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I'm missing some context here.

First of all, this is a marketing piece, made for engagement.

Second, in production, you would adjust your approach to the model's strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you found that a model does not respond to the tools you are offering, then you would find a way to make it more responsive. Also, we know that different models handle prompts and system prompts differently. So comparing several models from different providers against exactly the same prompt is quite a naive way of exploring the capabilities of those models or comparing them to each other. You may have just happened to “speak the language“ of one model better than that of another. Why would that be the model’s fault and not yours?

Third, none of these results mean anything if you do not run each process on each model several times to check for consistency. Your model might just have gotten lucky. This point is even more true when you're talking about a progressive task where one step builds on the previous one. The model might just have painted itself into a corner.

Looks like you've got some real history there. Think about it. You might even be able to hack together an Ask My Ancestor chatbot. Heck, I’d build it for you. The scamming and the OCR are going to be the hardest parts I imagine.

I guess Anthropic knows this. They show you this warning:

--- Switch model? Your next response will be slower and use more tokens

This conversation is cached for the current model. Switching to Opus 4.8 (1M context) means the full history gets re-read on your next message. ---

Reminds me a bit of airline booking sites ("We noticed you didn't add insurance").

In that case, the map looks misleading, doesn’t it? It looks as though London and Berlin, for example, stand out as having dislocated disproportionately many artifacts from around the world. And on the other hand, Paris looks innocent. But in truth, London and Berlin are just being honest about it giving you open access to the data whereas Paris doesn’t. So perhaps it would be better to mark cities that do provide data with, say, a green dot. This also helps the visual understanding of the direction of the transfer. And it would make it clear at a glance that Paris is not innocent, but that Paris is simply lacking data.

You know that they exist, you know where they are, and you’ve never read or digitized them? Or was that sarcasm?

The Faber Book of Science (Carey) Asimov’s New Guide to Science (Asimov) The Great Influenza (Barry)

You can. But if you build your own stuff, you can also easily lock yourself out. That whole mechanism that tells the software to look for a new bin file on the SD card and to use that to update is something that needs to be contained in your software. If you forget it, or you get it wrong, the thing will be bricked.

I had a fun day yesterday. Because I had been contacted by AWS about somebody potentially having gained access to my account.

That’s when I logged in. That’s when I saw the 1.3 billion number.

I was pretty fast in getting that backdoor closed and hunting down that leak, I can tell you! :D

I’m in DE, too. Same calculus. Excluding winter though. When it’s cold outside, a GPU heats my office and I get tokens free on the side. :)

Skinner would say it is not so much about emotions like fear or greed, but about consequences.

Looks interesting. Any pointers to how to integrate it in GitHub Copilot Chat? It seems to support skills, so I'd guess it should work?

You got a .de Domain. I looked for an imprint to see if that solo dev with the right tools was a fellow German, but I didn’t find any. Any details on who you are and how you came to build this? Also, your landing page sounds quite different than what you are pitching here. Are these two different projects? Thx

That isn’t the point. The point is that it’s not enough to figure out that there is an obstacle. You also have to figure out what that obstacle is, and you have to predict its movement. In the case of pedestrian, the car, for example, needs to know whether the pedestrian has seen you. Things like that you just cannot do with LiDAR. Hence you’re gonna need cameras anyway. Hence tge “anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed” prediction.

So I guess in the 90s they would’ve sued Adobe for not putting spyware into Photoshop?

If you believe in democracy, and the rule of law, and citizenship, then the responsibility obviously lies with people who create and publish pictures, not the makers of tools.

Think of it. You can use a phone camera to produce illegal pictures. What kind of a world would we live in if Apple was required to run an AI filter on your pics to determine whether they comply with the laws?

A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK. In that case, X acts as a publisher, and you can sue them along with the creator for removal.

Some people need the opposite advice: Sometimes an interaction is just a one off event. No need to teach a lesson.

How do you handle PDFs, images, HTML/rich text snippets? Asking because Evernote supported all of those. It’s what keeps me using that app, even though I cringe every time I open it.

The issues get trapped in the tissues.

Have you heard of “the Sedoma Method”? And/or Larry Crane’s Release Technique?

The irony is that Apple started out by discovering the the hackability of the hardware and software they found in their time. Instead of leaving something like that behind for those who come after them, to pay back what was given to them, they build walled gardens where you’re just not allowed to “bump into the walls too much”.

Vibe coded…. /s

It's a good read, actually. Includes actual specifics from the conversations, how the user phrased his requests, how ChatGPT responded, and why safety systems seemed to have failed (ChatGPT generally has a policy of not giving advice on illicit drug use, but that broke down here).

What were the jpgs in tge thotDBSmash folder? Did the founder use that bucket to collect photos of women? Or was that geolocation material, too…

Don't let Google decide who you trust. Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI.

Lol

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Does it do overlap?

Makes sense. If you’re too specific early on, you miss everything that you didn’t expect. Much better to be open first, and then do the filtering afterwards, based on what you observe.

In case the author reads this: Your imprint is incomplete. The legal address is missing. And the blog is missing an imprint altogether.

He who fights monsters should take care not to become one in the process.

That you guys had presidents that didn’t fall into this trap is the reason you and I are ariund today.

William Inboden, The Peacemaker:

In America’s last fight against totalitarianism, President Franklin Roosevelt had demanded the unconditional surrender of both Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. In the context of total war, against implacable dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo, Roosevelt’s insistence on unconditional surrender made strategic sense. Such a demand did not fit the Cold War. Much as Reagan looked to Roosevelt and World War II as a model for how the free world should confront dictatorships in thrall to evil ideologies, in the case of the Cold War and the Soviet Union, calling for “unconditional surrender” from Moscow would have been delusional and foolhardy—especially since Reagan remained desperate to prevent the Cold War from turning hot and ending in nuclear apocalypse.

Government buying more fire trucks is a poor measure for increased incidence of actual fires. They might just be signaling, fall for marketing, and lots of other things. Governments are run by people, and they are as fallible as any rando on HN.

Nice to see a B. F. Skinner reference here. The forgotten king of “making do”.

Same on X. It’s possible that the scammers just operate networks of credit cards and domains and rotate as soon as they grt flagged. Numbers game basically. But it’s also possible that the rules are applied differently to advertisers that bring in a lot of cash, regardless of legality.