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New comment by jshmrsn in "EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?"

jshmrsn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:08:27 +0000

Well, I am trying to inform myself because I did understand the cookie popups to be connected to GDPR. As far as I can tell from my reading, your assertion that "cookie popups have nothing to do with GDPR" is not true.

From my reading, it seems that while cookie permissions first became an explicit EU law concept in a 2009 amendment to ePrivacy Directive (not GDPR), companies were able to get away with passive consent banners (not popups).

It was GDPR's new definition of consent which then retroactively strengthened the existing ePrivacy Directive cookie consent to explicitly require user action to give consent (i.e. popups, banners large enough to push users to interact with them, etc.).

Unless your point is that GDPR has nothing to do with popups because the companies could just not use non-strictly-necessary cookies and therefore not need a popup, but I think that's a stretch to jump from there to "nothing to do with GDPR".

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

https://wp-gdpr.eu/gdpr-cookie-consent-2026/

https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/01/consent-and-cooki...

New comment by jshmrsn in "Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning"

jshmrsn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:56:28 +0000

Well cheated would definitely imply fraud. “Faking it” as in “fake it till you make it” is more like pretending you know about a topic until you learn enough on the job to participate competently.

New comment by jshmrsn in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

jshmrsn — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:51:19 +0000

Roll call from the Assembly vote: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB2047/id/1702219

New comment by jshmrsn in "Auto Polo"

jshmrsn — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:21:45 +0000

Mad Max 1910

New comment by jshmrsn in "How Hard Is It to Open a File?"

jshmrsn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:12:32 +0000

Am I missing something, or do this article’s purported vulnerabilities rely on an assumption that an attacker already has enough access to your system that the attacker can modify files which your code is referencing by path? Isn’t this more of an escalation vector than a vulnerability in itself?

I’m trying to understand the practical takeaway.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

jshmrsn — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:01:01 +0000

I am working on a modal code editor project that you might find interesting then. It also operates on an AST directly, which is represented as UI nodes which closely resemble normal text layout. Email in profile if you’d like to give it a try and possibly give early feedback (still in early development).

New comment by jshmrsn in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

jshmrsn — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:18:10 +0000

Considering that a fleur-de-lis involves somewhat intricate curves, I think I'd be pretty happy with myself if I could get that task done in an hour.

Given a harness that allows the model to validate the result of its program visually, and given the models are capable of using this harness to self correct (which isn't yet consistently true), then you're in a situation where in that hour you are free to do some other work.

A dishwasher might take 3 hours to do for what a human could do in 30 minutes, but they're still very useful because the machine's labor is cheaper than human labor.

New comment by jshmrsn in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

jshmrsn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:55:31 +0000

If you haven’t already, try going to Personalization settings, change tone to “Efficient”, and set Warm, Enthusiastic, and Emoji to “Less”. While not fundamentally solving the issue, I do prefer it over the baseline behavior, to the extent that I miss having a similar setting in Gemini.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

jshmrsn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:43:36 +0000

I enjoyed reading it. Whether one believes the future will look like this fictional/hypothetical one, it encourages the reader to think about what would need to become true for this future to be plausible.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

jshmrsn — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:29:00 +0000

That has not been established in the courts, at least not precisely enough to assert that for sure this project isn’t copyrightable.

“ But the decision does raise the question of how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as the “author” of a generated work. While that question was not before the court, the court’s dicta suggests that some amount of human input into a generative AI tool could render the relevant human an author of the resulting output.”

“Thaler did not address how much human authorship is necessary to make a work generated using AI tools copyrightable. The impact of this unaddressed issue is worth underscoring.”

https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230829-district-cour...

New comment by jshmrsn in "Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says"

jshmrsn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:47:57 +0000

I don’t mean to suggest it alone would tip the scales. And I agree the hope for international intervention is dimmer than it ever has been. But it would be one thing on the scales, as it has been in Ukraine as well. While there has not been direct military intervention in Ukraine, the support that has been provided relies on political popularity, and Russia’s endangering of Zaporizhzhia has contributed to the disdain of and attention towards Russia’s invention.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says"

jshmrsn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:17:57 +0000

I wish Taiwan’s reactors were never shut down in the first place, and I hope Taiwan can hold out long enough to get it started back up again. It’s a step towards being able to withstand a blockade (Taiwan lacks oil, gas, and goal resources, so it relies on imports). If PRC chose to attack a nuclear power plant, it might give the necessary pressure for international intervention.

For what it’s worth, I’ve personally walked around the nuclear containment area on Orchid island and swam in the waters around it. It’s a well managed and nice place.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Claude 4 System Card"

jshmrsn — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:04:16 +0000

Scale AI is a provider of human data labeling services https://scale.com/rlhf

New comment by jshmrsn in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

jshmrsn — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:33:37 +0000

This is true again for the most advanced fighter aircraft, except the active hand is now a computer.

New comment by jshmrsn in "ARC-AGI without pretraining"

jshmrsn — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:50:14 +0000

If the machine can decide how to train itself (adjust weights) when faced with a type of problem it hasn’t seen before, then I don’t think that would go against the spirit of general intelligence. I think that’s basically what humans do when they decide to get better at something, they figure out how to practice that task until they get better at it.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ruby 3.4 Highlights"

jshmrsn — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:27:29 +0000

I am familiar with ‘it’ as a default closure input from Kotlin. From a quick search, that in turns seems to be inspired by Groovy.

New comment by jshmrsn in "g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains"

jshmrsn — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:36:38 +0000

Some of the text that the LLM is trained on is fictional, some of the text that its trained on is factual. Telling it to not make things up can tell it to generate text that’s more like the factual text. Not saying it does work, but this is a reason how it might work.

New comment by jshmrsn in "City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments"

jshmrsn — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:14:10 +0000

Did that model also factor in risk of damage, liability, and normal wear and tear that a tenant brings over a vacant unit?

New comment by jshmrsn in "Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?"

jshmrsn — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:14:00 +0000

If the “sound” is an internal perception, then noise cancelling headphones would not help at all. They might make it worse by quieting any background sounds that could otherwise help cover up the internally produced sensations.

New comment by jshmrsn in "Mistral 7B"

jshmrsn — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:27:15 +0000

An idea I hear often listening to talks about LLMs, is that training on a larger (assuming constant quality) and more various data leads to the emergence of grater generalization and reasoning (if I may use this word) across task categories. While the general quality of a model has a somewhat predictable correlation with the amount of training, the amount of training where specific generalization and reasoning capabilities emerge is much less predictable.