<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Jarwain</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Jarwain</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:45:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Jarwain" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Jarwain in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there's a broad spectrum of people, some of whom are role playing, some who think there are no consequences, some who have strong distinctions between the animate and inanimate, and some who just do what they think makes sense</p>
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<p>With LLM's, I wonder how far away we are from "a cooking ground for people to experiment with ideas"</p>
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<p>You say this like "oh it's just acts on a different kind of opiod receptor" means that it's not meaningfully different.<p>Your comment also seems to imply that this treatment involves consuming ibogaine habitually or regularly<p>The protocol for ibogaine treatment, according to the article and the experiments being done, do not have this requirement.<p>Like other treatments involving psychedelics and hallucinogens, the protocol here is that a one-off treatment, a single dose, results in meaningful improvements in both addictive behaviors and PTSD symptoms a month later and potentially longer<p>This is not the same as something like methadone or naltrexone, which _are_ what you describe: replacing a more harmful opiate with a less harmful one.</p>
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<p>There's some prior work on the codebase thing:<p>[Unison](<a href="https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/" rel="nofollow">https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/</a>) content addresses every definition. Kinda interesting.<p>A [Code Property Graph](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_property_graph" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_property_graph</a>) takes a codebase and turns it into three graph representations: it's AST, a Control Flow Graph, and Program Dependence Graphs. These graphs are overlaid and shoved into a single property graph. It's a structure mainly used by some static analysis tools like [Joern](<a href="https://joern.io/" rel="nofollow">https://joern.io/</a>)<p>---<p>This has been a topic of a lot of interest and research for me. I've been experimenting with figuring out a system inspired by these ideas, among others, to apply the same idea (shoving multiple graph representations together) to a broader set of information</p>
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<p>I'm a big fan of bolt hangers personally. They also mark the spot, provide a nice anchor point, and don't require chopping!</p>
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<p>Not much difference between a 12" and a 18" lag bolt for the purpose of "how much trash is visible and impacts terrain".<p>Surface feels a bit fairer in that sense. Or at least, easier to measure.</p>
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<p>If it was that'd be an absurd amount of weed being left behind to make a mark on the map.</p>
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<p>The problem isn't that there aren't solutions, the problem is getting everyone on board</p>
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<p>This penalizes honest mistakes, or moop from prior years resurfacing, or wind blowing trash into camp, or any number of things that are outside of a given camp's control<p>The moop map, and community holding itself accountable, seems to be a decently functioning system.<p>Not to mention the administrative overhead, at the org level and at the camp level.<p>Frankly being a camp of 100+ people, not just taking dues but also handling this Deposit, and distributing the cost fairly?<p>Running a camp is enough of a pain in the ass without adding on this kind of thing.<p>Monetary incentive systems like what you're suggesting are just a way of enforcing culture. If culture spreads organically, why bother with the overhead of bringing money into the picture?</p>
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<p>Honestly, that contrast is what draws me in. In the same way ultralight hiking forces you to think about and let go of extraneous weight, going to Burning Man and doing the whole camp thing and seeing the city work showcases the "dead weight" of "making things happen".</p>
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<p>They aren't referring to the regulatory requirement, but the response, I think?<p>Like if people can put in this much time and effort in a remote desert environment to meet regulatory requirements, and document their efforts so thoroughly, why can't corpos?</p>
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<p>My camp, while doing our moop sweep in 2023, found lag bolts from prior years!<p>2023 was a weird one, because of the heavy rain and so many people not being used to it.<p>But it also seriously churned the Playa, revealing what was hidden for a whiiile</p>
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<p>I lean towards a variant of option 1: you can only generate an article that was previously referenced. But arbitrary phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, can be highlighted and used to form a new article.<p>Yes this may mean that there are pages for common words like "and"<p>Yes this may mean that there's a page for letters like "x"<p>Filtering what ends up becoming a hyperlink becomes a problem that I think can be solved with regex/whitelisting<p>I think articles should have a backlinks drop down. Might make consistency easier
As well as generally just plain text search to pull relevant articles or context when generating a new article.</p>
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<p>LLM's are a mediocre map, but they're a great compass, telescope, navigation tools and what have ye</p>
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<p>The default model is Opus 1M context, so autocompact doesn't run as frequently, and that just Devours your session budget if you're not careful. There are some env variables you can (ask claude to) set to lower your max context window and autocompact threshold.</p>
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<p>Technically aren't most android apps limited to ARM?</p>
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<p>I agree, but I do feel like there's a bit of a lag. The shape of this lag has changed over time, and maybe we're in an era where the lag is growing</p>
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<p>That's fair!<p>I feel like a permission list is kind of a superset of a block list and an exclude list. Or they're all different perspectives/solutions to the same kind of problem, that a permission list is the more generalizable solution for.<p>Or it's a way of framing the problem that doesn't embed the "exclusion" idea in the naming.<p>And it kinda bridges over to the idea of Access Control Lists a bit better?</p>
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<p>I'm not trying to argue about validity here, but rather that these definitions/meanings of the word black are not "primary" definitions but secondary meanings based on that contextual/cultural/colloquial use. Arbitrary in the sense that that "commonality" is arbitrary and cultural, and language could just have easily developed to flip the colloquial definition.<p>Contrasted against using words where the Primary definition is the one that matters.<p>Imagine an alien culture encountering the word. Blacklist versus Denylist. The latter requires a lot less context to understand the meaning, because "Deny" has a single pretty consistent definition.</p>
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<p>Thank you for sharing the etymology! It's quite interesting, I agree!<p>I may have been a bit too pithy/I sufficiently clear with that last statement I made.<p>I meant it in the sense that understanding the word relies on a lot of contextual/colloquial/cultural understanding that's typically gained via time and exposure. At least, more of it than allow/deny requires.<p>Imagine an alien culture encountering blacklist vs Denylist. The latter requires a lot less context to translate, because Deny is used a lot more consistently.<p>My argument is mainly one about _clarity_, not hurt feelings.</p>
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