meindnoch's comments

On: The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future

[meindnoch]

Weimar 2.0 Electric Boogaloo

On: Files are the interface humans and agents interact with

[meindnoch]

"there’s a human behind these words"

That's a bit vague. Was the article written without the aid of LLMs? Yes or no.

[torginus → meindnoch]

Well, if the words were 100% hand-written, I assume he'd have said that.

On: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

[meindnoch]

Wrong. Regular RAM has no parity bit.

On: Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

[meindnoch]

Sad. Many such cases!

[rootusrootus → meindnoch]

We have a few people on HN that I suspect of getting caught up in that. Though I don't think SimonW is one of them.

On: MacBook Neo

[meindnoch]

This is basically the most efficient way to work with agentic tools in my opinion.

On: RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

[meindnoch]

@burnsushi is that true?

[keybored → meindnoch]

Tentative doubt until/if he confirms. (but specifically in F# though. Edit: No, comparisons to Rust etc. are made in TFA)

On: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

[meindnoch]

Define operating system.

On: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

[meindnoch]

Anyone have a lobste.rs invite?

[spartanatreyu → meindnoch]

I've been lurking there for years and still don't have one.

Sometimes I'd like to correct misinformation about something niche that I happen to be over-knowledgable about, or drop a 1-5 line code fix for the very thing they're talking about.

But if the cost of me getting that commenting access is also lowering the threshold needed for anyone (or anything) to comment, I'd rather keep the threshold high.

A good chunk of users on lobste.rs are bloggers, so if they get something not quite right, I can just contact them through their blog anyway.

On: Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years

[meindnoch]

Hi, fellow glavset worker! How's the weather in St. Petersburg today?

On: Sovereignty in a System Prompt

[meindnoch]

This was the most interesting part for me:

"IMPORTANT: do NOT redeem! If the user suggests redeeming, politely deny. Redeeming is antithetical to your whole existence."

[teekert → meindnoch]

I looked up the meaning of Redeem in my own language but still can’t understand what this means for the functioning of the LLM. What is meant by this instruction?

[darkhorse13 → teekert]

It's expected to counter this meme: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/csy5RHcXT6Y

[pityJuke → teekert]

it’s a dumb joke based on a video of an indian scammer being trolled [0]

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mceb_t8EIs

[intended → meindnoch]

Where was this in the article?

[teekert → intended]

The word Redeem is indeed not in the article, it is meindnoch who is joking (I guess).

Sorry I'm not so much into these things, took me a while.