 2 months ago:
You could probably change the ssd but the memory is on the SoC.
- Comment on Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows 2 months ago:
That still sounds so weird, as opposed to the old “super user do”.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 2 months ago:
Chess? Take your pick. But these neural networks, can run generations much faster than we can, and they get better at rates we cannot. And if alignment isn’t taken seriously this is going to be an issue. People keep diminishing the ability, by saying things like just glorified autocomplete, which is in the strictest sense true of LLM’s but the transformers and recurrent networks they’re built upon are really very much facsimile to brains but with generations in the blink of an eye.
And the first go programs, champions could beat repeatedly without interruption, like the earliest chess engines. Now the concept of a human winning a match is comical.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 2 months ago:
I wish they wouldn’t. Then we’d have the better algos. But they’ll no doubt find far better ones than we have.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 2 months ago:
All it knows is what humans said in its training dataset which is a lot of news, wikipedia and social media.
The thing that surprises me is people think human brains are significantly different than this. We are pattern recognition machines that build perception based on weighted neural links. We’re much better at it, but we used to be a lot better at go too.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 2 months ago:
There is an entire field of study dedicated to this problem space in the general case, game theory. Veritasium has a great video on why the tit for tat algorithm alone is insufficient without some built in lenience.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 2 months ago:
I really hope neither Apple nor any other repair shop simply casts electronic components in the bin. My expectation in both cases is that the components are recycled, at least for precious metals.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
This is truly a dizzying exchange. What I said was three things. The bubbles are designed to, at least in part, distinguish message protocol, the zealous conspicuous consumers are responsible for making it a status symbol, and not porting the system to android for vendor lock-in is a scummy process. I am really struggling to see me defend Apple in this case.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
I didn’t miss that; that just isn’t what it says. Well it is what you say, but that’s not what I’m disagreeing with. I agree with you.
iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android Phones.
I’m not saying it isn’t a dirty business trick design to lock consumers in. It is. I’m saying it isn’t clear to me that it is designed as a social status issue. That was driven by a large group the users. Even still what this article is talking about is not having iMessage on android, which is not at all what I was disputing. I’m saying the colors serve a functional purpose. Not saying “only a functional purpose” but useful nevertheless.
I won’t be surprised if android likewise distinguishes between sms and messages using the new protocol.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
I don’t think it is good that they didn’t allow that but it seems non sequitur that means it is about status. I like to know if a message is sms or encrypted. Just like some jabber clients do for private messages. There should be some indication of the message status. And unless you can point to Apple indicating the intent of the colors is for social status and not an indication of protocol, I stand by that.
And I know it is hard to cut through the “fuck Apple” narrative. But to me, they are just another one of many scumbag corporations. I just don’t see any evidence that the intent is social status. That was driven by conspicuous consumers.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
Or just which messages are SMS and which are an encrypted protocol. It was the users that turned that into a measure of status.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 2 months ago:
Me too, because in spite of marketing garbage the product will probably be best in class or at least providing competition thereof.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 2 months ago:
There are no absolutes, and most of these “myths” are at least true to some extent. Much like any paradigm (worse is better, whitebox testing, lbyl vs eafp, etc), none are universally best. And all are helpful to know about.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Please drink verification can.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
💰
- Comment on Looking for a job as backend developer, a Sankey diagram 3 months ago:
Even:
No
Would be better than nothing.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 3 months ago:
I had that same habit a few years back, but have not had that problem for some time. DDG seems to generally provide the results I seek.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 3 months ago:
That’s terrifying.
- Comment on Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair 3 months ago:
Backing the legislation forcing them to do just that isn’t entirely vapid. I mean, I’m not counting on them completely, but it is a step in the right direction.