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yunruse commented on AI SlopStop by Kagi   help.kagi.com/kagi/featur... · Posted by u/janandonly
chrisjj · 2 months ago
Further info here https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop indicates a key attribute is "deceptive".

I can see this being weaponised against controversial sites made by humans, with no way to prove they are human.

yunruse · 2 months ago
Reports being weaponised is a big issue with asymmetric (report-only) systems, but at least here there seems to be a “report as not slop” button.

“Symmetric” user reporting is dearly needed in some websites; as you say something can be mass-reported with no real recourse.

yunruse commented on I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=il-TX... · Posted by u/imagiro
yunruse · 2 months ago
The physics engine mentioned towards the end, Jolt Physics [0] is used in the frankly blockbuster games Horizon: Forbidden West and Death Stranding 2 and yet opens its description with

> Why create yet another physics engine? Firstly, it has been a personal learning project.

which is really rather wonderful and inspiring to see.

[0] https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics

yunruse commented on A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services   decoded.legal/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/ibobev
yunruse · 3 months ago
If every website needed verification, why not simply move the verification to the device or ISP level? This seems like an authoritative move to track users across websites, and another good reason to keep using a VPN.

Certainly a terrifying amount of responsibility and upkeep for each individual website. If the UK wishes to establish this and not want it to lead to an insane amount of privacy leaks, it should consider developing a technology that makes it work in a privacy-respecting way, like the European Age Verification Solution [0]'s Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

[0] https://ageverification.dev

yunruse commented on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch   thoughtbot.com/blog/git-3... · Posted by u/ingve
yunruse · 4 months ago
I prefer to default to `develop` and then eventually branch out to `release`: that way my branch names are pretty explicit. It seemed silly to me to start with a "central" branch, no matter the wording, because that's not actually how Git works (and it's rather uninformative).

For... some in the comment section, please recall the HN guideline: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

yunruse commented on You are how you act   boz.com/articles/you-are-... · Posted by u/HiPHInch
raverbashing · 5 months ago
Remember the Franklin thinking is used by several people to do "good deed math", meaning they do good to justify other crappy attitudes they have elsewhere
yunruse · 5 months ago
"Good deed math" feels like it drives legitimacy from some intrinsic sense of 'goodness', which to my ken looks de-emphasised in Franklin's model. Each act is a deed unto itself: a good deed and a bad deed do not counteract or excuse one another in some cosmic calculus.

The only link is the person -- that their acts inform their thoughts and habits, which informs future acts. In this case "good deed math" is likely a post-hoc rationalisation, predicted by the Franklin model but not exactly encouraged.

yunruse commented on The "Marvel Universe" of Faith   marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
yunruse · 5 months ago
This is fascinating, but the title and URL might be better if they're of the article this links through to rather than a discussion:

"Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy" https://www.npr.org/2025/09/07/nx-s1-5518263/ai-bible-christ...

yunruse commented on Methane Clathrate   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met... · Posted by u/yunruse
yunruse · 5 months ago
I found this article while making my way about Wikipedia (as you do).

It's ice that burns: cages of water trapping methane, and indeed the largest non-atmospheric store of it on earth. It forms interesting fractals under a microscope, has subtle and historical climate effects, fosters methanotroph communities. It has commercial interest for methane extraction and may work well for static methane storage.

A fascinating topic to stumble upon!

yunruse commented on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy   andrewmarder.net/firefox/... · Posted by u/amarder
olivergregory · 6 months ago
Set the browser.ml.chat.enabled and browser.ml.enabled to false as they intensively use the processor and drain the battery. All that to just find the best name for your tab groups. I prefer to have my laptop last one more hour instead.
yunruse · 6 months ago
I took a brief gander at its code [0] and saw it mainly focusses on k-means clustering algorithms (in JS, no less). To my ken this is likely for suggesting new tabs, something a user is even less likely to use than renaming them.

Its constant drain even when not 'in use' seems to imply it's classifying tabs as they change page (though it might be telemetry or uncommented testing). If so, it's an example of premature optimisation gone very wrong.

It's a shame, because it overshadows the fact that naming tab groups is a perfect use case for an LLM, alongside keyboard suggestions and reverse dictionaries [1]. I'm ardently distrustful of LLMs for many, many purposes, but for the tiny parameter and token usage needed it's hard to not like. Which is a shame it's (somehow) such a drain.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/7b42e629fdef... exports a SmartTabGroupingManager, though how or why that is used without being asked eludes me

[1] https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/ Can be helpful in a pinch when a word's on the tip of your tongue, though its synonyms aren't always perfect.

yunruse commented on If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?   terminaldrift.substack.co... · Posted by u/paulpauper
yunruse · 7 months ago
Having just taken an IQ test out of curiosity, they strike me as testing very little beyond the ability to pattern recognise and extrapolate.

Having pattern recognised and extrapolated to my perception of the wealth-happiness curve, it seems that when your wants are met by your current wage, wanting more money is paradoxical -- it requires either time or stress that take away from the many other richnesses of life.

A little ambition (and savings) is good -- you can't recline too far back into the comfort zone -- but wealth never struck me as a particularly important measure of a person.

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