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> while also supporting basically every obscure image format feature under the sun

Except for gain maps :)

I don't really mind because I don't use them anyway. I prefer to use the client's tonemapper. But they are a useful feature that's not supported by (chrome's implementation of) jxl

> jpg and mp3 and zip are effectively “final” image and sound and data codecs

In popular consciousness, maybe. When people think image they thing jpg. But most websites you use aren't delivering images as jpg. Most sites care about saving money on bandwidth and their site loading fast, and because of that they tend to use webp and avif, which are much smaller for the same quality.

It the Copenhagen theory of ethics. If an AI company had no operations at all in the global south, no one would blame them for the global south's position. But if they hire anyone there, it doesn't matter if they're objectively improving conditions there, the fact that they've interacted at all means that they're responsible all the bad parts about it.

Let's take math education as an example. If you look at the actual result, all math education past y=mx+b is a waste of time for most students. By and large, math students are taught by people who have memorized the quadratic equation, or certain operations with logarithms or imaginary numbers, etc. but don't understand it on any kind of deeper level. (Imagine asking a high-school math teacher to compute i^i. Almost none will be able to.) So it's presented as a set of random rules you have to follow to get the correct answer, with no underlying logic or justification. Most normal people understandably hate this, and even if they suffer through it to get a good grade they will not retain it and come away permanently hating math.

It's just sad. I sometimes help kids with math, and it's amazing how screwed they are. Like, smart kids with good grades who are totally unable to do basic manipulations with fractions. I mean questions like "write 25% as a fraction". They are getting absolutely nothing from math classes. How could they? Even the best teacher in the world can't pause class for everyone when they realize that one of their students is missing some foundational concepts. That student is just going to get left farther and farther behind, and they will never catch up. It happens to almost every student at some point. They'll get sick for a week or just have their mind on other things, miss some important concept, and then be left behind forever.

I honestly have a hard time imagining how we would possibly make the situation any worse with technology honestly. But if you just took Math Academy and made students use that instead of their math classes, I bet 99% would have better understanding and fluency with math than they do now.

> I'm so glad we have space rockets, flying cars and drone warfare...but I'd trade it all in for the reef to come back.

It's really just climate change. (Ocean warming is what causes bleaching.) Luckily, since the 80s we've had the technology to generate energy without releasing greenhouse gases. I wish more people knew about the harms caused by climate change because maybe if they were they'd be more interested in preventing them.

> XOR a global. XOR it back. Do nothing. Hundreds of times. It exists purely to make the decompiler output look like shit, and it does, congrats.

I don't know how to explain this style exactly. I think it's supposed to sound grizzled or cynical or jaded or something. It reads like they're trying to do an impression of Tracer Bullet from C&H:

> Yeah, that's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye.

Anyway, it's amusing when Bill Waterson does it but when I'm hoping to read something interesting about how malware is implemented it's a little less fun.

> What are his actual credentials? What did he achieve?

He cofounded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an organization focused on AI alignment, in 2000, way way before it was a trendy topic.

He's also partially responsible for popularizing ideas such as the orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence.

> Isn't he just some random dude on the internet?

Not really, most random dudes on the internet were not researching AI alignment in 2000.

> Why do people care what he says?

Many people were introduced to the concept of AI alignment thanks to him, so they are naturally interested in reading his reaction to progress in the field.

I have a stupid question: if I'm using nixos why do I need docker or systemd containers? Especially with systemd sandboxing

Another good option is nixflix: https://github.com/kiriwalawren/nixflix (a nixos equivalent)

For security? If you're not using a password manager, that means you're using the same password for almost every site. Which means every site is a point of failure for every other. This means some way of generating and saving random passwords for each site (i.e. a password manager) is absolutely required for security. You are welcome to use the password manager that comes bundled with the device you paid for (apple, android), or use paid cross-platform ones like 1password (which works well), or use free cross-platform ones (in which case you might get what you paid for).

Same. It just told me "agent execution terminated due to an error". There was a little chevron underneath it that let me expand the error to view more. I was hoping to see what the error was, so I clicked it, and it said... "agent execution terminated due to an error".

It's crazy to me how care there is in most of these vibe-coded vibe-coding harnesses. I don't like oai's models much but I have to say their UI has by far the best attention to detail of any major player.

I must be misunderstanding something because this is how your comment reads to me

> Anthropic: you can't use our product to fully-autonomously make decisions that affect human health, finances, etc with no human in the loop.

> victor9000: If you review a draft document with claude, anthropic will send your entire file to opposing counsel

What is the connection here? Anthropic has obviously never done anything like this and it's not indicated that they will by the thing you quoted.

So your theory is that i'm going to generate code with google AI, but google will secretly embed my watermark into it, then scrape the internet looking for text with my watermark in it, then put it all together to form a profile of me? Wouldn't it be easier to form a profile of me based on my conversation history in google AI apps?

I'm confused why no one came up with this terminology for stenographic watermarks before. Now that there's an actual prosocial use for them (helping encourage clear labelling of AI-generated content), suddenly people are coining negatively-loaded terms for it, even though the technology has been in use for nefarious purposes for ages.

Surely I can't get unlimited free groceries by just always paying with a credit card and then doing a chargeback, right? Like, it might work a couple times, but then wouldn't they just close my account?

I must be proving your point because I'm a rust head and the argument you gave for rust just seems like the best one haha. And if I had the choice between two vibe-coded pieces of software, and one was written in rust and the other was written in python, I would far prefer to use the rust one.

> Example: memorize the major scale as a series of whole and half steps but we won’t provide you with any context or motivation for why this is so.

I recommend "What Makes Music Sound Good?" by Prof. Dmitri Tymoczko: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/files/pdfs/MUS105hando...

There is a part near the beginning where he derives the diatonic scale from first principles. (There is a sequel as well, and a book if you prefer to read it in book form)

I don't think 100% accuracy is logically possible. Because it's entirely possible that someone would just naturally write the exact same thing as an LLM would write. And after the fact there is no way to distinguish the two. But pangram does have an extremely low false positive rate, which I think does make it useful for detecting cheating students. Assuming the base rate of cheating students is 1%, and assuming pangram has a false positive rate of 1 in 10,000 and a true positive rate of 7,000 in 10,000, that means ~98% of students flagged by pangram actually cheated. Combined with a teacher's familiarity with that student's previous work, which should rule out many more false positives, it should be a very useful tool.

> And then you'd ask it about an area you're knowledgeable in and realise it routinely makes stupid mistakes.

This honestly doesn’t happen to me much anymore. In what areas do you find LLMs routinely make stupid mistakes?

> In my view, intelligence includes an ability to learn and adapt to never-before-seen situations.

This is exactly what ARC AGI tests

> And then general intelligence is an ability to apply that across a wide variety of domains.

My experience with Fable is that it can certainly apply that in a wide variety of domains

> However, last I checked, a seemingly very intelligent LLM still struggles to play Chess at a basic level

People also struggle to play Chess at a basic level. They only succeed by studying the game for a long time. I will concede that humans can do this and LLMs generally cannot.

Actually one of the worst and most insane file formats of all time. I partially reverse engineered it a while ago. My parser is super janky and I can't share it, but I pasted the code into claude and had it summarize it: https://gist.github.com/anchpop/a14325cc451b04a5bf78c476ac20...

PhD programs in technical fields usually give you a stipend

my personal favorite, although css not html, is “field-sizing: content”. Finally with iOS 26 we can have input fields that expand to fit the content

I'm reminded of this tweet by roon:

> it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it.

https://x.com/tszzl/status/2051045196260167790

> One can explain it as the computer checked a bunch of cases and all maps reduce to one of these cases. It doesn’t take an expert to state this.

Hmm, doesn't it take an expert to explain why those cases are exhaustive, and why the code that checked them is correct?

Tangentially, I'm not a mathematician but I wonder if one "opaque" proof that is too complicated for anyone to understand, but that we know is correct via formal verification, might end up being built on with "transparent" human-understandable proofs. For example, it's my understanding that there are many conjectures that have been proven true conditional on the riemann hypothesis being true. In that case, an opaque proof of the riemann hypothesis would enable those conjectures to be known and built upon

That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Maybe the classifiers are really sensitive to anything that has to do with memory safety.

I left both comments 12 hours ago. The first reply to my other comment was 11 hours ago.

> if you ask something too obvious or direct it will stop you other than that, it work flawlessly

What on earth are you asking it?

Yeah I feel like I'm living in a different dimension than these people. I wonder what they're working on. I've literally never had it refuse everything and I max out my 20x plan every week