badlibrarian

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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
If it didn't work sometimes (in other cases), we wouldn't call them sociopaths.
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
Andrew Carnegie funded 2,500+ public libraries and many were built with lecture halls, auditoriums, and meeting rooms on purpose. The public library was a civic institution from day one.
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
Much Claude, very 4.7: "Heavy lifting... single most useful thing... the careful claim is narrow... there are three outcomes, not two... honest caveat... honest oddity... honest verdict... honest shape." It's the weekend on H
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
PayPal does it. Synchrony Bank does it. Use your eBay credit card to buy toner, shipped to the address on your card, just like you do every 90 days? Must be fraud. They email you an alert. You click "this is okay." Card still does
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
Ah yes, the financial services company that runs a travel agency, allows me to book my hotel and rental car weeks in advance, registers a hold for incidentals for both the hotel and car when I check in, then blocks the card when I try to bu
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
Finance has always run on both: an asset that produces something has a floor. An asset that produces nothing does not. Between the two lies human nature. One way to get rich is to focus on fundamentals. One way to get rich or poor faster is
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by badlibrarian 4mo ago
If you're in a market that requires using C++, many of these decisions are made for you by the platform above you, and you're screwed. Turn on RTTI, build a fort to deflect the random exceptions they'll throw at you, and may
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
There is no such thing as fair revenge. It can run for generations. Retribution is impersonal, proportional, principled, and employs safeguards like time limitations. You could say "the state channels the impulse toward revenge into a
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
I have strict context in place on what I expect from the final language (C# or C++) and I'm frequently left with my jaw open. Used my preferred json library on C++, used LINQ appropriately in C#. Mapped AWS libraries appropriately and
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
My experience a year ago (back when half of HN was still in denial about what was already working, let alone what was to come) was that Python was the linqua franca of LLMs. You could achieve almost anything that fit in 700 lines or less if
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
OP says he has movies in his head and doesn't have to pay royalties. I told him that if he produces a derivative work, he has to pay royalties. Your comment doesn't follow, but I'll address it. A trivia host doesn't have
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Some HN readers are blind to this, others are obsessed with it. ChatGPT claims 900 million active weekly users. You really think a dietician who writes for the Minnesota Reformer (whatever that is), trying to get the word out about his curr
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Hollywood has extraordinarily well-defined controls for keeping things legal and everyone in the chain compensated. Plus a separate Oscars category for it.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Most artists considered it a one to one exchange. They appreciated attribution and were flattered to inspire people. Some got gigs. Some got laid. The money flowed to DeviantArt, hosting providers, and ad providers. The artists were okay wi
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Trillion dollar companies license.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
True, they live in your head rent free. But if you produce a derivative work, you have to pay.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
I paid tuition. The library bought its books. The theater sold me a ticket. Money changed hands every step, which is the part your analogy skips.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
The state isn't in the business of revenge. It prosecutes crimes on your behalf because private vengeance escalates and frequently lands on the wrong person.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
I've written essays in this exact format and I recognize specific tells. He's using Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pro (now Adaptive) as a research assistant then tweaking the output. Know it, done it, smell it. "The piece moves in a patt
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
At a minimum, I do see a lot of AI-as-researcher tells here. You can get Claude to draft very similar essays (of surprisingly quality) if you feed it a target market/philosophy, a few articles for style, then ask it to dig up dirt on a
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Evidence degrades, memories fade, witnesses die. Generally the worse the crime, the longer the statute of limitations. Murder in most places has no limit. Also, if someone hasn't committed a crime in, say, 20 years, there's questi
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
> Financial aid covers the full cost of attendance -- including tuition, housing, food, books and personal expenses -- for most families with incomes up to $150,000 a year. Most undergraduate families with incomes up to $250,000 will pay
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
The morgue manager at Harvard Medical School spent five years selling donated body parts online. The Cornell president just backed his Cadillac into a student asking him a question in a parking lot. This isn't high-trust culture. It&#x
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Libraries license the content they host. Internet Archive didn't. And nearly got sued out of existence because of it.
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
They've always had tons of copyrighted material on there. People report it, sometimes they take it down. Sometimes they pick fights and lose. “We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Librar
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
Internet Archive runs a completely separate version of their site for paying institutional clients. https://archive-it.org/ In a best case scenario, this eventually becomes the replacement for the (lets be honest) absurdly
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
I think it was 600 W 7 St. A quick Google of NSA tap plus that address turns up serious press reports from 7 or 8 years ago. It was clearly put up in a hurry. But I can't imagine I was the only one who noticed. I was just some dumbass
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by badlibrarian 5mo ago
I suppose this is as good a place as any to dump this. In 2002, I was hosting a 1U server in downtown Los Angeles. No cages, minimal security, pretty sure I just walked in. Crash carts sat unattended, usually a screen filled with porn and a
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by badlibrarian 6mo ago
Different burden of proof. Why waste years trying to get server logs that may not exist when you can get a quick win? It's not about the money anyway. It's about the PR and whatever justification they can derive along the way.
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by badlibrarian 6mo ago
I can find no current public document from the Internet Archive explaining what is backed up, where, or at what redundancy level. From a 2016 blog post: "Do you do backups too, for example to guard against corrupt data getting mirrored

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