Mountain_Skies

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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Hug of death. Wonder if it's due to HN readers or the LLMs perpetually scanning threads saw the URL and hammered it looking for novel content?
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
It's quite common for a company to build a good product and then once the initial wave of ICs and management moves on, the next waves of employees either don't understand what they're maintaining or simply don't care bec
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
That's just the State Department. The federal government is a huge amalgamation of agencies, each with its own set of goals, responsibilities, and quirks. Even down at the local level, I've had a hard time getting the county and t
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Which one do you think is democracy?
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Yes, it's shocking how common the belief is now that democracy means a person's preferred candidate always wins. Anyone else winning is the death of democracy. The mental gymnastics some people will go through to promote this view
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Elon Musk is in on that game too, promising post scarcity fully automated luxury space communism "in a few years" if we as society give him all of the resources he wants from us to make nirvana happen. No need to work and everythi
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Impossible. The labor floodgates are still wide open and we're told there's still a critical shortage of developers. The government must help industry obtain in whatever numbers they desire, in any manner possible, until this crit
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
In the medical scenario, having medical workers sit around waiting for the train after they've driven to the station would be a problem if their presence is needed quickly. Or did you also want everyone to cram into high rises clustere
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
When I worked for a tollway (not SF so maybe they're different), toll violations were enforced by mailing a ticket to the offender after the fact. There weren't any patrols out on the road looking for violators. Don't pay the
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Move fast and break things. When a black box can be blamed, why care about quality? What we need is EXTREMELY strict liability on harms done by AIs and other black box processes. If a company adopts a black box, that should be considered re
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
And when they can't undo their mistake will they accept the consequences, or will they cry to the government that there are no workers available to do the jobs so national policy must be modified to give Salesforce an even larger fireh
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FOSS is more divided than ever, which is an interesting situation given the timing when they should be a solid place for individuals to turn to against the centralization of control. It's quite convenient that so many petty little wars
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Different entities have different goals but are cooperating in making this happen so they each get what they want. Global corporations get guaranteed income streams from most of the population while governments and ideological groups get co
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Along those lines, if the model's output was actually deterministic, would the patent be bound to using the prompt with only one particular model since the output would be different, in some cases wildly different, with other models or
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Remember, Hacker News posters were wildly in favor of banning the discussion of the Lab Leak theory. Only a few spoke out against such bans and they were commonly met with floods of downvotes. There's lots of support in this community
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
My high school would pull the book from the shelf but make it still available by request. Before the start of the next school year, it would be placed back on the shelf. Typically, whoever complained the previous year would have moved on to
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Two thirds of Republican voters support reclassification but guess these Senators feel comfortable with that margin against them.
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It's a sort of stream of consciousness. That style of writing goes in and out of style from time to time but some people use it consistently.
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Lots of things work out of the box, but yes, it's still far from being the default. Kensington is releasing an update to its Expert Mouse trackball. The MSRP looks to be USD$150, so not an inexpensive accessory. It supports Windows and
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
How many different courts does the typical attorney interact with? While it would be ideal if all courts used the same standards, that courts in very different jurisdictions have different format preferences doesn't seem like a big dea
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
The Ford Bronco assembly plant is near a large landfill where the methane is captured and used in the plant. Fans of other brands joke that the Bronco is literally made from garbage.
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Reminds me of Amazon discovering most people don't use Alexa for much beyond setting cooking timers.
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These are domain block rules I got from a previous HN thread about LG shenanigans. No idea if it is still up to date. ngfts.lge.com us.ad.lgsmartad.com lgad.cjpowercast.com us.info.lgsmartad.com aic.recommen
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
In the US about twenty years ago, there was a minor movement for a flat sales tax that would replace all other taxes. I lived in Georgia at the time, which was the epicenter of support for the idea. Proponents got themselves stuck in a meta
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by Mountain_Skies 11mo ago
Weird that with as much as they're pushing Co-Pilot everywhere, they for some reason can't use it to maintain Publisher. Maybe Co-Pilot isn't as good as Microsoft claims.
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In my family it's been difficult for some to accept my sister's autism diagnosis because Rain Man is the prototype of autism they have in their heads. Younger family members who have been exposed to classmates who are on the Autis
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For my sister, getting diagnosed was important to her because she always felt like she was broken but now sees herself as simply different. I'm not aware of any workplace accommodations she has requested but it has been good for her se
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by Mountain_Skies 11mo ago
Employers have some insight, perhaps not perfect, into which existing employees are good but for some reason there's a pathological need to treat existing employees as undesirables, leading to a constant need for hiring new employees,
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They were practically daring Microsoft to create VBScript, which it did.
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Good news is that Microsoft no longer considers your documents to belong to you, so they did away with that part of the name.

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