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by alwa 11mo ago
I’m not sure where our guidelines/norms are on this kind of thing, but I get the sense that most of us feel very capable of pasting articles into LLMs ourselves. What we’re less capable of—and the reason we look to each other here inst
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A History of SmarterChild (2016)(vice.com)
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by alwa 11mo ago
Oh man, I hadn’t thought of SmarterChild in dog’s years! It was an early AIM chatbot, and felt like magic at the time. Looking back it feels like there’s a clear through-line from it (and the rest of ActiveBuddy’s menagerie) to the ChatGPTs
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by alwa 11mo ago
For today’s lucky 10,000– @JKCalhoun is most likely making reference here to American humorist Mark Twain, who, in response to news stories claiming he had died, was reported to have quipped “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerate
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by alwa 11mo ago
…and how frequently?
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by alwa 11mo ago
Reminds me a bit of a “Commander’s Intent” statement: a concrete big picture of the operation and its desired end state, so that subordinates can exercise more operational autonomy and discretion along the way.
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by alwa 11mo ago
I tried to look at the landing page and it crashed Mobile Safari... relaunched it, scrolled a bit down, scrolling smeared rows of pixels up my viewport rather than text. It eventually redrew and reset the viewport, I scrolled some more, the
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by alwa 11mo ago
I think the disagreement is about what that unlikeliness implies. "Aha! You got any result ? Clearly you're lying!"... I'm not sure how far that gets you. There's probably a dorm-quality insight there about the sup
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by alwa 11mo ago
One way (which the regulation mentions) is by not having a window next to a given seat in the first place Another might be the bars or steel mesh that they weld over the windows in prisoner transport vehicles
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by alwa 11mo ago
And Flock Safety will gladly fingerprint the vehicles without said license plate, and distribute everyone’s location histories nationally. See also (222 points, 19 comments, 14 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by alwa 11mo ago
As the grandparent points out, although the article says that, the actual regulation does not. The regulation says you have to prevent side ejections, it doesn’t say how. You can read it yourself: https://www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F
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by alwa 11mo ago
Which way sounds toxic—wanting to get it right now that they’ve become aware it’s a problem? Or getting something down now, as close as possible to what happened yesterday and the day before, to unblock the larger process—then refining it
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by alwa 11mo ago
I think you and gp may be speaking about different stages. Gp seems to be saying that a plane being designed and specified today would use technologies hardened against this type of error. That even though they’re in widespread operation
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by alwa 11mo ago
FWIW @cindyllm’s [dead] reply below made sense, made me smile a little, and struck me as at least principled: > The option that involves goading everyone into being their worst selves Because you people don't deserve to be your bes
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by alwa 11mo ago
The one that throws me is @cindyllm — I can’t tell if it’s a troll, a confusing LLM, or a confusing LLM troll…
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by alwa 11mo ago
Do we feel like HN functions as a social media platform in this sense? For that matter, the LLMs here are noticeable but do they feel meaningfully “bulk” in quantity? HN still feels pretty well-kempt to me
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by alwa 11mo ago
Everyone’s interest except, perhaps, the Taiwanese state… where TSMC’s know-how lives, and whose help you’d need to transfer it elsewhere. I keep hearing SMIC has allllllmost caught up, of course…
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by alwa 11mo ago
Not to be all “do you know who X is,” but I did have to chuckle a little when I saw who it is that you’re teaching differentiation to here…
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by alwa 11mo ago
As seems to have sort of happened between March and April of this year, at least from the Ramp chart in TFA. I wonder what that was about.
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by alwa 11mo ago
It is a beautiful title and a beautiful way to think about it—alas, I think gp is right: here, from the charts anyway, the writer seems to mean the count of firms reporting adoption (as a proportion of total survey respondents). Which paint
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by alwa 11mo ago
I’ve heard of approaches using pulsed IR along with a Mk.1 Human Eyeball to detect the incident reflections, sometimes with the assistance of a filter. Glasses seem like a good form factor for that kind of thing. Of course, the detecting pe
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by alwa 11mo ago
Same way as the police body cameras do it: disclose what you’re doing. Which really is all OP is asking of the Ray-Ban spy cam wearers, too. A blinking red light is the conventional method. In the police’s case, there’s rarely a choice, but
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by alwa 11mo ago
https://archive.is/PJapz
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by alwa 11mo ago
I’m not totally sure what point you’re making, but I don’t see an inconsistency between the two portions of comment that you quoted here. “Thousands of people” covers at least 3 orders of magnitude, depending how loose you get with the lang
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by alwa 11mo ago
Said Santore the firework producer in delicious bit of Jersey-Italian circumlocution: > It was a computer error. A set of instructions that were given that we didn’t necessarily create, that was created by the system. [0] Sounds consis
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by alwa 11mo ago
> For the 1% to matter, there have to be other jobs that LLMs can do as well as a fresh graduate. I don't know, are LLMs like someone the first year out of law school or medical school, or are those schools better than software? B
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by alwa 11mo ago
Taking this as an earnest question—no, I don’t get that sense from that word. To me it describes the direction of an error, not the error itself. It’s a thing you’d prefer to avoid , sure; but some degree of prognostic uncertainty is total
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by alwa 11mo ago
Why isn’t the browser development organized as charitable work? From the Corp’s Wikipedia page [0]: > As a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue it can have. Is this an oblique way
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by alwa 11mo ago
Do I understand correctly that the parent nonprofit Foundation can decide to use some of its donor money to fund its for-profit Corporation (with the same tax treatment as any other investment, and of the corporation’s profits before they’r
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by alwa 11mo ago
They bought it for $20K in 1969, or am I misunderstanding? https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ suggests that’s almost exactly $180K in 2025 dollars…

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