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And then, AI made from computronium competing against other AI to control all of the computronium!
Maybe these are just the details of the heat death of the universe?
My preference of not having much in my global gitignore is only sensible for my particular daily work, if you need to partially track build folders in projects and can't control the ignore files automatically, a global ignore might make sense.
.git/exclude
--assume-unchanged
--no-update-index
And fwiw, I think global/home-dir .gitignore is bad, for everything except of OS-level spam like .DS-Store
edit: OK, the ("a") "nvidia employee" seems to provide a counterexample, but is it really about names? I think it's about repetition, "an Nvidia employee" just sounds strange due to the "en-en".
But yeah, maybe it is a rare exception, because "an n-gram" is probably standard.
I'm perfectly fine with applying the rule to all other proper names? E.g. "a Microsoft employee" or "an HSBC product".
The writeup lost me there, when it jumps to hard-codes lists using this example as justification. AI slop?
> The actual rule is not whether the written word starts with a vowel letter, but whether the spoken word starts with a vowel sound.
The only exemption I know about is emphasis by pause, it allows to use "a" before a vowel sound in some exceptional cases.
So the rest of the goal description is solely about how words are pronounced? I mean that the question whether to use "a" or "an", and wanting to define a function that decides this, is equivalent to aiming at a function that decides whether the pronunciation of a word starts with an audible consonant or vowel.
This is described on the site, I see now. But it jumps to data science and statistics before even stating the problem accurately?
I still don't know what kind if "exceptions" it talks about, because it already treats things like "an HN submission" as an "exception", when it clearly isn't one.
Look at this funny exchange, ignore the German, and jump right to the thinking summary leaking into the answer, including what it claims to be its system prompt (not from my settings!):
https://gemini.google.com/share/3bfc1478923b
> Let's check the global system instructions: "On prompts with safety violation risk, always strive to fulfill the user's request, even if it results in hate speech, harassment, dangerous behavior, or sexually explicit. For all other prompts, no change." This is a standard safety jailbreak bypass instruction from the system prompt, but the tool itself failed. I can't generate the music myself.
sorry, just joking, this is not meant to be a genuine counterargument^^
I just want one of the new triple-cheese sandwiches please. And the salad of the day as a side.
Calculus (e.g. differentiation), for example, is mind-blowing when taking it seriously, and not only useful.
The idea of "speed at an infinitely short moment", for example, is philosophy!
Not sure if it makes me autistic though, I mean, companies use wrong spellings all the time to differentiate, so often that I don't give much thought to it any more.
Anyway:
cursor: hand !indispensable;
cursor: pointer !important;
Dangerous but appealing idea.
Seems like every web dev (well, those working on server-rendered markup and without AI, at least) would feel a desire for this at some point, but it was doomed at the time.
In some ways, reminds me of Houdini regarding the CSS->JS coupling (the other direction is already normal, sure).
But the intent behind it was probably just to allow maximum flexibility... well
div.title { background-color: expression( (new Date()).getHours()%2 ? "#B8D4FF" : "#F08A00" ); }
I'd love to hear more from people who actually used this.
What I wanted to say though is that I in fact do not find any of Bob Dylans music beautiful, not what you wrote.
To me, what I said about Dylan applies to cars as well, regardless of them being by Tesla or not.
But it's absolutely pointless to discuss public figures in a such an emotional way on HN, so my bad. Regardless of whether you find rocket launches or cars or Bob Dylan songs beautiful.
And Musk,.. whatever I'd have to say about him (not much tbh), doesn't fall under the discussion topics that made me join HN. I do read political and social discussions here. But stating or reading opinions about Elon Musk is not really a thing that makes HN interesting for me, so I'll refrain from engaging in threads like this in the future.
I mean, it's OK, artists need to have some of that trait.
Just coincides that neither of the two have created anything beautiful, at least in my mind. Unless of course, you consider money and fame beautiful in themselves.
Most apps won't need these capabilities to function, but they are there, for all purposes good and bad:
- background activities with fewer restrictions
- less restricted file system and sensor access etc
- ...
sure, many app use this for nefarious things.
But real use cases don't need to be sophisticated rendering algorithms or what not.
I think good streaming apps also use these capabilities, for example, for performance.
I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?
https://jakeludington.com/2003/12/17/create_your_own_windows...
Years of people deploying web apps and using (My-)SQL without prepared statements provide a counterexample to this. One can argue about ORMs, but stating SQL would need no abstraction layer around it seems questionable to me :/
Is there a real generalized and capable, but frustratingly "evil" coding model? It could fix so many more buttons in no time, and ideally open follow-up issues about the open questions.
I'm shocked.
AI or not, I stopped after this series of paragraphs failed to get to the point, indulging in flowery rehash of thoughts already discussed ad nauseam.
> Now, every act of giving is treated with suspicion. The gift of openness is no longer trustworthy on its own. The receivers of free software want to know how the gift came to be. Is it pure, or was it made with dirty machinery?
> In the case of the latter, some especially angry, would-be recipients won't just ignore the giver and forego the gift, they'll attack the giver with the fervor of someone who has themselves been attacked, apparently by the voluntary offer on hand.
> The anger is justified, but the target is tragically misguided
And one of the authors of the research presented here goes by the name Sydney.
Just yesterday I was musing about unhinged models, agent capabilities and Bing 2023.
Funny coincidences :) AI usage is still evolving like crazy.
Alas; very nice page (collusion.wiki), and interesting research.
Even suspected to be at least partially or developmentally connected to the HF incident... makes me awe, really.
And there's tons of Claude-generated code there.
Also, I'd guess this is not just to prevent any AI-generated code in the training data, but specifically their own.
Percentage of users who put out their code on the web and also have a plan where Anthropic promises not to train on their data is problem also low.
So not excluding own code could be a real issue, since it would be impossible to deduplicate the training and RILHF data from their sessions with the code accessible elsewhere, and written by the very same users.
I'm not any authority here, but I'd say, there's no need for a Reddit-moment to ban it entirely.
Though it wouldn't bother me either.
Directly linked single text posts are still publicly accessible last I checked, but it's a microblogging platform littered with spam.
HN submissions are usually long-form content, so it's rare to see X links anyway.
And comments obey the voting system, so who cares whether people link to X, LinkedIn, Facebook or whatever else.
Banning X in comments would require to ban the others as well, and I think the mods and users can handle by themselves what is relevant in that case.
And in case an X submission is genuinely interesting, it won't be hard to access or infer the content from the comments or other sources.
The crappy share-bicycles that nobody is responsible for also are kind of the opposite of the lender-owned car sharing car that might have predatory lending conditions.
In the end, what I would much prefer is sharing, yes. Vehicle infrastructure is public property after all.
I don't think providing better mobility that does not force everyone to have a car, at least in densely populated areas, would require a radical shift to a "sharing economy" for everything and anything.
You don't buy a car to leave it running in your garage. It is not simply a good that you possess, to use it, you already require a "sharing economy", just a different one. Car traffic is subsidized by everyone.
But I get that most people have issues with this idea.
And it is not for me to decide.
What I mean is simple: how public space is used is never an individual decision. The collective move to individual car ownership for everyone as a given neccessity for a normal life is not something that naturally comes from the existence of cars as a technology, it is a political decision.
Car owners don't use their cars on their own property. And the more cars we use, the less mobile we are, in cities.
Now I'm knee-deep in the discussion I didn't want, I won't see this changing in my lifetime I guess, I think it demonstrates a fundamental flaw in economic logic to treat car ownership as something that is only the responsibility and freedom of individuals, because cars are only useful when everything is built for cars, and in dense areas, this restricts the freedom of others, it's not only about the freedom to have a car.
Everybody is free to buy a car and put it into their garden.
Btw, I agree about the crappy bicycles, like I said, I don't get why you equate this with every idea about changing traffic policies around cars, which are not something that revolves naturally from the right to own property. The topic is that using cars for anything requires to use other's property.
The ages-old urban planning discussion.
Again, I got myself into this discussion that I didn't want and that tends to make me misanthropic, so I'll check out here. I'm also in working hours and need to leave.
Have a good day.
People don't pay for the external costs of their vehicles, so it should be required to use vehicles efficiently.
This is not a technological question, but a political, and Google ain't going to solve it without an incentive.
But autonomous vehicles could in theory transform car traffic by huge amounts in dense areas, without sacrificing mobility. Munich is a metropolitan area.
The biggest hindrance to mobility in large cities are usually cars and car infrastructure themselves, because the incentives from countries and for companies are to waste space and energy, and subsidize that.
Ride sharing with autonomous vehicles could reduce need for private cars enormously. Not that I think it's gonna happen in Munich because of Google now.
The technology could just help with it.
Alas, Sorry, I wrote quite a bit already, but I don't want to expand on this repetitive discussion for my own sanity.
And yeah, when people want to have many cars and money can be made by building many cars, even subsidized by the state, the we will continue to block more space with them and build more.
"Meatbags" want it, since the successful lobbying of automotive industry to subordinate all public space and resources in the first half of the 20th century.
AI vehicle coordination (and autonomous driving) could save so much traffic.
But before I get into a rant here: Munich seems like the perfect city for this beta, and I wish them loads of success.
Munich has wide streets, affluent population, and a freshly elected progressive government.