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It feels different if someone has recently been discriminated against. Jokes land differently when they are too similar to reality.

That said, making edgy joking is definitely acceptable, you'll just alienate part of your audience. That's why the hollow corporate bs doesn't do it.

Or atheists for that matter.

I was a bit put off by the implied hostility there, even if it was in jest. It's a risky choice to jokingly discriminate based on religion, ethnicity or political affiliation, mostly because such a joke is hard to distinguish from almost identical contexts where it isn't a joke.

The added value of the LLM here is probably zero. Just type a search propmt in a search engine. If the top 5 results don't cover the same ground your article is covering, at the very least, your article will expose new knowledge to people using that search term.

Typing up LLM instructions and reading the output is probably more work.

What would be the incentive for site owners to reduce the appeal of their site? The user has connected to the site, so there's obviously no immediate problem.

If flying ever becomes efficient energy-wise, this may happen. However, right now, flying is very energy inefficient, so anything that doesn't need to be flown, is transported overland to save costs. A change of fuel won't change it, unless the underlying energy usage changes fundamentally.

Better batteries do not impact energy usage, only the means of energy delivery.

The data centre runs on a dedicated power line. My laptop runs on battery. Using coding agents currently drains battery quite fast, which is surprising, given that the vast majority of the work does not take place on my laptop.

Making the client side coding agent more efficient isn't about saving the climate. It is about extending the workday (which might actually make the climate worse)

While i agree, the current JS security model rally doesn't allow for distinguishing origin for JS code. Should that ever change, advertisers will just require that you compile their library into the first party js code, negating any benefit from such a security model.

Their own (presumably cherry picked) benchmarks put their models near the 'middle of the market' models (llama3 3b, qwen3 1.7b), not competing with claude, chatgtp, or gemini. These are not models you'd want to directly interact with. but these models can be very useful for things like classification or simple summarization or translation tasks.

These models quite impressive for their size: even an older raspberry pi would be able to handle these.

There's still a lots of use for this kind of model

Two things are holding back current LLM-style AI of being of value here:

* Latency. LLM responses are measured in order of 1000s of milliseconds, where this project targets 10s of milliseconds, that's off by almost two orders of magnitute.

* Determinism. LLMs are inherently non-deterministic. Even with temperature=0, slight variations of the input lead to major changes in output. You really don't want your DB to be non-deterministic, ever.

From my experience, LLMs understand prompt just fine, even if there are substantial typos or severe grammatical errors.

I feel that prompting them with poor language will make them respond more casually. That might be confirmation bias on my end, but research does show that prompt language affects LLM behavior, even if the prompt message doesn't change/

Infinitief scrolling is only mentioned in the title. The actual legislation focuses on addictive patterns of which infinite scroll is just one. The exact formulation will of course matter a lot, but it will not simply be banning infinite scroll, as that would be trivial to circumvent.

It is not immune, but it limits #1 and #2.

The "lethal trifecta" is a limited view on security, as it's mostly concerned with leaking data. This solution focuses on a different aspect: the ability of rogue actions (instead of rogue communications per #3).

How close are we to smart dust I wonder? How small can we make wireless communications?

There's two limiting factors for 'smart dust': power (batteries are the majority weight and volume of this vape), and antennae (minimum size determined by wavelength of carrier wave).

I believe you can fit an NFC module in a 5x5mm package, but that does externalize the power supply.

Linux requires root for raw sockets, which _can_ be used to send pings, but also numerous other things.

The trick used here only allows pings. This trick is gated behind other ACLs.

To be fair, this is true for all technologically interesting solutions, even when they use postgres. People championing novel solutions typically leave after the window for creativity has closed.

The problem itself might not be very applicable, but the techniques used to solve it might be.

That said, researching something solely for the sake of curiosity can be a valid endeavour. Many profound scientific discoveries have been made by researching topics with no obvious application.

In the context of this article, that's largely irrelevant: ZIP cannot be used in a multi-user scenario at all, so even if sqlite isn't perfect, it's still miles better than the ZIP format it replaces in this thought experiment.

The claude models are just a part of Claude code. I've worked with both copilot with the Claude models and Claude code itself. Claude code is way more capable, and has a greater likelihood of successfully completing a task.

The same way laws against online piracy are enforced: attack the infrastructure. AdBlock Plus is being attacked right now. If distributing this software is made illegal, all blockers will vanish from the addon stores, and only very tech savvy users will have palatable Internet.

Open Lovable 12 months ago

How would you know it works if you can't add an imperial megaton of tracking scripts? /s