Better Offline was rough this morning in some places. Props to Ed for keeping his cool with the guests.
Don't know if LLMs will kill OSS, but they sure are a kick-in-the-dick
It feels like gang initiation for insufferable dorks
Champion sneer
Ye gods! Also, great write-up!
Do you reckon that Altman recognized the gacha potential from the get-go? That Big LLM has always been FanDuel for dorks, but on purpose?
A hackernews muses about vibe coding a chatbot to provide therapy for people in crisis. Soon, an actual health care professional shows up to butcher the offender and defile the corpse. This causes much tut-tutting and consternation among the locals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535197
Edit: a shower thought: have any of yall noticed the way that prompt enjoyers describe using Cursor, tab completions, and such are a repackaging of the psychology of loot boxes? In particular, they share the variable-interval reward schedule that serves as the hook in your typical recreational gambling machines.
Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your location
The web is often Dead Dove in a Bag as a Service innit?
oof! That's hilarious!
A Supabase employee pleads with his software to not leak its SQL database like a parent pleads with a cranky toddler in a toy store.
This is so Charlie Stross coded that I tried to read the Mastodon comments.
Lesswrong is a Denial of Service attack on a very particular kind of guy
I'm going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a "stabbed in the back" myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they can't fathom a world where they were wrong.
The only question is who will get the blame.
They should have invested in a boat if they had to have a depreciating asset
I’m just not going to waste my time with curve pointers who want to die on the hill of NeW sCaLiNG pArAdIgM. They are just too deep in the kool-aid at this point.
The singularity is near worn-out at this point.
LLMs are seven or eight bipartite graphs in a trench coat. Is your brain seven neurons thick, because that would explain a few things.
Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books with real author names.
This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.
Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.
By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres
Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!
Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.
Attached: 1 image Good move from the mods at rpg.net! Even more relevant today than when it happened in 2018. #uspol #ttrpg #rpg #gaming #resist #humanity #GoodVsEvil
From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.
There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526
Posted in r/nashville by u/Crafty_Barracuda7720 • 195 points and 55 comments
Looks like a local boy did good.
I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.
I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.
EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive
EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page
Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.
I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.
Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.
"Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"
John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.
In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.
When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!
(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)
Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:
I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi
"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect
Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:
tldr; got $40k drained just now
i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.
o7___o7 @awful.systems [redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas