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Jim Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to The Mail? Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. Jim Hacker: (reading) This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number o
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Even if, for the sake of argument, we grant the premise “big tech IS THE ENEMY”, it does not necessarily follow that the vast mass surveillance national security apparatus is our friend.
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> iOS which is it has many awesome features that you just won't know about unless you're a techie that keeps up with the news Probably the single most useful hidden feature, valuable to parents everywhere, is “Guided Access” mo
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By “political bickering”, do you mean debates over organizational direction/technical flame wars, debates over political philosophy/ideology, or something else?
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I am unfamiliar with the issues that led to this event. Could someone point me to examples of controversial moderation decisions that were “interfered” with?
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When processing multiple prompts simultaneously (that is, the typical use case under load), LLMs are nondeterministic, even with a specific seed and zero temperature, due to floating point errors. See https://news.ycombinator.com
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This is such a difficult to read site. I can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe it’s the vertical spacing that requires a ton of scrolling and lets you see only limited context. The word highlighting doesn’t help. I suspect it’s intentional
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Inferring one meaning for “reliability” when the original post is obviously using a different meaning suggests LLM use. This is a class of error a human is extremely unlikely to make.
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> I’m no closer to anything resembling inner peace. I find I’ve grown to despise large swaths of the only thing I’ve ever been able to earn reliable income from. I tire of walking a path that has seemingly shifted beneath my feet to poin
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This is where proper Apple Home accessories shine. No need for apps to configure them or to use them.
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Or just report their mandatory compliance emails as phishing attempts. I’ve worked for multiple large companies where the annual IT security signoffs look exactly like malicious emails: weird formatting; originates from weird external url t
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To quantify what I mean by " immense ", as a former developer advocacy leader at a large public company, I once modeled HN impact and would estimate this story to be equivalent to a low-to-mid 8 figure marketing spend.
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FWIW, in case you are not familiar with this forum: a 2700 point story is kind of a big deal, on par with the announcement of GPT-5 (only ~2k points). The damage to your brand is immense . It may be prudent to consider a wider, more seriou
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Those who claim the top is viewed as good by most people would also have to defend the claim that most people are Alaskan supremacists.
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liszper: > most SWE folks still have no idea how big the difference is between the coding agents they tried a year ago and declared as useless and chatgpt 5 paired with Codex or Cursor today Also liszper: oh, you tried the current approa
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The article fails to investigate if other models also behave the same way.
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To build a tomb. Not a shrine, not a place of worship, not a functional structure. Not something that could be repaired or repurposed. A tomb and nothing else. A purposeless pyramid would get bogged down with plumbing and fountains and extr
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I don’t understand how people like you continue to grant good faith to government. You are the people who make this kind of repeated attack on freedom possible.
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I left an on-site job for a fully remote job, taking about a 35% cut to do so. Literally every aspect of my life improved, including financially. The financial savings come from 3 things: downsizing to one car and elimination of transport c
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This is basically the socialist/communist argument for mass expropriation.
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A few years ago someone posted a site that showed how to query portions of a SQLite file without having to pull the whole thing down.
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With an S3 object lambda, I suppose you could generate the sqlite file on the fly.
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Because they switched from release number to release year.
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There are between 8-14 million such individuals in the US. Many of them have lived here for decades, work peacefully, and have built lives. Many of them have married citizen spouses, and also have children who are citizens. They are friends
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The idea that models are copyrightable is also extremely dubious. So there probably isn’t even a legal moat.
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You should contact IJ. They recently took up a case like this. https://ij.org/press-release/us-citizen-and-army-veteran-sub...
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Another scenario where order matters is in Temporal workflows. Temporal’s replay capability requires deterministic execution.
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You’re upset because I won’t help you evade the fact that you are intentionally conflating two distinct concepts: “Power” meaning the infliction violence and physical coercion with the force of law. “Power” meaning the ability to make money
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Every point you raised is in fact evidence for how they are weaker than governments.
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We have both. But the other side insists we only have open platforms.

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