1. autophagian Oct 20, 2025 parent

   Yeah. We had a brief window where everything resolved and worked and now we're running into really mysterious flakey networking issues where pods in our EKS clusters timeout talking to the k8s API.
2. autophagian Jun 19, 2025 parent

   Like previous explosions, it is likely this one was also caused by a sniper. Possibly an Iranian one, given current geopolitical tensions.
3. autophagian Nov 14, 2024 parent

   Agreed. Plus, these days, i can’t get any work done without my Brain Force Plus
4. autophagian Aug 13, 2024 parent

   Groundwater, and swamp water, the post explains.
5. autophagian Feb 13, 2024 parent

   According to the blog of the man who runs it, it was from 2002-2005: https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/explain-entran...
6. autophagian Sep 25, 2023 parent

   For this I self-host vaultwarden (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden), an implementation of the bitwarden server, on my raspberry pi at home (and back up the DB frequently). It works well enough for me, and doesn't have my stuff stored in a single company's cloud.
7. autophagian Aug 24, 2023 parent

   I believe Welsh was one of the main inspirations behinds his elvish conlang Sindarin.
8. autophagian Jul 4, 2023 parent

   No. If I have 100 dollars, I might have gotten those from betting on old person fight ring in a care home - a net utility negative, or I might have gotten it from teaching disadvantaged teenagers PHP - a net utility positive.

   If you have 100 UC, the only way those credits could have been minted is through 100 hours of 1 million simulated fruit flies having the time of their life.

9. autophagian Jul 4, 2023 parent

   There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions your company has undertaken that damage global happiness or well-being. We've seen a lot of interest from some pretty large industry players.
10. autophagian Jun 30, 2023 parent

    I don't remember the ability to view any individual tweet being locked behind a login screen before - timeline scrolling yes, but not this. This is a new approach.
11. autophagian Jun 7, 2023 parent

    We can do lots of things in the abstract. Concentrations of power, wealth and the political trends of the last 20 or so years make me less optimistic.
12. autophagian Jun 7, 2023 parent

    Because, barring a grand upheaval in global economic systems, most people generally need to sell their labour in order to earn a 'wage' which they spend on food, clothing, rent, etc.
13. autophagian Apr 21, 2023 parent

    I think its easy to guess what the commenter is obliquely referring to.
14. autophagian Apr 20, 2023 parent

    Why?
15. 1 point Apr 7, 2023

    Show HN: Fey Mood – Dwarf Fortress inspired and LLM driven ceramics

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16. autophagian Apr 7, 2023 parent

    I'm guessing that Nix's 2% is nearly entirely driven by pull requests to the NixOS/nixpkgs repository, which has 4,053 open PRs and 190,167 closed ones at time of writing.
17. autophagian Apr 3, 2023 parent

    Perhaps. Less fun, though.
18. autophagian Apr 3, 2023 parent

    Maybe when an LLM finally automates my career out of existence, I can make a comfortable living as a kind of ocular bandit, harvesting people's eyeballs for sweet, sweet, Worldcoin™
19. autophagian Apr 3, 2023 parent

    Thank you!
20. autophagian Apr 3, 2023 parent

    I mean, its probably a component (or an approximation of a component) of what we do, at some level. Christ knows I've felt like a stochastic parrot when I'm zoning out 3 hours into a meeting and someone asks me a question out of the blue. I probably have a smaller context window at those points than GPT3 does...
21. autophagian Apr 3, 2023 parent

    Do you have any resources you'd recommend to form a better understanding of how NNs tick? I'd like to get a better intuitive grasp on whats going on - I've mostly just been responding to that with "Well, if stochastic parrotism can do all this..."
22. autophagian Mar 29, 2023 parent

    Yeah, I once managed to foolishly induce this while taking too much aspirin over a too long period to deal with tooth pain. I'll never forget the sensation: out of nowhere it sounded like someone was crinkling paper inside my head for about a second, and then quite loud and constant tinnitus with regular sounds becoming muffled. Was quite frightening.

    It thankfully went away after a day or so after I (immediately) stopped and I don't seem to have suffered any permanent damage that I know of, but it taught me to not fuck around with NSAIDs.

23. 14 points Mar 29, 2023

    A Theory of Vibe (2017)

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24. autophagian Mar 28, 2023 parent

    I'm really struggling to think of what "Alep" even refers to that would trigger this. Surely not Aleppo, right?
25. autophagian Mar 26, 2023 parent

    I've had experience lately of getting GPT4 to output some code, I notice there's a bug, I point out the bug (not even 'it's at this line with this variable', but just that it exists) and, yes, it does fix successfully fix it. So, yes, I think that's likely.
26. autophagian Mar 21, 2023 parent

    It is, though now how you'd expect. OpenAI have a tool that lets you see how text is tokenized: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

    This only has GPT3 for now, but I imagine results are similar. "xxxxxxxxxEGGxxxxxxxxxx" gets tokenized as [xxxxxxxx][x][EG][G][xxxxxxxx][xx], so i could see how it could 'see' the secret word.

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