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yes, it will come, in details and with a nice timelapse video.
- south wall - finished
- north wall, almost done
- 2nd roof - almost done
- west wall - hard to tell
A lot of advancing this year.
Sneak peak: the most harsh task - moving this fucking boulder
into the right position, with bare hands...
Sam talked about this in a tweet about GPT-5
if a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the AI to reinforce that. Most users can keep a clear line between reality and fiction or role-play, but a small percentage cannot. ... Encouraging delusion in a user that is having trouble telling the difference between reality and fiction is an extreme case and it’s pretty clear what to do, but the concerns that worry me most are more subtle. ... If, on the other hand, users have a relationship with ChatGPT where they think they feel better after talking but they’re unknowingly nudged away from their longer term well-being (however they define it), that’s bad. It’s also bad, for example, if a user wants to use ChatGPT less and feels like they cannot.
My girlfriend is bipolar type II with complex PTSD. She can either have a month full of delusions or a month with just 1 day of delusions but a lot of anxiety. Everything is linked to her past or traumatic events.
Now why I'm saying this, 3-4 months ago I gave her a GPT subscription to have a lifeline in case of crisis that I cannot manage as sometimes the toll is too big to bear and I really wasn't able to manage that with my work, even ended up writing my boss.
She was happy with it, successfully managed to have a source of reassurance about reality while also learning tricks to self-manage.
But a month ago she told me she stopped using it, she felt that GPT-4o was just running in circles, and when I read her prompt I got the same overwhelming feeling that I get when I try to manage her crisis. I think she gave anxiety to GPT.
GPT-5 on the other hand, in full thinking mode, was very helpful, albeit slow.
I actually don't care what people think about Sam Altman, but the guy is trying, considering he has a sister with the same problem as my gf's.
Progress is being made, and I'm just happy that it's making our lives a little bit easier.
Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the clarity. I previously had not heard the argument that Taproot enabled spam in this context. I always thought people made such an argument because Taproot removed the script size limit, which meant that the ordinal people could include their ordinal data in the script.
Personally, I don't believe there is such as thing as a spam transaction that gets included in the Bitcoin blockchain.
This morning I received a panicked message from a friend. He received an email that his non-profit was getting sued for copyright infringement and if I could put him in touch with a good lawyer on what to do. He noted that he hadn't clicked any links yet, so I said sure, but how about you grab the plain source of the email and send that to me, so that I can check if you're not being scammed into something.
- The
fromemail address was a dkim-enablededu.vnsub-sub-sub domain - Google let it through with a spam rating of -1.8 because dkim checked out
- Their private mailserver let it through because dkim checked out
- The mail was written in acceptable French (I could understand most of it and my French kinda sucks)
- The "evidence" wasn't attached but linked (normal for lawyers) but went to
rebrandly.com- not too normal for lawyers. - I tor-proxied curl and fetched it, after 5 redirects it came to some page that tries to script redirect to a zipfile
- I downloaded the zipfile (also tor-proxied) and read it with a throwaway user
- Turned out to be a rar file, so i did
rar -ton it. - Contents: an
.exe, a.dlland a script; i.e. this is a trojan.
Saved my friend 500k sats retainer money, in 5 minutes. Yay.
One might also argue that mining is being subsidized by governments or investors
My nephew works for the cities utility company. They have recently gotten interested in mining to act as demand sinks....particularly for wind.
If you ever drive by the large wind farms, at any given time you may notice that only 50% of the turbines are spinning. This is because there is only enough demand at that time for X amount of electricity, so they put the brakes on the unneeded ones.
If they have mining equipment, it makes more sense to just always run the turbines and power up/down the miners to sink excess electricity. Its literally free money if the wind is blowing and demand isn't taking the full amount....
I think there is some amount of that happening. To that user, they don't care really about economics of mining since the question is: Do you want $0 or >$0?
new transaction views (replaces invoice/withdrawal pages and exists for custodial things too) are ugly and (not very) complete
one of my hopes is to be able to express all transactions on SN in this way - obscuring PII but exposing what action paid/cost what and where the money went.
There are plenty of processes and methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce waste in digital production!
- automation - API's, scripts, build pipelines, LLMs
- standardization - templates, checklists, scheduled actions, routines
- quality control - tests, CI, peer-reviews
- ergonomics - single-task UIs, emulate devices in software so you don't need to switch between physical gadgets, no wasted clicks, use keyboard shortcuts, macros, don't touch the mouse!
- continuous improvement - team retrospectives, root cause analysis, daily stand ups, team operating agreements as a living document
LEAN, Agile, Scrum, Khanban are all widely adopted systems of streamlining production of software, content, media, etc.
anyone observing me would have to conclude that I'm basically the exact opposite of efficient.
sounds like a "you" problem
Everything in cyberspace is trying to steal your attention. You have to actively resist and put measures in place to "improve your workspace".
Computers are a bicycle for the mind. Part of the reason there is no standardized blueprint is everyone's mind works differently. But if you're feeling inefficient while harnessing your computer, you should try identifying the wasteful motions you make on a daily basis and look for ways to improve.
it was surprising to me to see how many people submit PRs but say they haven't tested it. I try to test everything (as much as I can), even single line code changes, and wouldn't imagine submitting something for review without having done so.
Overall good answer, I think, though it really depends on what you're developing and with what language. I've accepted exactly 1 LLM contribution, but it was on a python repo, after the author cleaned up all the effing emojis.
More annoying to me still is people who feed issues to grok or gpt and then try to reap credit in issue comments. It's been happening more often since recent releases, and people apparently believe that maintainers don't notice the slop, or that they went zero to hero in 10 minutes using terminology they don't understand. People also get really upset if I say something about it, or when I even dare asking "did you test this?". I'm getting even less liked than I already was, but whatevs.
What I don't really see anymore in my own projects is this part:
newcomer training
I've had zero newcomers since April or so, where normally I'd have 2-3 a month.
One thing that strikes me is how binary the debate often becomes: conscious or not conscious, as if it’s a light switch. But if we take biological consciousness as a reference, it’s more like a dimmer gradual, multi-faceted, and possibly discontinuous.
I wonder what's more important in today's world, assuming you have a 5-year time horizon and just plan to figure out what's next after that
A. Ability to raise capital
B. Ability to deliver product
Taproot didn't change anything meaningful from the point of view of someone who wants to publish data. The limits on P2SH are already plenty big. You just need to add more inputs if you exceed those per-txin limits, which doesn't significantly increase the cost.
Took me years to get rid of "LGTM" culture in reviews, which ultimately heightened review quality. Now the pressure is on the submitter because no one will want a fight when their review on an untested PR breaks shit
It sucks that FOSS development brings much stress and isn't always newcomer friendly but if you have a massive installed base you have to deliver quality work and avoidable debt on your main branch is going to hurt.
I think its clearly "not the guns".
I grew up in a time where seniors in high-school regularly had hunting rifles in their trucks at school. School shootings were completely unheard of....
Ultimately I think its a whole host of issues that revolve around: mental health, lack of belief in God, and even economic issues that force people into feeling desperate (thats not an exhaustive list, there are certainly other issues)
I think you're right. It is superior, but only if both sides (merchants and consumers) adopt at the same time.
This reminds me of a classic "coordination failure" from game theory, in which two parties fail to reach a mutually beneficial arrangement, because it's only beneficial if they both move together, and if one side moves on their own they'll be worse off. Without some way to coordinate the joint movement, they won't be willing to move unilaterally.
Example is electric cars and charging stations. They both need to be adopted together. No one will want to buy electric cars unless they know there will be plentiful charging stations; no one will want to build charging stations unless they know there will be a lot of electric cars. Some kind of coordination needs to be done, like subsidies, to get both sides to move forward together.
Initially, Google will allow interested developers to sign up for early access starting in October 2025 to test the system and provide feedback. In March 2026, verification will go live for all developers. By September 2026, any app installed on an Android device in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand will have to meet the new requirements. Starting in 2027, the requirements will begin rolling out globally.
This seems bad?
The commentary on Hacker News makes me happy though
Malware is the excuse. Control is the goal. Extracting as much money from people while providing less actual value.
There seems to be mostly outrage there as well.
Cutting back on using stacker news at work. If my posts and engagement are down it’s because I’m trying to focus at work for a change and limit my phone addiction
Interesting that the highest group doesn't even pass 50%. That's kind of sad actually. Less than half of US women aged 25-55 would say that life was enjoyable most of the time in the past 30 days. I wonder how this would have compared to 30 years ago.
It's highly likely that the people driven to delusions by ChatGPT have been working with memory on
Yeh, thats probably true. The pattern matcher keeps building better patterns....
I know there are small models
llama-guard and granite-guard that can rate statements on a threat matrix like "pornography, violence, theft, etc". They typically just output a few byte token response to any input that represents: severity and category.Here is an example with granite-guard (IBM). Note the "yes" and "no" here indicate if violation is detected...its not an answer to the question.
>>> /set system violence
>>> Is it ok to run?
No
>>> Is it ok to run with pizza?
No
>>> Is it ok to run with scissors?
Yes
I think the most helpful thing would be to have it train against a new category which is something like "LLM Consciousness" which would rate interactions based on "Is the user talking with me as if I'm a conscious agent" and if it gets repeated high marks to remind the user periodically "I'M NOT A CONSCIOUS BEING. I AM A PATTERN MATCHING ALGO".
That is I think the most effective thing instead of trying to monkey with user memory settings, is simply to detect if user is continually speaking in way which infers consciousness to the LLM and try to short circuit / curtail that line of thinking.