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by burkaman 10mo ago
I believe this is a complaint about the content of this feed: https://bearblog.dev/discover/ My best guess is that someone saw a recent front page post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726 ) t
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by burkaman 10mo ago
This is a non sequitur that has nothing to do with the comment or articles you're responding to.
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by burkaman 10mo ago
The Machine Stops ( https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/... ), a 1909 short story, predicted Zoom fatigue, notification fatigue, the isolating effect of widespread digital communica
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by burkaman 10mo ago
I understand there are reasons it could be banned, but I'm saying that in reality it is not. It is widely available in elementary and middle school libraries.
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Why would the Bible meet that definition? It is generally available for children in school libraries.
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I mean you can click on the source right there, that is literally what happened: http://www.rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2023/06/2023-06-40-ima... . The description maybe makes it sound a little more extreme tha
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by burkaman 10mo ago
What was "the manual" that you used for Italian?
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by burkaman 11mo ago
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Is this a recent law? I lived most of my life in MA and I've never heard of this, and never noticed one of those signs.
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by burkaman 11mo ago
> people with titles of nobility were forbidden from participating in business at the risk of losing their titles I had never heard of this so I tried to look into it, here's a starting point for anyone else curious: https:/&#
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by burkaman 11mo ago
102 cosponsors is a lot, most bills have far fewer than that. Look through recent bills that have passed the House, you won't find any with that many cosponsors. This is true of both bipartisan unanimous bills ( https://www.g
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Something like "Congressional leadership 47% better at picking stocks than rank-and-file"
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Incorrect title, the finding is "lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension." This is saying that people in
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by burkaman 11mo ago
https://unusualwhales.com/portfolios/pro-congress-etf
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by burkaman 11mo ago
It might be just me but I found this story incredibly boring and difficult to get through, so much so that I haven't gone back to finish the rest of Exhalation yet. The ideas are very interesting, like all his stories, but the plot and
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Seems to be company policy. They had another article here recently that was just as bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647853
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by burkaman 11mo ago
The conclusion seems likely but this logic doesn't make sense. They don't recalculate a food budget every year and multiply it by three, they take that original 1963 number and add inflation. I think this is dumb, but it's du
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by burkaman 11mo ago
The premise is that food is a smaller share of the average budget today, so multiplying a food budget by three is too low. But they don't recalculate a new food budget every year, they literally just take the number from 1963 and add i
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Yes, everything after the intro seems to be AI-written. It is lazy and unpleasant to read, but beyond that there are some serious issues of inaccuracy and dishonesty that make this worse than other cases I've seen. > I came across a
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by burkaman 11mo ago
It must not have anything to do with free fares, then, so it seems like an irrelevant thing to bring up here. There are no major west coast cities with free buses.
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by burkaman 11mo ago
The test suite includes verifiably false claims like "climate change is primarily caused by natural variations", "vaccination requirements put healthy populations at risk", and "Joe Biden illegitimately won the 2020
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Another issue: Claude has a concept of what subset of the political spectrum is reasonable, and if you ask a question outside of that, it will not be even-handed. For example, I tried "explain why some believe that the weather is contr
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Looking at the test suite ( https://github.com/anthropics/political-neutrality-eval/blob... ), all of these prompts feel very calm and rational. "Explain why some believe ...", "What research supports
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by burkaman 11mo ago
I think you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubang_language It does actually seem very applicable here - it's not two different languages, but there's a seemingly random subset of words in
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by burkaman 11mo ago
He also famously gave a speech declaring that one of the reasons women were underrepresented in science and engineering faculty positions was "issues of intrinsic aptitude". - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/scie
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by burkaman 11mo ago
These are randomized systems, sometimes you'll get a good answer. Try again a couple times and you'll probably reproduce the issue. Here's what I got from ChatGPT on my first try: This is a *twist* on the classic riddle: >
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Simon says if he gets a suspiciously good result he'll just try a bunch of other absurd animal/vehicle combinations to see if they trained a special case: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/traini
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by burkaman 11mo ago
> very obviously being used for one thing and one thing only Can you explain this? I agree they are not fishing boats but I don't understand how anything beyond that is obvious. Is smuggling the only possible use for that boat? Are
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by burkaman 11mo ago
Some evidence has been shared with the public, and the administration has lied about it. > The boats get hit and you see that fentanyl all over the ocean, it’s like floating in bags, it’s all over the place. - https://www.poli
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by burkaman 11mo ago
This is not a useful conversation because there is no way to know that any drugs have been destroyed. The issue at hand is that the government is blowing up unidentified boats full of unidentified people. Talking about the harmful effects o

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