TheMiddleMan (u/TheMiddleMan)

TheMiddleMan commented on Sign in with Google in Chrome underpassapp.com/news/202... · Posted by u/frizlab

cosmotic · a month ago

This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.

TheMiddleMan · a month ago

Don't worry about misclicks, Google already tracked your visit when the webpage was loaded.

Google One Tap works via a script tag from Google servers: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/displa...

TheMiddleMan commented on Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust desktopdocs.com/?v=2025... · Posted by u/katrinarodri

TheMiddleMan · 3 months ago

Very nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay $99 just to see if it works with my (uniquely challenging) duplicate images.

After realizing there was no demo I was looking for a way to contact you directly with a few sample images, but can't find contact information on the website.

Consider adding a demo and contact info.

Otherwise, the app is looking solid. This seems like a great use of AI.

TheMiddleMan commented on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/Fysi

owentbrown · 3 months ago

AlphaEvolve is confirming evidence of an intelligence explosion.

The key ingredient for an intelligence explosion is AI accelerating development of AI.

This is it. It’s happening.

TheMiddleMan · 3 months ago

Yes, but is the inflection point in 12 months or 12 years?

Either way, it's pretty wild.

TheMiddleMan commented on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

TheMiddleMan · 4 months ago

Dems and republicans both do their political corruption, Trump is something else.

https://commonslibrary.org/authoritarianism-how-you-know-it-...

What are the Top 10 Elements of the Authoritarian Playbook?

1. Divide and rule: Foment mistrust and fear in the population.

2. Spread lies and conspiracies: Undermine the public’s belief in truth.

3. Destroy checks and balances: Quietly use legal or pseudo-legal rationales to gut institutions, weaken opposition, and/or declare national emergencies to seize unconstitutional powers.

4. Demonize opponents and independent media: Undermine the public’s trust in those actors and institutions that hold the state accountable.

5. Undermine civil and political rights for the unaligned: Actively suppress free speech, the right to assembly and protest and the rights of women and minority groups.

6. Blame minorities, immigrants, and “outsiders” for a country’s problems: Exploit national humiliation while promising to restore national glory.

7. Reward loyalists and punish defectors: Make in-group members fearful to voice dissension.

8. Encourage or condone violence to advance political goals: Dehumanize opposition and/or out-groups to justify violence against them.

9. Organize mass rallies to keep supporters mobilized against made-up threats: Use fearmongering and hate speech to consolidate in-group identity and solidarity.

10. Make people feel like they are powerless to change things: Solutions will only come from the top.

TheMiddleMan commented on A Year of Telepathy neuralink.com/blog/a-year... · Posted by u/julianh65

vermilingua · 6 months ago

Elon used to appear to be all about truly advancing society; his motivations haven't changed, his PR strategy has.

TheMiddleMan · 6 months ago

You might be right but consider these old talks:

Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8

Elon Musk talks Climate Change and Carbon Tax at the Sorbone 2015 https://youtu.be/sUFwwlmxRsw?t=978

It could be that he was just following the trends knowing there was money to be made, but I detect some real passion back in these videos.

Of course no motivation comes from a single source and there's some mix of philanthropy and money driving this, among other motivations.

Either way his tone has changed a lot, to say the least.

TheMiddleMan commented on A Year of Telepathy neuralink.com/blog/a-year... · Posted by u/julianh65

TheMiddleMan · 6 months ago

Not everyone has the precise same definition of hate, and you know what they ^ mean.

Elon used to be all about truly advancing society, now he only seems interested in gaining wealth and power.

TheMiddleMan commented on Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node skia-canvas.org/... · Posted by u/DaniAkash

mvonballmo · 9 months ago

I would imagine that you could use it to write automated tests for Canvas code (maybe charts?) running in Node, e.g., jest with snapshots.

TheMiddleMan · 9 months ago

Yes, I'm doing exactly this with https://www.npmjs.com/package/jest-image-snapshot

TheMiddleMan commented on Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts blog.cloudflare.com/resil... · Posted by u/hampus

anonymousDan · 9 months ago

One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.

TheMiddleMan · 9 months ago

This is a great video on undersea cables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFt9le2ytW0

"Sabatoge" and repair is discussed at 11:45

TheMiddleMan commented on Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com/index/learning... · Posted by u/fofoz

wesleyyue · a year ago

Just added o1 to https://double.bot if anyone would like to try it for coding.

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Some thoughts:

* The performance is really good. I have a private set of questions I note down whenever gpt-4o/sonnet fails. o1 solved everything so far.

* It really is quite slow

* It's interesting that the chain of thought is hidden. This is I think the first time where OpenAI can improve their models without it being immediately distilled by open models. It'll be interesting to see how quickly the oss field can catch up technique-wise as there's already been a lot of inference time compute papers recently [1,2]

* Notably it's not clear whether o1-preview as it's available now is doing tree search or just single shoting a cot that is distilled from better/more detailed trajectories in the training distribution.

[1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787)

[2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03314)

TheMiddleMan · a year ago

Trying out Double now.

o1 did a significantly better job converting a JavaScript file to TypeScript than Llama 3.1 405B, GitHub Copilot, and Claude 3.5. It even simplified my code a bit while retaining the same functionality. Very impressive.

It was able to refactor a ~160 line file but I'm getting an infinite "thinking bubble" on a ~420 line file. Maybe something's timing out with the longer o1 response times?