mikrl

At the core, how are these agents any different from what Aaron Swartz was driven to suicide for?

In both cases, someone ran some software that maybe called other software that ended up doing an action which was possibly illegal.

Downloading journal articles is worthy of punishment but compromising multiple websites is worthy of… heady press coverage?

I honestly don’t know what anyone expected given all the labs started building self-driving malware at about the same time.

I remember lots of people talking about running agents in VMs or on whole dedicated machines, yet barely anyone talking about how they were using mundane OS access controls.

Dwarf fortress is the “reading a book” of vidya for sure.

But sometimes I personally forget that it’s allowed and enjoyable to just read 20 mins here and there…

> we can find other sources or just do with less

That kind of rhetoric is typically only employed when you’re in some great struggle, and the sacrifices made are supposed to be offset by a greater good.

In this trade war the struggle was completely avoidable and you chose it for yourself. Now you’re deploying the belt tightening home front rhetoric.

I’m going to be a little naughty and stop the constructive discourse to say: HOLY MOTHER OF COPE!

> cyberpunk is NOW a playable game

I never had problems with cyberpunk but I think I know why: I built a new PC right around its release and it was good enough to play it smoothly on 4K medium or HD ultra.

When I checked to see what 4K ultra looked like, the graphics latency caused a bunch of scripting to fall apart and the game glitched really bad.

IIRC the console release was notorious for bugs, so I assume consoles were not performant enough to run the game buttery smooth nor could they be easily upgraded.

Ah yes, American Psycho was shot in Toronto wasn’t it?

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is bleak, humane and fairly short. I enjoyed it like a good Charles Dickens

On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia. The great Ovid probably lifted ideas and tropes from somewhere else.

Yet all those stories in all their forms still sell today, and still impress people.

Not worrying about unoriginality frees you to just enjoy yourself… and just maybe do something original.

>So one way to keep it from getting enshittified, again is to make the barrier to entry just a touch higher, or add friction.

We already had that, it was called crypto mining. Profit motive has taken care of that already

One of my hobbyist workflows involved transcribing ETF prospecti into yaml for an optimizer to optimize over.

Used to take me maybe 10-20 minutes per sheet.

Then I got codex to whip up a script that sends each sheet to a fairly low parameter locally running LLM and I have the yaml in a couple seconds.

My dream is to bootstrap myself to local productivity with providers… I know I’ll never get there because hedonic treadmill etc, but I do feel there’s lots more juice to squeeze. I just need to invest more time into AI engineering…

How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query?

Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…

Rockwell Automation has a facility in Katowice, Silesia which was/is a major centre of coal mining and locomotive manufacturing since the 1800s when it was part of Prussia, and continuing through the Polish Republic, WW2 era and beyond.

The industrial heritage is strong.

A family member told me they knew of someone who once visited Poland from Yugoslavia and found, in their opinion, that Polish was a Slavic language perfectly suited to the Latin script.

But yes, transliterated Russian doesn’t look quite right- rather cumbersome- and I assume the same would hold true for a Polish Cyrillic.

Argh… I still can’t wrap my head around the esoteric humour. What is a feeduck and seeduck anyway?

Superscaler sounds too much like superscalar…

Pretty sure Duff was a heavily filtered macro beer.

Not saying engineered beer is necessarily bad- Sapporo and Asahi never disappoint- but I imagine you would want to stick to unfiltered and unpasteurized to retain some of the more… alive compounds.

Posted previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626116

Bet your shirt AND the farm from the comfort of your phone

I started dressing nice at work, reasoning that looking sharp would buy me a few seconds or minutes of grace to allow my social deficiencies to catch up - just in case an executive decided to ask me a question.

Of course, that never happened for months, years until the one day I went in wearing cargo pants and a gothy synth band shirt and was greeted by a delegation of executives from out of town engaging everyone in small talk…

And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist

Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed

Great article. Personally I have been learning more about the mathematics of beyond-CLT scenarios (fat tails, infinite variance etc)

The great philosophical question is why CLT applies so universally. The article explains it well as a consequence of the averaging process.

Alternatively, I’ve read that natural processes tend to exhibit Gaussian behaviour because there is a tendency towards equilibrium: forces, homeostasis, central potentials and so on and this equilibrium drives the measurable into the central region.

For processes such as prices in financial markets, with complicated feedback loops and reflexivity (in the Soros sense) the probability mass tends to ends up in the non central region, where the CLT does not apply.

I think my i9 was released right after the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations in 2019, but I seem to remember even more recent vulns in that family… so that could also be a factor.

I replied to the sibling comment: I was making simplifying assumptions for two specific use cases and naively treated physical cores and clock rate as my variables.

From the newegg listing:

>8 Cores and 16 processing threads, based on AMD "Zen 5" architecture

which is the same thread geometry as my 9900K.

My main concerns at the time were:

1. More cores for running large workloads on k8s since I had just upgraded to 128G RAM

2. More thread level parallelism for my C++ code

Naively I thought that, ceteris paribus and assuming good L1 cache utilization, having more physical cores with a higher clock rate would be the ticket for 2.

Does the 9800X3D have a wider pipeline or is it some other microarchitectural feature that makes it faster?

>are not competitive in the consumer space

AFAIK they still dominate on clock rate, which I was surprised to see when doing some back of the envelope calculations regarding core counts.

I felt my 8 core i9 9900K was inadequate, so shopped around for something AMD, and IIRC the core multiplier of the chip I found was dominated by the clock rate multiplier so it’s possible that at full utilization my i9 is still towards the best I can get at the price.

Not sure if I’m the typical consumer in this case however.

I was doing similar by capturing XHR requests while clicking through manually, then asking codex to reverse engineer the API from the export.

Never tried that level of autonomy though. How long is your iteration cycle?

If I had to guess, mine was maybe 10-20 minutes over a few prompts.

>The movie did have an unfortunate eugenic implication

You’re thinking of dysgenic, not eugenic.

Gattaca is a movie about eugenics.

Hey I’m all grown up now, just don’t have the time to meticulously touch pixels in MS Paint like back in the day

Making funny memes of my friends mainly. ChatGPT won’t touch that, I haven’t tried with Claude yet, but grok keeps the group chat flush with laughing emojis.

That’s all I use it for really- things out of alignment with the other platforms- which IMO are better on every other metric (except having a sense of humour of course)