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8338550bff96··on Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
February 6, 2024... okay grandpa
8338550bff96··on German civil activists win victory in election case against X
How convenient does the law say that it has to be?
8338550bff96··on The Age of Agent Experience
There are no websites that I visit now that don't have a login that I would still visit if they suddenly started putting up captchas
8338550bff96··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
Let us see how that works out for you
8338550bff96··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
At what point is this just extortionary cash grab from U.S. tech companies?

Want to fund some expensive grand program? Find a reason to fine U.S. companies.

8338550bff96··on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
I doubt how useful it would be as an attack. As a single point of info it tells you next to nothing. As part of a composition of other indicators it would be the weak link in the chain probably just causing noise for the not un-likly scenario where the person you're targeting is using a VPN.

If it was any less specific we'd be talking about a deanonymization attack that outs whether or not a target is still on Earth.

8338550bff96··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Do you have any sources that you would recommend? So far, you're throwing out "got a source for that?" left and right and when you get a source you've nothing to say.

Just curious if you have knowledge about this subject or if you're just trying to block the conversation from going in directions you don't like

8338550bff96··on HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me
I would say that HTML is a programming language of the Declarative programming language paradigm.

For SQL you are not instructing the computer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that an execution engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

For HTML you're not instructing the renderer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that the rendering engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

If I'm wrong, I would be very happy to be corrected because I've argued this for a long time with people who don't know what a programming language paradigm is - so I'd like to know if I'm mistaken.

8338550bff96··on Agents Are Not Enough
Then is "agents" just non-spooky coded language for "cyborgs"
8338550bff96··on The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
Who cares what it is called? I care about the capabilities.

In my experience when people say things like this what they're just projecting insecurity

8338550bff96··on The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
I work on such a team too. I don't care what you call me - pay me
8338550bff96··on A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals
None of this has to do with. AI. At all.

This is politics and policy

8338550bff96··on Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
Low and behold, no response. Only downvote. Because there doesn't exist a legitimate argument against is, so all that is left is to be mad
8338550bff96··on Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
They will remain bifurcated so long as some platforms censor political dissent while others do not.
8338550bff96··on Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care
I would rather have lazy devs that actually ship shit to production than slow devs that drag what I could get done in 1 day out for entire sprints because they only communicate with each other for 30min tops per-day to unblock each other.

That this comes at the cost of "understanding" needs supporting evidence. Most devs I know only know 1 or 2 programming languages and their own special silo corner of the tech stack.

You're not paid to be not lazy or to learn in the most fulfilling way possible. You're paid to ship software that works.

8338550bff96··on Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
The levenshtein distance of the title is 50. Considering the title is 62 characters, I would say it is not accurate.
8338550bff96··on Defibrillation devices save lives using 1k times less electricity
Best of both worlds
8338550bff96··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Women actually deserve a constitutional amendment to protect their rights, not a court ruling of the most dubious jurisprudence. Because of Roe V. Wade the political will create a new actually applicable amendment was never pursued - a bandaide that eventually fell off.

Part of the problem is that most people lack the cognitive capacity to understand the legal argumentation of Roe V. Wade and how shaky it was and so they out of incompetence set themselves up as women's rights constitutional amendment obstructionists

8338550bff96··on Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
I'll shut up when I see humans get 99.9% on anything. This seems an awful lot like non-meat brain prejudice where standards that humans do not live up to at all are imposed on other things in order to be worthy of consideration
8338550bff96··on Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
How do you distinguish between the real thing and a perfect simulation of the real thing?

You seem to be engaged in faith-based reasoning at this point. If you were born in a sensory deprivation chamber you also would have no inner world, and you wouldn't have anything at all to say about solving chemistry problems.

> Im actually surprised so many get fooled by the hype and are ready to declare a winner.

Find me one person that says something like this. "AGI is here!" hype-lords exist only as a rhetorical device for the peanut gallery to ridicule.

8338550bff96··on How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
Is this something that is necessarily true or true due to policy decisions or tech debt?

Honest question as someone that is definitely not a networking expert.

8338550bff96··on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
I am (҂`_´)

Continuously micro-manage the layout of individual application windows your window manager is a form of procrastination.

Back to work!

8338550bff96··on How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
Yeah, let's just have everyone hosting TOR nodes out themselves and their friends to local authorities...

Nice try Winnie Poo

8338550bff96··on We're forking Flutter
That is good to hear and hopefully gets fixed. It has been some years now, but I did use flutter for some toy projects and liked using it - I am used to using ReactJS I found there was a lot of transitive knowledge coming from that background.

Ultimately what dissuaded me from pursuing it for any bigger projects is a lack of examples of great looking production apps with complex requirements. When I was looking, I was seeing a lot of CRUD apps - display a form, click an upload button, ect. This was probably 2018/2019 when I was taking a serious look at it.

All of that is to say: Quality app showcases do matter for whether or not devs will trust a solution enough to pull the trigger.

8338550bff96··on Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models
Yeah, I'm not really following the line of reasoning presented on the "/history" page: https://typeschema.org/history

It seems to me like a mischaracterization of JSON Schema to say you can't define a concrete type without actual data.

I am a very stupid individual so I could be misunderstanding the argument.

8338550bff96··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Your source is a blog post by a polemic author whose own source is second-hand by NYT, an organization that is in lawsuit with OpenAI. I would have rather have heard it from the horse's mouth. What financial information about OpenAI does NYT have that I don't? Do they have privileged access to private org financials?

In my estimation, you're not qualified for this conversation.

8338550bff96··on End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
Have the same experience with Microsoft support. The difference is the timeline is much shorter and when our issues don't get any traction our rep intervenes and escalates to engineers.

I understand that level-1 support for these orgs are basically documentation librarians. Cool. We pay an incredible amount for premium support, but whatever. It's fine. What matters is that we have a rep that is engaged and cares about us being unblocked and isn't going to let us flounder for issues their support team is not going to solve. Have never seen this level of commitment from Google.

8338550bff96··on Sq.io: jq for databases and more
Lots of people struggle to understand the declarative programming language paradigm. It is really pesky because since you're declaring what kinds of results you expect rather than dictating what must be done, you're forced to define your boundary conditions up-front. Much more fun and exciting to charge ahead without worrying about such things
8338550bff96··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
I prefer analysis from industry experts, not PR execs moon-lighting as tech bloggers
8338550bff96··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
I don't understand what paying for openai is meant to mean? You mean paying for tokens?
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