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Perhaps. But it seems like your beef is not with the presence of watermarking, it's with what people will use that watermarking for. You're not directly harmed by that blog post be…

I don't know how this watermarking works, but I don't need to in order to understand some things that a lot of this conversation seems to be missing. First, the article doesn't tal…

Title has a weird spin. I'd say that "stronger" is more accurate than "older". Ironically, MV2 blockers can do dynamic updates and so are often "newer" in the relevant sense. I do …

So: "welp, the horse is out of the barn. Time to close the door, I guess?"

The part about performance seems surprising to me. Sure, it's slower, but shouldn't the baseline be something like: first run the old borrow checker, and only run the new one if it…

https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/878b64a4c024f657de81f... but note line 111: > This section describes what to do if you're in a Jujutsu (jj) repository. If the user is not us…

Heh, it's a fun reminder that different people work on different things. Sure, I could load up my build machine with mac/windows/linux/android, with multiple versions of each. Emul…

That's the missing part in the article. The example of the TSP solution for all cities in Germany was a pretty poor one compared to the optimal, which immediately raises the questi…

Yes, that's understood, but it's not the point. That would convert a 3D space to a 2D space (the Z dimension is unaffected). But a 2D Hilbert curve converts 2D->1D, and a 3D Hilber…

Why O(n log n)? I guess I thought that mapping a coordinate to its distance from the start of a space filling curve would be a constant time operation, or rather, it would only be …

Anthropic is a US company, so it is lobbying the US to enact regulations to serve both its interests and the interest of safety. What else should it be doing? I imagine Anthropic (…

I'd guess that's it, some kind of enforceable KYC. They'd only serve tokens to entities with a legally liable ID (as in, someone to sue, that would cost the defendant something non…

Wait, you don't do that already? I don't overcomplicate it, I just run ai-grep -v "bad code" on all of my source files and keep what's left. Why would you keep bad code around? If …

I'd like more people to be writing about this, because I find it fascinating. I have my own private project that is heavily LLM-coded, just to learn about what it's like. It's amaz…

> What it actually proved is up for debate. I guess I'm debating, but it seemed clear enough to me? It proved that AI models and their harnesses are to the point where you can give…

Great, so any minor bug in Chromium's implementation of a spec is going to be forever embedded in the spec as the only allowed way to do it? Multiple independent implementations ar…

A lot of video-conferencing websites work that way because Chrome shipped a pre-standardization form ("Plan B") of WebRTC, it got a lot of uptake, and then they refused to unship i…

The way I'm thinking of it is that they ported Bun from Zig to Unsafe Rust, and are still working on now porting it from Unsafe Rust to Rust (not 100% safe, but a reasonable amount…

But in my experience, that's what problem solving is like? You have a goal that you don't know how to get to. You come up with any way you can think of to reach that goal, and try …

Ok, fair. I know that was also in the article, but your comment made me reread it, and I think you're right about the focus. I over-fixated on the headline. On second read, it's mo…

The article, summarized: there are incentives for OpenAI to claim that their AI hacked its way out of their network and into Hugging Face. Ok... and what? Do you have any evidence …

I agree with the attacker side. The actions of autonomous agents are absolutely the responsibility of the one or more humans that enabled them to take that action. Whether that mea…

At least Opus up to 4.7 or so, my experience is that Claude often uses "yes, with caveats" in place of "no, you numbskull". "Is a meter the same as a foot?" "Yes, exactly, you have…

At Mozilla, we had a set of whiteboard tags we could set on bugs, like "[crash]" or "[compat]" or "[leave-open]". That last was used when there were multiple patches attached to th…

Just be thankful that we don't share the penchant for giving credit to discoverers. Imagine calling a cache a "Murphy/Steinman/Sokolov structure" (made-up names). I mean, we do for…